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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.
§ 6. And what if you had proved the Salvation of all wicked Christians Baptized Infants? what's that to our Question, which extendeth to all, not excepting the Children of profest Atheists, Infidels, Sadducees, or Heathens, that have but God-Fathers?
§ 6. And what if you had proved the Salvation of all wicked Christians Baptized Infants? what's that to our Question, which extendeth to all, not excepting the Children of profest Atheists, Infidels, Sadduces, or Heathens, that have but God-Fathers?
§ 7. But pag. 8, 9. you tell us, that [Infants by reason of their innocent harmless state, seem to be Christ's Off-spring, and to be a subordinate Root and Bottom to themselves, and to stand by their own innocency under Christ, and by his Divine Grace.—Look what Regeneration is to the Adult, that in some sort the Infant-state may be to Infants; that is, All Infants are in a New and Second state by Christ: So the word Regeneration doth properly import.—Pag. 10. Christ alone without Parents Godliness, is able to the Salvation of all the Infant World.—I am not able to prove that bare having of Circumcision and ⟨p. 143⟩Baptism doth save any; nor that the bare want thereof doth bar any from Salvation.
Ans. 1. But what is this to Conformity? Did you think that this was the meaning of the Liturgy, that all Infants are saved, when it saith All the Baptized?