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A Looking-Glass for Anabaptists.
THeir first Tenent is,* 1.1 That Infant-Baptism is a chil∣dish, needless thing;* 1.2 and that none must be baptized til he come to a perfect Age, and can make a confession of his faith; That Infant-Baptism came from the Pope and the Devil.
2. That all Gifted-persons may preach without Or∣dination.
3. That God reveals his will, not onely by the writ∣ten Word, but also by Dreams and* 1.3 Visions; which they beleeve more then the Word. They deny all con∣sequences from Scripture, though never so clear; requi∣ring express,* 1.4 Syllabical Scripture.
4. That the Saints in this life are pure,* 1.5 without spot, and need not use that Petition, Forgive us our sins.
5. No man can with a good conscience exercise the office of a Magistrate under the New Testament.
6. They are rigid Seperatists;* 1.6 they seperate them∣selves from all Reformed Churches.
7. They are tumultuous: They raised tumults in Germany, and filled it with the fire of Sedition, to the loss of six hundred thousand men, saith Alsteed. Their doctrine being seditious,* 1.7 their lives are answerable. God punisheth unmortified, ungodly lives, with base and loose Opinions.
8. They deny Original sin to be in Infants,* 1.8 that so they might overthrow Baptism.
9. They hold Free-will by nature in spiritual things.
10. That a man may have more wives then one.
11. That cloaths discover sin; therefore they being as perfect and pure as Adam in his innocency, ought to go naked.