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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 16
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CHAP. XVI.
§ 1. Your 15th Section is against my greatest Objection; the manner of baptizing by God-fathers sole sponsion, in the Liturgy: Where you take your own Order, and not mine (to satisfy your self,) and put four questions, and overlook the main, or say as good as nothing to it. My first question is, Which way the Child cometh to have right to Baptism, any more than all the Infidels Children in the world? That is, Whether the mere Sponsion of God-fathers who adopt not the Child, nor take him for their own, nor are at all required to do so, do give or prove a Right to Baptism (and consequently to undoubted Salvation or pardon) in all the Infants of Apostates, Sadducees, Infidels, Brutists, Arians, Socinians, Wicked men, Atheists; yea or of any other? I told you how ⟨p. 27⟩Conformists and other Divines here differ; but you easily pass by the difficulty.
§ 1. YOur 15th Section is against my greatest Objection; the manner of baptizing by God-fathers sole sponsion, in the Liturgy: Where you take your own Order, and not mine (to satisfie your self,) and put four questions, and overlook the main, or say as good as nothing to it. My first question is, Which way the Child cometh to have right to Baptism, any more than all the Infidels Children in the world? That is, Whether the meer Sponsion of God-fathers who adopt not the Child, nor take him for their own, nor are at all required to do so, do give or prove a Right to Baptism (and consequently to undoubted Salvation or pardon) in all the Infants of Apostates, Sadduces, Infidels, Brutists, Arrians, Socinians, Wicked men, Atheists; yea or of any other? I told you how ⟨p. 27⟩Conformists and other Divines here differ; but you easily pass by the difficulty.