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

§. 22. There remaineth a Catalogue of my heinous errors which he hath put in the preface to his first edition, and in the end of the second, and which he and such as he have taught many honest weak people in London, both Anabaptists and Independents to talk frightfully and odiously of from one another behind my back. What should I say to him and them? Shall I answer them that never speak or write to me? Shall I take this mans accusation for a confutation or conviction? Is so deadly an enemy of Antichrist conceited of a self-infallibility, or that I must take my faith or trust from Mr. Danvers, though not from the Church, Pope, or General Council? If not, what did the man think that a recitation should do with me? Did not I know what I had written till he told me?

§. 22. There remaineth a Catalogue of my heynous errors which he hath put in the preface to his first edition, and in the end of the second, and which he and such as he have taught many honest weak people in London, both Anabaptists and Independents to talk frightfully and odiously of from one another behind my back. What should I say to him and them? Shall I answer them that never speak or write to me? Shall I take this mans accusation for a confutation or conviction? Is so deadly an enemy of Antichrist conceited of a self-infallibility, or that I must take my faith or trust from Mr. Danvers, though not from the Church, Pope, or General Council? If not, what did the man think that a recitation should do with me? Did not I know what I had written till he told me?

§. 23. But it is others that he tells it to▪ Those others will read my own words or, they will not? If they will, I will not be so censorious of them as to think that they need any more to his frustration: If they will not, must I write another book to tell them what I have written in the former? How shall I know that they will any more read the last than the first? If Satan have so much power over them, that he can make them err, and lie and slander and backbite as oft as a man professing zeal for the truth, will be his instrument and messenger, it is not ⟨p. 311⟩