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A85810 A treatise of baptisme: wherein is clearly proved the lawfulnesse and usefulnesse of believers baptisme; as also the sinfulnesse and vanity of infants baptisme. With many usefull instructions, concerning the same matter. Grounded upon Ephes. 4. 5. One lord, one faith, one baptisme. / By Robert Garner. Garner, Robert. 1645 (1645) Wing G263; Thomason E314_16; ESTC R200501 29,978 40

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baptisme What I have said concerning these priviledges which are the sum of the fourth generall head which I propounded in the beginning of this Treatise may serve partly for instruction to such as desire to know what is the end and use and profit of baptisme unto believers which is a thing to be considered and partly to blame such who yeilding to ignorant and carnall reasonings do account believers baptisme to be a burden and say they Christ hath taken away all burthens from believers under the Gospel That Christ hath taken away believers burthens is a holy and sweet conclusion but that believers baptisme is a burthen it is a carnall excuse or a sinfull Inference drawne from that conclusion We have not so learned Christ We account his yoke easie and his burthen light I now proceed to cleare up the fifth generall head to wit What is the duty or what ought to be the carriage of believers in and after this Ordinance This I shall be brief in It is recorded of the Lord Jesus that in or upon his baptisme he prayed Luke 3.21 And the same counsell was given to Saul concerning his baptisme Acts 22.16 Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sinnes calling on the Name of the Lord that is praying to the Lord and acting faith in the Lord in this Ordinance What their duty is after this Ordinance in the whole course of their life I have before shewed in declaring what Ingagements lyeth upon believers by their baptisme What I have spoken concerning this head is usefull to direct believers in their duty both how to enter upon the Ordinance and how to behave themselves after it according to Christ This likewise may serve for a Seventh Touchstone of Infants baptisme whereby the unlawfulnesse thereof is further discovered I lay downe this conclusion to wit Baptisme can lawfully be administred to none but such whom the Lord hath made meet to pray to him and call upon his Name in or upon the administration thereof and whom the Lord also hath fitted in some measure to walk answerable to those Ingagements which baptisme requireth of us from the very time that we are under the profession of it But how these things will agree with Infants I leave to the Iudgment of the Wise The last generall head to be cleared up is this to wit Whom the Lord Iesus hath appointed to be the Dispenser or Administrator of baptisme to believers The Scripture teacheth us that whom the Lord Iesus hath authorized and appointed to preach the Gospell them also in the very same Commission and according to the same time he hath authorized and appointed to baptize such as believe the things concerning the Kingdome of God and the Name of Iesus Christ Mat. 28.19 Mark 16.15.16 Acts. 8 12. and as it follweth in the 35.36.37.38 verses of the same Chapter If it be objected that the administration of baptisme to believers was tyed to Apostles onely I Answer First It is eviedent Disciples did baptize before Apostles were chosen Iohn 3.22.23.24 When the Disciples of Christ were there baptizing it is said Iohn was not yet cast into prison Now by comparing Mat. 4.12 with Math. 10.2.3 4. We shall finde that it was some-while after Iohn was cast into prison before the Lord Jesus called the Twelve under the denominaton of Apostles Secondly after Apostles were chosen yet Disciples did baptize who were no Apostles as is evident by Philips baptizing of the Eunuch Acts 8.3.8 and Ananias baptizing of Saul Acts 9.10 compared with the 17. and 18. verses of the same chapter Thirdly the commssion to preach and baptize given by Christ to his servants was not given to them only or simply under the denomination of Apostles but Disciples Math. 28. verse 16. compared with 19. And thus the promise of Christ to be with his servants in the dispensation of these Ordinances hath an Influence into all times even to the end of the world Fourthly The Scripture declares that the speciall or chief businesse which Apostles are called to is to preach the Gospel 1 Cor. 1.17 Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel that is The speciall or chief work which Christ called me to do was not to baptize but to preach the Gospel From whence we learn that Apostles are not chiefly tyed unto the administration of baptisme neither is the administration of baptime tyed onely unto them Fifthly The things of Christ were committed by the Apostles according to the will of Christ to faithfull men who should be able to teach the same to others also 2 Tim. 2.2 And doubtlesse those who have a calling to teach them to others have a calling to dispence them to others also If any shall object that for along time under the raign of Antichrist the holy and pure administration of baptisme according to Christ was lost so that believers have it not by way of sucession from baptized persons and therefore their practise herein may seem faulty I answer First Was not also the Ordinance of preaching the Word in the simplcity and purity of it according to Christ lost for a long time under the raign of Antichrist And yet what wise and humble man will refuse to heare the Gospel preached in simplcity and in a holy order from such whom God hath gifted and called to dispence the same And surely those whom God doth call to preach the Gospel those he also calleth to baptize believers Secondly we finde that when the book of the law of God and the pure and holy administration of all Gods Ordinances was lost under the Idolatrous reigne of Manasseh which was long the servants of God in Iosiah his reigne finding the same and understanding the minde of God therein they did not now lay aside the book of the Law and the Ordinances of God conceiting that they must looke for another Moses by whom the Law was first given from whole hands they should againe receive the Law and the Ordinances appointed in it but without delay they read the booke set themselves to seek God renews the Covenant which was found in the book keepes the Passeover purgeth out all Idolatry and reformes all things which concerned the worship of God as we may read at large 2. Kings 22 and 23. chapters And in Nehemiah 8.1 We find the Children of Israel after their returne from Captivity being gathered together with one consent they require Ezra to bring forth the book of the Law of Moses which the Lord had commanded to Israel They look not now for a new Moses to give the Law againe to them but they look at the Lord and look at his Law which he had commanded to all Israel and their onely care was now to understand the mind of God in it and therefore they require Ezra to read it and to give the sence of it And it is observable amongst other things They found it written in the Law that the children of Israel should dwel in