More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

Answ. This Ermingardus alias Ermengandus, (we pardon him the misnaming) writeth against Heretics that hold, 1. That an evil God made the World. 2. That there are two Gods, a Good, and a Malignant. 3. That it was not the true God that gave Moses the Law. 4. That Moses was a Magician. 5. That Marriage is unlawful, and so on as the rest, even to the denial of the Resurrection. And about Baptism (Cap. 12. pag. 1249. Bibl. Pat. To. 4. Part. 1.) that Baptism profits neither young nor old without the imposition of their hands.] Is this a good witness that the Waldenses were against Infant-Baptism?

Answ. This Ermingardus alias Ermengandus, (we pardon him the misnaming) writeth against Hereticks that hold, 1. That an evil God made the World. 2. That there are two Gods, a Good, and a Malignant. 3. That it was not the true God that gave Moses the Law. 4. That Moses was a Magician. 5. That Marriage is unlawful, and so on as the rest, even to the denyal of the Resurrection. And about Baptism (Cap. 12. pag. 1249. Bibl. Pat. To. 4. Part. 1.) that Baptism profits neither young nor old without the imposition of their hands.] Is this a good witness that the Waldenses were against Infant-Baptism?

Reader, I am almost at the end of his proofs here, and yet have not patience thus to lose precious time, in opening the rest of his abuses: The few remaining are like the rest! Yet here he foundeth his proof of Twelve Decrees, and endeth with an insultation against me and others.

§. 21. In his Reply, p. 125. he adds Reinerius; which giveth me occasion to tell the Reader, that if he will peruse this one Author, he will better understand the truth of the whole business, than by reading many confounders that speak upon fame they know not what. This Rhei•herus tells us, that he was one of the Arch-heretics, and among them seventeen years; that is the Catharists: He tells us upon his own knowledge, not only how many sorts of them there were, whom (being then an Inquisitor) he calleth heretics, but also how many Churches the Catharists had, and what number each Church had, and where they were, and what every Sect held, as different from the rest. Whereas many ignorant writers of those times confound them. From him we have distinct notice that the Manichees and Catharists then held the horrid heresies charged on the Waldenses, and that the Leonists or Pauperes de Lugduno (the true Waldenses and Albigenses) were indeed free from them; and about Worship and Church Government, they differed from the Pontificians as the Protestants do: But for doctrinals (about Predestination,