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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85959	A mirrour for Anabaptists in three rational discourses that may put the blush upon them, viz. 1. Pædobaptism defended and justified. 2. Anabaptism plainly confuted. 3. Some valid and suasory reasons to draw them from the errour of their way, to re-embrace the truth which they have deserted, and to return to the church of God from which they have departed. / By Thomas Gery ...	Gery, Thomas, d. 1670?	1660 (1660)	Wing G619A; Thomason E1892_3; ESTC R232259	17,498	58

doth not alwaie confer the same ex opere operato as the Papists erroneously affirm yet alwaies it doth so when God is pleased to vouchsafe the concurrence and cooperation of his holy Spirit with it which also of necessity is required to all other means of Grace to make them effectual as well as to Baptism as namely both to the Word preached and to Prayer or they avail not This then being proved that baptism is a means of Grace by Gods appointment it necessarily follows that it appertains to Infants as who are receptible of Grace as well as those that are of ripe years and therefore baptism which is a means of grace ought not to be withheld from them Al that is or can be answerd to invalidate the force of this argument is this That though Infants are in themselves capable of baptism as being a means of Grace yet the Scripture puts a bar to them because they want Faith which is required before baptism To this it is answered that the precedence of Faith is required only of such as are capable of Faith and not of Infants which are not in a capacity of it which I thus demonstrate If Faith and so consequently Remission of sin and Regeneration were alwaies and of all necessarily required before baptism then baptism could never be a means and instrumental cause to bring forth faith and regeneration For if Faith and regeneration must go before it then it cannot be the instrumental cause of Faith and regeneration for the effect cannot go before the cause But that it is somtimes and to some a means of regeneration remission of sin Faith and other Grace is sufficiently proved by the Texts before quo●ed Therefore the precedence of faith is not necessarily required of all to be baptized I apprehend the force of this Argument and the last before this to be such as will stall any Anabaptist whatsoever to enevate or invalidate To these Arg. 7 I might add a Seventh Argument very valid and convincing which is the Title and Interest which the Infants of Christians have to the Covenant of Grace For if the Covenant of Grace it self belong to Infants which hath been formerly proved from Mat. 18.3 Mark 10.14 and is justifiable by many other Texts of Scripture then the seal thereof also belongs to them But because this Argument is so largely and fully pressed already by divers learned men I will omit all further prosecution of it and conclude this first point thus It s an old adage and a consessed truth that force united becomes more forcible Lay now all these Arguments and considerations together the least whereof will sway with any but such as are forestalled with prejudice and paedobaptism will stand as a truth infringible and a Fort impregnable and insuperable The Second Point Having now sufficiently proved the lawfulness and necessary use of Paedo-baptism I come in the next place to confute what is repugnant to it which is Anabaptism or dipping such as have been baptized in their Infancy And my first Argument I frame thus THat opinion or Doctrine in Religion which is new Arg. 1 is not true this is denyed of none But such is Anabaptism or the rebaptization of such as have been baptized in their infancy Therefore it 's not true I prove the Assumption thus because it s not to be found in Scripture neither by precept not example nor by good consequence to be deducted from it but was broached about 300 or 400 years after the Aostles by one Donatus a Presbyter about Carthage in Affrica as is testified by several Authors amongst whom St. Augustine is a principal who writ a Book in confutation of him I have heard that some Anabaptists in answer hereunto have alledged Acts 19.2 3 4 5 verses as a president and example for re-baptization But I shall clear that Text from warranting it which I do demonstrate these two waies 1. Because the Evangelist doth not say of those there mentioned that they were rebaptized but baptized he saith not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he saith not which when they heard they were rebaptized which had been the more proper speech if they had been truly baptized before but he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. which when they heard they were baptized which intimates they were not rightly baptized till then and therefore that was no reiteration of their baptism but their first baptism 2. It s apparent from the Context that they were not rightly baptized before that is baptized in a right form and therefore this was no rebaptization but a first baptism For the right form is to be baptized in the name or into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost or in the name of the Lord Jesus which is the same in substance with the former though in fewer words Now that they were not baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost is most apparent in that they said in the second verse that they had not so much as heard whether there were a Holy Ghost which they must needs have heard if they had been baptized in his name Neither were they baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus before for in that it s said they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus then it undeniably implies that they were not baptized in his name till then and so consequently not truly and rightly baptized till then And so I hope I have cleared this Text from warranting the Anabaptists rebaptization or dipping those that have been formerly baptized in their Infancy The Professors of Anabaptism at their first appearing in the Christian Church Arg. 2 and boasting themselves to be the only true Church which was done by Donatus and his Disciples as was declared in the former argument were condemned by the Church then as Hereticks and cut off as unsound members and were so suppressed by it that for the space of 1000 years or thereabouts there never appeared any face of them again in any Christian Nation This is a truth so clear out of all Histories that make mention of them that I presume there is none of them that have the face to go about to outface it But this namely a cessation to be can never befal the true Church of Christ witness many Texts of Scripture as Psal 125.1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion that cannot be removed but remaineth for ever Mat. 16.18 Upon this Rock will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it And Esay 27.3 Lest any assail it I keep it saith the Lord. with many such like which justifie that the true Church of God cannot fail and cease to be Whereas therefore there appeared no face of Anabaptistical Professors for so long a time it proclaims them to be no true Church of Christ and so their anabaptistical Profession not to be truth This argument