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A77497	The doctrine and practice of paedobaptisme, asserted and vindicated. By a large and full improovement of some principall arguments for it, and a briefe resolution of such materiall objections as are made against it. Whereunto is annexed a briefe and plaine Enarration, both doctrinall and practicall, upon Mark 10.V.13.14.15.16. As it was some time since preached in the church of Great Yarmouth: now published for an antidote against those yet spreading errours of the times, Anabaptisme and Catabaptisme. / By Joh. Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4712; Thomason E300_14; ESTC R200258	127,125	196

were growne up to maturity and if in all that time they can but shew any one instance of any childe borne of a believing parent whose Baptisme was deferred till he came to yeares of discretion and that then he was baptized we will then acknowledge that there is some strength in their negative allegation In the mean time having such generall instances of the baptizing of whole families sure we are we have more reason to believe that Infants were comprehended and are to be reckoned in that number then they have any for the contrary 2. For a second evidence that this was the Apostolicall practise I will not goe far from this word in the Text which I have now in hand Possibly we may finde somewhat that maketh for this practice nearer hand then we were aware of Even in the words immediatly following The doctrine of Baptismes and laying on of hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hic locus ad Paed●baptismi approbationem facit It is Calvins hint upon it This place maketh for the baptisme of Infants How so To shew you how give me leave to touch upon that clause a little Though it be a long yet I hope it will be a usefull Parenthesis serviceable not only to our present but to some other purposes of great and speciall concernment The doctrine of Baptismes and laying on of hands What is here meant by the latter of these I confesse it is not agreed by Expositors To boult out the truth as neare as wee may laying on of hands in it selfe wee know it was and is a Ceremony a Ceremony of very ancient use in the Church of God and that in divers cases To let passe the former In the New Testament we meet with a twofold imposition of hands The one miraculous and extraordinary the other ordinary The former was practised by the Apostles and other extraordinary persons in the Primitive times and that in two cases 1. In conferring of extraordinary gifts of the Spirit Of this you may read Act. 8. 17. 18. and elsewhere 2. In bestowing some temp●rall blessing as viz. Healing of the sicke Of this speaks St. Iames Iam. 5. 14. Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him Not only pray for him as Beza and the Geneva render it but over him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall super eum over or upon i. e. holding their hands over or laying them upon the sicke person So was it frequently practised before as by our Saviour himself so by other of the Apostles as the Evangelists informe us in healing of the sicke working some miraculous cures upon the bodies of men they imposed their hands upon them In both these cases was this Ceremony then used You may see them both together in that act of Ananias his Act. 9. 17. where comming unto Saul or Paul he put his hands on him and said Brother saul the Lord hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost But this was extraordinary and consequently but temporary to continue only so long as that miraculous power was continued to the Church which ceasing the Ceremony from thence forth in these cases is of no more use In the second place there is another imposition of hands which was and is more ordinary And that againe in two cases In the case of Ordination and Confirmation 1. In case of Ordination the ordaining of Ministers Church-officers setting them apart to their Ministeriall office and function This for the greater solemnity of it was performed with this significant Ceremony the laying on of hands Thus were the seven Deacons ordained Act. 6. 6. When the Apostles had prayed they laid their hands on them v. 6. Thus were Paul and Barn●bas separated to the worke which God had called them viz. to the exercise of their Ministery amongst the Gentiles When they had fasted and prayed they viz. the Prophets and Teachers in the Church of Antioch spoken of in the ● v. layd then hands on them and sent them away Thus was Timothy himselfe ordained by Paul 2 Tim. 1. 6. And thus did Timothy ordaine others And thence is the whole action denominated from this Ceremony and called a laying on of hands 1 Tim. 5. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man saith Paul to Timothy speaking of the Ordination of Ministers 2. Secondly in case of Confirmation So it is usually how fitly I will not dispute called Let not the name prejudice any against the thing which without question is of very ancient use in the Church of God That I presume will bee granted at all hands Neither can it be denyed there being so many of the Ancients making mention of it But whether Apostolicall o● no that is the Question I know many have looked upon it meerly as an Ecclesiasticall constitution Of this opinion was Calvin in his former time who in his booke of Institutions declares his dissallowance of Ieromes authority and judgement in this particular in holding this forth for an Apostlicall Ordinance But others I finde of another minde I Calvin himselfe in his latter time who comming to write upon the words of the Text upon second thoughts which are the more to be regarded secundae cogitationes hee retracts what before he had dubiously averred affirming and that positively and confidently that this Ordinance was no other but Apostolicall grounding it upon these words the doctrine of Baptism and laying on of hands Hic unus locus abunde testator c. This one place saith he doth abundantly testifie that this Ceremony viz. the Imposition of hands in confirmation how ever in after times it was superstitiously perverted and abused as the best Institutions are apt to degenerate into foule corruptions yet it had its first originall from the Apostles themselves Of this minde are divers others as of the Ancients so of our moderne Divines of note viz. Beza Piscator Chemnitius Hemingius Vrsine Dr. Fulk Dr. Willet and many others men of singular both Learning and Piety who all expound this Text in this sense I know there are some few others whose names and memories I honour who are of a different judgement who being distasted with the corruption of this Ordinance as practised in the Church of Rome and amongst our selves and so possibly prejudiced against it carry the Text another way conceiving that by laying on of hands here we are rather to understand the totum Ministerium the whole Ministery of the Church which was wont to be ordained by Imposition of hands A usuall trope or metonimie say they one Ceremony put for the whole Service But to this supposition I must professe I cannot freely subscribe In as much 1. as I cannot looke upon this as one of the fundamentalls of Christian Religion as these six heads here named and this amongst the rest are by some conceived