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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.
§. 10. If he so greatly differ from me, and be in the right, certainly it is because he is either a great deal wiser and more knowing in these matters, or because he is more conscionable to avoid perverting temptations, and more Godly and fit for divine light. I deny not either: but from the bottom of my heart tell him, that I am so deeply conscious of the darkness and smallness of my understanding, and my little goodness and very ill deserts from God, that did he bring me any considerable evidence for his cause, my great suspicion of my self would prepare me to ⟨p. 294⟩hear him: But it must not be such stuff as he here obtrudeth on us. And I must tell him, though I acknowledge God to be a free Benefactor, and may give the Greatest Knowledge to them that have least laboured for it; yet while diligent searching is his commanded means, I shall doubt whether his easier and shorter search hath attained to so much more than my harder and longer, till the fruit shall prove it.
§. 10. If he so greatly differ from me, and be in the right, certainly it is because he is either a great deal wiser and more knowing in these matters, or because he is more conscionable to avoid perverting temptations, and more Godly and fit for divine light. I deny not either: but from the bottom of my heart tell him, that I am so deeply conscious of the darkness and smalness of my understanding, and my little goodness and very ill deserts from God, that did he bring me any considerable evidence for his cause, my great suspicion of my self would prepare me to ⟨p. 294⟩hear him: But it must not be such stuff as he here obtrudeth on us. And I must tell him, though I acknowledge God to be a free Benefactor, and may give the Greatest Knowledge to them that have least laboured for it; yet while diligent searching is his commanded means, I shall doubt whether his easier and shorter search hath attained to so much more than my harder and longer, till the fruit shall prove it.