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

Answ. What abundance of untruths will one mans head hold! 1. He would make the ignorant believe that the French Churches that sent over Germanus and Lupus were such as after were called Waldenses: When yet before he citeth Perin saying that the Waldenses were the offspring of the Novatians banished from Rome. Bede Hist. Eccl. lib. 1. c. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. tells us briefly that the Britons being infected with Pelagianism by Agricola the son of Severianus a Pelagian Bishop, sent to France for help, as being unable themselves to dispute the case. The Bishops of France in a great Synod agreed to send Germanus Bishop of Altissiodore, and Lupus Bishop of Trecasse (brother to Vincentius Lerinensis.) Prosper in his Chronicle tells us that Germanus was sent by Pope Celestine by the instigation of Palladius a Deacon: Usher reciteth and rejecteth not Baronius his conciliation, that it was done by the Pope and French Bishops. Germanus and Lupus come over, and work miracles by the way, and here Germanus carried a box with him of the Relics of all the Apostles and many Martyrs (Bede c. 18.) This he layeth to the eyes of a blind maid and cured her suddenly, which confounded the Pelagians: These Relics he buried in St. Albans Sepulchre; And instead of them took with him some of the dust where St. Albans blood had been shed, ⟨p. 264⟩which remained red till then. And after other miracles and a victory he returned with a prosperous navigation, saith Bede c. 20. by his own Merits and St. Albans intercession. Afterwards he returned again in a second necessity with Severus, and delivered the Britons from Pelagianism, who yet lived in such wickedness as Bede after Gildas describeth.

Answ. What abundance of untruths will one mans head hold! 1. He would make the ignorant believe that the French Churches that sent over Germanus and Lupus were such as after were called Waldenses: When yet before he citeth Perin saying that the Waldenses were the offspring of the Novatians banished from Rome. Beda Hist. Eccl. lib. 1. c. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. tells us briefly that the Britains being infected with Pelagianism by Agricola the son of Severianus a Pelagian Bishop, sent to France for help, as being unable themselves to dispute the case. The Bishops of France in a great Synod agreed to send Germanus Bishop of Altissiodore, and Lupus Bishop of Trecasse (brother to Vincentius Lerinensis.) Prosper in his Chronicle tells us that Germanus was sent by Pope Celestine by the instigation of Palladius a Deacon: Ʋsher reciteth and rejecteth not Baronius his conciliation, that it was done by the Pope and French Bishops. Germanus and Lupus come over, and work miracles by the way, and here Germanus carried a box with him of the Reliques of all the Apostles and many Martyrs (Beda c. 18.) This he layeth to the eyes of a blind maid and cured her suddedly, which confounded the Pelagians: These Reliques he buryed in St. Albanes Sepulchre; And instead of them took with him some of the dust where St. Albanes blood had been shed,