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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76088	The storming of the Anabaptists garrisons, vvith a brief discovery of the weaknesse of the same, & of the inconsiderableness of the sconces and forts of all the other sectaries, in despight and contempt of all the which, any Christian souldier may safely march to Heaven, without the least danger; ... In a word, in the insuing discourse, the vanity of all novell opinions is discovered, the ignorance of all the which can no way hinder any mans happinesse: and the baptisme of little children borne of Christian parents, whether Iewes or Gentiles, is proved by the word of God to be lawfull, ... / By Iohn Bastwick, Doctor in Physick.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Smart, Richard, fl. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1071; Thomason E390_23; ESTC R201542	43,659	52

more some Independents have acknowledged that they were convinced by reading of your Booke which I conceive to be one of the principallest causes that makes them so much maligne you and hinder the publishing of it And others of them upon the reading of your booke have writ out of the Countrey to some of their fraternity here in London telling th●m that they had read your Booke saying moreover that they could witnesse that you had writ nothing of them and their practices but what they could witnesse to be true and therefore earnestly exhorted them to mend their manners and carry themselves so as beseemed the Gospell all this can bee abundantly proved which induces me to believe that if that Book were but knowne amongst the people they would either speedily be undeceived if they were seduced or bee preserved from the errours of the times All that I have now to say unto you besides my good wishes is this You have had great experience of Gods love unto you who hath hitherto preserved you and delivered you out of so many dangers and from so many deaths and from the fury of so many enemies and preserved you in the truth who with all their fury rage and reproches have never in any thing beene dismayed I shall therefore earnestly desire you to consider that you serve the same master still who is the same All sufficient Jehovah be constant therefore to maintaine his cause and truth to the death and be not discouraged with any thing any enemy can doe unto you which words I utter not as in the least doubting of your resolutions but out of my hearty desire of your honour and happinesse which your s●ability and constancy will crowne with a L●●rell of i●mortall praises manger all enemies I pray sir faile no● with the s●●nest to let me receive th●se Arguments I desire and to heare of your health and happinesse and the welfare of all your● and you shall ●●ch 〈◊〉 and rejoyce 〈◊〉 who is Sir Your assured Friend in What I may in the Lords quarrell RICHARD SMART From my house in Scalding Alley at the Hand and Pen this 25 of March 1647. To his Christian friend Mr. Richard Smart at his house in Scalding Alley at the hand and Pen. SIR IF in the very day of the Apostles when truth was so prevalently and powerfully taught and confirmed with so many wonders and Miracles errours did then so abound that Saint in Iohn in his Epistle to the elect Lady greatly rejoyced to find any walking in the truth It is now no wonder that in these latter and perilous times so many revolt from the same and embrace errors and therefore it is exceeding matter of joy to all the lovers of the truth to meet with any that continue constantly in the same and truly it doth much rejoyce me to find you against so many temptations persevering in the love of it which will ever be for your honour here and reall comfort in life and death For your good opinion of me and of the Book I sent you and for your kind acceptance of the same I returne you many thankes and withall for your farther satisfaction I doe here in the presence of the great God that shall judge both quick and dead professe unto you that I never was in my judgement and opinion an Anabaptist Brownist Independent or any Sectary And as I have formerly in almost all my bookes manifested to the world that I differ'd in nothing from the doctrine of the Protestant reformed Churches beyond the Seas as those of France Germany and the Netherlands in any dominative or Principle point of Religion saving in the doctrine of the Sabbath or Lords day which in my judgement ought wholly to be employed and kept both privately and publickly in all duties of piety and charity and that with as much care diligence and reverence as ever it was amongst the Jewes saving I say in this point only I speake it again in the presence of God I never differ'd in any thing concerning faith or any fundamentall point of doctrine from any of those Churches nor never approved of any separation from Gods ordinances celebrated in them or allowed of the leaving of their publick Assemblies and therefore whatsoever either the Anabaptists or any of the Sectaries have formerly published or doe now speak of me intimating that I was once one of them it is a meere calumny and foule reproach and what I now say I shall be able to prove by a cloude of witnesses and those of their own party who have formerly been of my acquaintance and familiarly intimate with me who are ready as they have lately told me to witnesse for me that I was ever against their severall separations from any of Gods ordinances in our publick Assemblies here in England and that in the worst times and therefore the Anabaptists and Sectaries do use me very injuriously to perswade their followers or any others that I was once one of them But before I come to declare my opinion concerning the baptisme of Children of Christian Parents which is my theame at this time and to prove that there is very good warrant for it in the word of God I thinke it fit in this place to declare my judgement which you desired in your Letter I would doe concerning all Separatists whether Papists or Sectaries which is this that I am so farre from favouring their wayes especially in these times of our so happy begun reformation that I am able by Gods blessed assistance ever to make it good that whatsoever either of them by what names soever they are called hold or beleeve concerning Christian religion more then what is beleeved and embraced in the Protestant reformed Churches that it is either blasphemous impious or at least superfluous so that a man may dy either in the ignorance or contempt of it and yet goe safely to heaven And as for the vanity impiety and falsity of all the popish tenents I have sufficiently declared it in many Books and in that my discourse betweene me and Mr. Montayne called the Church of Englands true Church and for all the severall opinions of the Sectaries wherein they differ from the Protestant reformed Churches they are if not as impious yet as vaine and needlesse as those of the Papists so that a man may as safely goe to heaven without the knowledge of them as either the glorious Prophets or blessed Apostles who knew none of them and yet were all saved for nothing keeps men out of heaven but sinne and the transgression of the law of God Now I desire any rationall creature to declare unto me what law of God I or any man transgresse and what sin I commit if I beleeve and practice no more then the written word of God hath taught me to beleeve and doe and if I die in the ignorance of Independency Anabaptisme Antinomianisme c. yea let any of them shew me what sin I commit in rejecting