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An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his writings. By John Davenport BD.An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his wrightings. By Iohn Davenporte BD.
Rotterdam: printed by Isaac van Waesberghe, 1636Rotterdam: printed by Isaack van Waesberghe, 1636
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.
First, the question is,1 whether he will baptize all children who are presented to the Church, though the parents be no members? His answer was, and is, that this cannot be answered otherwise then according to cases. He may not say, that he will baptize none: and he dare not say, that he will baptize all, but this he saith. There are cases where in he will baptize such as are not members of this Church, and yet the cases may be such, as, in them, he shall refuse to administer it to others.
First, the question is,1 whether he will baptize all children who are presented to the Church, though the parents be no members? His answer was, and is, that this cannot be answered otherwise then according to cases. He may not say, that he will baptize none: and he dare not say, that he will baptize all, but this he sayth. There are cases where in he will baptize such as are not members of this Church, and yet the cases may be such, as, in them, he shall refuse to administer it to others.
- 11. The state of the question.
Secondly the reasons of his answer,1 besides others (which to him seem weighty) in reference to this particular place, are two. 1. the promiscuous mixture of all languages, and sects, amongst which also are many Libertines, which are of no Church, and, for aught is known, many parents, who themselves never were baptized, will, in policy, present their children thereunto, 2. the custom of this place, which hath been to refuse none, though presented in the sermon time (without notice given before) by a nurse, or any one, neither ⟨p. 120⟩of the parents appearing in it, or being known, or enquired after, nor any sufficient assurance given for the education of the children, in that faith, which is there professed, and that confession of faith being expressed & demanded by the minister, in a language, which they that present the child, some times understand not, & in this act both the ministers must join,