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A67323	Infants baptism from heaven, of divine institution Being a brief yet satisfactory answer to some objections made by Hercules Collins, in his book entituled, Believers baptism from heaven, infants baptism from earth, &c. against certain truths proved in a book entituled, Baptism anatomized. Propounded in five queries, by Tho. Wall. Viz. 1. What water-baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true administrators of it? 5. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptise himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practice, they ought themselved to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein is also proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel, Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the covenant of grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall.	Wall, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing W484; ESTC R219349	20,257	43

saith he to try our Wits to prove Infants Baptism although by true grounded Reasons from God's Word we have proved it without the help of Man's Natural Wit which all your Wits cannot disprove Again you say I quarrel because you do not Baptise always on the Lord's day I tell you affirm that which you Practise not Answer I set down in my Book your own words Page 85. 87. from your Narrative P. 17. which are these That although the holy Apostles and others that were Preachers took their opportunities to preach the Word on the Jewish Sabbath day and other days of the Week when they had convenient opportunities afforded them yet we have say you no Example of the Churches then Assembling together to celebrate all the Ordinances of our Lord Jesus peculiar to them but on the first day of the Week Reader mark that which manifest practice of theirs say you is evidently as plain a demonstration of its being a day set apart for Religious Worship by the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus as if it had been exprest in the plainest words Wherein you grant that the Example of the Churches and the manifest Practice of theirs in the purest of Times is evidently a plain demonstration that the Lord's day is the time of Worship to administer God's Ordinances and that it is the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus so to do Then why blame you me for telling you that you do not administer the Sealing Ordinances on that day only which Christ hath Ordained therefore it is your evil in condemning your self by your Practice seeing the first Church-meeting was on the Lord's day Acts 2. when they did Baptise and break Bread and Paul stayed at Troas several days Acts 20. 6 7 until the first day came about to perform the Ordinances of Worship even in the Sealing Ordinances and the Example of the Churches all being commanded to keep that day holy in the practise of God's Ordinances is therefore not to be neglected So then you have well said but practice not the Example of extraordinary Officers by you to be granted is not the Church's Pattern to Baptise any day but the Example of the Primitive Churches in the purest of Times is for all Churches to follow as they were commanded by the Apostles Now then when else but on the first day of the Week were the Churches to perform God's Ordinances as the Will and command of our Lord Jesus 2ly As you in your Narrative have asserted and yet you blame me for telling of you you plead for that you practise not you say in P. 69. I insist upon the Order of words Mat. 3. I Baptise to Repentance In answer you say see your Book Pag. 54 55 56. Your answer there is if you were only Sprinkled in Infancy you were never yet Baptised seeing your answer is not to the disproving of what I have laid down I refer the Reader to my Book because in in your answer you run away from the Matter and tell us of such as were Baptised that Repentence was required of we grant that such as never were Baptised in the Name of Christ whether Men or Women who had actually sinned of such God requireth actual Repentance this is granted by me and proved at large in my Book Pag. 70 to 72 yet no way hindereth the Infants of such to be Baptised that are Sinners not by their own act but by Imputation and whereas you say if I were only Sprinkled in Infancy I was never Baptised I have refuted this in my Preface third Leaf in these words shewing as in the Lord's Supper it is not the quantity of Bread and Wine more or less but the right apprehension of it and sincere Affection to the thing signified so it is not the quantity of Water cast on the passive Subject Baptised with Water which is but one by the visible Sign of Washing away of Sin in the Blood of Christ which in the Spiritual Baptism is likewise signified by Sprinkling with the Blood of Christ namely with the Imputation of the benefit of Christ's Death to Sinners whether actual or imputative all visibly in the Covenant of the Gospel H. Collins further saith That is a false Argument so largely insisted upon in my Book Pag. 44. If Persons have a right to Remission of Sins they have a right to the Sign Baptism this Argument I have answered fully in Baptism Anatomized in Pag. 36 37. yet I find no answer by him to this matter but it is H. Collins way to object against what I lay down and make no answer to that I have asserted in my Book that is Infants are born Sinners and cannot be Saved but by Christ's pardoning their Sin and all that have the Testimony from God's Word that their Sins are pardoned have a right to the Sign of Remission Water-Baptism again Whereas H. Collins opposeth what I say in Page 43. from Acts 15. 10. that Infants are Disciples Answer The Jews which believed were pressing that the Gentiles should keep the Law of Moses and be Circumcised which Law required not only the Father but also the Male Children to be Circumcised for of old when a Proselite Gentile was joined to the Church of Israel he was to Circumcise all his Males see Exod. 12. ch even so in Acts 15. those who were required to be Circumcised by the Jews was the same the Law required before namely the Father and his Male Children therefore the answer of the Apostle was accordingly why tempt ye God to put a Yoke upon the Neck of the Disciples that is on the Fathers and the Children so that it is clear that in Acts 15. here Children with their Parents are called Disciples which is Scholars therefore the Law of God bound the Parents to bring their Children with them to hear the Law before they had understanding Deut. 31. 11 12 13. after they were Circumcised as we are now commanded to teach our Children after Baptised proved in my Book As touching a Womans partaking of the Lords Supper you shew no other command than is consirmed by Consequence which I never denied but the Evil lyeth at your door seeing you allow a Consequence in one thing and not in another and therefore partial for although the Woman be included in the Man and Woman is said to believe yet she must have actual Faith before she be fitly qualified to take and eat at the Lords Table yet you cannot see how the Promise of God includeth the Children in Infancy to the Believing Parents to have the Sign of Remission of their Sins set on them although this Truth shineth in the Scripture for God saith I will be a God to thee and to thy Seed by reason the Seed in Infancy are Sinners by Imputation but that it is not in that Sense I will be a God to thee and to thy Wife for both are actual Sinners and both must actually believe and Blessed is the People whose God

have by Free Grace in Christ to Remission of Sins and so to the Visible Sign thereof Water Baptism to be administred on them And whereas he saith in the Title of his Eleventh Chapter that it containeth a brief but sufficient Answer to my Book Baptism Anatomiz'd he beginneth after this vaunting manner I Query 1. Whether this Man doth not act against the Light of Conscience Experience and Holy Scripture when he asserts Indefinitely the Infants of Believers have by the Free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace a Right to Remission of Sins and so a Right to Baptism To this he maketh this Answer by way of Query as his only reason to oppose the Truth aforesaid his words are these Had Cain Ismael Esau Absalom Samuel's Sons of Belial all Children of Believers a right to Remission of Sins To which I reply first he saith I assert Indefinitely that the Infants of believers have c. By by the word indefinitely he meaneth without limit or bound this is false for let him shew in what Page in all my Book I have asserted any thing otherwise but according to God's Revealed Will concerning the absolute Right that Insants of Believers have by the free Grace of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins by giving place to God's secret Election if they to wit Infants of Believers continue like Abel Isaac Jacob Timothy and the like in the way of Faith and Holiness they shall be Saved See p. 32. Baptism Anatomiz'd Secondly If Hercules Collins his Doctrin be a Truth that because some of the Infants of Believers prove not to be of the Election by their evil Fruits when grown up as appeared in Cain Ismael c. that therefore we must conclude from thence that none of the Infants of Believers have a Visible Right by the free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins and so now in these last days to Water-Baptism then this will follow That because some actual Believers as Simon Magus Demas and the like fell away after they had been Baptised with the Visible Sign of remission of Sins that therefore all the rest of the Believers in the Apostles days had no Right to the Remission of Sins and so no Right to Water-Baptism But to come nearer to Hercules Collins the Persons Men and Women of his Society being in their Way Baptised and in his Judgment had right to Remission of Sins and some of these in time do fall into gross Sin as to deny even the Ordinance of Baptism and the Lord's-Supper as not to be administred at all as likewise into other gross Sins Will he conclude that all the rest of his Society because some are become so wicked have no right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Baptism If the former Reason of his be true against Infants of Believers the latter is true against Elder Persons And thus this Man at once hath granted by his not giving place to God's Election that no Persons among themselves have right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Water-Baptism for no other reason but because some of them prove Wicked and therefore he must never Baptise any hereafter until he can enter into God's secret Decree to know who only are the Elect that shall never fall totally away after Baptised And thus the Wicked Man is Snared in the works of his own hands Selah that is O mind this well This might serve for a sufficient Answer to his whole Book until he by acknowledging the Truth which I have asserted deliver himself out of this Snare that he is fallen into which he laid for others that because some Infants as Elder Persons visibly in Covenant with the Lord afterward do fall away that therefore all the rest have no right to Remission of Sins But I shall proceed further in laying open more of his Folly If it prove not a benefit to this Goliah-like Boaster it may be a Warning to others to beware of the Doctrin of Anabaptistry In which Book he further saith in Pag. 109. Query the Second Whether there is not good ground given to believe in reading a great part of this Book from Page 25. to 41. and 168. that he is of Origen's Opinion the whole World may be saved at last and then why not the Devils too For saith he in Page 168. If all Infants Sinned in Adam when Adam was restored they were restored in his Loins and when Born they were Born in a Gospel Covenant Page 26. God freely forgave Adam and his Posterity in him their Sin Reply In the 24. Page of Baptism Anatomiz'd I have shewed from Rom. 5. 12. how Sin came into the World as it is written wherefore as by one Man Sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed upon all Men for that or in whom all have Sinned thus the Apostle proveth that what I asserted is Truth that all Infants Sinned in Adam's Loins Secondly In Page 25. I shewed the manner or way God was pleased to restore those two sorts of Sinners the one Actual as Adam and Eve the other Passive who in Infancy by Original Corruption derived Sin and by Imputation charged on them Therefore because Adam and Eve had actually and willingly Sinned it was the Pleasure of God that not only our first Parents but also all actual Sinners in all Ages should Repent and actually profess Faith in Christ before they were accepted into Covenant with the Lord and have remission of their Sins Now because the Infants of such were only Sinners by Imputation as aforesaid through Original Corruption and not by their own Act God was pleased and still is pleased and that of free Grace to pass by the sin charged on Infants when the sin of their Parents was Pardoned and therefore the Children born in the Covenant of Grace are by the Lord called his Children accounted born unto him Ezek. 16. 8 20 and 21. And forasmuch as Children are by the Scripture called a Man's Family Gen. 10. 32. God being pleased that in Christ Families shall be Blessed therefore the Lord saith not only before the Law but in the time of the Law and also in the latter days he will be the God of all Families of his Israel that is the Israel of God namely Believers and their Infants whether Jews or Gentiles the truth hereof is confirmed by the Apostle in these words writing not to the whole World but to true Churches separated from the World wherefore as by the Offence of one namely the first Adam Judgment came upon all Men for a Child born is called a Man Gen. 4. 1. Joh. 16. 21. even so by the Righteousness of one namely Christ the second Adam the free Gift came upon all Men unto Justification of Life for as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners so by the Obedience of one many shall be made Righteous Now because when Adam and Eve were