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The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in…
The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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.
his Common Prayer Book, requires that the people should be admonished to bring their Children to Baptism only on the Lords days, and on Holidays, that so all the Congregation might be witnesses of their being received into ⟨p. 65⟩the number of the Faithful, and that they might all be put in mind of what they had promised in Baptism. And although private Baptisms are ordinarily practised by the Ministers of the Church of England, when no necessity compels them, the Liturgy allows not of it. The Arguments which our Divines produce against private Baptism are such as these.
his Common Prayer Book, requires that the people should be admonished to bring their Children to Baptism only on the Lords dayes, and on Holidays, that so all the Congregation might be witnesses of their being received into ⟨p. 65⟩the number of the Faithful, and that they might all be put in mind of what they had promised in Baptism. And although private Baptisms are ordinarily practised by the Ministers of the Church of England, when no necessity compels them, the Liturgy allows not of it. The Arguments which our Divines produce against private Baptism are such as these.
1. John Baptist did not Baptise in private, but where there was an open Public meeting. It has been objected that Paul Baptised the Jailer in a private House where was no Church Assembly: To which is Answered, that Paul was an extraordinary Officer: And that it was impossible in that Pla•• […] that Time to call a Congregation of […] be witness•s of the Administration when as yet there were no Christians in that City.
1. John Baptist did not Baptise in private, but where there was an open Publick meeting. It has been objected that Paul Baptised the Jaylor in a private House where was no Church Assembly: To which is Answered, that Paul was an extraordinary Officer: And that it was impossible in that Pla that Time to call a Congregation of be witnesss of the Administration when as yet there were no Christians in that City.