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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
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.
§ 4. You gather Christ's acceptance from Mat. 10. 13. &c. It is not said of the Infants of the Godly only, is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Ans. Nor is it said that of all Infants, or of all Baptized Infants, is the Kingdom of Heaven. The Text will prove indeed, that the Infant state is capable of Christ's acceptance into the Kingdom of Grace, and of Glory. But not that nothing is necessary thereto, but that they be Infants.
If all Infants be saved, bringing them to Christ was not necessary to their Salvation. If all only that were brought to Christ were saved, it seems they were very few.
2. Is it like that any would bring their Children to Christ to be Blessed, who did not believe in him? And what reason have we to surmise that they were not sound Believers?