More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

The PREFACE.

§. 1. THE occasion and time of these Letters is long ago published by Mr. Tombs himself in the third Part of his Anti-Paedobaptism, page 353. and forward; where he printeth the said Letters without my consent: Had I found his Answers satisfactory, I had changed my judgement and retracted that and other such writings long ago. But I thought so much otherwise of them that I judged it not necessary, nor worth my diverting from better employment to write an answer to them.

§. 1. THE occasion and time of these Letters is long ago published by Mr. Tombes himself in the third Part of his Anti-Paedobaptism, page 353. and forward; where he printeth the said Letters without my consent: Had I found his Answers satisfactory, I had changed my judgement and retracted that and other such writings long ago. But I thought so much otherwise of them that I judged it not necessary, nor worth my diverting from better employment to write an answer to them.

§. 2. And whatever the singular judgement of that ⟨p. 2⟩learned and excellent Professor of Theology mentioned in his Preface, was or is concerning the arguments that I, and many before and since have used for Infant Baptism, and notwithstanding his opinion that it was introduced in the second Century, &c. yet so many wiser and better men than I, think otherwise both of the cause, and of Mr. T's writings, that I hope the modest will allow me the honour of having very good company if I should prove mistaken.