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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
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.
Page 4.26. Infant of Parents that are nomine tenus, Christians have right to Baptism. If they profess the worship of the true God, though nothing more of a Christian be in them. Page 424.
Page 4.26. Infant of Parents that are nomine tenus, Christians have right to Baptisme. If they professe the worship of the true God, though nothing more of a Christion be in them. Page 424.
If by a Christian nomine tenus your m•aning were, one who […] but a nominal Christian, as all are who are not real, I make no question but many such as these nominal ones a Minister may B prise, and their children, though they have not truth of grace in them: but I perceive you: scope is to sp•ead the word very large: and that directly opposite to my question; If they will say they are Christians, been the Name of Christ, own his worship (though it be but from the custom of the Nation, others do so, and so do they) though their course and frame of conversation be like the infidels, or worse yet they are Christians nomine enus, hence we must Baptize, if they have but Fides, no mater for Observana.