N29515:471
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
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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. Yea it did; and all that believe and are Christ's, the same are the true Seed of Abraham, & Heirs, according to the Promise, Gal. 3.37. or in that Covenant with Abraham, and none else; for Birth or Fleshly Privileges, avail not in Gospel times; think not to say within your selves, We have Abraham to our Father, Mat. 3.9.
Son. Yea it did; and all that believe and are Christ's, the same are the true Seed of Abraham, & Heirs, according to the Promise, Gal. 3.37. or in that Covenant with Abraham, and none else; for Birth or Fleshly Priviledges, avail not in Gospel times; think not to say within your selves, We have Abraham to our Father, Mat. 3.9.
Fa. But were not whole Households Baptized?
Fa. But were not whole Housholds Baptized?
Son. It doth not therefore follow, any Infants were Baptized, unless our […] could prove there were no whole Households, but such in whom were some Children in Nonage; besides, it is said, That St. Paul Preached the Gospel to the Jailer, and to all that were in his House; and that he Believed ⟨p. 91⟩in God with all his Heart, and Rejoiced with all his House: As well as it is said, He was Baptized, with all his House, Acts 16.32, 33.
Son. It doth not therefore follow, any Infants were Baptized, unless our could prove there were no whole Housholds, but such in whom were some Children in Nonage; besides, it is said, That St. Paul Preached the Gospel to the Jaylor, and to all that were in his House; and that he Believed