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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.
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.
13. This I pass by as inconsiderable.
14. Baptism of believers and their infants is a written Ordinance by divine institution.
14. Baptisme of believers and their infants is a written Ordinance by divine institution.
15. Christ hath in faithfulness to the Church left us many Scripture Testimonies for infant Baptism.
15. Christ hath in faithfulness to the Church left us many Scripture Testimonies for infant Baptisme.