Thomas Patient, Doctrine of Baptism and the Distinction of the Covenants

                            THE

                               Doctrine of Baptism,

                            And the Distinction of the

                                COVENANTS

                                OR A

                   Plain Treatise, wherein the four Essentials of

                               B a p t i s m,

                               Viz.

                    1. Who is a lawful minister thereof;

                      2. What is the true form thereof;

                3. Into whose name it is to be administered;

                      4. Who is a fit subject thereof,

                          Are diligently handled.

                 As also the business of the two Covenants,

             wherein is proved that the Covenant of Life, is not

               made to the seed of Believers, as coming out of

               their loins, and therefore that the baptism of

                   Infants is drawn from thence by a false

                    Consequence.

 

                             By THOMAS PATIENT,

                a laborer in the Church of Christ at DUBLIN.

 

Acts 22:16, And now why tarriest thou, Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Eph. 2:12, Being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to

the Covenants of promise.

John 3:5,6, Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; For that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

London,

     Printed by Henry Hills, and are to be sold at his house at Sir John

    Oldcastles in Py-corner

1654