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
on , is fuch as willneceffarily fill the Church with perpetuall contentions:therefore it is not according to the minde of Chrift/ I hope none will be fo V3in as to object, that the Go-fpel occafioneth contentions, and yet is of Chrift. For1.it doth but occafion them, and not neceffarily caufe them… … Infants C hur ch-memberjh if and Baftifm. 131 between the godly, and wicked/ but this will nectffarily produce it among theChurches and beft Minifters and Chriftians. And that is proved from the uncer-tainty of the time of children? firft being Difciplcs, which I have proved before. FairMr- T.…