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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 4: His Impenitence in Calumniating the Donatists (and Novatians) reprehended.
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§. 1. Pag. 132. of his Reply he returneth to this notorious calumny, and charging Mr. Wills with disingenuity he falls to his wonted way of proving, 1. From Sebastian Frank and Twisk, whom I neither have at hand, nor am obliged to believe in telling me what the Donatists held, nor to believe that Mr. D. here so differs from himself, as truly to report them. Once for all, It is usual with Writers to charge the Anabaptists as following the Donatists in Rebaptizing, but not in denying Infant-baptism: For the Donatists baptized again both Infants and adult. And it is like this deceived this temerarious man.
§. 1. PAg. 132. of his Reply he returneth to this notorious calumny, and charging Mr. Willes with disingenuity he falls to his wonted way of proving, 1. From Sebastian Frank and Twisk, whom I neither have at hand, nor am obliged to believe in telling me what the Donatists held, nor to believe that Mr. D. here so differs from himself, as truly to report them. Once for all, It is usual with Writers to charge the Anabaptists as following the Donatists in Rebaptizing, but not in denying Infant-baptism: For the Donatists baptized again both Infants and adult. And it is like this deceived this temerarious man.
§. 2. Next he repeateth his falsehoods of Cresconius, Fulgentius, Vinc. Victor, which I have showed to be done in great temerity.
§. 2. Next he repeateth his falshoods of Cresconius, Fulgentius, Vinc. Victor, which I have shewed to be done in great temerity.
§. 3. Thirdly he repeateth his stupendous slander of Austin as with much zeal and fury in many Books opposing the Donatists for denying Infant-baptism; of which in them all (as far as I can find) he hath not one syllable, but the clear contrary, as is proved by me.