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contributions. 14. Nor the baptizing of infants, 

 save only such whose immediate parents are ac- 

 tually members of their congregational church. 

 15. That they celebrate the Lord's Supper at 

 night, after the other ordinances ended. 16. That 

 it is expedient to sit covered at the Lord's table. 

 17. That it is no more lawful to preach or admi- 

 nister the Sacraments in a black gown than in a 

 white surplice. 18. That they allow men of any 

 calling to prophesy, and exercise their gifts in the 

 congregation. 19. That they may excommuni- 

 cate any magistrate, (yea, the king himself not 

 excepted,) being a member of their church, for 

 any error or fault, either in belief or life. 20. 

 That the magistrate cannot make any permanent 

 laws concerning any thing which God's word hath 

 loft at liberty. 



These twenty points, with sundry others of 

 theirs, and of the Anabaptists, yet grosser than 

 theirs, as I hold them very absurd, false, and dan- 

 gerous, so I verily believe them all to be very 

 clearly justified by the Presbyterian's and Non- 

 conformist's grounds. I therefore heartily wish 

 that the forward Reformers would impartially re- 

 view their own dictates, before they cry down 

 either Brownists, Independents, or even the Ana- 

 baptists themselves, lest they choke them with 

 the Proverb, 3 fed ice, cur a teipsum. If their teeth 

 be set on edge by the sourness of the fruit, why 

 should they complain, or who will pity them, so 

 long as they cherish the root that bred it, and 



