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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.
Your vehement importunity having greatly injured me, by occasioning the loss of some of my time (who have none to spare) upon this writing, which else would have been needless; you must bear with me while I desire you, sometime alone, to answer these Questions seriously to your Conscience.
YOur vehement importunity having greatly injured me, by occasioning the loss of some of my time (who have none to spare) upon this writing, which else would have been needless; you must bear with me while I desire you, sometime alone, to answer these Questions seriously to your Conscience.
Quest. 1. Whether the untruths in matter of fact which you confidently publish, be not of so stupendous a magnitude, as should have affrighted the Conscience of a Turk or Pagan? When no less than four whole Bodies of men are so slandered by you, the Donatists, the Novatians, the Old Britons, and the Waldenses, each containing, it's like many hundred thousands: And when so many whole Books (not particular sentences only) are falsified accordingly?
Quest. 1. Whether the untruths in matter of fact which you confidently publish, be not of so stupendious a magnitude, as should have affrighted the Conscience of a Turk or Pagan? When no less than four whole Bodies of men are so slandered by you, the Donatists, the Novatians, the Old Brittains, and the Waldenses, each containing, it's like many hundred thousands: And when so many whole Books (not particular sentences only) are falsified accordingly?
2. How great a number would your untruths appear, were they all gathered and enumerated to you? When in all the lines which I have examined I have met with so few that are not guilty of them?