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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.
CHAP. VIII.
This Chapter answereth Objections in Numb. 22. but many of them are trivial, of little concernment, and unto others of them, I have already said enough for the present, therefore I shall take up here and there one, and pass on.
THis Chapter answereth Objections in Numb. 22. but many of them are trivial, of little concernment, and unto others of them, I have already said enough for the present, therefore I shall take up here and there one, and pass on.
Object. 5. Doth not Baptism come in the room of Circumcision? the Book answereth, no surely, there is ⟨p. 22⟩no Scripture for it. Answ. I pray consider, Rom. 4.11. he received Circumcision, the Seal of the Righteousness of Faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the Father of all that believe, though they be not circumcised. And Gal. 3.17. this I say the Covenant which was confirmed before of God in Christ, &c. viz. confirmed by Circumcision, we see that Circumcision confirmed their entrance into the Covenant of Faith, and so doth Baptism confirm their entrance into the Gospel Covenant,