Reply.
Which thing I confess I said, yet take notice, I must, how you let slip (your memories being willfully weak, as I find them very often to be) something more of my then speech, which had you not declined to set down, would have shewed a little more plainly, and yet its prety plain as tis, but hardly quite so plain as the nose on a mans face, how you strike quite besides the iron, stear to a wrong point, and in your following undertaking upon that my Answer, stickle clearly to another purpose then that proposed by me, for my speech was not concern∣••ng this or that particular child only, but of this or that particular child above a∣nother, viz. proof could not be made of this child in its infancy, suppose a belie∣vers, more than of a Heathens, if one of these, and one of those be lookt on together; whereupon also I then added, but you have absented it in your Ac∣count, that if two Infants, viz. a believers, and an unbelievers, as yet un∣known which is which, should be presented to you whereof but one secundum te, (o Sacerdos) may be baptized, It would put you very shrewdly to it to discern of your selves which of the two is the believers Infant, by any more manifestation of the spirit in it than in the other; yea I now tell you over again, that such a pre∣sentment would fumble, and puzzle both the Priest and his whole Parish, to find the Spirit more in one infant then in all; but you have omitted all this lea••t it should do you too much right, and too much lay open the rottenness of your Prin∣ciples, and yet you have set down enough to shew to any clear capacitie how you syllogiz'd besides the business I ingaged you in my speech to speak to, as well as meerly bawbled in the very business you found your selves, yea how odly did you shuffle over the thing you undertook to make Appear, shewing not an inch more of ground to prove it in one or two or three little Infants, then your own Argument affords to prove that tis in all Infants in the world? but this being more proper to be discovered when I meddle with your Argument, therefore I shall let it pass in this place, where my drift is only to take notice how you have either counterfeited, or curtail'd most of that you pretend truly to Account for.