The font-guard routed, or, A brief answer to a book written by Thomas Hall superscribed with this title, The font guarded with 20 arguments therein endeavouring to prove the lawfulness of infant baptism wherein his arguments are examined and being weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary are found too light : the most considerble of Mr. Baxters arguments for infant-baptism being produced by Tho. Hall are here answered likewise / written by Tho. Collier ; to which is added A word of reply to Tho. Halls word to Collier and another to John Feriby's [ap]pendix called The pulpit-guard relieved ; with An answer to Richard Sanders's pretended Balm to heal religious wounds, in answer to The pulpit-guard routed : with an humble representation of some few proposals to the honorable committee appointed by the Parliament for propagation of the Gospel.

Title

The font-guard routed, or, A brief answer to a book written by Thomas Hall superscribed with this title, The font guarded with 20 arguments therein endeavouring to prove the lawfulness of infant baptism wherein his arguments are examined and being weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary are found too light : the most considerble of Mr. Baxters arguments for infant-baptism being produced by Tho. Hall are here answered likewise / written by Tho. Collier ; to which is added A word of reply to Tho. Halls word to Collier and another to John Feriby's [ap]pendix called The pulpit-guard relieved ; with An answer to Richard Sanders's pretended Balm to heal religious wounds, in answer to The pulpit-guard routed : with an humble representation of some few proposals to the honorable committee appointed by the Parliament for propagation of the Gospel.

Author

Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.

Publication

London :: Printed for the author and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,

1652.

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Subject terms

Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665. -- Font guarded.

Infant baptism.

Baptism.

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"The font-guard routed, or, A brief answer to a book written by Thomas Hall superscribed with this title, The font guarded with 20 arguments therein endeavouring to prove the lawfulness of infant baptism wherein his arguments are examined and being weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary are found too light : the most considerble of Mr. Baxters arguments for infant-baptism being produced by Tho. Hall are here answered likewise / written by Tho. Collier ; to which is added A word of reply to Tho. Halls word to Collier and another to John Feriby's [ap]pendix called The pulpit-guard relieved ; with An answer to Richard Sanders's pretended Balm to heal religious wounds, in answer to The pulpit-guard routed : with an humble representation of some few proposals to the honorable committee appointed by the Parliament for propagation of the Gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B20526.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• Some few Proposals to the Honorable Committee for Propagation of the Gospel.
• The Epistle to the Reader.
• THE Font-Guard Routed.
  • Your first Argument is this, Page 9.
  • The second Argument, p. 13.
  • The third Argument.
  • The fourth Argument.
  • The fifth Argument.
  • Sixth Argument, p. 35.
  • The seventh Argument, à probabili. pag. 40.
  • The eighth Argument, p. 44.
  • The ninth Argument.
  • The tenth Argument.
  • The eleventh Argument.
  • The twelfth Argument.
  • The thirteenth Argument.
  • The fourteenth Argument.
  • The fifteenth Argument.
  • The sixteenth Argument.
  • The seventeenth Argument.
  • The eighteenth Argument.
  • Nineteenth Argument,
  • The twentieth Argument.
  • objections
    • The second Objection, pag. 88. of your Book.
    • The 20. Objection you mention, is,
• A Reply to Thomas Hall.
  • 1. An Heretick, and a Blasphemer.
  • 2. You say he is a Lyar dyed in grain.
  • Some few Queries presented.
• A Word of REPLY to Iohn Ferriby, in an Appendix to The Lawfull Preacher: called The Pulpit-Guard-Relieved.
• AN ANSWER To a Book written by one Richard San∣ders of Kentishbeer; entituled, A Balm to heal Religious wounds. Called, An Answer to the Pulpit-Guard Routed; written by Thomas Collier.
  • His first Error.
  • His second Error.
  • His third Error.
  • You come (you say) to his fourth Error.
  • His fifth Error.
  • His sixth Error.
  • You now come to his 7. Error.
  • You come to the 8. Error.