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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.
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.
And when God hath Recorded this decreed granted distinguished mercy to the children of the faithful as such in the Tables of stone, sure it is a visible notification, which will make them visible favourites and Church-members as soon as they visibly exist.
And when God hath Recorded this decreed granted distinguished mercy to the children of the faithful as such in the Tables of stone, sure it is a visible notification, which will make them visible favorites and Church-members as soon as they visibly exist.