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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.
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.
For the first Commandment, see Deut. 13. If a Prophet wrought wonders to entice to worship strange Gods, or if the nearest kinsman secretly enticed them to it [to thrust them out of the way which the Lord commanded them to walk in, ver. 5.] he must be put to death. If a City be withdrawn by such, they are all to be put to death; Children, Cattle, and Goods were to be destroyed and consumed.