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

Answ. 1. Let him show you if he can, where or when I have changed my judgement about Conformity, or expressed a change since 1640? Not that I take it for a disgrace to be mutable by growing wiser: But necessity forced me so long ago to study those controversies so hard, as fixed me, and I never heard any thing since which considerably altered me therein: Which also being visible in the foresaid Dispute of Liturgy, Ceremonies, &c. written 1658. leave no cloak for this mans calumnies. See there whether I said not more for so much of Episcopacy, Liturgy and Ceremonies which I took to be lawful, than ever I have done since Bishops returned?

Answ. 1. Let him shew you if he can, where or when I have changed my judgement about Conformity, or exprest a change since 1640? Not that I take it for a disgrace to be mutable by growing wiser: But necessity forced me so long ago to study those controversies so hard, as fixed me, and I never heard any thing since which considerably altered me therein: Which also being visible in the foresaid Dispute of Liturgie, Ceremonies, &c. written 1658. leave no cloak for this mans calumnies. See there whether I said not more for so much of Episcopacy, Liturgie and Ceremonies which I took to be lawful, than ever I have done since Bishops returned?

2. But what doth he mean by [sheltering my self in a storm in their tents]? I cannot imagine what, unless sense and truth at once forsook him! When a storm fell on the Nonconformists, were their tents a likely place for shelter? Had not the Conformists tents been likelier? Did the Nonconformists shelter me? From what, and how?

3. And what hole was it that I came out of, with their Indulgence? Are such men as this the Vindicators of Gods Truth against the Christian world, that pour out untruths at such a rate, in despite of the most public notoriety of fact? Do I need to tell the Reader (only for the sake of youths and foreigners) that when the Nonconformists cause was at the bar, when speaking had any room and hope, they set me in their forlorn, and engaged me (with my Conscience and desire to have prevented that which I foresaw) in the tasks of writing and speaking which would most exasperate and offend the Bishops; till I was I think the first among them that was forbidden to Preach. I continued after that in London a year, where I never had place or flock, but was a stranger: sickness then forced me to remove into the Country. The Tents I was sheltered in, were Gods protection in my own habitation; which if a hole I thought good enough for me. I Preached to such as would hear me, till, being near the Church door, and the people numerous, Clergy-envy caused me to be sent to the common Gaol, among malefactors; As soon as I was out, another warrant