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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 2. Accordingly when Mr. Tombs had printed the last private papers which past between him and me, without my consent, I never answered his reply to this day; not striving to have the last word, and supposing that the studious impartial Reader, would find no need of a rejoinder: For to me his Reply seemed so empty and next nothing, that I thought it unnecessary to say any more.
§. 2. Accordingly when Mr. Tombes had printed the last private papers which past between him and me, without my consent, I never answered his reply to this day; not striving to have the last word, and supposing that the studious impartial Reader, would find no need of a rejoynder: For to me his Reply seemed so empty and next nothing, that I thought it unnecessary to say any more.
§. 3. But it is now grown the custom among Papists and Sectaries and almost all the wranglers that trouble the world, to scribble somewhat sense or nonsense against that truth which they have not wit, or will, or humility enough to learn, and then say to those that would make them wiser, you are answered; and it goeth for a victory to any foolery, if they can but say, such a one that hath written against you is unanswered: As if we dealt on such terms with the world in writing, as that he that speaketh last, (that is, that liveth longest) must be supposed to be in the right. Or as if we knew not when we write against the grossest ⟨p. 212⟩heresy or error, that as many words may be said or written for it as against it!
§. 3. But it is now grown the custom among Papists and Sectaries and almost all the wranglers that trouble the world, to scribble somewhat sense or nonsense against that truth which they have not wit, or will, or humility enough to learn, and then say to those that would make them wiser, you are answered; and it goeth for a victory to any foolery, if they can but say, such a one that hath written against you is unanswered: As if we dealt on such terms with the world in writing, as that he that speaketh last, (that is, that liveth longest) must be supposed to be in the right. Or as if we knew not when we write against the grossest