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Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the disputeLetters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute
Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the dispute.Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute.
London, : s.n., Printed in the year 1652
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Letter: For my Reverend and much Honoured Brother Mr. Richard Baxter at Kidderminster, these.
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.
For my Reverend and much Honoured Brother Mr. Richard Baxter at Kidderminster, these.
SIR,
I Perceive by some speech with Philip Munne, that you propound a disputing the point in difference between me and you about Infant-baptism in some open way of speech, and to have me declare my arguments against it. Open dispute by words for a great number of reasons I affect not: my affairs, and the state of your body and business are likely to make it uncertain, and to protract the time: my Arguments are to be seen in my Writings. This is in effect my plea against it, that it is Will-worship, because not appointed by God. The most expedite and surest way I conceive to bring the controversy to an issue, for you in a Syllogism or two written by you to produce what Medium you have to prove a Divine institution of Pedo-baptism, which being written may the better be examined; verbal conference, is less deliberate, and more unsatisfactory. If you cannot your self write, if you show in a printed Author the best Argument you know for it, it may perhaps serve the turn as well. I leave it to your self to do as you see good, and rest
I Perceive by some speech with Philip Munne, that you propound a disputing the point in difference between me and you about Infant-baptism in some open way of speech, and to have me declare my arguments against it. Open dispute by words for a great number of reasons I affect not: my affairs, and the state of your body and business are likely to make it uncertain, and to protract the time: my Arguments are to be seen in my Writings. This is in effect my plea against it, that it is Will-worship, because not appointed by God. The most expedite and surest way I conceive to bring the controversie to an issue, for you in a Syllogism or two written by you to produce what Medium you have to prove a Divine institution of Pedo-baptism, which being written may the better be examined; verbal conference, is less deliberate, and more unsatisfactory. If you cannot your self write, if you shew in a printed Author the best Argument you know for it, it may perhaps serve the turn as well. I leave it to your self to do as you see good, and rest