A18078:721
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And hereupon * S. Augustine concludeth / that all not baptised are condemned / 1which is as absurdly concluded of him / as that of our saviour Christs words (except one eat the flesh of the Son of man / he hath not life) he concludeth that whatsoever he be which receiveth not the sacrament of the supper / is damned.
And heereupon * S. Augustine concludeth / that all not baptised are condemned / 1which is as absurdly concluded of hym / as that of our sauiour Christes wordes (except one eate the fleshe of the sonne of man / hee hath not lyfe) he concludeth that whatsoeuer he bee which receiueth not the sacrament of the supper / is damned.
- 1106. Epist. ad Bonifac. In lib. de meritis, & remis. peccar. 1. ca. 24.
Upon this false conclusion of S. Augustine / hath risen this profanation of the sacrament of baptism / in being ministered in private houses / & by women or lay men / as also upon his other absurd conclusion / sprung a horrible abuse of ⟨p. 144⟩the Lords supper / whilst they did thrust the bread and wine into young infants mouths / for that men were persuaded / that otherwise if their children should die before they were baptised or had received the supper / they were damned for ever. And what better token can there be / that this was the cause of this blind baptism / then that the papists from whom this baptism by women is translated / were of the same judgement / and for that cause brought in their baptism by women. Hereupon may be added an other cause / which is that as (when the church began not only to decline / but to fall away from the sincerity of religion) it borrowed a number of other profanations of the Heathen: so also it borrowed this. For as the Heathen had women priests / so it would have also her women priests / and that this was an other occasion of bringing in the baptism by women / it appeareth by your Clement / if he can speak any truth.