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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Chapter 9: Point VI. Of the Article of Baptized Infants Salvation.
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L. But it is not said [All Infants], but [Infants] indefinitely.
M. 1. There is no place of doubting of their universal sense. For an Indefinite term in re necessaria is equal to an Universal. And they except the unbaptized from Christian Burial. 2. It is Baptized Infants as such that they speak of, and that under no other Character, nor with the least exception. And a quatenus ad omnes valet argumentum. 3. The Canon commandeth Ministers to baptize all Infants without exception that are brought to them on any Sundays or Holidays to be baptized after the Manner of the Church of England. ⟨p. 50⟩4. I have spoken with the Bishops that brought in and promoted this Article, and they own the universal sense, supposing the true form of Baptism; and say, that as any man hath right to take up an exposed Infant in the streets and take it in, so hath any one to bring the Child of a Heathen, Infidel, Atheist or Sadducee to baptism. 5. If they had meant it only of some baptized Infants and not all, they knew the Non-conformists were of the same mind; and then they would have told us, what sort they mean.
M. 1. There is no place of doubting of their universal sence. For an Indefinite term in re necessaria is equal to an Vniversal. And they except the unbaptized from Christian Burial. 2. It is Baptized Infants as such that they speak of, and that under no other Character, nor with the least exception. And a quatenus ad omnes valet argumentum. 3. The Canon commandeth Ministers to baptize all Infants without exception that are brought to them on any Sundays or Holydays to be baptized after the Manner of the Church of England. ⟨p. 50⟩4. I have spoken with the Bishops that brought in and promoted this Article, and they own the universal sence, supposing the true form of Baptisme; and say, that as any man hath right to take up an exposed Infant in the streets and take it in, so hath any one to bring the Child of a Heathen, Infidel, Atheist or Sadducee to baptisme. 5. If they had meant it only of some baptized Infants and not all, they knew the Non-conformists were of the same mind; and then they would have told us, what sort they mean.