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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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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.
§. 20. Nay, lib. 3. cap. 31. Austin tells us that they held it as well as the Catholics: saith he, [Circumcisionem certe praeputii in figura futuri baptismi Christi ab antiquis observatum esse, negare, ut arbitror, non audetis: That is, I suppose you dare not deny that Circumcision was observed by the ancients in figure of the Christian baptism.] It was a granted thing.
§. 20. Nay, lib. 3. cap. 31. Austin tells us that they held it as well as the Catholicks: saith he, [Circumcisionem certe praeputii in figura futuri baptismi Christi ab antiquis observatum esse, negare, ut arbitror, non audetis: That is, I suppose you dare not deny that Circumcision was observed by the ancients in figure of the Christian baptism.] It was a granted thing.
§. 21. And it was Cresconius words to Austin [Una Religio, eadem Sacramenta, nihil in Christiana observation diversum: & adhuc adversus invicem laboramus? Saith Austin, Quare ergo rebaptizas Christianum? Ego non rebaptizo; that is, [We have all one Religion, the same Sacraments, there is nothing in our Christian observation divers (saith Cresconius) And yet do we strive against each other? Why then dost thou rebaptize a Christian (that differeth not from them?) I rebaptize no Christian, (saith Austin.) So that here was no disagreement in Sacraments or any Christian observance. Only as Austin saith lib. 7. de bapt. c. 2. the quarrel