Philadelphia: or, XL. queries peaceably and inoffensively propounded for the discovery of truth in this question, or case of conscience; whether persons baptized (as themselves call baptism) after a profession of faith, may, or may not, lawfully, and with good conscience, hold communion with such churches, who judg themselves truly baptized, though in infancy, and before such a profession? Together with some few brief touches about infant, and after-baptism. By J.G. a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Whether is it Christian, or meet, for any one person, man, or woman, to bid defiance unto an whole Church or fellowship of Saints being many, and who are otherwise sober, grave, and con∣scientiously faithful in all their walking, onely because they can∣not with a good Conscience say Amen to every notion and con∣ceit, which these persons themselves judg worthy of reverence and honour, and particularly, because they cannot, against the sence, Judgment and practise, as well of all Christian Antiquity, as of all the Reformed Churches (very few, if any, excepted) in the Chri∣stian world, thus spiritually court their private apprehensions about the time and manner of an external Administration; especi∣ally considering, that they neither have, nor can, either shew pre∣cept, example, or any competent ground otherwise, from the Scriptures, to commend these their apprehensions unto the consci∣ence of any man? Or is there any precept, which injoyns baptiz∣ing, or dipping, in the name of Christ, after a baptizing in infan∣cy into this name? Or is there any example in Scripture of any baptized after profession of Faith, who had been baptized, or who judged themselves, and were generally so judged by others, to have been baptized, before? If neither, is it not a clear case, that

here is neither precept, nor example in Scripture, which reacheth home to the case, or which warranteth the practice, of the Chil∣dren of after-Baptism amongst us? And as for any competent ground otherwise to justifie the practice, hath such a thing ever seen the light of the Sun hitherto?