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A Forerunner to a Large Review of the Dispute Concerning Infant Baptism

by John Tombes · 1603–1676

Published: 1652
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Præcursor, or, A forerunner to a large review of the dispute concerning infant-baptism wherein many things both doctrinall and personal are cleared, about which Mr. Richard Baxter, in a book mock-titled Plain Scripture-proof of infants church-membership and baptism hath darkned the truth / by John Tomes.

London Printed by H. Hils and are to be sold by H. Crips and Lod. Lloid, T. Brewster and G. Moule 1652.

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DedicationTo the right Honourable Bulstrode Whitlock, Richard Keble, Serjeants at Law, John Lisle Esq Lords…
To the readerTo the dearly beloved, my Auditors formerly the Inhabitants of Bewdly in Worcestershire.
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EpigraphMr. Richard BAXTER in the 2. Edition of THE SAINTS EVERLASTING REST, part. 1. chap. 8. sect. 5. pag. 1795.…
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Section 2SECT. II. That the title of Mr. Baxters book is a mock-title.
Section 3SECT. III. Mr. Baxters citations from Fathers advantage him not.
Section 4SECT. IV. Mr. Bs. citations from my writings advantage him not.
Section 5SECT. V. Mr. B. unduely suggests many things in his Epistles.
Section 6SECT. VI. The chief points of Mr. Bs. Book are very briefly touched.
Section 7SECT. VII. Many personall occurrences are cleered by relating of which Mr. B. hath in his History sought to…
Section 8SECT. VIII. More personal matters which the History of Mr. B. hath made crooked are set straight
Section 9SECT. IX. In my alleading Peter de Bruis and others as Antipaedobaptists 500. years ago, is no untruth.
Section 10SECT. X. That Mr. Bs. charge of accusing and disputing my children out of the Covenant of Christ is vaine;…
Section 11SECT. XI. About Mr. Bs. 4. texts urged impertinently to prove infants visible Church-membership.
Section 12SECT. XII. That Mr. B. unjustly chargeth me to be a Sect-Master.
Section 13SECT. XIII. That it is not a right way to judge of the truth of a doctrine by strange accidents, though…
Section 14SECT. XIV. That Mr. B. doth not rightly expound Christs rule, Mat. 7. 15, 16. nor is the unholinesse of men…
Section 15SECT. XII. Mr. Bs. insinuations of the wickednesse of Anabaptists is Calumniatory, and vainly alleadged to…
Section 16SECT. XVI. The ground of my opposing infant-baptism is confirmed by Mr. B. himself.
Section 17SECT. XVII. The grosse absurdities to which Mr. B. vaunted I was driven in the dispute, were not so as he…
Section 18SECT. XVIII. The grosse untruths Mr. B. chargeth me with, are not such.
Section 19SECT. XIX. The six imagined errors charged on me by Mr. B. are cleered from his censure.
Section 20SECT. XX. Many learned men (with the Oxford Convocation) of former and later times take Infant-baptisme…
Section 21SECT. XXI. Many things are cleered about my conformity, Anabaptists necessity to be baptized, the manner of…
Section 22SECT. XXII. The speech [that no one Countrey is gathered into Christs visible Church] contains no…
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LetterCyprian, and the other Collegues which in the Council were present, to the number of 66. to brother Fidus…
LetterFor Mr. Richard Baxter at Kederminster.

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