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 Speculations, (viz. Their preferring dipping before sprinkling, as to the Outward Sign, or years of discretion before infancy, as to the time of administring that Ordinance) to be the cause of this their distasting me, no more then I believe, That 'tis some secret contrariety in the nature of Wool and Leather, which makes the Clothiers and Weavers, Tuckers and Taylors, in a Town I know, so spightful against the Tanners, Curriers, Shooemakers, and Glovers of the same, and that the one are against the other in all matches for Foot-ball, Wrestling, Quaits, Nine-pins, &c. But rather there being the Seeds of discord and contention sown in the very nature of Man since his fall, I think that their own depraved nature (such as is in all other men) was the cause of what they did. These several Opinions and Professions in Religion, being no other then the Marks and Ensigns of the disagreeing parties, rather then the true causes of their disagreement, even as the above-mentioned several materials of Workman-ship were. Or as speaking different Languages, bearing several names, living on several sides