Baxter - BX5202 B291 1679

F171] Btitothers fay, this cannot be the fencer For IC: To lay [ All baptized] and mean [ All unbap, tined ] or any [ not as Baptized ] were not in- telligible nor candid. 2. And theBurial Ru- brick excepting the unbaptized from that Chriftian burial, ïheweth the meaning of the Church in this Article. 7 Alfo about the N undoubted certainty ] they differ ; fome think that thefubfcriber or Declarer cloth not, by thefe words, profefs that he himfelf is [undoubtedly certain ]' of the falvation of all dying Baptized Infants but only that the thing is certainly revealed to be fo in Gods Word . But othersfay,that both objec`tive and fubje&ive (or perfonal) certaintymuffneeds be meant: And that it were too hard an imputation to'fay that the Church commandeth uncertain, doubting men to profefs that the thing is certain and undoubtedof ; for how can they tell that it is fo ? And if they know it not to be fo,why fhould they declare it tobe fo ? The meaning is not [1 declare that the Convocationfaith it is certain ;] for that were but the part of a cryer or reader : Nor is it Ideclare that it is certain to others, though not to me. ] For no man knoweth anothers certainty ; Therefore it muff mean that [ I am certain and pall doubt by the Word of God] or [ I fee afcertaining evidence in Gods Word putting it paft doubt.] So that no uncertain or, doubting perfon can truly thus declareor fubfcribe. 8. Divers of thole Divines who are furtheft from the Nonconformifts, hold that by the Scripture alone we cannot prove that Infants are at all to be Baptized ; and the jus Baptiftni muft be

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