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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.
CHAP. V.
The fourth Argument prosecuted, because the Children in Question are under Church discipline. proved, [1.] Because that Baptism which they received in Infancy engageth them to a Subjection to the orders of Christs Seoul. [2.] In all Ages and almost in all Churches, such Children have been under Ecclesiastical discipline, so in the primitive times, proved from the Testimony of Clemens Pauls fellow labourer, so in after Ages the Cate••umeni, so in the Bohemian Churches. And all Protestant Churches, yea, in those of the Separation. [3.] Discipline & Church Government is the Cause of God and of new England. [4.] God hath owned and blessed the application of Church discipline to sundry of those Children. (5.) The so great neglect of discipline hath been (and if not reformed will be) destructive to the rising Generation in New-England. (6.) Those Children are of those whom the Scripture styleth ⟨p. 27⟩[Greek or Hebrew] or those within. (7.) The do by an act of their own subject themselves to the Government of Christ in his Church. (8.) They are part of that […] whom Eldercare to feed. 9. They are of Christs Family.
THe fourth Argument prosecuted, because the Children in Question are under Church discipline. proved, [1.] Because that Baptisme which they received in Infancy ingaigeth them to a Subjection to the orders of Christs Seoul. [2.] In all Ages and almost in all Churches, such Chilpren have been under Ecclestastical discipline, so in the primitive times, proved from the Testimony of Clemens Pauls fellow labourer, so in after Ages the Cate••umeni, so in the Bohemian Churches. And all Protestant Churches, yea, in those of the Separation. [3.] Discipline & Church Government is the Cause of God and of new England. [4.] God hath owned and blessed the application of Church discipline to sundry of those Children. (5.) The so great neglect of discipline hath been (and if not reformed will be) destructive to the rising Generation in New-England. (6.) Those Children are of those whom the Scripture styleth