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 187
de it •*therefore it is not according to the will of Chrift, The Minor only is questionable; (for the Major can-not, fuppofing that it [peaks not of things meerly indiffe-rent or Civill, but of matters in Religion, and that neceilary to be lmown, as nodoubt this will not be denyed to be by them… … CHAP. X, Fourth Argument from the fame ground,is this;That pra-ctice which will neceffarily fill the Church with perpetual!contentions, (as being about a matter that cannot be dete:-mined by any known Rule,) is not according to theminde of Chrift : But the practice of Baptizing Chrifti-ans Children…
