Scott Bushey
Puritanboard Commissioner
Horace Bushnell, in his treatise entitled "Christian Nurture" writes:
"It follows that the children of Christian disciples,being baptized with their parents, as the children of Gentile proselytes were baptized with theirs, would be taken or presumed by the church to be spiritually cleansed, in the same manner. Accordingly, just as the children of Jews were accounted Jews, and not as unclean, when one of the parents was a Jew, so Paul tells us, that in the church of God, the believing party sanctifies the unbelieving, "else were your children unclean, but now are they holy; " showing that the Jewish analogies, in regard to children, were in fact translated, or passed over to the church, and adopted there-[i:a461b2d6e2]a translation[/i:a461b2d6e2] that naturally followed. from the reapplication of proselyte baptism."
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[Edited on 5-23-2004 by Scott Bushey]
"It follows that the children of Christian disciples,being baptized with their parents, as the children of Gentile proselytes were baptized with theirs, would be taken or presumed by the church to be spiritually cleansed, in the same manner. Accordingly, just as the children of Jews were accounted Jews, and not as unclean, when one of the parents was a Jew, so Paul tells us, that in the church of God, the believing party sanctifies the unbelieving, "else were your children unclean, but now are they holy; " showing that the Jewish analogies, in regard to children, were in fact translated, or passed over to the church, and adopted there-[i:a461b2d6e2]a translation[/i:a461b2d6e2] that naturally followed. from the reapplication of proselyte baptism."
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[Edited on 5-23-2004 by Scott Bushey]