[146] This was a treatise on the name of God, and the heavenly order of the angels.
[147] What Smaragdus has written on 1 Pet. 2, saying: “Such holy, pure, and innocent childhood, the mother, the church of Christ, gains through the grace of baptism,” gave cause to consider whether by the word childhood he meant infants of the cradle, and by the words grace of baptism, infant baptism; but it is also interpreted as having reference to the believing children of God, according to Gal. 3:26, and to the baptism of believers, according to Mark 16:16. As to the exposition, however, which he is stated to have made on John 13, it is held that it took place before his enlightenment.
[148] What Fulbertus says, in this comparison, of baptism, is, as far as the sense is concerned, identical with that which Paul, Rom. 6:4, declares of the baptism of believers, saying: “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
[149] For further comments respecting Eugenia’s confession of faith, see the explanation which we shall append to the account of the death of Pelagius.
[150] To die for the name of Christ, our author says.
[151] With regard to what is attributed to Anselm, concerning the suspicion in reference to infant baptism, namely, that he (on Eph. 4 and Hebr. 10.) agreed with Meginhard (de Fide at Gunth.), we let those say, who can show more evidence of it, than we have yet met with. In the mean time, we have weighty reasons, which induce us to show the contrary concerning him. The same is true also with regard to what he is said to have written, touching said doctrine, on Matt. 15; 1 Cor. 7, and in Concordia Gratia, and lib. Arbitrii, etc.; which things as well as the above, we leave without comment, reserving our explanation of them to ourselves.
[152] Laymen and nobles, etc., the papist writer says.
[153] A. Mell., fol. 395, ex Baron., in Chron. Eccl., 1088. Art. 15, 20, 21
[154] This Peter de Bruis, with his disciple Henry, was known, A. D. 1130, throughout all France, on account of his learning and his boldness in reproving the abuses of the Roman church. Bapt. Hist., page 686.
[155] Doopsgesinde, German, Taufsgesinde.