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A26961	Much in a little, or, An abstract of Mr. Baxters plain Scripture-proof for infants church-membership or baptism with a few notes upon the anti-queries of T.G. / by the same hand that wrote the Fifty queries.	Barret, John, 1631-1713.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Plain Scripture-proof of infants church-membership and baptism.; Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. Quaeries examined.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1314; ESTC R14073	29,895	84

meritoriousness of Christ is not as available to save Infants without any mans acceptance thereof for them I doubt not but the second Adams obedience and merits are available so far as was intended and agreed betwixt the Father and him But it lies on you to prove that it was so intended and agreed that all Infants so dying shall absolutely be saved Antiq. 37. p. 29. Whether it be his will that the grace of that Covenant should depend upon others observation of the condition for them And whether this be not to put the Salvation of Infants out of his own hand Infants are not saved by the Covenant of grace which is to Believers and their Seed if they neither be Believers nor the Seed of such Only that I be not misunderstood I add If any that enjoy not the Gospel that never heard that joyful sound come up to the terms of the Covenant of Grace made with Adam and Noah I rank not them and their Seed with Infidels To what you say of Gods putting the Salvation of Infants out of his own hand I need say but this you might as well query whether God put not the Salvation of the Adult out of his own hand if their Salvation be suspended on performance of the condition required One thing more I cannot but observe wherein I suppose you are a little singular also In Antiq. 26. p. 19. You make your Imposition of hands as generally pertaining to Members of the Church as Baptism Where I might note that you seem to grant Baptism generally pertains to the Members of the Church But that by the way Now elsewhere you tell us that In this holy Ordinance of Prayer and Imposition of hands we are in a solemn manner ushered into the promise of the holy Spirit You go on Imposition of hands doth put us in a better capacity to seek daily for the gifts and graces of the Spirit because now solemnly interested in the promise by that very way the primitive Saints were interested therein Act. 8. 15 17. Act. 19. 2 6. 2. Tim. 1. 6. Heb. 6. 1 2. What shall I say The Scriptures or these Scriptures are evidence sufficient that this Crdinance is of Divine Institution is from Heaven the promise which it leads to is perpetual and universal it belongs to the whole body There is one Body and one Spirit c. This is the conclusion of the Sermon p. 96 97. And what gifts of the Spirit you speak of is very plain throughout the Sermon For brevity I will mention but one place p. 77. Thus you see the Church being under perpetual Exhortations to seek for spiritual gifts without any restriction necessarily infers her perpetual right to them and every of them which consideration alone is sufficient as I conceive to satisfie any Christian that the promise of the Spirit even the same that was given to the first Churches in respect of gifts as well as graces belongs to the Church of Christ throughout all Ages Now if Imposition of hands generally pertains to all the Members of the Church and solemnly interesteth them in the promise of the Spirit methinks it should follow that all such Members on whom you lay your hands supposing you have right to do it as you take up the practice if I be not mis-informed should have some extraordinary gifts of the Spirit And I have reason to think you encourage your followers to submit to this Imposition by working in them such a perswasion and expectation For p. 88. of the forecited Sermon you have these words As the promise of gifts as well as graces pertains to us as we are the called of God we ought to stir one another up to seek with all diligence and full assurance for the Spirit of promise And p. 95. 'T is well known and I think granted on all hands that they i. e. the Primitive Churches used the solemn Ordinance of Prayer and Imposition of hands for obtaining the promised Spirit at least with respect to these gifts Then seeing these gifts are promised to us as well as unto them and are attainable and in part at least attained by many what should hinder the Churches but that now they should tread in this path with faith and full assurance that a blessing is in it But while you call for full assurance here I am full of doubt that you have no such Promise nor Commission for your practice of Imposition of hands for conferring the gifts of the Holy Ghost Take heed of pretending a Commission from Heaven take heed of counterfeiting Heavens Seal Oh be afraid of taking Gods Name in vain Will you herein imitate the Apostles May it not be said of you you know not what Spirit you are of May you not as well take upon you to lay hands on the Sick to heal them Because of that Mark 16. 18. They shall lay hands on the Sick and they shall recover or anoint them with Oyl in the Name of the Lord because of what you read Mark 6. 13. Jam. 5. 14. I dare not limit God or his holy Spirit and I desire that you may not tempt him When you have pleaded all you can for the continuance of those extraordinary gifts and for the promise of them being perpetual universal to the whole body and pertaining to us as we are the called of God whereupon it follows that they should pertain to all that are called of God yet experience will confute you and prove they are not so ordinary When you make Prayer and Imposition of hands The means ordained of God to obtain those gifts Ser. p. 94. 95. I might retort some of your own words Antiq. 33. p. 25. Shew us what benefit c. And Antiq. 39. pag. 31. Name one Name one that hath received those gifts of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of your hands If the gift of healing c. was seen to follow these might draw in more to you then your Writing or Disputing And I wish you would be advised ere you encourage all your hearers to seek for Spiritual gifts without any restriction lest Women seek to Prophesy or men seek new Revelations and so turn Enthusiasts and think themselves above Mans teaching There is enough to be said against your Imposition of hands though I have nothing to say against Confirmation being duly and orderly performed but have long wisht for the Restoring of it So I have nothing against Imposition of hands in setting apart persons that are proved and fitted to the work of the Ministry But this pertains not to every Member of the Church I can pass by what you say of me that I am worse for my Baptism in Infancy as resting upon that c. Antiq. 40. p. 32. Doth not your Conscience tell you that the Baptism of Men and Women upon profession of faith and repentance is beyond the reach of contradiction The Baptising of such as were without the Church or were first of the Jewish

be otherwise by grace Again may not children be visible Church-members and yet perhaps children of wrath too Were not all the children of Church-members among both Jews and Proselites Church-members And yet were they not children of wrath by nature as we are 2. If you object that Infants are not capable of the ends of Baptism To this though Infants are not capable of every benefit by Baptism as the Aged are yet are they not capable of the principal ends May it not be a listing sign to enter them Church-members and solemnize their Dedication to Christ and engage them to be his people and to take him for their Lord and Saviour and so to confer on them remission of sin and what Christ by the Covenant promiseth to the Baptised though yet themselves understand not this even as we put the names of Infants in Bonds and Leases which they can neither read nor know of And may it not be operative by its signification as soon as the Child comes to the use of Reason which will not be so long as you use to defer Baptism And in the mean time as his interest is upon the ●●…dition of the Parents faith and as he is received as it were a Member of them so may not the Parents have the present actual comfort of it as the Parent hath the actual comfort of a Lease that assureth an Estate to his Child And was not Christ himself Baptized when yet he was not capable of many of the great ends of Baptism Was Baptism to Christ a sign of the washing away of sin or of purifying his Soul which was perfect before or of being buried with Christ c. And how uncapable were the Infants that Christ laid his hands on and took up in his Armes of understanding the meaning of what he did Shall we therefore say that Christ should have let it alone till afterwards And will you tell us what operation Circumcision had on the Infants of Church-members formerly Was it not a Seal of the righteousness of Faith And yet had they any more Faith or knowledge of the significancy than ours have now Was it not an engaging sign And yet were not they as uncapable of understanding either the significancy or engagement as ours are So 3. If you object How can an Infant Covenant with God or be engaged by this Sign And where doth God require the Parent to engage his children c. To this if only the Aged are capable of engagement may you not thence straitway conclude that no Infant was ever circumcised But may not that be the Childs Action Morally and in Law-sence which is onely the Fathers Action Physically When a man puts his Childs name in a Lease and binds himself and his heirs is not the Child thus entred into Covenant and Bond And does not the Law take it as his Act And is it not a plain natural duty of Parents to covenant for their children when it is for their good And doth not the Scripture fully shew that all the people of Israel did by Gods appointment enter their children into the Covenant of God Were they not to circumcise them which God calleth his Covenant and the sign of the Covenant And is it not as plainly spoken as the mouth of man can speak it in Deut. 29. 10 11 12 13. Did not the Parents there enter their children into the Covenant and not the Infants themselves And doth not that shew God hath given Parents their interest and authority 4. Another common objection is if Infants must be Baptized why may they not as well receive the Lords Supper To which may not the very external nature of the several Sacraments satisfie you Hath not Christ appointed the first to be such as Infants are capable of May not they be washed as well as the Aged But is not the other such as they are naturally incapable of in their first Infancy And is not the former instituted plainly for all disciples But what Scripture saith that all Disciples as such should presently receive the Lords Supper Is it not restrained to those that can first examine themselves and can discern the Lords Body and keep in remembrance his Death And if every Burgess at Age as such hath power to Trade c. in the City will it therefore follow that every Infant may do so that is born a Burgess 5. It hath been objected that if it be the Will of Christ that Infants should be Baptized it is strange that he hath left it so dark To which will you not grant that all Church-members must be admitted by Baptism Is this dark or doubtful And how many Scriptures are there that prove Infants must be admitted Church-members Can we say the Scripture is dark or sparing in that Again The Scripture speaks most fully in the Controversies which in those times were agitated but was it any Controversie then whether Infants were to be Members of the visible Church Did not the Jews take it for unquestionable all their Infants having actual possession and that upon Gods own grant and Ordination Now if Christ would have dispossessed them should he not somewhere have discovered it And would it not have occasioned great disputes and debates v. Epistle to Bewdley p. 5 6. Further what if it were more obscure than it is Is not the New Testament as silent about Christian Kings or any Christian Magistrates or about an Oath before a Magistrate and about War and about the prohibited degrees of Marriage and about the Sabbath c. Will you therefore say these are not revealed It it not enough that they are revealed in the Old Testament And was not Infants Church-membership revealed clearly there 6. Another objection is The evil consequences of Infant-Baptism as gross Ignorance much occasioned by it c. To which 1. Is not the Lord Jesus himself the occasion of the ruine and damnation of multitudes Luk. 2. 34. Had it been better therefore the World had been without him And is not the Gospel to many The Savour of Death unto Death and to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Gentiles foolishness And must the Gospel be blamed for this What is it that Wicked men will not take hurt by and make an occasion of their destruction And have not many said so about the religious Education of children that it is but the way to make them Hypocrites point-blank against the Will and Word of God Deut. 6. 7. Prov. 22. 6. And do not many make their belief of the Scripture and believing that Christ died and rose again and that he is the Saviour of the World and the profession of his Name to be the ground of their hopes of Salvation and thousands more than that trust to their meer Baptism And what if many amongst you think to be saved because they are Baptized again 2. Can you shew any of you what there is in

as to plead for their priviledges or would be a propagater of Christs Kingdom and forward to engage and bring in Subjects and Disciples to him Q. 2. Whereas we tell sinners of the hainous aggravation of their sins as being committed after Baptism and after their solemn Vow and Covenant made to God whether you that make Infant-Baptism a nullity dare undertake to bear the burthen of this Aggravation for them And whether you may tell sinners that we do but serve them as some serve foolish children Fright them with Bug-bears that there is no such matter they were never Baptized and therefore never sinned against their Baptism they were never so engaged to God and therefore never sinned against that engagement Will you warrant them that they never need to repent for their sinning against their Baptism and the Covenant then made Or will you bear the blame for them Q. 3. Whether it should not lie heavy on any tender conscience to add to Gods Word holding the repeal of the Ordinance of Infants Church-membership which no Scripture affirmeth to be guilty of the Churches doleful Divisions and the great grief that hereby oppresseth the hearts of so many of Gods people to censure if not unchurch all the Churches of Christ since the Apostles times or almost all And all this in contending that your own children are out of Christs visible Church How doleful is it that any Christians should be so zealous to dispute their own children out of Christs Church and to plead that they have no right to be admitted Members that they are no Disciples of Christ no Christians And whether they that are zealous in solliciting men not to engage their Children in Covenant with God may not have as many thanks from Christ as the Disciples had for keeping such from him FINIS Books Printed for and are to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside SErmons on the whole Epistle of Saint Paul to the Colossians by Mr. I. Daille translated into English by F. S. with Dr. Thomas Goodwins and Dr. John Owens Epistles Recommendatory An Exposition of Christs Temptation on Matth. 4. and Peters Sermon to Cornelius and circumspect walking By Dr. Tho. Taylor Books 4 to The Door of Salvation opened by the Key of Regeneration by George Swinnock M. A. An Antidote against Quakerism by Steph. Scandret An Exposition on the five first Chapters of Ezekiel with useful observations thereupon by William Greenhil The Gospel-Covenant opened by Peter Bulkley Gods holy-Mind touching matters Moral which he uttered in Ten Commandments Also an Exposition on the Lords Prayer by Edward Eston B. D. The Fiery Jesuit or an Historical-Collection of the rise encrease doctrines and deeds of the Jesuits Horologiographia optica Dyaling universal and particular speculative and practical together with a description of the Court of Arts by a new Method by Silvanus Morgan The Practical Divinity of the Papist discovered to be destructive to true Religion and Mens Souls by J. Clarkson The Creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hand and the good Mans mercy to the Bruit-creatures in two Sermons by Tho. Hodges B. D. Certain considerations tending to promote Peace and Unity amongst Protestants Mediocria or the most plain and natural apprehensions which the Scripture offers concerning the great Doctrines of the Christian Religion of Election Redemption the Covenant the Law and Gospel and Perfection The Morning-Lectures against Popery or the principal Errours of the Church of Rome detected and confuted in a Morning-Lecture Preached by several Ministers of the Gospel in or near London Four useful Discourses 1. The Art of improving a full and prosperous condition for the glory of God being an 〈…〉 the Art of Contentment in three Sermons on Philip. 4. 12. 2. Christian submission on 1 Sam. 3. 18. 3. Christ a Christians life and death is gain on Philip. 1. 21. 4. The Gospel of Peace sent to the Sons of Peace in six Sermons on Luke 10. 5 6. By Jeremiah Burroughs A new Copy-Book of all sorts of useful hands The Saints Priviledge by dying by Mr. Soot The Unity and Essence of the Catholick Church-visible by Mr. Hudson The intercourse of Divine Love between Christ and the Church or the particular Believing Soul in several Lectures on the whole second Chapter of Cant. by John Collins D. D. Large 8 vo Heart-Treasure or a Treatise tending to fill and furnish the Head and Heart of every Christian with Soul enriching treasure of truths graces experiences and comforts The sure mercies of David or a second part of Heart-treasure by Oliver Heywood Heaven or Hell here in a Good or Bad Conscience by Nath. Vincent Aesop's Fables with Morals thereupon in English-Verse The Young-Mans Instructor and the Old-Mans Remembrancer being an Explanation of the Assemblies Catechism Captives bound in Chains made free by Christ their Surety both by Tho. Doolittle Eighteen Sermons Preached upon several Texts of Scripture by William Whitaker Sin the Plague of plagues or sinful sin the worst of Evils by Ralph Venning M. A. Speculum Sherlockianum or a Looking-glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the Man as to his Acuracy Judgment Orthodoxy Small 8 vo A defence against the fear of Death by Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed by W. Gearing The godly mans Ark or a City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mr. Moors evidences for Heaven by Ed. Calamy The Almost-Christian discovered or the false-Professor tried and cast by M. Mead. In small 12 s. The Duty of Parents towards their Children A little Book for little Children A method and Instruction for the Art of Divine Meditation All three by Tho. White The Prisoners Prayers FINIS * In your Title page you say Fifty Queries gathered out of the works of Mr. Rich. Baxter * In Serm. on 1 Cor. 12. 1. p. 95. To which see something in my Treatise of the Covenants p 430 c. And more in Mr. Whistons Priv. Doct. of Bapt. Some Queries out of Mr. Baxters Plain Scripture-Proof for Infant-Baptism v. p. 3. v. p. 4. v. p. 5. v. p. 6. v. p. 125. v. p. 2. v. p. 6. v. p. 7. v. p. 8. v. p. 9 10. v. p. 244. v. p. 11. v. p. 12. v. p. 15. v. p. 14. v. p. 15 v. p. 16. v. p. 18. v. p. 19. v. p. 20. v. p. 21. v. p. 22. v. p. 23. v. p. 24. v. p. 26. v. p. 27. v. p. 38. v. p. 99. v. p. 40. v. p. 42. v. epistle to Bewdly p. 7. v. p. 43. v. p. 44. v. p. 45. v. p. 46. v. p. 48. v. p. 49. v. p. 50. v. p. 51. v. p. 52. v. p. 53. v. p. 55. v. p. 56. v. p. 57. v. p. 251. v. p. 58. v. p. 59. v. p. 60. v. p. 61. v. p. 70. v. p. 71. v. p. 72. v. p. 74. v. p. 82. v. p. 83. v. p. 84. v. p. 105. v. p. 106. Epistle to Bewdley pag. 7. v. p. 110. v. p. III. v. Preface p. 2 3. v. p. III. v. p. 112. v. p. 253. v. p. 178 179. v. p. 113. v. p. 250. v. p. 115. v. p. 243. v. p. 115. v. p. 116. v. p. 117. v. p. 117 118. v. p. 118. v. p. 119. v. p. 124. v. p. 125. v. p. 126. v. p. 127. v. p. 341. v. p. 128. v. p. 130. v. p. 131. v. p. 132. v. p. 290. v. p. 133. v. p. 134. v. p. 136. v. p. 135. v. p. 136. v. p. 137. v. p. 138. v. p. 144. v. p. 146. v. p. 144. v. p. 145. v. p. 146. v. p. 149. v. p. 177. v. p. 174. v. p. 160. v. p. 161. v. p. 177.