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 113
isnot to take down the partition Wall between Church and Heathens. Jew andGentile , but to pluck up the Wall of the Chu.ch or Vineyard it felf3 and asto our children, to lay all wafteto the Wiidcrnefs (except CMr. 7. vv ill yet againbethink him and fhew us that the mercies without the Church are… … Y eleventh Argument is this: If the children of Believers be nowput out of the Church, then they are in a worfc condition then thevery children of the Gentiles were before the coming of Chrift : Butthat were moft abfurd and falfe 5 therefore fo is the Antecedent. The Confequent would plainly follow…