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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 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?]
Answ. It seems they were so to you. But really, did you read that book and the other to Mr. Bagshaw, and yet not fear to follow him and out-do him in notorious untruths, after so full a conviction and warning as was given him? Think on it, and again cry out [But alas! whereto will not men run left to themselves?] I there professed and proved to your friend Mr. Bagshaw that I was for, and wrote for the self-evidencing authority of the Scripture, and it is untrue that those ⟨p. 327⟩twenty Queries or any one of them is against it· But seeing you think otherwise, if indeed you hold the contrary to the assertions implied in those twenty Queries, I am not at the end of the Catalogue of your strange Doctrines: If you and my revilers own them, so will not sober men: e. g.
XLIII. [Every Christian must see the Copies of the Scripture written by the Prophets and Apostles own hands: Or at least must understand the Transcripts in the Original tongues.]