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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.
12. There is no one Word of God cited in the Rubric which tells us that It is certain by the Word of God.
12. There is no one Word of God cited in the Rubrick which tells us that It is certain by the Word of God.
13. Among Christian Divines there are all these various opinions about the salvation of Infants.
1. Some hold that the Covenant being to the faithful and their seed, and their children being holy, all the children of sincere Christians are certainly in a state of salvation, being by the parents intentionally dedicated to God, before or without Baptism: And that Baptism is but their so lemn investiture in that state which was theirs by right before.
2. Others think that this right to salvation belongeth to the Children of all professed Christians godly and ungodly,