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Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism : being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of Jan. 1649 : with a full reply to what he then answered and what is contained in his sermon since preached ... with a reply to his valedictory oration at Bewdley and a corrective for his antidote

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691, Tombes, John, 1603?-1676, Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653 · 1653 · London : Printed for Robert White · 65 pictures

A 1653 London polemical treatise by Richard Baxter, published by Robert White, arguing for infant church membership and baptism in response to John Tombes, for a readership of Church of England clergy and theologians. Its pictures are four small decorative woodcut initial letters, each a large capital I or T framed by dense hatched foliage, scrolls and leaf sprays, offering a designer models of compact, high-contrast historic ornament for initials and headers.

Church of England · Baptism · Church membership

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