ve. A Preface to the Reader. not perfwaded him that there was fome ftrength in it. He fhe xäes the cruelty, inequality, and injuftice of corn pulfion of conscience, by 29. Arguments : he puts twelve Argu -' merits againft Infant- baptifrn in his. Title, eleven in his book. The ftrength of the 29. he himfelf fufpets, and gives his reafons, in his Poftfcript to his Rejoynder; and I (hall wait and pray, that God may difcover tp him the weakneffe of the other :. He profeflèth himfe4 much 'ffe6ted (as every Chriftianought) with the divifions`pf thee times, and de- fires that it may not be deemed pride,or pwcincfre in him to give his advice: Let Chriftians (faith he) cande f cend one to another;. Let the Presbyter and nicknamed Independent, or Congregatio- nail confent to the nicknamed Anabaptift,or Antipedobaptift,to explodelnfant- Baptifine, &c. This I confeffe were the way to be at quiet in that particular,, though when that were done, we fhould have manifold more and endleffe contro- verfies. Bucer bath long fince obferved, that this is the root from whence Errors of all forts fprout. And may not I ad- vife that thefe Anabaptifts , or Antipxdobaprifts (whether right named,or nick - named) w, Auld receive Infant - Baptifm with the Church of Chrift in fucceffion from the Apoftles, as firmly bottomed in the Scriptures And this root being cút off, all the enormous branches we might hope would wither. The yeere following, vit z 64.5 Mafter Tombes appeared in his Exercitation andExamen,direBeing the laft in fpecial to Mailer Marfhall, and dealing with him in particu- lar, not out of his own choice (as he tells his Reader, Apol. II I.) but out of i cefhry, led thereunto by providence, which muff be fame fecret inftin61, i..:ch as led the milch- kine with the Arke towards Bethjbernejh : Ail reafon would have perfwaded to have made choice ofthofe_ that fofreely had communicated their grounds,in defire of his fatisfa Lion, and fo earneftly defired his for refutation. In this Examen I am upon all occafions taken in, not to receive any fatisfa- A 2 lion,
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