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

This (being a new way) so exasperated the Donatists, that in very passion many of them (yea Bishops) murdered themselves to bring odium on the Catholics, to make the people believe that the cruelty of the Catholics compelled them to it: And this was the state of these two parties; but not a word of difference about Infant-Baptism between them that ever I read in either part.

This (being a new way) so exasperated the Donatists, that in very passion many of them (yea Bishops) murdered themselves to bring odium on the Catholicks, to make the people believe that the cruelty of the Catholicks compelled them to it: And this was the state of these two parties; but not a word of difference about Infant-Baptism between them that ever I read in either part.

§. 10. The Controversy between Austin and them he thus stateth: Lib. 1. c. 1, 2. Si haberi foris potest, etiam dari cur non potest? Baptism received out of the Catholic or true Church among Schismatics is true baptism: and therefore baptism given without by Schismatics is true baptism.

§. 10. The Controversie between Austin and them he thus stateth: Lib. 1. c. 1, 2. Si haberi foris potest, etiam dari cur non potest? Baptism received out of the Catholick or true Church among Schismaticks is true baptism: and therefore baptism given without by Schismaticks is true baptism.

Impie facere qui rebaptizare conantur orbis unitatem, & nos recte facere qui Dei Sacramenta improbare, nec in ipso schismate audemus: They do impiously that endeavour to rebaptize all the united Christian world, and we do rightly who dare not deny Gods Sacraments, no not in a Schism.] For Augustin peaceably held the Donatists baptism to be true and valid though irregular and unlawfully given and taken,