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A Postscript, to prevent mistakes.
WHat I have writ concerning Infants Baptisme, I acknowledge to be so farre true, that J am undoubtedly perswaded, That Infants Baptisme is not of God; in confirmation whereof, J shall (the Lord assisting, and if I be called thereto) leave the dearest comforts I have i•• this life. And for liberty of conscience to the different wayes of Brethren, whether Independent or Antipaedobaptist, I am undoub∣tedly perswaded: But whether there be liberty to be granted to men of no conscience? Or to loose lived persons? That pretend conscience, when visibly it is onely passion, humor, fancy, or cloaked iniquity, I leave it to inquiry.
The scope of this Treatise, as of the former, is partly to show the cor∣ruptio••s of Infants Baptisme, and partly to show, that no man can be compeld to Christian worship, or to a profession of the Christian Faith, nor punished (so farre as I can see yet) in case of unbelief or misbelief. Let the Reader also further enquire, whether the Magistrate have power to punish grosse idolatry, and blasphemy against God, Christ, the Scrip∣tures, and holinesse, and seducements of persons by corrupt doctrines in fundamentall points, when there is no violation of the publike peace; These being reall do••••ts to me, I will determine nothing on any side. Yet seeing there is nothing that I know of in the New Testament for the same, my conscience for the present incli••es me rather to think, That conservation of peace, equity, sobriety, &c. is the adaequate ob∣ject of the Magistrates power: Yet (knowing there are many instances in the Old Testament, of Magistrates that have used a coercive power herein, and knowing how hard it is for a Christian spirit who loves his God to hear him blasphemed, or to see any man, much more a dear friend, seduced in d••ctrins that being fundamentally erronious will damn their souls) I have some fear of the contrary. This I have added to avoid all retractations, and that I may not be urged by my conscience, to print any recantation, in case I should be mistaken in so weighty a matter.
To conclude, Experience teaching us that every prevailing party,