 | William Ainger - 1836 - 434 pages
...Why then are infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? Answer. Because they promise them both by their sureties,...they come to age, themselves are bound to perform." Have we not here a virtual disclaimer of the doctrine of baptismal regeneration — a solemn declaration,... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...of their tender age, they cannot perform the appointed conditions ?" To this the Church replies, " Because they promise them both by their sureties;...they come to age, themselves are bound to perform'." But what if they be not properly instructed in the nature and obligation of this promise ? Is it not... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Confirmation - 1836 - 560 pages
...? Q. Why then are Infants baptised, when by Reason of their tender Age they cannot perform them? A. Because they promise them both by their Sureties;...they come to Age, themselves are bound to perform. "WE are now drawing, my dear young people." said the lady of the manor, again addressing her young... | |
 | Edward Crook - 1836 - 282 pages
...Q. Why then are Infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? A. Because they promise them both by their Sureties ;...they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. But yet at the same time infants cannot do anything in their tender years; but this great work depends... | |
 | William Wall - 1836 - 540 pages
...infants baptized, when by reason of their ten- / ' der age they cannot perform them ? Answ. Be' cause they promise them both by their sureties : ' which...they come to age, themselves ' are bound to perform.' Now this man being asked that question would not make that answer: but would say, they ought not to... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...of toeir tender age they can not perform them 1" (ie repentance and faith) the following answer : " Because they promise them both by their sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves arc bound to perform." Upon which rev. C. Benson justly argues, from the permission of private baptism... | |
 | Willard Judd - Baptism - 1836 - 314 pages
...not to baptize them, " Because they (the infants) promise by their sureties" repentance and faith, " which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform."] Many learned writers, as well as churches, have expressed their views upon this inquiry. Mr. Wall,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - Baptism - 1837 - 152 pages
...: Why then are infants baptized, when, by reason of their tender age, they cannot perform them? — Because they promise them both by their sureties,...they come to age themselves are bound to perform. But suppose that they do not perform them ? Then surely no saving benefit follows from " the laver... | |
 | Daniel Neal - England - 1837 - 648 pages
...The answer to the question in the catechism, " Why then are children baptized ?" is thus amended, " Because they promise them both by their sureties ;...they come to age, themselves are bound to perform." 12. In the last rubric before the catechism these words are expunged, " And that no man shall think... | |
 | Thomas Ken, William Hawkins - Devotional literature - 1838 - 518 pages
..." Why then are infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? A. " Because they promise them both by their sureties :...they come to age, themselves are bound to perform." The outward Sign. Glory be to thee, O Lover of Souls ; it was by thy preventing love, that I was baptized... | |
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Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. 
