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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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Excommunication renders him a non-member, cutting him off from Communion, and admitting him to no other Ordinances then a non-member is.
The phrase, cast out, shows he is no Member.
The phrase, cast out, shewes he is no Member.
So the phrase of cutting off, 1which learned Gillespy hath excellently opened to be meant of Excommunication, and there brings in Buxtorf. and Godwin, who report out of the Rabbins, that their children were not circumcised. This you say, pag. 14. is not Orthodox, and it was a corrupt Invention of the latter Jews having no ground for it in the Scripture: you say elsewhere, I think in the Diatr. that the Scripture doth not speak for nor against it, so far as) ou can se•; but then Sir what ever I make of it, it concerns you to prove it to be a corrupt invention, though I could yield it from what I observed before of their Circumcision, and yet not hurt my self.
So the phrase of cutting off, 1which learned Gillespy hath excellently opened to be meant of Excommunication, and there brings in Buxtorf. and Godwin, who report out of the Rabbius, that their children were not circumcised. This you say, pag. 14. is not Orthodox, and it was a corrupt Invention of the latter Jews having no ground for it in the Scripture: you say elsewhere, I thinke in the Diatr. that the Scripture doth not speak for nor against it, so far as) ou can se; but then Sir what ever I make of it, it concerns you to prove it to be a corrupt invention, though I could yeild it from what I observed before of their Circumcision, and yet not hurt my selfe.