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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
Chapter 2: More of my Judgement of the Anabaptists and their Cause, with a motion to them for peace.
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.
§. 15. For we hold that all that are Baptized in Infancy should as understandingly, and as seriously and (if it may be conveniently) as solemnly, own and make that Covenant with God when they come to age, as if they had never been baptized; (if not more, as being more obliged.) The reasons of this I have given long ago at large, in a Treatise of Confirmation, written when we had hope of setting up this Course, under the name of Confirmation, which some of us practised in our Assemblies not without success. To be seriously devoted to God by our Parents first, and to be brought at age as seriously to devote our selves to him, as any Anabaptist can do, is a much likelier way to fill the Church with serious Christians, than to leave all men without the sense of an early Infant obligation.
§. 15. For we hold that all that are Baptized in Infancy should as understandingly, and as seriously and (if it may be conveniently) as solemnly, own and make that Covenant with God when they come to age, as if they had never been baptized; (if not more, as being more obliged.) The reasons of this I have given long ago at large, in a Treatise of Confirmation, written when we had hope of setting up this Course, under the name of Confirmation, which some of us practised in our Assemblies not without success. To be seriously devoted to God by our Parents first, and to be brought at age as seriously to devote our selves to him, as any Anabaptist can do, is a much liklier way to fill the Church with serious Christians, than to leave all men without the sense of an early Infant obligation.
§. 16. I am as fully persuaded that Infants Church-membership and Baptism is according to Gods will, as ever I was, when I was most engaged in the Controversy: And I am persuaded that these Papers of mine to Mr. Tombs, are so unsatisfactorily answered as is worse than no Answer, and showeth how little is to be said.
§. 16. I am as fully perswaded that Infants Church-membership and Baptism is according to Gods will, as ever I was, when I was most engaged in the Controversie: And I am perswaded that these Papers of mine to Mr. Tombes, are so unsatisfactorily answered as is worse than no Answer, and sheweth how little is to be said.