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id: A94739
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
title: A short catechism about Baptism. By John Tombes, B.D.
date: 1659.0
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summary:
  1. IS Baptism with water an Ordinance of Christ , to be continued by his Disciples till the end of the World ? Baptism with water is an ordinance of Christ , which is to be continued by his Disciples till the end of the World ; as appears by his command , Mat. 28. 19 , 20.


id: A94735
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1643.0
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title:
  Fermentvm Pharisæorvm, or, The leaven of pharisaicall wil-worship: declared in a sermon on Matth. 15.9 Novemb. 24. 1641. at Lemster in Herefordshire. / By Iohn Tombes, B.D.

summary:
  As first , It is vaine to worship or to thinke to please God by the doctrines which are Commandements of men : for God is not pleased with mans devices , what is devised by man comes from a corrupt and foolish heart , and such a corrupt fountaine must needs send forth but puddle water . That which hath beene said may helpe us to take the right dimensions of this sinne : as in all other things pertaining to God , mans reason judgeth very corruptly , so in particular about censuring of sinnes : sinnes which injure men , and harme them in their bodies , goods or name , are accounted hainous , and the acting of them stirres up mens Spirits to rage and fury against the Authors .


id: A94728
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1645.0
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sentence: 336
flesch: 67
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title:
  Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple.

summary:
  For what is it to make a man a Rabbi , a father on earth , a Master , but to glory in him as the authour of our faith ; to esteeme him as the only Teacher , to depend upon his mouth as if he were another Pythagoras , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , that he hath said were enough ? now what is this lesse then to unchaire Christ , and to lift up man into his seate , to deprive the shepheard and bishop of our soules , and substitute another in his roome ? It is in effect all one as to thanke the Axe for building the house , and to passe by the Carpenter . Zanchius complaines against this evill , calling it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , a worshipping of men , and relates with indignation the speech of one at Geneva , who being asked why he would not sometimes heare Viret a worthy Preacher there , answered , that if Paul should preach at the same time with Calvin , he would heare Calvin ; and another complaines in his Epistle to Calvin , of a certaine person that was so affected to Luther , that he thought his very shooes should be adored .


id: A62874
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1660.0
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title:
  A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy wherein these six propositions are asserted. 1. That some swearing is lawful. 2. That some promissory oaths are lawful. 3. That a promissory oath of allegiance and due obedience to a king is lawful. 4. That the King in his realm, is the onely supreme governour over all persons. 5. That the king is the governour of the realm, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things, or causes, as temporal. 6. That the jurisdictions, priviledges, preeminences, and authorities in that oath, may be assisted and defended. By John Tombes B.D.

summary:
  These are express examples of swearing Allegiance to Kings , which is consonant to what our Lord Christ teacheth , that we should render to Caesar the things that are Caesars , as to God the things that are Gods , Matth. Brethren , let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God , that is , his Christian calling doth not bind him to leave the state and condition of life in which he was , nor diminish his Authority which he had when he was called to be a Christian , as not consisting with Christianity ; so is it true concerning Kings and other Magistrates , they have greater obligation to God , and the Lord Christ , no less Authority and power as Kings by their Christianity : but they may abide in their Office , and exercise the lawful Authority they had before .


id: A94736
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1643.0
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flesch: 69
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title:
  Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.

summary:
  And whereas the frequency of prophane oathes , and Atheisticall perjuries , the scorne of Religion , derision of Piety , and contempt of holinesse had worne out the apprehensions of God , and imboldned men to play with him as a contemptible name , God hath begun to discover himselfe , and yet further will in time appeare to be the great Lord of Hoasts , and the protector of his despised , and oppressed people . For godlinesse implies religious service , and all that religious service we performe to any thing under the notion of a God , that is worship : And it is Mediate , or Immediate ; mediate service is that which is directed to man , yet by reason of respect unto God .


id: A94730
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1650.0
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words: 13900
sentence: 487
flesch: 65
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title:
  An antidote against the venome of a passage, in the 5th. direction of the epistle dedicatory to the whole book of Mr. Richard Baxter teacher at Kederminster in Worcestershire, intituled, The saints everlasting rest, containing a satyricall invective against Anabaptists / by Iohn Tombes B.D. Lately teacher at Bewdley in the same county.

summary:
  direction of the epistle dedicatory to the whole book of Mr. Richard Baxter: teach Tombes, John 1650 14931 9 10 0 0 0 0 13 C The rate of 13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. direction of the epistle dedicatory to the whole book of Mr. Richard Baxter teacher at Kederminster in Worcestershire, intituled, The saints everlasting rest, containing a satyricall invective against Anabaptists / by Iohn Tombes B.D. Lately teacher at Bewdley in the same county.


id: A62869
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1654.0
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title:
  A plea for anti-pædobaptists, against the vanity and falshood of scribled papers, entituled, The anabaptists anatomiz'd and silenc'd in a public dispute at Abergaveny in Monmouth-shire Sept. 5. 1653. Betwixt John Tombes, John Cragg, and Henry Vaughan, touching infant-baptism. By John Tombes, B.D.

summary:
  His speech , Infants are not uncapable of Baptism , because they have not faith and repentance , because Christ was baptized without repentance , is frivolous , for there is not the same end of Christs Baptism and ours , and therefore though repentance were not required of him , yet it is of us , and the want of it makes infants uncapable of Baptism . This proposition the essence of baptism belongs to infants , may have two senses , 1. That the Baptism of infants is true Baptism , that is , is according to transcendental verity such as hath the nature of Baptism , and in this sense I grant the Proposition is true , and so it is true that an infants eating bread and drinking wine is true eating and drinking the Lords Supper , it hath the essence of it ; but this I did not imagine he meant , and therefore denied his minor , till his next Syllogism shewed he meant it , and then I perceived I should have denied the major .


id: A94741
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
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title:
  Tvvo treatises and an appendix to them concerning infant-baptisme. The former treatise being an exercitation presented to the chair-man of a committee of the Assembly of Divines. The later an examen of the sermon of Mr Stephen Marshall, about infant-baptisme, in a letter sent to him. / By John Tombes. B.D.

summary:
  The first Argument for Infant-baptisme , examined from the interest in the promise , Gen. 17. 7. §. 2. The second Argument for Infant baptisme from the succession of Baptisme to circumcision , examined . That Infants are not the subject of Baptisme ; yet the end of his writing , as I conceive , being the provoking of others to write , that so his arguments being answered , himselfe and those that are of his minde may receive satisfaction , I permit it to passe the Presse : Not doubting but since now ( according to the desire of many ) it is knowne where the chiefe strength of the Catapaedobaptists lies , some will be found out in due time to encounter with it .


id: A62859
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1652.0
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title:
  An addition to the Apology for the two treatises concerning infant-baptisme, published December 15, 1645 in which the author is vindicated from 21 unjust criminations in the 92 page of the book of Mr. Robert Baille, minister of Glasgow, intituled Anabaptisme and sundry materiall points concerning the covenant, infants-interest in it, and baptisme by it, baptism by an unbaptized person, dipping, erastianism and church-government, are argued, in a letter, now enlarged, sent in September 1647, to him / by John Tombes . ..

summary:
  That the Churches co●muni presbyt●r●●●● consilie , cura , solicitudine ( not imperio ) guvernabantur , and I like Salmasi●● his observation in his Apparatus de primatu Papae pag. But how do any passages of my Examen page 23. or my Apology page 53. prove that which you charge me with , that when a man is baptized according to my own mind I allow him to be oft thereafter rebaptized , even so oft as he repents for sin , which by the odly is done , at least ought to be done every day oftner then once , that I allow of a frequent rebap●ization , that to put the equity of the reproach of rebaptizing out of doubt , I ( whom you dubbe the Anabaptists great Patron , though indeed a Patron of nothing , but truth , and right ) am now come to defend the lawfulnesse of baptisme not onely twice , but if ye will ten times , yea so oft as you repent for sin , which ought to be oftner then once a day , so of Anabaptists they become Hem●robaptists and more .


id: A94740
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1661.0
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title:
  A supplement to the Serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy; published October 1660. In, first, some consideration of the oath of allegiance. Secondly, vindicating of the consideration of the oaths of the Kings supremacy and allegiance, from the exceptions of Richard Hubberthorn, Samuel Fisher, Samuel Hodgkin, and some others against them, in the points of swearing in some case, and the matters of those oaths. By John Tombes B.D.

summary:
  But as circumcision , incense , burnt offerings and sacrifices of the law , is ended in Christ ; so is the oath which was among the Jews , in him ended also to the believers , and by him forbidden : for as it was said in old time thou shalt swear , and shalt perform thy oath to the Lord ; but Christ in the 5. of Mat. making mention of the Jews oath which God gave once direction for , yet saith , Swear not at all . 2. He supposeth that swearing allowed by God in the Old Testament , which Christ corrects , was not only frivolous and vain oaths , but the true oaths which the Jews were commanded , and Christ was to end , who is Gods oath .


id: A62871
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1654.0
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title:
  A publick dispute betwixt John Tombs ... respondent, John Cragge, and Henry Vaughan ... opponents, touching infant-baptism, the fifth of September, 1653 ... occasioned by a sermon preached the day before, by Mr. Tombs, upon St. Mark 16.16 ... : also a sermon preached by Mr. Cragge, the next Lords day following, upon the same text, wherein the necessity of dipping is refuted, and infant-baptism asserted.

summary:
  Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo ? I confess it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , in the Aorist , ye shall make Disciples , for it must be interpreted by the future , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Baptizing , or by Baptizing in the present tense ; as if Discipling were the end , and Baptizing the means , and required no qualification before ( as learned men with great probability press ) but I will not insist upon that now , But that which you denyed , I prove , that Infants may be Disciples , from [ that place Rom. 15.10 . Hence observe , that every creature in a sense is sensible of the benefit they have by Christ ; but every one in their kind , men come to years , and discretion , are capable of actual understanding , actual profession , actual faith ; Infants only in actu primo , are capable of the first seeds of understanding , of profession of Faith , which will shew it self in the fruits when they come to years ; The rest of our fellow creatures as by a natural instinct they groan for the curse , so by an other instinct , they lift up their heads in expectation of the blessing , and that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , with an earnest expectation , or a stretched out neck as the word in the original signifies , Rom. 819.


id: A62868
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1659.0
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title:
  Felo de se, or, Mr. Richard Baxter's self-destroying manifested in twenty arguments against infant-baptism / gathered out of his own writing, in his second disputation of right to sacraments by John Tombes.

summary:
  Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800. As it happens to fellow-travellers , when they are all out of the right way , one conjectures this way they should go , another that , and sometimes they are at hot disputos and contentions about their way , and many by-ways are attempted , yet still the farther they go the more out of the way , till they come into the Road again : So it hath been with Baptizers of Infants ; they are fallen into many new devices to maintain Infant Baptism , the ancients with the Papists imagining that by it Gods grace was given , and that it was necessary to save the child from perishing , the Lutherans that by Baptism a seed of faith and some relative grace was given to Infants ( to which Doctor Samuel Ward , Bishop Davenant , Doctor Cornelius Burges , Master Thomas Bedford , Master James Cranford , and others have of late much inclined ) others opposing these have fallen into as bad conceits of the Covenant of Gospel grace , as made to a believer and his seed , Baptisms succession to Jewish Circumcision , and fetching a rule from thence , as others from the Jewish Baptism .


id: A09262
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1628.0
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words: 38146
sentence: 1177
flesch: 67
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title:
  Fiue godly, and profitable sermons concerning 1 The slaverie of sinne. 2 The mischiefe of ignorance. 3 The roote of apostasie. 4 The benefit of Gods service. 5 The Christians loue. Preached in his life time in sundry places. By that late faithfull minister of Christ Mr William Pemble of Magdalen Hall in the Vniversity of Oxford.

summary:
  It was the Authors greatest care to handle the word of God by manifestation of the truth commending himselfe to every mans conscience in the sight of God ; as once S. Paul pleaded for himselfe . 1 How strangely base and degenerat mans nature is growne , who being a most noble Creature , made for the most honourable purposes and services in the world , is now growne so vile and extreamly base , so farre forgetfull of his duty and the dignity of his creation , as to be willing insteed of the free and happy service of God and goodnes , to put himselfe into a most ignominious slaverie vnto Divels and vile affections .


id: A62865
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 48534
sentence: 2183
flesch: 73
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title:
  Christs commination against scandalizers, or, A treatise wherein the necessitie, nature, sorts, and evils of scandalizing are clearly and fully handled with resolution of many questions, especially touching the abuse of Christian liberty, shewing that vengeance is awarded against such as use it to the grievance of their weake brethren / by Iohn Tombes ...

summary:
  When our Saviour tels us , Mat. 13. 41. That in the Consummation or end of the world , the sonne of man shall send his Angells , and they shall gather out of his kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all scandalls , hee doth plainely intimate that till then there will bee scandals even in his Church ; that the Church in it's present condition on earth is but as a field in which wheat and tares grow together , scandals and good example : that it is a mixt company of good and bad ; wise , and foolish ▪ weake , & strong ; and therefore scandalls will arise . 6. where our last translatours by it render [ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ] used there by the Apostle , and I say such a scandall is not to be regarded or not regardeable , my meaning is not as if it were not simply to be regarded , but in every respect to bee neglected , so as that we should not at all be bound to be greived for anothers harme caused by his owne wilfullnesse or ill disposition , nor to pray or use other Christian meanes to redresse it , but onely this , that we are not so to regard it as to conceive our selves bound in conscience to omit our action , or to charge our selves with sinne if we doe that thing upon which scandall followes in the cases there mentioned .


id: A62878
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 48426
sentence: 2155
flesch: 73
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title:
  Væ scandalizantium, or, A treatise of scandalizing wherein the necessity, nature, sorts, and evills of scandalizing, are handled, with resolution of many questions thereto pertaining / preached at Lemster, in Herefordshire by Iohn Tombes ...

summary:
  When our Saviour tels us , Mat. 13. 41. That in the Consummation or end of the world , the sonne of man shall send his Angells , and they shall gather out of his kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all scandalls , hee doth plainely intimate that till then there will bee scandals even in his Church ; that the Church in it's present condition on earth is but as a field in which wheat and tares grow together , scandals and good example : that it is a mixt company of good and bad ; wise , and foolish ; weake , & strong ; and therefore scandalls will arise . 6. where our last translatours by it render [ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ] used there by the Apostle , and I say such a scandall is not to be regarded or not regardeable , my meaning is not as if it were not simply to be regarded , but in every respect to bee neglected , so as that we should not at all be bound to be greived for anothers harme caused by his owne wilfullnesse or ill disposition , nor to pray or use other Christian meanes to redresse it , but onely this , that we are not so to regard it as to conceive our selves bound in conscience to omit our action , or to charge our selves with sinne if we doe that thing upon which scandall followes in the cases there mentioned .


id: A62866
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1669.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 52538
sentence: 1786
flesch: 71
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title:
  Emmanuel, or, God-man a treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon councels, concerning the two natures in Christ, is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine / by John Tombes ...

summary:
  Adde hereto that the Being of the Word was expressed before , John 1. 2 , 3 , 4 , 9 , 10. by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was , therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , verse 14. must be meant of his being made a man besides his being the Word . against Julian ; The sense is , Christ governs all things by the Word of his Fathers Power ( that is Command ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is often to govern , and which Chrysostom here adds , with some easiness .


id: A62870
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1652.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 52652
sentence: 1867
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A62870.xml
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title:
  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.

summary:
  After this Mr. B. printed a large book for Infants-baptism , framed in manner of a Sermon as intended , and accordingly tendred in an Epistle to you . But Mr. B. denying it , and venting the passage in his Saints everlasting rest , wherein he speaks of grosse absurdities I was driven to , I was forced to print my Antidote , since which he hath printed a large book in which he hath raised much dust to darken the truth , and to asperse my person : which I am necessitated to answer , and to stay or order the review of the dispute between my self , Mr. M. and others as there shall be cause .


id: A62873
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1664.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 57354
sentence: 1663
flesch: 62
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title:
  Saints no smiters, or, Smiting civil powers not the work of saints being a treatise, shewing the doctrine and atempts of Quinto-Monarchians, or, Fifth-Monarchy-Men about smiting powers, to be damnable and antichristian / by John Tombes ...

summary:
  Saints no smiters, or, Smiting civil powers not the work of saints being a treatise, shewing the doctrine and atempts of Quinto-Monarchians, or, Fifth-Monarchy-Men about smiting powers, to be damnable and antichristian / by John Tombes ... Tombes, John, 1603?-1676. 1664 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 880:13) Saints no smiters, or, Smiting civil powers not the work of saints being a treatise, shewing the doctrine and atempts of Quinto-Monarchians, or, Fifth-Monarchy-Men about smiting powers, to be damnable and antichristian / by John Tombes ... Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.


id: A62877
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 57400
sentence: 2160
flesch: 74
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title:
  True old light exalted above pretended new light, or, Treatise of Jesus Christ as He is the light which enlightens every one that comes into the world : against the sense both of the Quakers, Arminians, and other assertors of universal grace, whose light is proved to be darkness / delivered in nine sermons, by John Tombes, B.D., and commended to publick view by Mr. Richard Baxter.

summary:
  And Christ is light of light , light from the Father of lights , yet all is so fully invested in Christ , that he could say , Joh. 16. 15. The witness of their late Leader James Nailor is regardable , who in his Recantation saith that they are [ Unclean Spirits gene out from the unity of the truth and light by which we have been called and gathered into one Christ Jesus , the Head over all his , blessed for ever : whose name hath been greatly dishonoured by many wilde actings , and his innocent Spirit grieved , and many simple souls deceived , — and that the work of the murderer and devourer is therein , against the life of God in his Temple : which though they seek entrance under pretence of humility ; promising some great things , and more holiness in that way , to steal into simple minds , yet being got in , exalts himself above the seed of God , and tramples the meek spirit under foot .


id: A94733
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1646.0
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mime: application/xml
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flesch: 63
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title:
  An apology or plea for the Two treatises, and appendix to them concerning infant-baptisme; published Decemb. 15. 1645. Against the unjust charges, complaints, and censures of Doctor Nathanael Homes, Mr Iohn Geree, Mr Stephen Marshall, Mr John Ley, and Mr William Hussey; together with a postscript by way of reply to Mr Blakes answer to Mr Tombes his letter, and Mr Edmund Calamy, and Mr Richard Vines preface to it. Wherein the principall heads of the dispute concerning infant-baptism are handled, and the insufficiency of the writings opposed to the two treatises manifested. / By Iohn Tombes, B.D.

summary:
  Unde nisi ex antiquant existimo , & ● Apostolica traditione , qua Ecclesia Christi i●situm tenent pr●ter baptismum , & participationem Dominicae me●s● , non solum non ad regnum Dei sed nec ad salutem , & vitam aeternam posse quenquam hominum pervenire , do me thinkes evidence that Augustin sometimes called that the Churches tenet , which he gathered by conjecture from the practice of the African Christians knowne to him . As for my owne particular , the hard dealing I have fo●nd doth not alienate me from my brethren , nor I hope shall make a schism between us ; if it must happen , my indeavour is , that it may be necessary , not voluntary on my part .


