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(3.) Facts are against the claim.
(4.) Through-out his life Patrick acted wholly independent of Rome. f1072
4. Patrick was a Baptist.
(1.) He baptized only professed believers.
(2.) He baptized by only immersion. In a former chapter has been proved that
the ancient Britons were Baptists. Dr. Catchcart says:
“There is absolutely no evidence that any baptism but that of immersion of
adult believers existed among the ancient Britons, in the first half of the fifth
century, nor for a long time afterwards.” f1073
In St. Patrick’s “letter to Crocius” he describes some of the persons whom he
immersed as “baptized captives,” baptized handmaidens of Christ, “baptized
women distributed as rewards” and then as “baptized believers.” f1074 “Patrick
baptized Enda, and he offered his son, Cormac, [to Patrick] who was born the
night before, together with the ninth ridge of the land.” f1075 If Patrick had been
a Pedobaptist he surely would have baptized this infant. As well claim the
“ridge” was here offered for baptism as to claim the child was offered for it.
(3.) In church government St. Patrick was a Baptist. Though this appears in the
note to this page, I will add proof to it. “Patrick founded 365 churches and
consecrated the same number of bishops, and ordained 3,000 presbyters.” f1076
“Stillingfleet refers to an account of a great council of Brevy, Vales, taken
from the manuscript of Urecht which represents one hundred and eighteen
bishops at its deliberations.” f1077 Considering that this great number of bishops
of this little island greatly exceeds the number of bishops of any Episcopal
organization outside of the Romish or the Greek church, has throughout the
world if St. Patrick’s church was not Baptist, but Romish his church must have
come near going to seed — in bishops. No wonder that Bishop Stillingfleet
attempts to throw doubt at the number of bishops at the Council of Brevy,
“though he admits that Colgan defends the large representation of bishops.”
f1078 Dr. Catchcart, says:
“If we take the testimony of Nennius, St. Patrick placed a bishop in every
church which he founded; and several presbyters after the example of the
New Testament churches. Nor was the great number of bishops peculiar to St.
Patrick’s time; in the twelfth century St. Bernard tells us that in Ireland
‘bishops are multiplied and changed … almost every church had a bishop.’ …
Prof. George T. Stokes declares that prior to the synod of Rathbresail., in
A.D. 1112, ‘Episcopacy had been the rule of the Irish church; but dioceses
and diocesan episcopacy had no existence at all.’ ‘Scotland,’ as Collier
relates, ‘in the ninth century was not divided into dioceses, but all the Scottish
bishops had their jurisdiction as it were at large and exercised their function
wherever they came. And this continued to the reign of Malcom III,’ who was