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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.
And accordingly they meant of Catechizing; that is, of the Popish Catechizing only; And of the other Sacraments, as under the Popish notion of a Sacrament which giveth grace ex opere operato. And when he saith that [Sacramentum Conjugii damnant] he openeth the mystery of that accusation. 1. They denied Marriage to be a Sacrament. 2. And he saith [Dicentes mortaliter peccare conjuges, si absque speprolis conveniant.] It seems they were too rigid for Chastity, but not against Marriage.
And accordingly they meant of Catechizing; that is, of the Popish Catechizing only; And of the other Sacraments, as under the Popish notion of a Sacrament which giveth grace ex opere operato. And when he saith that [Sacramentum Conjugii damnant] he openeth the mystery of that accusation. 1. They denyed Marriage to be a Sacrament. 2. And he saith [Dicentes mortaliter peccare conjuges, si absque speprolis conveniant.] It seems they were too rigid for Chastity, but not against Marriage.
§. 22. And that this is the true meaning of Reinherus appeareth, 1. By the phrase of the context. 2. In that he never offereth to confute any such error of theirs, as the denial of the lawfulness of Infants Baptism. 3. And speaking Cap. 6. of the Orthibenses he further expoundeth all [Parvulis vero non prodest nisi fuerint perfecti in secta illa] the words before being [De baptismo dicunt, quod nihil valeat, nisi quantum valeant merita baptizantis.] So that it is not Antipaedobaptism that he accuseth them of, but that Baptism profiteth not Infants unless the Baptizers (or Parents) be good: that is, as aforesaid, when done by wicked Priests to the children of the wicked.
§. 22. And that this is the true meaning of Reinherus appeareth, 1. By the phrase of the context. 2. In that he never offereth to confute any such error of theirs, as the denyal of the lawfulness of Infants Baptism. 3. And speaki•g Cap. 6. of the Orthibenses he further expoundeth all [Parvulis vero non prodest nisi fuerint perfecti in secta illa] the words before being [De baptismo dicunt, quod nihil valeat, nisi quantum valeant merita baptizantis.] So that it is not Antipaedobaptism that he accuseth them of, but that Baptism profiteth not Infants unless the Baptizers (or Parents) be good: that is, as aforesaid, when done by wicked Priests to the children of the wicked.