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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › PRIVATE BAPTISM.
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PRIVATE BAPTISM.
[We desire that Baptism may not be administered in a private place) and so do we,1 where it may be brought into the public Congregation. But since our Lord hath said, St. John 3. Unless one be born of Water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. We think it fit that they should be Baptized in private, rather then not at all. It is appointed now to be done by the lawful Minister.
[We desire that Baptism may not be administred in a private piace) and so do we,1 where it may be brought into the publick Congregation. But since our Lord hath said, St. John 3. Unless one be born of Water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. We think it fit that they should be Baptized in private, rather then not at all. It is appointed now to be done by the lawful Minister.
- 1Ex•. &c. Sect. 8. Answ.
Repl. We must needs suppose you are disputing with Protestants, who ordinarily show the Papists that that Text, Joh. 3. asserteth no absolute necessity of Baptism to salvation. But we believe as well as you, that it is the regular way of solemn Initiation into the Covenant and Church of Christ, which none that indeed are the Children of the Promise should neglect. As Coronation solemnizeth his entrance upon the Kingdom, that had before the title; and as Marriage solemnizeth that which before was done by consent; so Baptism solemnizeth the mutual Covenant which before had a mutual consent: And none is authorized to consent for Infants, but those that by nature, and God's Law, have the power of disposing of them, and whose will is, in sense forensi the Children will: It solemnly investeth us in what we had an Antecedent right to, and therefore belongs to none but those that have that right: And this we are ready to make good by any fair debate that you will allow us.