Infant-Baptism, asserted. [ 1614]
A Ristotle was so precise in admitting Schollers to his Moral Lectures,* 1.1 that he would first have them past their Wardship, as thinking that their green capacities would not be mellow enough for his Ethiques till Thirty at least: But Christ our Master was of another mind, his Sinite parvulos, Suffer little ones to come unto me, and sorbid them not, encouraged Parents and Supervisers of Children to enroll them in his bands,* 1.2 his Church, before they were Masters of so much tongue as to name Christ; well knowing, that though their narrow apprehensions could not reach the high mysteries of Faith, yet in a few years their understandings being elevated with their statures, would grow up to them, and the accession of a little time digest those precepts which their Infancy drew in, into the constant habit of a good life, not ••owing themselves into any crook∣ed postures of Error, nor forgetting that streight form into which their first edu∣cation brought them.