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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
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 13
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CHAP. XIII.
§ 1. IN your 12th Section you join several things.
§ 1. IN your 12th Section you joyn several things.
1. About denying Christian Burial to the Unbaptized Infants, and the Excommunicate, as not signifying their Damnation. But if you take in the foresaid Rubric Articles that pronounceth certain Salvation to them if Baptized, you may see what is like to be the meaning of the Church here: And also if you read, how they use to expound their Anathema, or Major Excommunication; and on what account it is often made. Doctor Heylin tells you, That the necessity of Baptism was one of Bishop Laud's first Thesis's publicly maintained in Oxford. You are now Excommunicate your self, but not with that Anathema which is of the hardest signification. But this is little to my objected Case.
1. About denying Christian Burial to the Unbaptized Infants, and the Excommunicate, as not signifying their Damnation. But if you take in the foresaid Rubrick Articles that pronounceth certain Salvation to them if Baptized, you may see what is like to be the meaning of the Church here: And also if you read, how they use to expound their Anathema, or Major Excommunication; and on what account it is often made. Doctor Heylin tells you, That the necessity of Baptism was one of Bishop Laud's first Thesis's publickly maintained in Oxford. You are now Excommucate your self, but not with that Anathema which is of the hardest signification. But this is little to my objected Case.