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

SECT. CXIII.

R. B. Quest. 6. Have you felt the guilt which we too strongly fear you have incurred, of the perverting of so many souls, opening them such a gap to schism, contempt of the Ministry, and Apostasy, destroying a hopeful reformation that cost so dear: or weakening our hands in the work, and filling the adversaries mouths with scorn, enticing the Jesuits and Friars to seem your proselytes, and list themselves among you, as the hopeful party to befriend their cause, hardening thousands both of the Papists and profane, and settling them again on their dregs, when many once began to shake! O what a Church might we have had, and were likely to have had? Had it not been for the Separatists and you? And what a lamentable confusion are we now brought into by these? Have these things touched your heart?

R. B. Quest. 6. HAve you felt the guilt which we too strongly fear you have incurred, of the perverting of so many souls, opening them such a gap to schism, contempt of the Ministry, and Apostasie, destroying a hopeful reformation that cost so dear: or weakning our hands in the work, and filling the adversaries mouths with scorn, enticing the Jesuites and Friars to seem your proselytes, and list themselves among you, as the hopeful party to befriend their cause, hardning thousands both of the Papists and profane, and setling them again on their dregs, when many once began to shake! O what a Church might we have had, and were likely to have had? Had it not been for the Separatists and you? And what a lamentable confusion are we now brought into by these? Have these things toucht your heart?