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Obj. HOw comes it to passe that these learned men continue in such errours?
Ans. Our Saviour giveth a reason for the continuance of* 1.1 errours, viz. in not searching the Scriptures, and comparing their tenents with them; and this is the only reason of the errours of the times, for men look not so much upon the Scriptures, as up∣on them whom they terme Orthodoxall Divines; instance in this particular of Baptisme, it being an antient custome of many hun∣dred yeares continuance, and yet tollerated by the Orthodoxall men as aforesaid; therefore (without any further search of the radex, or first institution of it) they possitively conclude, that it must be so of necessity, although (in the truth of the assertion) it is no way agreeable to the will and appointment of Jesus Christ; and thus have the rude multitudes been deluded by their Ortho∣doxall men for many ages, who have purposely, and knowingly kept the people in this blinde obedience, for their owne particu∣lar advantage.