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A67284 A modest plea for infants baptism wherein the lawfulness of the baptizing of infants is defended against the antipædobaptists ... : with answers to objections / by W.W. B.D. Walker, William, 1623-1684. 1677 (1677) Wing W430; ESTC R6948 230,838 470

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is done but suiting better with my design to have it done this way § 2. And for this present Seventeenth Century now current we need no other but our own eyes to be our witnesses of the daily Practice to baptize Infants both in our Church at home and other Churches abroad as well Protestant as Popish § 3. And as little need almost have we to seek for witnesses in the Century next foregoing there being many no doubt yet living who were baptized Infants themselves within the compass of that Century if they do not also remember the baptisms of others However at home our Articles of Religion first agreed on in the reign of Q. Elizabeth Anno 1562 declaring that Infants baptism is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable to the Institution of Christ and our Liturgy compiled before in the reign of K. Edward the Sixth Anno 1549 wherein is contained the office for the publick baptizing of Insants is to us a sufficient evidence for it without seeking further To which for neighbourhood sake we may add the Confession of the Faith of Scotland in the year 1582 wherein they confess and acknowledge that baptism appertaineth as well to the Infants of the Faithfull as unto them that be of full age and discretion § 4. And for the Churches abroad their Confessions shew their belief and practice in this case The Council of Trent in the fifth and seventh Session of it Anno 1546 Anno 1547 Si quis parvulos recentes ab utcris matrum baptizandos negat Antthema sit Concil Trident. Sess 5. apud Caranzam Si quis dixerit par vulos co quod actum credend● non habent susccpto baptismo inter fideles ●omputandos non esse Anathema sit Id. ib. Sess 7. con 13. anathematizes those that either say that children ought not to be baptized or that being baptized they ought not to be reckoned amongst believers or that it is better wholly to let their baptizing alone than that not believing by any proper act of their own they should be baptized upon the account of the faith of the Church And that gives sufficient evidence for the Church of Rome § 5. Then for the Protestant Churches the Harmony of the Confessions of Helvetia Bohemia Printed at Cambridge 1586. Belgia Auspurge Saxony Wittemberg We condemn the Anabaptists who deny that young Infants born of faithful parents are to be baptized For according to the doctrine of the Gospell Theirs is the kingdom of God And they are in the Covenant of God And why then should not the sign of the Covenant be given to them The latter Confession of H●lvetia In which holy Font we do therefore dip our Infants because that it is not lawful for us to reject them from the company of the people of God which are born of us Former Confess of H●lvetia Young children also who are reckoned in the number of Gods people in like sort are by this Ministery to be benefited towards the attaining of salvation that they likewise may be consecrated and dedicated to Christ according to his commandment when he saith Suffer ye the little ones For these causes do our Ministers without any doubt and boldly baptize children Bohemie Seeing that God doth together with the Parents account their posterity also to be of the Church we assirm that Infants being born of holy Parents are by the Authority of Christ to be baptized French Confess We by the same reason do believe that they Infants ought to be baptized and sealed with the sign of the Covenant for the which in times past the Infants amongst the Israelites were circumcised that is by reason of the same promises made unto our Infants that were made unto others Confess of Belgia They teach that young Infants are to be baptized They condemn the Anabaptists which allow not the baptism of Infants Confess of Auspurge We also baptize Infants because it is most certain that the promise of grace doth pertain also to Infants Confess of Saxony We acknowledge that Baptism is to be ministred as well to Infants as to those that are grown to full age Confess of Wittemberge Seeing that Baptism is a Sacrament of that Covenant which God hath made with those that be his promising that he will be their God and the God of their seed therefore our Preachers do teach that it is to be given to Infants also Confess of sweveland Sweveland with the French Confession all unanimously declaring for Infants baptism though some on one ground and some on another evidently enough shews what was believed and practiced by those parts of the Church in that age § 6. To these I shall add the Confession of the Churches of the Valleys of Piemont assembled in Angrogne Anno 1532 in the 17 Artic. whereof they say we have but two Sacramental Signs left us by Jesus Christ the one is Baptism the other is the Eucharist which we receive to shew that our Sir Sam. Morland History of Piemont p. 41. perseverance in the Faith is such as we promised when we were baptized being little children Also a Confession presented to Ladislaus K. of Bohemia Anno 1508 by his Subjects falsly called Waldenses and after to Ferdinand Id. ib. pag. 53. K. of Bohemia Anno 1535 in the 12 Artic. whereof They likewise teach that children are to be baptized unto salvation and to be consecrated to Christ according to his Word Suffer little children c. And whereas the Waldenses are charged to have rejected the baptism of little Infants they in their Book intituled the Luthers Forerunners l. 1. c. 4. p. 10. 15. of part 1. spiritual Almanack sol 45. quit themselves as my Author faith from this imputation as followeth The time and place of those that are to be baptized is not ordained but the charity and edification of the Church and Congregation must serve for a rule therein c. And therefore they to whom the children were nearest allied brought their Infants to be baptized as their parents or any other whom God had made charitable in that kind Again in the Book of the Doctrine of the Waldenses and Albingenses ch 3. Id. ib. part 3. pag. 43. their iudgment and Practice is thus delivered And for this cause it is that we present our children to Baptism which they ought to do to whom the children are nearest as their parents and they to whom God hath given this charity It is confessed that they did in process of time grow to deser the baptizing of their Infants for some while but that was not from any opinion of the unlawfulness Id. ib. part 1. pag. 15. of Infants Baptism but partly because their own Ministers were many times abroad imployed in the service of their Churches and partly out of detestation of some humane inventions held by them to be pollutions added to that Sacrament as administred by the Priests of the Church of