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 171
th.«y fay, that there is the like reafon for both s I deny it: but yet I worlhip notGod according to the conjcaures of hOmane reafon, but according to hislnftitution,Ifihey lAy,that there is the like grounds in Scripture for both j let thenaihew as muchUx one as I »Savc done for the other, and I… … Infants Church-memberfhif and Bdftifm, iiy as Infants are capable of j for they may be waihed as well as the aged j they are notto be agents, but mecrly pafllvc in it; but the other is fuch as they are naturally in-capable of in their firft Infancie, t^i^. eating bread,and drinking wine ; and they…
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