A26965:436
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.
11. We know not where Parents can procure any to undertake this Office as the Church imposeth it, that credibly signify themselves able and willing to perform••: we could not do it our selves were we never so desirous: Perhaps ⟨p. 147⟩some Rich men might hire others to take their Children into their Care and Education, as must be promised; but who would do so for the poor? yea for all the poor of England? And the Nonconformists are not satisfied that it is lawful to engage any in a perfidious covenanting before God, when before-hand they have no credible signification of any purpose to perform it. Nay, when the Parent resolveth to educate his own Child, and not to trust him to the Provision or care of others.
11. We know not where Parents can procure any to undertake this Office as the Church imposeth it, that cred••ly signifie themselves able and willing to perform••: we could not do it our selves were we never so desirous: Perhaps ⟨p. 147⟩some Rich men might hire others to take their Children into their Care and Education, as must be promised; but who would do so for the poor? yea for all the poor of England? And the Nonconformists are not satisfied that it is lawful to engage any in a perfidious covenanting before God, when before-hand they have no credible signification of any purpose to perform it. Nay, when the Parent resolveth to educate his own Child, and not to trust him to the Provision or care of others.
12. The Minister Covenanting [to use the form in the Book of Common Prayer prescribed in administration of the Sacraments, and no other] Can. 36. No Parent may speak a word in the name of his own Child, nor to enter him there into the Covenant of God, nor profess that he offereth him to Baptism by virtue of, and in confidence in the promise [I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed in their Generations;] Nor to promise himself what the Godfathers are to promise: The words also of the Can. 29. are these; [No Parent shall be urged to be PRESENT, nor be admitted to answer as Godfather for his own Child: Nor any Godfather or Godmother shall be suffered to make any other answer or speech than by the Book of Common Prayer is prescribed in that behalf.