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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.
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.
12. If the salvation of my Soul lay upon it, I dare with holy boldness of Faith […], that believers and their infants were baptized in the Primitive Church.
12. If the salvation of my Soul lay upon it, I dare with holy boldness of Faith 〈…〉, that believers and their infants were baptized in the Primitive Church.