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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.
Though there be so clear an Instance of circumcision of Infants, and Christ himself was circumcised when he was an Infant, Luk. 2.21. though there be so clear an institution of Baptism to seal the Covenant, as circumcision did unto believers and their Seed, and though there ⟨p. 9⟩be so clear a Testimony that the primitive Church did so practice, and all the Gospel Churches ever since have so walked: yet because they do not see these things to be so, they do think that the primitive Church had not so much light as to practice so, and whereas all the Gospel Churches in the world have ever since so practised, they judge they have walked in sin, and their Baptism is null, all the world are unbaptized persons, saving themselves, and they now call themselves Baptists, and all the rest of the christian world baptized in their Infancy are unbaptized persons, Churches, Ministry, Sacraments, all are nullified, &c.
Though there be so clear an Instance of circumcision of Infants, and Christ himself was circumcised when he was an Infant, Luk. 2.21. though there be so clear an institution of Baptisme to seal the Covenant, as circumcision did unto believers and their Seed, and though there ⟨p. 9⟩be so clear a Testimony that the primitive Church did so practice, and all the Gospel Churches ever since have so walked: yet because they do not see these things to be so, they do think that the primitive Church had not so much light as to practice so, and whereas all the Gospel Churches in the world have ever since so practised, they judge they have walked in sin, and their Baptisme is null, all the world are unbaptized persons, saving themselves, and they now call themselves Baptists, and all the rest of the christian world baptized in their Infancy are unbaptized persons, Churches, Ministry, Sacraments, all are nullified, &c.