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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.
For the child I require nothing of it, but look to the parent from whom it derives its tithe, if you require any thing of me, saith the child, go to my parent from whom I descended: why then do you say, you require more of the one, then the other? neither 2. do I see what more you are to require of a person to admit him to the Lords Supper, then his child to baptism: If a person do visibly appear to have the condition of the Covenant, he being a Church-member, how you can deny him the Lords Supper I know not: so for baptism. If there were two conditions of the Covenant of grace, and that Baptism respected one, and the Lords Supper the other, then there might be some eason, why the Church should look to one more then another, but I know but of one condition.
For the child I require nothing of it, but looke to the parent from whom it derives its tith, if you require any thing of me, saith the child, goe to my parent from whom I descended: why then doe you say, you require more of the one, then the other? neither 2. doe I see what more you are to require of a person to admit him to the Lords Supper, then his child to baptisme: If a person doe visibly appeare to have the condition of the Covenant, he being a Church-member, how you can deny him the Lords Supper I know not: so for baptisme. If there were two conditions of the Covenant of grace, and that Baptisme respected one, and the Lords Supper the other, then there might be some eason, why the Church should looke to one more then another, but I know but of one condition.
1You say moreover: The young children of members are unfit to be admitted to the Lords Supper, yet not to be excluded from Baptism, The reason is because more is required to the Lords Supper, then to their Baptism.
1You say moreover: The young children of members are unfit to be admitted to the Lords Supper, yet not to be excluded from Baptisme, The reason is because more is required to the Lords Supper, then to their Baptisme.