A26965:428
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.
3. The Conformists here are not agreed themselves, what that subjective individual Faith, renunciation and desire are which the Infant at present PROFESSETH by his sureties: It is not that the Infant doth actually believe himself for the Catechism confesseth that he doth not. Nor is there any probability that he doth, unless by miracle unknown. And if it be any ones faith else that the Infant then Professeth which is Imputatively his own, it is not agreed whose faith that is or must be; whether the Godfathers, or the Churches, and what Churches; whether that Congregations, or the Diocesan Churches, or the National ⟨p. 145⟩Churches, or the Universal Church? or whether it must be the Parents, Adopters or Owners of the Child.
3. The Conformists here are not agreed themselves, what that subjective individual Faith, renu•ciation and desire are which the Infant at present PROFESSETH by his sureties: It is not that the Infant doth actually believe himself for the Catechism confesseth that he doth not. Nor is there any probability that he doth, unless by miracle unknown. And if it be any ones faith else that the Infant then Professeth which is Imputatively his own, it is not agreed whose faith that is or must be; whether the Godfathers, or the Churches, and what Churches; whether that Congregations, or the Diocesan Churches, or the National ⟨p. 145⟩Churches, or the Universal Church? or whether it must be the Parents, Adopters or Owners of the Child.
4. Though the Godfathers be not by words to promise their Parts, yet standing purposely there as undertakers of it, and hearing the Minister expressly tell them what their PART and DUTY is, their coming and standing in that relation, is a plain signification of consent, and rendereth them obliged Covenanters or Sponsors.