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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.
Concerning the Proposition many words are not needful, even Anti-Paedo• Baptists themselves do acknowledge that disciples have right to Baptism, according to Math. 28. 19. But they that are under the (a)discipline and Government of Christ in his Church are disciples, therefore they have right to Baptism, and Consequently may transmit that right to their Children; The Consequence I know will be denied by those that Scruple all Infant Baptism, but it is readily embraced by those for whom this discourse is principally intended. To proceed to the Assumption, viz. That the Children in Question are, (and ought to be carried towards accordingly by the particular Churches, where they are, and have been baptized) under the Government and discipline of Christ in his Church. Inasmuch as this is a Truth of no small Importance and Concernment to the Interest of Christs Kingdom, and wherein the welfare of the rising Generation in New-England is not a little involved, we shall therefore propound [as briefly as may be] some Arguments for it, which seem to carry a Convincing Evidence of light along with them.
Concorning the Proposition many words are not needful, even Anti-Paedo• Baptists themselves do acknowledge that disciples have right to Baptisme, according to Math. 28. 19. But they that are under the (a)discipline and Government of Christ in his Church are disciples, therefore they have right to Baptisme, and Consequently may transmit that right to their Children; The Consequence I know will be denyed by those that Scruple all Infant Baptisme, but it is readily embraced by those for whom this discourse is principally intended. To proceed to the Assumption, viz. That the Children in Question are, (and ought to be carried towards accordingly by the particular Churches, where they are, and have been baptized) under the Government and discipline of Christ in his Church. Inasmuch as this is a Truth of no small Importance and Concernment to the Interest of Christs Kingdome, and wherein the welfare of the rising Generation in New-England is not a little involved, we shall therefore propound [as briefly as may be] some Arguments for it, which seem to carry a Convincing Evidence of light along with them.