§ 9. When you ask me [Why I say notoriously ungodly.] You consulted not the credit of your knowledge, to tell Men in Print, that you know not what Notorious signifieth; no not in Notation, or common use: As if it signified [more than ordinary.] Notorious, is that which is certainly, openly, easily, Knowable. I have told you of some of my own Parishioners, that live in the open opposition to Christianity, seeking in their Converse to persuade Men, that the Scripture is a Book of Lies, and Christianity a mere Deceit, and they will bring their Children to Baptism for Law and Custom-sake; and say all the Creed, and words required (it was in the time when I had leave to admit the Parent to enter his own Child in the Covenant with God.) We know now abundance of the followers of Hobbes, and Spinosa, and many that deride Scripture, and the hopes of Heaven, and the fears of a Hell, and think Man is but a subtle sort of Beast: Yet these will all have their Children Baptized, and to avoid the penalty of the Law, will receive the Eucharist. And there are others who are common scorners of Serious Religiousness, and persecutors of it to their power; and hate him that will tell them of the evil of the common Drunkenness and Whoredom which they live in, and glory in their Shame. We look for better proof than your Wriggling-nothings, to make us undoubtedly certain from God's Word, that the Baptized Infants of all these are saved: The Rubric meaneth, [Quia & qua, Baptized;] and you mean [Because innocent, and Christ died for them, and all the Unbaptized, are saved.] But as I see none ⟨p. 145⟩of your proof of the latter, so I will not crookedly crawl into Conformity by the fallacious Exposition. And you that were, in your last Book, uncertain your self of what you can now prove certain, do so quickly Change, and so quickly publish your Change, that your judgment hath the less power by any reverence of it to the changing of mine.
§ 9. When you ask me [Why I say notoriously ungodly.] You consulted not the credit of your knowledg, to tell Men in Print, that you know not what Notorious signifieth; no not in Notation, or common use: As if it signified [more than ordinary.] Notorious, is that which is certainly, openly, easily, Knowable. I have told you of some of my own Parishioners, that live in the open opposition to Christianity, seeking in their Converse to persuade Men, that the Scripture is a Book of Lyes, and Christianity a meer Deceit, and they will bring their Children to Baptism for Law and Custom-sake; and say all the Creed, and words required (it was in the time when I had leave to admit the Parent to enter his own Child in the Covenant with God.) We know now abundance of the followers of Hobbes, and Spinosa, and many that deride Scripture, and the hopes of Heaven, and the fears of a Hell, and think Man is but a subtle sort of Beast: Yet these will all have their Children Baptized, and to avoid the penalty of the Law, will receive the Eucharist. And there are others who are common scorners of Serious Religiousness, and persecutors of it to their power; and hate him that will tell them of the evil of the common Drunkenness and Whoredom which they live in, and glory in their Shame. We look for better proof than your Wrigling-nothings, to make us undoubtedly certain from God's Word, that the Baptized Infants of all these are saved: The Rubrick meaneth, [Quia & qua, Baptized;] and you mean [Because innocent, and Christ died for them, and all the Unbaptized, are saved.] But as I see none ⟨p. 145⟩of your proof of the latter, so I will not crookedly crawl into Conformity by the fallacious Exposition. And you that were, in your last Book, uncertain your self of what you can now prove certain, do so quickly Change, and so quickly publish your Change, that your judgment hath the less power by any reverence of it to the changing of mine.
