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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 ..

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · 1656 · London : Printed for T.V.F.T. · 13 pictures

Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism is a 1656 London polemical treatise by the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, printed for T.V.F.T. and recording his arguments for infant baptism in a 1649 public dispute with John Tombes. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initial letters and a floral headpiece, with bold black cut shapes, hatched shading and foliage scrolls that a designer could adapt for historical display type and borders.

Tombes, John, 1603?-1676 · Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653 · Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800

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