The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.

Title

The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.

Author

Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.

Publication

London, :: Printed by D.M. for J. Nuthal living next door to the Dolphin in the Minories,

1658.

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Subject terms

Baptism -- Early works to 1800.

Theology, Doctrinal.

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"The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80854.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Right Worshipful Richard Garforde, AND Robert Burdet, Esquires. And the rest of his Be∣loved Parishioners, late As∣sertors of his innocency, and Protestors against his groundless and furious Per∣secutions.
• To the READER.
• ERRATA.
• title page
• A Short CATECHISM, Briefly propounding, and plainly shewing the vertue and value of BAPTISM.
• THE VIRTUE and VALUE OF BAPTISME, Delivered in a Summary Sermon at the close of the Cate∣chetical Considerations of the Doctrine of Baptism, at Botolphs Aldgate, LONDON.