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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.
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Answ. If this prove that the Waldenses were against Infant-Baptism, it will prove that Papists, Protestants and all are so? what proving is this? Of Bernard (next cited) we spake before.
§. 18. His next witness is, [Ecbertus a great Doctor against the Cathari, &c.
Answ. Note Reader, that this Great Doctor was a Monk, and after an Abbot▪ who saith that the Catharists against whom he wrote, 1. Deny and damn Marriage. 2. And all eating of flesh, because it comes by copulation. 3. That they say that the Devil made all flesh. 4. That they do not only say Baptism profiteth not Infants, but more commonly though more privately, that no water Baptism profiteth any one to salvation — And that Christ was not truly born of a Virgin, nor had humane flesh, but a show of it, nor rose from the dead, but seemed to die, and rise. They are Manichees: They keep the feast of Manicheus death: That they hold that mens souls are nothing but the apostate Spirits cast out of heaven, which by good works here may procure salvation:] If all this be true, were these the Waldenses? and is this ⟨p. 394⟩Mr. D.s proof — Bibliot. Pat. To. 4. p. 2. p. 79. &c.
Answ. Note Reader, that this Great Doctor was a Monk, and after an Abbot▪ who saith that the Catharists against whom he wrote, 1. Deny and damn Marriage. 2. And all eating of flesh, because it comes by copulation. 3. That they say that the Devil made all flesh. 4. That they do not only say Baptism profiteth not Infants, but more commonly though more privately, that no water Baptism profiteth any one to salvation — And that Christ was not truly born of a Virgin, nor had humane flesh, but a shew of it, nor rose from the dead, but seemed to die, and rise. They are Manichees: They keep the feast of Manicheus death: That they hold that mens souls are nothing but the apostate Spirits cast out of heaven, which by good works here may procure salvation:] If all this be true, were these the Waldenses? and is this