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EZEKIEL HOPKINS
EPISCOPUS DERENSIS.

Printed for Nathanael Ranem

THE

DOCTRINE

OF THE

Two Sacraments.

THE

WAY of SALVATION:

The Pleasantnefs of that WAY, and Beauty
of Holiness; of the Virtues which adorn it, the Pre-
judice it receives from diforderly Walkers and
the Duty of withdrawing from fuch.

To which is fubjoin'd,

ASERMON against Rebellion.

WITH

An APPENDIX, containing fome
Paffages omitted in that Part of the Author's
Works published in Folio.

By the Right Reverend

Dr. EZEKIEL HOPKINS,
Late Lord Bishop of London-Derry.

All now first Publish'd from his Original Manuscripts.

In the SAVOT:

Printed by John Nutt, for Richard Smith at Exeter-Exchange in

the Strand. MDCCXII.

D.

A

TABLE

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CONTENTS.

T

Of BAPTISM.

HE Introduction.

Page I

One End why Christ was given to

the Church, is, that he might fan-

dify it.

The Means of this Sanctification are Baptism,

and the Word.

Infant-Baptifm is lawful:

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Because Infants are Members of Christ's

Church;

Because they are Chrift's Difciples;

I I

And because they are of that Number, for
whom Chrift is faid in the Text to have
given himself.

Objections against Infant-Baptism, answer'd. 1 2

Infants are capable of fome of the Ends of

Baptifm, though not of all.

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They