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 109
re before, then their chil-dren ought ftill to be Church-members. (And confequentlythe Gift and Ordinance is not repealed.) But certainly thebelieving Jews children (and confequently the Parenrs in pointof comfort.) are not in a warfe condition fince Chrift then theywere before : Therefore their… … Infants Church-wemberjbip and Baptifm. 53 them into a worfe condition. This were to make Chrift a dcftroyer, and not a SavLour: He that came not to deftroy mens lives but to fave them, came not to deilroymenshappinefs, out to recover them. He that would not accufe the adulterouswoman will not caft…