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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
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.
SECT. XVII.
R. B. THE Children of Abraham by Keturah, when they were removed from his family were not unchurched; and yet were no members of the Jews Common-wealth. But I shall take up with what is said for this already, undertaking more largely to manifest it, when I perceive it necessary and useful.
Mr. T's Answer. Abraham's children by Keturah when out of the Common-wealth of the Hebrews were unchurched; at least in respect of the Church of the Hebrews.
Mr. T's Answer. Abrahams children by Keturah when out of the Common-wealth of the Hebrews were unchurched; at least in respect of the Church of the Hebrews.
Reply. 1. What a wide gap doth that [at least] make you, yet to say, They were a Church or no Church, as you please? 2. Reader, use Scripture but impartially, and in the fear of God, and I will leave it to thy Conscience to judge whether it be credible, that when God had foretold that Abraham would command his children and household after him to keep the way of the Lord, Gen. 18.19. and when Ishmael, Keturah's children, and Esau, were circumcised by Gods command, and God had yet promised the Political peculiarities specially to Isaac, and Jacob, yet God would have all the grandchildren of Ishmael, Keturah, Esau to be uncircumcised: and all their posterity to cease that usage, as soon as they were out of Abraham's house: when yet