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A62861 Anti-pædobaptism, or, The second part of the full review of the dispute concerning infant-baptism in which the invalidity of arguments ... is shewed ... / by John Tombs ... Tombes, John, 1603?-1676. 1654 (1654) Wing T1799; ESTC R33835 285,363 340

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à_fw-la baptismo_fw-la non_fw-la fuisse_fw-la notam_fw-la unus_n idemque_fw-la presbyter_n in_fw-la omnibus_fw-la orientis_fw-la ecclesiis_fw-la simul_fw-la &_o semel_fw-la in_o baptismo_fw-la conferendo_fw-la etiam_fw-la chrismationem_fw-la cum_fw-la manuum_fw-la imposition●_n ac_fw-la signaculo_fw-la dominico_n dabat_fw-la egressis_fw-la è_fw-la piscin●_n sive_fw-la baptisterio_fw-la which_o he_o prove_v there_o out_o of_o severus_n alexand●_n cyr●llus_fw-la hierosolymitanus_n and_o refer_v to_o more_o testimony_n in_o his_o treatise_n de_fw-fr chrismate_fw-la and_o he_o say_v p._n 1●4_n primis_fw-la temporibus_fw-la in_o occidente_fw-la chrismatio_fw-la &_o manuum_fw-la impositio_fw-la sequebantur_fw-la post_fw-la baptismum_fw-la posteaquam_fw-la à_fw-la baptismo_fw-la separata_fw-la est_fw-la confirmatio_fw-la aliquando_fw-la in_o sola_fw-la chrismatione_fw-la constitit_fw-la pag._n 182._o he_o prove_v in_o tertisllians_n cyprian_n and_o other_o time_n that_o haetre_n erant_fw-la 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