[lC51 (though they fhould bid us take them in our own fenfe ;) withmuch more which he bath ex- cellently fáid to fuch purpofes, that we thank- fully acknowledge that he hath much helpt for to fòrtifie us againít the guilt of perjury, and falfhood, and prophaning the holy name ofGod, and deceiving our Governours by equivocations and falfè expoltions, and fcandaloufly tempting others to perjury, lying, or fuchother fins. We take an underfanding,ferious(and if it may be pubisck) owning of the Baptifmal Covenant in age to beof fo great moment to the reviring of true Chriftianity and the honour of Baptifm and cure ofAnabaptifrn, that it greatly grieveth us that we muff defpair of its effectual Arad ife, when we meet with few that feem not to app- rove it. The words of a very Learned and. Great Conformift Mr Elderfieldof Baptifm pag. 48a marg. We think worthy our recital. Upon fcore of like reafon (faith he) whereto, " and for fuch after tryal, may have been taken " up in the Chriftian Church, that examination "which did lift the constancy or rather confiftency of thofe that had been taken in young, to " their prefumed grounds; that if they wavered " they might be known and difcharged, or if " they remained confiant, they might by _ im- " pofition ofhands receive what the Commoner "name of that Ceremony did import, of their " faith ( at leaft a fign of ) Confirmation, CC Vafquez hath from F_rafmus (in the Preface to CC his Paraphrafe on the Gofpels) a word ofmolt " wholfom grave and prudent adv,ife, that thofe f ` who were Baptized young, when they begin " to write man, fhould be examined, an ratum r ha6cant
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