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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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Secondly, you say, suppose a Person be Excommunicate, and so delivered unto Satan (as the incestuous Person was) yet it were hard to say he were visibly in Covenant with Satan, though at the present under his Power.
Secondly, you say, suppose a Person be Excommunicate, and so delivered unto Satan (as the incefluous Person was) yet it were hard to say he were visibly in Covenant with Satan, though at the present under his Power.
To be under a Church-censure, which is appointed for cure of a Person, is far different from the ease now we speak of.
That power of Satan the excommunicate person is under, is an afflicting power, therefore not chosen by the person, as is the other.
Those who are not Excommunicated may be visibly in Covenant with Satan in that sense the Argument speaks of, when one who is Excommunicated may not be so, as the incestuous person repenting, and sunk with sorrow.