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A94741	Tvvo treatises and an appendix to them concerning infant-baptisme. The former treatise being an exercitation presented to the chair-man of a committee of the Assembly of Divines. The later an examen of the sermon of Mr Stephen Marshall, about infant-baptisme, in a letter sent to him. / By John Tombes. B.D.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; Tombes, John, 1603?-1676. Excercitation about infant-baptisme.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1825; Thomason E312_1; Thomason E312_2; ESTC R200471	33,550	44

Baptisme Of that it is deservedly doubtfull whether it be not in it self weak and insufficient for its proper work But the matter is so in the businesse of Infant-baptisme Ergo The Minor is proved by instances they are 1. The use of sureties in Baptisme which is an humane invention for a shadowy supplement and I had almost said sporting of that profession of faith which at first was made by the baptized in his own person 2. Episcopall confirmation in which the Bishop layes hands or anoints the catechized that Baptisme or the baptized may be confirmed and they made capable of the Lords supper 3. The reformed union by examination confession subscription of the received doctrine in the Church before the communion of the Eucharist of which Parker of Eccles. policie l. 3. c. 16. 4. The Church-covenant as they call it afore the admission of members into Church-fellowship of which the New-England Elders in the little book in English called Church-Covenant which in very deed are devised to supply the place of Baptisme for by Baptisme according to Christs institution a person is exhibited a member of Christ and the Church 1 Cor. 12. 13. Gal. 3. 27. Ephes. 4. 5. THe seventh Argument That which hath occasioned many errors that is deservedly doubtfull whether it be right But the practise of Infant-baptisme hath occasioned either the birth or fostering of many errors Ergo It is proved by instances 1. That Baptisme conferres grace by the work done 2. That Baptisme is Regeneration 3. That Infants dying are saved by the faith of their parents faith of sureties of the Church receiving into her lap which is to be ascribed alone to the grace of God by Christ 4. That some regenerate persons may utterly fall from grace THe eighth Argument That which hath caused many abuses and faults in Discipline and Divine worship and Conversation of men that is deservedly doubtfull But Infant-Baptisme is such Ergo It is proved by enumeration 1. Private baptisme 2. Baptisme by women 3. Baptisme of Infants not yet brought into light 4. Baptisme of Infants of uncertain progeny whom we call children of the earth and world 5. They are baptized in the name of the Lord who know not the Lord nor have ever consented or perhaps will consent to the confession of the name of our Lord 6. It hath brought in the admission of ignorant and profane men into the communion of the Church and to the Lords supper for who can deny rightly the right of the Church to the baptized 7. It perverts the order of discipline that first a man be baptized and after among the catechized 8. The Sacrament of baptisme is turned into a meer Ceremony yea into a profane meeting to feast together 9. Men forget Baptisme as if they were never baptized so that it hath the force of a carnall rite not of a spirituall Institution 10. It takes away or at least diminisheth zoale and industry in knowing the Gospel THE ninth Argument That is deservedly doubtfull that yeeldeth occasion to many unnecessary disputes f●stering only contention and which cannot be determined by any certain rule But the tenet or rite of Infant-baptisme is such Ergo It is proved by instances 1. Of baptizing the Infants of Excommunicated persons 2. Of baptizing the Infants of Apostates 3. Of baptizing the Infants of such Parents as are not members in a gathered Church 4. Of baptizing the Infants of those whose Ancestors were believers the next Parents remaining in unbelief These things shew that men have departed from the Rule when they know not where to stay THE tenth reason of doubting is That in the midst of the darknesse under the Papacythe same men opposed Infant-baptisme who opposed invocation of Saints prayer for the dead adoration of the Crosse and such like This is manifest out of the 66. Sermon of Bernard on the Canticles where of the Heretiques as he cals them who he said boasted themselves to be Successors of the Apostles and name themselves Apostolique he hath these words They deride us because we baptize Infants because we pray for the dead because we ask the suffrages of the Saints and in his 140. Epistle to Hildefonsus Earl of Saint Giles he complains of Henricus the Heretique formerly a Monke that He tooke away holy-dayes Sacraments Churches Priests that the life of Christ is stopped to the little ones of Christians while the grace of Baptisme is denied and they are not suffered to draw neer to salvation From the Epistle of Peter Abbat Cluniacensis to three Bishops of France against Peter de Bruis and Henricus holding errors digested into five heads 1. That little ones are not to be baptized 2. That Churches or Altars ought not to be made 3. That the Crosse of our Lord is not to be adored or worshipped but rather to be broken and trodden under feet 4. That the Masse is nothing nor ought to be celebrated 5. That the good deeds of the living nothing profit the dead That we are not to chaunt to God He saith that the heresie of the Petrobrusians was received in the Cities of Gallia Narbonensis And from Lucas Osiander his Epitome of the Ecclesiasticall History Cent. 13. l. 1. c. 4. at the year 1207. where he accuseth the Albigenses as consenting with the Anabaptists To which I adde That in the ages neer the Apostles Tertullian and Gregory Nazianzen disswade the baptisme of Infants unlesse the danger of death happen The words of Tertullian are in his book of Baptisme c. 18. Therefore for the condition and disposition also age of each person the delaying of Baptisme is more profitable Yet chiefly about little ones for what need that the Sureties be also cast on danger who themselves may by mortality be wanting to their promises and be deceived by the comming forth of an evill disposition The Lord saith indeed Do not prohibite them to come to me let them come when they are grown let them come when they learn let them be taught when they come let them be made Christians when they can know Christ Why doth innocent age hasten to the remission of sinnes shall it be done more warily in things secular that to whom earthly substance is not committed divine should Let them know how to ask safety that thou maist know to give to him that asketh Gregory Nazianzen in his 40. Oration of holy Baptisme For which we are to use all diligence that we misse not the common grace Some one will say let these things be concerning them that seek Baptisme but what may you say concerning them that are yet babes and neither perceive losse nor grace shall we also baptize them Yes by all means if any danger urge for it is better that they be sanctified without perceiving it then to go away unsealed or unaccomplished And the reason of this to us is Circumcision on the eighth day being a certain typical seal offered to them that had not