Paedo-baptism, the second part : or, A defence of the authority of infant-baptism in answer to the common objections against it . ^>:. INTRODUCTION. LTHOUGH the authority ofInfant-baptifm doth not formallydepend upon it*s antiquity \ yeta due confideration of the lattermay be fubfervient to the former, fo far asto difpofe an enquirer after truth, to examinethe Queftion with more freedom and candor,than could be expefted from any perfons al-ready prepoffefled with a groundlefs notionof the novelty of the thing. Such a notion,built upon a few miftaken paffages in fomeof the antient writers, f
Paedo-baptism, the second part : or, A defence of the authority of infant-baptism in answer to the common objections against it . ^>:. INTRODUCTION. LTHOUGH the authority ofInfant-baptifm doth not formallydepend upon it*s antiquity \ yeta due confideration of the lattermay be fubfervient to the former, fo far asto difpofe an enquirer after truth, to examinethe Queftion with more freedom and candor,than could be expefted from any perfons al-ready prepoffefled with a groundlefs notionof the novelty of the thing. Such a notion,built upon a few miftaken paffages in fomeof the antient writers, feems to have laid thefoundation of this whole controverfy at thelirft, and ever fince determined fome con-fcientious people, who had a laudable zealfor the Bible, as the rule oi faith and prac-*ticCy to difpute every inch of ground withfo much pertinacity, and to try all themethods of evaiion to elude the force of e- very ( iv ) very/cHpture-ztgnrntnt. Therefore a formerattempt having been made to remove thisunhappy prejudice by maintaining the anti-quity of Infant-baptifm [a] j we fhaii nowendeavor to defend its authority againfl:
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