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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

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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