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§. 8. But my purpose is to meddle with them but this once: And if after this these crying Children will bawl and wrangle and foul the house, and think that I am made for no better work than either to rock the Cradle or to make them clean, I will let them cry and take their course, and will no more believe that their humours are the masters of my time.

§. 9. By three or four arguments (of his making) it hath pleased one Major Danvers a Soldier to call me to this task. 1. By heaping up a Catalogue of Accusations against my Doctrine in my Christian Directory. 2. By reproaching me for not answering Mr. Tombs. 3. By proclaiming me to the world a slanderer who owe the Anabaptists satisfaction, for saying that many of them were Baptized naked. 4. By perverse citations of my later Writings as if they had been serviceable to his cause. 5. By his injury to poor souls and the Churches peace, by his ignorant though confident opposition to the truth, and writing a Volume of he knoweth not what.

§. 9. By three or four arguments (of his making) it hath pleased one Major Danvers a Souldier to call me to this task. 1. By heaping up a Catalogue of Accusations against my Doctrine in my Christian Directory. 2. By reproaching me for not answering Mr. Tombes. 3. By proclaiming me to the world a slanderer who owe the Anabaptists satisfaction, for saying that many of them were Baptized naked. 4. By perverse citations of my later Writings as if they had been serviceable to his cause. 5. By his injury to poor souls and the Churches peace, by his ignorant though confident opposition to the truth, and writing a Volume of he knoweth not what.

§. 10. And to add to my invitation, it is become of late a common saying among the Anabaptists, that I am turned to their opinion or very near it, but have not humility to retract my former error, and openly acknowledge what I hold.