C 245 L. But, is what and es you put info much that no body dericth ? DJ you not teem hereby to intimate unfitslly that all this is de- nied you ? M. z. I have no hope of Concord, bat by disputing ex concef- jls, and improving mens own principles : Do you think I am fo foolifh as toexpert tliatAdverfaries fo ferceíhould change their judgments byany thing that I can fay, if their own intereft or their own principles by inference change them not ?- 2- We want nothing more in reality and prayice than that which is moft granted us in fhadow and general words ; who grants not that we muft obey God before man? And muft love Godabove all, our neighbours as our felves, and muft do as we would be done by ? And mutt bear with and receive the weak, and perfecute none, &c. And if this were done, we were all a- greed. O happy England ifall were granted praEtically and in- deed, which men in general words approve ! Bat if they vane this, and yet will notgrant it, but -leek to ruine them that feek it, are they not unexcufeable ? L. Why beginyouwith the qualifications requiftte to Baptifm, its - ifyou fpake to Infidels M. Becaufe I cannot build without a foundation This is the chief thingnecefrary to our Reformation, that the Church may confift of capableperlons. L. Whyname you Parents and Pro-parents infead of Godfathers and God-mothers ? M. Becaufe it belongs tohim to'covenant'in the Childs name OT behalf, whole will may juftly go as for the Childs will ; and that is they whole he is, and who have the power ofhim, and whom God hath commanded and authorized to this office and who are obliged toeducate him and feek his well-fare : By Pro- parents, I mean fuch as by Adoption or otherwife juftly take the child for theirs ; which when Parents leave them Orphans is ufual. I fay nothing againft Godfathers asfeconds, prefuppofing this much. L. But Iprayyou who (hall be judge whether theprofeffion be Un- derftanding which muff be made by the Adult, or by the. Parent ? By this trickyou will make the Prieft the chief GovernQur of the Church ; anì hefhall keepout whom he pleafes, asfor want-of under- ftanding the words of the Covenant,
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