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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.
Ans. In general unto all those ends which the Lord hath appointed it for. We are to improve our Baptism for our help and furtherance in those things, which that Ordinance doth put us in mind of. Concerning the obligations, which Christians are brought under thereby, we have already spoken. Let me here add.
Ans. In general unto all those ends which the Lord hath appointed it for. We are to improve our Baptisme for our help and furtherance in those things, which that Ordinance doth put us in mind of. Concerning the obligations, which Christians are brought under thereby, we have already spoken. Let me here add.
1. That Baptism should be improved unto ••• feigned Humiliation in the Lords sight. For it puts us in mind of our natural defilement by sin. That our Souls need to be washed, in the Blood, ⟨p. 114⟩and by the Spirit of Christ. And when we see Baptism administered unto any; we should humbly, and with an holy shame reflect upon our selves, in that we have lived no more according to that baptismal Engagement to be the Lords, and his only, which we should most frequently remember and consider, that so we might thereby be restrained from sin, and quickened unto duty.
1. That Baptisme should be improved unto ••• feigned Humillation in the Lords sight. For it puts us in mind of our natural defilement by sin. That our Souls need to be washed, in the Blood, ⟨p. 114⟩and by the Spirit of Christ. And when we see Baptisme administred unto any; we should humbly, and with an holy shame reflect upon our selves, in that we have lived no more according to that baptismal Engagement to be the Lords, and his only, which we should most frequently remember and consider, that so we might thereby be restrained from sin, and quickened unto duty.