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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.
Again, it is great uncharitableness to hinder (as much as in them lieth) the Church from opportunity of eminent exercise of Faith in communion with the Father & with the Son, for when we receive little children into communion with the Church, we have communion with Christ, and with the Father, Math. 18.5. who so shall receive one such little child in my Name receiveth me, Mark. 9.36, 37. and he took a child and set in the midst of them, and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, whosoever shall receive one of such children in my Name, receiveth one, and whoso shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me, Luk. 9.47, 48. Jesus took a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, whosoever shall receive this child in my ⟨p. 11⟩Name, receiveth me, and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me. We see here is eminent communion with the Father and with the Son, in receiving Infants into our communion, and how do we receive Infants into our communion? the instituted way is, by owning them to be comprehended in the Covenant of God, with the Church, and visibly receiving them into the communion of the Church by Baptism, if there be any other way of receiving Infants in the Name of Christ, Instance in it: this way is clear in the Scripture our receiving them in Baptism, our communion with the Lambs of Christ, in the Name of Christ which is very well pleasing to him. Never to do this, yea, to refuse to do it, is a sinful and offensive gap in our communion with Christ, to reject Infants from this communion is an offence against Christ of a provoking nature, and especially to glory in our so doing.
Again, it is great uncharitableness to hinder (as much as in them lyeth) the Church from opportunity of eminent exercise of Faith in communion with the Father & with the Son, for when we receive little children into communion with the Church, we have communion with Christ, and with the Father, Math. 18.5. who so shall receive one such little child in my Name receiveth me,