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

I offered you in my last (for the avoidance of the inconveniences which you feared by a public dispute) to dispatch it before some select company; or else in 2 or 3 Sermons; or (if you would yield to none of this) to write, so be it you would first assure me of a quick dispatch: (because you have not yet ended with those that you have been debating the Cause with these many years,) and also if we might meet and state the question by consent. To which end I offered to come over when you were at leisure, and your Neighbours agreed to send me word when was the fittest time, because you were much from home. But contrary to my expectation, as if all these motions were unreasonable, you still insist upon my doing the work which you cut out for me, and that directly in the way that you prescribe: yea, and you conclude that if I do not this, 1 your people will take it for granted, that I can say no more for ⟨p. 411⟩Paedobaptism then others have done in print. 2. And that they will take that to be sufficiently answered, till it be showed wherein your answers are defective. And can you possibly think that they have ground sufficient for either of these conclusions. If they are men that will be so easily deceived, and will take things for granted so easily and groundlessly, I think it vain for any man to attempt their information, except by teaching them first how to argue more rationally: prejudice and mens interest in them it seems are their guides. But for you that are a Logician, to encourage them to such conclusions, who should teach them only the truth, and the right way of discovering the truth, seems to me a thing to be admired at. I hope they will not judge of all your teaching by this. For the first conclusion, I gave you such a multitude of reasons, why I could not enter upon the tedious endless task of writing (and you excepted not against any one of those reasons) and I offered you so many other shorter ways, that I leave it to any indifferent man to judge whether you and your people can thence conclude, that I can say no more then is said in print already? 2 And how is it possible that they can judiciously and honestly take it for granted that all that is in print is sufficiently answered? 1 When you have not in print answered, or meddled much with half the books that have been written for Paedobaptism? Besides the many in Latin, Mr.