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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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but if haply the parents or sureties shall refuse to come, and undergo this examination, or if, for the shortness of time, or, for other just causes, it can not be done, or, if those that do come, shall not seem, for that time, to satisfy the judgment of the Brethren, one or more that do examine them, that yet the infant, whose parents & sureties are manifest to be Christians, & which publicly before the Church do profess Christian Religion at the reading of the liturgy of the Sacrament of Baptism, shall not therefore be excluded or deprived thereof▪ but that such ignorant ⟨p. 129⟩parents & sureties be further instructed, after the infant be baptised, to wit, because the infants of Christians ought not to bear & suffer the punishment of the ignorance, or yet of such disobedience of their parents, or sureties. If yet any other case fall-out, whereby it may seem that the infant presented should not be baptised, that then the judgment of the whole English Presbytery, or also, if need be, and if conveniently it may be done, that the judgment of the Classis of Amsterdam be obtained and rested in. So was it done and transacted in the house of Mr. PAGET the 28. day of January 1634.
but if haply the parents or sureties shall refuse to come, and undergoe this examination, or if, for the shortnes of time, or, for other just causes, it can not be done, or, if those that doe come, shall not seeme, for that time, to satisfye the judgment of the Brethren, one or more that doe examine them, that yet the infant, whose parēts & sureties are manifest to be Christiās, & which publickly before the Church doe professe Christian Religion at the reading of the leiturgie of the Sacrament of Baptisme, shall not therefore be excluded or deprived thereof▪ but that such ignorant ⟨p. 129⟩parēts & sureties be further instructed, after the infāt be baptised, to wit, because the infāts of Christiās ought not to beare & suffer the punishmēt of the ignorance, or yet of such disobedience of their parēts, or sureties. If yet any other case fall-out, whereby it may seeme that the infant presented should not be baptised, that then the judgment of the whole English Presbytery, or also, if need be, and if conveniently it may be done, that the judgment of the Classis of Amsterdam be obtayned and rested in. So was it done and transacted in the house of Mr. PAGET the 28. day of Ianuary 1634.