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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 118,119 › A Confutation of Mr. Tombs's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretend…: A Confutation of Mr. Tombs's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that In…PART I. My private Letters to Mr. Tombes proving the Church-members… › Letters 1 › Section 118,119 › A Confutation of Mr. Tombes's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretend…: A Confutation of Mr. Tombes's Reasons Sect. 52. by which he pretendeth to prove that In…

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:470p. 167–168

Answ. 1. What is said before to the other Texts answereth all these. The Actions of adult Disciples only were in mention. 2. Infants are called Disciples, Acts 15. as I have elsewhere proved, on whose neck the yoke of Circumcision was laid; And in Matth. 28.19. when Nations are to be discipled. 3. Mr. T. himself confesseth that Christ was habitually and by designation a ⟨p. 168⟩Prophet in Infancy, and that so may Infants be Disciples.

Answ. 1. What is said before to the other Texts answereth all these. The Actions of adult Disciples only were in mention. 2. Infants are called Disciples, Acts 15. as I have elsewhere proved, on whose neck the yoak of Circumcision was laid; And in Matth. 28.19. when Nations are to be discipled. 3. Mr. T. himself confesseth that Christ was habitually and by designation a ⟨p. 168⟩Prophet in Infancy, and that so may Infants be Disciples.

:471p. 168

Mr. T. 6. If in the distribution of the members of the Church then, Infants are not comprehended, then Infants were not visible Church-members — But, &c.

:472p. 168

Answ. 1. Here he instanceth in 1. The sex, Men and Women, 2. Jews and Gentiles, 3. Circumcision and uncircumcision, mentioned, but not Infants. But if Infants be of neither sex, male nor female, nor of Jews or Gentiles, nor circumcision nor uncircumcision, I plead not for them.

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