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Mr. Bingham, from this Author, infers, that no one can have a

Power of Baptizing, but he that receives fome way or other

a Commiffion from the Apostles,

And that the Original Power of Baptizing was lodg'd folely and
entirely in Bishops, and derivatively convey'd from them to
others; inferr'd by him from the Ancient Writers,
His Notion of Bishops Ratifying Irregular Baptifms, by adding
what was wanting in the Circumftances of Baptifm, by an af-
ter Confirmation, confider'd and fet to Rights,

II

ibid.

'Eftimonies for and against Lay-Baptism Examined, 30

Mr.Bingham owns that Lay-Men were always debarr'd from the

Miniftration of Baptifm in ALL ORDINARY CASES, ibid.
This prov'd to be a Nulling of all Lay-Baptifms perform'd in Or-
dinary Cafes; confequently that our Diffenters Baptisms are
Null and Void,
ibid.

Mr. Bingham ftates the grand Queftion wrong, concerning Lay-

Baptifm in Extraordinary Cafes, if he would bring it to our

Cafe about which we are difputing,

The Grand Queftion of our Lay-Baptifms truly stated,

No Teftimonies for Lay-Baptifm in the first 200 Years of Chri-

ftianity,

Therefore no ancient Catholick Tradition, no general Senfe and
Practice of the Church, can be found whereon to establish the
Practice of Lay-Baptifm,

ibid.

St.

ibid.

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He fays he Copy'd from Rufinus, fuch Paffages, in the relation

whereof Rufinus did not forfake the Truth,

71

And therefore his omitting this Fable, is an Argument that he
did not believe Rufinus's Relation of it,
ibid.

Another of Mr. Bingham's Authors for the Truth of this Fable,

founds it upon a new Suppofition of his own, that spoils the

Design of Mr. Bingham's relating it,
72

Johannes Mofchus, another of Mr. Bingham's Vouchers, a Ridicu-
lous Vifionary Monk of the 7th Century; who writes this Fa-
ble, among other idle Legendary Stories of Miracles, Dreams,
c. not to be credited; fome Particulars whereof are in-

ftanc'd,

Nicephorus Califtus, another of his Vouchers, a Fabulous Writer

of the 14th Century, tho' Mr. Bingham fays he relates this

Story, yet in truth he do's not relate it,

75

ibid.

And if he had, would have been but a forry Evidence,
A juft Reflection on Mr. Bingham's producing fuch Fabulous
Writers, to vouch for the Truth of this Fable, fo pernicious in
its Confequences, if believ'd to be true, juft and right,

The little or no Credit this Story has among Learned Men,

Even Papifts themselves reject it,

ibid.

ibid.

Because the Inftitution of Baptifm and Laws of the Church, do
confine Baptifm to a Commiffion, and confequently forbid fuch
a Determination in favour of its Validity when without a Com-
miffion,

Mr. Bingham fuppofes, but do's not prove, and therefore is call'd

upon to prove it, that an Uninftituted Miniftration of Baptifm,

may be made Valid by a Post-fact Confirmation of the Bishop,

If

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