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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.
CHAP. VI. Of Mr. Danvers's frequent Citations of my Words.
§. 1. When I read Mr. Tombs his twenty Citations of me as against my self, which Mr. D. provoketh me to answer, and when I find Mr. D. so often imitating them, and alleging my words, as justifying his cause, I have no conviction on my mind that it is lawful for me to wast my time and the Readers, about a particular vindication of my words, so triflingly and vainly used by them.
§. 1. WHen I read Mr. Tombes his twenty Citations of me as against my self, which Mr. D. provoketh me to answer, and when I find Mr. D. so often imitating them, and alledging my words, as justifying his cause, I have no conviction on my mind that it is lawful for me to wast my time and the Readers, about a particular vindication of my words, so triflingly and vainly used by them.
§. 2. Either it is the authority of the Writer which they suppose will serve them, or the force of the arguments; or else it is only to make the Reader believe that the Writer is so foolish as not to know when he contradicteth himself. The first I may well presume it is not: If it were, the same persons authority would be as much more against them as his judgement is. If it be the second, why do they use any arguments of mine, when they are able to form such of their own as seem much more useful to them than any that I can give them? And why then do they not insist only on the Argument and neglect the Author? But seeing I must believe that the last is their business, I can have leisure to say little more than this to them, that it is not my business to prove my self no fool but to prove Infants Church-members; nor will it make me smart if all of