TOWGOOD (Micaiah). Dipping not the only Scriptural and Primitive Manner of Baptizing. And supposing it were, yet a strict adherence to it not obligatory on us.1813

London: Printed by J. Gillet, Third edition, 24pp., disbound. This pamphlet defends the rite of infant baptism, but rejects the idea that infants can have no salvation without it. Towgood was a Dissenting minister in Exeter, and an avowed Arian. He corresponded with John Wesley, and in 1755, John and Charles Wesley read together Towgood's "A Gentleman's Reasons for his Dissent from the Church of England", in preparation for their Conference at Leeds. Wesley described it as "an elaborate and lively tract."