How parents can bring infants to baptism — unbelieving and believing

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How parents lead infants to baptism:

Unbelievers: grace to believe (immediate or at least mediate) → then seek baptism.

Believers: pray God keep the child to birth; baptize promptly; avoid sins that cut life short.

Mothers especially avoid what harms mother or child in the womb — then baptism and eternal salvation follow.

Latin

XII. Postea vero explicat quomodo parentes possint eos ad baptismum perducere. Nempe si infideles sunt, gratiam habent qua possint vel immediate, vel saltem mediate credere, & ita suis baptismum procurare. Si vero fideles sunt, possunt orare pro salute parvulorum suorum, ut Deus servet eos usque ad nativitatem, quo tempore solliciti debent esse, ut cito procurent ipsis baptismum. Possunt etiam cavere a peccatis, ne ob ea priventur parvuli sua vita temporali antequam nascantur. Et specialiter possunt cavere matres ab iis omnibus, quae possunt sibi, & parvulis suis, quos gestant in utero, esse noxia & lethifera. Quae si bene observent, parvuli eorum sunt perventuri ad baptismum, & sic ad salutem aeternam.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

Witnesses

Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)

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