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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.
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§. 49. The next in his Catalogue is, [Egyptian Divines] but after in his book before it he tells you of one Berinius an eminent learned man that professed instruction to be necessary before baptism, and that without it baptism ought not to be administered to high or low] and citeth Bede l. 4. c. 16.
§. 49. The next in his Catalogue is, [Aegyptian Divines] but after in his book before it he tells you of one Berinius an eminent learned man that professed instruction to be necessary before baptism, and that without it baptism ought not to be administred to high or low] and citeh Beda l. 4. c. 16.
Reader, the passage in Bede is but this, That Ceadwall having conquered the Isle of Wight gave it to Bishop Wilfrid (no friend to Anabaptists) who gave it his Sisters Son Bernwin appointing him a Priest called Hildila, who by his labour among the Heathens converted and baptized two of the Kings Sons, who were baptized and had a strange deliverance. And is there a syllable in this story that Infant-baptism is concerned in? No nor a word of one Berinus an eminent learned man that professed as he saith, though it be nothing to the purpose: Nor was the business done as he saith in Lower Saxony but in the Isle of Wight; so little is there that hath the least kin to truth in this lamentable Reporter.
Reader, the passage in Beda is but this, That Ceadwall having conquered the Isle of Wight gave it to Bishop Wilfrid (no friend to Anabaptists) who gave it his Sisters Son Bernwin appointing him a Priest called Hildila, who by his labour among the Heathens converted and baptized two of the Kings Sons, who were baptized and had a strange deliverance. And is there a syllable in this story that Infant-baptism is concerned in? No nor a word of one Berinus an eminent learned man that professed as he saith, though it be nothing to the purpose: Nor was the business done as he saith in Lower Saxony but in the Isle of Wight; so little is there that hath the least kin to truth in this lamentable Reporter.