More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

§. 7. Answ. Mr. Bagshaw is now quite overdone in the quality of untruths: Reader, either this man had seen and read the Books of Augustine mentioned by him, or he had not. If not, doth he use Gods Church and the souls of poor ignorant people with any tenderness ⟨p. 242⟩of Conscience, sobriety or humanity, to talk at this rate of Books, that he never saw or read, which are so common among us to be seen? If he understand not Latin, how unfit is he to give us the History of these antiquities? And how audacious to talk thus of what he knoweth not? If he understand it, what cruelty is it to the Church to venture on such untruths to save him the labour of opening and reading the books he talketh of? But if he have read them, then I can scarce match him again among all the falsifiers that I know in the world; I dare not be so uncharitable to him as to think that ever he read them.

§. 7. Answ. Mr. Bagshaw is now quite overdone in the quality of untruths: Reader, either this man had seen and read the Books of Augustine mentioned by him, or he had not. If not, doth he use Gods Church and the souls of poor ignorant people with any tenderness ⟨p. 242⟩of Conscience, sobriety or humanity, to talk at this rate of Books, that he never saw or read, which are so common among us to be seen? If he understand not Latine, how unfit is he to give us the History of these antiquities? And how audacious to talk thus of what he knoweth not? If he understand it, what cruelty is it to the Church to venture on such untruths to save him the labour of opening and reading the books he talketh of? But if he have read them, then I can scarce match him again among all the falsifiers that I know in the world; I dare not be so uncharitable to him as to think that ever he read them.

§. 8. The Books are seven that Augustine wrote of Baptism against the Donatists: And in them all I cannot find one syllable of intimation that ever the Donatists denied Infant-ism, but enough to the contrary that they […]: Nor do the third and fourth books mentioned by him meddle with it any more than the rest: There is not in the seven books nor in all the rest of Austins books against the Donatists, one word that I can find, of any such controversy with them at all: And for a man to say that in two books he manageth the arguments for Infant-Baptism against them with great zeal, &c. when there is not one word that supposeth them to deny it, blush Reader in compassion for such a man.