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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
Baptised Persons are under Sacred and Awful Obligation to the Lord.
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.
We come therefore unto the second enquiry, viz. What things Baptism doth oblige the Subjects of it unto?
We come therefore unto the second enquiry, viz. What things Baptisme doth oblige the Subjects of it unto?
Ans. 1. Baptism doth oblige unto Faith in God, and in Jesus Christ.
Ans. 1. Baptisme doth oblige unto Faith in God, and in Jesus Christ.
The subjects of it, are bound to believe in that only true God, into whose alone Name they have been baptised. It doth oblige not only unto an Historical Faith, or to believe that every word of God is true; but unto a Faith of adherence and dependence upon God for life and Salvation; and this as to every one of the persons in the Sacred Trinity, according to their distinct personal Relations. We are (as a judicious and excellent Preacher well expresseth) obliged by our Baptism to depend upon God the father, as the Fountain of all our good, and all-sufficient happiness, and to rest upon the Son of God, as our Redeemer, expecting life and salvation through his merit and mediation, and to believe in God the Holy Ghost, as our Sanctifier, Comforter and Guide in the way to Glory.
The subjects of it, are bound to believe in that only true God, into whose alone Name they have been baptised. It doth oblige not only unto an Historical Faith, or to believe that every word of God is true; but unto a Faith of adherence and dependance upon God for life and Salvation; and this as to every one of the persons in the Sacred Trinity, according to their distinct personal Relations. We are (as a judicious and excellent Preacher well expresseth) obliged by our Baptisme to depend upon God the father, as the Fountain of all our good, and alsufficient happiness, and to rest upon the Son of God, as our Redeemer, expecting life and salvation through his merit and mediation, and to believe in God the Holy Ghost, as our Sanctifier, Comforter and Guide in the way to Glory.