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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.
We come at last to the Assumption of the Argument thus far propounded, viz. That the persons in Question have those Qualifications which did give right to Circumcision. E. G.
1. They are in Covenant with God, which is proved first in that they were once in Covenant with him (as all that are for Paedo Baptism will readily acknowledge) and they are not chargeable with the guilt of any sin, either of Commission or of Omission, for the which the Lord doth discovenant his people; Indeed if the Children whose Interest we plead, were born of Idolatrous or Heretical Parents, or of Parents degenerated into Infidels, or Incorrigibly Scandalous in their lives and conversations; these are evils for which God doth disown and discovenant men, and therefore so might we likewise, Exod. 32. 7. Ezek 23. 4, Revel. 11. 2. Tit. 3. 10, Rom. 11. 21. with Zech. 11. 10 Psal. 50. 16. of which more under the second Question, but no such thing can be said of these concerning whom we dispute. He that doth affirm (affirmanty Incumbit probated) that these Children have been guilty of such evil, as that the God of all patience and grace doth now reject and disown them as not belonging to him, must bring forth his strong Reasons to prove what he saith and show wherein.
1. They are in Covenant with God, which is proved first in that they were once in Covenant with him (as all that are for Paedo Baptisme will readily acknowledge) and they are not chargeable with the guilt of any sin, either of Commission or of Omission, for the which the Lord doth discovenant his people; Indeed if the Children whose Interest we plead, were born of Idolatrous or Hereticall Parents, or of Parents degenerated into Infidells, or Incorrigibly Scandalous in their lives and conversations; these are evilis for which God doth disowne and discovenant men, and therefore so might we likewise,