Excerpt from The History of Infant-Baptism, Vol. 1 of 2: Together With Mr. Gale's Reflections, and Dr. Wall's Defence But since the practice of the ancient Christians, that lived nigh the times of the apostles, being more largely delivered, is more easily known: that such as have gone about to give an account thereof out of the ancient records should give so contrary accounts as they do, is a great wonder and a great shame. For they do not only differ in the understanding of the meaning of several of the places produced; but also as to matter of fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.