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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.
§. 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.
§. 11. The occasion of this is, 1. Because I have so many years forborne to answer Mr. Tombs his last. 2. Because I seek peace with them, and speak for it upon all occasions, and seek to abate other mens over-great opposition to them. 3. Because upon all occasions I press the consideration and improvement of our Baptism, taking it for the sum and Character of our Christianity, and the true description of Conversion, and the essential mark of Grace, and the qualification of Catholic Church-members, and the bond of all our Christian duty: As if none but Anabaptists could think thus?