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The Grounds of
fieur UAmalvy told me , " That indeed they
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were very glad to fee me fo defirous to em-
" brace Chriltianity, but that it was a little too
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foon for me to give an account of my Con-
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verfion : You (hould ( fays he ) converfe with
" ps for three Weeks or a Month, and then we
" will publickly baptize you in our Great Church,
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where a rational Account of your Converfion
ipay be much to the edification of the Con-
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" gregation. But I perceiving their defign, anfwer'd,
" If it be not too foon for you to hear
" me, I am fure it is time for me to fpeak, I
" am thorowly convinced of the truth of the
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Chriftian Keligion, and am not willing the
" initiating Sacrament of Baptifm fhould be long-
" er deferred ^ wherefore if you think it not fit
" to hear me nqw, you mult not take it amifs
" if I make all the halte I can to obtain the blef-
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fing of Baptifm, whereby I may be made a Mem-
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ker of Cbriji, a Child of God, and an Inheritor
" of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then they again
d^fir'd us to withdraw *,
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when we came in,
they adyis'd me to follow their direSlions before
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given, and that they had nothing to add. So
we took our leaves of them •, and in my way
home, I agreed Mr. Innes fhould baptize me,
ivithout taking aqy more notice of the Confi-
But they, miftrufting vyhat we intended, went
to Bnga^^ktLauder (the Governour oiS/i/y/eJ^nd.
told him, that "* rmctMr, Innes is of a different
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Communion from what is eftablifh'd in our
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Country, he ought not to baptife the Convert.
The Brigadier reply 'd, " lamnoBifhop, neither
''will I meddle vi'iih Church- Affairs ^ however I
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will fend for this Vormojdn, and if he willcon-
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fenr, one of you (hall kq)tize him. Accordingly