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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.
Your second answer is, you Question the Practice of our Ministers, whether it can be justified. I see you are pinched, but no doubt their keeping of that holy Ordinance is justifiable enough.
My second answer was, [I conceived some thing was peculiar to that Church in that Ordinance, and so conceive still. I shall add something more.]
1. In that there was no Minister separated by God to the dispensing of it, as is now of Baptism: but Parents, Masters, Judges, Men or Women, yea themselves; might administer it.
1. In that there was no Minister separated by God to the dispensing of it, as is now of Baptisme: but Parents, Masters, Judges, Men or Women, yea themselve; might administer it.
2. It did not run to his seed only as Spiritual, [as doth Baptism now, for only Believers are Abraham's Seed] but to his Seed as such. The ground indeed of Gods giving of the Seal of the Covenant at first was, because of that Covenant God was in with Abraham, but this Covenant they (many of them) did never regard but reject, taking Circumcision only to be the Covenant, so being his Seed in whom they did so glory,