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A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church…
A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Delivered at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, uttered by him immediately preceding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entering [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corinthians]A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Deliver'd at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, utter'd by him immediately preceeding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entring [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corithians]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year, 1713
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By the Reverend, Old Mr. JOHN COTTON, At Salem, June, 1636. › The Reasons are Two.
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for though God hath made a Covenant with them, yet it is but ⟨p. 5⟩as a Scattered Stone, not laid orderly in any building; so that truly they may plead; but when God cometh to Answer, He will make it appear, That He did never open His Mouth for a Covenant with their Seed until they be Confederate with Abraham.
And therefore seeing my Letter, as I understand, is in many of your hands, I had rather make a Plaster bigger than the Sore, than that it should be pleaded against my practise after my Departure.
And therefore seeing my Letter, as I understand, is in many of your hands, I had rather make a Plaister bigger than the Sore, than that it should be pleaded against my practise after my Departure.
Reas. 2. The Second Reason is this, Unto them that are not in Covenant, a Minister may not dispense an act of Power and intrude himself, neither hath he any Power until he be Called; and then only over such as Call him: And therefore if you should come to crave Baptism for your Children, or the Lord's Supper for your selves, of a Minister whom you have not Called over you, he hath no Power, and therefore unto you he cannot dispense an act of Power: So that although the hearts of God's People might be enlarged many times, to do such things, Yet the Law of the Lords Gospel ⟨p. 6⟩doth Restrain them, until Men have entered into Covenant, and not their own strait lacedness that keeps them back from dispensing such things.
Reas. 2. The Second Reason is this, Unto them that are not in Covenant, a Minister may not dispence an act of Power and intrude himself, neither hath he any Power until he be Called; and then only over such as Call him: And therefore if you should come to crave Baptism for your Children, or the Lord's Supper for your selves, of a Minister whom you have not Called over you, he hath no Power, and therefore unto you he cannot dispence an act of Power: So that although the hearts of God's People might be inlarged many times, to do such things, Yet the Law of the Lords Gospel