§. 2.
IN the next place, the Treatiler chargeth Mee, that whereas Luther defendeth that in∣fants in Baptisme actually beleeue, I endeauour to wrest his words to habituall faith; which sence, he sayth Luthers discourses will not admit; and for proofe hereof refer∣reth the reader to certaine places in Luther, and to the positions of his followers: but as Festus sayd vnto Paul, e 1.1 thou hast appealed to Caesar, to Caesar shalt thou goe; so seeing this Treatiser referreth the Reader to Luthers discourses, and the doctrine of his Disciples, to these I will send him, which will turne greatly to the Treatisers disaduantage. For the reader cannot but finde by Luthers discourses, and the doctrine of his Schollers, that I haue rightly deliuered his opinion to bee, that infants are filled with habituall fayth when they are regenerate, and not that they haue any such acts of faith, or knowledge of God, as men of yeares haue. Let vs therefore heare what Luther himselfe will say: some men, saith f 1.2 hee, will obiect against that which I haue said tou∣ching the necessity of faith in such as are to receiue the Sacramērs with profit, that in∣fants haue no faith, nor apprehension of Gods mercies, & that therefore either faith is not so necessarily required to the due receiuing of the sacramēt, or that infants are Bap∣tised in vaine. Here I say, that which all say, that other mens faith, euen the faith of such as present thē to Baptisme, steedeth litle children. For as the word of God is mightie when the sound therof is heard, euen to the changing of the heart of a wicked man, which is no lesse vnapt to heare the voyce of God, & to listen vnto it, thē any litle babe;