#18 A Catholic’s Verification of Baptist-Minded Historicity

“Infants properly may lack faith of their own, and yet are baptized — this is rejected by those the Catholics brand as reprobate: Hincmanus of Laon, Berengarius, the Petrobrusians, the Henricians, the Pseudo-Apostolics, the Cathars, the Albigensians, Peter John, the Lollards, Vnicleus, Balthasar of Piedmont, Thomas Muntzer, Michael Servetus, and others. These groups stood in open defiance of the Apostolic Constitutions, which command: ‘Baptize your infant children, and raise them in discipline and the instruction of God; for the Lord says, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and do not forbid them.’ For this reason, the Catholic Church marshaled every weapon at its disposal — the unanimous verdict of the Church Fathers, the Council of Milevis, the Council of Trent, and the authority of the Supreme Pontiffs themselves — declaring it anathema to hold otherwise, all in order to suppress this rejection of infant baptism.”

— Benedictus a Benedictis, Iacula Ecclesiae Christi Catholicae ex Catholicorum Ipsisque Haereticorum Assertionibus Deprompta, p. 228 (Venice, 1608)