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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.
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6. It seems a vain thing to talk of a Grandfather giving right to Circumcision,1 in case the immediate parent had forfeited his right (as our question would intimate) for if we consider who were to administer this Circumcision, and the immediate parent being of Abraham's seed, it should seem there is no room for such a thought.
6. It seemes a vaine thing to talke of a Grandfather giving right to Circumcision,1 in case the immediate parent had forfeited his right (as our question would intimate) for if we consider who were to administer this Circumcision, and the immediate parent being of Abrahams seed, it should seem there is no room for such a thought.
- 1Sir I pray prove this that ever any did so. It was my 9th Argument, p. 12.
Those who did administer it were their Parents, Magistrates, or Masters, (if Servants) yea themselves say Maimony, when waxen great,1 if the thing were hid from the Judges, yea learned Rivet agrees with Abulen. who said women as well as men; so say others whom I could quote, there was none designed of God to the work; and still among the Jews, he that can do it most neatly he administers it, whom they call Mohel; and he practises first upon the children of poorer sort of Jews, then others.
Those who did administer it were their Parents, Magistrates, or Masters, (if Servants) yea themselves say Maimony, when wax•n great,1