The infants advocate of circumcision on Jewish and baptisme on Christian children. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.
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- The infants advocate of circumcision on Jewish and baptisme on Christian children. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.
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- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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- London :: Printed by R. Norton, for J. Williams, at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard,
- M.DC.LIII. [1653]
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- Subject terms
- Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.
- Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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"The infants advocate of circumcision on Jewish and baptisme on Christian children. By Thomas Fuller, B.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85020.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025.
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To the Right Honourable, JAMES EARL of CARLILE, my most Bountiful Patron. AND To the Right Honourable, LIONEL EARL of MIDLESEX, my Noble Parishioner.
I Shall be censured for a Solecisme, in Dedicating this my Infants Advocate unto your Honours, not only for
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the meannesse of the Present, but because the one of you being hitherto Childless, and the other not as yet Married, seem not so proper persons to be presented with such a sub∣ject.
But give me leave to ac∣quaint your Honours, that this my Treatise, Janus-like, looks backwards, and forwards; back∣wards to vindicate and assert the lawfulnesse of their Ba∣ptism which (now arrived at Maturity) were in their In∣fancy Baptized; and in this capacity your Honours have
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an equal concernment in this subject with any others.
Forwards, to justifie and a∣vouch the acts of those Pa∣rents who hereafter shall fix the Sacrament on their In∣fant Children: Your Honors in Gods due time, may for the future be interested here∣in, a favour the more fervent∣ly to be desired from Heaven, both of you being the sole sur∣viving Males of your Fami∣lies; and the single threds whereon all the hopes of your Noble houses do depend.
Give me Leave therefore
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who here am the Advocate to plead for the Baptizing of others, to be also the Orator to pray for the Birth of your Children, till which time, may the blessings of the right and left hand plentifully fall, and peaceably rest on you both, which is the daily de∣sire of
Your Honours most obli∣ged and humble servant THO. FULLER.