Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism : being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of Jan. 1649 : with a full reply to what he then answered and what is contained in his sermon since preached ... with a reply to his valedictory oration at Bewdley and a corrective for his antidote (1653)
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691, Tombes, John, 1603?-1676, Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653 · London : Printed for Robert White · leaf 168
enemies to God, fire-brands of Hell, &c. 2. Again, they may be Church-members vifible, and yet perhaps children of wrathtoo. All the children of Church members among both Jews and Profelytes wcreaifoChurch members, as will not be denyed. And yet as we arc children of wrath bynature. To were… … ObjcSlion, i. ^ Ut It is objeaed fuither, That Infants are not capable of the ends ofBaptifm i For it is an engaging (]gn j and fignifieth alfothe wafliingaway of fm in the blocd of Chrift, both euilt and flain j and itsvery operation is by a motall way nf fignifyin? ; and therefore In.fants being…
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