AN ACCOUNT OF THE HOLY BAPTISM IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY. SUMMARY OF BAPTISM IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY.

[The last year of the preceding century, namely, A. D. 1100, is introduced here by way of introduction to the following century; in which it is shown, that in and shortly after that time there existed the Waldenses and Albigeois, of whom we shall speak more fully about the middle of this century. For the year 1105, some persons are introduced, who opposed infant baptism, transubstantiation, and the Roman church; also, some, for the year 1119, who condemned the mass. Certain people, who held the same views as were afterwards held in the time of Peter Waldus. Their views against the Pope, infant baptism, the mass, image worship, secular power of the church, persecution, etc. Rupert Tuiciensis gives an excellent exposition of the baptism of the ancients; he teaches, that, in order to be baptized, one must first believe, and confess the faith; that many who are baptized with water, are not renewed inwardly, because their heart is not right, though they make confession with the mouth; that the truly baptized, from servants of sin, become children of God; that the word of God was preached to the Christian youth throughout the whole year to prepare them for baptism. What a certain pedobaptist, D. J. V., has written on said words of Rupertus; what P. J. Twisck and H. Montanus have noted from the writings of Rupert; that even some learned men of the Roman church accorded with Rupert. Johannes Bohemius and Ludovicus Vives, and their belief against the Roman church. Many Christians at Arles, Narbonne, Toulouse, in Gascony, and other parts of France, called Petrobrusians; they, according to Peter, abbot of Cluny, reproved the abuses of the Roman church. Of Arnald of Brescia and Peter Abelard, who also opposed infant baptism. Henricus Petri Tholossanus opposes fifteen articles to the papists, which are all fully stated. Some peasants in France, called Apostolics, also teach against infant baptism, purgatory, praying for the dead, and the invocation of the saints. The Albigenses, from the province of Albi, and the Waldenses, the followers of Peter Waldus, now arise; the conversion of Peter Waldus, and how he, having separated from the Roman church, gathered unto himself many people, to whom he taught the doctrine of the holy Gospel, and who became his followers.

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