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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
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5. I deny that any wicked Man (much more every one) doth, yea, or can, univocally and truly, devote his Child to God according to the sense of the Baptismal Covenant. Though I grant that the love of his Child's Lust do not hold him so strongly as the love of his own; yet he that never so knew God in Christ, and so believed in Christ, and so believed in him as to perceive him practically to be better for himself than all the World and sinful Pleasures, cannot with a true and practical Affiance, so take him for his Child.
5. I deny that any wicked Man (much more every one) doth, yea, or can, univocally and truly, devote his Child to God according to the sense of the Baptismal Covenant. Though I grant that the love of his Childs Lust do not hold him so strongly as the love of his own; yet he that never so knew God in Christ, and so believed in Christ, and so believed in him as to perceive him practically to be better for himself than all the World and sinful Pleasures, cannot with a true and practical Affiance, so take him for his Child.
6. And God no where commandeth, or accepteth the devoting of our Infants to him primarily, or as separated from our selves; but only as Appendices, or Conjunct with us; that is, that we devote our selves and ours: And so not without us, but with us doth he accept them.
6. And God no where commandeth, or accepteth the devoting of our Infants to him primarily, or as seperated from our selves; but only as Appendices, or Conjunct with us; that is, that we devote our selves and ours: And so not without us, but with us doth he accept them.
§ 5. Your great pretended Proof is, That all the Males of Israel were Circumcised.