N29515:466
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. May not Infants be Baptized?
Son. No verily, because there is no Command of Christ, nor Example in all the Scriptures for any such Practice.
Fa. Why may not the Children of Believers be Baptized under the Gospel, as well as the Children of the Faithful were Circumcised under the Law?
Fa. Why may not the Children of Belivers be Baptized under the Gospel, as well as the Children of the Faithful were Circumcised under the Law?
Son. God Expressly commanded Abraham to Circumcise his Male Children under that Dispensation, but he hath not commanded Believers to Baptize their Children under the Gospel; and to do that in God's Worship, which God has not commanded, is dangerous, as ⟨p. 90⟩appears in, Nadab and Abihu's Case, Levit. 10.1.2.