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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.
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.
§. 3. In Roger Wendover (our chiefest ancient Chronicler, and one that he oft citeth himself, and therefore should have read) In Hen. 2. fol. 319. b. You have a Confession of the Tholousians called Boni homines in which are these words [Credimus etiam quod non salvatur quis, nisi qui baptizatur; & parvulos salvari per baptisma.] That is, [We believe also that none is saved but he that is baptized, and that little children are saved by baptism] (For we find that it was the denial of the saving virtue of wicked Priests baptism (to young or old) as working ex opere operato, which occasioned their accusations:) would you have a fuller proof?
Usher de succes. Eccl. c. 6. p. 155, &c. giveth us the Catalogue of their opinions as reported by Aeneas Sylvius (after Pope Pius the second) where there is somewhat of theirs against Confirmation, Chrism, Extreme Unction, &c. but not a word against Infant-baptism; adding the consent of Jacob. Picolomin. Anton. Bonfin. Bern. Lutzenburg. Another Catalogue he ⟨p. 381⟩giveth out of the Magdeb. hist. Centur. 12. c. 8. col. 1206, 1207. as taken out of an old M.S. where is not a word against Infant-baptism: Yea reciteth Will. Reynolds a bitter Papists Catalogue, where there is no such thing: Yea, mentioneth nine points more in which Parsons, Sanders, Coccius say they differ from us, but none of this. And pag. 242. c. 8. he tells you of Gretser's own confession that they were none but the Waldenses that Hoveden speaketh of, that made the foresaid Confession, though accused of Arianism. See more testimonies of many others, pag. 306, 307, 308.
Ʋsher de succes. Eccl. c. 6. p. 155, &c. giveth us the Catalogue of their opinions as reported by Aeneas Sylvius (after Pope Pius the second) where there is somewhat of theirs against Confirmation, Chrism, Extream Unction, &c. but not a word against Infant-baptism; adding the consent of Jacob. Picolomin. Anton. Bonfin. Bern. Lutzenburg. Another Catalogue he