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

§. 10. But he hath many pretended reasons to prove that Wycliffe was against Infant-Baptism, and some of them out of the very Chapters which I have transcribed: 1. Saith he, He asserted two Sacraments. 2. That believers must be baptized in pure water, (And what are these to the purpose?) 3 That believers are the only subjects of Baptism (A gross untruth) (But he giveth you the words that prove it [Ideo absque dubitatione si iste insensibilis baptismus affuerit, baptizatus à crimine est mundatus: & si ille defuerit, quantumcunque essent priores, baptismus non prodest animae ad salutem]. I gave you the words before. And did the man think that this is any thing to his purpose? Wycliffe saith, [Water Baptism saveth no soul (young or old) without the Baptism of the Spirit.] Therefore saith Mr. D. Wycliffe saith, that Believers are the only subjects of Baptism.] Will he make the Church of his mind by such palpable falsehoods as these?

§. 10. But he hath many pretended reasons to prove that Wickliff was against Infant-Baptism, and some of them out of the very Chapters which I have transcribed: 1. Saith he, He asserted two Sacraments. 2. That believers must be baptized in pure water, (And what are these to the purpose?) 3 That believers are the only subjects of Baptism (A gross untruth) (But he giveth you the words that prove it [Ideo absque dubitatione si iste insensibilis baptismus affuerit, baptizatus à crimine est mundatus: & si ille defuerit, quantumcunque essent priores, baptismus non prodest animae ad salutem]. I gave you the words before. And did the man think that this is any thing to his purpose? Wickliff saith, [Water Baptism saveth no soul (young or old) without the Baptism of the Spirit.] Therefore saith Mr. D. Wickliff saith, that Believers are the only subjects of Baptism.] Will he make the Church of his mind by such palpable falshoods as these?

But he adds, [He saith that persons are first to be Baptized with that he calls the insensible Baptism, before water, &c.] Answ. 1. Utterly false: It is his own forgery. Wycliffe saith no such thing that it must be first: Nay I doubt he saith quite contrary as I have recited. [Ideo ⟨p. 365⟩