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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

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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

therefore now humbly offer to your serious consideration with this Earnest desire that if after all that I have now said you shall yet Judge me to be under a mistake in the Present Point in reference to my Opinion about the spirituall seed of Abraham that you will please at least to suggest to me what you think may be substantially Objected by way of opposition thereunto I hope dear Sir that it is the Investigation of Truth that both you and my self also do aim at which should be Dearer to us than all the World besides and therefore if notwithstanding what I have now offered you shall still apprehend that I have mist it in my present Search and Reasonings concerning it I beseech you to endeavour my Correction and better Information therein I have indeed drawn up the Enclosed Paper by way of Postscript to a large Discourse in Reference to Infant Baptism which I had before Compiled wherein I do consider and give answer to all the most material Arguments which are usually Insisted on for the Justification of the Practice of Infant Baptism And therefore also in the Present Paper you will perceive that I do touch upon some other Arguments than what you were pleased to Insist upon in the formention'd Conference that I had with you upon this subject I know dear Sir that you 'll not be Offended with me for making thus bold with you and that you will not Reject what may be substantialy offered for the discovery of Truth though by never so mean a Hand Now that God would be pleased at length to send forth his Light and his Truth that all that Love and fear him may Serve and Worship him with one heart and with one shoulder according to the Primitve Pattern is the Earnest desire of your most Affectionate and Humble Servant P C. Now Sir is there in this whole Letter the least Insinuation of any Resentment in him the least of any Insulting over him or Abuse put upon him in that which here himself calls but a Conference the softest word in the world If he had any Resentment at that time how often hath the Sun gone down on his Wrath How deeplv was it dissembled how subtilly masked over with the fair Pretences of Conscience of Enquiry after further Light and of Longing for Satisfaction and All how faced with seeking of God! This Letter was that which drew me on in this business which being a Business of Conscience as I then believed it and who in my Circumstances but would I pursued it in my first Reply with all the Fairness and Candor imaginable But was Answer'd with so much Presumption Asperity and Arrogance that I must have been as void of Sence as He of Civillity and Sincerity not to have seen at last though somewhat of the latest that it was not Conscience and a willingness of Receiving or of Giving further Light as was Pretended but Rooted Malice and a Lust of Revenge that inspir'd him Conscience was but the Bait the Hook was uuder Let him Print his First Second and Third Answers as he sent them to me and then let the World judge if it went any less And this Reminds me of the second Head on which I am to Discourse to you and that is of the unfairness of his Proceeding in the Publick management of this business and of the Motives that as I suppose Induced him to this unfairness His unfairness is that when it was but Letters only that had been Written by him to me on this Occasion and Letters only that are Referred to by me in those I Published as also seeing I wrote not any but on this urgent Importunity and when I Printed what I wrote I was so Candid so Just and so exact that in the Publication which I made as I Omitted nothing so I added nothing but what I put a Mark upon that all the world might note it I say the unfairness is that for all this this seeker of Truth and one who as himself tells us dayly prayeth for the desireable Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace that he instead of Publishing the Letters which Indeed he sent and as he sent them should Print a Base and Fictious Disputation that never was in Reallity as the Sum of all the Letters that went between us Where as indeed he but presents the World with Pieces and Patches both of his own Letters and of mine and withal in those Patches he so Industriously Disguises Alters and abuses the Argument I manage that t is as impossibly to see it in his Libel in its true Proportions and Figure as to believe that Base and Barbarous Methods such as these he uses are Proper means either of Attaining unto the Bond of Peace or unto the Vnity of the Spirt Thus four Letters which are the Main ones are suppressed the first of which I even now repeated This is his unfairness The true Motives why he did not Publish his Three first Responsory Letters his Second Third and Fourth as well as his Fifth and Sixth for why he supppessed the First of all that was sent is Evident enough from what hath been declar'd already may Probably be presum'd to be these following First He did it to hide from the Observation of his Readers the Just causes I had of making those Complaints I did in my Letters of his unfairness Rudeness and Vanity of his bold Assertions without Proofs his Cunning Evasions instead of direct Answers his always partial and often false pretended Repetitions and his Triumphs before the Victory c. which undue Proceeding used without any provocation or any Examaple by me and that too by a man that breathed nothing but Conscience but desire of Satisfaction and seeking of Light in the business and all this after seeking of God should it be apparent in his Letters as undoubtedly it is and I believe he is Conscious it is as it would have had an aspect not very pleasing unto most others so possibly it might awaken in some of his own party that mean well and are truly Conscientious very strange apprehensions not only of his humor carriage and conduct but even of the main of his Cause This likely he foresaw Secondly He chose to act his part by way of a Dialogue rather than of Letters to hide from the Eyes of his own Party the Strength and Cogency of my Argument which being Harmonical the force and power of it lyes in the Joynts of it and in the Reference of its parts so that either by the Dividing and Mangling of the parts or by the Hudling and Confounding of them together both which at times he hath done in his Dispute the force thereof is unseen and is lost And indeed as he hath managed the business he might well hope to perswade his own Party whose hands likely would be as full of his Books as empty of mine that I had said nothing in my Argument but what he there Repeats of it