Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…

But though in all these respects wicked men are under a promise, yet it is none of all these that gives them right to Baptism. There is no question of any but the last: and for that I have proved in my Appendix against Mr. Bedford, that it is not that Covenant that Baptism sealeth, Whither I refer you to avoid Repetition: much more easy is it to prove, that it is not that bare promise that gives right to Baptism. For many are Pagans and Infidels to whom that promise belongs. So much for the Absolute promise.

But though in all these respects wicked men are under a promise, yet it is none of all these that gives them right to Baptism. There is no question of any but the last: and for that I have proved in my Appendix against Mr. Bedford, that it is not that Covenant that Baptism sealeth, Whither I refer you to avoid Repe•i•ion: much more easie is it to prove, that it is not that bare promise that gives right to Baptism. For many are Pagans and Infidels to whom that promise belongs. So much for the Absolute promise.

2. As for Conditional promises to man, they are either

1. Peculiar: as extraordinary promises of temporal blessings conditionally made to some particular persons heretofore. Of these I say, as of the former: Wicked men may be under such promises; but these give not right to Baptism.