' 1b71 agree for, and that not as a thing indiffèrent, but fo necefpary, cannot yet be obtained though we perifh. Dead Images of all good things, is but the laft and moft effe tt al means of deftroying the life and real good : Dead fliers and Images ofgood, are Hypocrite ; iïnceritÿ is reality, fez - rioufnefs and life. We take our Paptifin to be our Chrittening, or the fumme of the Chriitian Religion : And it is bit for men to de th4t fe- rioPfly at Age, which they did in Infancy by 'others authorized (or others for them) which is the Converfion which we daily preach : And it grieveth us to fee what multitudes, when aged, never ferioufly think either what they did or re- ceived in their Infancy ; and howmany hare fuch a life as they have vowed, and yet think that they ftand to their Baptifiñal Covenant. And till the Paftors of the Church make a ferious work of it, ro bring all their Parifhes to a ferious underffianding and confderation of their Baptifm, and a ferious owning it, and renewing of that Covenant, we cannot hope that the people will be ferious Chriftians ; or that men will not think that ferions Anabaptifts are better than Hypo- crites that contemn their Baptifm. SECT. IIA The Second Part OftheMatter ofConformity. THE Eirft Part de feo, being contained the Canonical Subfcription, and the Decla- 'ration, bath been opened : The Second Part is the
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