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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.
Therefore to administer baptism so promiscuously &c. is a sin.
Therefore to administer baptisme so promiscuously &c. is a sinne.
Reason. 3 The third Reason to prove it to be a sin, is, because it is a building again of that which these Churches, according to the Scripture, have destroyed.
Reason. 3 The third Reason to prove it to be a sinne, is, because it is a building againe of that which these Churches, according to the Scripture, have destroyed.
This is an Argument, ad hominem, which I restrain to these Churches, to show the evil of this practise from their own principles, which it doth, by consequence, supplant, and subvert, at least, in the judgment of many, whether necessarily or probably, and in what degree, I will leave to their wisdom to consider, contenting my self with a short proposal of some particulars which are considerable, especially that ground being laid which the Apostle maketh use of, in a like case,1 If I build again the things that I have destroyed I make my self a transgressor.
This is an Argument, ad hominem, which I restraine to these Churches, to shew the evill of this practise from their owne principles, which it doth, by consequence, supplant, and subvert, at least, in the judgment of many, whether necessarily or probably, and in what degree, I will leave to their wisdom to consider, contenting my selfe with a short proposall of some particulars which are considerable, especially that ground being layed which the Apostle maketh use of, in a like case,