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

§. 13. His second proof is this, Cassandra in his Epistle to the Duke of Cleave saith, that Guitmund Bishop of Averse doth affirm that he did deny baptism to Little Ones, &c.

§. 13. His second proof is this, Cassandra in his Epistle to the Duke of Cleve saith, that Guitmund Bishop of Averse doth affirm that he did deny baptism to Little Ones, &c.

Answ. 1. Cassander in neither of his Epistles to the Duke of Cleave mentioneth any such matter. But in his Preface to his Book for Infant-baptism to the Duke of Cleave, he saith that Guitmund saith [Quod inter caeteros errors, parvulorum baptismum everterit, quem tamen errorem in publicum non produxit, quod eam blasphemiam ut Guitm. loquitur, ne pessimorum quidem hominum aures toleraturas sciret, & in Scripturis sacris locum ejus erroris tuendi penitus non videret.]

Answ. 1. Cassander in neither of his Epistles to the Duke of Cleve mentioneth any such matter. But in his Preface to his Book for Infant-baptism to the Duke of Cleve, he saith that Guitmund saith [Quod inter caeteros errores, parvulorum baptismum everterit, quem tamen errorem in publicum non produxit, quod eam blasphemiam ut Guitm. loquitur, ne pessimorum quidem hominum aures toleraturas sciret, & in Scripturis sacris locum ejus erroris tuendi penitus non videret.]

Mark here Reader, 1. Berengarius is not said to deny Infant-baptism, but to overturn it, (that is, by some consequence it's like.) 2. He did not publish this his opinion, but held it unpublished: And how then did Guitmund know it? 3. Was Berengarius as honest or as stout a man as he is supposed, and yet when Infants were daily baptized, would never speak out his thoughts of the evil of it? 4. Either he baptized Infants himself, or not. If he did, was he against it then? What a Knave do they make him that so say? If not, his opinion must needs be published by his practice, when they whose ears could not tolerate it,