The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…

It seems we differ in Doctrine, though we subscribe the same Articles we earnestly desire you distinctly to tell us, What is the Infants title: to Baptism, if it be not to be found in the Parent? Assign it, and prove it when you have done, as well as we prove their right as they are (the seed of Believers dedicated by them to God), and then we promise to consent: Its strange to us to hear so much of the Churches Primitive practice, where so little evidence of it is produced, Aug. ep. 23. talketh not of Primitive practice: Ab initio non fuit sic; Was it so in the Apostles days? And afterwards you prove not that it was the judgment of the Catholic Church, that bare Sponsors instead of Parents. Pro-parents or Owners of the Children, might procure to the Children of all Infidels a title to Baptism, and its benefits. Such Susceptors as became the Owners or Adopters of the Children, are to be distinguished from those that pro forma stand by for an hour during the Baptizing of the Children, and ever after leave them to their Parents: who as they have the natural interest in them, and power of their disposal, and the Education of them, so are fittest to covenant in their names.