# Summary Of Baptism In The Sixth Century. · Page 9 of 9

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But continuing, he writes the following concerning
the corruption of the writings of the true teachers:
“Here must also be taken into consideration, that
which the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses, Dr. Calixtus,
Dr. Meysner, Dr. Johan Gerhard, Dr. Guil.
Perkins, in Ementito Catholicismo, and many others
so frequently complain of, namely, that the writings
of the fathers and the primitive teachers of the
church, have been so amazingly abused, in manifold
ways, corrupted, interpolated and mutilated. Pray,
202who indeed will be our surety, that Augustine and
others of the fathers have written and taught about
infant baptism, all that is ascribed to them.

However, the fathers and teachers of the church,
whose writings are extant, constitute but a very
small part of the whole number. Were the writings,
books and testimonies of the countless hundreds and
thousands of other teachers of the church, bishops,
and laymen experienced in the word of God, who
have written, preached, taught, and spoken against
it, in various parts of the wide world, to come to
light, and could we also have the original manuscripts
of the fathers, namely, those who have written
against infant baptism, and compare them together,
we would be astonished to see how faithfully
the truth has been maintained in all ages, but also,
how it has been suppressed by the innovators of
baptism (that is, those who baptized infants). Yet,
however mutilated and corrupted the writings of the
fathers as we now have them, are, there are nevertheless
to be found in them many very excellent
testimonies respecting Christ’s true ordinance of
baptism, and very confused ones as regards infant
baptism; for which we owe special thanks to God,
and to him only, who thereby mightily confirms us
in the truth. Bapt. Hist., 2d part, pages 481, 482.

Thus, not we, but those who have unfaithfully
dealt with the writings of the fathers, are the cause
that we must here close our account of the baptism
of this time; however, in some of the following centuries,
where we meet with more authentic writers,
we shall be able to explain and amplify this more
conclusively.



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