A41334:391
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.
If none but such as Maymony (before quoted) saith, ought to be circumcised, then their Circumcision was irregular, for they threw oft Abraham's way, and his God: but if all Abraham's seed, as such, merely according to the flesh, had a title to Circumcision, then it was peculiar to them, and they were regularly enough circumcised. But this helps not us.
If none but such as Maymony (before quoted) saith, ought to be circumcised, then their Circumcision was irregular, for they threw oft Abrahams way, and his God: but if all Abrahams seed, as such, meerely according to the flesh, had a title to Circumcision, then it was peculiar to them, and they were regularly enough circumcised. But this helps not us.
7. That place Ezra 10.3. the children borne of the strange wives were to be put away,1 as well as the strange wives; its very likely they would circumcise them, but yet put away: if they ought not to be circumcised or were not, yet it will imply some difference.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Ut proficiamus: vulg e•ici•mus; Vata.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Ut proficiamus: vulg e•ici•mus; Vata.