Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

1. I find that the Apostles took such a profession as a sufficient proof of the justice of the claim, at the Parents own baptism: Not as being it self the Condition (called by many, the Title) but as being such an evidence of the Title to us, as we are bound to accept. 2. In equity and reason if the condition of a mans interest (or his Title, as they call it) do lie in the heart, out of mans reach, we must take his own profession as evidence sufficient, unless he give himself the lye, and give us other reason to discredit him. If a man say he is a Believer, and profess himself to be a godly man, that is, a Lover and Honourer of God; I will take him for a Believer, and a godly man, till I can disprove his profession. I am not not bound to believe an evident Lye: but I am bound to believe a man till the falsehood of his speeches be evident. Charity believeth all (such) things; and thinketh not evil without sufficient evidence. I need not go to a mans life for his evidence of his first Title. And for his Right to after-communion and privileges; though other mens Testimony of a Godly conversation be a good confirmation, yet I am not always bound to seek or require that, nor yet to have a personal knowledge of it: But if any from his life will bring a ⟨p. 344⟩cross evidence to disprove his own verbal profession of faith and obedience, I will take it into consideration.

1. I find that the Apostles took such a profession as a sufficient proof of the justice of the claim, at the Parents own baptism: Not as being it self the Condition (called by many, the Title) but as being such an evidence of the Title to us, as we are bound to accept. 2. In equity and reason if the condition of a mans interest (or his Title, as they call it) do lie in the heart, out of mans reach, we must take his own profession as evidence sufficient, unless he give himself the lye, and give us other reason to discredit him. If a man say he is a Believer, and profess himself to be a godly man, that is, a Lover and Honorer of God; I will take him for a Believer, and a godly man, till I can disprove his profession. I am not not bound to believe an evident Lye: but I am bound to believe a man till the falshood of his speeches be evident. Charity believeth all (such) things; and thinketh not evil without sufficient evidence. I need not go to a mans life for his evidence of his first Title. And for his Right to after-communion and priviledges; though other mens Testimony of a Godly conversation be a good confirmation, yet I am not alwaies bound to seek or require that, nor yet to have a personal knowledge of it: But if any from his life will bring a