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“As to baptism they said that washing of infants was of no avail to them.”
Armitage adds:
“This impression is deepened by the fact that Farrel, Ecolampadius and others
at the time of the Reformation, made strenuous efforts to convince the
Waldenses of Eastern Dauphine and Savoy of the righteousness of infant
baptism.” f398
Ermengard, about A.D. 1192:
“They pretend that this sacrament cannot be conferred except upon those who
demand it with their own lips, hence they infer the other error, that baptism
does not profit infants who receive it.” f398
Stephen of Barbone, A.D. 1225, says:
“One argument of their error is, that baptism does not profit little children to
their salvation, who have neither the motive nor the act of faith, as it is said in
the latter part of Mark, he who will not believe will be condemned.” f398
Pseudo Reinerius, A.D. 1230-1250, concerning baptism they say
“the catechism is of no value. Again, that the washing that is given to infants
is of no value. Again, that the sponsors do not understand what they answer to
the priest. They do not regard compaternity, i.e., the relation of sponsors.” f398
Moneta, the Dominican, who wrote before A.D. 1240: “They maintain the
nullity of the baptism of infants.” Hahn, in quoting Moneta, makes him say:
“These heretics charge that the Roman Catholic church baptizes first and
teaches afterward, while the church of Christ taught at first before baptizing;
also, that Christ and his Apostles never baptized any one without faith and
reason.” f398
One of the Austrian inquisitors:
“Concerning baptism some err in saying that little children are not saved by
baptism, for the Lord says, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”
f398
David of Augusburg, A.D. 1256-1272: “They say that a man is then truly for
the first time baptized, when he is brought into their heresy.” f399
Drs. Ypeij and Derinont, two of the ablest and most eminent Pedobaptist
scholars of Holland, who made this subject a matter of years’ research in the
archives of Europe, say:
“The Baptists who were in former times called Anabaptists … were the
original Waldenses.” f400
Robert Baird, in his: “The Waldenses,” says: