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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.
Qu. 20. Why then are Infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them?
Answ. Yes, they do perform them by their Sureties, who promise and vow them both in their names.
Answ. Yes, they doe perform them by their Sureties, who promise and vow them both in their names.
We desire that the entering of Infants into Gods Covenant. 1may be more warily expressed, and that the words may not seem to found their Baptism upon a real actual faith and repentance of their own. And we desire that a promise may not be taken for the performance of such faith and repentance; especially that it be not asserted, that they perform these by the promise of their Sureties, it being to the seed of Believers that the covenant of God is made, and not (that we can find) to all that have such believing Sureties, who are neither Parents nor Pro-parents of their children.
We desire that the entring of Infants into Gods Covenant. 1may be more warily expressed, and that the words may not seem to found their Baptism upon a real actual faith and repentance of their own. And we desire that a promise may not be taken for the performance of such faith and repentance; especially that it be not asserted, that they perform these by the promise of their Sureties, it being to the seed of Believers that the covenant of God is made, and not (that we can find) to all that have such believing Sureties, who are neither Parents nor Pro-parents of their children.