A27035:929
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
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.
Answ. 1. No one is fit for it as used by the Liturgy, but an Adopter that taketh the Child for his own; For he undertaketh the Parents work. And it's lis sub judice, whether any others undertaking besides a Parent or Owner can prove the Child to be in the Covenant as offered, and have right to the seal and benefits: Atheists and Infidels Children are unholy, 1 Cor. 7. 14.
Answ. 1. No one is fit for it as used by the Liturgy, but an Adopter that taketh the Child for his own; For he undertaketh the Parents work. And it's lis sub judice, whether any others undertaking besides a Parent or Owner can prove the Child to be in the Covenant as offered, and have right to the seal and benefits: Atheists and Insidels Children are unholy, 1 Cor. 7. 14.
2. If any were sit, few Parents can get such, as will understandingly and deliberately and credibly promise them to do all that Godfathers must by the Liturgy undertake. I never knew one in my life that seemed to the Parent to mean any such thing, much less to do it.
I have in my younger time been Godfather to three or four: But we before agreed with the Parents to intend no more than to be Witnesses, and the Father to be the Entitler and the undertaker.