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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.
1. Is here a word that he was against Infant-baptism? 2. Could a Bishop of so great a City and Diocese have been against Infant-baptism and none to be able to prove it, even in envious accusations? Would not every week detect it? 3. Would Great Gregory have thus justified him, if he h•d but suspected such a thing, above a hundred years after Austin said no one Christian thought Infant-baptism vain? Was this great Pope an Anabaptist? 4. Is it not plain by all this, th•• it was but the particul•• children of some excommunicate ⟨p. 272⟩mens wives, who maliciously accuse him (not for being against Infant-baptism; no nor against their Infants baptism; but) for delaying it? It is like, to difference them from the children of Church-members: And yet that they were afterward baptized. See here what a witness he hath brought?
1. Is here a word that he was against Infant-baptism? 2. Could a Bishop of so great a City and Diocess have been against Infant-baptism and none to be able to prove it, even in envious accusations? Would not every week detect it? 3. Would Great Gregory have thus justified him, if he h•d but suspected such a thing, above a hundred years after Austin said no one Christian thought Infant-baptism vain? Was this great Pope an Anabaptist? 4. Is it not plain by all this, th•• it was but the particul•• children of some excommunicate ⟨p. 272⟩mens wives, who maliciously accuse him (not for being against Infant-baptism; no nor against their Infants baptism; but) for delaying it? It is like, to difference them from the children of Church-members: And yet that they were afterward baptized. See here what a witness he hath brought?