2. I answer according to your Principles: you make a Mans Christianity §2alone, without his joining of himself to any congregation, to be that which gives him right, and you oppose Mr. Hooker, and the Congregational Divines for requiring that joining to any particular Church before they will Baptize: thus you say; All Children of Christians, as Christians have such right to Baptism, and in the same Page,1 All Children of Christians, as such, have right to Baptism. Thus in your answer to me P. 12. you say, a person Excommunicated gives right to his child's Baptism, because for state be is a Christian, and retains his Baptism. Now Sir I hope you mean it must be such Christianity as your self have said is fit to make a Church-member [I hope you do not mean such Christianity as our question speaks of] by virtue of that say you he is a Member of the Catholic-church. Now Sir if that only gives a Man right and his Children, and yet a Man have not that, I can see no right he hath at all, it seems strange to me that Men should be Members of a particular Church and not of the Catholic-Church, of the latter these are not Members, for they have not so much as should give them a right to that Membership, if you will hold to what you have said about the qualifications of the matter of a Church: for only such Christianity makes Men Members of the Catholic-church, which these fall very short of. We use to unwind a bottom the same way we wound it, if you will wind the bottom thus, a Professor, or Believer (such a one as you say is fitly qualified) as such, have by virtues of his profession only, a right to his own and Child's Baptism, then I unwind it the same way, he that is no• a Professor as you mention, hath no right at all. Such are those our Case speaks of.
2. I answer according to your Principles: you make a Mans Christianity §2alone, without his joyning of himselfe to any congregation, to be that which gives him right, and you oppose Mr. Hooker, and the Congregationall Divines for requiring that joyning to any particular Church before they will Baptize: thus you say; All Children of Christians, as Christians have such right to Baptisme, and in the same Page,1 All Children of Christians, as such, have right to Baptisme. Thus in your answer to me P. 12. you say, a person Excommunicated gives right to his childs Baptisme, because for state be is a Christian, and retains his Baptisme. Now Sir I hope you meane it must be such Christianity as your selfe have said is fit to make a Church-member [I hope you do not meane such Christianity as our question speakes of] by vertue of that say you he is a Member of the Catholike-church. Now Sir if that onely gives a Man right and his Children, and yet a Man have not that, I can see no right he hath at all, it seemes strange to me that Men should be Members of a particular Church and not of the Catholike-Church, of the latter these are not Members, for they have not so much as should give them a right to that Membership, if you will hold to what you have said about the qualifications of the matter of a Church: for only such Christianity makes Men Members of the Catholike-church, which these fall very short of. We use to unwinde a bottome the same way we wound it, if you will winde the bottome thus, a Professor, or Believer (such a one as you say is fitly qualified) as such, have by vertus of his profession onely, a right to his own and Childs Baptisme, then I unwinde it the same way, he that is no• a Professour as you mention, hath no right at all. Such are those our Case speakes of.
- 1Diatri. p. 186.
