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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.
§. 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.
§. 12. Hereupon he addresseth himself to evince the sinfulness of their Schism and unchristianing all the Churches: And indeed he seems to think that though Baptism was among them, yet hardly Salvation: And his argument (though I think we must abate for mens passions and temptations) is worth the Separatists consideration: that baptism that destroyeth (remitteth he calls it) not sin, is not saving: that which is without love remitteth not sin: But Schismatics, saith he, have not love: For, Nulli Schismata facerent si fraterno odio non excaecarentur: Annon est in Schismate odium fraternum? Quis hoc dixerit? Cum & origo & pertinacia Schismatis nulla sit alia nisi odium fraternum.] That is, None would ⟨p. 246⟩