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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.
Because you speak so of your full and large discussing of this question in your Diatr. I made account you had bestowed much pains upon the text to prove it out, and clear the text, but I see you only propound the text, and no more. It is worth the pains sometimes to clear out a text, which you have not done; that which looks most likely is, that you say, Jacob had power to dispose of Josephs Children; 1you might have set down a Text: if you mean 48. Gen. 5. the 6. v. will help to an answer, * and as for the 5. v. if you please to peruse famous Rivet on the Text, who clearly opens it; I cannot see how any thing can be drawn from thence to your purpose, to prove it by any thing else you have said, I can see nothing.
Because you speak so of your full and large discussing of this question in your Diatr. I made account you had bestowed much paines upon the text to prove it out, and cleare the text, but I see you onely propound the text, and no more. It is worth the paines sometimes to cleare out a text, which you have not done; that which lookes most likely is, that you say, Jacob had power to dispose of Josephs Children; 1you might have set downe a Text: if you meane 48. Gen. 5. the 6. v. will help to an answer, * and as for the 5. v. if you please to peruse famous Rivet on the Text, who clearely opens it; I cannot see how any thing can be drawne from thence to your purpose, to prove it by any thing else you have said, I can see nothing.
- 1Diatr. 188. The issue which thou begettest after them shall be thine.
But to the Text: I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting? Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.