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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.
4. It is hard to judge, whether infants belong to the Covenant, in respect of their first parents profession, or not.
Secondly. Upon these suppositions he concludeth that the ⟨p. 159⟩infants of excommunicates that remain in the Church may not lawfully be denied baptism. But this he delivereth with two provisos, or caveats. 1. That, a fit surety bind himself to the Church for the holy education of the child. 2. That, upon this occasion, the Minister do, at that time, seriously exhort the father, being present, to repentance, in the presence of the Church, before he baptise the child, Which he saith was frequently done in their Churches, viz, in Geneva. Thus he. Concerning whose answer I will propound two or three considerations.
Secondly. Vpon these suppositions he concludeth that the ⟨p. 159⟩infants of excummunicates that remaine in the Church may not lawfully be denied baptisme. But this he delivereth with two provisoes, or caveats. 1. That, a fit surety bind himselfe to the Church for the holy education of the child. 2. That, upon this occasion, the Minister doe, at that time, seriously exhort the father, being present, to repentance, in the presence of the Church, before he baptise the child, Which he sayth was frequently done in their Churches, viz, in Geneva. Thus he. Concerning whose answer I will propound two or three considerations.
First. Though Beza was a very Reverend & judicious Divine, yet, in matters of faith, it is not safe, ullius jurare in verba magistri, to rest upon the authority of any man, without a warrant from the Scripture.