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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Text 1 › Chapter 3: Mr. D.'s Justification of his slander of the Waldenses, Confuted more largely.
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.
Answ. Mark Reader the trustiness of this man. 1. He maketh denying Baptism (to signify) only denying it to Infants, without a word of proof; 2. He leaveth out the denying of our Redeemer, denying Lawful Marriage, and the eating of flesh, &c. though conjoined in the testimony. 3. He feigneth this to be said of the Waldenses, which is expressly said in the history to be spoken of the Manichees? Is not this an excellent Prover? The words of Pithaeus history cited by Usher de succes. p. 229. are these, Emersisse in Gallia Manichaeos, &c. Pith. [Evestigio exorti sunt per Aquitaniam Manichaei seducentes—suadebant negare baptismum, signum crucis, Ecclesiam, & ipsum Redemptorem seculi, honorem Sanctorum, conjugia legitima, esum carnium—simili modo apud Tholesam inventi sunt Manichaei, & ⟨p. 391⟩ipsi igne cremati sunt: & per diversas Occidentis parts Manichaei, exorti—Of the real presence here is nothing.
Answ. Mark Reader the trustiness of this man. 1. He maketh denying Baptism (to signifie) only denying it to Infants, without a word of proof; 2. He leaveth out the denying of our Redeemer, denying Lawful Marriage, and the eating of flesh, &c. though conjoyned in the testimony. 3. He feigneth this to be said of the Waldenses, which is expresly said in the history to be spoken of the Manichees? Is not this an excellent Prover? The words of Pithaeus history cited by Ʋsher de succes. p. 229. are these, Emersisse in Gallia Manichaeos, &c. Pith. [Evestigio exorti sunt per Aquitaniam Manichaei seducentes—suadebant negare baptismum, signum crucis, Ecclesiam, & ipsum Redemptorem seculi, honorem Sanctorum, conjugia legitima, esum carnium—simili modo apud Tholesam inventi sunt Manichaei, & ⟨p. 391⟩ipsi igne cremati sunt: & per diversas Occidentis partes Manichaei, exorti—Of the real presence here is nothing.
§. 14. 2. Saith Mr. D. [Dr. Usher also tells us out of Pap. Mason. that 14. Citizens of Orleans, were convict of the same heresy, for denying Baptismal grace, and the real presence, and burnt alive, Herbert, Lisius and Stephen —