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 172
the mer-cies of it. The former is inftituted plainly for all Difciples as foon as they are Difci-ples J but no Scripture faith fo of the later, t/i^.That all Difciples as fuch, fliould pre-fently receive the Lords Supper j but it is reftralned to thofe that can examine thcm-felvcs firft, and can… … Objcflion $. kUt fomc fay, It is ftrangc,that If it be the will of Chrift that Infantsfliould be baptized^ that he hath left it fo dark, and faid no moreof It in Scripture then he haih done. To this 1 anfwer, i. We have not much caufe to complain cfthe darkntfs of that which hath fo much plain J-ci…
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