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 12, 2024.

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SECT. CXVII.

R. B. Quest. 10. SEeing that Infants have been de facto Church-members from the creation to this day (as far as any re∣cords can lead us) is it likely that the Lord, and head and all-sufficient Governour of his Church, would have permitted his Church till now

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to be actually made up of such subjects, as in regard of age be disallowed? And suffer his Church to be wrong framed till now? Or is it a reasonable, modest and lawful undertaking, to go about now in the end of the world to make God a new fra∣med Church, as to the age of the subjects? And is it not more modest and safe, to live quietly in a Church of that frame as all the Saints in Hea∣ven lived in, till the other day, as a few Ana∣baptists with vile and sinful means, and misera∣ble success, did attempt an alteration?

Mr. T. here denieth the suppositions: I leave the Reader to judge how truly.

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