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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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§. 16. Here note, 1. That this was no controversy with the Donatists, 2. Nor with any other Sect, but hold by all the Church, 3. That he only saith as in a Parenthesis that [that which all the whole Church holdeth, and did ever hold, not instituted by any Council, is justly taken for an Apostolical tradition,] which I think few Protestants or sober Christians will deny. Who can imagine that Timothy, Titus, Silas and all the ⟨p. 249⟩whole Church in the Apostles days and ever since, should hold and agree in any thing as a part of Christian Doctrine or Worship, which they had not from the Apostles? Had the Apostles so little charity as not to endeavour to rectify any of their errors? 4. Note here that the Donatists never denied this (that Infant-baptism was ever held by the whole Church to that day, and not instituted by any Council:) And were not Austin, the Donatists and the whole Church liker to know the universality and Antiquity of the thing, than the Holland or English Anabaptists about fourteen hundred years after them? 5. Note that he bringeth Scripture for it also.
§. 16. Here note, 1. That this was no controversie with the Donatists, 2. Nor with any other Sect, but hold by all the Church, 3. That he only saith as in a Parenthesis that [that which all the whole Church holdeth, and did ever hold, not instituted by any Council, is justly taken for an Apostolical tradition,] which I think few Protestants or sober Christians will deny. Who can imagine that Timothy, Titus, Silas and all the ⟨p. 249⟩whole Church in the Apostles daies and ever since, should hold and agree in any thing as a part of Christian Doctrine or Worship, which they had not from the Apostles? Had the Apostles so little charity as not to endeavour to rectifie any of their errors? 4. Note here that the Donatists never denied this (that Infant-baptism was ever held by the whole Church to that day, and not instituted by any Council:) And were not Austin, the Donatists and the whole Church liker to know the universality and Antiquity of the thing, than the Holland or English Anabaptists about fourteen hundred years after them? 5. Note that he bringeth Scripture for it also.