A26886:1023
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.
And then it must needs follow, that no child of a man Notoriously ⟨p. 309⟩ungodly, born of his procreation in that condition, had right to Circumcision: For dead men do not procreate.
And whether [Cutting off from his people] be meant of capital punishment, such places as Exod. 31.14, 15. would make one doubt: [Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it, shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people.] See also Levit. 20.17, 18.
And if it be meant of Excommunication, if the parent be [cut off from his people,] then cannot his son for any Interest of his, be •nnumerated to that people, and entered among them.
And if it be meant of Excommunication, if the parent be [cut off from his people,] then cannot his son for any Interest of his, be •nnumerated to that people, and entred among them.