A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

The Quaker trembling at his thunder, fled, And with Caligula resumed his bed: He by the motions of a nobler spirit Cleared men, and made their Notions swine inherit. The Munster Goblin by his holy flood Exorcised, like a thin Phantasma stood: Brown's Babel shattered by his lightning, fell, And with confused horror packed to Hell. Let not the brazen Schismatic aspire▪ Lot's leaving Sodom, left them to the fire.

The Quaker trembling at his thunder, fled, And with Caligula resum'd his bed: He by the motions of a nobler spirit Clear'd men, and made their Notions swine inherit. The Munster Goblin by his holy flood Exorcis'd, like a thin Phantasma stood: Brown's Babel shatter'd by his lightning, fell, And with confused horror pack'd to Hell. Let not the brazen Schismatick aspire▪ Lot's leaving Sodom, left them to the fire.

But the fullest evidence is the work of the New-England Synod, 1662. who determined of two great points of Church-practice, so as greatly tendeth to reconcile them to all the moderate Presbyterians, and other peaceable Christians. The one is 2. ▪ That Members of the visible Church according to Scripture, are confederate visible believers, in particular Churches, and their Infant-seed; that is, Children in minority, whose next Parents, one or both, are in Covenant. ▪The Case of Christians that are of no particular Church is not here meddled with). 3. And that [The Infant-seed of such when grown up, are personally under the Watch, Discipline, and ⟨p. 158⟩Government of the Church]. 4. That these adult persons are not to be admitted to full Communion, merely because they are and continue members, without such further qualifications as the Word of God requireth thereunto. 5. That Church-Members who were admitted in minority, understanding the doctrine of Faith, and publicly professing their Assent thereto, not scandalous in life, and solemnly owning the Covenant before the Church, wherein they give up themselves and their Children to the Lord, and subject themselves to the Government of Christ in his Church, their children are to be baptised.]