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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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:503p. 177

Mr. T. 8. If persons are visible Church-members and not by the Covenant of Grace, then it is not true that Christ by his Law or Covenant is the sole efficient of visible Church-membership. The minor is proved in Judas and hypocrites.

:504p. 177

Answ. 1. They are not the sole efficient; Gods Love and mercy also is efficient.

:505p. 177¶2

2. You profess your self that the name [Christian and Church-member] are equivocal as to the sincere and the hypocrites: If they be not the same things, no wonder if they have not the same causes. That Donation or Covenant may be the sole nearest Instrumental efficient of True membership, and yet not of Equivocal.

:506p. 177–178¶3

3. God who is our Paternal Beneficent Ruler doth give some of his benefits by his Law or Covenant absolutely and antecedently to mans conditions, and some consequently as Rewards: And Gods Laws having first a Preceptive part, as well as a Donative or Premiant, a Right may accrue in foro ecclesiae to an hypocrite from that precept: As e. g. God antecedently doth by his Covenant give the world an Impunity as to the punishment of Drowning it: And so by his common Law of Grace he giveth the world many common mercies by a Redeemer, and perhaps many by that you call a physical act, immediately. And by his Law he (having given a conditional pardon and life to all) commandeth his Ministers to offer it, and All men to Accept it,

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