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…

SI. The place ye thou hast alleged before out of the second of the Act, doth make greatly against thee. For it should follow, ye infants had both sold & distributed their goods, & many other things might be gathered thereupon.

SI. The place ye thou hast aleged before out of the secōd of ye Act, doth make greatli against ye. For it shuld folow, ye infantes had both solde & distributed theyr goods, & many other thinges myght be gathered thervpon.

JOIADA. When ye gather your argument after this manner: If the infants be numbered among the faithful: It followeth, ye they did sell and distribute their goods, ye they did pray & break bread, for they ye believed, did so. Who doth not see, that ye expound all things after the letter, & yet ye do not weigh & ponder it? The infants are of the family & household of their parents, which thing we have proved sufficiently before, whom sith that ye had rather to comprehend under the name of household stuff, then of the faithful, ye do not only in this thing, most ungodly, but also most cruelly. It is not required in this figure Synecdoche, that whatsoever ⟨image 45⟩is spoken or said of some whole body the same be verified of all parts. For them it is no Synecdoche: When that which is spoken, may be verified of all parts, it is no trope nor figure. But then it is a true synecdoche, when either some part is taken for the whole body, or else the whole body for part thereof. As in Exo. xxiii. where it is written: That all the male kind shall appear before the Lord thrice in the year, here thou seest this word (All) Tell me now, were all the children in the cradles carried from all Palestine thrice in the year to Jerusalem? If yu say est yt it was so, ergo the infants (according to thy reason) did .vii. days eat unleavened bread, did sow fields, did offer the first fruits. Which thing sith that they did not: it followeth that the male children are not comprehended. If they were not brought, then this is not true that all the male kind did thrice in the year appear before the lord: & though at the first sight, it seemeth to have a show, that all the male children are commanded to come to the three feasts, yet for all that, they are only bound by the law, that are of the age, that may hear & understand the doctrine, or offer the first fruits, or bear about branches of trees according to the variety of the feasts & fashion of the rights