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

You add [Its well known whose language it is, that all charging duty on unregenerate persons is only to bring them to hypocrisy.] Answ. And if the end of that duty were no higher than to bring men to be counterfeit Christians, they had not said amiss. When we hear that charge, it is for persuading men to hear, pray, &c. for sincere faith: But if I persuade men to become Christians, and mean only the Professors of faith without the thing professed, or the believing with another sort of faith, then I might well be charged with persuading some to hypocrisy, and the other to be half-Christians. 2. You have not yet proved that Baptizing the Professors of a lower faith, is the appointed means to bring them to saving faith.

You add [Its well known whose language it is, that all charging duty on unregenerate persons is only to bring them to hypocrisie.] Answ. And if the end of that duty were no higher than to bring men to be counterfeit Christians, they had not said amiss. When we hear that charge, it is for perswading men to hear, pray, &c. for sincere faith: But if I perswade men to become Christians, and mean only the Professors of faith without the thing professed, or the believing with another sort of faith, then I might well be charged with perswading some to hypocrisie, and the other to be half-Christians. 2. You have not yet proved that Baptizing the Professors of a lower faith, is the appointed means to bring them to saving faith.

You say [In order to make men sincere Disciples they must be made visible professing Disciples] Answ. If there be not a palpable equivocation, you must mean, that it is the same Discipleship which some have sincerely, and others but visibly by profession: and then it must be the same faith. And then you say to this effect that [in order to make men sincere, they must profess & seem to be so before, they are so, that is, a lie is the appointed means to make the thing spoken become true] But if according to the current of your doctrine you mean in the later branch of your distinction, those only that profess another sort of faith, and so equivocate in the word Disciples, then I answ. 1. Your Disciples are no Disciples, nor so called once in Scripture. 2. Nor is that any thing to baptism, till you have proved that baptism also annexed to your Discipleship, is a means appointed to bring them to a higher saving faith.