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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
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Secondly. The Scriptures alleged▪ he saith, were two, from whence he showed, that when so great multitudes were at once baptized by John Baptist. Mat. 3. Mark. 1. and by the Apostles Acts. 2. there could not be a strict private examination of every particular person &c.
Secondly. The Scriptures alleadged▪ he sayth, were two, from whence he shewed, that when so great multitudes were at once baptized by Iohn Baptist. Mat. 3. Mark. 1. and by the Apostles Acts. 2. there could not be a strict private examination of every particular person &c.
Ans. To these Scripture instances I will answer severally, as I then did.
First •o the instance of Johns Baptising. 1. The text sayeth. They were baptised of John in Jordan confessing their sins. Whence it is manifest that John was satisfied concerning their fitness to be baptised, before he admitted them. And that is all that I require. 2. How will it appear that so many were baptised of him at once? I rather am of opinion, that those places do contain the story of the whole time of Johns Ministry, so far as concerneth his baptism, in which time multitudes might be baptised by him, and yet he sufficiently informed concerning their fitness to partake of it.