N29515:453
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.
Son. Because 'tis said, Our Saviour when he was Baptized, and John who Baptized him, went both down into the Water, and he Baptized or dipped him, which is all one; the like is said of Philip and the Eunuch, They went down into the Water, and came out of the Water, Mat. 3.16. Act. 8.38.39.
Fa. What other Reason have you?
Son. Because sprinkling doth not, ⟨p. 86⟩cannot answer the end of Christ, in his instituting and ordaining of this Ordinance; neither doth sprinkling a little Water, Represent or Answer those things, which are signified by Baptism
Fa. What was the End of Christ, in his Instituting of this Ordinance, And what doth it Represent to us?