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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.
But when as the partition wall was broken down, and Ministers sent out to preach to the whole world; now the Covenant was as free for the Gentiles as the Jews, teach and baptise, you may go into Turkey, India, where you will, there is no wall to binder you: so now that which was the ground of that administration being taken away, that to me seems to cease. This also moves me to think so, because in the New Testament, after the wall was broken down, we find no mention of any such thing whence we should ground this practise; for children of Believers we find ground enough: if I did not see more for that in the New Testament then for servants, I should be very much shaken for Infant baptism.
But when as the partition wall was broken downe, and Ministers sent out to preach to the whole world; now the Covenant was as free for the G•ntiles as the Jewes, teach and baptise, you may go into Turky, India, where you will, there is no wall to binder you: so now that which was the ground of that administration being taken away, that to me seemes to cease. This also moves me to think so, because in the New Testament, after the wall was broken downe, we finde no mention of any such thing whence we should ground this practise; for children of Believers we finde ground enough: if I did not see more for that in the New Testament then for servants, I should be very much shaken for Infant baptisme.
You ground is this: It was so then for Circumcision Ergo, now for Baptism. Your Consequence you prove, because privileges are not straitened under the Gospel.
You ground is this: It was so then for Circumcision Ergo, now for Baptisme. Your Consequence you prove, because priviledges are not straitned under the Gospel.