An essay to revive the primitive doctrine and practice of infant-baptism in the resolution of four questions I. What are the reasons of God's appointing the token of the covenant to be applyed to the infant-seed of his people? II. What is the good or benefit they receive thereby? III. What is the duty of parents towards their children as bearing the token of the covenant? IV. What is the improvement that children as grown up to years of maturity, may and ought to make of the token, as applyed to them in their infancy / by Joseph Whiston ...

Abstract

Half-title page, photographed on verso only, reads in print show-through [i.e. in reverse mirror image]: Whiston on infant-baptism. Running title reads: The primitive doctrine of infant-baptism reviv'd. Errata: prelim. p. [14]. Advertisements: prelim. p. [15] and [1] at end. Imperfect: stained and faded, with slight loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. Includes bibliographical references.