William Royo's Dialoguü betweeu a christuu F.itUer aml his stubboru Soii. 459 



jind ohurclie. wliicbe uro buwuudo tu uorisslie aud brynge theyia 

 vp, as iiienibres consecrate only vntu the gloiy of gud. wherby 

 die childicn shall have grett occasion to live honcstlj aud iu 

 the feare of god, and eiders obcdieuce. For once perceav^-nge 

 theym selves tlirough the tender luercy of Christ to be pukle out 

 of the wilde olyve tre, and to be grast ' in the natural Kom xj. 

 olyve tre, they schall agret deale the feruenter eudever theyni 

 selves every where to brynge forthe frute acceptable to [fol, oo".] 

 god, and pleasauut to manne, aud mekliar heare their eiders 

 admonisshment, and correcciou, when they saye, dere chylde 

 thou arte christened, and oftered vp vnto the lorde, renieiuber 

 tlierefore that thou arte accouipted of the nombre of goddis 

 e'hoseu. wherefore se that thou leadc a godly lyfe. Thus and 

 thus oughtest thou to do. And this or this to flye. But yf he 

 offende, and after soche warnynge and adnionisshment there 

 folowe uone amendmeut. then ought he to be separate ma. xviij. 

 and excluded, by the lordis last sopper from the boddy of 

 christis churche. So. Divers there are which saye that the 

 baptem of yonge babes is very noyous, and an occasion to 

 niany, evill to live. Fa. Do what thou canst, yet shalt thou 

 never be able to satisfye soche people. Though we deferre the 

 baptem of a childe vntill he come to age of discresion (as they 

 will have) yet is he never the bettcr. For he beynge then 

 never so roted in vnbelefe, maye for a season dissemble a 

 fayned belefe, and vnder soche a pretence, he beynge an in- 

 fecte wedder, cople himsilfe among the pure flocke of Christis 

 shepe, to their gret hyndraunce aud trouble. F'or it shulde be 

 laufull for no manne to denye baptem to eny persone, howe 

 wicked so ev- [fol. 35\] er he were, yf he once with tonge 

 name hyme silfe a Christen manne. So. Is not this to take 

 the name of god iu vayne, when the baptiscr sayeth, I bap- 

 tyse the in the name etc.? Fath. No. But he taketh the name 

 of god in vayne which wyttiugly doth baptyse one, home he 

 knoweth shall so wikedly live, that by the meanes of bis mis- 

 chevous lyfe, the name of god cannot but be evill spoken of. 

 But when it is vnknowne vnto vs whether he be a shepe or a 

 goate^ whome by baptem we receave into the congregacion, 



graft. 



