AN IMPARTIAL COLLECTION OF ALL PASSAGES in the Writers of the Four First Centuries, The History of Infant Baptism, AGAINST THE REFLECTIONS OF MR. GALE AND OTHERS. BY W. WALL, THE FOURTH EDITION; IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL. II. LOND'an: "R, PRIESTLEY ; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; RODWELL AND MARTIN 1. PARKER OXFORD: AND CONTENT S. . VOLUME II. 78 PAGE CHAPTER I. Some Passages cited ; but not to the Purpose 1 II. Opinions of learned Men concerning ancient Practice or Omission of Pædobaptism 10 III. Of those who are said to be born of Christian Parents, and not baptized till of Man's Age 36 Of Constantine and Constantius 39 Of Gratian and Valentinian the Second 46 Of St. Basil 56 Of St. Gregory Nazianzen 59 Of Nectarius 69 Of St. Chrysostom 71 Of St. Ambrose 75 Of St. Hierom Of St. Austin 90 IV. Church of the Ancient Britons ; the Nova tians, Donatists, who were thought Anti- 98 V. Of Heretics that denied Water-Baptism ; of others that baptized the Person several 104 111 The Nicene Fathers accused of Tritheism 114 The Mischief brought on the Credit of the Christian Religion 131 VI. Opinions of the Antients concerning the Fu ture State of Infants, or those who die 138 Opinions in anno 500, 600, 1000, and 1200, respecting unbaptized Infants 160 Argument of the Christian World with respect to baptized Infants 170 PAGE. CHAPTER VII. State of Infant Baptism to the Rise of Ger- man Antipædobaptists; - Of the Wal- The Lives of the two first Antipædobaptists 210 VIII. Present State of the Controversy. All Na- tional Churches are Pædobaptists. Of the Antipædobaptists in Germany, Holland, No considerable Number of Antipædobaptists in England till the Time of Cromwelt 235 Opinion of the Antients concerning Hell, and The Papists affirm that Infant Baptism can- IX. Of the most ancient Rites of Baptism Doctrine of Transubstantiation Argument of the Antipædobaptists against the ancient Practices considered X. Of the Evidence given on both Sides XI. Dissuasive from Separation on Account of the Difference of Opinion about the Age of re- An Error in Opinion not a Fundamental one 422 Difficulties on the Part of the Church of Eng- 'IL THE HISTORY OF INFANT BAPTISM, PART THE SECOND CHAPTER 1.* OF SOME OTHER PASSAGES WHICH ARE CITED, BUT ARE NOT. passages produced in the First Part, are all that I have met with in authors that wrote in the four first centuries ; saving that in St. Austin's works there are, as I said, a great many more ; but all to the same purpose. In some collections of this nature I have seen several other quotations, pretended to be out of the authors within the said term; - but they are either, 1. Out of such books as are now discovered to be forgeries of late years; or, 2. They are nothing to the purpose; or, 3. Wrested and altered by those that cite them to another sense than what they carry in the authors themselves; or, 4. Such wherein the author does not say that for * The Rey. Mr. Wall, in the following part of his Work, has accommodated his dates to the Years after the Apostles, instead of fixing them to the Years of our Lord. The dates, therefore, which occur [between crotchets) are to be understood as years after the time of the Apostles; but where two dates are inserted, the first refers to the Year of Christ, and the second to the Year after the Apostles. YOL. II. B |