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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.
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?
3. As Christ healed some blind Men, and not all, and some Lepers, Sick, &c. so if as a Specimen, to show that Infant state is capable of Grace, he took up some Infants of Hypocrites, or Infidels, or impious Parents, (which can never be proved) it will not follow that all such shall be received, and that to Salvation.
3. As Christ healed some blind Men, and not all, and some Lepers, Sick, &c. so if as a Specimen, to shew that Infant state is capable of Grace, he took up some Infants of Hypocrites, or Infidels, or impious Parents, (which can never be proved) it will not follow that all such shall be received, and that to Salvation.
4. If by verbal profession Parents and their Children are taken into the outward Covenant and Church, and by Water Men are born into the Visible Kingdom of God, it followeth not they