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CHAP. II. His impenitent false allegation of witnesses against Infant Baptism: Tertullian, &c. specially Wycliffe.

CHAP. II. His impenitent false allegation of witnesses against Infant Baptism: Tertullian, &c. specially Wickliff.

§. 1. I have before said, that I have said so much out of Scripture and Antiquity, for Infants Church-membership and Baptism, to which I have yet seen no Answer that should satisfy an impartial man, either from Mr. Tombs, Mr. Danvers, or any other, that I will not lose time and labour in replying to their frivolous exceptions. And here I meddle directly but with the matter of fact, because by ostentation of history, Mr. D. would seduce the ignorant into the belief of gross untruths. I began with Tertullian, who is his first witness, in his Catalogue, reprinted here in his reply.

§. 1. I have before said, that I have said so much out of Scripture and Antiquity, for Infants Church-membership and Baptism, to which I have yet seen no Answer that should satisfie an impartial man, either from Mr. Tombes, Mr. Danvers, or any other, that I will not lose time and labour in replying to their frivolous exceptions. And here I meddle directly but with the matter of fact, because by ostentation of history, Mr. D. would seduce the ignorant into the belief of gross untruths. I began with Tertullian, who is his first witness, in his Catalogue, reprinted here in his reply.

§. 2. And why have we no satisfactory answer to these things so oft replied? 1. That Tertullians words prove that Infant-Baptism was then in use: And it is the matter of fact that we are searching after? 2. And doth he think that Antichrist was before Tertullians time? 3. The opinion of Tertullian seemeth not at all to be against the Lawfulness of Infant Baptism, in general; but against the eligibleness of it in case of no apparent danger of death. For I have oft proved that the judgement of that age, and