Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism : being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publike dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of January, 1649 .. (1651)
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · London : Printed for Robert White · leaf 108
in that it maketh theOlive, that is3the Church it felf ro remain fttll, and only.fome branches broken off,and others of the Gentiles ingrafted in their ftead:And if the church it felf were notbroken, but onely fome branches3 then it is not taken d.-wn, except onely the Cere-monial Accidentals :… … Y feventh Argument fliall be drawn from that of Mat.z$,37,38,?9> [0 Jirujalem, Jerufalem, horn oft would I have gatheredthy children together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under herwings, and ye wouldnot / Behold your houfe is left unto you de±fblatc3&c.] From hence I argue thus : If…