Infant baptism can be proved from Scripture — Bellarmine refutes Anabaptists, then denies the proof
They next call infant baptism necessary yet unwritten — or at least not proved enough from Scripture.
We deny the silence: our theologians prove infant baptism from Scripture against the Anabaptists.
This is not the place to rehearse those arguments.
Stranger still: Rome herself routs Anabaptists from Scripture — Bellarmine boasts his baptism arguments cannot be escaped (On Baptism 1.9).
The same Bellarmine, attacking Scripture's sufficiency, then says paedobaptism cannot be proved from Scripture.
We appeal from partisan Bellarmine to Bellarmine elsewhere convinced by the truth.
Latin
XXIII. Objiciunt praeterea, Bellarminus & alii, baptismum parvulorum tanquam rem necessariam, & tamen in sacra Scriptura non traditam, aut saltem quae sufficienter non probetur ex sacra Scriptura. Sed negamus non posse ex sacra Scriptura probari legitimum esse baptismum infantium. Illud certe multis & validis argumentis ex Scriptura sacra deductis contra Anabaptistas Theologi nostri confirmant. Quae argumenta referre & vindicare hujus loci non esset, & prolixiorem operam requirit. Sed quod valde mirum est, ipsi Pontificii ex Scripturis Anabaptistas egregie confutant. Inter alios vero Bellarminus de hac controversia ex Scripturis ita disputat, ut argumenta sua, nulla ratione solvi, nulla arte eludi posse, glorietur & fidat, libr. 1. de sacram. Bapt. cap. 9. Et tamen idem ille sui oblitus, dum Scripturae sufficientiam impugnare conatur, asserit paedobaptismum ex Scriptura satis probare non posse. Sed hic a Bellarmino studio causae abrepto, ad Bellarminum alibi evidentia veritatis convictum appellamus.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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