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

CHAP. IV. Of Mr. Danvers's his Witnesses against Infant-Baptism.

§. 1. When he hath told you, that In his small search (shamefully small) he cannot find there is any authentic testimony that it was practised on any till the fourth Century; he in the next words saith that it is granted that Tertullian spake against it in Africa, which is clear evidence that some had been speaking for it in that corner of the world:] This is no contradiction with him: And did they only speak for it and not practise it? Speak once like a man: And was not that till the fourth Century?

§. 1. WHen he hath told you, that In his small search (shamefully small) he cannot find there is any authentick testimony that it was practised on any till the fourth Century; he in the next words saith that it is granted that Tertullian spake against it in Africa, which is clear evidence that some had been speaking for it in that corner of the world:] This is no contradiction with him: And did they only speak for it and not practise it? Speak once like a man: And was not that till the fourth Century?

§. 2. His Catalogue containeth three Columns: The first of the Baptism of the Adult: And what Christian ever denied this? And what meaneth the man in labouring to prove it? The second is of the Instituting and asserting of Infant-Baptism; of which more anon. The third is of his Witnesses against Infant-Baptism. And the first of these mentioned in the Catalogue is Tertullian in the third Century. By which he seemeth to confess that till the third Century he hath no witness against it. But I have said so much elsewhere and others more, to prove, 1. That Tertullians words prove that Infant-Baptism de facto was then in use; 2. That he only telleth his opinion ⟨p. 240⟩