# Of Charles, Bishop Of Milan.

14th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF CHARLES, BISHOP OF MILAN.

Century of containing source section; exact event date not assigned

Bapt. Hist., p. 740, D. Vicecomes, lib. 5, cap. 45,
writes: “Charles, bishop of Milan, admonished the
teachers, diligently to expound to their hearers the
mystery of holy baptism, and to earnestly exhort
them to a Christian walk, in order that the confession
of the Christian name (upon which baptism
was wont to be administered), might well become
them.”

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What else does this indicate, than that the teachers
should exhort their hearers to the baptism,
which ought to be administered upon confession of
faith, and, consequently, not in infancy?

Galvaneus, in the History of Milan, (B. H.,
page 741, D. Vicecomes, lib. 1, cap. 4), writes:
“St. Barnabas, when he first preached the Gospel
at Milan, baptized in running water.”

This manner and these circumstances plainly indicate,
as stated elsewhere, that infant baptism was
then not practiced at that place.

Note.—For the year 1394, mention is made of a
number of people in Bohemia, who sided with the
Anabaptists. Seb. Fr. Chron. der Rom. Kett.,
p. 121, col. 2, letter P., Picardy.

A. D. 1400.—It appears that when the last year
of this century had come, various persons opposed
popery, not only with regard to baptism, but also to
many other articles; of which, among other things,
mention is made in the fourteenth book of the
Ondergang der Tyrannen, p. 749, col. 1, 2, 3;
where we have this declaration: “The Pope has no
absolute power or judgment, so that he cannot err;
so all, even the papists, have taught for about fourteen
hundred years. The ancient fathers, the Greek
as well as the Latin, regarded Pope Honorius I. as
a Monothelitic185 heretic. Likewise, the sixth synod,
in which he was condemned as a heretic, and his
letters burned. From Perkins, fol. 421.

Note.—If this condemning of the Pope as a
heretic, as also the burning of his letters, was
done from envy, or bitterness, we would by no
means defend, much less praise, but far rather condemn
it. But since, as the matter appears to us, it
was done from a good intention and godly zeal, we
find nothing censurable in it. For the word condemn
does not always signify eternal damnation, as the
Holy Scripture uses it,186 but it is also understood as
meaning, to sentence or pronounce guilty. Thus,
also, the name heretic, when rightly considered,
signifies only a schismatic, headstrong person, who
follows his own opinion, instead of the Holy Scripture.
Now, that the Pope of Rome was such a person,
will not soon be contradicted by those who give
due honor to God, and allow themselves to be governed
by reason. The burning of his letters we regard
as having been done from carefulness, lest any
might be seduced or brought into error by them.
This will satisfy the well-disposed, who, imitating
the bee, will extract honey, instead of gall, from it.





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