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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.
8. Baptism was delivered to believers and their infants as Circumcision was.
9. I know not who those believers be that deny baptism to their infants, unless some of the Anabaptists approve themselves to be found believers.
10. What Truth hath not been opposed and disputed? Truth cometh forth, not the worse, but the brighter; & I believe so will the issue be of the doctrine of baptizing of infants. Letters passing between Mr. Jesse and me, I proposed that Question to him, Whether when the Jews are converted will they baptize their infants? He answered, He believed they would, and gave me two Texts of Scripture for it, one was Jer. 30.20. the other I have forgotten, I think it was in Isai.
11. There is a famous Example of baptizing believers and their infants, in supra, Acts 2.41.