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

If any man yet do think that any words, though not probably signifying the mind, are a valid profession, and to be taken for a Title; then it will follow, that if a man should laugh in your face, and foretell you that he will come and make a profession in scorn of Christ, or if he tell you that though he speak such words, it is not from his heart, but through fear, or to get some honour with men; or if when he baptized his child in the name of Christ, he tell you that he intendeth not that he shall serve him; or if he say of himself he will baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and renounce the world, flesh and Devil, but he intendeth not to stand to it, nor to do as he promiseth, &c. any of these must be taken for a Profession, and this man for a Christian: which no wise man I think will affirm. If an affirmation presently contradicted by words as express and certain, be not to be taken for a profession, then much less is an affirmation more certainly contradicted by the tenor of the life, yea and too oft by professed impenitency.

If any man yet do think that any words, though not probably signifying the mind, are a valid profession, and to be taken for a Title; then it will follow, that if a man should laugh in your face, and foretel you that he will come and make a profession in scorn of Christ, or if he tell you that though he speak such words, it is not from his heart, but through fear, or to get some honour with men; or if when he baptized his child in the name of Christ, he tell you that he intendeth not that he shall serve him; or if he say of himself he will baptized in tht name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and renounce the world, flesh and Devil, but he intendeth not to stand to it, nor to do as he promiseth, &c. any of these must be taken for a Profession, and this man for a Christian: which no wise man I think will affirm. If an affirmation presently contradicted by words as express and certain, be not to be taken for a profession, then much less is an affirmation more certainly contradicted by the tenor of the life, yea and too oft by professed impenitency.

The sum is this, We must not baptize him into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (or his children for his faith) who we are sure doth not believe in the Father, Son, and