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f i PMi Canfmet, i Pec. ?. 2 1. to keep the Ordinance as
J was delivered, i Cor, 11. Ana as to other ^Applications,
,y fprinkling or pouring, thert is not one Word of God
Sr ic With whac Confcicnce then can that be applied ?
mt chat fuch as are baptized, muft be adult and ^ofels
Taich is mcft evident? for without Faith we cannoc
?Ieafe God, Heb. 6, But Repentance and Faith are requilite
in order to Baptifm ; But to thac more may be faid in
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And^'^vvhereas you are plcafed to recite the Waldenfes,
now commonly called Vaudois, who were never tamted
with any Corruption of Antichrift, but certainly the
mod pure and Apoftolicalin the World, who baptize
-Infants, and, generally apply the Element ;'f Baptifm
« fome other way than by dipping, as pouring, fprmk-
Sir^' Thit the WaUenfis, when they were called the
root Msnof Lions, (Hiftoty gives a very good AccountJ
and many Years after, were never tainted or corrupted,
and were for the Baptifm of Believers, notjnfants ;
and
for dipping, not pouring, or fprinkling', affign it if yoit
can, and in what Century, and it (hall be anfwered as the
Matter may require, if God permit, for T doubt you
wrong them : Yet let me qot be too raOi, for whether
the J^Wo^ that might fpring from them, be corrupted, I
know not •, 4nd no great marvel if they be, feeing that ^yffsry
Bdi>y/o» hath corrupted Kat'ms, Kmdnds, andTonguis:
and therefore I would exhort ail good Chriaians to be
fledfaft, that they be not turned out of the good old
Way, but keep to the Primitive Purity of the Gofpel,
without any mixture of Humane Invention, and not to
be ioffU about with every Wind 0} Doanne, b]/ tU flnght cj
Men, and cunrting crajtinefs, whereby they hem wait to decern,
^^Butvvhe^reln Mr. James gives good and wholfome Exhortation
to his Brethren, and fuch' as attend upon his Miiuftrv,
1 hope they will readily comply with the fame
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And
I alfo pray to God that he might really confider, and
walk by the fame Rule, and do as he advifeth others.
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