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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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:480p. 170–171

Mr. T. 4. I argue: They who have not the form constituting and denominating a visible ⟨p. 171⟩Church-member, are not visible Church-members. But. Ergo. Profession of faith is the form constituting, &c.

:481p. 171

Answ. 1. Covenant Consent is the form constituting ex parte Recipientis, and this they have reputatively in their Parents, whose will is as theirs.

:482p. 171¶2

2. The Jews Infants had the form constituting a visible member as you confess. And that was not circumcision; For the uncircumcised females, and males too in the wilderness were visible members: Nor was it to be born of Jews; For apostate Jews forfeited it, and Proselytes of other Nations obtained it: But it was by consent to Gods Covenant.

:483p. 171¶3

3. And Christ was a visible member by Divine Revelation. His arguings would make against Christs Righteousness Imputed to believers, and Adams or the Parents sins imputed to them.

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