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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28341	The birth-priviledge, or, Covenant-holinesse of beleevers and their issue in the time of the Gospel together with the right of infants to baptisme / by Thomas Blake ...	Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3142; ESTC R12167	41,905	40

is a like execration to intermedele with the little ones of Sion by reason of the holinesse of such a people 2 King 8.12 their Covenant-relations in which they stand interested Much is spoken in Scripture against the enemies of the righteous the haters of them shall be destroyed he that offends against them shall not be innocent God observes every cariage of the adversary towards them in misery they speake not a word but God hath it against them when Ammonites Eze. 26.2.36.2 Obad. 12. Ibid. Psal 137.7 Obad. 13.14 Deut. 25.17 Tyrians cry Aha against the people of the Lord they are twitted with it and threatned for it Not a proud word that they utter but it is brought in to fill up the charge against them yea every eye that is cast with approbation of the adversary every encouraging word they speake and every act they doe against such a people yea injuries of elder times are kept in the decke and laid to them And all because that they stand in this relation to God as His in Covenant which you cannot limit onely to the personally righteous but all that are of a societie and fellowship that is such that are interested in a righteous cause The holy anointing oyle did make sacred when yet too often the man was wicked and therefore David looked upon Saul as the Lords anointed It holds in analogy and proportion unto all that have any Unction from God as all the called of God have When they were but a few in number Psal 105.12 13 14 15. yea very few and strangers When they went from one Nation to another from one kingdome to another people He suffered no man to doe them wrong yea he reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine Anointed All the people of God have that anointing from God that none may dare to intermeddle to their harme God promises his people that dwell in Sion that the burden of Assyria shall be taken away from off their shoulder and his yoke from off their necke and that the yoke shall be destroyed because of the Anointing Isa 10.27 Object Some will say as this is carried The danger of intermedling with any is with us alike Even Papists and the worst of men that are called Protestants are thus of a people that are called Gods people and go by the name of Christians For answer I shall not enter upon that controversie Answ what there is of the being of a Church under the Papacy The Papacy itselfe is none of it but only a botch bred in it and cleaving to it Onely this I say That he that shall oppose a Papist under the notion of a Christian shall beare his sinne and that upon the grounds that have been given Though a Papists damnable errours in the faith shut him out from the happinesse of Christians yet such an adversaries persecution renders him guilty of opposing the faith of Christ Iesus And he that followes with injuries a carnall Protestant because of Profession of the sinceritie of Religion in opposition to Antichristianisme is formally guilty of persecution The hearers resembled to the rocky ground suffer persecution for the Word as doth the good ground that brings forth fruit with patience But to come home with more cleare satisfaction A people of a fouly-polluted Ordinance standing in opposition to a people of a pure and untainted way are as a people void of Ordinances are as a people without God in comparison The opposition of the puritie of his service God accounts as the opposition of his great Name though it be by a people that goe under that name of His people And therefore though Elijah take so much to heart the pulling down of Altars set up by Ieroboam as Gods Altars 3 Kings 19.10 when it was done by Israel apostatizing and turned to Baal and in opposition to the worship of Baal makes that way of worship at Dan and Bethel a following of God 1 Kings 18.21 Those two opinions that the ten Tribes halted between were the worship of the false god Baal and the false way of worship set up by Ieroboam which corruption of worship being now to draw them from Baalisme he is for the present contented to wave Yet we well know the brand that lies on Ieroboam in bringing in that worship of his 1 Kings 15.9 scarce the like on any man in Scripture the man of sin only excepted the high phrases also in which this worship of his is set out making Priests for the high places 2 Chro. 11.15 and devils with the height of guilt to which he rose in casting the Levites out from executing the Priests office Vers 14. And howsoever God often cals that people of the ten tribes by the name of his people as having Ordinances Hos 4.6 though miserably polluted yet in opposition to Iudah where more pure Ordinances were injoyed they are said to be without God without a teaching Priest and without the Law And sighting against Iudah who could reckon up the particulars of the Ordinances of God in their puritie 2 Chron. 15.3 they are charged to sight against the Lord God of their fathers 2 Chron. 13.12 To come neerer home in an Instance If the Turkish power should fall upon a Popish State under the name and notion of Christians they were guilty with Saul of persecuting the Lord Iesus If this Popish State fall upon a reformed nation they are much more guilty A fouler sinne for a people of God in name and title to persecute his people in truth then for a people strangers to God to persecute a people only in name and title Scripture prayers against heathens we may fitly apply in our sufferings under the hands of Papists Pilate might have been guilty in persecution of a Pharisee as a Jew yet that nation was much more guilty being Iewes by nature in delivering Christ Iesus into Pilate's hands Ioh. 18.35 though Christ had been no greater then one of his Disciples A Papist persecuting a formall carnall Protestant under the notion of a man protesting against idolatrous wayes is a man blaspheming the faith This man thus persecuted persecuting another for the power of Godlinesse professing the same truth is equally yea more guilty The very sin of Cain against his brother 1 Ioh. 2.12 Their Religions were both one but Cain's in form and Abel's in power The result of the whole is to let us see what it is to oppose a people under any notion of Gods people under any notion of belonging to him A man may have his reward giving in the name of a Disciple Matth. 10.4 though he to whom hee gives be such as God will never own for a Disciple And answerably may incurre vengeance in opposition of one under such a name though with those on the rocky ground he be nothing lesse in deed and truth Abundance of sweet consolations yet flow from

where their Commission is thus enlarged were herein differenced from the Nation to which their Ministerie was first limitted 3. Let that text of the Prophet be well weighed where speaking by the spirit of prophecy of the rejection of the Jewes and the glorious call of the Gentiles in their stead in that ample way as it is there set out hath these words Behold I will lift up mine band to the Gentiles Isai 49.22 and set up my standard to the people and they shall bring thy sonnes in their armes and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders If there were but such an hint as that by way of prophesy to have left them behind we should from some have heard of it with a noise 4. In the Lord Christs Dialect who is best able to expresse his own meaning they are Disciples To belong to Christ is to be a Disciple of Christ This is plaine from our Saviours owne mouth comparing his words recorded in Matthew and Mark Matth. 10.42 Mar. 9.41 To give a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple it is in the one To give a cup of water to drink in my Name because ye belong to me it is in the other To belong to Christ to be a Disciple of Christ and to beare the Name of Christ is one and the same thing with our Saviour Now that Infants are of the number of those who as Disciples in Christs account doe belong unto him and beare his Name is yet further plain by another text of St Matthew where Christ setting a little childe in the middest of his hearers saith Who so shall receive one such little child in my Name Matth. 18.5 receiveth me By all which it appeares that which is done to Infants is done to Disciples hath a glorious reward as done to Disciples Infants therfore are Disciples of Christ are of those that doe belong unto him and beare his Name who then is not afraid to refuse them who will receive Christ who will not baptize them that is willing to baptize Disciples in the Name of Christ For Examples which they say we want of the Baptisme of Infants 1. I answere first we walke by Rule rather then President the Rule hath been examined 2. Examples are often very rare where the rule is unquestionable and undeniable we have no Example of any triall of the suspect wise by the water of jealousie For womens right to the Lords Supper we have no particular institution no particular President more then for this of Infants Baptisme 3. We have Examples not to be contemned of the Baptisme of whole housholds and whether Infants were there or no as it is not certaine though probable so it is not materiall The President is an Houshold he that followes the President must baptize housholds It appeares not that any wife was there yet he that followes the President in baptizing of housholds must baptize wives and so I may say servants if they be of the houshold Objections are yet brought from humane authoritie Object which I have reserved to the last as accounting them the least And if this dispute might this way be determined that plurality of votes might carry it the adversaries know how it would fare with them in it Origen is vouched calling it a ceremonie or tradition of the Church Hom. 8. in Levit. in Epist ad Rom. lib. 5. Gregorie also in decret distinct de conse One of those traditions which the Apostle charged the Thessalonians to keep Answ 2 Thess 2.15 which I speake not by guesse but we have it in the same Epistle cap. 6. from his own mouth The Church saith he received Baptisme of Infants from the Apostles The greatest points of Faith as is well known are ordinarily called by the name of traditions by the Antients Traditions being onely such things that are delivered from one to another they are as well written as unwritten And we have cause willingly to embrace this testimonie Origen lived 226. yeares after Christ in the beginning of the third Century Alsted Chronol he cals it a tradition of the Church it was therefore delivered over to the Church in his time and of antient use before him Austin cals it a custome of the Church de Baptis contra Donat. lib. 4. cap. 23. And so doe I also call it Answ and the observing of the first day of the weeke the imposition of hands on Church-officers the giving of the Lords Supper to men of growth is a custome of the Church likewise Erasmus saith they are not to be condemned that doubt whether the Baptisme of Infants were ordained by the Apostles Lib. 4. de ratione Concio His words evidently imply that it was their errour Answ and it seemes his thoughts were other of those who openly did oppose it and refuse it Papists openly professe that the Baptisme of Infants is grounded upon tradition and not upon Scripture for which Eckius and Bellarmine are brought in This they doe not really and cordially but for their owne advantage Answ to make good unwritten traditions against Protestant adversaries They know that we maintaine Baptisme of Infants and disclaime these traditions and if Baptisme of infants doe appeare to be one then they have us building what we have destroyed Bellar. indeed in his book de Verbo Dei standing for unwritten traditions as a part of the Word of God will have Baptisme of infants to be one but when he disputes for Baptisme of Infants against Anabaptists then he can heape up texts of Scripture de sacra Baptis cap. 8. So also cap. 9. in the entrance of it Satis apertè colligitur ex Scripturis the Baptisme of Infants is evidently enough gathered from Scriptures The like fetch of his I could shew in other particulars It appeares to be forced on the people by authority of Councels out of the Councell of Milevitanum this Canon is urged It is also our will that those that will not that children be baptized that are new borne from their mothers wombe be excommunicate So in the Nicene Councell it was decreed that we should beleeve that there is one God Maker of all things visible and invisible Answ The greatest points of faith we know under Anathema's are decreed in Councels This Councell was in the fifth Century 200 yeares after Origen who stiles Baptisme of Infants as we have heard a tradition of the Church in his dayes And Austin who was not onely present but as is said President of that Councell returning answer to those that desire divine authority for the Baptisme of Infants for satisfaction first produceth that rule Quod universa tenet Ecclesia nec Conciliis institutum sed semper retentum est non nisi authoritate Apostolica traditum rectissimè creditur That which the whole Church holds and was not ordained by any Councels but hath ever been held that is rightly beleeved to be by Apostolicall