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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.
§. 20. And he that knoweth Baptism to be hic et nunc his duty and yet will not receive it, showeth his unsoundness by his disobedience.
§. 20. And he that knoweth Baptism to be hic et nunc his duty and yet will not receive it, sheweth his unsoundness by his disobedience.
§. 21. As Baptism is made our great duty under that name, so Profession or Confession of Christ, as such, is oft mentioned as necessary, even to salvation, Rom. 10.9, 10. 1 Joh. 4.2.3.15. Mat. 10.32. Phil. 2.11. 2 John 7.
And Baptism being our Open confessing and Owning Christ by a solemn Vow and Covenant, it is principally as such that it is necessary to salvation, yea and to a perfect membership of the visible Church.