tions by which you may predict their happening? What Winds are moft familiar to each place; whether any dangerous or hurtful to Man, Beaft, Tree, c? What Caverns or Dens, from which (as my Lord Bacon affirms) Streams of Wind perpetually break, and may be heard to rumble in their Bowels? Whether any Winds, conftant or regular, extending but to a particular Tract of Ground? Whether any Anniverfary, which blow always from the fame Points in the fame times of the Year, Circular or Whirlwinds? In general, what Weather attends each particular Wind? What Rains extraordinary in Quantity or Colour, Hails, Mift, Dew, Froft, Heats, have you known, and what ill effects have they had? What fubterraneal Steams or Exhalations iffue out of the Earth? Whether mortal, or any ways prejudical to the Health of the neighbouring Inhabitants? Whether their Eruption be perpetual, or only at fome certain time? What Diseases are incident to any Place, fuppofed to arife from Minerals, as Gouts, Palfies, Cramps, Afthmatick Coughs ? What fort of Perfons moft affected? Are there any Smokes or melted Bodies feen to afcend, as in Volcano's? Or the Ground actually hot? Any Convulfions or Earthquakes, and what Places have moft fuffer'd by them? II. In Waters fresh. What Springs have you, and whether ever, or when dry? What new ones, and what have ceas'd to flow? What Fishing do your Rivers most yield? What Salts-Pits, what Medicinal Wells; or if Oaken Leaves bruifed be put in, will they blacken? What Waters extraordinary warm or cold have you; or of any manifest Tafte, Scent, or Colour, as milky, blackifh, green, c. or with Oils fwimming on their Surface, or which corrode, cat or tinge any Bodies caft into them, convert them into Stone, or otherwise harden or foften them? If fo, what fort of Ground do they run thro? What colour do they leave on their Stones or Earth, and what ufe is made of them? What Salts or other Concretions do they leave on fhoar? where a different Courfe, as fome have advanc'd, in the Mouth of the Mediterranean ? Whether in any remote Country inland Lakes are obferv'd to rife and fall with the Sea, and whether above the level of the Water? To fuch who live near the Coafts.] What Sea-Plants, whether any Coral found, which for Colour or Beauty may compare with that of the French of Marseilles or Thoulon, &c? IV. Concerning Earths. What fort of Ochres, Chalks, Marles, Clays for TobaccoPipes, . what of any odd Scent, Colour, or Tafte, and what Quantities? Any Turfs better than the common, fat and inflammable? Any Coal dug? Country mountainous, or what Hill confiderable for Figure, Profpect, ec? What Minerals, as Salt-petre, Allum, or Copperas dug, or any Works for preparing these? What uncommon or odd Obfervation have you made on them? Any Brimftone, Antimony, Orpment, Black-Lead, Calamyftone, Loadstone, Amber, do your Mines afford; and what other Minerals are generally in their company? What Lead, Iron-Oars, Flint Spars, Cawk, Tin-glafs, or other Metals? c. More particular Inftructions with relation to these Heads, efpecially thofe of Metals, Minerals, Earths, and Stones, fhall be given, as our future Occafion fhall require. V. Concerning Plants. Whether you know of any ftrange or unufual Plants or Trees, extraordinary either in their Growth, Fruit, Leaves, or time of Bloffoming? Are there any near you curious in Gardening? Do they find Mr. Evelyn's Obfervations c. will hold in all Parts of England, or all in the fame Latitude? Have you any that ftudy Infects, that know what are peculiar to different Plants, and whether the fame Plants han't fometimes different Infects? Has any curiously obferv'd the Diseases of Plants, their Prevention, or Cure? efpecially of the Blebs or Blifters we find on the Leaves of many Shrubs and Trees? of thofe with Infects, or without 'em? VI. Concerning Husbandry, or What unusual Grains or Graffes do you fow in this Country? Have any found out any new Improvement of Arable or Pafture Land, other Curiofity in Husbandry? Any new fort of Plough, c. And are their Inventions practicable and more ferviceable than the old? Any new way to preferve Corn from Weeds, Flies, Birds, Worms, Moles, oc? And whether there be any that you know of to keep it from Blafting, Mill-dew, c? Are there any near you that have any peculiar way of Inning or Draining Marfhes, Bogs, Fens? and any thing confi derable derable done that way near you? VII. Concerning Animals. antient Sepulchers or Caves; Men of Gigantick Stature, or any vaft Skeletons of Bones of Men? VIII. Concerning Arts. Whether you know of any near you that are curious Obfervers of Infects, and the Is there any hereabout that Works of Bees, Silk-worms, has made any Improvement in c? Any who have obferv'd any of the Liberal or Mechatheir Origin, Perfection, Cor- nick Arts? In Physicks, Anaruption, Difeafes, and Cures? tomy, Aftronomy, Geometry, Are there any Birds, Fishes, Arithmetick, Mufick, Archior Reptiles peculiar to this tecture? Are there any BuilCountry, or any thing remar- dings extraordinary, either in kable concerning them? Any whole or part, Churches, Colftrange Beast, Sheep, Horfe, leges, Town-Halls, Conduits, c. of any unufual Quality or mix'd Generation, or wonder ful Bignefs; or any other Animal attended with unufual Circumstances? re Whether you know of any ftrange Accidents that have befallen Men or Women? Any prodigious Births, numerous Offsprings, Hermaphrodites? Men or Women extremely alike, of prodigious Memories, of extraordinary Stature, markable either for Excess or Defect? Any that have ftrange Antipathies to Meats, Drinks, Animals, Parts of Animals? Of unusual Sleep or Watching, Night-walkers (in their fleep we mean) Dreams or Predictions that have ftrangely come to país? Of Men of extreme Age, of fudden Deaths, of any reputed dead that have ftrangely come to life again? Any thing remarkable that attends a Family or a fingle Perfon in their Lives or Deaths; as Lights or Noifes, c? Any certain Apparitions? (but let thefe be well attefted) Any Dwelling Houtes of the Nobility and Gentry, Mills, Staircafes, Chimney-pieces, Windows, c? Any rare or curious Engine? Any Perfon eminently curious in any Handicraft, and wherein his Excellency lies? IX. Concerning Antiquities. Were there ever any antient Seats of Kings in or near this Place? Any antient Priories, Nunneries, Abbeys, c. or any thing yet left remarkable concerning 'em? Are there the Remains of any antient Caftles or Fortifications? Any old Ways or Banks of Land still remaining? Any Barrows or antient Monuments of Stone? Have you heard of any Parliaments, Councils, or Terms held there? or were any old Epifcopal Sees ever near you? Any Battles fought, any Armour found, or old Mony, Urns, Lamps, Lachrymatories, Pavements, Bracelets, Rings, Seals, or other British, Roman, Saxon, or or Danish Antiquities: and if you know in whofe poffeffion they yet remain ? What ftrange and immemorial Customs, what Houses of extraordinary Note, and whether any valuable Manufcripts any where near you? Or what WE E can't but look upon it as a particular Providence, that in our former Paper about Infant Baptifm, we de liver'd our Affertions a little darkly, because thereby we have encourag'd the Anabaptifts to speak not only very confidently of their Tenets, in their Animadverfions upon our Pofitions, but that they have now given us to understand wherein all their Strength lies: fo that we are now the better enabled to speak home to the matter in hand, both by expofing their Tenets, and clearing our felves from the weak Objections they have rais'd against us. And we doubt not but to act fo candidly and mildly therein, that not only themselves (if not extraordinarily prejudic'd) but every other unfatisfy'd Reader, will have a clear and diftinct Notion of the Differences betwixt us, even to an Acknowledgment of the Truth. Upon our first Question (paragr. first of their Paper) they urge, That we prove not that whole Families were baptiz'd of the profelyted Gentiles in their Initiation among the Jews. We answer, our Paper was fmall, but we'll confirm it now, fince they feem to defire it; and first in this particular: elfe have you by you (of any kind) the publishing whereof may be either a Service to the Publick, or to particular Perfons? which if fent, fhall not fail to be inferted in this Undertaking, with our Thoughts thereon. Tertullian de Baptifmo, cap. 18. Prefectura igitur Juridica que Baptifmo praerat, profitebatur Profelytus ipfe Majorennis Legem Mofaicam fe fervaturum. Such as could not anfwer themselves, did profefs or promife by Major Domo's, or Sponfors, to keep the Law of Mofes. A Stranger that is circumcifed (faith Maimonides) and not baptized, or that is baptized and not circumcifed, is not a Profelyte till he be both baptized and circumcifed. But to put all out of doubt, fince the Jews themfelves are the best Witneffes, you fhall find the Rabbi's Expofitions upon Exod. 19. 8. and Gen. 35. 2. If he have not a Father, and his Mother bring the Child to be profelyted, they baptize him; because there is no Profelyte without Circumcifion and Baptifm. Hence it is, that a Jewish Profelyte is call'd Bee , a Baptized Perfon. All which confider'd, fufficiently clears this. Head. As to the fecond Head in the fame Paragraph, about Bap tifm being the Antitype of Circumcifion, wherein they fay, That we affirm, but not confirm it; but rather give away our Caufe, and fay that it was not properly Type, but rather a Continuation of a Cuftom: what we faid we fhall prove, and then let the World Judge judge who has given away the Caufe. 'Tis not abfolutely neceffary that the Type and Antitype fhould agree in every thing. Ifaac was a Type of our Saviour; he was the promis'd Seed, fo was our Saviour; he was the only begotten Son of his Father, fo was our Saviour; he was brought to Mount Moriah to be offer'd, and fo was our Saviour: Ifaac carry'd the Wood, fo our Saviour carry'd the Crofs; but he was not real ly offer'd after all, but our Saviour was nor was Ifaac intentionally a Sacrifice for any, our Saviour actually was fo for the Sins of the whole World. 'Tis enough to our purpose that Circumcifion was a Mark of diftinction from the Gentile World, as Baptifm is a Badge to diftinguish betwixt Chriftians and Heathens; that as Circumcifion was a Seal of the Covenant betwixt God and his People then, fois Baptifm now. Thus we fee they agree in all the Subftantials; and in what they differ, there may be a fpecial reafon given for it. To prove this further; An Ordinance once enjoin'd, and never repeal'd, is always in force but the Ordinance of Childrens Incovenanting was once in the Old Teftament enjoin'd, and was never repeal'd; ergo,'tis yet in force. If the Anabaptifts fay not, let them fhew where. This fhews yet the Analogy betwixt Baptifm and Circumcifion. Again, the Privileges of the Gofpel are not only to as many as the Lord fhall call from afar off, but also to Believers and their Children, Acts 2. 39, and 'twas alfo thus under the old Covenant of Circumcifion. But to come to the Expofition of that Text, which they have fo ftrangely perverted; viz. In whom alfo ye were circumcifed with the Circumcifion made without hands, in putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh by the Circumcifion of Chrift, having been bury'd with him in Baptifm. The Scope of the Apoftle here was to take off the Coloffians from the Rudiments of the World, efpecially Circumcifion, which trou bled most of the Churches : therefore he faith, Ye are compleat in him,being circumcifed with the Circumcifion made without hands. But they might object, We want the outward Circumcifion to us and our Children, which was of fingular use to the Jews to ftrengthen their Faith-The Apoftle anfwereth, Ye are bury'd with him in Baptifm, or you are in effect circumcis'd because baptiz'd; for Baptifm fupplies the place of Circumcifion, and is every way as advantageous to you See the Expofitions of the Fathers, and you'll find 'em agree with this. We have not room to paraphrafe upon the reft. In the fame Paragraph they urge, that we fay, Christ and his Apoftles added to Baptifm what was necessary to make it an Antitype of Circumcifion, but that we say never a word what it is Anfu. 'Tis their Prejudice or Inadvertence, for they'll find it in emphatick Italick in the fame Paragraph, if they pleafe to read it over again. A little further, as also in the fourth Column, they put a Dilemma upon us, to know what we mean by the Covenant, and |