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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.
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.
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, ⟨p. 245⟩but the Donatists held all the Catholics Ministry and baptism null.
Impie facere qui rebaptizare conantur orbis unitatem, & nos recte facere qui Dei Sacramenta improbare, nec in ipso schismate audemus: They do impiously that endeavor 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, ⟨p. 245⟩but the Donatists held all the Catholicks Ministry and baptism null.
§. 11. Therefore he thus summeth up their differences, cap. 3. Duo sunt quae dicimus, & esse in Catholica Baptismum, & illic tantum recte accipi: Item alia duo dicimus, esse apud Donatistas baptismum; non autem recte accipi: Harum sententiarum tres nostrae tantum sunt, unam vero utrique dicimus.] That is, [Two things we say, that there is Baptism in the Catholic Church, and that there only it is rightly received: Also two things more we say, that there is Baptism with the Donatists; but that with them it is not rightly received: of these sentences, three are only ours, and one is common to us both:] Austin held it a sin, to be baptized among Schismatics, (to join with their Sect) but not a nullity.
§. 11. Therefore he thus summeth up their differences, cap. 3. Duo sunt quae dicimus, & esse in Catholica Baptismum, & illic tantum recte accipi: Item alia duo dicimus, esse apud Donatistas baptismum; non autem recte accipi: Harum sententiarum tres nostrae tantum sunt, unam vero utrique dicimus.] That is, [Two things we say, that there is Baptism in the Catholick Church, and that there only it is rightly received: Also two things more we say, that there is Baptism with the Donatists; but that with them it is not rightly received: of these sentences, three are only ours, and one is common to us both:] Austin held it a sin, to be baptized among Schismaticks, (to joyn with their Sect) but not a nullity.