N29515:477
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. It may be also as a Rebuke upon those good Christians, who have been too ready to Build their Faith upon Worthy men, upon the account of their Learning; & God would not have the Faith of his People stand in the Wisdom of Men, but in the Power of God, 1 Cor. 2.5. Besides, the Doctrine of self-denial is hard to learn.
Fa. How do you prove that the Baptism of Water is Christ's Ordinance? 'Tis not said, Mat. 28.19.20. Teach all Nations, Baptizing them in Water, &c.
Son. But though Water is not there expressed, it is implied, because the Apostles could not Baptize with the Holy Ghost, for that is the Prerogative of Christ alone; besides, that which the Lord Jesus commanded them to Baptize ⟨p. 93⟩with, was that which they did Baptize with; but palpable it i•, that that which the Apostles Baptized with, was Water. Can any man forbid Water, that these should not be Baptized? &c. Acts 10.47.
Son. But though Water is not there expressed, it is implyed, because the Apostles could not Baptize with the Holy Ghost, for that is the Prerogative of Christ alone; besides, that which the Lord Jesus commanded them to Baptize ⟨p. 93⟩with, was that which they did Baptize with; but palpable it i•, that that which the Apostles Baptized with, was Water. Can any man forbid Water, that these should not be Baptized? &c.