Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the disputeLetters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute

For preaching, sith it belongs to you to maintain the divine Institution of Infant-baptism, I shall be willing to examine what you say, when you have said what you think good for Infant baptism, if I may obtain a copy of your Sermon, which you will own, and if it satisfy me I shall confess it; if not, in a Sermon in the same place, or else where, I shall give a distinct and plain answer to it.

For preaching, sith it belongs to you to maintain the divine Institution of Infant-baptism, I shall be willing to examine what you say, when you have said what you think good for Infant baptism, if I may obtain a copy of your Sermon, which you will own, and if it satisfie me I shall confess it; if not, in a Sermon in the same place, or else where, I shall give a distinct and plain answer to it.

For writing (which I like best) I desire not to put you to any tedious or voluminous way, but that in the most compendious way of Syllogisms, yea, if it may be in one Medium you put the strength of all that you can say. For short dispatch you may being Disputant or ⟨p. 408⟩Opponent, assure your self my answer will be as short as your argument will permit, and the more you contract keeping to the point, the more satisfactory it will be.

If you conceive this point of less moment, others conceive otherwise: Though Justification, Redemption, &c. be of greater moment, yet not all you discourse about them. If it were, yet this being of frequent practice needs perhaps resolution before other points that come not into so frequent use. You say in your Aphorisms, pag. 149. the neglect of Sacraments is a breach of the second Commandment. If so, how can a godly man safely live in neglect of Baptism? The enquiry after it is ill judged a straining at a Gnat and swallowing a Camel, as our Saviour meant,