More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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London :: Printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson ...,
1675.
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Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.
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"More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26959.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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SECT. XIII, XIV, XV, XVI.
R. B. MOreover, 1. Infants were Church-members in Abrahams family before Circumcision, and after when it was no Common-wealth. So they were in Isaacs, Jacobs, &c.
2. The banished, captivated, scattered Jews, that ceased to be members of their Common-wealth, yet ceased not to be of their Church.
3. The people of the Land, that became Jews in Hesters time, joyned not themselves to their Common-wealth: Nor the Sichemites.
4. Many Proselytes never joyned themselves to their Common-wealth.
Mr. T. affirmeth them all to have been Com∣mon-wealths.
Answer. The word being ambiguous may in a large sense be extended to a family, and to a