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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.
Answ. Reader, thou seest still how thou art used. Faustus Rhegiensis is a known Author; his works are common; He is commonly taken for a Semipelagian, and he hath a book to prove that souls are bodies, which Claudianus Mammertus hath answered. But I never read one syllable in him, nor in any other that ever wrote of him or against him, that should make one doubt whether he was for Infant-baptism. Could he be in such a station as he was, and have so many writings, and so many adversaries, and yet hold such an opinion and never be suspected? Do the Anabaptists no better own their cause? But the words he allegeth are but such as he citeth of my own; If truly cited, no doubt spoken only of the adult, ⟨p. 269⟩and of what the Infants do by them. But who can answer words not cited? Must we read all his works again to see if there be such a word, as oft as such a man will talk to us at this rate?
Answ. Reader, thou seest still how thou art used. Faustus Rhegiensis is a known Author; his works are common; He is commonly taken for a Semipelagian, and he hath a book to prove that souls are bodies, which Claudianus Mammertus hath answered. But I never read one syllable in him, nor in any other that ever wrote of him or against him, that should make one doubt whether he was for Infant-baptism. Could he be in such a station as he was, and have so many writings, and so many adversaries, and yet hold such an opinion and never be suspected? Do the Anabaptists no better own their cause? But the words he alledgeth are but such as he citeth of my own; If truly cited, no doubt spoken only of the adult, ⟨p. 269⟩and of what the Infants do by them. But who can answer words not cited? Must we read all his works again to see if there be such a word, as oft as such a man will talk to us at this rate?
§. 45. The next is [Albanus a zealous godly Minister in the sixth Century was put to death for baptizing Believers, though baptized in Infancy or by Heretics.]