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Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Fa. Which are they?
Son. Baptism & the Lords Supper.
Fa. What is Baptism?
Son. Baptism is an Holy Institution of Christ, and the literal and proper Signification of the Word Baptism, as most learned Men (Lighs Critica Sacra, Grotius, Vossius, Selden, Passor, Beza, Illyricus, Erasmus, &c.) readily grant, who understand the Greek Tongue; for it is a Greek word, Baptiso, is Mergo, Immergo, Obruo, item tingo, quod sit Immergendo; that is, drown, immerge, plunge under, over-whelm, as also to dip, which is done by plunging, in the Name of the Father, & of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, Mat. 28.19.20. Act. 2.40, 41. Rom. 6.4.
Son. Baptism is an Holy Institution of Christ, and the literal and proper Signification of the Word Baptism, as most learn'd Men (Lighs Critica Sacra, Grotius, Vossius, Selden, Passor, Beza, Illyricus, Erasmus, &c.) readily grant, who understand the Greek Tongue; for it is a Greek word, Baptiso, is Mergo, Immergo, Obruo, item tingo, quod sit Immergendo; that is, drown, immerge, plunge under, over-whelm, as also to dip, which is done by plunging, in the Name of the Father, & of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,