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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.
Answ. Not a word of truth: no such matter in that Chapter or the whole book.
§. 19. Next he saith [Cresconius did also oppose Austin in the point of Infants baptism, and did maintain — that there was no true baptism ⟨p. 250⟩but that which administered after faith.
§. 19. Next he saith [Cresconius did also oppose Austin in the point of Infants baptism, and did maintain — that there was no true baptism ⟨p. 250⟩but that which administred after faith.
Answ. Utterly false still. There was no such controversy between them. No wonder if he had miscited sentences that will thus go to falsify whole Books, as speaking of that which they never meddle with! Augustine having written against Petilian (their best speaker, having of a Lawyer been made a Bishop) Cresconius a Donatist Grammarian interposed for Petilian, and persuaded Austin to gentler thoughts of them; but speaks not a word against Infant-baptism.
Answ. Utterly false still. There was no such controversie between them. No wonder if he had miscited sentences that will thus go to falsifie whole Books, as speaking of that which they never meddle with! Augustine having written against Petilian (their best speaker, having of a Lawyer been made a Bishop) Cresconius a Donatist Grammarian interposed for Petilian, and perswaded Austin to gentler thoughts of them; but speaks not a word against Infant-baptism.