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 72
aith of the Parent is the caufc eitherof his own, or his Childs priTiledge of Church-member(hip, no more then of theirJuftlficatioQj or Salvation, bat only the condition j And when we fay that Childrenare bom Chriftians, or Dlfclples, we do not make their Nature or birth priviledge anycaufe of it… … Comenow to my fiAt Argument,which (from the Text) Is this. All that an Cbafts Difciples^Oi-dinarily ought te be Bapti^cdiButfomc Infants are chnjls Difciples j Therefore Iome Infants ordinarilyou^ht to be Bapti-^d. By [Difciples] in both Propofitions [ mean as in the Text .*Thole that arc c/f/are,…
Church of England · Baptism · Church membership
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