M. 1. Did I not before tell you why? 2. Suppose they scrupled it through mistake? shall every mistake or error of Parents deprive the child of Baptism? I'll tell you why I dare no more Assent and Consent to this, than I dare consent to cut off a hand or foot of every such child.
1. Baptising is Christening, and dare I causelessly deprive a Soul of visible Christianity?
2. They themselves make it an Ascertaining means of Salvation, as the forementioned Rubric showeth. And would they have us shut Infants from Salvation for nothing? yea they seem to confine Salvation only to the baptized, while they conclude that they are saved as baptized ones, and except the unbaptized from Christian Burial: The best can be but ⟨p. 71⟩to leave them as without any promise of life from Christ: And how can we believe that God will give them that which he never promised them. And shall I damn souls for want of a humane unnecessary, if not corrupt invention.
3. It is against the interest of Christ and the Church? shall I make a Covenant to rob Christ and the Church of visible Members for nothing? Murdering Infants is death by God's Laws and mans? And Innocents day is one of the Christmas Holy days. And is it a thing indifferent for me and all the Ministers of the National Church, to make a solemn bargain that we Assent and Consent to keep out all from the Church and from the Covenant (and in their sense the hope) of Salvation on such an account as this.
M. 1. Did I not before tell you why? 2. Suppose they scrupled it through mistake? shall every mistake or errour of Parents deprive the child of Baptism? I'll tell you why I dare no more Assent and Consent to this, than I dare consent to cut off a hand or foot of every such child.
1. Baptising is Christening, and dare I causelessly deprive a Soul of visible Christianity?
2. They themselves make it an Ascertaining means of Salvation, as the forementioned Rubrick sheweth. And would they have us shut Infants from Salvation for nothing? yea they seem to confine Salvation only to the baptized, while they conclude that they are saved as baptized ones, and except the unbaptized from Christian Burial: The best can be but ⟨p. 71⟩to leave them as without any promise of life from Christ: And how can we believe that God will give them that which he never promised them. And shall I damn souls for want of a humane unnecessary, if not corrupt invention.
3. It is against the interest of Christ and the Church? shall I make a Covenant to rob Christ and the Church of visible Members for nothing? Murthering Infants is death by God's Laws and mans? And Innocents day is one of the Christmas Holy days. And is it a thing indifferent for me and all the Ministers of the National Church, to make a solemn bargain that we Assent and Consent to keep out all from the Church and from the Covenant (and in their sense the hope) of Salvation on such an account as this.
