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

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.

But here he stops and pittieth the Reader, and referreth them to my Book it self: And I will joyn 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 rectifie his Error, than by Prayer or Counsel, endeavouring to bring him to some tenderness of Conscience, fear of God and sobriety of mind.

But his strength lieth in frightful exclamations. [O was ever the like yet heard, &c. to palliate abominations, and reconcile us to Idolatrous Popish names, as Altar, Priests, Sacrifices, &c. and their baptism.] And yet he might have known that all these words are oft used by the ancienter sort of the holy Pastors of the Churches after the Apostles, and I remember not that ever one Christian was against it, or scrupled the use of them: And I before showed that they are used by the Holy-Ghost in Scripture, whom I dare not accuse of Idolatrous names, or reconciling us to them. Whether all the Papists baptism administered and received be nullities, and all Papists to be rebaptized, and all Protestants that were baptized by Papists? are questions which I will not be so vain as to dispute with one that talketh at this mans rate.

But his strength lieth in frightful exclamations. [O was ever the like yet heard, &c. to palliate abominations, and reconcile us to Idolatrous Popish names, as Altar, Priests, Sacrifices, &c. and their baptism.] And yet he might have known that all these words are oft used by the ancienter sort of the holy Pastors of the Churches after the Apostles, and I remember not that ever one Christian was against it, or scrupled the use of them: And I before shewed that they are used by the Holy-Ghost in Scripture, whom I dare not accuse of Idolatrous names, or reconciling us to them. Whether all the Papists baptism administred and received be nullities, and all Papists to be rebaptized, and all Protestants that were baptized by Papists? are questions which I will not be so vain as to dispute with one that talketh at this mans rate.