The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…Richard Baxter, 1657

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:999p. 401

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:1000p. 401¶1

1.¹ That all Infants before are possessed by the Devil.

1.¹ THat all Infants before are possessed by the Divel.

11. By nature all are Satans captives, which exorcism will not deliver us from.

:1001p. 401¶2

2.¹ They grant a power to women (even such as are unbaptized themselves) to baptize.)

12. This error (in case of Necessity) some ancients and Councils held.

:1002p. 401–402¶3

3.¹ That Baptism is not only necessary, by necessity of ⟨p. 402⟩precept (which we confess) but also to be simply necessary to salvation by necessity of means: for none can be saved without Baptism.

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