A41329:93
The plea of the children of believing-parents for their interest in Abraham's covenant, their…
The plea of the children of believing-parents for their interest in Abraham's covenant, their right to church-member-ship with their parents, and consequently their title to baptism. The cause of publishing this discourse after so many learned men have laboured in this province, is declared in the preface to the reader. By Giles Firmin.
London: printed for Tho. Simons, 1683
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.
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.]
The Ministers in the Vallies of Piemont, 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 Vallies, 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.]
In the Confession of the Faith of the Waldenses in Bohemia, (so Vergerius three times calls them) the 12th Article Declares for Infant-baptism, Anno 1535. As the Anabaptists rose up, so the Churches drew up their Confessions against them: The Ministers in their Preface to their Confession, write, That some malicious Spirits, because they would cast all the Odium upon them that they could, did reckon them amongst the Anabaptists. But they answer, Nos ex factione Anabaptistarum non esse, nemini ignotum est. All men know they were none of that Faction, nor had any thing to do with the Anabaptists. The Doctrine they confessed in their Churches, they held and owned, before the name of the Anabaptists was so much as heard of.
So that my Author hath plainly abused both the old Britons, and the Waldenses.
So that my Author hath plainly abused both the old Britains, and the Waldenses.