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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.
And that this was the plain case is provable, in that it was just the case of Wycliffe and the Waldenses, who were said to do as much as in them lay to cast out Infant-baptism, because they thought that every wicked Priest did not sanctifie them ex opere operato, and infallibly convey Gods grace to the unprepared.
And that this was the plain case is proveable, in that it was just the case of Wickliff and the Waldenses, who were said to do as much as in them lay to cast out Infant-baptism, because they thought that every wicked Priest did not sanctifie them ex opere operato, and infallibly convey Gods grace to the unprepared.
But his proofs are [1. The Magdeb. tell us that Berengarius maintained his heresies, which they set down to be denying Transubstantiation, and Baptism to little ones, under five heads, which Lanfranc Arch-Bishop of Canterbury answers at large in his book called Scintillaris: and as to that of denying Infant-baptism he answers by saying, he doth thereby oppose the general Doctrine and universal Consent of the Church.
But his proofs are [1. The Magdeb. tell us that Berengarius maintained his heresies, which they set down to be denying Transubstantiation, and Baptism to little ones, under five heads, which Lanfrank Arch-Bishop of Canterbury answers at large in his book called Scintillaris: and as to that of denying Infant-baptism he answers by saying, he doth thereby oppose the general Doctrine and universal Consent of the Church.
Answ. 1. I have not the Magdeb. at hand, but he hath little to do that will ask Illyricus, and Gallus and Amsdorfius what Lanfranc writeth, if he have his book before him. The publisher of Lanfranc's book against Berengarius giveth us notice of no other. Trithemius de script. Eccles. knew of no other but this, which is in Bibl. Patr. Tom. 6. p. 190. And I have looked over every line of it (such labour do these men put us to) and I find not one word where any such thing is mentioned