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A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious…

Name: A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious…
Author: Giles Firmin

A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious question propounded viz. whether the ministers of England are bound by the word of God to baptise the children of all such parents, which say they believe in Jesus Christ, but are grossly ignorant, scandalous in their conversations, scoffers at godliness, and refuse to submit to church discipline ... : also, the question of Reverend Mr. Hooker concerning the baptism of infants : with a post-script to Reverend Mr. Blake / by G.I. Firmin ...A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious question propounded viz. whether the ministers of England are bound by the word of God to baptise the children of all such parents, which say they believe in Jesus Christ, but are grosly ignorant, scandalous in their conversations, scoffers at godliness, and refuse to submit to church dicipline ... : also, the question of Reverend Mr. Hooker concerning the baptisme of infants : with a post-script to Reverend Mr. Blake / by G.I. Firmin ...

Giles Firmin 1614–1697London: printed by J.G., 1653

[4], 57 [i.e. 59], [1] p. · 32k words · Wing F966 · ESTC R16401

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A SOBER REPLY TO A SOBER ANSWER, &c.A SOBER REPLY TO A SOBER ANSVVER, &c.

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.

[ Earlier:196–211 of 443

:196p. 29§6

Then you tell me I speak not properly, because I put a Morality in that Command to Abraham &c.] Sir you may well know by the next words I did but borrow the word from the morality of the second commandment which I had used for illustration: and is there only Analogy in it, when we see the Command is not repealed, but rather confirmed in the New Testament?¹ but I perceive your scope is to spy out what faults you can, though they do not concern the question, and sometimes when you can find none, yet you will make some.

Then you tell me I speake not properly, because I put a Morality in that Command to Abraham &c.] Sir you may well know by the next words I did but borrow the word from the morality of the second commandement which I had used for illustration: and is there onely A•alogy in it, when we see the Command is not repealed, but rather confirmed in the New Testament?¹ but I perceive your scope is to spye out what faults you can, though they do not concerne the question, and sometimes when you can finde none, yet you will make some.

1Acts 2.38, 39.

:197p. 29§6

Then you bring me to the question about predecessors,¹ which you have largely discussed in the Diatribe, you say, for that promise in the second Commandment you say you would not plead it.

Then you bring me to the question about predecessors,¹

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Author

Giles Firmin 1614–1697

Place

London

Printer

J.G.

Year

1653

Size

[4], 57 [i.e. 59], [1] p.

Words

31,964

Catalogue

Wing F966 · ESTC R16401

Text

EEBO-TCP A41334

Passages

443

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A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious…

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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