be a true Visible Church who do not thus admit Members by Regeneration but by Generation only and we have great reason so to do because they have only Humane Invention for their Foundation and not the Authority of God's Word as I have already shewed in this Treatise to which I refer you 2. He tells his People that we are you see no Churches no Ministers no Christians c. whereas there is nothing of Ministers intended in this Article as all may see that read it but that of Ministers under the Name of Elders or Pastors is contained in the 15th Article But he that writes in haste may repent at leisure 3. He saith We do by that make them no Christians I must confess I know not what his People are but I hope they are men of greater Charity and Moderation than their Priest or else I am sure they are not well qualified Christians But how can he think so from that Article when the design thereof is to shew who are orderly Members of a true visible Church and do therein declare that every one before they are admitted to baptism are to be true penitent Believers and he knows 't is our avowed principle not to admit any other but such only that in the judgment of Charity are so What sorts of Persons he accounts Christians I know not but I do account such to be so that are true penitent Believers and I hope there are many such in the World altho' they do not agree with us about some of the external modes of Worship but this seems to be done on purpose to exasperate the Spirits of his People against us but I hope they will not be so unwise as to mind what such a Clamorous Pen saith against us without better evidence Having cleared our selves from this Abuse I think it highly reasonable to know who it is he owns for Churches and Ministers for those that are rightly constituted according to the Primitive Pattern he is against so that it must be some others Now in Part 1. page 6. Mr. H. saith Whoever will be a Member of the Christian Church must be baptized 2. He tells us That Persons being knit to Christ by a vital union as they are living branches in him and the Elect of God is not a ground for Baptism and yet he confesses that thus only the Elect are in Covenant 3. When he comes to give us an account who are in the visible Covenant which in his Language is visible Church-members he saith page 7. Thus all who profess Christ Tares and Wheat Wise Virgins and Foolish this is the ground of Baptism He is much mistaken about the Parable of the Tares in Mat. 13. to apply it to Visible Church-members for our Lord doth not say the Field is the Church but the field is the World The good Seed are the Children of the Kingdom i. e. the Church and the Tares are the Children of the Wicked One i. e. the Devil the Harvest is the end of this World and the Reapers are the Angels c. Now had I been to plead against some of the cursed persecuting Tyrants of the World or against those bloody persecuting Principles and Practices of your Old Friend John Calvin I would have used this Text for an Argument against them as genuine and proper but it hath no relation to the visible Church for the Tares are the Rabble of the wicked out of the visible Church and such who shall be damned â—ternally for the Angels shall cast them into a Furnace of fire c. But however it seems they will serve Mr. H. to make Church-members of for he saith in the words following They are to be accounted Believers in Covenant and their Children to be baptized and that all Infants of such believing Parents are in the Covenant of Grace and yet in the same page he saith We do not baptize persons as the Elect of God or Infants as the Infants of the Elect for we do not know who belong to the Election of Grace But self-contradictions are common with him I shall make some few Remarks upon it and so proceed to what I intend 1. That if all the unconverted Hypocrites among all that profess the Christian Name be but baptized they are Believers in the Covenant of Grace then by his own Principle they must all be saved for they can never fall totally and finally 2. That if all the Infants of such are in the Covenant of Grace then they also must needs be saved by his Doctrine It 's an easie way to bring Persons into the Covenant of Grace if sprinkling a little cold Water on their Faces will do it 3. That notwithstanding all this it seems he doth not know that any one either of his Church-members or their Infants are in the Covenant of Grace neither doth he baptize them as such for he plainly confesses he doth not know who belongs to the Election of Grace Then it 's as plain that he is not sure that any of his Members or their Infants shall be saved and then they are at charge to maintan him to very little purpose Nay further he doth not know by this confused way of arguing that any of those Churches Ministers or Christians that belong to those visible Churches he talks of are in any more hopes of Salvation than those Heathens he speaks of in another place whom he with Calvin of old condemns to the pit of Hell for no other imaginable Reason than the Decree of God built only upon this Supposition because God will have it so But God will not entrust these rasn Men to be Judges of the World For he hath committed all Judgment to the Son otherwise the poor Anabaptists would be under bad Circumstances I now proceed to prosecute my Design to discover who it is that he intends by Ministers By Ministers he must needs intend those that were before described to be Members viz. Either his carnal Professors or Infants born of them Infants he cannot mean because they are not capable If you would therefore be satisfied he hath told you it is all the Ministers that profess Christ besides those of our way For there lyes the Antithesis For he saith we disown them all so to be but our selves and he owns them or else he hath no reason to be angry with us I hope we are not to understand that he is displeased with us for disowning them whom he disowns To be short The Membership and Ministry of the Presbyterians Episcopal and Romish Church are all built upon the same foundation which will appear if you ask but a few Questions 1 Que. Whether the Presbyterians do not own the Church of England to be a true Church Their Answer must be Yes because we received our Baptism from them and never repeated it and therefore they must be a true Church or else our Baptism is no true Baptism 2 Que. Whether the Presbyterians do not own the Bishops and their
force c. Now John of Leyden had no hand at all in any of these Disturbances neither as the Beginner nor Promoter thereof for as yet he had not been at Munster But upon the 14th of February 1533. which was the year following John of Leyden came thither a strange selfish and opinionative Man who altho' he might stand up for Believers Baptism this we are sure of he differ'd in almost all other points with those of the Baptist Perswasion And after several Disputations he tells us that among other things Bernard Rotman taught John of Leyden this Opinion That it is lawful for Men not only to defend but also to propagate their Religion by Force and Arms. In the end the fore-named Persons with other Lutherans some of which agreed with John of Leyden in the point of Baptism plotted together to make a full Reformation in Religion by force and to make their beginning in Munster And when he hath told us of their opposition they made against the Bishop of Munster and the Papists with him and how they were subdu'd by the Munsterians he concludes thus This is indeed that Tragedy which was acted at Munster which was not contrived and managed by those called Anabaptists but the first rise of it must be charged upon the Lutherans and in particular Bernard Rotman and his Allies But had the Lutherans succeeded in their designed Reformation they would not have been ashamed thereof but would have much gloried in the Action and not have given the Honour of it to the Anabaptists whereupon was formerly made this following Verse in Dutch which I have rendred into English If that a Reformation had Succeeded by this Fact No Anabaptist should have had The Honour of this Act But Luther or some other Man Whom Rotman had ador'd Must then have been advanc'd on high And crowned as a Lord. The like Account may be seen in a Treatise Entituled The profundity of Innocence Printed at Haerlem Anno 1631. Also in the annexed History of the Martyrs before the Introduction with the divers Attestations of Bernard Rotman Godfrey Stralensis Rullius and others the Defenders of Lutheranism at Munster which being found written under their own hands presently after this Action were printed and published c. I could say more about it but this may suffice to convince Mr. H. how shamefully he hath abused us in this matter and therefore I may spare my pains to return answers to all his particular abusive Reflections Having done with the Story of John of Leyden I come now to consider what he saith of the rest of them whose Names he hath affixt They saith he fancying themselves inspired from above most confidently uttered their Heretical blasphemiâ—â— which were 1. That no Infant ought to be baptized 2. None were rightly baptized but such as were dipped These two plain and undeniable Truths this Man hath the confidence to call Heretical Blasphemies You may guess by this what a latitude he allows himself in the exercise of Billingsgate Rhetorick Pray Sir consider Suppose these two were Errors yet they could not be Heresies nor Blasphemies For if they are so you have declared your self for Communion with Hereticks and Blasphemers For in Part 2. page 50. speaking of the particular Baptists you say you can bear with them in these two points and give them the right hand of Fellowship as Brethren if they have no other Errors Let them but be like-minded to me and the Peace and Quiet of the Church will never be interrupted by either of us Now the Apostle saith Titus 3.10 11. Him that is an Heretick after the first and second admonition reject For he that is such is subverted and sinneth being condemned in himself And of Hymeneus and Alexander he saith whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1.20 But if Mr. H. be contrary to himself it 's no wonder to find him so to the blessed Apostle 3ly Mr. H. saith That Magistrates were not to be suffered in the Church No Christian ought be a Magistrate Answ I know not what he means by Magistrates in the Church nor himself neither there is no such thing in Rerum Natura But suppose some Christians have scrupled the lawfulness thereof and were willing to deny themselves therein is this Heresie and Blasphemy 4ly That it was Unlawful to take an Oath Answ Suppose it were so that some of them did scruple it he doth not shew his Loyalty to King Willam by charging it as a blasphemous Heresie for by Act of Parliament it 's made lawful for the People called Quakers to give their Testimony without an Oath 5. That there ought to be no difference between the Clergy and Laity that every one that hath Gifts might preach and administer the Sacraments Answ I fancy this Gentleman doth not know whence the word Clergy is derived if he doth he hath shewed his profound ignorance in this Assertion I shall therefore inform him in what sence it 's used in the New Testament 1 Pet. 5.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rendred by our Translators Heritage and that we may understand the true intent and meaning of the Apostle therein read but the 1 2 and 3. verses together and you will find that he is speaking to the Elders or Ministers and that he is speaking of the Flock of God over which he had made them Overseers and that he applies the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clergy or Heritage to the People distinct from their Ministers As to the second That every one that hath Gifts may preach I answer If he means every one that hath received Gifts from God to fit him for that work it 's certainly true And if he or any other take upon them to preach without a Gift from God to qualifie them for that work they certainly run before they are sent For all Humane Authority without Divine Ability can never qualifie any for that Undertaking But is this a blasphemous Heresie 6ly That there is no Original Sin Answ If there be any sin in the World it must have a beginning If there be a second there must be a first Either he knows not what he talks of or else I affirm there were no such Men in the World neither of our perswasion or any other 7. That Man hath Free-Will Answ This Position was never denyed by any Mortal either Heathen Jew or Christian that I know of All Men agree that Wicked Mens Wills are free to do evil and the Wills of those who are regenerated and sanctified by the Holy Spirit are free to do good To will is present with me Rom. 7.18 8ly That the Father Son and Holy Ghost are not three distinct Persons and in Nature and Essence one God They made every Saint equal with Christ That Christ is not God Answ I believe this to be a false Accusation and shall return it to the Father of Lyes from whence it came 9ly They denyed
that the Souls of the Godly or Wicked went to Heaven or Hell 'till the day of Judgment Answ If there were any such it shewed them to be Men of Weak Judgment but not to be blasphemous Hereticks 10ly That the visible Church consists of those which are perfect and of them only Answ He would have done well to have proved his Assertion and 'till he doth I must return it upon him as a false accusation pick'd up from some of our Lying Adversaries 11ly That Universities Schools and Humane Arts ought not to be Answ As he hath worded it I do not believe it to be true For how they would have got a Livelyhood without being Tradesmen and exercised in Humane Arts I know not And the former I believe to be as true as the latter for 't is the abuse of things and not the use of them that are to be complained of 12ly The Anabaptists called Liberi Fratres denyed the Scriptures to be the Word of God and Singing of Psalms Answ This is certainly a false accusation for our Brethren have in all Ages made that the ground of their Separation from the false Churches that they did not walk according to the Will of God prescribed in the Holy Scriptures but set up the Inventions of Men in the room thereof As for that of Singing of Psalms they never denyed the practice of it according to the Word of God but they did and still do deny the use of singing in Rhime by a prestinted limited form of all the people together Saints and Sinners because they have no Authority for it from the Word of God 13ly That a Man was not tyed to one Wife therefore their Fairy King John Becold had fifteen together Answ Let this go as a false Accusation from whence it came for by John Becold he saith in the next page was meant John of Leyden and I am as well assured as I can be of a thing of this nature that it 's utterly false 14ly That none were to be owned as Christians or Churches of Christ but themselves only Answ If by Christians he means nominally so they always allowed all to be such that professed the Christian Name but if he means real Christians they never owned any to be such but what were so truly in the Judgment of Charity And if by Churches he means true constituted Churches according to Christ's appointment then they could not believe any to be so besides themselves unless they had at the same time believed themselves not to be so But notwithstanding this they have and do believe that many persons are in the Love and Favour of God and in a State of Salvation whilst they hold the Head Christ Jesus altho' they differ from them in some of the external parts of Worship 15. That we must become as little Children in Childish Actions therefore they would play with Rattles ride on Hobby-horses and wallow in their own dung in imitation of Children Answ Can any serious Christian believe such an ill told Story as this or can they think that Mr. H. believes himself Certainly his Hearers must blush at such Folly as this in their Teacher to utter such Nonsensical unheard of Untruths unless they have wholly given up their Reason to the conduct of a blind Guide and pin their Faith as the Romanists do upon their Priests Sleeve I hope the people of Potters Pury have more wit than to give credit to such foolish and improbable stories as these are But to deal plainly with you I believe Mr. H. had got a Rattle in his Head which hath made him so troublesome among his Neighbours And perhaps his playing with Rattles when he was young hath hindred him from a serious Application of himself to any thing but ratling and confused Noises ever since and from thence concludes others to be like himself But 2dly saith he They rid on Hobby-Horses I know not but he might ride on a Hobby-Horse from his late Parochial Church to Potters-Pury which might occasion him to think of a Hobby-Horse ever since But to be serious I rather take him by a figure in Rhetorick to be a Hobby-Horse himself than a solid grave Christian not to say a Minister that he should talk at this Hobby-Horse rate if I may be allowed to use such a figure in speaking according to his Example But 3dly he saith They did wallow in their own Dung in imitation of Children It would tempt a Man to think that either his Mother or Nurse were but ordinary House-wives to suffer him so to wallow in his own Excrements that all the Water in their Countrey could never wash it off but that it should penetrate thro' the pores of his Skin and get such entrance into the secret recesses of his Heart and interior parts and remain there till he wrote these two Treatises against the Baptists and then vomit it forth against them in such a violent and unpresidented manner as to infect all the people that come near him with the stence thereof and then to charge his innocent Neighbours for having stinking breaths when it 's only the infection of the ambient air occasioned by the breaking of his own Gall and vomiting it forth against the Baptists And for his Story I must do by that as by the rest of his Lyes and Slanders against us return them upon himself and his Lying Authors 16. That Luther and the Protestant Ministers were worse than the Pope Carnal Preachers c. with much more of the like kind Answ He would have done well to have told us where these People lived in what Book and page we might have found it But to take all he saith upon his own ipse dixit is more credit than I will give to any Priest upon Earth without other Evidence I will sooner believe a Gentleman that writes about Divinity than a Parson because our Law hath provided that no Man shall be a Witness in a cause wherein himself hath either profit or loss and I doubt Mr. Harrison's Sallary tempts him to prevaricate at this egregious rate either to gain or keep Proselites But I need not wonder at this for we read of such in the Scripture of whom it 's said Their God is their Belly their Glory is in their shame they mind earthly things And we find by woful Experience too much of this verified in some of the Priests of our day But saith he I would not have all these things charged upon our English Anabaptists Answ We have no cause to thank him for that because he knows that all their Neighbours among whom they live could easily confute him But if he could do it it 's evident he would not spare us after he hath poured out all the Malice that Earth and Hell could furnish him with against us He further tells us That in the Space of a few years Germany was filled with Anabaptists Answ I am sure if they were such an Erroneous Wicked People as he
pretends then to be they must be under the greatest Enchantment that ever Mortals were for such multitudes to follow them as he speaks of For none but such who had first abandoned Scripture and Reason with all the Notions that serious Christians ever had about Religion could ever fall in with such Notorious and Nonsensical Practices as he talks of To conclude saith he What shall we say to the Anabaptists that dip and re-baptize themselves The first Anabaptist in Germany did so and one Smith an English Man that was a Member of Mr. Ainsworth's Congregation did so because they had none to do it for them there being no Anabaptists before them Answ If his Story about Fact be no truer than his reason he gives for it I am sure 't is all false and a meer slander But let us consider the matter distinctly 1. Who baptized John the Baptist who was the first Baptizer Did he baptize himself or was he baptized by another If he was not baptized at all then an unbaptized Person did in the beginning of this Ordinance baptize multitudes If he was baptized it must be by himself or some unbaptized Person so that if such a thing were done it were not such a grievous Crime as he pretends But to proceed If this be true that there were none in England before Smith what was the Reason that Mr. Harrison should tells us a story so contradictory to this in page the 3d. of his 2d part That two Ships laden with Anabaptists escaped to England where they have nested ever since endeavouring to propagate Anabaptism Now observe This story is told by him as acted presently upon the business of Munster c. Now if this Man was in Holland in Mr. Ainsworth's time I am sure there was many Churches of Baptists in that Countrey and that they had been before they were a state as the Lords of Holland have testified in their Approbation of that famous Book Entituled The Bloody Theater and in their Lordships Letter therein to the Lords of Switzerland c. And if Smith lived in England then certainly some one of those two Ship Loads of Anabaptists he talks of or their Successors were in being so that he needed not to have baptized himself for want of an Administrator I must therefore return him this for answer that such an improbable self-contradicting Story is not to be credited As to what he saith against the Honourable Collonel Danvers I do affirm that neither Mr. Baxter whose hand was not only against every Man that stood in his way altho' never so worthy of whom the Learned and Judicious Dr. Owen whose Books Mr. Baxter was not worthy to carry after him who had been Vice-Chancellor of Oxford and lived and dyed a Zealous and Honest Independant yet this most Courteous and Civil Gentleman could not escape the virulency of Mr. Baxter's Pen as you may see in Vindiciae Anti-Baxterianae lately published with divers others whom he hath also abused But as hath long been observed of that Man there was in his writings no consistence but Baxter wrote against Richard and Richard against Baxter and therefore what he hath said against Collonel Danvers is not to be valued of a Rush for those Testimonies he hath given will stand good to the shame and reproach of all the Baxterians in the World But I will not trouble my self to answer a Man that will never be answered but refer him to the Collonel's own answer to Mr. Baxter at the end of his History of Christianity where he hath fully confuted all Mr. Baxter's ridiculous and caufeless Clamours CHAP. VII Being an Answer to those Errors which Mr. H. saith we are guilty of THere are six things which Mr. Harrison charges upon us as condemned Heresies and Errors which are as follows 1. The Anabaptists are very Erroneous in the Doctrine of Original Sin 2. That Christ dyed alike for all Men and that all Persons in the World are by the death of Christ put into a capacity of Salvation 3. That God affords all Men universal and sufficient Grace and consequently a power of Free-Will to be saved if they will 4. That a Person truly justified and sanctified and so a Branch in Christ united to him may yet fall away and be eternally damned 5. They disown all Ministers Christians and Churches of Christ to be any Ministers Churches or Christians at all but only such as are gathered in their way that is by Dipping 6. Their employing many weak ignorant Men to preach that have Pride and Confidence enough to think themselves fit to teach others who have yet more need to be taught themselves the very first Principles of Religion As to his first Charge That we are very Erroneous in the Doctrine of Original Sin and that we plainly deny Original Sin and for evidence quotes the Confession of Faith published almost forty years ago and reprinted Anno 1691. and refers us to Articles the 2d and 10th I shall set down the whole Articles that the Reader may see we do own Original Sin notwithstanding his Clamour to the contrary Article 2d That God in the beginning made Man upright and put him into a state and condition of Glory without the least mixture of misery from which he by transgression fell and so came into a miserable and mortal Estate subject unto the first Death Gen. 1.31 Eccles 7.29 Gen. 2.17 and 3.17 18 19. Article 10th That all Children dying in Infancy having not actually transgressed against the Law of God in their Persons are only subject to the first death which comes upon them by the sin of the first Adam and not that any one of them dying in that estate shall suffer for Adam's sin eternal punishment in Hell which is the second death for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 15.22 Mat. 19.14 Not daring to conclude with that uncharitable Opinion of others who tho' they plead much for the bringing of Children into the Visible Church here on Earth by Baptism yet nevertheless by their Doctrine that Christ dyed but for some shut a great part of them out of the Kingdom of Heaven for ever The great Quarrel he hath against this is because we will not allow their scriptureless and uncharitable Notion that Infants of a span long are yelling in Hell and that God made poor little innocent Babes on purpose to damn them as some of the Calvinists affirm Now the reason why we reject this Doctrine is because it 's no where so written in the Holy Scriptures But we own Original Sin as truly and fully as any Calvinist whatsoever But we must be falsly accused only because we reject his blind and ignorant Notion about it and will not send little sucking Babes to Hell by whole-sale as he doth The good Women that are his Hearers can't choose but be mightily comforted with this News from the Pulpit and Press and think it worth all the Money they or their Husbands give him for
and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another But it is true that it was never the intent of his Mind to pardon and save any that would not by Faith and Repentance be converted And in the next page he saith If there be any man that cannot reconcile this truth with the Doctrine of Predestination or the actual damnation of the Wicked that 's his own Ignorance he hath no pretence left to deny or question therefore the truth of the point in hand for this is confirmed by the Oath of God Ezek. 33.11 and therefore must not be distorted to reduce it to other points but doubtful points must rather be reduced to it and certain Truths must be believed to agree with it tho' our shallow Brains do hardly discern the Agreement Thus far Mr. Baxter and now let him rail at him if he pieases for we have given him no occasion but Mr. Baxter hath assigned the ignorance of Mr. Harrison to be the cause But saith Mr. H. The Fourth Error the Anabaptists hold is That a Person truly justified and sanctified and so a branch in Christ united to him may yet fall away and be eternally damned and cites part of the 18th Artitle of the fore-mentioned Confession Answ I will therefore deal impartially and recite the whole Article with the Scriâ—â—â—â—â—… at large and then the World will see that his peeviâ—hness against us is without any just cause Article 18th That such who are true Believers even Branches in Christ the Vine and that in his Account whom he exhorts to abide in him John 15.1 2 3 4 5. I am the true vine and my Father is the Husbandman every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit be purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing or such who have Charity out of a pure heart and of a good Conscience and of Faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 Now the end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure heart and of a good Conscience and of Faith unfeigned may nevertheless for want of Watchfulness swerve and turn aside from the same v. 6 7. From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling desiring to be Teachers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm and become as withered branches cast into the fire and burned John 15. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned But such who add unto their faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. Such shall never fall Ver. 8 9 10. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if ye do those things ye shall never fall 'T is impossible for all the false Christs and false Prophets that are and are to come to deceive such for they are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 I have often wished that all Creeds had been delivered only in the Words of Holy Scripture that it might have prevented those vain Janglings which the World hath been filled with about them and herein I have my Hearts desire in this Article For the Reader may observe that it is delivered in the plain positive and express words of Scripture And yet Behold the fury of this Man's unbridled passion For he hath no sooner recited the Words of the Article but he crys out Abominable Doctrine false dangerous and uncomfortable Doctrine doth this man pretend to be a Gospel-minister and yet dare thus let fly his Rage and Malice against Christ himself and his Blessed Apostles Oh! what a pass is this World come to I shall say no more to such horrid Trifling as this for all he says against us is a stone flung at the head not of the general Anabaptists as he saith but at the head of Christ and his Ambassadours I pray God give him Repentance for it that he may recover himself out of the snare of the Devil who leads him captive at his Will He proceeds in his false Accusations against us and saith that the fifth Error of the Anabaptists is They disown all Ministers Christians and Churches of Christ to be any Ministers Churches or Christians at all but only such as are gathered in their way that is by dipping And for this he quotes part of the 11th Article which is misprinted in his Book the 14th Article I must be forced to recite the whole Article because of his false Representation of it but that is a small thing in his Eyes to belye the Baptists and abuse them for his Book is full of such Railery Article 11th of our Confession of Faith That the right and only way of gathering Churches according to Christ's appointment Mat. 28. 19 23. is first to teach or preach the Gospel Mark 16.15 16. to the Sons and Daughters of Men and then to baptize that is to dip in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit or in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ such only of them as profess Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 2.38 Acts 8.12 Acts 18.8 And as for all such who preach not this Doctrine but instead thereof that Scriptureless thing of Sprinkling of Infants falsly called Baptism whereby the pure Word of God is made of noue effect and the New-Testament way of bringing in Members into the Church by Regeneration cast out when as the Bond-woman and her Son that is to say the Old Testament-way of bringing in Children into the Church by Generation is cast out as saith the Scripture Gal. 4.22 23 24 30. Mat. 3.8 9. All such we utterly deny forasmuch as we are commanded to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of Darkness but rather to reprove them Eph. 5.11 This is the Article he quarrels with and by the Grace of God we will abide by it as the true Way and Order of planting a right Gospel-Church Now pray Observe how this Man doth abuse us 1. In that here is nothing spoken of in this Article but the right way of gathering Churches according to Christ's appointment and we only deny them to