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 187
lyfill the Church with perpetual contentions, therefore it is-not according to the mind of Chrift. I hope none will be fo vain as to objcd , that the Gofpeloccafioneth contentions, and yet Is ofChrift. For, i. It doth but occafion them, andnot ncctffarily caufe them. i. It is againft its own… … Infants Church-memberfhip and Baptifm. 131 this will neccffarily produce it among the Churches, and beft Miniftcrs and Chiiftl-ans. And that is proved from the uncertainty of the time of <^hildrens firft beincDifcipIeSj whichi have proved before. For Mr. T. faith, the profeflion muft bt…
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