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THE HISTORY

OF INFANT-BAPTISM.

BY

WILLIAM WALL, M.A.

VICAR OF SHOREHAM, KENT, AND OF MILTON NEXT GRAVESEND.

TOGETHER WITH

MR. GALE'S REFLECTIONS,

AND

DR. WALL'S DEFENCE.

SECOND EDITION,

BY THE REV. HENRY COTTON, D.C.L.

LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXLIV.

THE NEW YORK, PUBLIC LIBRARY

474482

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1909

THE

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART.

CHAP. I.

Of some other passages which are by some quoted and pretended to be to this purpose, but are not.

§. 1. Some are out of spurious books, lately forged, p. 1§. 2. Some nothing to the purpose, p. 2. §. 3. Some wrested and altered, p. 6. §. 4. Some not the author's own words, but conclusions unfairly drawn and set down as the author's words, p. 8. §. 5. Some absolutely false: instances of each of these sorts of quotations, p. 9.

CHAP. II.

The opinions of modern learned men concerning the ancient practice or omission of pædobaptism.

§. 1. They do almost all conclude, that it was the general practice to baptize infants: some few think that this was not at all practised at the first; and others, that it was at first held to be indifferent, p. 12. §. 2. The opinion of Walafridus Strabo, P. 13. §. 3. Of Ludovicus Vives, p. 16. §. 4. Of Curcellæus, P. 17. §. 5. Of Rigaltius, p. 18. §. 6. Of bishop Jeremy Taylor. He himself answered the arguments he had brought in his Liberty of Prophesying against the antiquity of infantbaptism, p. 22. §. 7. Of Dr. Barlow bishop of Lincoln, p. 27. §. 8. Of Bilius, and Salmasius, p. 28. §. 9. Of Hugo Grotius. He was the author of the opinion, that it was held indifferent, P-31- §. 10. Bishop Taylor also judges it to have been accounted indifferent, p. 36. §. 11. Of Mr. Thorndyke, p. 37. §. 12. Of Mr. Daillé, p. 38. §. 13. Of Mr. Baxter and some remonstrants, p. 39. §. 14. Of Garner the Jesuit, p. 40. Of Boemus, Macaire, and Dr. Holland, p. 41. §. 15. Of Mr. Tombes, Mr. Danvers, Mr. Wills, p. 44. §. 16. Most of the modern learned men that have concluded infant-baptism to have been

§. 1. The quotations brought by Mr. Danvers for his baptism
at his adult age, are some of them forged, others unfairly re-
cited, p. 72. § 2. Amphilochius' life of St. Basil, from whence
this story is fetched, is a forged piece, p. 73. §. 3. Nazianzen

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