all his arguments are, and may very well conclude, That all those that were baptized by John the Baptist and by Christs Dis∣ciples before his death, were members of Christs Church and true be∣leevers, and that as many of them as came from Jerusalem were members of that church; and they may also from the foregoing ar∣guments gather, That those that came out of Jerusalem to his baptism were in such multitudes (for all Ierusalem went out unto him and were baptized) as they could not all possibly meet in any one place or congregation or a few; & therfore I am confident that all those that shall read both what Mr Knollys and I. S. have fondly and impi∣ously replyed to my arguments, and what by way of answer I have here set down, will adjudge, that such unworthy wranglers and cavillers as these are ought by their severall Churches to be se∣verely censur'd for this their ignorance and impiety. And this shall serve to have replyed to these their exceptions against my first arguments concerning the multitudes baptized by Iohn the Bap∣tist: I shall answer to all their other severall cavills in their due places.I will now therefore go on to shew the increase of beleevers that were made by the miracles and preaching both of Christ and his Apostles, and from the severall places out of the holy Scripture frame my arguments as out of the former to prove the same con∣clusion. John the 4. ver. 1, 2. Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Iesus made and baptized more Disciples then Iohn (though Iesus himselfe baptized not, but his Disciples:) Here observe that where there was a mistake in the relation, there the Evangelist forthwith shews it to rectifie mens understandings; as where it was reported that Christ baptized, he shewes it was a mistake, for his Disciples onely baptized: but where it is said, that Iesus made more Disciples then Iohn, that is taken pro confesso; and it was true; for Iohn himselfe in the 3. chapter ver. 30. had said, He must increase, but I must decrease. Christ therefore made many more Disciples and Beleevers then Iohn, and added dayly to the church, that was then in Jerusalem, such as should be saved; for he came to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and he received all that came to him, John the 6. 37. And as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sonnes of God, even to them that beleeve upon his name, John 1. 12. And these were infinite multi∣tudes, as we shall see by and by. In Iohn the 7. 31. it is said that0