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A91973	Pædo-baptisme: or, the baptizing of infants justified: by the judgement and practice of ancient and moderne Protestant divines, both foraine, and of this nation: clearly proving the absolute necessity of baptizing infants, from the authority of sacred scripture and the force of undeniable reason. Together with an excellent letter of Mr. John Philpots to the same purpose. / Collected by Robert Ram, minister of Spalding in Lincolnshire. Published by authority.	Ram, Robert, d. 1657.; Philpot, John, 1516-1555.	1645 (1645)	Wing R194; Thomason E276_12; ESTC R209870	23,751	33

soule their first disposition towards future newnesse of life Hooker Eccles politic Mr. Perkins The baptisme of infants hath warrant out of the Word of God however some men be of contrary opinion for all the Israelites were baptized in the Sea and among them no doubt were many children If it be said that baptisme was extraordinary and therefore is no ground for ours Answ True it was extraordinary for the manner but yet herein the matter and substance and the thing signified is ordinary and the end all one with ours And therefore the baptisme of infants in the red Sea is some warrant for the Baptisme of infants in the Church now adaies Perkins on Heb. 11. Mr. Ainsworth They are but a faithlesse and crooked generation that notwithstanding all that God hath spoken and done in this kind doe deny this grace of Christ to the infants of his people and the seale or confirmation of this grace by baptisme now as it was by circumcision of old Ainsworth censure of a Dialogue of the Anabaptists Dr. Willet Every man-child of eight daies old shall be circumcised c. From hence the baptisme of infants which commeth in the place of circumcision is most pertinently proved against the grosse errour of the Anabaptists For as then infants were circumcised to shew the contagion of the nature from the which they were cleansed by the circumcision of the Spirit so even infants now being guilty of originall corruption have need of the Sacrament of Regeneration Willet on Gen. 17. Mr. Hildersham There is great need that infants should be baptized for this maketh greatly for the faith and comfort of their parents for the present and of their owne afterwards that as they are by nature so filthy and loathsome in the sight of God so the Lord hath in the blood of Jesus Christ whereof the water in baptisme is a signe and seale provided a laver to wash and cleanse them in even the laver of regeneration as the Apostle calleth it Tit. 3.5 yea a fountaine opened as the Prophet calleth it Zach. 13.1 for sin and uncleannesse sufficient to cleanse them from all this filthinesse and corruption of their nature Hildersham on Psalm 51. Lect. 55. Dr. Fulk We doe no otherwise affirme Christian mens children to be holy from their mothers wombe then St. Paul 1 Cor. 7.14 saith they are holy because they are comprised in Gods covenant and have right to be baptized Fulk on Rhem. Test Rom. 5. Mr. Hieron Indeed the Anabaptists who dispute against the baptizing of infants doe much urge the practice of the Apostles and of Philips baptizing the Eunuch urging that they baptized none but such as were able to give an account of their faith To this I answer 1. That it is not simply improper to call the infant of believing parents a believer because though he doe not now actually believe yet partly because for his parents sake he is within the compasse of the covenant and partly because of that which may well be hoped for hereafter it were hard to terme him an infidell so it were not harsh to call him a believer And why not a believer as well as a reasonable creature though yet there is in him no use of reason nor any certainty of ability hereafter to enjoy it 2. The argument is naught from the Apostles practise for that course which they took with one certaine age of persons cannot be stretched out to all without exception In Abrahams person the knowledge of the nature of the Sacrament and a yeelding himselfe to live under the Lords obedience went before the receiving of circumcision yet in Isaac it was not so he was circumcised first and instructed after 3. As concerning the Apostles practise it selfe there is no certainty for it that they baptized none but such as were able to make acknowledgment of their faith there is more probability on the contrary that they baptized even some infants as namely when they baptized whol families 4. Be it that none of all these things wil serve to justifie the baptisme of infants yet unable to make confession of their faith yet their interest into the promise of God is a sufficient plea that promise Acts 2.39 is made to them that believe and to their children If then the promise belong to infants why not also the seale of the promise Hieron in his Sermon of baptizing the Eunuch This covenant is contained in the Scripture Dr. Whitaker I will be thy God and the God of thy seed Gen. 17.7 therefore the baptisme of infants is grounded upon the written Word of God and certainly if we had not better authority for the baptizing of infants then unwritten Traditions we were in an ill case to deale with Anabaptists in this matter Whitaker against Bellarmin de perfectione scripturae We say that baptisme is a Sacrament of the remission of sins Dr. Jewell and of that washing which we have in the blood of Christ and that no person which will professe Christs name ought to be restrained or kept backe there from no not the very babes of Christians forasmuch as they be borne in sin and doe pertaine unto the people of God Jewels Apologie cap. 11. division 3. D. Mayer That the children of believing parents ought to be baptized it is plaine 1. From the use of circumcision which was the forerunner hereof which was appointed to be done upon the eighth day after the birth Now the Seale of Gods covenant is to be applyed unto the children of Christians as soone as unto the children of the Jewes but unto the Jews the seale was applyed in their infancy therefore to the children of Christians likewise as circumcision their seale to them so baptisme our seale to us 2. From the estate of infants the promises belong to them as well as unto their parents saith Peter Acts 2.39 and theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven saith Christ and they are holy saith Paul 1 Cor. 7.14 now unto those that are wholly partakers of the promises of God and of the Kingdome of Heaven the signe and seale of God is not to be denyed but children of believing parents are such even in their infancy therefore the seale or signe of baptisme may not be denyed 3. From the practise of the Apostles and first teachers of the Gospell St. Paul baptized the houshold of Stephanus and Lydia and her houshold and the Jaylor was baptized with all that belonged unto him And when little children were brought unto Christ some disliking it were reproved and the bringers of them encouraged neither hath there beene any time since wherein they have been refused but since the springing up of the many headed Hydra of Anabaptisme Mayers Catech. of childrens baptisme Mr. Wynel The covenant now and formerly with the Jewes is the same in relation to the eternall welfare of the soule 1. The foundation of the covenant is the same as Gods free eternall