The enemies of the ancient Baptists have ironically helped establish the fact of their existence throughout history!

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11h  · The enemies of the ancient Baptists have ironically helped establish the fact of their existence throughout history! One opponent of the Baptists, Henry Bullinger (1504-1575) writes:”Now, I think it not labour lost to speak somewhat of anabaptism. In the time that Decius and Gallus Caesar were Emperors, there arose a question in the parts of Africa of rebaptising heretics; and St. Cyprian, and the rest of the Bishops, being assembled together in the council of Carthage, liked well of anabaptism… Against the Donatists St. Augustine, with other learned men, disputed. There is also an Imperial Law made by Honorius and Theodosius, that holy Baptism should not be iterated (repeated).Justinian Caesar hath published the same, in Cod. lib. I. Tit. 6, in these words. ‘If any Minister of the Catholic Church be detected to have rebaptised any, let both him which committed the unappeasable offence, (if at least by age he be punishable) and he, also, that is won and persuaded thereunto, suffer punishment of death.'” (Henry Bullinger, “Sermons on the Sacraments”, Cambridge, University Press for T. Stevenson, London, 1811, pp. 186, 187)