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Dr. Rufd. Is not that the fame which I fiy yon
know you allowed there was a Ccmmand for the thing
bur not for ths'SubjeSs. And therefore I have anfwereif
rightly, and your Oppofition is unreafonable.
Mr. Leigh. We muft all confefs that Jefus Chrift gave Commifiion
to baptize Believers when at the age of Maturity.
Such as were before Jews and Greeks, and Newly. believing in
the Lord Jefus, were thereupon to be baptized ; but afterwards
the Children of thofe Believers.
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Dr Rujfel It's faid in Mark i6. 1 6. He that helievcth and is
haptized jhall be favsd. fiere i^ not one Word of Infers.
Mr. Leigh And it follows, He that believeth not^ Jhall h
darmCd. Now if Believing be previous to Haptifm, hy the
fame Way of Arguing it muft be neceflfary to Salvation ; and
io you muft fay, Tliat all not believing are danln*d, and fo aH
Infsnr*: are damned.
Dr Rnffgl. This is a Non-fequitur : For Infants are not at all
inten'^'cd in this Commiflion, as I have already ihewed you,
and as Mr John Calvin doth alfo affirm.
B'lr f hope Mr, Leigh, will allow our Saviour's Words to be
True ; Trtat all thole his Apoftles preached to, according to
his Commiffion, if they did not believe, they fhould be damned.
For of fuch it is faid, Hethatbelieveth not, is condemned
already, becaufe he hath not believed in the Name of the only be*
gotten Son of God. *
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But as touching Infants, I am far from believing that God
hath decreed them (as fuch^ to eternal Damnation. I will rather
believe that all Infants dying in their Infancy are elefted
than conclude that any of them are damned. And I fuppofi
you do not know the contrary. If you do, I defire you
would tell the People fo.
Mr. Leigh. What do you put that upon us for ?
Dr. Kaffcl. Becaufe I think it's reafonable you ftiould tell the
People what your Opiijion is, feeing you have ftaited it; fot
you jee I have given my Opinion freely about it ; and if you
think other wife, pray tell the People fo.
For then I conceive that your baptizing their Infants will
do them no good ; for you cannot aker the Decrees of Hea*
vtn : Or if you believe, ss the Papifts do, that Grace is conveyed
to them barely by the Aft done, notwithftanding the
Children are wholly pafliv e in it, pray tell us (6,
Mr. Leigh refufed to anlwer to the Former,
Anfwer ro the Latter : No, we deny that.
but gave this
Here Mr. John {Vtlliamsj baptiz d Miniftei^ offered his Arguments,
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