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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.
Answ. 1. If you take Tradition equivocally, you calumniate but by equivocation; but if [thereof] mean [the same Tradition] your falsehood hath not the cloak of an equivocation. Prove what you say by any words of mine? It is between twenty and thirty years I think since I largely opened my judgement of Tradition, in the Preface to the second edition of my book called the Saints Rest, which I never changed since. If you will deny that your Father delivered you the Bible (or any other) or that the Church hath used both Bible and Baptism from the Apostles days till now, Let the reproach of such Tradition be your glory, if you will; It shall be none of mine. But do you write a book to prove the Tradition of Adult Baptism from Christs time to ours, and when you have done renounce and scorn it? See Reader, how he valueth his own work?
Answ. 1. If you take Tradition equivocally, you calumniate but by equivocation; but if [thereof] mean [the same Tradition] your falshood hath not the cloak of an equivocation. Prove what you say by any words of mine? It is between twenty and thirty years I think since I largely opened my judgement of Tradition, in the Preface to the second edition of my book called the Saints Rest, which I never changed since. If you will deny that your Father delivered you the Bible (or any other) or that the Church hath used both Bible and Baptism from the Apostles dayes till now, Let the reproach of such Tradition be your glory, if you will; It shall be none of mine. But do you write a book to prove the Tradition of Adult Baptism from Christs time to ours, and when you have done renounce and scorn it? See Reader, how he valueth his own work?
§. 18. He addeth [Sometimes a violent impugner of Popery, and yet at last who hath spoken more in favour of it?]
Answ. Here again if by [Popery] and [it] you mean the same thing, You hold on the same course: Prove it true, and take the honour of once writing a true accusation. I have not hid my judgement about Popery, having written about seven or eight books against it in above twenty years time, by which you may see in comparing them whether I changed my judgement. If you cannot, refuse not to blush.