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A17192	A moste sure and strong defence of the baptisme of children, against [the] pestiferous secte of the Anabaptystes. set furthe by that famouse clerke, Henry Bullynger: & nowe translated out of Laten into Englysh by Ihon Veron Senonoys	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Véron, John, d. 1563.	1551 (1551)	STC 4069; ESTC S109521	39,895	92

theyr childrē Iosu v. Exo. iiii The Apostles were the most faithfull ministers of god Thē did not thei omit or leaue the thinge that was not brought in in stede of the circumcision Ergo thei did baptise not onli thē that were of age but also children v. Fyftely we do thus reason vpō the vse custome of the Aposltes The Apostles of Christ did dyrecte al their doinges to the cōueniencie example of the old testamēt This we do proue by ye. iiii Euangelists the Actes of the apostles by the epistles of the Apostles Rom. xv ii Cor. ii ii Tim. iii. ii Peter .i. chap. Ergo they dyd order baptisme after the Analogie and figure of the old Testament The going through the red sea The goynge thorough the read sea is a figure of baptism was a type figure of the baptisme that was to come .i. Cor. x. cha Children were in the fygure for bothe men and women went through with theyr children Ergo the apostles dyd not denie baptisme vnto the children The custome maner of the scripture whiche custome and maner is vsed almost emong al nations is not to reherce by name women children and yet neuerthelesse it doth include them for in the name of the father of the famylie or of the good man of the house al hys whole famylie is comprehended as in the chiefe or head Yf thys were not women shuld be in no small ieoperdy yf therfore they were not of god because that they be not circumcised Al these thynges are done by the meanes helpe of a figure that is called Sinecdoche The sixte argument shal be taken out of the manifest and expresse testimonies of the apostles The apostles did baptyse al whol housholds and famylies ergo they did baptyse children also for the children are in the number of the famylie or housholde Thys we do proue by the .xvii of Gene. For Abraham doth circumcise al the male children that were in his house For he vnderstode the promys of god that saith I shal be thy god the god of thy sede Likewyse in the new Testament whē the goodman of the house had herd beleued the gospell that is to saie the god was his god the god of his sede also he caused all them that were in his house bothe greate and small to be baptized Thus the apostles dyd baptize hole housholds and famylies That the children do perteyne vnto the fathers housholde famylie it is plaine manifest by the .xii. of Exodus ii of the Actes this do I inculcat beate the oftener into mens heades because that I se the Anabaptistes to be at this poynt that they do exclude the children from the famylie houshold for they can not denye but the hole housholds were baptized by the Apostles But who doth not se that this cometh of mere contention For though they could proue that there were no children at all in the famylies housholdes that the apostles dyd baptise yet had they not proued that al families or housholds were or be wtout childrē wherfore we do make againe our argument after this maner The Apostles baptized al wholl housholdes ergo thei did baptise children syth the childrē are the princypal chief part of the familie houshold But let vs put the case that there were no children in those families housholds that the Apostles dyd baptise yet do they perteine belong to the houshold are rekened in it and yf there had bene any they wolde haue baptized thē For they did baptise the wholl housholde The fault then shuld not haue ben in the Apostles nor in the childrē that thei were not baptized but this had bene the cause that they had bene baptized because that there were none For if they had had children they would haue baptyzed them Seuenthlye we do gather by the hystoryes chronicles that the baptisme of children hath continued euer sens the apostles time vnto this time Origene which in the yeare of our saluation c.c .xii. did liue in the church of Alexandria doth in his v. boke that he did wryt vpon the epistle to the Romaines testifie and witnesse that he hath receaued the baptisme of children from or of the Apostles After this time about the yeare of oure Lorde C.C.lv. the holy man Cipryan was he doth proue that with no small argumentes the baptisme of children in the .iii. boke of hys Epistles and viii epistle Adfidum To fidus In the yere of our lord c.c.c.xx Lactantius did wryte in the .iiii. boke of his diuyne Insttucion the baptism was come in the stede of circūcisiō whereby all natyons should be gathered vnto the faith into the church Lactantius in hys iiii boke iiii chapte Hierome which did lyue about the yere of our lord c.c.c. lxx doth with playn expresse scriptures proue the baptism of children to Leta and agaynst the Pelagians In the same self tyme and .xl. yeares after Augustyn beyng a man endued with great holynesse of lyfe with exceading great erudition learnyng with a sharpe and exacte iugement did teche in Aphrica This man writeth many thinges of baptism against the Donatistes to Marcellinus Petilianus where he doth manifestely saye Chryste coulde not be baptized afore the baptism was instituted by Ihō For the lawe dyd regne tyll them that the church hath receiued the baptisme of children from the apostles I haue brought these thynges therfore that thou mayste see vnderstand that the baptisme of children is no new inuention that they whyche teche suche thinges do leane to no truth but to plaine errour For although christ was not baptized tyll he was .xxx. yeares old yet being an infant he was circūcised vpon the eyght daye that I shoulde in the meane season let passe that baptisme was not yet instituted which had hys begynnyng of Ihon. But now we wyll stryke vp our sayle clothes and shewe how vnkunninglye ye gather your argumentes when ye do reason after this maner We do not read that the apostles dyd baptise the chyldren of the faythfull Ergo they oughte not to be baptised If we shoulde onelye goo by coniectures and reason it is more lykelye that the Apostles dyd baptyse the infauntes then otherwyse in the famylye and housholde of Stephana of Lidia of the keper of the prison of other yf at leste there were any infantes in those famylyes and housholdes Do not thynke good reader that we goo about to defende vnwrytten verytes which examples ye shall neuer be able to cōfute There be many things done both by Christ and by the apostles that neuer were written Nor we can not make our argument after this maner This thinge was not done ergo it may not lawfully be done That we shuld graunt vnto you the the apostles did baptise no children yet haue ye not proued therfore that children ought not to be baptized Again we