[ 170 ) ( now near feventy four) and never knew one Godfather Educate the Child, ( fave the Parent that is forbidden to be GodfatherJ or that it was ever expected from him by the Parents. It feems the Poor never came to .Bifhop Guning as they have done to me, to beg Money to pay the Cu- ,rate and Clerk, and to hire fome poor ·Man to be Godfather, or elfetheir Children cannot ' be Bap· tized: So that he that can get but Twelve pence a day by bard labour, may get on the Sunday Twelve pence for fianding an hour at the Font as Godfather, and perhaps half a Crown; and fo it's become a Trade, of fuch as never mean·to fee the Child again. Though none but the poor thus hire Promifers, yet the Nation commouly never give them power to E_ducate their Children. And thus while the Bifhop firfi: mufi: force us to profefs the certain undoubted Salvation of dying Bapt,ized lnfants without exception he comes himfelf with an exception which fhuts out all that ever 1knew conformably Baptized in all my Life; and mak7 eth the common BaptifJ.ill of the Land tb be perfi– dioufnefs :' The Anabaptifts will not be convert· ed by futh DoCtors. · And it's known howmuch thefe Men are for tying us to deliver no DoEl-rine f rom qny Text b.ut what the Fathers have thence gathered: And A u· !J,Ufline de Bapti[. Cont. Donat. ii. l. c. II, I2· at large expoundeth this ftngle Text of t~e Dr. by Simon's cafe, and fuppofing the Donaufis to fay tbat Simon was pardoned in Bapcifm and loft it by ·his ne~'t fin, he faith, c. I 2. [ !32.uid Ji ad ipfum bapti[mum.fiilm dc~eJ!it ? Dimiffa funt ei peccat~, .an nonfun• dimijfa ? Eligant q~tod volunt - - fi dtmiffa dixerint, quomodo ergo fpiritusfanctm difi:iplin£ ejfu- · . -£Crit 'I /
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