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

§. 33. And if this had been as true as it is false (that the old Britons were against Infant-Baptism) it would inform these men that it is not delaying Baptism till riper age, that will keep it from formality, nor the Church from falling into all impiety: For if our eldest historian Gildas may be believed (and who may if not he?) his Countrymen the Britons, were Princes, Priests and People fallen to such abominable wickedness, murder, drunkenness, filthy lusts, deceit, theft, cruelty &c. that he takes the Princes for wolves and monsters, and the Priests for no Priests but traitors, (excepting some good men among them) &c. It is neither Infant nor Adult Baptism that will secure against the corrupting of Churches, but Grace with either hath saved souls.

§. 33. And if this had been as true as it is false (that the old Britains were against Infant-Baptism) it would inform these men that it is not delaying Baptism till riper age, that will keep it from formality, nor the Church from falling into all impiety: For if our eldest historian Gildas may be believed (and who may if not he?) his Countrymen the Britains, were Princes, Priests and People fallen to such abhominable wickedness, murder, drunkenness, filthy lusts, deceit, theft, cruelty &c. that he takes the Princes for wolves and monsters, and the Priests for no Priests but traytors, (excepting some good men among them) &c. It is neither Infant nor Adult Baptism that will secure against the corrupting of Churches, but Grace with either hath saved souls.

§. 34. He cites himself here Fox, quoting Bede, Polychron. and others. And what say they? [Baptizing after the manner of Rome] And what's that to his question? But he tells you that Fa••an saith [that you give Christendom to children.] I have not Fabian to examine: but if he do, when he knoweth that he is an empty f•llow, of the other day as it were and that he hath nothing but what cometh from Gregory, and Bede; and that in them there is no such thing: will a k••wn falsification of a […] about nine hundred years after, disprove the yet visible words of the […], which undertake to give you not only the sese but the very ter ?