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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 4: Of Mr. Danvers's his Witnesses against Infant-Baptism.
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.
§. 39. 3. He addeth [Because they did so vehemently reject humane Traditions in the worship ⟨p. 261⟩of God; especially all Romish Rites and Ceremonies; this as before undeniably appearing to come from Romes ordination and Imposition.]
Answ. 1. [ Undeniably] is a word that shameth you to every intelligent Reader that understandeth Church history. Will you not confess your self that Cyprian and that Carthage Council, Nazianzene, Basil, Augustine &c. were for Infant-Baptism? were all these Papists, or Romans? Can you prove any Roman Ordination of it before all these?
Answ. 1. [ Ʋndeniably] is a word that shameth you to every intelligent Reader that understandeth Church history. Will you not confess your self that Cyprian and that Carthage Council, Nazianzene, Basil, Augustine &c. were for Infant-Baptism? were all these Papists, or Romans? Can you prove any Roman Ordination of it before all these?
2. How know you that they so vehemently rejected humane Traditions in the worship of God? Did they not use the Asiatic Ceremonies? Did they not precisely observe Easter, and place Religion in keeping it on their own days? Had they not Bishops, and were they not Monks? And do you gather by Gildas that they were such as you dream? And did they not Plead Tradition for their difference from Rome?
2. How know you that they so vehemently rejected humane Traditions in the worship of God? Did they not use the Asiatick Ceremonies? Did they not precisely observe Easter, and place Religion in keeping it on their own dayes? Had they not Bishops, and were they not Monks? And do you gather by Gildas that they were such as you dream? And did they not Plead Tradition for their difference from Rome?