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T•…•…s a thing scarce credible indeed, to him that hath either seen or heard how much commotion the Testimony of the true Baptism hath been elsewhere entertain∣ed, and attended with, that it should here among so many, and those so quali∣fyed too, i. e. with great prejudice against it as Heresie, and that so long too be attended with so much devotion: and therefore it hath much more to boast of, then such disputations as have been held in some parts of England, which I am loath to shame so as to name, even of old England it self in this juncture of its growing new, but specially of New-England, that is now growing old again apace (as old England did in the Bishops times) in order I hope to its growing new∣er then ever, where (horesco Referens I tremble to relate it) after many incivili∣ties, and much barbarous behavior not long since used toward them, this was ad∣ded above all that three witnesses to this truth were shut up in prison, and not only so, but (according to M•…•… Cottons Bloody tenet of persecution for conscience, which even he himself abhorred in the Bishops) meerly for no other fault then that of the Apostles at Phillippi, Act. 16. instead of a disputation with them which was pretended to be desired, but never intended to be performed by the Anti-Baptists, the Baptists had a dispensation granted them by the Court at Boston, either to pay one five, one twenty, another thirty pound, or to be well whipt, which they pleased, upon refusing of which fine to be paid, or by him∣self, or by others for him, who would as well have set him free at their own charge (if he had accepted it) as they did the others, one of the three sub∣mitting patiently to their cruelty in order to his being restored in the spirit of meek∣ness (aliâs Romish mercilessness towards that Romish childishness of Infant ran∣tism)