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Excerpt from An Answere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme: Intituled a Short Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme, Contracted Into This Syllogisme Block, whereat a! Out diicon? Ented brethren doe tahe offence, {econdly, that int his {mail Treatiie a] the chieieft arguments which they Vfually make againii his iigne, arccompreh ded: {make no doubnbut that both your Grace al Other indifferentreaders, Will eafily par. Don my length. Efpecrally beeaufe my circle vourwas togiueiufi fanfla tionto euery oh ie 'tion, and to leaue nothing vnanfivered, that nught feeme to carry any waight ofreaf with it. Which courle, as 1 held throughout the ewhol Treatifein general], (0 more efpeciallv 1n the lait part. Where our Obie tiions which the Trek atifermalrethfliew to iatiihe; are iuihfied to he too waightyfor (0 (light and incoherent anfwers>astarefitted vuto them. The Treatifet more ouer, not only {omwhat in eve y part of the T1 eatiie bat fully andofrefolued 8c (etled purpofeinthe lai't part maketh g1eat vaunt, that ertherthe Ancient Fathers 1n their times v {ed nor this figne at a] in Baptifme, or if they did, they vied ittofarorher purpofes the we do now orla{ily, ifthey vfed it to any (uch end yeteuen 111 them 1twas never free from finnej anand fuperii'tion. [thoughtitn the1eforea prin eipall part of my duty {omwhat more at large to inhfi 1ppon thefe point', s heir g things in myiudgment not {lightly to be paiie'd ouer. And accord 11g lyhaue declared borh that the Anc1ent fathers vied th1s confignarion of the Croiie 111 Baptifme in their times; Andalfo that they fled it, though to Other pnfpofes toojyet cv en to fueh ends pnrpofes, as our churchx doth at this day: laflly, ! Haue freed (as 1 11-1111) afivell ourchrifiianvfethereof, from (ui'pitio on of [do1 atry, as that vfe which the Auntients had oi'titj from that 1mputatio fiitionmhich vn'iufltly isfuppofed to haue ac. C panied run their times. And thrsitruiir may be (ufiicientexcufe and def nfe'for the proli LC ityofthis anivvere. Asfor the ouerfights and' imperfections therin cotained no iafi Apofloa's'1 gy can be made zonlylmufi fly to your Grace: favour, &good acceptance of the Readers. E could haue wilhed and from my hart! Deede f 1e5 that thelate 6ferenee before his meii ex cellentmaieiiie, {0 much def red expect cd before it came)n1ight haue had that (mare wherof there was hope giuen at the firfi That. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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