A26886:1131
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.
Proposition 1. I may not deny the right of the Infant to Baptism merely because the Parents are excluded from one or more particular Churches: because Baptism doth necessarily and directly enter them among the number of Christians, but not into any one particular Church. And therefore I will not forbid or dissuade the baptizing of such.
Proposition 1. I may not deny the right of the Infant to Baptism meerly because the Parents are excluded from one or more particular Churches: because Baptism doth necessarily and directly enter them among the number of Christians, but not into any one particular Church. And therefore I will not forbid or disswade the baptizing of such.
Pr•position 2. Yet do I take it to be no duty of mine to baptize any such more than any other Ministers, further than I have a special Call or Reason: For Example: Here live some hundreds in this Parish, that upon public Proposal, Whether they take me for their Pastor, and themselves for members of this Church? do disown it, or not own it, when they are told that their owning or declaring it shall be taken as the sign to know it; I take my self no more bound to baptize their children than any strangers else: For I cannot be their Pastor whether they will or not; nor can I take them for any special charge of mine, that will not take themselves to be so, nor take me for their Pastor. Therefore they can no more blame me than any stranger, if I refuse to baptize their children: Though yet I deny not their right to Baptism.
Pr•position 2. Yet do I take it to be no duty of mine to baptize any such more than any other Ministers, further than I have a special Call or Reason: For Example: Here live some hundreds in this Parish, that upon publike Proposal, Whether they take me for their Pastor, and themselves for members of this Church? do disown it, or not own it, when they are told that their owning or declaring it shall be taken as the sign to know it; I take my self no more bound to baptize their children than any strangers else: For I cannot be their Pastor whether they will or not; nor can I take them for any special charge of mine, that will not take themselves to be so, nor take me for their Pastor. Therefore they can no more blame me than any stranger, if I refuse to baptize their children: Though yet I deny not their right to Baptism.