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Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered…
Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered in covenant with God by baptism ... or whether Christ, the Saviour of the world, hath shut all mankind out of his visible kingdom ... 'till they come of age? : occasioned by the importunity of Mr. E. Hutchinson (and of Mr. Danvers and Mr. Tombs) who called him to this review in order to his retractation [sic] ...Rich. Baxter's review of the state of Christian's infants whether they should be entered in covenant with God by baptism ... or whether Christ, the Saviour of the world, hath shut all mankind out of his visible kingdom ... 'till they come of age? : occasioned by the importunity of Mr. E. Hutchinson (and of Mr. Danvers and Mr. Tombes) who called him to this review in order to his retractation [sic] ...
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1676
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. Especially when you so unintelligibly recite my supposed Error, and give me not a word of Answer against that abundance of Scripture proof which I have brought? This is too unsatisfactory an answering of Books, to Beseech us to repent of them?
3. Especially when you so unintelligibly recite my supposed Errour, and give me not a word of Answer against that abundance of Scripture proof which I have brought? This is too unsatisfactory an answering of Books, to Beseech us to repent of them?
4. The Wisdom from above is Pure, & Peaceable, and without Partiality. Is yours so? Ask any Impartial man whether you write like one that knoweth himself? You here call us to Repent of a Position as Absurd and Heretical? Did I ever call your Opinion Heretical. Not that I remember? Such writing as this of mine is fiery; but your large Invectives without one word of proof, and your charge of an Heretical Position, is nothing but Christian Gentleness.
Your Phrase of a Covenant running in a Fleshly Line, is your own. The words of a position charged as heretical, should have been truly recited. Tell me where I ever used such. I refer you to my late two Disputations ⟨p. 32⟩of Original Sin, besides my two Books of Baptism, for full proof that God hath taken the Children of the Godly and the Wicked as participants, into Promises of Love and Mercy, and threatenings of punishment, with their Parents: How far, I have there opened. Your telling me that such Reference is to set you the task of Sisyphus, shall not so befool me as to tempt me to write the same over again: For by the like reason, others of as great authority as you may call me to write it twenty times. And if I give near thirty Scripture Testimonies or Arguments for our Infant Mercies, we that see no reason to invalidate them, will not so despise God and his Laws and Benefits, as to deny or reject all, because such a man as you require it, and tells us that they are all invalid. If we must take our Faith on Trust: it were more excusable to take it from Councils, than from you.