Excerpt from Anti-Paedo-Rantism Defended: A Reply to Mr. Samuel Finley's Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless I find he does not contraditit any Thing: of the Relation I have given of the dfair re/peeiing our Di/pute at Cape May; he jhys, I am very puneiilious in my Account, which is fo far an Evidence of its being a true One. Does he call it a preaching on the Controverfy, when he has not proved that I touched any Thing in the lea/i ahout Infant Baptifm at the Time referred to hut open'd the Nature and De/ign of Baptzfm, fir the Help and Benefit of thofe Per/hm that were expefied to fuhmit to it jhortly? If he does, he may call all Sermons preaching on Controverfies; hecau/z' there i} no Truth, hat is oppofecl hy jhmehody or anoo ther. He labours to jzylify his Candati, in propofing the [aid publick Diflsute, by pretending he had a Right in the People of capeimay, (dc. Which Right he thinhs deriv'd from his being an Irfirument to awahen a Number of them: Suppojie he was; Does that give him, who, was hut an itinerant, or'tranfient Preacher among them, a Right to the People there, particularly to the Baptifis, and tho/e who were inclinedto them? Did they ever' put them/elves under his Government, or were they ever related to him it. 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.