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    First * therefore , he diligently searched the scriptures alone , and could find in them no ground at all for that practice ; then , he bought and read all the eminent treatises oh both sides , which at that time came thick from the presses , and still was cleared in the error of the Pafcdobaptists . After this ,

    his wife being brought to bed , that he might , it possible , give the religiojus party no offence , he invited all thf . ministers to dinner , and propounded bis doubt , and the ground thereof to them , None of them could defend their prac % ice with any satisfactory : eason , but the tradition of the church , from the

    primitive times , and their main buck * lev of federal holiness , which Tombes and Denne had excellently " overthrown . He arid his wife then , professing themselves unsatisfyed in the practice , desired their opinion ' s , what they ought to do . Most answered , to conform to

    the general practice of O ' her Christians , how <' ark soever it were to themselves ; but Mr . Foxcraft , one of the assembly , [ of divines ] said , that except they were convinced of the warrant of that practice from the word , they sinned in doing it ; whereupon that infant was not baptized . "—Life of Col . H . p . 369-70

    Milton ^ a near . observer , of the il forcers of conscience , '' as he calls them , * under the long parliament , ' * declares , that New Presbyter is but old priest writ large . ' * Such intolerant divines would be

    likely enough to urge rhe governor C 6 to fyreak up a private meeting , ' * where any opinions were maintained which they calied he-J' ^ y . Nor is it surprising ilia * , as Mrs-, H . inlortns u > -, the , ^ ov < rnor and his wife , notwithstanding that th < y forsook nut their ussemhlus , ; vor retracted their . b ^ nevo-K'uces ' iind civilities irom them , yet were rfiey reviled by ihem , called ' fanatics and anab ipri-t . s , and oft' ii glanced at in their public sinnons . " Vet i cannot help impressing , some surpiize at a note which ; the * Hevd . Editor of the JUcwifttt has tonnuxed to the

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    story . He allows that it " is told svith candour , ^ but he complains that it < 4 ' shews an unbecoming propensity to speculate in VcTi - gion . " From a Protestant divine who should , with Luther profess to be always 'i ^ ; >! ner / ' this sentiment is ' passing strange " , especially at the ui- ^ itiii « ' ii ^ 01 the IQth c eniury . As to the two writers against

    infant baptism , mentioned in the narrative , Tomb * s appears to have attained great cHebrity . Calamy ( Contin . i . 52 % . } say-s , that ** ail the world must own him to have been a very considerable * , man , and an excellent scholar , how disinclined soever they may be to hi $ particular opinions ; ' * and that tfc Bisiiop Burnet mentioned him once in the House ol Lords , many years ait r his death ( in LGJh ) a 5 a very learned and famous man /* His works , the titles of which ^ rd

    given in Calamy *» " Account /* ( ii . 353 ) were on the subject of baptism , except two or ihrcti , which shew him to have beenr orthodox 011 other points . Baxter , who was his neighbour ^ at Krciderniinstcr , chall < nged him to a public 'disputation , of which he gives inhis lif < ( p . $ (> - ) tlic foi * lowing account ' :

    " Mr . Tombc- and T arTred to nftect at hU church { at Bewdley ) on Jan . 1 . Anti in great weakne ^^ thither I came , and froni " nine o * tho clock in the pvorn ~ ing tid five at ni ^ ht , inar wdecl congregation , ue xontinued . our dispute ; -which was all •¦ pent in mnaging one argument from infant ^ ri ^ 'ht to church- - membership to 'heir rigltt to baptism , of which h . af , ^ complained , as if I ass . \ uked him iii a new way whicJi I had txot cou idered uflf before /' r r Anthony VVoofl , wTio ^ rrrbahly had m > attiiclimcnt to either < jf these diviiies giV . if , in bis" Arti ' cla

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    Intolerance 1 & Passitgejrom CoU Hutchinson ' s Life . 309

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/13/