And in the. 193. page, he asketh what if the Parentes of the childe be vnknowen, if it be, yet if godly men will present it to baptisme, with promyse of seing it brought vp in the feare of the Lorde, for so much as it is founde in a place where the churche is, and therefore by likelyhoode to apper∣teyne to some that was of the churche, I thynke it may be baptised, if the churche thynke it good in this last case.
And why should you but thinke so? what reason is there why it should not be bap∣tised? But yet this answere of yours dothe nothing iustifie the Aomonition: Whiche would, The parentes to presente their chyldren, if conuentently, makyng an open confession of that faythe, wherein he would haue his chylde baptised: For this can not be done where the Pa∣rentes be vnknowen, neither is (in such case) any other man able to testifie of what faythe or behauiour the parentes were.