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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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Dedication: To the Reverend, and my much Honoured Brother, Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pa…
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But are not children members of the same Churches with their Parents? though we think so, yet this is nothing to the practise of your Church. For as in your administration of Baptism, the Parental Covenant, (Abraham and his seed) which is the ground of the Administration, is wholly omitted; so the Parent he must stand by as if he were a Heathen; the business is only with the God fathers, and Godmothers, an invention of Higinus Bishop of Rome, about 144 years after Christ, who first added these to Baptism; a person of no great worth, of whom it is said, Nihil praclari, de gubernatione, & factis ejus commemorari potest. So much cause have I to beg pardon for my defects in the education of my own Children, that I would not be Sponsor for the child of the best friend I have in England. But however this is not it, but the sign of the Cross, with such words, that makes the admission into your Church.
2. Q. But if there be a Separation, or Schism, the question is, who is the cause of it?
A. Schism must needs be theirs, whose the cause of it is, saith Bishop Land, in which you justify him, Ration. Account, p. 324, 325.
A. Schism must needs be theirs, whose the cause of it is, saith Bishop Land, in which you justifie him, Ration. Account, p. 324, 325.