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“You Anabaptists, tell us once, something about supper. I suppose you
observe none, since you know nothing about a sacrament *** Yes, you have
always the scriptures at your finger ends, for you Anabaptists read nothing but
the holy scripture, hence it is that you read nothing concerning the sacrament
of the altar. *** Therefore you are ignorant of the sacrament of the altar.” f235
Says Brockett:
“Harmenopoulos, a Byzantine monk of the tenth century, more candid than
most of his fellows, says, as quoted by Evans, that the Bogomiles practiced
the right of water baptism (and if they did they must have received it from the
Paulicians) but did not attribute to it any perfecting virtue (teleioun) virtue.
f236 This last expression is significant in this connection as showing that this
rite was administered to all believers (Credentes) in distinction from spiritual
baptism, or consolamentum. … It is, we believe, generally admitted that the
early Armenian church, of which the Paulicians were an offshoot, did not
practice trine immersion, though they immersed their converts once.” f237
Brockett proves they baptized, by:
“Their well-known and universally admitted repudiation of infant baptism.
Harmenopoulos, a Greek priest of the twelfth century, expressly declares that
they did practice single immersion but without unction, etc., and only upon
adults, on the profession of their faith. He adds that they did not attribute to it
any saving or perfecting virtues, which is in accordance with their other
teaching.”
Reinero, the inquisitor, who had originally been one of them, says:
“They say that a man is first baptized when he is received into their
community and has been baptized by them, and then hold that baptism is of
no advantage to infants, since they cannot actually believe. We find in the
histories of Jirecek and Hilferding numerous incidental allusions to the
baptism of persons of high rank, such as the ban Culin, Tvartko III, King
Stephen Thomas, the Duke of St. Sava, etc. *** who are said to have been
baptized into the Bogomile faith. That during the period of the greatest
persecutions, the ordinances were administered secretly, and perhaps at night
is very probable, but there is no evidence that it was ever omitted. That would
have been impossible in an oriental church. f238 To the authorities here named
for the proposition that the Credentes, or believers were baptized must be
added Alanus de Insulis, a French writer of about A.D. 1200, whose treatise
against heretics was published by Massons of Lyons, in 1612. He is cited by
Hallam, Middle Ages, vol. 3, pp. 359, 360, note Am.” f239
Alanus speaking of Albigenses, who were fully identified with the Bogomiles,
says:
“They rejected infant baptism, but were divided as to the reason. … It does
not appear they rejected either of the sacraments.” f240