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

§. 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?

§. 50. His Testimony of Aegyptian Divines he citeth two late Papists for (instead of just proof) who neither of them ever dreamed that those Aegyptians 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 Aegyptian 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 disswaded from going to the strict Heremites and Monasticks near Aegypt, because they were separated from the Roman Communion, as you may see in Fulgentius's life. But what is all this to Infant-baptism?

§. 51. Next he tells us that in the ninth Century Hincmarus Laudunens. was against Infant-baptism, and reciteth many words of Hincmarus Rhenensis to him.