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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 8: A Catalogue of some Doctrines of Mr. Danvers and the rest that with him accuse my Chris…
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But his strength lieth in frightful exclamations. [O was ever the like yet heard, &c. to palliate abominations, and reconcile us to Idolatrous Popish names, as Altar, Priests, Sacrifices, &c. and their baptism.] And yet he might have known that all these words are oft used by the ancienter sort of the holy Pastors of the Churches after the Apostles, and I remember not that ever one Christian was against it, or scrupled the use of them: And I before showed that they are used by the Holy-Ghost in Scripture, whom I dare not accuse of Idolatrous names, or reconciling us to them. Whether all the Papists baptism administered and received be nullities, and all Papists to be rebaptized, and all Protestants that were baptized by Papists? are questions which I will not be so vain as to dispute with one that talketh at this mans rate.
But his strength lieth in frightful exclamations. [O was ever the like yet heard, &c. to palliate abominations, and reconcile us to Idolatrous Popish names, as Altar, Priests, Sacrifices, &c. and their baptism.] And yet he might have known that all these words are oft used by the ancienter sort of the holy Pastors of the Churches after the Apostles, and I remember not that ever one Christian was against it, or scrupled the use of them: And I before shewed that they are used by the Holy-Ghost in Scripture, whom I dare not accuse of Idolatrous names, or reconciling us to them. Whether all the Papists baptism administred and received be nullities, and all Papists to be rebaptized, and all Protestants that were baptized by Papists? are questions which I will not be so vain as to dispute with one that talketh at this mans rate.
But yet we have not done with the high charges of his Preface: He saith [Oh! were not those twenty Queries, so much against the self-evidencing authority of the Scriptures, in his Admon. p. 142. in favour of Tradition a heinous provocation, to say no more of them?]
But yet we have not done with the high charges of his Preface: He saith [Oh! were not those twenty Queries, so much against the self-evidencing authority of the Scriptures, in his Admon. p. 142. in favour of Tradition a heynous provocation, to say no more of them?]