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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
Chapter 4: Of Mr. Danvers's his Witnesses against Infant-Baptism.
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§. 6. His next proof is indeed from an unquestionable witness; he saith [Augustine's third and fourth Books against the Donatists do demonstrate that they denied Infant-Baptism, wherein he manageth the argument for Infant-Baptism against them, with great zeal, enforcing it by several arguments, but especially from Apostolical Tradition, and cursing with great bitterness they that should not embrace it.
§. 6. His next proof is indeed from an unquestionable witness; he saith [Augustines third and fourth Books against the Donatists do demonstrate that they denied Infant-Baptism, wherein he manageth the argument for Infant-Baptism against them, with great zeal, enforcing it by several arguments, but especially from Apostolical Tradition, and cursing with great bitterness they that should not embrace it.
§. 7. Answ. Mr. Bagshaw is now quite overdone in the quality of untruths: Reader, either this man had seen and read the Books of Augustine mentioned by him, or he had not. If not, doth he use Gods Church and the souls of poor ignorant people with any tenderness ⟨p. 242⟩of Conscience, sobriety or humanity, to talk at this rate of Books, that he never saw or read, which are so common among us to be seen? If he understand not Latin, how unfit is he to give us the History of these antiquities? And how audacious to talk thus of what he knoweth not? If he understand it, what cruelty is it to the Church to venture on such untruths to save him the labour of opening and reading the books he talketh of? But if he have read them, then I can scarce match him again among all the falsifiers that I know in the world; I dare not be so uncharitable to him as to think that ever he read them.
§. 7. Answ. Mr. Bagshaw is now quite overdone in the quality of untruths: Reader, either this man had seen and read the Books of Augustine mentioned by him, or he had not. If not, doth he use Gods Church and the souls of poor ignorant people with any tenderness