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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.
§. 6. When this sort of men see the weakness of the Sectaries, and the bold-faced falsehood which such as Mr. Danvers obtrude on the world, and hear them furiously revile what they understand not, it maketh them think that they are fitter for Bedlam than for humane society: And their consciences justify them for all the cruelties that ⟨p. 237⟩they use against either them, or more innocent persons, whom in their ignorance and uncharitableness they number with them.
§. 6. When this sort of men see the weakness of the Sectaries, and the bold-faced falshood which such as Mr. Danvers obtrude on the world, and hear them furiously revile what they understand not, it maketh them think that they are fitter for Bedlam than for humane societie: And their consciences justifie them for all the cruelties that ⟨p. 237⟩they use against either them, or more innocent persons, whom in their ignorance and uncharitableness they number with them.
§. 7. And on the like account when they read and hear their erroneous Doctrines, and hear their incongruous words in prayer, they think they can never be too strict in shackling them and all others in prescribed forms: And nothing quieteth their Consciences in all this so much, as the undeniable errors, and follies and miscarriages of those that thus provoke them.
§. 8. But in this the Church in Augustine's days did not think that way the wisest cure: when he saith [Afferat, ut fieri solet, aliquam precem in qua loquatur contra regulam fidei (multi quippe irruunt in preces non solum ab imperitis loquacibus, sed etiam ab haereticis compositas, & per ignorantiae simplicitatem non eas valentes discernere, utuntur iis, arbitrantes quod bonae sint:) Nec tamen quod in eis perversum est evacuat illa quae ibi recta sunt; sed ab eis potius evacuatur] Aug. de bapt. cont. Donat. (as I remember about lib. 5. c. 11.) O truly charitable and peaceable Doctrine! And he that will separate from other for every difference (or real error) in Doctrine or Prayers, shall have enow to separate from him.