A17192:197
A most sure and strong defence of the baptism of children, against [the] pestiferous…A moste sure and strong defence of the baptisme of children, against [the] pestiferous…
A most sure and strong defence of the baptism of children, against [the] pestiferous sect of the Anabaptists. set forth by that famous clerk, Henry Bullynger: & now translated out of Latin into English by John Veron SenonoysA moste sure and strong defence of the baptisme of children, against [the] pestiferous secte of the Anabaptystes. set furthe by that famouse clerke, Henry Bullynger: & nowe translated out of Laten into Englysh by Ihon Veron Senonoys
printed by John Oswen, 1551printed by Ihon Oswen, 1551
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SSMON. Such as be of that age already, that they may know what the law is, & what sin is. For he that will be baptized, must repent: sith that infants can not repent, they can not be comprehended under the name of the family, or household.
SSMON. Suche as be of that age alreadye, that they may know what the law is, & what synne is. For he that wyll be baptyzed, muste repente: sythe that infauntes can not repente, they can not be comprehended vnder the name of the famylye, or housholde.
JOIADA. Why doest thou still make up a rope of sand, have we not proved already before that, not only they that be of age, ought too be baptized: But year so stiff necked that ye will in no wise believe, that any may be baptized, onlesse he may repent of his misdeeds. And by and by the do conclude that, ergo, children ought not to be baptised. But in the mean season, ye have not yet showed any law ye orbiddeth to baptise the children. We (as we have declared before already) ⟨image 40⟩do know,1 that Isaac being an infant was so of the family & household of Abraham that he did cause his father to put away the bond woman, with her child. For Paul saith with Moses: The son of the bond woman shall not be heir, with my son Isaac, he was heir, then without doubt he was of the family, for they that be not heirs, as servants & free men are of the family. Exo. xii. We read after this manner: If any stranger will come to dwell among you, & keep the passover of the lord, let all his male children be circumcised, & then he shall keep it well. Why is it said, all his male children? Doth this pertain only to them ye be of age? It is your part then to prove, that they which receive the seal of the church of god, according to the religion of their parents, are not of the family and household of their parents. But I will bring an other testimony. In the .xxi. of Acts, Luk writeth after this manner: And after certain days, we departed from thence & they all brought us on our way, with their wives & children. Were all these children of age? Or if they were not of age, were they not of the family & household of their parents? What miracle, or what affection was it if the men did only bring forth the apostle on his way, with their wives & young