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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.
1. Infant Baptism is one of the Ordinances of the Gospel Churches. Lord make the Opposers of it ashamed that they may see it to be thine Ordinance.
2. Lord give us all renewed hearts, that we may walk in thy Statutes and waves to do them.
2. Lord give us all renewed hearrs, that we may walk in thy Statutes and waves to doe them.
3 They reject the Counsel of God that reject the Infants of believers from Baptism.
3 They reject the Counsel of God that reject the Infants of believers from Baptisme.
4. To exclude infants of believers from the Seal of the Covenant, is to change Gods Ordinance: God hath commanded that believers and their infants should be baptized.