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

And lib. de Anima Tertullian saith, Apostolos ex sanctificato alterutro sexu sanctos procreari ait, tam ex seminis praerogativa quam ex institutionis disciplina—Omnis Anima in Adam censetur, donec in Christo recenseatur: See the rest there for Infants birth holiness.

§. 3. His renewed reproaches of Cyprian, as having Antichristian doctrine, and his renewed questioning whether there were ever such a Council as that at Carthage mentioned, are things so audacious and gross that they need no further answer. pag. 90.

§. 4. And his citation of Austin pag. 94. [that which had not been instituted in Councils, &c.] is nothing against this authority, or to disprove its Apostolical traduction; For it is easy for him to see, 1. That it was not whether Infants should be Baptized that was the question, but whether it should be done before the eighth day? 2. That this Council was so far from Instituting Infant Baptism, that it was never brought into doubt or question among them, but taken as the unquestioned practice of the Church.

§. 4. And his citation of Austin pag. 94. [that which had not been instituted in Councils, &c.] is nothing against this authority, or to disprove its Apostolical traduction; For it is easie for him to see, 1. That it was not whether Infants should be Baptized that was the question, but whether it should be done before the eighth day? 2. That this Council was so far from Instituting Infant Baptism, that it was never brought into doubt or question among them, but taken as the unquestioned practice of the Church.