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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.
SECT. II. Of the weight and nature of the present controversy.
SECT. II. Of the weight and nature of the present controversie.
§. 1. I think it a matter in this distracted age, which you may be much concerned in, to know what weight is to be laid on the controversy about Infant Baptism that you may neither come too short nor go too far. For my part, when the Christian Parent (or owner) to whom God in Nature and Scripture hath entrusted the Infant, doth heartily dedicate him to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and consent that he stand related according to the Baptismal Covenant, I am none of those that believe that God who is a Spirit, layeth so much upon the application of the water, as to damn any such Infant merely for the want of it. And though I cannot subscribe to as much more, as some would have me (who think so much better of their own understandings than ever any evidence persuaded me to do, as to judge themselves worthy to be Creed-makers for all others, yea and to be called The Church it self,) yet I approve of the seventeenth Canon of the Synod of Dort Art. 1. that [faithful Parents have no cause to doubt of the salvation of their children dying in Infancy.]
§. 1. I think it a matter in this distracted age, which you may be much concerned in, to know what weight is to be laid on the controversie about Infant Baptism that you may neither come too short nor go too far. For my part, when the Christian Parent (or owner) to whom God in Nature and Scripture hath intrusted the Infant, doth heartily dedicate him to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and consent that he stand related according to the Baptismal Covenant, I am none of those that believe that God who is a Spirit, layeth so much upon the application of the water, as to damn any such Infant meerly for the want of it. And though I cannot subscribe to as much more, as some would have me (who think so much better of their own understandings than ever any evidence perswaded me to do, as to judge themselves worthy to be Creed-makers for all others, yea and to be called The Church it self,) yet I approve of the seventeenth Canon of the Synod of Dort Art. 1. that [faithful Parents have no cause to doubt of the salvation of their children dying in Infancy.]