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 120
ofthe world being now become his Kingdoms, (of which I have fpoke before) it provesdie fame priviledge herein to the Gentiles, as to the Jews, feeing Infants are part ofour Kingdoms as well as theirs. Yet the reft of the Arguments which I (hall now add , Hhall dire&ly prove thatInfants of… … ■He Sixteenth Argument then is this: (from the fecond Com-mandment) vifitwgthefins of the Fathers upon the children tothe third and fourth Generation of them that hate me, and [ (hewmercy to thousands of them that Love me and tyep my Command*ments:2 From hence I argue thus ; If God have made…
