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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. CIV.
R. B. Quest. 7. IN what regard is the new frame bettered by casting out Infants which were in the old?
Mr. T. The Church is more spiritual —
Mr. T. The Church is more spiri•ual —
Reply. What, doth Infants Relation detract from its spirituality? The adult have souls and bodies, and so have Infants? The adult come in by the same kind of consent for themselves, as they make for their Infants? The adult blemish the Church with more carnal sins than Infants do? The Kingdom would be never the more spiritual nor excellent, if all Infants were disfranchised: Nature teacheth all Kingdoms on earth to take them for members, though but Infant-members.