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THE ANSWER TO HIS Vain Question.
AS for the Two Questions I propounded to the Anabaptists, you tell me, You have answered them, and so you have done with them. But others say, You have answered no∣thing. And I say, If they cannot be answered better than you have done, we will go on to Baptize the Infants of Believing Parents without any scruple.
Now you give me Two other Questions.
I. Quest. Whether God required Baptism, or any other Rite, to be ne∣cessary to the Salvation of Infants?
Answ. What need this Question, since I told you * 1.1 I do not think Baptism to be absolutely necessary, either for Infants, or Adult Per∣sons, as if without it they could not be saved. I named the Scripture to prove it: I gave the Opinion of our Protestants; I add now, some of the Papists, even Lumbard † 1.2 himself is of the same Judgment.
The same was, and is my Opinion concerning Circumcision, which made me wonder you should so often tell your Reader, twice in one pag. 21. [where you tell me, You admire my great blindness] that I have said, If Isaac had died before he had been eight days old, he had not been saved: An abominable falshood, I never had such a thought. You say, pag. 6. You have done me no wrong, in shewing my Opinion: Yes, Mr. Grantham, as much wrong as Falshood can do Truth. If