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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
Text 1 › Chapter 3: Mr. D.'s Justification of his slander of the Waldenses, Confuted more largely.
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§. 1. IN his Reply p. 108. he reassumeth this Calumny. And first he reciteth their Confession to prove it: as if he wanted matter to fill his Book, not having one word against Infant-baptism in that which is by himself recited: But it must be inferred, if such a man as this be to be believed, because faith is required (in the adult, and them that Covenant for Infants) and because Traditions and Inventions are disclaimed, and such like. Had the man dealt by the Waldenses but as he doth by me, when citing my words he will prove that my words are for him while I am against him, (as if I understood not what I say) it had been much less. But to face down the world that the Waldenses denied Infant-baptism for such silly reasons, is intolerable. It is not worth the labour to show him how the Protestants agree with the Waldenses in all the points where he feigneth a disagreement, p. 112.
§. 1. IN his Reply p. 108. he reassumeth this Calumny. And first he reciteth their Confession to prove it: as if he wanted matter to fill his Book, not having one word against Infant-baptism in that which is by himself recited: But it must be inferred, if such a man as this be to be believed, because faith is required (in the adult, and them that Covenant for Infants) and because Traditions and Inventions are disclaimed, and such like. Had the man dealt by the Waldenses but as he doth by me, when citing my words he will prove that my words are for him while I am against him, (as if I understood not what I say) it had been much less. But to face down the world that the Waldenses denied Infant-baptism for such silly reasons, is intolerable. It is not worth the labour to shew him how the Protestants agree with the Waldenses in all the points where he feigneth a disagreement, p. 112.
§. 2. Yet doth the man break out into admiration that he having with exactness given a particular account of all those Confessions word ⟨p. 380⟩for word, — and proved by ample demonstrations, 1. That none of them were extant till the sixteenth Century, &c.