HIs proofes out of Popish writers, as Eckius mentioned in proofe of that and of the 7th. Proposition; Rossensis, Cocletus, Ennusius and Staphylus to which some adde Bellarmine, I doe not much regard, because they can play Legerdemaine, fast and loose with a trick that they have. If they dispute against Calvinists about the sufficiency of Scripture, or validitie of humane traditions, then Paedobaptisme is a tradition of the Church: If against Anabaptists, then Eckius in his En∣chiridion here cited▪ hath his foure Scripture arguments to prove it to bee of Scripturall authoritie and foundation. For Bellar∣mine, hee hath in his book of Baptisme cap. 8. 3 arguments from Scripture for it. And although, saith hee, wee doe not find it commanded expresly that wee should baptize Infants. Tamen id
A just vindication of the covenant and church-estate of children of church-members as also of their right unto bastisme : wherein such things as have been brought by divers to the contrary, especially by Ioh. Spilsbury, A.R. Ch. Blackwood, and H. Den are revised and answered : hereunto is annexed a refutation of a certain pamphlet styled The plain and wel-grounded treatise touching baptism / by Thomas Cobbet.
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- A just vindication of the covenant and church-estate of children of church-members as also of their right unto bastisme : wherein such things as have been brought by divers to the contrary, especially by Ioh. Spilsbury, A.R. Ch. Blackwood, and H. Den are revised and answered : hereunto is annexed a refutation of a certain pamphlet styled The plain and wel-grounded treatise touching baptism / by Thomas Cobbet.
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- Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.
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"A just vindication of the covenant and church-estate of children of church-members as also of their right unto bastisme : wherein such things as have been brought by divers to the contrary, especially by Ioh. Spilsbury, A.R. Ch. Blackwood, and H. Den are revised and answered : hereunto is annexed a refutation of a certain pamphlet styled The plain and wel-grounded treatise touching baptism / by Thomas Cobbet." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33523.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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colligitur satis aperte ex scripturis ut supra ostendimus — Yet it is to bee gathered plainly enough from Scriptures (saith Bellarmine) as wee have before shewed. Wherefore of such if I may say as hee bluntly once spake to his companion: If they can with the same breath blow hot and cold, let them even eate porridge with the devill if they will, I like not their falshood.