Lay Baptism Invalid An Essay to Prove That Such Baptism is Null And Void When
Lay Baptism Invalid An Essay to Prove That Such Baptism is Null And Void When
R Roger Laurence
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Epifcopal Authority, from whence alone all Commiflions to Baptize muft flow. St. Jerom never once fpoke of fuch pretended Baptifms as thefe 5 for the Church in his Days had no Expe- rience of them. But to return to the Lay-Bap- tifins he fpeaks of: Do's St. Jerom then refer us to the Will and Pleafure of the particular Bifhops of thofe Laicksj and fay, that 'twas Lawful for them to Baptize, becaufe their refpedive Bifhops autho- rized them to do fb, in Abfence of the Clergy > But how fhall we k...now this, where do*s it appear? And if it were fo, this would not determine it to be Lawful by the general Senfe and Fni^lice of the Church, for the Will and Pleafure only of fbme particular Biihops, is no Law of the Catholick Church'^ and befides even this alfo, if it were al- lowed that particular Bifliops could and did autho- rize their own Lay-men, will not prove the Law- fulnefs or Validity of our Lay-Baptifms, which are evidently fuch as are done by Perfons never au- thorized at all by their refpedive Biihops.
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