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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. I have not Waldensis at hand, but have little cause to believe Mr. D. 2. And Fuller who undertaketh to recite Waldensis charge, hath not a word of any such sense. 3. If bitter Papists so accuse him, is it therefore true? Judge by his own words. Indeed Wycliffe held that sacramental baptism saveth none (young or old) without the baptism of the spirit; and that it may be separated from it: And hence was the Papists noise against him.
Answ. 1. I have not Waldensis at hand, but have little cause to believe Mr. D. 2. And Fuller who undertaketh to recite Waldensis charge, hath not a word of any such sense. 3. If bitter Papists so accuse him, is it therefore true? Judge by his own words. Indeed Wickliff held that sacramental baptism saveth none (young or old) without the baptism of the spirit; and that it may be separated from it: And hence was the Papists noise against him.
8. Saith he [As a further argument that he denied Infant-baptism, may appear, because he did so vehemently impugn Confirmation, &c.
Answ. 1. Here we have Fuller out of Cochleus falsely again. 2. Are all Protestants against Infant-baptism, that are against the Popish Sacrament of Confirmation? What a prover is this man? Is Dallaeus that hath written so large a disputation of Confirmation, an Anabaptist? And the English Nonconformists too? 3. But in very deed, Mr. D.'s falsehood and Wickliffs opinion for Infant-baptism, may very probably be gathered from that (not fifteenth as he, but) fourteenth Chapt. of Confirmation: For, 1. He reprehendeth the ⟨p. 370⟩Bishops for adding so many Ceremonies to Infant-baptism, never blaming their baptism it self. 2. He argueth against confirming children, as superfluous, because the spirit is given in baptism it self [& confirmatur ex hoc quod baptizatos nostros dicimus regulariter Spiritum Sanctum accipere eo ipso quo legitime baptizantur, that is, And it is hence confirmed, in that we say that our baptized ones do regularly receive the Holy Ghost, in that (or by that very thing) that they are lawfully baptized.] And he had before said that they are offered to Baptism in the Church according to Christs Rule.