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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.
§. 1. MR. D. pag. 134. Ed. 1. saith thus [Yet is not Mr. Baxter ashamed to fix such an abominable slander upon the Baptists of this our age of baptizing naked: (which it seems was so long the real practice of the paedobaptists) and about which he spends three whole pages to aggravate the heinousness of their custom (which he is pleased to father on them.) And though I am persuaded he cannot but be convinced that the thing is most notoriously false, and brought forth by him rather out of prejudice (not to say malice) rather than any proof or good testimony he ever received thereof; yet have I never heard that he hath done himself, his injured neighbours and the abused world that right as to own his great weakness and sinful shortness therein, in any of the many Editions of that piece, which I humbly conceive as well deserved a recantation as some other things he has judged worthy thereof.]
§. 1. MR. D. pag. 134. Ed. 1. saith thus [Yet is not Mr. Baxter ashamed to fix such an abhominable slander upon the Baptists of this our age of baptizing naked: (which it seems was so long the real practice of the paedobaptists) and about which he spends three whole pages to aggravate the heynousness of their custom (which he is pleased to father on them.) And though I am perswaded he cannot but be convinced that the thing is most notoriously false, and brought forth by him rather out of prejudice (not to say malice) rather than any proof or good testimony he ever received thereof; yet have I never heard that he hath done himself, his injured neighbours and the abused world that right as to own his great weakness and sinful shortness therein, in any of the many Editions of that piece, which I humbly conceive as well deserved a recantation as some other things he has judged worthy thereof.]
§. 2. Answ. To live and die impenitently in so unprofitable a sin (and unpleasing to any but diabolical natures) as is the belying of others, is a very dreadful kind of folly. I would heartily wish that Mr. Danvers and I might meet and help to bring each other to repentance, by a willing impartial examination of each of our guiltinesses herein.