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A96442	An ansvver to Mr. Francis Cornvvells positions & inferences, concerning dipping, anabaptisme, antipædobaptisme, tythes, and consecrated churches. Wherein the English Ministry is vindicated from the Anti-Christianisme, so deeply by him charged upon them. Published in speciall reference to the good of Mr Cornwells misled congregation. / By Robert Whittle, minister of the word of God at East-Malling in Kent. Whereunto are annexed, the fore-mentioned positions of Mr Francis Cornvvell, entituled, the Nevv Testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus, is the Magna Charta of Beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped; by which they are justified to be no hereticks.	Whittle, Robert, 1597 or 8-1679.; Cornwell, Francis. New testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2046; Thomason E516_1; ESTC R206141	27,828	25

food thus the elder upon his profession to work required of him receives food doth it follow that therefore the Infant must receive no food because he doth not make profession that he will worke this consequence is as strong as yours can be and somewhat stronger because this is backed with a Precept which yours l●cks 2 Thes 3. 10. if any would not worke neither should he ●ate but you can no where ●●●d If any professe not his faith let him not be baptized The like may be said concer●ing repentance Act. 2. 38. As for rantizing or sprinkling I suppose I have already cleared it that that is baptizing It seemes this is all you have to say against Paedo-baptisme for the prefers till afterwards in the close where I shall finde you out only you are offended with Mr Bright and Mr A●iston for preaching That though there be no command from Christ for baptizing Infants yet there is no command against it therefore they may baptize them I know not whether this was their Doctrine or not but I beleeve none of them would teach or grant that Christ gave no command no for it you have this but by hear●-say from some ignorant others but that there is command against it therefore they may baptize them this Argument was used by 〈◊〉 and others with whom Mr Corn is not worthy nor able to contest● Infantes sun● baptizandi quia unsquam prohibeture the strength of which reason depends upon the perfection and sufficiency of the Scripture that it containes all things necessary both for knowledge and practice either in particulars or generalls either directly or by consequence therefore nothing is unlawfull but therin forbidden nothing necessary either to be knowne or done but therein is revealed and commanded either you must confesse this or with the Papists bring in your unwritten traditions and set up their authority upon that Tence of the Scriptures insufficiency As for your application well may your soule be sadded at the consideration of the the place by you alleadged Deut. 18. 20 if you do but truely lay to heart that in this very point you speake that in the name of the Lord which he hath not commanded you to speake when you to say that Christ teacheth that none are the subject of Baptisms but such as manifest the beliefe of their hearts by the confession of their lips Christ never taught this you never learned it of him and yet you teach it do you herein make Christ your annointed Prophet looke to it In the next place you flie upon us for denying Christ to be our annointed King and so for open rebellion against him and all because we will not be dipped we acknowledge but one Baptisme In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost with which we have been already baptized in our Infancy and whosoever shall despise that Baptism wherein he was then sprinkled or any way washed with the bloud of the Covenant doth he not tread under foot the Son of God and count the bloud of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and doth he not come neare unto offering despite to the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 2● which offered unto him Grace in that initial Seale and he esteeme it not but we have no such custome nor the Churches of God yet I hope you may obtaine mercy because you do it ignorantly unlesse this ignorance that is in you proceed from the hardnesse of your heart Eph 〈…〉 4. 18 As for your charge of persecution you can neither tell when not whom in particular we have ever yet persecuted and I suppose our Negative may passe as well as your Affirmative if you account our walking contrary to all men which you would fasten upon us any part of persecution let any that is impartiall judge whether we which maintaine our Union and Communion with all the Churches of God or you and your Sect which separate from them all walke more contrary But many times they that are themselves most guilty thinke to excuse themselves by accusing others Ahab is ready to charge the Prophet for troubling Israel when it was himselfe and his father house He proceeds to a relation of his reading concerning the Testaments He reads but of one whereof the former made and to be observed by the circumcised people in their generations untill the time of Reformation now if he understand the Books of the Old Testament Moses and the Prophets that they were to be observed only by the circumcised people and only till the comming of Christ he will thereby prove himselfe Hereticall Rom. 3. 31. Ephes 2. 20. but if he understand by Testament the Covenant which God made with his people then he may read of the Covenant which God made with Noah and his seed after him Gen. 9. 9. the Covenant which he made with Abraham and his seed Gen. 17. 7. the Covenant which God made with his people Israel when he tooke them by the hand to bring them out of the Land of Egypt Jer. 31. 32. And the new Covenant promised to the house of Israel and the house of Judah Jer. 31. 31. Which is that new Testament under which we now are Heb. 8. 8. Heb. 9 15. Now then if Mr Cornewell have read the Scriptures he hath read of more Covenants then two or must acknowledge some of these Covenants to be one and the same and from which of these Covenants can it be collected that the Seale of the Covenant doth not belong to Children with their Parents doth not the forme of them all run to them and their seed the Children of Israel the house without any exception of children And seeing he must needs have one lash more at Infant-baptisme he takes it from a distinction of I know not whom as if there were one promise for the Father and another for the Seed whereas we teach that the same Promise belongeth to the one and the other both the Father and his seed included in that one promise of the Covenant I will be thy God and the God of thy seed And whereas Mr. Cornewell laies it downe as a ground that only the Circumcised Israelites should keepe the Passeover his collection from hence surely is most false that hence the Covenant of circumcision was given at once to Abraham and all borne in his house and bought with his mony surely it was not hence that Abraham was circumcised that he should eate the Passeover which was not instituted in many yeares after Abrahams death And whereas he urgeth one way for admittance of the father and his seed from hence that Abraham and all his were circumcised the same day doth this make any thing against the baptizing of children when their Parents are baptized let any indifferent Reader judge if this doth not make for the admission of children with their Parents as we affirme In the last place he urgeth the Baptisme of Infants to be contrary to our

Rev. 14. 12. cryeth from heaven for vengeance this day against you who now walke in the steps of the high Priest and Pharisees of old who killed the Lord Jesus and their owne Prophets and have persecuted us and please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to preach the Gospel to the Nations that they may be saved to fill up their sinne alwayes for the wrath of God is come upon them to the utmost 1 Thess 2. 15 16. But if you have hardened your hearts through the love of money which is the root of all your evill Yet good Lord open the understanding of the multitude of the people that you have so long deceived by your pretended holinesse and humane learning that remaine in mysticall Babylon yea and give them a true knowledge to depart from them and not be partakers of sinne denying the Lord Jesus the Christ Yea and the good Lord convince them that they have beene in the number of them that have persecuted the Lord Jesus in his members that have contended for the faith of Jesus Christ though they did ignorantly through unbeliefe so that they may trembling cry out What shall we doe Oh let thy good Spirit direct them ● to repent of their dead works and be baptized every one of them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for remission of their sinnes yea and give them the gift of thy holy Spirit that they may willingly forsake their spirituall Aegypt the pleasures and profits of this world And chuse rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season yea and esteeme the reproach for Christ to be greater riches then all the treasures of Aegypt knowing there is a reward of glory sayd up for them in the highest heavens Heb. 11. 26. M. Whittle I read in the Scriptures but of two Testaments The first was made by the circumcised people of Israel and ratified with the blood of Calves and Goats c. And Moses sprinkled both the Booke and all the people saying This is the blood of the Covenant that God hath enjoyned you Exod. 24. 6 7 8. compared with Heb. 10. 19 20. This Testament was to continue and to be observed by the circumcised people in their generation without any alteration either by addition or dimunition under the penaltie of a curse untill the time of Reformation Heb. 9. 10. Namely untill Christ the substance of all the shadowes was come and crucified Ephess 2. 14 15. 2. The second or New Testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus with all the Promises Ordinances Priviledges and the Inheritance therein bequeathed the Testator Jesus being dead is now in force to beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped and is to remaine till Christ commeth againe to restore all things And no man or powers under the penaltie of Anath●ma Maranatha may adde to it or detract from it lest they dis-annull this last Testament Rev. 22. 18 19. These things being thus premised you may God enlightning you easily discerne the vanitie of that distinction that is now in use amongst you of the English Ministery by which you deceive your simple hearers namely that there is one promise belongeth to the gathering of a Church and another promise belongeth to a Church gathered First they say Abraham was called and circumcised and then his seed after him was to be circumcised So say they when God calleth his Church from Jewes and Heathen they must first beleeve and repent before they are baptized But when the Church is gathered then say they the promise belongeth to the beleever and his seed and the seed or infants of beleevers are to be baptized Now that you may see the vanitie of this distinction Moses that was faithfull in all his house as a servant layeth downe the subject matter who should worship God in Israel and keepe the Passe-over and the Ordinances thereof namely the circumcised Israelites Hence the Covenant of circumcision was given at once to Abraham and all borne in his house and bought with his money of any stranger which was not of his seed Every male amongst them must be circumcised the eighth day or else they must be cut off from the people the Covenant was broken And it is said of Abraham that he circumcised himselfe and Ismael his son and all borne in his house and bought with his money the selfe-same day that God commanded him Gen. 17. 9 10 11 12 13 14. So Gen. 17. 23 24 25 26 27. And If a stranger will keepe the Passeover to the Lord let all his Males be circumcised and then let them come neere and keepe it For no uncircumcised person shall ea●e thereof Exod. 12. 48. So that there was not on● way for the admittance of the father and another for the seed but one way for both and it was to be a token in their flesh for an everlasting Covenant namely that 〈◊〉 keeping the Law should have the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession Gen. 17. 8 13. But when Israel changed this subject-matter she is called a rebellious house because she brought in strangers uncircumcised in flesh and uncircumcised in heart to eate of his bread and pollute his Sanctuary And God chargeth them to have broken his Covenant Ezek. 44. 6 7. compared with Gen. 17. 14. Exod. 12. 48. So the Lord Jesus that was faithfull in all his House as a Son which house are we beleevers in Jesus Christ dipped Heb. 3. 6. layeth downe how his Church should be gathered out of all Nations namely by preaching the everlasting Gospel and who shall be baptized namely every creature in every Nation that beleeveth in Jesus Christ and repenteth of his dead workes seeing the New Testament holdeth but one Lord Jesus Christ one Gospel-faith and one Baptisme So that a beleever in Jesus Christ dipped is the subject-matter to worship God in his spirituall house of the New Testament and no man under the penaltie of a curse might alter it Gal. 1. 8 9. And as the Prophet was not to shew any of the Israelites that had broken the Covenant in admitting strangers uncircumcised in flesh to come into his Sanctuary Ezek. 44. 6 7. untill they were ashamed of their abominations But if they were ashamed of all they had done then they were to shew them the forme of the house and the fashion thereof the going out thereof and the comming in thereof c. Ezek. 43. 10 11. Neither can you expect O you that are of the English Ministery that the Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 shew you the beautie of his spirituall House and the catring in there at and the O●d 〈…〉 thereof So long as contrary to your Covenant to oppose all Popery and Popish In 〈…〉 and to see a Reformation agreeable to the Word of God you joyne with th● Apostate 〈◊〉 the Priest and the Councell of the 66 Bishops in the dayes of cyprian yet in their time and a long season after they held baptizing of infants as an arbitrary thing untill it was after ratified by ● Decree in the time of Pope Innocentius 3. under the penaltie of E●communication for all N●●●nall Chruches under the Popes Jurisdiction to observe Namely that baptisme of infan●s of beleevers should succeed circumcision And by this Act of Fidus and the Councell of 66 Bishops and the Decree of Innocentius the third the Nationall Churches have ●roden the holy C●●●●● beleevers in Jesus Christ dipped under foot ne●re 42 moneths which reckoning a day 〈◊〉 year may amount to neer 1260 years Rev. 11. 2. unlesse the Lord of his free mercy open your 〈◊〉 with the eye-salve of his Spirit and make you ashamed of all your Traditions of infant-baptisme whereby you have enrighted a wrong subject to the Promises Ordinances Priviled g●● and Inheritance of the Spirituall house of the New Testament And when the Lord by his good Spirit shall convince you of all the evill you have done in Persecuting Christ in his Members 〈◊〉 contend for the Gospel faith and especially for oppos●●g the Lord Jesus in his Kingly and P●●ph●ticall Offices in all his outward administrations in admitting of Members into the spirituall Kingdome of the Lord Jesus Namely by repentance from dead workes confession of faith 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ and baptisme which are the three first principles of the Doctrine of Christ which all the members of the Churches of Judea which were in Christ tooke up and practised before they were added to the spirituall house in breaking of bread and prayer Heb. ● ● Act. 2. 41. So that you trembling cry out What shall we doe The holy Spirit by Peter that sp●●●eth will tell you Repent and be dipped every one of you in the Name of the Lord Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes and yee shall receive the gift of the holy Spirit Then so many of 〈◊〉 as shall gladly receive his word shall be dipped and shall be added to the Congregation of beleevers in Jesus the Christ to continue in the Doctrine we have received from the Apostles 〈◊〉 in Sain●s fellow-ship that keepe the Commandement of God and the faith of Jesus Rev. 14. ●● and in breaking of bread and prayer Act. 2. 41. 42. and have a right to all the Promises 〈◊〉 ledges and Inheritance that Jesus Christ according to his New Testament hath purchased 〈◊〉 you that obey his Gospel Heb. 5. 8. Yours who is adjudged as Hereticks by you but because he refuseth to keepe the Traditions of the Elders but will rather observe the Commandement of Christ as the Pharisees of old upbraided Christs owne Disciples Matth. 15. 2. yet prayeth that God would open your understandings that you might understand the New Y●stament Christ hath ratified with his owne blood that yee might not sinne against his mercies and his members lest you stay your owne soules Francis Cornewell FINIS