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

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.

§. 50. His Testimony of Egyptian Divines he citeth two late Papists for (instead of just proof) who neither of them ever dreamed that those Egyptians were against Infant-Baptism. ⟨p. 273⟩That the adult should be Catechised and instructed before Baptism, all the Christian world agreed: That there were some Monasteries of the Egyptian Monks that would not hold communion with the Church of Rome, is known; and what a turn was made among many of the Clergy after the Council of Chalcedon on Dioscor•s his account, whereupon a great body of the Southern Churches cut off from Rome, and disowning them are called Nestorians (many injuriously) to this day. And Fulgentius was dissuaded from going to the strict Hermits and Monastics near Egypt, because they were separated from the Roman Communion, as you may see in Fulgentius's life. But what is all this to Infant-baptism?