N29515:461
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. Why, I think that the Rite of Aspersion, or sprinkling, was invented, as Vosstus and others Ingenuously confess, to Accommodate the Tender Bodies of Infants in these Northern Parts, when the Practice of Baptizing of them prevailed. And Since sprinkling comports not with •e Literal nor Metaphorical Significations of the Word, nor to those great Mysteries represented by it; it ought in the fear of God to be rectified or laid aside, as being no Ordinance of God, Levit. 10.12.
Son. Why, I think that the Rite of Aspersion, or sprinkling, was invented, as Vosstus and others Ingenuously confess, to Accommodate the Tender Bodies of Infants in these Northern Parts, when the Practice of Baptizing of them prevailed. And Since sprinkling comports not with •e Litteral nor Metaphorical Significations of the Word, nor to those great Mysteries represented by it; it ought in the fear of God to be rectified or laid aside, as being no Ordinance of God, Levit. 10.12.
Fa. Who are the proper Subjects of Baptism?
Son. Only such who Believe, and are actually Capable to enter into a Visible Covenant with Jesus Christ; for it is an Ordinance of the Solemnization of the Souls Marriage with Christ, Gal. 3.27.