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A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious…
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 ...
London: printed by J.G., 1653
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.
Sir then you do not help my adversaries at home, who have pleaded only that promise, and therefore I only mentioned that, not having seen your book.
Sir then you doe not help my adversaries at home, who have pleaded onely that promise, and therefore I onely mentioned that, not having seene your booke.
Before I come to see what you have said, let me speak one word, as to the question, whether if a godly grand-father being of the Church, and being Orthodox [you put it in thus twice in one page, godly, living, Orthodox] should bring a grand-child to me, to baptize it by virtue of him taking it to himself, 1as his own, and cugaging for the Education of it, whether now I should refuse it? truly I cannot tell; it is a hard question, and because I see so many holy learned men, and some also Congregational men are of that Opinion, I am the more shaken, thinking God will reveal more to them then to such a wretch as I am, but I am not resolved what I should do, if I were put upon the practise.
Before I come to see what you have said, let me speake one word, as to the question, whether if a godly grand-father being of the Church, and being Orthodoxe [you put it in thus twice in one page, godly, living, Orthodoxe] should bring a grand-child to me, to baptize it by vertue of him taking it to himself, 1as his own, and cugaging for the Education of it, whether now I should refuse it? truely I cannot tell; it is a hard question, and because I see so many holy learned men, and some also Congregationall men are of that Opinion, I am the more shaken, thinking God will reveale more to them then to such a wretch as I am, but I am not resolved what I should doe, if I were put upon the practise.
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