A27066:54
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
Mr. BAXTER's VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH of ENGLAND In her Rites, and… › 4. Godfathers and Godmothers.
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.
4. Godfathers and Godmothers.
Infant-Church-membership, p. preliminary to the Epistle.
Mr. Baxter there tells us, that the currant consent of Historians assures us of the use of Godfathers and Godmothers at the Baptizing of Infants in Hyginus's time, who lived (as he allegeth from Nicephorus, Paraeus, Prideaux, and others) within about 40 Years of S. John the Apostle, and conversed with the Disciples and Familiars of the Apostles, and therefore (says he) could not be ignorant of the practice of the Apostles in Baptizing Infants. Thus hath he well proved the use of Godfathers and Godmothers, in all probability to be Apostolical, at least, [Greek or Hebrew], and ⟨p. 23⟩beyond all reach of scruple, to be of greatest antiquity in the Church, viz. forty years within the Apostles times.*
Mr. Baxter there tells us, that the currant consent of Historians assures us of the use of Godfathers and Godmothers at the Baptizing of Infants in Hyginus's time, who lived (as he alledgeth from Nicephorus, Paraeus, Prideaux, and others) within about 40 Years of S. John the Apostle, and conversed with the Disciples and Familiars of the Apostles, and therefore (says he) could not be ignorant of the practice of the Apostles in Baptizing Infants. Thus hath he well proved the use of Godfathers and Godmothers, in all probability to be Apostolical, at least, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and