of cleansing them from the filth of their Hea∣thenism: So that Baptism among the Jews con∣stantly went along with Circumcision till our Saviour's Time.Answ. 1. 'Tis a sign of a bad Cause, when Men are forc'd to try their Wits after such a ridicu∣lous manner, to make out what they have to prove. Pray, was that Custom among the Jews, of Baptizing Infants, when any of the Gentiles were admitted into the Jewish Church, com∣manded of God? Had God given the Jews any such Law or Precept? or was it not one of their own Traditions, who in their own Wisdom, without any Warrant from their great Prophet and Law-giver, devised that Ceremony, possibly to wash away the Filth of Heathenism, as your Predecessors in like manner, without any Com∣mand or Warrant of Jesus Christ, devised the Baptizing of Infants, to wash away the Filth of Original Sin? Doth not our blessed Saviour say, that they had made void the Commandments of God through their Traditions? I do affirm, it was never given them as a Law or Precept by the Great God, nor do you attempt once to prove any such thing; for there is not the least shadow of any such thing in all the Old-Testament; there∣fore it was a meer humane Tradition.2. Can any wise Man, who would do nothing in God's Service without a sufficient Rule or Warrant from the Word of God, think this a good Argument for Infant-Baptism? I must tell you, (as I have some of your Brethren, called, The Athenian Society) That a Popish Tradition is every way as good as a Jewish one. You were better plead thus, The Romish Church, without any Warrant from God's Word, received In∣fant-Baptism as an unwritten Apostolical Tradi∣tion, and in some Councils early.Milevit. Conc.Quicun{que} par∣vulos recentes ab uteris Matrum Baptizandos esse ne∣gat, 0