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A78120 A small treatise of baptisme, or, dipping. VVherein is cleerely shewed that the Lord Christ ordained dipping for those only that professe repentance and faith. 1. Proved by scriptures. 2. By arguments. 3. A paralell [sic] betwixt circumcision and dipping. 4. An answere to some objections by P.B. Psal.119.l30. By Edvvard Barber. Barber, Edward, d. 1674? 1642 (1642) Wing B694; Thomason E143_17; ESTC R212733 26,999 39

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of the Church to the Apostle be●ng absent from them at Philippi 1. VVhether it was lawfull for them to marry verse 1. 3. 2. About the lawfull use of libertie in their marriage estate vers 3. 4. 5. 3. If they being married the one being a Heathen whether they might continue to dwell together or no And not as in Esrahs time put away their wives Esiah 10. 3 4 5 6. VVhere they were to put away their strange wives that were not of the seed of Israel and herein is the case of the children being holy where the Apostle answer●s 1. Negatively they may not part though one be an unbeleever and that for these reasons First he or shee that beleeveth not is sanctified as a cleane vessell by the blessing of God for the lawfull use one of another in that honorable Estate of Marriage Heb. 13. 4. else were were your children uncleane that is Bastards but now are they holy that is borne in lawfull marriage Deut. 23. 2. That holy Ordinance of God instituted by him in Paradise for our first parents in the estate of innocency before the fall and grac'd by our Lord Christ himselfe to shew that he was by a woman in that estate Matth. 22. 23. Acts 4. 27. as also by his holy presence and first miracles that he wrought John 2. 1. to the 7. but before thou passe 1 Cor. 7. 14. consider that if the words be truely translated the unbeleeving parent and the childe hath all one holinesse or sanctification and so rendred in the Latine and would be so in the English were it not to blinde the Reader Thirdly Christ is pleased to set out the mysticall sweet and heavenly union and communion betwixt him and his Church by this holy Communion for this cause should a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned to his wife and they two shall be one flesh this is a great misery but I speake concerning Christ and his Church Ephes 5. 31 32. Fourthly true holinesse floweth from faith in Christ and not by generation of holy parents but by regeneration wrought by the Spirit of God John 1. 12. 13. and 3. 3. 5. Fifthly God doth not make promise to any faithfull man and woman and their seed now under the Gospell Psal 89. 27. 28 but to the Lord Jesus Christ and his feed that everlasting father of the faithfull Esay 9 6 7. and 59. 21. Gal. 3. 29. 6. If you say the promise was made to Abraham ●nd his seed Gen. 17. 9 10. viz. to his naturall seed then it was to give them the Land of Canaan but if to the spirituall seed as it was to Christ Gal. 3. 16. then the Land of Canaan was the type and eternall by Christ and faith in the new Covenant is the truth but you must prove this promise made to a woman also if it helpe any thing by this conclusion so that if but one be a beleever of the parents and that be the woman it must hold that the children be holy by the promise made to her and by her faith Oject 5. Children are of the Kingdome of God and therefore have right to all the Ordinances of God and so to Dipping Marke 10. 14. Mat. 19. 14. Answer Whereas it is objectected children bee of the Kingdome of God and have right to all the Ordinances and so to Dipping This consequence necessarily followes that they have right also to the Lords Supper aswell as Dipping seeing right to all The Argument is grounded because they are of the Kingdome of God and that Christ saith it which being true as they would beare us in hand that Christ would have them to receive Dipping We desire that to be shewn where or when Christ dipt any or commanded it to be done by any other at else that they would appoint Godfathers and Godmothers as they call them to eate the Supper as well as to professe repentance and faith and desire Dipping for them to the Law and to the testimony if they speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them and Jerem. 23. 30. to the 40. The Lord will bring an everlasting reproach upon the Prophets which cry the burthen of the Lord when the Lord hath not sent them but Prophesie false dreames and cause his people to erre by their lies and by their lightnesse yet he sent them not Object 6. But the maine Objection children were circumcised under the Law therefore under the Gospell they ought to be Dipped Answer Is it a sufficient reason because Abraham at the command of God under the Law circumcised his males Gen. 17. 11. and you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you Therefore we must dip infants under the Gospell which Christ commanded not as is before proved neither came into his heart to imagine Jerem. 7. 31. Secondly why might not Ieroboam better build an Altar at Betheel 1 Kings 12. 28. 32. 33. seeing God commanded Iacob Gen. 35. 1 to doe it but Jacob built the Altar according to the command of God verse 7. and was approved of God for it and Ieroboam offered upon the Altar which he had made in Betheel the fifteenth day of the eight moneth even in the moneth which he had devised of his owne heart and had this memoriall that he made Israel to sin Againe it is alledged that Abrahams children were circumcised because they were under the covenant so that the word because seemes to be the reason that the children were circumcised because they were under the covenant or because they were Abrahams seed which I deny my reason is First if they were circumcised because they were under the covenant then onely Isaac was to be circumcised because he onely was under the covenant as is cleare Gen. 17. 19. my covenant will I establish with him for an everlasting covenant Now Ishmael and the sons of Keturah were the sons of Abraham yet were they not under the covenant Secondly whereas some seemes to give the reason because they were Abrahams seed then the pupills or servants which were borne in the house or bought for money were not to be circumcised But the pupills and servants that were borne in the house or bought with money were circumcised as well as Abrahams children borne of his body Therefore they were not circumcised because they were Abrahams seed Thirdly if they were circumcised because they were under the covenant then all these children and servants were under the covenant and so should have had right to the inheritance of the Land of Canaan as well as Isaac and so should have kept Circumsion in their posterities for ever which thing was not done by any but Isaacks posterity But now to give a Reason why Circumcision was administred was because God commanded it his command giving a being to all his Ordinances from whence it is cleere that as Abraham the father of