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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.
§. 1. MY Answer to Mr. Tombs and Mr. Danvers being written about the same time as my Epistle to Mr. Wills his book, hath since then been detained in the Printers hand, whose delay hath allowed me the sight of Mr. Danvers Reply to Mr. Wills, and the opportunity ⟨p. 346⟩of animadverting on it, before mine is come abroad. And upon my most impartial consideration it reneweth the grief of my heart to think of these evils which it sets before me.
§. 1. MY Answer to Mr. Tombes and Mr. Danvers being written about the same time as my Epistle to Mr. Wills his book, hath since then been detained in the Printers hand, whose delay hath allowed me the sight of Mr. Danvers Reply to Mr. Wills, and the opportunity ⟨p. 346⟩of animadverting on it, before mine is come abroad. And upon my most impartial consideration it reneweth the grief of my heart to think of these evils which it sets before me.
§. 2. 1. That the souls of poor Christians should be under the Temptations of such writings and teaching as here we find: Where such untruths in matter of fact are still justified with such a face of confidence, and divulged as for God, and for the souls of men, that most ignorant persons may be tempted to think that Modesty and Charity require them to believe, that they are real truths, it being a harsh unmanly thing to judge that such a person can possibly be so hardened, as to stand so boldly to all these things, which have such public historical evidence, if they were all downright falsehoods.
§. 2. 1. That the souls of poor Christians should be under the Temptations of such writings and teaching as here we find: Where such untruths in matter of fact are still justified with such a face of confidence, and divulged as for God, and for the souls of men, that most ignorant persons may be tempted to think that Modesty and Charity require them to believe, that they are real truths, it being a harsh unmanly thing to judge that such a person can possibly be so hardened, as to stand so boldly to all these things, which have such publick historical evidence, if they were all downright falshoods.