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

A PREMONITION.

Reader, there are two stumbling-blocks to be taken out of thy way, which I had rather have had no occasion to mention. The first is the Name and Authority of that very worthy and excellent man, Doct. T. Barlow, S. Th. Prof. in Oxford, which Mr. D. over and over citeth as for his cause. Of which till he think meet to speak for himself I only mind thee that, 1. It is a secret Letter to Mr. T. which they cite. 2. That it is unlikely that he that subscribeth the Articles and Liturgy of the Church of England, is against Infant-baptism, when the Art. 27. saith, The Baptism of Young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the Institution of Christ.]

REader, there are two stumbling-blocks to be taken out of thy way, which I had rather have had no occasion to mention. The first is the Name and Authority of that very worthy and excellent man, Doct. T. Barlow, S. Th. Prof. in Oxford, which Mr. D. over and over citeth as for his cause. Of which till he think meet to speak for himself I only mind thee that, 1. It is a secret Letter to Mr. T. which they cite. 2. That it is unlikely that he that subscribeth the Articles and Liturgie of the Church of England, is against Infant-baptism, when the Art. 27. saith, The Baptism of Young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the Institution of Christ.]

II. There is another worthy and eximious Doctor of the same University (Doct. Th. Tully) who having thought meet in a Latin Treatise of Justification to endeavour at large (in a zeal for Orthodoxness no doubt) to confute my supposed errors (in my Aphorisms about twenty two years ago revoked; taking no notice of the many Treatises since written by me on that subject, but only of a late Epistle to Mr. Allen's Book,) he hath also thought good to warn young men to