System of Sacred Theology · §4.13.5 · Ludwig Crocius

Doubtful baptism

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10. If anyone cannot be sure from the testimony of church, parents, or others that he received baptism in infancy, he is to be baptized without scruple. The fifth Council of Carthage rightly decided that such infants are to be baptized without scruple. As Leo rightly adds, what is not known to have been done cannot be called iterated.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN follows, On the Lord's Supper.

Latin

10. Si quis vel ex ecclesiae vel parentum vel aliorum testimonio de baptismo in infantia accepto certus esse nequeat: is sine scrupulo baptizandus est. Nam concilio Carthaginensi 5 cap. 3: Placuit de infantibus... absque ullo scrupulo esse baptizandos. Ut Leo recte addit, iteratum dici non potest quod nescitur esse factum. CAPUT DECIMUM QUARTUM sequitur, De coena Domini.

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