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

And tell me Sir, for what prize or gain do you think I am lost with all my friends? No man in his wits will voluntarily be lost for nothing. Do you think it is to get other friends that I more value? Who be they? Is it the Papists? Enquire what I get by them. Is it the Diocesan. party? What have I got by them but silencing and the loss of all Ministerial maintenance, these twelve years? And ask them whose writings have more offended them yours or mine.

If I am lost, it hath •ost me more years hard study to be lost, and to be erroneous or a fool, than it hath done you to be some body and to be wise; And I tell you I never yet repented of Cost or loss for that Truth and duty, which you lament as heinous error and sin. But naked truth, ⟨p. 298⟩and the faithful endeavours of pleasing God, in promoting that Love among Christs disciples, and peace in his Churches which Church Tyrants and Sects have so many ages laboured (too successfully) to destroy, are sweeter than to be forsaken either through the persecution of one sort or the Revilings of the other, or the loss of all mens friendship upon earth.

If I am lost, it hath •ost me more years hard study to be lost, and to be erroneous or a fool, than it hath done you to be some body and to be wise; And I tell you I never yet repented of Cost or loss for that Truth and duty, which you lament as heinous error and sin. But naked truth, ⟨p. 298⟩and the faithful endeavours of pleasing God, in promoting that Love among Christs disciples, and peace in his Churches which Church Tyrants and Sects have so many ages laboured (too succesfully) to destroy, are sweeter than to be forsaken either through the persecution of one sort or the Revilings of the other, or the loss of all mens friendship upon earth.