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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. Elsewhere indeed Socrates and many more say so: But doth that prove they were against Infant-baptism?
§. 26. Somewhat he would fain say at the second hand out of Albaspinaeus, Observ. 20. I hope he never read the book: Albaspinaeus there purposely decideth the Controversy, what the Novatian Heresy was, in several Chapters, and never mentioneth any such opinion or suspicion of them. The same doth that great Antiquary Jesuit Petavius; (and what these two men knew not of the Fathers and Church-history, few in the world knew, unless I may except Blondel and Usher:) In his notes on Epiphanius of the Novatians, he entereth on the same Controversy as Albaspinaeus did, and never mentioneth any such thing.
§. 26. Somewhat he would fain say at the second hand out of Albaspinaeus, Observ. 20. I hope he never read the book: Albaspinaeus there purposely decideth the Controversie, what the Novatian Heresie was, in several Chapters, and never mentioneth any such opinion or suspicion of them. The same doth that great Antiquary Jesuit Petavius; (and what these two men knew not of the Fathers and Church-history, few in the world knew, unless I may except Blondel and Ʋsher:) In his notes on Epiphanius of the Novatians, he entreth on the same Controversie as Albaspinaeus did, and never mentioneth any such thing.
§. 27. Next he tells us that Ecbertus and Emericus do assert that the Waldenses, the new Cathari, conform to the Doctrine and manners of the old, the Novatians.