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A38629	Of regeneration and baptism, Hebrew & Christian, with their rites, &c. disquisitions by Christopher Elderfield ...	Elderfield, Christopher, 1607-1652.	1653 (1653)	Wing E329; ESTC R40404	351,661	298

jam ad hoc pervenerant ut scire atque intelligere possent Quid emolumenti in Baptismo consequendum quid conficendum atque credendum quid postremò renatis in Christo esset faciendum de rebus Ecclesiast cap. 26. Nicetas has it often how free the access was in his time Heus tu qui à Saracenis ad Christianorum fidem accedis said the Minister non ex violentia quadam aut necessitate neque dolo aut hypocrisi sed ex tota anima corde puro atque sincero quibus Christum ejus fidem diligis What! willingly and in sincerity of heart to seek Christ alone He answers Renuncio omni Saracenorum religioni anathematizo Maomedum c. And soon after Ego qui à Saracenis hodiè ad Christianorum fidem accedo non ex violentia quadam aut necessitate neque dolo aut hypocrisi sed ex tota anima corde puro atque sincero quibus Christum ejus fidem diligo I seriously renounce Mahomed and seek my Saviour with all my heart Nicet Saracenica apud Biblioth Patrum Graec. tom 1. pa. 282 283. And another Nicettas Serronius Solo voluntatis pretio Baptismus emitur Nothing but a good will can deserve to this Seal In Commentar ad Gregor Nazianz. Orat. 40. cap. 26. Tertullian Sed nec religionis est cogere religionem quae sponte suscipi debet lib. ad Scapul cap. 2. St Bernard Fides nequaquam vi extorquetur sed exemplis atque ratione suadetur de modo benè vivendi cap. 1. And a Spanish Councel gravely and discreetly De Judaeis praecepit sancta synodus nemini deinceps ad credendum vim inferri Cui enim vult Deus miseretur quem vult indurat Non enim in viti tales salvandi sunt sed volentes ut integra sit forma justitiae Sicut enim homo proprii arbitrii voluntate serpenti obediens periit sic c. Concil Tolet. 4. can 55. taken after into the Decree in Distin 45. cap. 5. Where the Canon is determining that the Minister of Religion ought to be milde not soon angry no striker from 1 Timoth. 3.3 Pastores etenim facti sumus non percussores saith Gregory Et egregius praedicator dicit Argue obsecra impera in omni patientia doctrina Nova verò atque in audita est ista praedicatio quae verberibus exigit fidem cap. 1. out of Gregory the great Ad fidem enim nemo cogendus est as the Gloss has it there Yet more the same Canon Law grants them dischargeable from obligation to observe Laws Christian who in no sort consented but in spite of express contradiction had this Sacrament forced on them Lancelot Institut Jur Canon lib. 2. tit 3. As Erasmus would have them released of the Churches Jurisdiction who dissent at years of consent in praefat in Matth. But note that refusal must be then more then not agreeing an actual resisting for plus est expresse contradicere quam non consentire as in the Decretals And in the Decree Prius ipse Jesus caeci nati oculos luto superlinivit sic ad aquas Siloe misit quia prius debet baptizandus fide incarnationis Christi instrui sic ad Baptismum jam credulus admitti ut sciat cujus gratiae est in eo particeps cui jam debitor fiat deinceps de consec distinct 4. ca. 54. Hence Catechizing was wont to go before Baptizing and in practise as well as rule in act as well as equity Non enim adulti sunt cogendi ad profitendum fidem vel ad suscipiendum sacramenta fidei sed inducendi instructione admonitione ut dictum fuit c. in the Schools Durand in Sentent lib. 4. Dist 6. Quaest 3. Utrum Catechismus debeat praecedere Baptismum By the greatest reason in the world And though Princes may compell their subjects to return to their vow if they apostatize or all other not to blaspheme c. yet it is the common sentence of the Schools saith Gregory de Valencia that to force their consciences that are at liberty to come to Baptisme this they may not tom 3. disput 1. Quaest 10. de in fidelitate punct 6. So was done here in this our Land When the Bible unheard of was brought and offered and the King by the Grace of God had his heart opened to belief of the Truth yet he constrained none of his subjects to follow him but left it to their choice and to bring the free-will offering of their hearts in their hands by consecration of minde and good will else he knew the sprinkling of a little water was but an unprofitable Ceremony Quorum fidei conversioni saith Bede of those that came in after him ita tamen congratulatus esse rex perhibetur ut nullum tamen cogeret ad Christianismum sed tantummodo credentes arctiori dilectione quasi concives sibi regni coelestis amplecteretur Didicerat enim ab auctoribus doctoribusque suae salutis servitium Christi VOLUNTARIUM non coactitiumesse debere Histor Ecclesiast gentis Anglorum lib. 1. cap. 26. So is it as this day abroad If any Jew Moor or other Gentile be disposed to receive the Faith of Christ it is believed written in the Apostles books saith Zaga Zabo an Ethiopian Bishop of his Countrey to omit other that he is not forthwith to be admitted But they will that he first come unto the gate of the Church and there to hear Sermons and the words of our Saviour Christ that before he be wrought over and brought as it were by stealth or force unto the faith he may know the yoke of the Law Damian à Goes pa. 563. whereto we may believe practise answerable Aquinas proposeth the Question of Jews children Whether they are to be baptized without consent of their parents He answers No nor ever had or should quod justitiae naturali repugnaret inde fides in periculum venire posset It was both against common Justice and destructive of the nature of Faith So of other infidels secunda secundae Quest 10. artic 10. Lastly our very learned neighbour dislikes all fighting to propagate religion in his book of War and for religion particularly the inforcing of ours by Scripture Fathers and other amplificatio●s Lex nova non se vindicat ultore gladio out of Tertullian Force is the worst Minister of Faith and most unreasonable to perswade averse men to Heaven by the Rhetorick of the Sword H. Grot. de jure Belli pacis lib. 2. cap. 20. This whole in accordance to the first and best patterns As many as receive the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with delight and pleasure which is more then libenter with a permissive or active good will as in the old translation were baptized and so there were added to the Church that day multitudes of souls Act. 2.41 voluntary in all formes or according to all Directories of Christian Baptisme that I

the practice of the Church to be made good by the best Records sc that as (2) Part 3. Domin 1. Advent pa. 18. Cunradius Dietericus grants it was though he do not think it fit it should have been till the time of Constantinus (3) Vid. Histor Magdeburg Centur. 8. cap. 6. de Ceremoniis sec De ritibus circa Baptismum Copronymus about the year 740. who from a shamefull disgrace to this Sacrament got that name yet 7 So the learned Commentator on Sir Tho. Ridleys View of the Laws pa. 176. till then men used to goe into the water and there stand Vestibus exuti nudi c. Lay I say these things together and compare and face does not more fully and proportionally answer face in water nor any thing its like then the manner of washing proselytes and our Saviours Sacrament instituted with the practice in purest times do picture express lead follow set forth exemplifie and in all things correspond comply with and resemble one the other of which many other things might be alledged and more then very many but that I am willing to borrow incautelous forbearance from the Apostles (4) 2 Corinth 11.12 amputare occasionem eorum qui volunt occasionem It was both and all but Sacred Sacerdotall washing and for the manner alike on both sides of the Covenant So for the persons on whom it was to pass which on Israel side was even to Minor's offered by their parents or the Countrey and the most (5) The Churches through Greece Asia Syria Aegypt c. Ruteni Muscovitae Aethiopis all receive it says judicious Cassander and all whose use is known to us extra fines Latinos keep precisely to the 8th day Except perhaps the Abissines who stay not the females so long but hasten them according to the time prefixed for the mothers purification frō a male by the Law on the 40 day so crossing Levi both in male and female Testimonia veterum scriptorum pro paedo● baptismo pa. 693. general received practice of Gentile believers hath been since to suffer little children to come unto Christ and not forbid them as of whom is in right the Kingdom of God For as to the former I finde (6) Ut gentiles Majores ad hunc modum ex animi sui sententia proselyti fieban ita minores masculi ante annum decimum tertium praeter unicum diem Faeminae ante duodecimum diem in super expletum ex sententia sive patris sive fori cui suberant in Judaismum pariter cooptati Atque actus tàm forensis quàm paternus assensum eorum tùm in Circumcisione Baptismo tùm in sacrificio offerendo quod sequebatur supplebat nempe quia in commodum ejus res cessit Selden de Jure Nat. Gent. p. 146. As much observed and allowed by him since Non magis Circumcisionem quàm baptismum parvulis tum debitam praestitamque volunt Magistri ut ex mox dicendis de proselytis manifestum fit de Synedriis veterum Ebraeorum lib. 1. cap. 3. pa. 28. and he alledgeth sundry authorities of remote and very dark inquiry but best account as from Maimonides Misna Babilon Misna Hierosolymit c. Plain full home By their own testimony this as common as of any other lately observed by Mr. Lightfoot In the Talmud in Cetuboth perek 1. they have these words Rab. Hona saith A little one they baptize by the appointment of the Consistory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whereupon the Hebrew gloss If he have not a father and his mother bring him to be proselyted they baptize him because there is no proselyte without Circumcision and Baptifme The Text proceedeth What do we learn hence That he hath benefit by it and they priviledg a man even though he know it not It is a tradition that they priviledg a person though he know it not but they do not dispriviledg a person without his knowledge Very good And thus do they answer that objection now on foot against Infants baptisme sc that it is not fit they should be baptized because they have no understanding They make it a non-sequitur for say they A priviledge may be put upon a person though himself know it not Harmony of the Evangelists part 2. pa. 75. those that would be proselytes to the Synagogue being under years of consent the male a day under thirteen the female a day above twelve the parents of the child or the Countrey would offer any other and this consent of theirs interpreted to supply the consent of him that otherwise could not because it tended to the good and benefit of the receiver quia in commodum ejus baptizati res cessit says their Law as otherwise perhaps it should not Much as in 1 Vpon consideration of all our books I finde this diversity that a Parson or Vicar for the benefit of his Church and of his successor is in some cases esteemed to have a fee simple qualified but to do any thing to the prejudice of his successors in many cases the Law esteemeth him to have in effect but an Estate for life Cook on Littleton fol. 341. Ecclesia fungitur vice minoris meliorem potest facere conditionem suam deteriorem nequaquam Briton fol. 143 cited there Bracton has it more fully lib. 2. de acquirendo rerum dominio cap. 5. se 5. fol. 12. agreeable to the opinions of most Civilians though some contradict Vid. Gloss Alimentarius ad leg Cum hi quibus in Digest 2. de transactionibus sect Eam transactionem our Law a man or Corporation may be a legall actor to benefit and the act valid enough as it would not have been if it had tended to prejudice and not only a man but a child by (2) Et notandum quod cùm donator minori dederit curatorem curator nomine minoris fuerit in seysina si donator postea quacunque ratione se posuerit in seysinam inde obierit seysitus nunquam propter hoc mutabitur status minoris quin retineat contra quoscunque Recipere enim poterat per tutoris authoritatem consentire donationi sibi factae consentire autem donationi ad se or rather à se faciendae vel admittendi iterum donatorem ad seysmam non potest alicujus authoritate meliorem enim suam conditionem facere potest deteriorem nequaquam Bracton de acquir rerum dom 2.5 sec 8. fol. 14. The substance whereof has Fleta lib. 3. cap. 3. de donationibus sec 17. In aliquibus casibus jus nostrum minoribus tantùm favet ut ne quidem cum authoritate tutorum judicii periculum subire eos patiatur sed placitum usque in plenam eorum aetatem sistat Cowell Institut Jur Anglic. lib. 1. cap. 21. sec 5. ours and (3) Minoribus enim aetas in damnis subvenire non rebus prosperè gestis obesse consuevit Cod. de procuratoribus L. Non èo minùs as