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ought to forbear reproaching of us without Caufc.
Now
if all this be not a Reproach upon the Baptiflsy Imuft confefs
my fetf to be as ignorant as Mr. James reprefcnts me.
But till he proves all thefe things to be true that he has
charged upon them, it is, and muft be accounted, an a-
bominable Slander*, and the Shame and Reproaches mud
return upon himfelf. And as you have it in Pfd, 7. 14,
l^yi6, Bebfldylktramlethwith Iniquity, and bath conceived,
Mfchief, and brought forth Fal^ood. He hath made a Pit^
and digged it, and is fallen into the Ditch he made. His Mf
chief [haU return upon his own Heady and his violent Dealing
[haU come down upon his own Pate, And this is the Fruit
and Effeft of Back-biting, Slandering, and Evil-furmiiings.
But what, muft no one fpeak with thofe that are troubled
in Mind, faveonlyMr. ^tfw^^, but that theymuft do
him wrong? Nay, if any did R, M. any wrong, in difcourfing
of Baptifm, 'tis probable he was the Man j for
R. M, fhewed his dillike to what he had faid about Sprinkling
of Infants, efleeming it as a filly thing, which Mr.
James put fo much value upon, as if a poor innocent Infant
could not be faved without it, tho Chrift himfelf fairh,
oj fuch is the Kingdom oj Heaven, And when we do, by the
Importunicy of any, difcourfe of the Primitive Infticution,
which was Dipping of Believers, and fuch as were
in trouble of Mind too-, as did the Apoftle Peter, in A^s
2.g6, 37,38. when he had laid open their Sin in crucifying
the Lord of Glory, that was both Lord and Chrift -,
which when thsy heurd, they were pricked in the Heart, and faid,
unto Peter, and the reft of the Afoflles, Men and Brethren^
what [hill we do ^ And Peter faid unto them. Repent and be
baptised, every one of you. Now chefe were prickt to the
Heart, and in trouble of Mind \ and in this Confideration
cry, What [hall we do? And whilft they had this Terror
in their Souls, the ApQftle to give them eafe, direfts
them to repent 'and k baptised, for the Remifm oj their Sins,
And another Inftance you have in the Cafe of the Jaylor,
who in a mighty Agony came in trembling, A^s 16, 29,
50, 31,32* 33*
^ j.^ . , ^ ,.
But it fecms we mud not difcourfe thefe things, left we
be ridiculed by Mr. James. But is not this very hard,
chat if a Perfon that is in trouble of Mind, fhould ask any
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