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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
If it was the Law of God that all such persons should be presently put to death, then was it not the will of God, that their Infants should have Right to Circumcision for their sakes, no nor on any other account: But the Antecedent is true, therefore the Consequent.
The Reason of the Consequence is this: Either th•se mens children were born before the parents turned ungodly, or after. If before then were they circumcised the eighth day, as the children of the Godly. If after, then it was against Gods Law, that they should be born, much less circumcised. For if Gods Law had been fulfilled, the parents had been put to death, (we speak ⟨p. 307⟩of both parents) and then how could they have had a child?
All the doubt then lying in the Antecedent, I shall from Scripture put it is past doubt. Let us look over all the Commandments, and see whether Death were not to be inflicted for the gross breach of them, except the last, which is secret in the heart.