The plea of the children of believing-parents for their interest in Abraham's covenant, their…

So then for the old Britons, they were not against Infant-baptism: Now then for the Waldenses, were I to charge any Opinion or practice upon other Churches, I should first look to the Confession of their Faith, then I may boldly charge them or not. As we have a few Anabaptistical Writers in England, should their Books a hundred years hence fall into the hands of Anabaptists in foreign parts, should they then affirm that the Church of England, [or the Churches in England] were Anabaptists, would not this be false, and take it as a wrong done unto us? View the Confession of Faith of the Church of England, of the Assembly of Divines, of the Independents in England, in New England, all their Confessions declare for Infant-baptism. Thus should my Author have done, if he would deal honestly with the Waldenses, produce their Confession of Faith, and the Article in which they condemn Infant-baptism. In the Articles which I have read over, I find no such thing, but that Baptism ought to be Administered only with pure Water, without any mixture of hallowed Oil.

So then for the old Britains, they were not against Infant-baptism: Now then for the Waldenses, were I to charge any Opinion or practice upon other Churches, I should first look to the Confession of their Faith, then I may boldly charge them or not. As we have a few Anabaptistical Writers in England, should their Books a hundred years hence fall into the hands of Anabaptists in foreign parts, should they then assirm that the Church of England, [or the Churches in England] were Anabaptists, would not this be false, and take it as a wrong done unto us? View the Confession of Faith of the Church of England, of the Assembly of Divines, of the Independents in England, in New England, all their Confessions declare for Infant-baptism. Thus should my Author have done, if he would deal honestly with the Waldenses, produce their Confession of Faith, and the Article in which they condemn Infant-baptism. In the Articles which I have read over, I find no such thing, but that Baptism ought to be Administred only with pure Water, without any mixture of hallowed Oyl.

The Ministers in the Valleys of Piedmont, in the year 1532, when the Anabaptists in Germany were risen up, in the 17th Article of their Confession, declare for Infant-baptism: The Churches in those Valleys, kept chaste to Christ from the Apostles times, and were long before the Waldenses were named; they were called Waldenses, but this was a Nick-name put upon them by their Adversaries, to make the World believe, that their Religion was but a Novelty. [Morland. p. 12.]