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Evervinus, of Stanfield, is said to have complained to Bernard, Abbot of
Clairval, that Cologne wag infested with Waldensian heretics who denied
baptism to infants. f370
Petrus Cluniacenis, or Peter the Abbot of Clugny, wrote against them; and
among the errors he imputes to them are these:
“That Wants are not baptized, or saved by the faith of another, but ought to be
baptized and saved by their own faith … and that those that are baptized in
infancy, when grown up, should be baptized again. … rather rightly
baptized.” f371
Wall says: “They speak that baptism does no good to infants, and because they
cannot profess faith.” f372 “Ermengendus, a great man in the church, charges the
Waldenses with denying infant baptism.” f373 The Waldenses were condemned
in conference at Albi, when the Bishop of Lyons, to convince them of their
error, produced what were considered proofs of infant baptism, and tried to
solve their objections from infants wanting faith, without which they said it
was impossible to please God.” f367 Alanus Magnus states that they denied
baptism to children. He disputes their views and refutes their opinions. f377
The Waldenses admitted the catechumeni after an exact instruction, a long fast
in which the church united, to witness to them the concern they took in their
conversion, and a confession of sins in token of contrition. The newly baptized
were, the same day, admitted to the eucharist, with all the brethren and sisters
present. f374 Thus they, like Baptists, first instructed; second, baptized; third,
being in the church, admitted them to the supper f375 believers’ baptism and
“close communion.”
The Ordibarians, or Waldenses, say that baptism does no good to infants,
unless they are perfected, by instruction first, in that sect. f378
“A catechism emanating from the Waldenses, during the thirteenth century,
has no allusion to infant baptism. It says of the church catholic, that it is the
elect of God, through the merits of Christ, gathered together by the Holy
Spirit, and foreordained f376 to eternal life.” f379
Montanus is quoted as saying:
“The Waldenses, in the public declaration of their faith to the French king, in
the year 1521, assert in the strongest terms the baptizing of believers and
denying that of infants.”
Robinson says: “They hold on to the baptism of only believers, and the right of
private judgment, in which they all agreed.” f380 “There is no positive proof,
there can be none, that they baptized their babes.” f381 Speaking of a liturgy of
“certainly very high antiquity” among the Waldenses, Robinson says: