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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.
1. Baptized persons are under the discipline and Government of Christ, for Baptism doth engage the receiver of it unto an observance of all that Christ doth Command, and therefore unto a Subjection […] that discipline which is by him appointed, Math. 28. 19, 20. when a person is baptized he is solemnly admitted into Christs School, can one be admitted into Christs School, and yet not Subject to the Orders and discipline of that School? who ever subjecteth himself to Baptism, doth by that very act Subject […] to that discipline which doth belong to the School of Christ. Again, Baptism is the Livery which of right appertaineth to Christs household Servants, surely, if a man ⟨p. 28⟩accept of that Livery he doth thereby submit himself to the Laws and Government of Christ, which is exercised in Christs Family here on Earth. Therefore the persons in Question being baptized, may not plead exemption from discipline. To desire the Privileges of Christs School and yet to expect freedom from the rod of it (in Case of due desert) is unreasonable.
1. Baptized persons are under the discipline and Government of Christ, for Baptisme doth ingage the receiver of it unto an observance of all that Christ doth Command, and therefore unto a Subjection 〈…〉 that discipline which is by him appointed, Math. 28. 19, 20. when a person is baptized he is solemnly admitted into Christs School, can one be admitted into Christs School, and yet not Subject to the Orders and discipline of that School? who ever subjecteth himself to Baptisme, doth by that very act Subject 〈…〉 to that discipline which doth belong to the School of Christ. Again, Baptisme is the Livery which of right appertaineth to Christs hou•hold Servants, surely, if a man ⟨p. 28⟩accept of that Livery he doth thereby submit himself to the Laws and Government of Christ, which is exercised in Christs Family here on Earth. Therefore the persons in Question being baptized, may not plead exemption from discipline. To desire the Priviledges of Christs School and yet to expect freedom from the rod of it (in Case of due desert) is unreasonable.