The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

XXV. 23. If any Pastors will deny Baptism, which is their investiture in the Christian Church, to the Adult that refuse to receive the ⟨p. 45⟩transient Image of the Crucifix (or any thing equal to it) as a Dedicating means to consecrate them to God, and to signify their Covenant Engagement to Christ, and as a badge and symbol of the Christian Religion, it seemeth to us to be Schismatical, when Christ himself instituted Baptism without such a Covenanting Image, to be the test and bond of his Churches unity: But if those Pastors hold Baptism necessary also to salvation, and yet will so deny it to such, this seemeth a great aggravation. The same we say of such Pastors as reject from Baptism and the Church, the Infants of true Christians on the aforesaid account: As also of those that reject them from Baptism, because the Parents will not offer them to it, unless they may themselves be the Covenanters in their own Children's names, and the Express dedicaters of them to God, and because they either cannot get credible Godfathers, or will not put others to promise the Christian Education of their children, who they have no reason to believe do at all intend it, or will ever do it, we can excuse no such rejection of Christian Infants from Christs Church, from Schism.

XXV. 23. If any Pastors will deny Baptism, which is their investiture in the Christian Church, to the Adult that refuse to receive the ⟨p. 45⟩transient Image of the Crucifix (or any thing equal to it) as a Dedicating means to consecrate them to God, and to signifie their Covenant Engagement to Christ, and as a badge and symbol of the Christian Religion, it seemeth to us to be Schismaticall, when Christ himself instituted Baptism without such a Covenanting Image, to be the test and bond of his Churches unity: But if those Pastors hold Baptism necessary also to salvation, and yet will so deny it to such, this seemeth a great aggravation. The same we say of such Pastors as reject from Baptism and the Church, the Infants of true Christians on the aforesaid account: As also of those that reject them from Baptism, because the Parents will not offer them to it, unless they may themselves be the Covenanters in their own Childrens names, and the Express dedicaters of them to God, and because they either cannot get credible Godfathers, or will not put others to promise the Christian Education of their children, who they have no reason to believe do at all intend it, or will ever do it, we can excuse no such rejection of Christian Infants from Christs Church, from Schism.