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A36663 A treatise of baptism wherein that of believers and that of infants is examined by the Scriptures, with the history of both out of antiquity : making it appear that infants baptism was not practised for near 300 years after Christ ... and that the famous Waldensian and old British churches and Christians witnessed against it : with the examination of the stories about Thomas Munzer, and John a Leyden : as also, the history of Christianity amongst the ancient Britains and Waldenses : and, a brief answer to Mr. Bunyan about communion with persons unbaptized / by H.D. Danvers, Henry, d. 1687. 1673 (1673) Wing D233; ESTC R35615 154,836 411

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Creed only they blaspheme the Church of God and hold it in contempt and therein they are easily believed of the People And again Jacob de Riberia Secretary to the King of France in his Collections of Tholouse hath these words viz. The Waldenses or Lugdenses have continued a long time the first place they lived in was in Narbone in France and in the Diocess of Albie c. who disputed of Religion more subtilly than all others were after admitted by the Priests to Teach publickly not for that they approved their Opinion but because they were not comparable to them in Wit In so great honour was the Sect of these men that they were both exempted from all Charges and Impositions and obtained more benefit by the Wills and Testaments of the Dead than the Priests A man would not hurt his enemy if he should meet him upon the way accompanied with one of these Hereticks in so much that the safety of all men seemed to consist in their protection Du Plessis Myst Iniquit p. 331. Amongst the Rules and Directions Reinerius gives to discover these Hereticks by as he calls them these are written by him as you will find them in the Bib. Pat. printed at Paris 1624. Reinerius Hereticks saith he are known by Words and Manners They are in Manners composed and modest no pride in Apparel because they are therein neither costly nor sordid They transact their affairs without lying fraud and swearing being most upon Handicrafts Trades Yea their Doctors or Teachers are Weavers and Shoomakers who do not multiply Riches but content themselves with necessary things These Lyonists are very chaste and temperate both in Meats and Drinks who neither haunt Taverns or Stews They ●o much curb their Passians they are alwaies either working teaching or learning c. very frequent in their Assemblies and Worships c. They are very modest and precise in their words avoiding Scurrility Detraction Levity and Falshood Neither will they say so much as Verily Truly nor such like as bordering too much upon Swearing as they conceive but they usually say Yea and Nay Claudius Claudius Archbishop of Turin in his Treatise against the Waldenses gives this Testimony of them That as touching their Lives and Manners they have been alwaies sound and unreproveable without reproach or scandal amongst men giving themselves to their power to the observation of the Commandments of God Perins H●st p 40. The Cardinal Baronius Baronius attributeth to the Waldenses of Tholouse the Title of good men and that they were a peaceable People Baron Tom. 12. An. 1176. 835. However he elsewhere saith Perin imputeth unto them sundry Crimes and that very falsly The Lord Hailon Bernard de Girard Lord of Haillon saith in his Histor of France Lib. 10. The Waldenses have been charged with wicked things they are not guilty of because saith he they stirred the Popes and great Men of the World to hate them for the Liberty of their Speech which they used in condemning the Vices and dissolute Behaviour of Princes and Ecclesiastical persons Viret Viret Lib. 4. c. 13. p. 249. speaks of the Waldenses as followeth The Papists saith he have imposed great Crimes and that very wrongfully upon those Antient Faithful People commonly called Waldenses or the poor People of Lyons whose Doctrine makes appear That the Pope is Antichrist and that his Doctrine is nothing else but Humane Traditions contrary to the Doctrine of Christ Jesus For which cause they have dealt against them as the Antient Panims did against the Christians accusing them that they killed their own Children in their Assemblies Many more Evidences might be brought from their Enemies who have been enforced by the force of Truth it self to give most honourable reports of them But let this suffice The next thing we shall acquaint you with The Progress of the Gospel amongst them is the great Progress and Success of their Doctrine Bullinger tells us That not only throughout France but Italy Germany Poland Bohemia and other Countries and Kingdoms of the World the Waldenses have made profession of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Bullin in the Preface to his Sermons Rainerius Rainerius saith That another thing that makes this Sect more considerable than all others is because it is more general For there is not any Countrey almost whereinto this Sect hath not crept Math. Paris M. Paris saith in his History of the Life of Henry the 3d in the year 1223. That the Waldenses had goodly Churches in Bulgaria Croatia Dalmatia and Hungaria George Mrel in his Memorials p. 54. asserts That notwithstanding al the bloody Persecutions that attended the Waldenses That in the Year 1160. There was in those days above eight hundred thousand Persons that made profession of the Faith of the Waldenses The Sea of Histories Sea of History tells us That in the Year 1315. there was in the County of Passau and about Bohemia to the number of fourscore Thousand Persons that made Profession of the Faith of the Waldenses Le Sieur de Popeliniere Popleniere hath set down in his History That the Religion of th● Waldenses hath spread it self almost in all parts of Europe even amongst the Polonians c. And that after the Year 1100 they have alwaies sowed their Doctrine little differing from that of the Modern Protestant and maugre all the Powers and Potentates that have opposed t●emselves against them they have defended it to this day Rainer Rainerius saith That in his time there were Churches of them in Constantinople Philadelphia Sclavonia Bulgaria and Digonicia and in Albania Lombardy Milain and in Romagnia Venice Florence c. Vignier Vignie● saith That after the Persecution of Picardy that they were dispersed abroad in Livonia and S●rmatia Trithemius Trith●m recounts That they confessed in those times that the number of the Waldenses was so great that they could go from Cologne to Milan and lodg themselves with Hosts of their own Profession and that they had Signs upon their Houses and Gates whereby they might know them In the Year 1200. they were in such a manner multiplied that they possest at home the Cities of Tholouse Apamies Montauban Vill●mur St. Antoin Puech Laurence Castres Lambes Carcasonen Beziers Narbonne Beaucaire Avignion Tarascon the Count Venicin in Dauphine Crest Arnaud and Monteil Amar. And had many great Lords who took part with them as Ea●l Raimiand of Tholouse and the Earle of Foix the Vicount Beziers Gaston Lord of Berne Earl of Carmaine and Earl of Brigor The Kings also of Arragon and England too d●d many times defend their Cause by reason of their Alliance with Earl Ra●miand Hologary in the History of Foix. The means they used to propagate the Gospel The means by which Truth came to be so propagated by them were principally these First By the diligent care they had to instruct their Youth in the knowledg of the Scriptures and
to train them up in the Nurtriture Fear and Admonition of the Lord as the Nurseries Seminaries and Seed-plots of Grace and Truth Secondly The industrious Care and Pains they took not only to beget Ministerial Abilities but the due improvement made thereof by those engaged therein in all parts and places whither they were sent And Thirdly By the violent Persecutions of them whereby they came to be dispersed into most parts of the World that old way That Knowledg and Truth was propagated in the Primitive Times 1. By diligently instructing the Youth The First means blest for the encrease of Knowledge was the Care and Pains they took in the Catechising of their Youth instructing them in the Knowledg of the Scriptures P. Perrin Perrin in his Second Book p. 16. And in this it was saith he P. Perrin that they have been blest of God above all Christian People throughout Europe insomuch that their Infants were hardly weaned from their Mothers Breasts but their Parents took a singular Care and Diligence to instruct them in the Christian Faith and Doctrine until they were able to confound the Antient and the Learned And of which you have a very pregnant Instance out of Vessember Vessember in his Oration touching the Waldenses who tells us The Bishop of Cavaillon in the time of the great Persecution against the Waldenses of Merindal in Provence first sent a Monck among them to convert them who returned so convinced himself that he confessed he had not so much profited in his whole life in the Scriptures as he had done in those few days of Conference with them The Bishop not being satisfied with this trial sent a Company of young Doctors that came lately from Sorbonne to confound them by the Subtilty of their Question But one there was among the rest that said at his return with a loud voice That he had learned more touching the Doctrine necessary to Salvation in attending to the Answers of the little Children of the Waldenses in their Catechisings than in all the Disputations of Divinity which he had ever heard in Paris Then the Bishop sent for the Children themselves and caused them in the face of a great Assembly to be interrogated and to Question one with another and which was done with that Grace and Gravity and Vnderstanding that it was marvelous to hear to the confounding the Doctors and Learned Men then present The Story whereof you may read at large in Fox Martyrol 2 Book p. 194. And thus it was that every Family was as it were a Colledge to instruct into the true Learning that maketh wise to Salvation and furnisheth to every good Word and Work and which was the Seed-plot to their Ministry Rainarius Rainarius tells us That they had the Old and New-Testament in the Vulgar Tongue and that they Teach and Learn it so well That he had seen and heard he said a Country Clown recount all Job word for word and divers others that could perfectly deliver all the New Testament And that Men and Women little and great day and night cease not to Learn and to Teach Secondly 2. By improving their Ministry As to the way of their Ministry That special means appointed by God to beget Faith and encrease Knowledge you have it briefly set forth by P. Perrin as he had extracted it out of their antient Manuscripts viz. All those who are to be received as Pastors amongst us while they remain with their Brethren are to entreat our People to receive them into the Ministry as likewise that they would please to pray to God for them that they may be made worthy of so great a Charge and this they are to do to give a Proof or Evidence of their Humility We also appoint them their Lectures and set them their Tasks that they may get by heart not only all the New Testament but a great part of the Old viz. The Writings of Solomon David and the Prophets And afterwards having a good Testimonial and being well approved of they are received with Imposition or laying on of Hands and Preaching He that is received the last ought to do nothing without the permission of him that was received before him and in like sort the former ought to do nothing without the consent of his Associate Our daily Food and that Raiment wherewith we are covered we have ministred and given to us freely sufficient for us by the good people whom we Teach and Instruct Their Ministers were called Barbes or Unkles as Fox 186. Or as some suppose because bearded Men Elders or Fathers Vignier Of these some were married to manifest thereby their approbation of the state of Matrimony others kept themselves single for conveniences sake forasmuch as they were oft●times obliged to remove and shift their Habitations and Abodes and as occasion required to undertake long and tedious Voyages for the propagating of the Gospel in remote and far Countries with whom they had a particular and constant Correspondence namely into Bohemia Germany Calabria and Lumbardy whither the abovesaid Barbes went by turns as Iteneraries to visit their Brethren there and to preach the Gospel of Christ amongst them having not only Houses of their own to entertain their Barbes but Schools also in divers Countries Vign Mem. p. 15. Morland Those Barbes who remained at home in the Valleys besides their officiating and labouring in the work of the Ministry took upon them the disciplining and instructing of the Youth especially those who were appointed for the Ministry in Grammar Logick Moral Philosophy and Divinity Moreover the greatest part of them gave themselves to the study of Physick and Chirurgery and herein they excelled as their Histories tell us to admiration thereby rendering themselves most able and skilful Physitians both of Soul and Body Others of them deale in divers Mechanick Arts in imitating of Paul who was a Tent-maker and Christ himself who was a Carpenter Once in the Year they use to have a general Meeting in the Month of September to treat of their affairs Taken out of an Antient Italian Manuscript as you have it Morlands Hist 1 Book 8. c. p. 183. Bucer Bucer p. 159. saith Besides Ministers of the Word and Sacraments they have a certain Colledg of Men excelling in Prudence and Gravity of Spirit whose office it is to admonish and correct offending Brethren to compose such as disagreed and judge in their Causes And again in Morlands Morland Hist p. 179. Their Ministry were through Gods grace endued with excellent Spirits and were for the most part a Generation of humble holy and harmless Men of meek peaceable and quiet Tempers exceeding painful in their Calling and carefully watching over their Flock committed to their charge Labouring faithfully in the Lords Vineyard and imploying their whole Time and Talents for turning Souls unto Righteousness which they did with much Labour Watchings and Fastings by suffering many Buffetings Stripes and