420 The Birth -Priviledge and Covenant- holinej Ch,45 EE not in fuch a annel as a determinate rule or Canon : The truth tifrais not be- (towed on un- written tradi- tion. is this Anfw er is a meer thine, for Mailer Tombes well knows ( and I tkiere told him ) that Infant - Baptifm was not in that Councel of 66 Biíhops at all agitated, much ieffe determined ; It was not put to the Queftion, but taken for granted by all that were prefent. The difpute and the determination was upon that which Fidus queflioned, which was the Baptifm of Infants before eight dayes old, and not Infant- Baptifm ; how could he mean that it bath fincecontinued in a tream,byvertue of that de -. termination orCanon,when he very well knows there was neither determination nor Canon upon it, nor yet any need of it ? They determined that which in their meeting was put to the Vote, that an Infant under eight dayes might be baptized. So that this Quxre, as all the reft,ftands unfatisfied, and antiquity clear- ed for l nfant-Baptifm. It is yet farther faid,that many learned men in former and lat- ter--times, take Infant - Baptifm onely for an unwritten traditi- on ; an herein never did any man manifefl more trifling then Mailer Tor es in his princely Pricurfor, Sea. 20. giving us a lift of Popifh Writers that have fpoke to this purpofe, a Car dinal in a Popifh Councel , Bennus , Bellarrr.i ne and Erafmus that had rcarce fiept over the threfhold from them : To which we anfwer, That it is no marvel], if thefe making it their bufinefs to parallel unwritten Traditions with Scriptures ( force of them to prefer them before them) and know. ing Infant - Baptifm to be in honour in all. Churches, do pin it upon unwritten Tradition , than fo they may ad- vance the honour of unwritten tradition with it, yet even thefe (as Mafter Tombet is put to it to confeffe) cite Scri- ptures for it, and fo marre their own market of Tradi- tions. When Be/famine would argue the Scriptures imperfecti- on, and affert a necef ity of unwritten Tradition, then he can affirm that Infant - Baptifm bath no other foundation, but when he will defend Infant - Baptifm againft thofe that mat- ter not Tradition, he can finde Scripture for confirmation : Forefeeing thi&Objettion he brings an Anfwer out of Bennw, That feme things may be proved out of : Scrips/re, when the .true fence of Scripture is evident ; and Infant - Baptifm. ( faith the fame
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