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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.
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.
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.
2. If those Texts cited by you mention not Infants, others do, as I have elsewhere proved: Our children are called Holy, and a blessed seed, and received by Christ, and of such is the Kingdom of God, &c. And you confess it of Christ himself in his Infancy, and yet now forget it, or contradict your self.
2. If those Texts cited by you mention not Infants, others do, as I have elsewhere proved: Our children are called Holy, and a blessed seed, and received by Christ, and of such is the Kingdom of God, &c. And you confess it of Christ himself in his Infancie, and yet now forget it, or contradict your self.