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

I say again, either Mr. D. and his like do really hold the contraries of the assertions of mine which he thus notifieth as heinous errors, or not: If not, he raileth against his Conscience in hypocrisy: If yea, then these propositions which I have named to you are the contraries to mine. And it is so cursed a thing to add two and forty New Commandments to the Law of God, that I who think them to be no better, do again and again desire him, to give me the full proof of all these strange Commandments, and tell me where they are written (if I have overlooked them.)

I say again, either Mr. D. and his like do really hold the contraries of the assertions of mine which he thus notifieth as heynous errors, or not: If not, he raileth against his Conscience in hypocrisie: If yea, then these propositions which I have named to you are the contraries to mine. And it is so cursed a thing to add two and fourty New Commandments to the Law of God, that I who think them to be no better, do again and again desire him, to give me the full proof of all these strange Commandments, and tell me where they are written (if I have overlookt them.)

If this cannot be obtained, I call to his imitators and my backbiters to let me know, whether really they will own all these, and give me leave to tell the World, and the Ages to come, that these were their Doctrines, for the love of which they whispered or clamoured against me.

But here he stops and pitieth the Reader, and referreth them to my Book it self: And I will join with him and add, that the Reader that will think that he knoweth what I hold or wrote, by this and such like mens citations or reports, and will not read the Book it self, and all in it together that concerneth the questioned subject, before he judge; I take not my self bound to write more books to tell him what I wrote in the former, nor do I think that I am otherwise obliged to rectify his Error, than by Prayer or Counsel, endeavouring to bring him to some tenderness of Conscience, fear of God and sobriety of mind.