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 169
here doth God require the Parent toengage his cWldren ? or trv promife or Vow any thing in theirnames? Or, how can it be faid that we made any covenant otVow in Baptifm ? Conld we vow o covenant, when we could notundeiftand ? Jnfwir. I am the more engaged to anfwer this , becaufe I was once fo… … Infants Church- memberJhip and Baftifm, 11 j and righc thofc that heard me : ( ycung and unftudied Preachers will be venturing tohy that,which when they have ftudied^they will fee muft be unfaid.) I. It is agreed on both fides, that Baprifm is ordained to be a mutual engaging fignbetween God and…
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