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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
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.
CHAP. V. His renewed Calumny of the old Britons reproved.
CHAP. V. His renewed Calumny of the old Brittains reproved.
§. 1. Repeating and defending Fabians foppery, he argueth that it could be nothing else in which they are said to contradict the Apostolic Catholic Church? Answ. 1. If Bede say that Augustine tells them that in many things they do contrary to the Roman Catholic and the Apostolic Church, doth it follow that the three things in which he requireth their concurrence were all part of those many? To preach the Gospel to the Saxons was one. Is that a point that they differed from all the Apostolic Church in? When it seemeth to be from no other reason, than that they would not own the Saxons that had conquered them, nor the Papal power that would usurp upon them: And on the same reason they might as well refuse to baptize the Saxons children. 2. But there is no such thing in the words of Bede, as I have showed [but according to the manner of the Church of Rome, &c.] And who knoweth not that the Church of Rome, and all in its communion then called the universal Church, used in baptism, ⟨p. 403⟩the White Garment, the tasting Milk and Honey, and Chrism, as an Apostolical tradition or such as they knew no original of? Tertullian and Epiphanius alone are full witnesses of this, if there were no more.
§. 1. REpeating and defending Fabians foppery, he argueth that it could be nothing else in which they are said to contradict the Apostolick Catholick Church? Answ. 1. If Beda say that Augustine tells them that in many things they do contrary to the Roman Catholick and the Apostolick Church, doth it follow that the three things in which he requireth their concurrence were all part of those many? To preach the Gospel to the Saxons was one. Is that a point that they differed from all the Apostolick Church in? When it seemeth to be from no other reason, than that they would not own the Saxons that had conquered them, nor the Papal power that would usurp upon them: And on the same reason they might as well refuse to baptize the Saxons children. 2. But there is no such thing in the words of Bede, as I have shewed [but according to the manner of the Church of Rome, &c.] And who knoweth not that the Church of Rome, and all in its communion then called the universal Church, used in baptism,