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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30637	Vindiciæ pædo-baptismi, or, A confirmation of an argument lately emitted for infants baptism in a letter to a reverend divine of the Church of England / by R.B. ...	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing B6157A; ESTC R40304	32,736	88

Vindiciae Poedo-Baptismi OR A CONFIRMATION OF AN ARGUMENT Lately Emitted for Infants Baptism IN A LETTER To a Reverend Divine OF The Church of England By R.B. M.D. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Prince's Arms in Ludgate Street 1685. SIR I Was at the Point of making a Resolution before I receiv'd yours of June 9. wholly to neglect that Libellous Disputation as it is called between a Doctor and an Apothecary as a thing that doth not only betray the Unsincerity the Artifices the Impotent Passions of him that wrote It but that to a Prudent and Judicious Reader doth as is said of the Viper carry in its own Bowels Causes that in time will destroy it But seeing you Advise me that it may not be unfit that something be said to it and I know we ought not to have too good an Opinion of the World which generally being malicious and invidious is apter to take impression from a witty Calumny and Detraction than from the soundest and most solid Reasoning and Argument on these and the like considerations I now resolve to Reply But in doing so that I resemble not my Adversary whom not only I but many sober and indifferent Persons do condemn for Impertinence for Falsehood for Bitterness for Peremptoriness and Presumption and for such other Courses as to use the Expression of a Noble Person tend rather to Rumor and impression in the Vulgar sort than to the likelihood of any good Effect For this Reason I am determined in Replying to him to propose unto my self for my Example That wise and Religious Bishop of whom when he returned Answer to a Pamphlet much it seems of a nature like to this before me My Lord Bacon says That he remembred that a Fool must be Answered but not by becoming like unto him and considered the matter which he handled and not the Person with whom he dealt The Points therefore that I will go upon shall be only these First To shew nakedly and truly the Occasion of my engaging with my Adversary in this Controversy Secondly To shew the Unfairness of his Proceeding in the Publick Management of it together with the motives which as I suppose induced him to the Unfairness Thirdly To Note but as it were in passing and by the By the Undue Aspersions which he casts upon me in reference to my Argument together with the Malice is in them Fourthly Briefly again to state the Argument I made and to demonstrate That as it is not a Log as he calls it nor Vncouth so that he is still extreamly Affrighted at it for he dares not touch it and still hath cause to be so As for my Engaging with him the first Occasion as I have said already was purely Accidental and it was drawn on I scarce know how he says by the importunity of the Lady my readiness to comply with it and his unwariness and let it be so But a casual passing undesigned Discourse it was a Discourse that as it did begin so I thought it would have ended in the same place for my part I scarce had one Thought of it afterwards But as for any Insulting upon him of which he now complains and never before that I know of and with which he thinks to bespeak the Affections of his Readers for indeed he needs them and to excuse his own Acerbity he cannot produce one Witness of any I am sure by me I can many even of Persons that were present at the whole Discourse to Attest the Contrary But that he was Insulted upon and that in his own Terms his Sword was as it were broken over his Head and with Triumph you must believe it and yet all the while the Weapons on both sides They were but Words and you can hardly think He lost His THEN who still speaks Swords and Daggers But you will tell me Well All this hitherto was but a Transient Accidental Discourse such as might happen every day when Persons meet who are of different Perswasions and there is an End But how came it afterwards to be so Solemn and so Deliberate as from Words that are but Birds in the Air to become Writings which are as Bears at the Stake Truly as to this one would think by what my Adversary writes and by the Fashion in which he writes in his Epistle and in Pag. 16. 17. that nothing but Resentment on his part of the Insolence and Affront that then was offered Him and a motion of Vanity on mine to Answer his Challenge drew on this second Engagement Little else can be inferred from what he hath written concerning it But indeed on my part it was nothing less than so and nothing less on his neither Pretendedly for all was Conscience nothing but Conscience and enquiry after further Light with which in a Letter that he sent me above a year and half he calls it in his usual figure Sometime after he importuned my Answer and prevailed For who is there but would have believed as then I did that it was Conscience pure Conscience that Acted him if he had received from him as I had a Letter so concernedly Penn'd and with so much movement with so much importunity and so much seeming sincerity and if he knew him not any better than I did at that time for thus his Letter bearing Date Sept. 9. 1681. doth speak in so many words UPon this Occasion Honoured Sir and that Occasion was a motion he made me about Perfecting the Printing and Publishing of a Book of Dr. Worsley's I shall also take the boldness to remind you of a Conference you were pleased sometime since to entertain with my self upon the subject of Infants Baptism when you were pleased to insist upon the Covenant made with Abraham wherein God Promised to be a God to him and to his Seed after Him from whence you Argued that in as much as by Vertue of that Covenant both Abraham and his Seed after him were to receive the Sign of Circumcision and in as much as the Apostle doth expresly tell us that the Blessing of Abraham was to come upon the Gentiles through Jesus Christ it thence followed that the Believing Gentiles and their Posterity also as being the Spiritual Seed of Abraham had a Right to Baptism which is the Seal of the same Covenant under the New Testament Administration Having since that time therefore Revolv'd this Argument of yours in my Thoughts over and over I could not satisfie my Conscience till I could either come to some satisfactory clearness in my own mind concerning the Cogency thereof or otherwise till I had drawn up something or other in writing that might at least be a sufficient Justification unto my Self in the way of my present Practice And after many fervent Addresses and Petitions to Heaven that as I might not mistake my way so that I might not Oppose or neglect any part of the Heavenly Truth I have at length drawn up the Inclosed paper which I do