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A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…
A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let them be blotted out of the Book of the Living, is a Prophetical Imprecation (many of those direful Imprecations which the Old Testament is full of, are rather Prophesies then Prayers) concerning the unchurching of the Jews, because of their abuses offered unto Christ, of whom David was a Type. Now then, if it be so fearful a judgement to be excluded out of the visible Church, we had need be careful how we shut out our Children and poor Posterity from being of the house of Israel. It hath been an Ancient received maxim, (however abused by Papists and Prelates) extra Eeclesiam nulla salus (h)that there is no Salvation out of the Church, therefore to affirm this concerning all those of whom our present Controversy speaketh, is at once to shut them all out of Heaven. And this is Implicitly done, when we deny them all title to Baptism, uncircumcised persons, (h. e. not all such as were so actually, but they that had no right to Circumcision) are said to go down into the nether parts of the Earth, Ezek. 28. 10. and 31. 18.
Let them be blotted out of the Book of the Living, is a Prophetical Imprecation (many of those direful Imprecations which the Old Testament is full of, are rather Prophesies then Prayers) concerning the unchurching of the Jews, because of their abuses offered unto Christ, of whom David was a Type. Now then, if it be so fearful a judgement to be excluded out of the visible Church, we had need be careful how we shut out our Children and poor Posterity from being of the house of Israel. It hath been an Antient received maxime, (however abused by Papists and Prelates) extra Eeclesiam nulla salus (h)that there is no Salvation out of the Church, therefore to affirm this concerning all those of whom our present Controversy speaketh, is at once to shut them all out of Heaven. And this is Implicitely done, when we deny them all title to Baptisme, uncircumcised persons, (h. e. not all such as were so actually, but they that had no right to Circumcision) are said to go down into the nether parts of the Earth, Ezek. 28. 10