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

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⟩duo baptismi priores sunt signa Antecedentia, & ex suppositione necessaria ad istum tertium baptismum flaminis.] See here how far this man is to be believed. 2. But though Wycliffe called Water-Baptism an antecedent sign, yet most Protestant Writers I think hold that believers Infants have by virtue of Gods Covenant the Baptism of the Spirit, (that is, a seed or disposition to future gracious acts if they live); and that they are in a state of salvation before they are Baptized, being the children of the faithful by them dedicated to God, by heart-consent, and that Baptism is but the public solemnization of the same Covenant, and delivery of the blessings by way of investiture. Let Mr. D. read but all the testimonies cited by Mr. Gataker in his book of Baptism, against Dr. Ward, and Bishop Davenant, and he will see this is no opinion proper to the Anabaptists: And I scarce believe that he can prove me and all Protestants that hold that opinion, to be therefore against Infant-Baptism: How then would it have proved Wycliffe so?

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. Wickliff saith no such thing that it must be first: Nay I doubt he saith quite contrary as I have recited. [Ideo ⟨p. 365⟩duo baptismi priores sunt signa Antecedentia, & ex suppositione necessaria ad istum tertium baptismum flaminis.] See here how far this man is to be believed. 2. But though Wickliff called Water-Baptism an antecedent sign, yet most Protestant Writers I think hold that believers Infants have by virtue of Gods Covenant the Baptism of the Spirit, (that is, a seed or disposition to future gracious acts if they live); and that they are in a state of salvation before they are Baptized, being the children of the faithful by them dedicated to God, by heart-consent, and that Baptism is but the publick solemnization of the same Covenant, and delivery of the blessings by way of investiture. Let Mr. D. read but all the testimonies cited by Mr. Gataker in his book of Baptism, against Dr. Ward, and Bishop Davenant, and he will see this is no opinion proper to the Anabaptists: And I scarce believe that he can prove me and all Protestants that hold that opinion, to be therefore against Infant-Baptism: How then would it have proved Wickliff so?