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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

¶ 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 Genesis xvij chap. I wyl be thy god and the god of thy sede after thee Thou shalt reade the contentes of thys boke in the ii pagyne after this ¶ The contentes of thys boke i That rebaptizatyon or baptizing agayne is not of god that there is but one baptysme ii That the baptisme of childrē is of god iii That the baptysme of children hath continued in the church of Christ euer sens the tymes of the Apostles To the reader I haue good christian reader alredy proued and set furth these artycles that folow agaynst these erroneous dyuels the Anabaptistes i The spiryt which repugneth against the spiryt which speketh in the holy scriptures is not of the father of truth but of the deuyl the father of liyng ii Of the simplicyte and lernyng that ought to be in godly preachers iii Of the vocatyon and callynge vnto the ministery offyce of preachinge against them that thrust them selues vnto it beyng not called iiii Of the vnitie of the church agaynste the sectes of heretikes v That Christ dyd not suffer onely for originall synne vi That a synner is receyued to grace as often as he repenteth and that no man is without synne vii That saluation ryghteousnes depēdeth not of our works but of faith viii That the soules which are departed from the bodye doo not slepe but lyue in Christ ix That a christian may execute the offyce of a magystrate x That a christiā magistrate is not onely profytable but also most necessary to a christian commune weale xi That we ought to be obedient vnto magistrates xii That it is not lawful to resist the magistrates which thinges if thou dost reade dilygently I trust thou shalte be well enarmed against this pestiferous secte Beware of them for they are worse then all other herytyques haue bene yea they are renewers of all olde heresyes So fare ye well And praye to god that all erroneous sectes beyng vanquysshed his glory may florysh for euer and euer Amē ¶ To the right worshipfull Master Thomas Fletwod Comptroller of the Kinges Maiesties Minte in Southwarke Ihon Heron wyssheth peace of conscyence and encrease of dyuyne knowledge and vnderstandynge frō god the father through our Lord Iesus Christ IT is not for naughte Ignoraūce is the mother of al errours ryght worshipfull Syr that of al men ignoraunce hath bene compted the mother of all errours Whiche thynge too be most true we do nowe at this presence plainely perceyue and se By godly learning the erroneous secte of the papistes is in a maner proflygated and ouerthrowen so that the chief maynteyners of it are cleane ashamed of theyr olde occupatyon I meane What godly learning doth of theyr Idolatry and superstition But godly learning was neuer soo diligente in purgynge the fielde of the gospell from the rubbisshes of Antichristes kyngdome What stubburne ignoraūce doth as stubburne ignoraunce is now busy in sowynge it ouer wyth cockle and darnill wyth tares and most pestiferous poyson whych they do so ouer laye wyth suger and honye that is to say wyth paynted and coloured hypocrisie blandiloquence and flatterye that a man at the fyrst syght would embrace thys errour and heresy for a most wholsome doctryne and vnfayned relygyon But if he puttynge on the spectacles of goddes worde wyll loke more narowly vpon it he shall espye suche a blyndnes and ignoraunce in theyr procedynges doctryne that by good ryght he myght meruayle that the very infantes do not now in thys florisshyng tyme of the gospell perceyue and smell oute thys deuylysshe heresie For who would not saye that thys commeth of deuilysshe ignoraunce onles he be blynder then the blindnes it selfe that they so shamefully deny the baptisme of yong infantes and chyldren What is to denye the baptisme of infants Is not thys too put oure chyldren from that euerlastyng couenaunte which our lorde god dyd make wyth Abraham and in hym with all vs that beleue I wyll sayth the lorde be thy god and the god of thy sede after the. Gene. xvii chapi Whyche promyse Abraham beleued and therfore when he came home he did both circumcise hym selfe al the male chyldren that were in his house For whye Cyrcumcision was the seale of the people of god whych by the commaundement of god was ministred vnto all them that were comprehended in the Lordes couenaunt In stede wherof baptisme hath bene instituted in the newe Testamente as the Apostle sayncte Paule Colloss .ij. Chapter Doth playnly testifie Circumcision insted of baptism Syth therfore that chyldren were circumcysed in the old Testament and long after instructed in the knowledge of the lawe it foloweth that by good consequence the baptysme oughte to be mynistred vnto our yonge infantes whom we are bound afterwardes to bryng vp in the fayth and true doctryne This argumente al the rablement of the Anabaptistes is not able to dissolue Suffer not therfore O good christyans suffer not your selues too be seduced by these smatteryng Anabaptistes whyche vnderstande not the letter of the scriptures wherin I meane in the bare letter they do truste moste And no maruayle thereof For they are moste shamefullye ignoraunce in all those thynges that serue for to expounde and vnderstand the letter They knowe not the phrases of the scriptures The Anabaptistes are ignoraunce in those thinges that serue for to expoūd and vnder stand the letter The chyef causes of the Anabaptistes blyndnes and erroure Nouatus aucthor of rebaptization How many wayes this word baptism is taken in the new Testamente They do not obserue mark how many wayes one thing is taken in the scriptures and worde of God Whiche truely to the chyef cause of theyr blindnes and errour For yf they had marked howe many wayes in the scryptures of the newe Testamente thys worde baptysme is taken they had neuer renewed the olde condempned heresye of Nouatus touchyng thys folysh Anabaptisme that is to saye rebaptyzaty on or baptyzyng agayn For baptysme is not alwaies taken for that outwarde sygne seale of the people of God whyche is an outward wasshyng of water done and mynystred in the name of the father of the sonne and of the holy ghost wherby we are initiated into a true fayth and innocencye of lyfe whych kynd of baptisme Ihon and the Apostles did mynyster nowe in the churche of Christe is by thē administred that be appoynted therto but often tymes it is taken for the doctryne as Mathewe .xxi. Chapter and Actes the xix Whych place the Anabaptistes do allege to mayntayne their erroure in thys point Otherwhiles this word baptisme signyfieth death or matyrdome as Mathew .xx. Chapter Where Christ answereth to the sonnes of Zebede after