Baptism, infant-baptism, and Quakerism briefly, but impartially considered, in a letter to a friend with a short disswasive from the impiety, atheism, and popery of our age, in another letter : with an appendix.
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- Baptism, infant-baptism, and Quakerism briefly, but impartially considered, in a letter to a friend with a short disswasive from the impiety, atheism, and popery of our age, in another letter : with an appendix.
- Publication
- London :: s.n.,
- 1674.
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- Subject terms
- Baptism -- Early works to 1800.
- Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800.
- Society of Friends.
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"Baptism, infant-baptism, and Quakerism briefly, but impartially considered, in a letter to a friend with a short disswasive from the impiety, atheism, and popery of our age, in another letter : with an appendix." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30859.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
Reader,
I Have had the Happiness of these Papers Company some years; they have lain by me in this defensive posture, thou now findest them, a long time, and I assure thee they have de∣meaned themselves very quietly, though Men of War, without offending any, as I hope they will still, since they first Quartered with me, there have been ma∣ny Insurrections, many a Battle fought, many a Line drawn, and many a Trench closely Besieged: These Controversies of Infant Baptism and Quakerism have of late been hotly bandied to and again. I have, after several attempts made by my self and others, proved vain and inef∣fectual
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through the Authors modest loath∣ness to appear in Print; I have (I say) at length prevailed with the Author to Commission them to go out into the Camp, and contribute all they can towards the Peace and quiet of Religion, I have ex∣torted leave of him to press them to the publick Service, and yet I hope they will demean themselves as victorieusly as other Volunteers that have gone out to slay. This is all I thought good to Advertise thee; and so I leave thee to the Authors previ∣ous Advice.