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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.
§. 52. Reader, the truth is I am so weary of this work, that I cannot persuade my self to follow it any further, it is so sad and loathsome a business that is set before us; fitter to be wept over than answered at large. I shall yet take notice of what he saith of the Waldenses, and to that further say, 1. That I have elsewhere vindicated them already from this slander. 2. That so do many of their bitter adversaries, in laying no such thing to their charge. Among whom to what is said elsewhere, I add but the Testimony of Nauclerus a Popish bitter enemy to them, who Vol. 2. part 2. pag. 265. reciteth their Doctrine as being agreeable with the body of Doctrine held in the Reformed Churches, never mentioning any denial of Infant-baptism, but only that they affirmed Water to be sufficient without Oil.
§. 52. Reader, the truth is I am so weary of this work, that I cannot perswade my self to follow it any further, it is so sad and loathsom a business that is set before us; fitter to be wept over than answered at large. I shall yet take notice of what he saith of the Waldenses, and to that further say, 1. That I have elsewhere vindicated them already from this slander. 2. That so do many of their bitter adversaries, in laying no such thing to their charge. Among whom to what is said elsewhere, I add but the Testimony of Nauclerus a Popish bitter enemy to them, who Vol. 2. part 2. pag. 265. reciteth their Doctrine as being agreeable with the body of Doctrine held in the Reformed Churches, never mentioning any denial of Infant-baptism, but only that they affirmed Water to be sufficient without Oyl.
AND now as to our Testimonies for the Common practice of Infant-baptism from the days of the Apostles, I will not abuse the Reader by reciting again the testimonies long ago recited. Let him but consider what I have there said out of Justin, Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, Cyprian, Nazianzene, Augustin and others, and I leave the matter to his Judgement.
AND now as to our Testimonies for the Common practice of Infant-baptism from the daies of the Apostles, I will not abuse the Reader by reciting again the testimonies long ago recited. Let him but consider what I have there said out of Justin, Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, Cyprian, Nazianzene, Augustin and others, and I leave the matter to his Judgement.