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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 42. 6. His last proof that the Britons were against Infant Baptism, is because Augustine the Monk was himself so raw and ignorant in the rite, as to ask, How long the Baptizing of a child might be deferred, there being no danger of death?]
§. 42. 6. His last proof that the Britains were against Infant Baptism, is because Augustine the Monk was himself so raw and ignorant in the rite, as to ask, How long the Baptizing of a child might be deferred, there being no danger of death?]
Answ. I grow ashamed that I have meddled with such a Collector: A baculo ad angulum. Doth it not rather imply that there was no controversy ⟨p. 267⟩between him and the Britons about Infant-Baptism, seeing he never mentioned any such thing?
Answ. I grow ashamed that I have medled with such a Collector: A baculo ad angulum. Doth it not rather imply that there was no controversie ⟨p. 267⟩between him and the Britains about Infant-Baptism, seeing he never mentioned any such thing?
§. 43. His next witnesses against Infant-Baptism are in the fourth Century, called by him Dadoes, Sabas, Adulphus, and Simonis who (saith he in his catalogue) oppose it. And p. 229. he saith to prove it, but that they were charged to have an ill opinion of the Sacrament of the Altar and of Infants Baptism. And he citeth Histor. Tripartita li. 7. c. 11. (and some fellow an hundred years ago.)