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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63924	A vindication of infant baptism from the four chief objections brought against it ... : in a letter to Mr. **** / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1699 (1699)	Wing T3321; ESTC R1870	31,861	38

Infantes in Parvulis Parvulus Sanctificans hanc ipsam habentes aetatem Adv. Haer. lib. 2. c. 39. The Design of the Father in this Place was to lay open the Fantastic Conceits of the Valentinians who pretended that their Aeons were prefigured by the Years of Christ's Life before his Baptism and that what they dreamt of the Passion of the Twelfth Aeon was signified by Christ's Suffering the Twelfth Month to support which Notion they asserted that Christ Preached but one Year after his Baptism These were the Heretic's Fantastic Dreams to confute which Irenaeus first shows that Christ was at Jerusalem Three several Passovers after his Baptism and consequently must have Preach'd above one Year in that he begun it upon his Baptism and continued it to his Death Then he shows that Christ passed thro' the several Stages of Humane Life Omnem aetatem sanctificans per illam quae ad ipsam erat similitudinem that he might sanctifie every Age by his own Likeness thereto For says he he came to save all by himself all I mean that are regenerated by him to God Infants Little Ones Children Young Men and Old For this Reason he pass'd thro' every Age and to the Infants he became an Infant sanctifying the Infants and to the Little Ones a Little One that he might sanctifie those of that Age. Which Words were purposely designed to declare that the Salvation purchased by Christ belongs to all Ages or Years whatever whether Infants or Old Men who are Members of Christ's Church Omnes qui per eum renascuntur in Deum all that are Regenerate or born again to God by him Which is the very Expression that St. Paul and the Ancients after Tit. 3. 5. See Just Mart. Apol. 2. p. 94. Edit Par. him use for Baptism And it appears here to be added to put a Limitation to the Assertion that what he says he means peculiarly of Christians that have been by Baptism admitted into the Covenant All that are born again unto God by him Infants Babes Children c. nor are Infants capable of being born again unto God by Christ any other way that I know of but by Baptism So that I do not see how it can be evaded but that this single Evidence must be acknowledg'd a sufficient Proof that the baptizing Infants was a Thing in Practice when Irenaeus wrote this Book For otherwise this Assertion could be neither pertinent nor proper It may not therefore be amiss to show how early this was and how very improbable it is that such a Custom should so soon prevail unless it had been received by a certain Tradition from the Apostles themselves Irenaeus wrote this Book about A. D. CLXXX which was but about Fourscore Years from the Death of Bishop Pearson Op. Posthuma Dis 2. c. 14. St. John who died in the Third Year of Trajan i. e. about A. D. 100. And Irenaeus was so far Cotemporary with Polycarp who was a Disciple of the Apostles and convers'd with Iren. l. 3. c. 3. many of those who had seen Christ and by them was made Bishop of Smyrna in Asia That he says he had seen him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he himself was but a young Man He must write this Book then in the very next Age after one that had been Contemporary with the Apostles And this I think is very early It can hardly be supposed that any corrupt Practice should be introduc'd but Polycarp who was Instructed by the Apostles and taught what he had learnt of the Apostles and what the Church had delivered to him and what alone was true as Irenaeus Lib. 3. Cap. 3. speaks of him Would zealously have opposed it and have had Autority to reject it There is no Probability that any great Innovation should be introduc'd while a Cotemporary and Disciple of the Apostles was yet alive There is then only from the Death of Polycarp to Irenaeus's writing this Book for the introducing this Practice if it was introduced And that at most is but about Thirty Two or Thirty Three Years For Bishop Pearson who places the Martyrdom of Polycarp earlier than other Men Opera Posthuma Dis 2. c. 20. asserts that it was A. D. CXLVII And can it be thought that any great Innovation should be made in Irenaeus's own Time and he either not know it or not reprove it Can those who think the baptizing Infants such a Corruption such a Violation of Christ's Institution as they conceit to destroy the true Being of a Church to deprive the Ministers of God of all just Power of Ministring in holy Things and to make Communion with us in our Sacraments unlawful Can they I say imagine that those Fathers whose Glory it was to do all Things according to the Instructions of the Apostles should suffer such an heinous Innovation to come in among them and be received and never make any Complaint nor any Opposition to it Would not Polycarp who was Instructed of the Apostles themselves have opposed it had it been in his Time And would not Irenaeus who says that only those Things are true which the Church from the Apostles delivered would not he I say zealously have oppos'd it had it been in his Time When therefore we find him speaking of it as a known Practice I appeal to all impartial Men whether it is not Rational to believe that the Fathers and the Primitive Church receiv'd it from the Apostles themselves You ought then Sir to be very tender in Charging all Christians from the Apostles Times for Fifteen Hundred Years together with not being a lawful Church nor such with whom one may Lawfully hold Communion in the Sacraments This should not be done without very good Proof Other Errors and Corruptions that have been found fault with and wanted Reformation we know when and how they were introduced And before this is so Positively affirmed to be a corrupt Innovation you ought to show us about what Time and by what Means it came to prevail rather than decry the Autority of the Fathers that bear Witness to this as an Apostolical Practice I might confirm this from the Testimony of others and particularly of Tertullian in the next Place who altho' he seems not I confess to approve it as he was in many Things particular in his Judgment yet even in his Dislike he undeniably attests that it was then in Use But the Testimony of Antiquity has been sufficiently insisted on by others I shall therefore add no more but leave it to your self to consider and to the World to judge whether your separating from our Communion upon the Account of a Practice so agreeable to Christ's Institution and the Ancient Usage of the Church be not more owing to the Prejudice of Education than to the Force of Reason or the just Merits of the Cause I am SIR your Humble Servant FINIS ERRATA PAg. 2. l. 30. read enjoys p. 6. l. 19. r. Capacity l. 34. dele first p. 13. l. 28. r. really p. 15. l. 1. r. assert p. 16. l. 26. r. at all p. 17. l. 15. dele p. 24. l. 10. after Wife add i. e. the Sanctimony of the Conjugal State is attested ADVERTISEMENT A DISCOURSE of FORNICATION Shewing the Greatness of that Sin and Examining the Excuses pleaded for it from the Examples of Ancient Times To which is added an Appendix concerning Concubinage As also a Remark on Mr. Butler's Explication of Heb. 13. 4. in his late Book on that Subject By John Turner M. A. Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard