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The divine right of infant-baptism asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase…The divine right of infant-baptisme asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase…
The divine right of infant-baptism asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ in Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of quotations]The divine right of infant-baptisme asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ in Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1680
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.
Arg. 8. If the Children of Believers under the Old-Testament had right to Circumcision, then the children of Believers under the New-Testament have right to Baptism. But the former is true. Therefore so is the latter.
The Anabaptists laugh at this Argument; and it is easier to do so, then by solid Reason to refute it. All our Divines for above these hundred years (as far as hath fallen within the Compass of my Observation) in their discourses about Infant-Baptism, have improved this very medium to confirm the Truth in hand. Yea, and so did some of the Ancients above a thousand years ago. Had the Consequence been so Irrational as our Antagonists imagine, I suppose, some of them who were better able to discern the strength of an Argument, then those we dispute against, would hardly have made use of it- I am rather of learned Whitakers Judgement, who saith, All the Anabaptists in the world will never be able to answer this Argument. Let us then Consider.
The Anabaptists laugh at this Argument; and it is easier to do so, then by solid Reason to refute it. All our Divines for above these hundred years (as far as hath fallen within the Compass of my Observation) in their discourses about Infant-Baptism, have improved this very medium to confirm the Truth in hand. Yea, and so did some of the Antients above a thousand years agoe. Had the Consequence been so Irrational as our Antagonists imagine, I suppose, some of them who were better able to discern the strength of an Argument, then those we dispute against, would hardly have made use of it- I am rather of learned Whitakers Judgement, who saith, All the Anabaptists in the world will never be able to answer this Argument. Let us then Consider.
1. That Baptism cometh in the Room of Circumcision, wherefore the Apostle dissuading the Colossians from the practice of Circumcision, he tells them that they were buried with Christ in Baptism,