The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…

Reformation, 'tis evident, is a hard and ••• ficult Work, and ever was; 'tis no easy th••g to restore lost Ordinances, I mean, such as have for many Years been neglected, and strangely corrupted, through that Antichristian Darkness that hath for so many Ages and Generations overspread the Earth, which is manifest […] respect of Baptism, and Imposition of Hands upon Baptized Believers (as such.) One would even stand and wonder to see how many godly, learned, and good Men, should be so dark as to maintain, and that resolutely too, that corrupt Practice of Pedo-Baptism, (or rather Rantism) considering it hath not the least footing in the Word of God, but is so directly contrary to the Nature and Constitution of a Gospel-Church, and Administration of New-Testament-Ordinances. But let not those of our own Persuasion much longer wonder at this, since some of them seem as blind and dark in another Blessed Truth, and Sacred Ordinance of the ever glorious God, that hardly was ever opposed as by them; but hath been generally owned in every Age of the Church, and that by the most ⟨p. 3⟩godly and enlightened Christians from the beginning of the World till of late days; and not now neither, but by some People of the Baptized Way, and others who are against all Ordinances. I must confess no Man (through the Grace of God) can be better satisfied touching the Truth of Baptism, as practised by my Brethren, than I am, and of the true Order and Constitution of our Churches, and soundness of their Faith in all the Fundamentals of Religion; yet do I not think we have arrived to such a perfection of Knowledge of all practical Truths, that we need not enquire after any thing which we may not yet have understanding in.

Reformation, 'tis evident, is a hard and ••• ficult Work, and ever was; 'tis no easy th••g to restore lost Ordinances, I mean, such as have for many Years been neglected, and strangely corrupted, through that Antichristian Darkness that hath for so many Ages and Generations overspread the Earth, which is manifest 〈…〉 respect of Baptism, and Imposition of Hands upon Baptized Believers (as such.) One would even stand and wonder to see how many godly, learned, and good Men, should be so dark as to maintain, and that resolutely too, that corrupt Practice of Pedo-Baptism, (or rather Rantism) considering it hath not the least footing in the Word of God, but is so directly contrary to the Nature and Constitution of a Gospel-Church, and Administration of New-Testament-Ordinances. But let not those of our own Perswasion much longer wonder at this, since some of them seem as blind and dark in another Blessed Truth, and Sacred Ordinance of the ever glorious God, that hardly was ever opposed as by them; but hath been generally owned in every Age of the Church, and that by the most