More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

§. 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.

Answ. But did they say that the Novatians were against Infant-Baptism? Why did you cite neither words, page nor Book? And if they had, should two railing slanderous Papists near a thousand years after Novatian be taken for witnesses that he was against Infant-baptism, against all the History of the Church that concerneth them to the contrary? Socrates himself (an honest Historian) and Sozomen also are ordinarily by the Papists accused as Novatians, because they speak fairly and ⟨p. 254⟩impartially of them as honest men: (and whether they were or not I know not, but by their own words conjecture the contrary) And they lived when and where the Novatians were best known: And yet tell us not a syllable of any such suspicion of them.

Answ. But did they say that the Novatians were against Infant-Baptism? Why did you cite neither words, page nor Book? And if they had, should two railing slanderous Papists near a thousand years after Novatian be taken for witnesses that he was against Infant-baptism, against all the History of the Church that concerneth them to the contrary? Socrates himself (an honest Historian) and Sozomen also are ordinarily by the Papists accused as Novatians, because they speak fairly and ⟨p. 254⟩impartially of them as honest men: (and whether they were or not I know not, but by their own words conj•cture the contrary) And they lived when and where the Novatians were best known: And yet tell us not a syllable of any such suspicion of them.