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

SECT. CIX.

R. B. Quest. 2. IS it not a great disgrace to all your followers, that they will be led so far into such ways of Schism, and be so confident that they are righter and wiser than others, and that by such unreasonable arguings and shifts as these, which one would think any man should laugh at that knows what a Law, Promise, or Covenant is? And do you not prove, ⟨p. 152⟩that it is not because of the evidence of truth, but by your mere interest or confident words, these people are changed and held to your opinion? Do they know what [a transeunt fact is, that without Law or Covenant makes Church-members?] I say, do they know this? which no man that ever breathed till now, nor ever man will know again? And do you not proclaim them men of distempered consciences, that dare go on in such a Schism, on the encouragement of such fancies as were hatched so long after their perversion, and never waking man I think did before so solemnly maintain?]

R. B. Quest. 2. IS it not a great disgrace to all your followers, that they will be led so far into such ways of Schism, and be so confident that they are righter and wiser than others, and that by such unreasonable arguings and shifts as these, which one would think any man should laugh at that knows what a Law, Promise, or Covenant is? And do you not prove, ⟨p. 152⟩that it is not because of the evidence of truth, but by your meer interest or confident words, these people are changed and held to your opinion? Do they know what [a transeunt fact is, that without Law or Covenant makes Church-members?] I say, do they know this? which no man that ever breathed till now, nor ever man will know again? And do you not proclaim them men of distempered consciences, that dare go on in such a Schism, on the encouragement of such fancies as were hatcht so long after their perversion, and never waking man I think did before so solemnly maintain?]