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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.
SECT. IV.
R. B. Before all these questions are well handled, we should easily be convinced that it had been better either to have let all alone, or else, if we must needs have the other bout, at least to have agreed on our terms, and the stating of the questions better before we had begun. And I think that even that is not easy to do. For when I desired your plain, exact and full explication of one word [transeunt fact] and you tell me you have plainly, fully and exactly told me your meaning: It falls out, either through the unhappy darkness of my own understanding, or yours, that I know but little more of your mind than I did before, and that you seem to me to have raised ⟨p. 18⟩more doubts and darkness than you have resolved and dissipated. Yet being thus far drawn in, I shall briefly say somewhat to the several questions, not following your desires to answer one alone: which cannot be done to any purpose while the foregoing are unresolved, because it is the clearing up of truth, and not the serving of your present ends in your writings now in hand that I must intend.
R. B. BEfore all these questions are well handled, we should easily be convinced that it had been better either to have let all alone, or else, if we must needs have the other bout, at least to have agreed on our terms, and the stating of the questions better before we had begun. And I think that even that is not easie to do. For when I desired your plain, exact and full explication of one word [transeunt fact] and you tell me you have plainly, fully and exactly told me your meaning: It falls out, either through the unhappy darkness of my own understanding, or yours, that I know but little more of your mind than I did before, and that you seem to me to have raised ⟨p. 18⟩more doubts and darkness than you have resolved and dissipated. Yet being thus far drawn in, I shall briefly say somewhat to the several questions, not following your desires to answer one alone: which cannot be done to any purpose while the foregoing are unresolved, because it is the clearing up of truth, and not the serving of your present ends in your writings now in hand that I must intend.