It is neither wise, nor any proof of intelligence, to refuse a proper place to such testimony.

We do not ask Josephus nor Eusebius how to interpret these books for us, nor does their erroneous opinion with regard to matters of faith disparage their testimony as to the existence and authenticity of the sacred canon.

Neither can we properly say, "The early Christian fathers had wrong notions, some of them, about infant baptism; therefore they cannot be allowed to testify whether infant baptism was practised." However heretical they may have been, they could not alter the well-known facts of history, in the face of enemies and friends.
_Mr.M._ Are you not accustomed to rely much, in your scriptural argument for infant baptism, on the baptisms of households by the apostles?
_Dr.D._ I am; and that reminds me of an interesting passage, which I will read to you from this book:[4] [Footnote 4: Taylor on Baptism.] "Have we eight instances of the administration of the Lord's Supper?
Not half the number.

Have we eight cases of the change of the Christian Sabbath from the Jewish?
Not, perhaps, one fourth of the number.

Yet those services are vindicated by the practice of the apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.