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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.
3. As to the conditions, I doubt not but it supposeth that the child at age imitate the Parents in their Love or Hatred, duty or sin: And that if on Repentance the Parent be forgiven, his sin may not be visited to the third and fourth. And if a child of Godly Parents turn wicked, the right is intercepted.
4. But the Commandment with the foresaid exposition shows, that God meaneth that his Retribution to Parents that Love or Hate him, shall extend to their children as such; unless they interrupt it at age by their own acts: And if to their children qua tales, then to Infants.
4. But the Commandment with the foresaid exposition shews, that God meaneth that his Retribu•ion to Parents that Love or Hate him, shall extend to their children as such; unless they interrupt it at age by their own acts: And if to their children qua tales, then to Infants.
And it speaketh such a state of mercy as cannot ⟨p. 137⟩in reason be conceived to belong to them without, and can mean no less than Gods visible favour, by which the Church is differenced from the world, when Lovers and Haters are distinguished sides.