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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
7. The Controversy is not, 1. Whether it ⟨p. 143⟩was Lawfully Imposed, 2. Or whether it was Lawfully Taken, 3. Or whether it bind as a League, 4. Nor whether it bind to any unlawful thing (which all renounce) But, 5. Whether as a Vow made to God, it bind to things necessary (as against Schism, Profaneness, Popery: to Repent, &c.) to which men were before bound by other obligations. Nor whether they that took it not be bound by it to repent, &c. but whether no one person in the three Kingdoms, who took it, be so bound: And that since the Scots drew his Majesty to seem to own it (which we judge they did unlawfully.)
7. The Controversie is not, 1. Whether it ⟨p. 143⟩was Lawfully Imposed, 2. Or whether it was Lawfully Taken, 3. Or whether it bind as a League, 4. Nor whether it bind to any unlawful thing (which all renounce) But, 5. Whether as a Vow made to God, it bind to things necessary (as against Schism, Profaneness, Popery: to Repent, &c.) to which men were before bound by other obligations. Nor whether they that took it not be bound by it to repent, &c. but whether no one person in the three Kingdoms, who took it, be so bound: And that since the Scots drew his Majesty to seem to own it (which we judge they did unlawfully.)
II. All Parents who will have their Children baptized, must submit them to the sign of the Cross, as it is after described. And so must all that are to be baptized at age submit themselves to it.
III. All persons that have Children to be baptized must conform as followeth 1. They must procure three persons to be Godfathers and Godmother, who must personally present the Child to be baptized, and must promise and Vow to God in the Child's name the duties of the Covenant, and must in the name of the Child say [that he renounceth the Devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world &c, and that he steadfastly believeth all the articles of faith, that he will he baptized and that he will obediently keep Gods holy will and Commandments, &c.] Not that they believe, consent &c, but that he (the Child) doth believe, desire, &c. And it is not a mere promise for the future [I will believe and renounce, &c.] but a profession for the present time [I do believe steadfastly and I do renounce] And in the Catechism it is said that