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Howe conuenient it were, seyng the chyldren of the faythfull onely are to be baptised, that the father should and myght, if conueniently, offer and present his chylde to be baptised, makyng an o∣pen confession of that fayth, wherein he would haue his chylde baptised, and how this is vsed in well ordered Churches.
But I knowe not wherto this tendeth that followeth: that is, How cōuenient it were, seeing that the children of the faithfull only are to be baptised. &c. Do you not comprehende those vnder the name of faithfull, which be baptised? for else it passeth mans vnderstanding, to knowe who bee faythfull in deede, bicause the vnbeleuers maye make a confession of* 1.1 faythe in wordes: and in this worlde it can not certainly by man be determined, who among Christians be faithfull, who be vnfaithfull. I praye you answere me this one question: If a chylde bee founde whose father and mother be vnknowen (as it hath happened some∣times in our remembrance) will you not baptise it bicause the Pa∣rentes be not forth comming, to make a confession of their faith? or bi∣cause the sound faithe of the Parentes is vnknowen? but hereof I haue spoken in another place.
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