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 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 either not from the beginning, or not universal, have been brought to this concession by the instances of several ancients, who are pretended to have been born of Christian parents, and Of those who are said to have been born of Christian parents, and yet not baptized till of man's age. SECT. I. An account of the persons, and state of their case, p. 48. SECT. II. Of Constantine, and Constantius his son, p. 47. That they were not born of baptized parents. §. 1. Constantine was not baptized till just before his death, p. 52. §. 2. His father was not a Christian, p. 53. Nor his mo- ther, when he was born, p. 56. §. 3. Constantius' parents were not baptized Christians when he was born, nor a long time SECT. III. Of Gratian and Valentinian the second, P. 60. There is no proof that their father was a baptized Christian when §. 1. The history of their father, p. 60. §. 2. The time of the birth and death of each of them, p. 62. §. 3. Valentinian desired baptism before his death, but missed of it, p. 66. §. 4. Gratian probably was baptized, but not in infancy, p. 68. § 5. Their father does not appear to have been baptized himself, till a little before his death, when the youngest of them was SECT. IV. Of Theodosius the first, p. 70. §. 1. He was not baptized till after he was emperor, p. 70. §. 2. His father was not a baptized Christian till he (the son) §. 1. The quotations brought by Mr. Danvers for his baptism |