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

To this Wycliffe answereth, 1. In this Chap. that •ome things he speaketh assertively, and some things reputatively; and so revieweth the case. And 1. saith that Christ approveth outward signs, but not the abuse of them. That is, 1. When the signs of the old Jewish Law are kept. 2. By an immodest espo• sing them, and preferring them before Gods Decalogue. 3. By burdening the Church with ⟨p. 358⟩them which Christ would have free; even more than the Jewish Church was burdened: And thus the Religious now (saith he) abuse them the two last ways.

To this Wickliffe answereth, 1. In this Chap. that •ome things he speaketh assertively, and some things reputatively; and so revieweth the case. And 1. saith that Christ approveth outward signs, but not the abuse of them. That is, 1. When the signs of the old Jewish Law are kept. 2. By an inmodest espo• sing them, and preferring them before Gods Decalogue. 3. By burthening the Church with ⟨p. 358⟩them which Christ would have free; even more than the Jewish Church was burthened: And thus the Religious now (saith he) abuse them the two last wayes.

And in the Twelfth Chapter he proceedeth to answer the rest [Videtur mihi probabile quod Christus satis posset sine lotion hujus, infants spiritualiter baptizare, et per consequens salvare: unde dicitur communiter quod triplex est baptismus Ecclesiae, viz. baptismus fluminis, baptismus sanguinis, baptismus flaminis, et quilibet eorum comparibus sufficit ad salutem—Nec audeo asserere quod Infantes occisi pro Christo sint damnati — Baptismus autem flaminis est bapt. sp. sancti, qui est simpliciter necessarius cuilibet homini si salvetur. Ideo duo baptismi priores sunt signa antecedentia, et ex suppositione necessaria ad istum tertium baptismum flaminis. Ideo absque dubietate, si iste insensibilis baptismus ad fuerit, baptizatus est à crimine mundatus. Et si iste defuerit, quantumcunque adsint priores, baptismus non prodest animae ad salutem. Ideo cum recte sit insensibilis, & tantum nobis ignotus, videtur mihi imprudens praesumptio taliter salvationem hominis vel damnationem ex baptismo definire. Reputamus tamen absque dubietate ☞Quod Infantes recte baptizati flumine, sint baptizati tertio baptismate, cum habent gratiam baptismalem. — Non enim licet fidelibus supponendo baptismum flaminis, baptismum fluminis omnino relinquere, sed necesse est data opportunitate circumstantiae ipsum accipere. Et