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 174
hriftian Magiftrates, or about an Oath before a Magiftate, andabout war, and about the degrees of Marriage forbidden, and about the fcabbathj&c.and yet who will fay, that thefe are not revealed ? It is enough that they are revealedin the Old Teftament j and fo was Infants Church-memberfhip by… … Objettion. 6.Ut M. T. ftandeth much on this Obje&ion drawn fromthe evill confequences of Infant Baptifm, and the benefitthat would enfue upon deferring Baptifm till years ofdifcretion. He faith that [che grofs Ignorance of the peo-ple is much occaiioned by their baptizing afore theyknow ; that…