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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.
CHAP. I. The Occasion of this Writing.
§. 1. AS I was by great and long importunity unwillingly engaged at first to meddle publicly in the Controversy of Infant Baptism with Mr. Tombs, so I then resolved to meddle no more with it, unless I found that necessity made it an apparent duty.
§. 1. AS I was by great and long importunity unwillingly engaged at first to meddle publickly in the Controversie of Infant Baptism with Mr. Tombes, so I then resolved to meddle no more with it, unless I found that necessity made it an apparent duty.
§. 2. Accordingly when Mr. Tombs had printed the last private papers which past between him and me, without my consent, I never answered his reply to this day; not striving to have the last word, and supposing that the studious impartial Reader, would find no need of a rejoinder: For to me his Reply seemed so empty and next nothing, that I thought it unnecessary to say any more.
§. 2. Accordingly when Mr. Tombes had printed the last private papers which past between him and me, without my consent, I never answered his reply to this day; not striving to have the last word, and supposing that the studious impartial Reader, would find no need of a rejoynder: For to me his Reply seemed so empty and next nothing, that I thought it unnecessary to say any more.