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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. VI.
R. B. IT was then the duty of all the Nations round about (if not of all the Nations on earth, that could have information of the Jewish Religion) to engage themselves and their children to God by Circumcision. That all that would have any alliance and commerce with the Jews must do it, is commonly confessed: that it must extend to Infants, the case of the Sichemites (though deceitfully drawn to it by some of Jacobs sons) doth show, and so doth the Jewish practice which they were to imitate: that the same engagement to the same God is the duty of all the world, is commonly acknowledged, though Divines are not agreed whether the distant nations were obliged to use Circumcision the Jewish sign. The ⟨p. 22⟩best of the Jews were zealous to make Proselytes, and no doubt but the very law of nature did teach them to do their best for the salvation of others. To think such charitable and holy works unlawful, is to think it evil to do the greatest good. And if they must persuade the neighbour nations to come in to God by Covenant engagement, they must persuade them to bring their children with them, and to devote them to God as well as themselves. For the Jews kn•w no other covenanting or engaging to God. As the Sichemites must do, so other nations must do: For what privilege had the children of the Sichemites above the rest of the world?
R. B. IT was then the duty of all the Nations round about (if not of all the Nations on earth, that could have information of the Jewish Religion) to engage themselves and their children to God by Circumcision. That all that would have any alliance and commerce with the Jews must do it, is commonly confessed: that it must extend to Infants, the case of the Sichemites (though deceitfully drawn to it by some of Jacobs sons) doth shew, and so doth the Jewish practice which they were to imitate: that the same engagement to the same God is the duty of all the world, is commonly acknowledged, though Divines are not agreed whether the distant nations were obliged to use Circumcision the Jewish sign. The ⟨p. 22⟩