A26911:563
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.
5. If they be conceived and born Innocent, what need have they of Baptism for Remission of Sin? If you say that Christ Regenerateth all as he is the Giver of their Nature, the Church hath condemned this in the Pelagians, that make Nature, as from Christ, to be the same with Grace.
6. If all be Pardoned, all have the Holy Ghost (for Baptism giveth right to both.) But that's not so.
§ 8. Page 11. Did you satisfy your Conscience in expounding, [But now are they holy, 1 Cor. 14.] after what we have said of it to Mr. Tombs? Is it [Your Children are pure to you, as your Meat is?]
§ 8. Page 11. Did you satisfie your Conscience in expounding, [But now are they holy, 1 Cor. 14.] after what we have said of it to Mr. Tombes? Is it [Your Children are pure to you, as your Meat is?]
§ 9. When you ask me [Why I say notoriously ungodly.] You consulted not the credit of your knowledge, to tell Men in Print, that you know not what Notorious signifieth; no not in Notation, or common use: As if it signified [more than ordinary.] Notorious, is that which is certainly, openly, easily, Knowable. I have told you of some of my own Parishioners, that live in the open opposition to Christianity, seeking in their Converse to persuade Men, that the Scripture is a Book of Lies, and Christianity a mere Deceit, and they will bring their Children to Baptism for Law and Custom-sake; and say all the Creed, and words required (it was in the time when I had leave to admit the Parent to enter his own Child in the Covenant with God.) We know now abundance of the followers of Hobbes, and Spinosa, and many that deride Scripture, and the hopes of Heaven, and the fears of a Hell, and think Man is but a subtle sort of Beast: Yet these will all have their Children Baptized, and to avoid the penalty of the Law, will receive the Eucharist. And there are others who are common scorners of Serious Religiousness, and persecutors of it to their power; and hate him that will tell them of the evil of the common Drunkenness and Whoredom which they live in, and glory in their Shame. We look for better proof than your Wriggling-nothings, to make us undoubtedly certain from God's Word, that the Baptized Infants of all these are saved: The Rubric meaneth, [Quia & qua, Baptized;] and you mean [Because innocent, and Christ died for them, and all the Unbaptized, are saved.] But as I see none