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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

Name: More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675

[14], 414 p. · 106k words · Wing B1312 · ESTC R17239

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

PART I. My private Letters to Mr. Tombs proving the Church-members… › Letters 1 › Section 117PART I. My private Letters to Mr. Tombes proving the Church-members… › Letters 1 › Section 117

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SECT. CXVII.

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R. B. Quest. 10. Seeing that Infants have been de facto Church-members from the creation to this day (as far as any records can lead us) is it likely that the Lord, and head and all-sufficient Governor of his Church, would have permitted his Church till now ⟨p. 158⟩to be actually made up of such subjects, as in regard of age be disallowed? And suffer his Church to be wrong framed till now? Or is it a reasonable, modest and lawful undertaking, to go about now in the end of the world to make God a new framed Church, as to the age of the subjects? And is it not more modest and safe, to live quietly in a Church of that frame as all the Saints in Heaven lived in, till the other day, as a few Anabaptists with vile and sinful means, and miserable success, did attempt an alteration?

R. B. Quest. 10. SEeing that Infants have been de facto Church-members from the creation to this day (as far as any records can lead us) is it likely that the Lord, and head and all-sufficient Governour of his Church, would have permitted his Church till now ⟨p. 158⟩to be actually made up of such subjects, as in regard of age be disallowed? And suffer his Church to be wrong framed till now? Or is it a reasonable, modest and lawful undertaking, to go about now in the end of the world to make God a new framed Church, as to the age of the subjects? And is it not more modest and safe, to live quietly in a Church of that frame as all the Saints in Heaven lived in, till the other day, as a few Anabaptists with vile and sinful means, and miserable success, did attempt an alteration?

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Title as printed

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.

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

N. Simmons and J. Robinson

Year

1675

Size

[14], 414 p.

Words

105,816

Catalogue

Wing B1312 · ESTC R17239

Text

EEBO-TCP A26959

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1,077

Sections

101

Title page

More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

SECT. CXVII.

SECT. CXVIII, CXIX.

A Confutation of Mr. Tombs's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that Infants were not reckoned to the visible Church-Christian in the Primitive times, nor are now.

A Confutation of Mr. Tombes's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that Infants were not reckoned to the visible Church-Christian in the Primitive times, nor are now.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

SECT. CXVII.

SECT. CXVIII, CXIX.

A Confutation of Mr. Tombs's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that Infants were not reckoned to the visible Church-Christian in the Primitive times, nor are now.

A Confutation of Mr. Tombes's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that Infants were not reckoned to the visible Church-Christian in the Primitive times, nor are now.