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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.
When you come to point out this transeunt fact individually, you say [it is Gods taking the whole people of the Jews for his people,] which you term [fact] as conceiving it most comprehensive of the many particular acts in many generations whereby he did accomplish it.] 1. I did not well understand before that [a fact] did so vastly differ from an [Act,] as to contain the acts (rather than the facts) of many generations.
This is a long fact according to your measure, even from Abraham's call out of Ur: but how long it seems you are not well agreed with your self. For in the first part of your Letter you enumerate to the other acts that compose this fact [the bringing them into the bond of the Covenant at Mount Sinai, giving them laws, settling their Priesthood, Tabernacle, Army, Government, Inheritance:] But before you end, you change your mind, and say [the Church-membership of the Israelites began as I conceive with Abraham's call, and was completed when they were brought out of Egypt to God, Exod. 19.4.] But sure that was long before the settling their inheritance. Your fact according to your last account was about 437. years in doing; but according to your first opinion, it was about 470. years long.
This is a long fact according to your measure, even from Abrahams call out of Ur: but how long it seems you are not well agreed with your self. For in the first part of your Letter you enumerate to the other acts that compose this fact [the bringing them into the bond of the Covenant at Mount Sinai, giving them laws, setling their Priesthood, Tabernacle, Army, Government, Inheritance:] But before you end, you change your mind, and say [the Church-membership of the Israelites began as I conceive with Abrahams call, and was compleated when they were brought out of Aegypt to God, Exod. 19.4.] But sure that was long before the setling their inheritance. Your fact according to your last account was about 437. years in doing; but according to your first opinion, it was about 470. years long.