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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94730	An antidote against the venome of a passage, in the 5th. direction of the epistle dedicatory to the whole book of Mr. Richard Baxter teacher at Kederminster in Worcestershire, intituled, The saints everlasting rest, containing a satyricall invective against Anabaptists / by Iohn Tombes B.D. Lately teacher at Bewdley in the same county.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing T1797; Thomason E602_20; ESTC R206421	26,378	40

nor holy as separated to God Sect. 4. pag. 6. Of the Text Levit. 25. 41. 42. Alleaged to prove our children Gods servants Sect. 5. pag. 7. Of the Text Deut. 29. 10. 11. 12. Alleaged to prove our Infants to be visible church-members Sect. 6. pag. 9. Of the Text Acts 15 10. Alleaged to prove our Infants Disciples of Christ Sect. 7. pag. 11. Of the Text 1 Cor. 7. 14. Alleaged to prove our Infants holy as seperated to God Sect. 8. pag. 20. Of Gods speaking by judgements from Heaven against Anabaptists Sect. 9. pag. 24. Of the Anabaptists evill lives Sect. 10. pag. 28. Of the Anabaptists confident expressions weaknesse upon triall and dispute at Bewdley Jan. 1. 1649. ERRATA ADde to the margin page 2 at line 15. these words See Salmas apparat ad libr de primatu Papae page 192. Voss Thes. 6 de Baptismo page 4 l. 14 r in page 7 l 14 blot out it page 7 l 34 yee r yet page 8 l 21 r on v 15 in the margin r before Christs comming page 9 l 29 tencher r teacher page 10 l 1 if r is l 11 businesse r businesse l 15 circumtion r circumcision page 13 l 34 thu r thus page 16 l 18 mani r manifestly page 24 l 6 7 how near it is r is neare AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST Mr. BAXTERS Invective against Anabaptists SECT. 1. Of Anabaptists accusing their own Children THere came newly to my hands this following passage which because it doth mainly reflect on my selfe I conceive my selfe necessitated to answer it Anabaptists saith Mr. Baxter play the Divells part in accusing their own Children and disputing them out of the Church and Covenant of Christ and affirming them to be no Disciples no servants of God nor holy as separated to him when God saith the contrary Levit. 25. 41. 42. Deut. 29. 10. 11. 12. c. Acts 15. 10. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Answ. Though Mr. Baxter speaks of Anabaptists in the plurall yet the passage it selfe and the circumstances of it well known in these partes evidence it to be directed either solely or mainly against my selfe The terme Anabaptists I own not any more then my Infant sprinkling The Faith I owne but not the Ceremony They are unjustly called Anabaptists who have beene Baptized after their own profession of the faith of Christ though they had water sprinkled or poured on their faces by an Officiating Priest when they were Infants Sprinkling is not Baptizing nor Infants the Subjects of the Baptisme of Water appointed by Christ or practised by the Apostles Mr. Baxter offered to prove In the beginning of the Dispute after mentioned that dipping in cold water is murder and Adultery It seems he dare undertake to prove the snow black he is so confident of his nimble wit and ready tongue Thousands in the primitive times in which Baptizing was by dipping until Hieroms time at least in the 4th Century Thousands in these dayes are so baptized without murder or adultery And therefore Mr. Baxters assertion is contrary to sense and experience He may do much I believe but will never be able to prove Infant Baptisme or sprinkling instead of it to be the duty ordained by Christ Math. 28. 19. Mark 16. 16. The seven Churches under Baptisme about London disclaime the Title of Anabaptists in the Preface to their Confession of faith under that terme all the Pelagian and Arminian errours all those pestilent errours of Community of Goods denying civill Magistracy lawfullnesse of taking an Oath to end strife and sundry other are charged on them that deny Infant Baptisme I may well say in a Divelish manner by many Preachers to make them odious to the people that they might drive them away out of the Land if not destroy them and therefore if Mr. Baxter who knowes how odious the terme is had minded equity or peace he had chosen rather to stile us Antipaedobaptists then Anabaptists But what sayes he of us Anabaptists play the Devils part in accusing their own Children A most virulent charge which shews Mr. Baxter kept no moderation of spirit nor heeded what he wrote The Devils part in accusing is either by himselfe or his Instruments before God or before men or in their own conscience Mr. Baxter may as soone bring water out of a pumice stone as prove we do any of these wayes play the Devills part But perhaps it will be said we accuse them however To accuse is to charge with a fault or crime I know no fault or crime we charge our Children with meaning our infant Children but their birth sin of which Mr. Baxter hath been heard to charge them as deep as any of us But it is unnaturall in us to accuse our own Children perhaps I blesse God he hath given me Children to whom I bear a naturall affection as tender as another If Mr. Baxter meane denying Baptisme to belong to them in infancy to be the playing the Devils part in accusing them he must give me leave to think that he himselfe playes the Devills part in asserting that it belongs to them till he prove it appointed by Christ or used by his Apostles which I expect to be done by him ad Graecas Calendas and so much the rather do I think he playes the Devills part therein because experience proves that Thousands are hardned in carnal presumption to their perdition by conceiving their Infant Baptisme to make them Christians and so heires of heaven SECT. 2. Of Anabaptists disputing their Children out of the Church and Covenant of Christ ANother thing wherein Mr. Baxter sayes we play the Divels part is in disputing our Children out of the Church and Covenant of Christ I answer The Church of Christ is either visible or invisible the Covenant of Christ may be meant either of Christs Covenant to them or theirs to Christ by disputing them out of the Church may be meant either that by our disputing we keep them out of the Church and Covenant of Christ or cast them out being admitted It is true I have asserted in disputation that according to the constitution of the visible Church of Christians Infants are not visible Church Members and I still assert it For the visible Church of Christians is a company of believers art 19 of the Church of England and therefore till a person is a believer he is not a visible Church member according to the frame of the Christian Church which is not a whole Nation joyned together in one Community by the civill Magistrate as the Jewish Church was but a company of believers made such by the preaching of the Gospel And this definition of the visible Church was formerly received among Protestants without the addition which the Assembly lately put to it in their Confession of Faith ch. 25 is avouched in disputes against Papists concerning the notes of the Church As for the invisible Church or Covenant of Christ to them I have often shewed in my examen of Mr. Marshalls