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

§. 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.)

Answ. And have we here any honester dealing than before? Read and judge. That which the Tripartite History cited by him saith is this, that [There was then a Sect called Messalians or Euchetes (known in the Catalogues of Heretics) and called The Praying Heretics) who expected the operation of some Devil thinking him to be the Spirit of God, refusing to work and giving themselves to lie and sleep to expect Revelations; Indeed their opinion was that Prayer was all, and Baptism and the Lords Supper were nothing, dicentes Divinum cibum nihil nec prodesse nec laedere; that the Sacred or Sacramental food, did neither profit nor hurt: These men were led by one Dadoes, Sabbos, Adelphius, Hermas and Simeon: And Adelphus when old (for they hid their opinion) bewrayed his error in a speech to Flavian of Antioch; that Baptism doth the Baptized person no good, but prayer only expelleth the Devil. And 1. These men were no more against Infant-Baptism than ⟨p. 268⟩against the adults Baptism. For they were above all Ordinances save Prayer. 2. They were against neither as unlawful, but against both and other ordinances as unprofitable. 3. They carried this much in secret; which they could not have concealed had they not Baptized Infants. 4. Some heretics, and all Infidels and Pagans were against all Baptism as well as they: And doth any of this prove that any one Christian was against Infant Baptism more than adult?

Answ. And have we here any honester dealing than before? Read and judge. That which the Tripartite History cited by him saith is this, that [There was then a Sect called Messalians or Euchetes (known in the Catalogues of Hereticks) and called The Praying Hereticks) who expected the operation of some Devil thinking him to be the Spirit of God, refusing to work and giving themselves to lie and sleep to expect Revelations; Indeed their opinion was that Prayer was all, and Baptism and the Lords Supper were nothing, dicentes Divinum cibum nihil nec prodesse nec laedere; that the Sacred or Sacramental food, did neither profit nor hurt: These men were led by one Dadoes, Sabbos, Adelphius, Hermas and Simeon: And Adelphus when old (for they hid their opinion) bewrayed his error in a speech to Flavian of Antioch; that Baptism doth the Baptized person no good, but prayer only expelleth the Devil. And 1. These men were no more against Infant-Baptism than