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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47399	[The ax laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of infant baptism and church-membership containing an exposition of that metaphorical text of Holy Scripture, Mat. 3, 10].	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing K48_pt2; ESTC R20690	57,342	56

said With the heart Man believeth and with the Mouth Confession is made to Salvation Therefore say I it was Verbal Obj. You intimate that some may want Speech or Weakness which may be an Impediment to them c. Answ. If they can any ways signifie or make it known to the understanding of the Administrator they are True Penitents 't is no doubt sufficient if it be by Writing 't will do but Man knows not the Heart What appears not is not Your Arguments in p. 37. about their being in Abraham's Covenant I have fully Answered already That will do you no good Iohn Baptist denies that Plea when he said Think not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our Father Do you think Baptism turns People to the Lord for so you intimate at the close of your 37. Pag. Prove it 't is denied Obj. 4. You say such a Confession would overturn the Constitution or Institution of God by Moses and casting Infants out of that Floor Answ. I have shewed you That the Gospel Dispensation has overthrown the Mosaical Constitution or Legal Church of the Jews and that Christ has thrown out the Fleshly Seed as such i. e. No Infant is to be a Member of the Gospel Church and I have given my Reasons why I have so said which you may Answer if you please 7 thly Because it was Repugnant to the End and grand Design of Iohn's Ministry to receive and Basptise every body even Men Women and Children without distinction his Ministry being most strict and severe as 't is acknowledged by all Men. His Ministry of Preaching and Baptising was held forth by the Prophet in these Words Mal. 4.1 The Day shall come which shall burn as an Oven He lays the Ax at the Root he Preached no such easie way of making Men Christians nor Church Members as these Paedo-Baptists speak of his Ministry seemed like to Fire in him was the Spirit of Burning kindled as Mr. Cotton On the Covenant observes p. 21. The Lord also prepared his People by a Spirit of Burning which as a Spirit of Bondage he doth shed abroad into the Hearts of Men This we read of Mal. 4.1 It is spoken of Iohn the Baptist which did burn as an Oven against the Scribes and Pharisees and left them neither the Root of Abraham's Covenant nor the Branch of their own Good Works He cutteth them off from the Covenant of Abraham Mat. 3.9 Think not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our father and so by cutting them off from the Root he leaveth them no Ground to trust to But this Man renders Iohn's Ministry to be of a quite contrary Nature even the most easiest flesh-pleasing Doctrine that ever was Preached If he received all to his Baptism certainly he has made sad Work for Repentance for abusing the Ministry of this Great and Holy Prophet Arg. 7. If Iohn the Baptist was to prepare Christ's Way i. e. fit Persons as proper Materials for Christ's New and Spiritual Temple which consisteth only of living Stones viz. Believing Men and Women then Iohn did not Baptise Carnal Persons nor Ignorant Infants But the former is true Ergo Arg. 8. Iohn upon their unfeigned Repentance Baptised all that he did Baptise for the remission of Sins and no Persons have remission of Sins without such Repentance Ergo Can Baptism it self give remission of Sins or Is thete any promise of Pardon without unfeigned Repentance By this Man's Reasoning all the Carnal People of the Jews that were willing to be Baptised Iohn was to Baptise and he did Baptise them as well Unbelievers as Ignorant Babes for all his Arguments are as strong to prove that as for Iohn's Baptising of Infants Which if so all Pagans and Infidels in the World are to be baptised and by Baptsm be made Christians and Members of the Gospel Church O What a Doctrine does this Man Preach Do but see what Work he would fain make of that Confession of Sins which was required of all those that came to Iohn's Baptism in Pag. 37 38. to p. 50. i. e. It was such a Confession that excludes no ungodly or unbelieving Person that was willing to be baptised so far as I can see All that were of the Church of Israel or in the Legal Covenant God made with Abraham he intimates might be baptised nay he tells us in pag. 44. A Confession made when Iohn Baptised was not a Commanded Duty Men after this rate may even say what they please Arg. 9. If Iohn the Baptist baptised all the People of Ierusalem and Iudea and all those of the Regions round about then he baptised Unbelievers Prophaned and Impenitent Persons as well as Penitent Persons but he did not Baptise Unbelievers Prophaned and Impenitent Persons Therefore he did not Baptise all the People of Ierusalem and Iudea and all those of the Regions round about Arg. 10. If Iohn the Baptist Baptised all the People of Israel as before mentioned then he left none for Christ nor his Disciples to baptise but Iohn did leave some nay more People for Christ or his Disciples to baptize than he baptized Ergo he did not baptize all the People of Israel or all of Ierusalem and Iudea That Iohn left some nay more People to Christ and his Disciples to be baptized than he baptized is expresly asserted by the Holy Ghost John 4.1 When Iesus knew how the Pharisees heard that Iesus made and baptized more Disciples than John c. see John 3.26 And they came unto John and said unto him Rabbi he that was with thee beyond Jordan to whom thou bearest witness behold the same baptizeth and all men come to him How did Iohn baptize all and yet all come to Christ to be baptized This is strange what People were these and where dwelt they if Iohn baptized all the People of Ierusalem and Iudea c. Arg. 11. If Iohn's Baptism and the Baptism of Christ was but one and the same Baptism as to the Nature Quality and Subjects thereof then he baptized none but such who were first made Disciples or who were first taught to believe and repent but the Baptism of Iohn and the Baptism of Christ was but one and the same Baptism as to the Nature Quality and Subjects thereof Ergo he baptized none but such who were first made Disciples c. That the Nature Quality and Subjects thereof were one and the same all generally affirm I know no difference but that after Christ was dead and risen they that were then baptized were baptized into him that was come dead buried and raised again but Iohn baptized them as such that believed in him that was to die c. Christ having then not actually suffered 'T is evident that Christ's Commission Impowers his Disciples to baptize only such who were discipled or such who did believe is plain Mat. 28.19.20 Mark 16.16 and this was his Practice Iohn 4.1 Arg. 12. If Iohn baptized all the People of