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In the fourth passage it is said, that “The church
of the Gentiles, by baptism, is delivered from the
bondage of the devil,” and that “she who was a
handmaid of iniquity, is (thus) become a friend [beloved]
of Christ.” This certainly savors not at all
of infant baptism, for it cannot be said of infants,
that they are the church of the Gentiles, under the
bondage of the devil, a handmaid of iniquity, nor
that they, by baptism, are delivered from the service
of the devil, and become a friend of Christ. Certainly,
no one can be delivered from the service of
the devil, but he who has served the devil; no other
can be liberated from the servitude of iniquity except
she who previously committed iniquity; she who
previously blasphemed; no other can be adopted as
a friend of Christ, than she who formerly, by wicked
works, was at enmity with Christ; consequently it is
indisputable, that this cannot be understood of infants,
seeing these things can have no place with
them; this even those who maintain infant baptism,
must admit, and hence we dismiss the subject.

“The adult (candidates) also made confession of
their sins, and a penance was imposed on them, for
forty, twenty or seven days.” Haimo, on Heb. 6,
(p. 552).

Here adult and not infant candidates are spoken
of, yea, such, upon whom, when they had made confession
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of sins, a penance (or amendment of life) was
imposed; which are things pertaining to adults, and
not to little children; this is too plain to be refuted.

Said baptism was so firmly maintained and thus
valued by Haimo, that he held that it should never
be repeated, if it had been administered according to
the rule of the holy Scriptures; for, treating of the
6th chapter of Romans, he says, by way of exposition:
“If we have once died unto sin in baptism, we
may not be baptized again.” Bapt. Hist., p. 543.
This well accords with the custom of the Anabaptists
of the present day; for, though they rebaptize such
as have been baptized in their infancy, when they
attain to the faith; regarding the baptism which is
received in infancy as no baptism at all, because it is
not according to holy Scripture; yet no one is rebaptized
by them, who has been baptized aright, that is,
upon faith.

NOTE.—A. D. 825.—The council held at Paris,
A. D. 825, decreed against image worship. Sam.
Veltius, Geslacht-register, page 127. Gratian said
to his cotemporaries: “The Lord, in saying to his
disciples: ‘When they persecute you in this city,
flee ye into another,’ teaches that Christians when
persecuted, should not repel weapon with weapon,
but flee therefrom”. See Grondelijke Verklaringe
Danielis ende Johannis, printed at Harlem, in the
year 1635, p. 56.

A. D. 830.[140](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-11/#Footnote_140)—It is stated that A. D. 830, in the
sixteenth year of the reign of Emperor Louis I., surnamed
the Pious, there shone forth as a bright light,
and wrote, one Rabanus Maurus, residing at Fulda,
who, among various things written by him against
the Roman church, also speaks of baptism, in the
discussion of which he throughout employs such
language as pertains only to believers, and in no
wise to infants; notwithstanding he at one time, it
appears, had been a maintainer of infant baptism,
and many other superstitions of popery, so much so
that he had been an abbot. But passing this by, we
shall show what he wrote of baptism, and how
closely it agrees with the teaching of the holy
Scriptures.

In Jacob Mehrning’s history of baptism, various
passages from Rabanus Maurus are adduced, some
of which, it is suspected, have been attributed to him
unjustly, or, at least, that, if he has written them, he
wrote them before he was enlightened or converted;
as, among others, in lib. 2, de Proprit. Serm.,
cap. 200; again, lib. 4, cap. 10; of which we let the
intelligent judge.

Nevertheless various things are found, which, we
doubt not, are justly ascribed to him, as, for instance:
Of the instruction of the catechumens before
baptism, and how the novices ought to learn the
faith before they are baptized. In Decretis de Consecrat.
dist. 4, cap. Ante Bapt., ex Rabano, Bapt.
Hist., page 560. Likewise, the quotation made by
Vicecomes (lib. 2, cap. 40) from Rabanus (in lib. de
instruct. Cleric.), which reads as follows: “The
order according to which the catechumens are prepared
for baptism, is this: First they are interrogated
whether they renounce the devil,” etc. Bapt.
Hist., page 562. The rest we omit.

By this he indicates, that in his time, in the
church of which he was a member, the custom of
preparing the novices for baptism was still observed,
inasmuch as first, the instruction of the faith, called
the catechism, was presented and taught them;
also, that they had to renounce Satan, &c.; which
was observed not only at this time, but in nearly all
the preceding times, as appears from this passage:
“They are wont to renounce the devil with his
works and pomp.” Syn. Turon. Bapt. Hist.,
page 516, num. 7.



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