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

1. Because they received the Scriptures, the Christian Faith, Doctrine and Discipline from the Apostles and Asiatic Churches, who had no such thing as the Baptizing of Infants among them?

1. Because they received the Scriptures, the Christian Faith, Doctrine and Discipline from the Apostles and Asiatick Churches, who had no such thing as the Baptizing of Infants among them?

Answ. No such thing in the Asiatics Churches? He might as well say, There is now no such thing in England. But perhaps he'll say that he meaneth in the Apostles time or soon after: Of which you have tried▪ part of his strength. But when he hath studied well Bishop Ushers Primordia who saith all that is to be said for our Antiquity, he will find no proof that we had our Religion from the Apostles or any in their time.

Answ. No such thing in the Asiaticks Churches? He might as well say, There is now no such thing in England. But perhaps hee'l say that he meaneth in the Apostles time or soon after: Of which you have tryed▪ part of his strength. But when he hath studied well Bishop Ʋshers Primordia who saith all that is to be said for our Antiquity, he will find no proof that we had our Religion from the Apostles or any in their time.

§. 36. But ask the man whether Asia it self long before the days of Gregory had not Infant-Baptism? And whether they received not the Scriptures and Religion as certainly from the Asiatic Churches, and so from the Apostles, as the Britons did? And whether this will prove that at that time they were against Infant-Baptism? If not, why will it prove the same of the Britons?