A69535:134
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
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.
The Questions.
Dost thou forsake? &c. Dost thou believe? &c. Wilt thou be baptized? &c.
Dost thou forsake? &c. Dost thou believe? &c. VVilt thou be baptized? &c.
We know not by what right the Sureties do promise and answer 1in the name of the Infant: It seemeth to us also to countenance the Anabaptistical opinion, of the necessity of an actual profession of faith and repentance in order to Baptism. Th•s such a profession may be required of the parents in their own name, and now solemnly renewed when they present their children to Baptism, we willingly grant: But the asking of one for another, is a practice, whose warrant we doubt: And we desire that the two first Interrogatories may be put to the Parents to be answered in their own names; and the last propounded to the Parents, or Pro-parents, thus;
VVe know not by what right the Sureties do promise and answer 1in the name of the Infant: It seemeth to us also to countenance the Anabaptistical opinion, of the necessity of an actual profession of faith and repentance in order to Baptism. Th•s such a profession may be required of the parents in their own name, and now solemnly renewed when they present their children to Baptism, we willingly grant: But the asking of one for another, is a practice, whose warrant we doubt: And we desire that the two first Interrogatories may be put to the Parents to be answered in their own names; and the last propounded to the Parents, or Pro-parents, thus;