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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65668	An essay to revive the primitive doctrine and practice of infant-baptism in the resolution of four questions I. What are the reasons of God's appointing the token of the covenant to be applyed to the infant-seed of his people? II. What is the good or benefit they receive thereby? III. What is the duty of parents towards their children as bearing the token of the covenant? IV. What is the improvement that children as grown up to years of maturity, may and ought to make of the token, as applyed to them in their infancy / by Joseph Whiston ...	Whiston, Joseph, d. 1690.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1690; ESTC R38586	159,793	270

Covenant and deride their Baptism would go through Fire and Water as we say that they might enjoy the one and the other did they but fully understand of what benefit and advantage they would be unto them But now through their misguided zeal they greatly reflect upon the Covenant and consequently upon God the Author of it whereas Parents by bringing their Children under the bond of it by the Application of the Token to them do give a publick commendation of it and thereby honour and glorify God as extending it to them 4. Hereby Parents do publickly own and practically acknowledg their belief of such things which for men professedly to believe own and acknowledg doth greatly redound to the glory of God I shall only instance in such things as more especially are owned and acknowledged by the Application of the Token of the Covenant to Infants Thus. 1. They publickly own and practically profess their belief of the Doctrine of Original fin that there is indeed such a thing as Original sin communicated from Adam to all his posterity and that by means thereof all men by Nature are Children of Wrath. As Circumcision of old so Baptism now hath a special reference to Original fin especially as Infants were and are the Subjects of the one and of the other And the very Application of the one and the other to them doth presuppose them under the guilt of it and consequently Parents by having the Token of the Covenant applyed to their Infants do publickly own and practically profess their belief that though they have not as the Apostle speaks Rom. 5.14 sinned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after or according to the similitude of Adam 's transgression that is actually in the external violation of any precept of the Law yet are subject to the curse of the Law and Wrath of God Now for men publickly to own and visibly to profess their belief of this Doctrine greatly redounds to the glory of God Their guiltiness of that sin justifies him in all penal evils he lays upon them What sad complaints have some Heathens made concerning Man's birth and the variety of Miseries attending him above what attend other Creatures and thereby greatly reflected upon God his Creaior as though he had not been so good to Man as to other Creatures and this from their ignorance of the Doctrine of Orginal sin They evidently perceived the sad fruits and effects of Original sin but knew not Original sin as the cause of those effect But now by owning and professing our belief of this Doctrine we do implicitly justifie God in all the miseries he hath subjected men unto which must needs greatly redound to his honour and glory 2. They do hereby publickly own and practically profess their belief of the Doctrine of free Grace It 's sufficiently evident that Infants in their pure Infant-state are incapable of Merit what God doth for them he must needs do freely Saith the Apostle speaking of the difference that God put between Jacob and Esan in respect of Election and Preterition and his consequent dealings with then respectively the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth it was said unto her viz. Rebekah the elder shall serve the younger Rom. 9.11 12. That which I only design from these words is to shew that what God doth for Infants either in regard of Election before time or actual Donation in time he doth it not for or according to the Merit or desert of works but freely of his own good pleasure either merely of his Grace and goode pleasure as in respect of Election or of his mere Grace and good pleasure through the interposal of the mediation of Christ as in respect of actual Donation If he should do what he doth for them of works that is for or according to the Merit or desert of works it must be either the works of the Infants themselves or the works of their Parents not the works of Infants themselves for they have neither done any good or evil not the works of their Parents Vigilantissime ait ex uno concubitu gemini enim conceptierant ne vel paternis meritis tribueretur Si quisquam forte diceret ideo talis natus est filius qui à pater it à erat affectus illo tempore cum sevit in utero matris aut erat ita mater affecta cum concepit simul enim ambo sunt uno tempore concepti Austin reserente Beda ex Epistolâ ad Simpl. that appears from the difference he puts in his love and hatred as the Apostle speaks between Children begotten conceived and born not only from the same Parents but at one and the same time as in the case of Twins If he deal with Children according to the deserts of Parents he would deal alike with all Children that are so begotten conceived and born So that what God doth for Infants cannot be of works neither of Parents nor Children but must be wholly free of his mere Grace and goodness through the Mediation of Christ 3. Hereby they publickly own and practically profess their faith in and belief of the Truth Faithfulness and Power of God his Truth and Faithfulness in his Word whether of threatning or promise his Power as to accomplish his Word so to bless and make effectual his own Institutions for that end whereunto they are appointed Christ is the only refuge for faln man to betake himself to for security from the wrath to come and the way whereby man betakes himself to this refuge is by taking hold of the Covenant and thereby getting under the promises of it made in Christ Hence as by Baptism persons are visibly admitted into the Covenant and that their admission is solemnized by coming unto Baptism they are said to flee from the wrath to come Mat. 3.7 Saith John Baptist to the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his Baptism who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come Baptism is a visible incorporation of Persons into Christ and solemnization of their Covenant-elation with God in him by means whereof they visibly come under the shadow of his wings and under the promises made in him whereby they are secured from the wrath to come And Parents by taking hold of the Covenant for their Children and solemnly dedicating them unto God in Christ by the Application of the Token of the Covenant to them bring them under the same refuge with themselves they carry them along with them into this refuge from the wrath to come New as this proceeds from so it is a visible and practical profession of their Faith I mean in respect of such who do indeed act from true principles as all believers are supposed to do that they do believe she threatnings denouncing wrath against man as sain and guilty of fin so that the Promises made in Christ are true and