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…

And Answer to Williams, pag. 44. 78. 3. Discipline is our great Interest, which we are engaged to assert and plead for. This is the Cause of God in New-England in a special manner. We are the Children of the good old Non-Conformists, now what was it that they did suffer so much for, but that so they and their Children also might be brought under that discipline, and Government which Christ hath appointed in his Church? and therefore were they by their Adversaries the Prelates reproached, with the Name of Disciplinarians, should we now desert that Cause, it would be a sad degeneracy. There are many godly Souls in New-England, that the great motive which prevailed with them to come into this wilderness, was that so they might leave their Children under the Government of Christ in his Church. But if the Church hath nothing to do with such, these Confessors have suffered many things in vain. Have we for our poor Children's sake in special, left a dear and pleasant Land, and ventured our Lives upon the great waters, and encountered with the difficulties and miseries of a wilderness, and doth it at last come to this, that they have no more Advantage as to any Church care about them, then the Indians ⟨p. 31⟩and Infidels amongst whom we live? O this is sad! when Pharaoh would suffer the Children of Israel themselves to serve the Lord in the wilderness, but their little ones must not go with them, we know what Spirit acted him. We may avert that they who will not suffer the Children of Christs people to come under his Government, are not in that matter acted by his Spirit.

And Answer to Williams, pag. 44. 78. 3. Discipline is our great Interest, which we are ingaged to assert and plead for. This is the Cause of God in New-England in a special manner. We are the Children of the good old Non-Conformists, now what was it that they did suffer so much for, but that so they and their Children also might be brought under that discipline, and Government which Christ hath appointed in his Church? and therefore were they by their Adversaries the Prelates reproached, with the Name of Disciplinarians, should we now desert that Cause, it would be a sad degeneracy. There are many godly Souls in New-England, that the great motive which prevailed with them to come into this wilderness, was that so they might leave their Children under the Government of Christ in his Church. But if the Church hath nothing to do with such, these Confessors have suffered many things in vain. Have we for our poor Childrens sake in special, left a dear and pleasant Land, and ventured our Lives upon the great waters, and encountred with the difficulties and miseries of a wilderness, and doth it at last come to this, that they have no more Advantage as to any Church care about them, then the Indians