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Lastly, Take what a Worthy and Learned Author hath said in Confutation of this foolish and absurd Argument for Pedo baptism, 'tis Sir Norton Knatchbul, Kt. and Baronet. The Thing, saith he, is uncertain, that it cannot be said of the R•bbins, that there were not several among them who differed very much about this matter; for Rabbi Eleazar expressly contradicts Rabbi Joshua, who was the first that I know of who asserted this sort of Baptism among the Jews; for Rabbi Eliezar who was Contemporary with Rabbi Joshua, if he did not live before him, asserts that a Proselyte Circumcised, and not Baptized, was a true Proselyte: for so we read of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that they were Circumcised, but not Baptized. But Rabbi Joshua affirms, that he who was Baptized, not he that was Circumcised, was a true Proselyte. To whom shall I give Credit, to Eliezar who asserts what the Scripture confirms, or to Joshua who a•ms what is no where to be found in Scripture? But the Rabbins upheld Joshua's Side, and what Wonder was it? For it made for their Business; that is, for the Honour of the Jewish Religion, that the Christians should borrow their Ceremonies from them. But when I see Men of great Learning in these Times fetching the Foundations of Truth from the Rabbins, I cannot but he•ate a little: For whence was the Talmud sent, as they are the Words of Buxtors, in his Synagoga Judaica, that we should give Credit thereto, that from thence we should believe that the Law of Moses either can or ought to be understood? Much less the Gospel, to which they were professed Enemies. For the Talmud is called a Labyrinth of Errors, and the Foundation of Jewish Fables; it was brought to Perfection, and held for authentic five hundred Years after Christ: Therefore it is unreasonable ⟨p. 163⟩to rest upon the Testimony of it. And that which moves me most, Josephus (to omit all the Fathers that lived before the Talmud was finished) who was a Jew, and a Contemporary with Rabbi Eliezar, who also wrote in particular of the Rites, Customs and Acts of the Jews, is altogether silent in this Matter. So that it is an Argument to me, next to a Demonstration, that two such Eminent Persons, both Jews, and living at the same Time, the one should positively deny, and the other make no mention of Baptism among the Jews.

Lastly, Take what a VVorthy and Learned Author hath said in Confutation of this foolish and absurd Argument for Pedo bptism, 'tis Sir Norton Knatchbul, Kt. and Baronet. The Thing, saith he, is uncertain, that it cannot be said of the Rbbins, that there were not several among them who differed very much about this matter; for Rabbi Elizar expresly contradicts Rabbi Joshua, who was the first that I know of who asserted this sort of Baptism among the Jews; for Rabbi Eliezar who was Contemporary with Rabi Joshua, if he did not live before him, asserts that a Proselyte Circumcised, and not Baptized, was a true Proselyte: for so we read of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that they were Circumcised, but not Baptized. But Rabbi Joshua affirms, that he who was Baptized, not he that was Circumcised, was a true Proselyte. To whom shall I give Credit, to Eliezar who asserts what the Scripture confirms, or to Joshua who ams what is no where to be found in Scripture? But the Rabbins upheld Joshua's Side, and what Wonder was it? For it made for their Business; that is, for the Honour of the Jewish Religion, that the Christians should borrow their Ceremonies from them. But when I see Men of great Learning in these Times fetching the Foundations of Truth from the Rabbins, I cannot but heate a little: For whence was the Talmud sent, as they are the Words of Buxtors, in his Synagoga Judaica, that we should give Credit thereto, that from thence we should believe that the Law of Moses either can or ought to be understood? Much less the Gospel, to which they were profess'd Enemies. For the Talmud is called a Labyrinth of Errors, and the Foundation of Jewish Fables; it was brought to Perfection, and held for authentick five hundred Years after Christ: Therefore it is unreasonable