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A brief answer to a small book writtenA brief ansvver to a small book written
A brief answer to a small book written by John Norcot against infant-baptism. This answer is written by John Eliot for the sake of some of the flock of Jesus Christ who are ready to be staggered in point of infant-baptism by reading his book.A brief ansvver to a small book written by John Norcot against infant-baptisme. This answer is written by John Eliot for the sake of some of the flock of Jesus Christ who are ready to be staggered in point of infant-baptisme by reading his book.
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1679
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.
27. We baptize believers and their infants by an express word of command.
28. Baptizing believers and their infants is a pure Ordinance of God by an express Rule.
29. In baptizing believers and their infants, we do what God hath commanded, and we shall have the comfort of well done my good Servant, but they that exclude such infants, shall in that point lose the comfort of, well done my good Servant, Christ was much displeased with them, for hindering infants to be brought unto him.
29. In baptizing believers and their infants, we do what God hath commanded, and we shall have the comfort of well done my good Servant, but they that exclude such infants, shall in that point lose the comfort of, well done my good Servant, Christ was much displeased with them, for hindring infants to be brought unto him.
When I say the same thing over and over, do not nauseate at me, but consider that I am led unto it, by the paper that I answer, which proposeth all the matter which I answer unto, I confess it is a very confused heap.