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Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which…
Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold heresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extreme ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold haeresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extream ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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.
XIII. Assert, That Baptism with Water, is an Ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When once the Quakers have Bitten any, they are presently taken with an Hydrophobia, so that they are marvellously afraid of the Water which our Lord would have us to be Baptised with. But ask them, What Baptism, ou• Lord meant, when He gave that Order, in Mat. 2•.19. Go teach all Nations, Baptising them? His Order is for our Duty; 'tis not our Duty to Baptise men spiritually, although it be our Desire; only God can give the Spirit; and it is not our Sin if our Hearers remain Unconverted still. Is it not an External Teaching which our Lord has given us His Order for? And why not an External Baptism too? Ask them, whether Paul would have thanked God, in 1 Cor. 1.14. that he Baptised so few, if Spiritual Baptism had been his work. Ask them, whether all that the Apostles Baptised, were certainly and inwardly Sanctified? Remember them, that Simon Magus […] ⟨p. 83⟩of them; and is he a Saint among the Quakers? If Spiritual Baptism is all that we are to look after, then every Believer is already Baptised. And if so, what is the further Baptism which Believers are to be made partakers of? Consult Mark 26.16. Act. 50.48. Act. 18 8. Ask them, whether the Apostles did not Baptise with Water. Prove that they did, from