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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. LII.
R. B. 2. The law of nature bindeth all Parents to do their best to secure Gods right, and their Children's good, and to prevent their sin and misery: But to engage them betimes to God by such a dedication, doth tend to secure Gods right, and their Children's good, and to prevent their sin and misery: For they are under a double obligation, which they may be minded of betimes, ⟨p. 107⟩and which may hold them the more strongly to their duty, and disadvantage the tempter that would draw them off from God.
R. B. 2. THe law of nature bindeth all Parents to do their best to secure Gods right, and their Childrens good, and to prevent their sin and misery: But to engage them betimes to God by such a dedication, doth tend to secure Gods right, and their Childrens good, and to prevent their sin and misery: For they are under a double obligation, which they may be minded of betimes, ⟨p. 107⟩and which may hold them the more strongly to their duty, and disadvantage the tempter that would draw them off from God.
Mr. T. Really Infant Baptism is a disadvantage, 1. In that it is the occasion whereby they take themselves to be Christians afore they know what Christianity is, and so are kept in presumption, &c. 2. They are kept from the true baptism, &c.