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

§. 9. Now I leave it to the Reader, among many uncertainties, which of these he will believe most probable: 1. That all the parties were slandered: 2. Or that Peter and Henry were slandered by occasion of the mixed Manichees, or by the vulgar lying levity or Popish malice. 3. Or whether Peter and Henry were guilty as some now, though the rest were not. 4. Or whether they and the Albigenses and Waldenses, really denied all Infants salvation and Baptism (their very pretended words being cited.) 5. Or whether they were slandered as to Infant-salvation, and not as to their Baptism. 6. Or whether all this rose not from their denying the salvation of the children of all the wicked, as ex opere operato, by the Baptism of the Priest, and their refusing to bring their own children to be Baptized by such Priests, and their telling the wicked at age, that their Infant-Baptism would not save them. Believe which of these you find most cause.

§. 9. Now I leave it to the Reader, among many uncertainties, which of these he will believe most probable: 1. That all the parties were slandered: 2. Or that Peter and Henry were slandered by occasion of the mixed Manichees, or by the vulgar lying levity or Popish malice. 3. Or whether Peter and Henry were guilty as some now, though the rest were not. 4. Or whether they and the Albigenses and Waldenses, really denyed all Infants salvation and Baptism (their very pretended words being cited.) 5. Or whether they were slandered as to Infant-salvation, and not as to their Baptism. 6. Or whether all this rose not from their denying the salvation of the children of all the wicked, as ex opere operato, by the Baptism of the Priest, and their refusing to bring their own children to be Baptized by such Priests, and their telling the wicked at age, that their Infant-Baptism would not save them. Believe which of these you find most cause.

§. 10. III. As for Bernard, 1. Though a holy man, yet his conceit that Papal unity was necessary, and that the Dissenters caused confusion, transported him with such prejudice against them, as we have now against the vilest Sects. 2. He was acquainted with Cluniacensis and might believe him. 3. He took things on trust as he did. 4. He chargeth even the secret heretics that he writes against, as holding it unlawful to swear, and yet lawful to forswear, rather than reveal their case: Serm. 65. 5. And that in secret they are reported to commit filthy wickedness, not to be named. 6. That he heareth that some of them reject Pauls writings, and the Old Testament. 7. That they lived scandalously with Women: and he talketh as if it were impossible for men and women to dwell together, and yet to be chaste. 8. Yet showeth that he most uncharitably suspected them, saying, [Si fidem interroges, nihil Christianius; si conversationem, nihil irreprehensibilius; & quae loquitur, factis probat: Videas hominem in testimonium suae fidei frequentare Ecclesiam, honorare presbyteros, offer munus suum, confessionem facere, sacramentis communicare (and did they deny Infant-Baptism then?) Quid fidelius? Jam quod ad vitam moresque spectat, neminem concutit, neminem circumvenit, neminem supergreditur, pallent ora jejuniis, panem non comedit otiosus; operatur manibus quibus vitam sustentat: Ubi jam Vulpos?] And what's the proof against them, [Vinearum