Excerpt from The Duty, Circumstances and Benefits of Baptism: Determined by EvidenceThere may be fome matters of opis nion, wherein a Man may fafely fufpend his judgement, if he finds them not clearly revealed, or too deep for his underf'tanding or leifure; and may find no difs ficulties in acting as a good Chrit'tian, though he be not fully fatisfied about the meaning of fome fuch propofitions. But in Baptifm, which is a point of Praetice, the cafe is otherwife; it is a thing which either ought to be prae tifed, or it ought not: either Infants {hould be baptized, or it (hould be delay'd till they grow up: the method alfo either ought to be by dipping or not. Many fuch cafes might be put, Wherein a man who is not fatisfied which is right, will be in a great fifaits if a cafe happens wherein he mufi aet either one way or other. It was chiey on this account that I examined the matter; and in the'fearch I aim'd to keep clear of all prejudice, which like an Ignis fatuus is fo apt to mie'ad men afk'd of God affifiance in my enquiry, and endeavour'd to conform my opinion to the evidence, not to reconcile the evidence to my a 2 Opinion.Iv opinion. How far I have fucceeded in the fearch of truth, they who are willing to lay afide their prejudices alfo are the bei't'judges. Mean while I write for no party, but com mend and cenfure all, according as they feem to me to follow or oppofe what is right.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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