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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58149	Gerizim and Ebal (Election and reprobation), or, The absolute good pleasure of Gods most holy will to all the sons of Adam, specificated viz. to vessels of mercy in their eternal election, and to vessels of wrath in their eternal reprobation : being an answer to a spurious pamphlet lately crept into the world, which was fathered by Thomas Tazwell : wherein the texts of Scripture by him are perverted and vindicated, his corrupt glosses brought to light and purged, his shuffling and ambiguous dealing discovered, and the truth in all fully cleared / by James Rawson ...	Rawson, James.	1658 (1658)	Wing R377; ESTC R14587	197,701	236

all in their several generations had tasted of death and for a more full manifestation hereof he distinguisheth mankind into infants and those of ripe years wherein he affirms by the effect that not onely those that were of ripe years had died who had sinned in their own persons but even infants who had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression i. e. who had committed no actual sins in their own persons for which they should suffer death which is the wages of sin even they likewise had died Rom. 6.23 as having brought into the world with them the guilt of Adams transgression and therefore it could not be denied but that sin was likewise in them So that you that undertake to be a Proctor for all infants for ought you have proved from this text you will leave them all in a sad condition if a more sufficient Advocate may not be found to to plead their cause Another reason there is which you would fain have to be received from the authority of Christ himself Luke 18.16 Of such is the kingdom of God for the salving whereof I must open the words which do evidence that the Disciples had a prejudice and a cruell one too against infants thinking as the Anabaptists do that they understood nothing of Christ nor of the kingdom of Grace but Christ rebukes them and instates infants of believing parents as members of the visible Church Of such is the kingdom of God Now we cannot think that Christs meaning is of such as such is the kingdom of God as if all infants whether Jew or Gentile Turk or Pagan belonged as subjects to the visible Church for then the infants of all the heathens should be covenanted members of the Church visible and yet their parents are without the vi●●ble Church and when they should grow to age they should without any scandal be excommunicated which were monstrous to affirm much less can the invisible kingdom of God be of such as if all infants because infants were actually saved but all that our Saviour intends is Of such i. e. of such in covenant-relation is the kingdom of God of such subjects i. e. infants as well as others So that our Saviour did herein hold forth the common interest of the whole species of infants within the visible Church their common interest in Christ that he is a Saviour of them as well as a Saviour of the aged But to conclude thence of such Therefore all such is an unheard of non sequitur We find salvation entailed upon qualifications of Graces but not upon any age or period of life But that whether it be for matter of election or of reprobation young as well as old are lookt upon as in the corrupt lump and out of which some are elected the rest are left and so not elected which is to be Reprobated You have one reason more for the defence of your assertion that no child dying in infancy c. And that I conceive you offer by way of anticipation to what might be objected from Rom. 5.15 2 Cor. 5.10 16 17 18 19. concerning the imputation of Adams sin to all his posterity and thus you state it that when all shal appear before the judgement seat of Christ every one shall receive according to what he hath done in his body but not to receive any thing as a punishment for what hath been acted in the body of another And I pray Sir tell me you that are so accurate the reason of your limitation why none shall receive any thing as a punishment of that which hath been acted in the person of another but that we may receive a reward for the good which hath been acted in the person of another where if the text by you cited 2 Cor. 5.10 be that rule you walk by it should hold for good as well as bad But perhaps you foresaw the instance that would be given in against you in that man Christ Jesus from the acting of whose person in his own body all other bodies that do expect or hope for any reward of all their labours of love they do participate Joh. 1. Ezek. 16.14 for of his fulness have we all received and we all are made perfect through his comliness that he shall put upon us and by his obedience shall those that are justified be made righteous And therefore my good friends this is but gratis dictum Rom. 5.19 and you do herein grosly suborn and abuse that place of the Apostle to serve your base ends this sure is no better then the devils juggle Matth. 4. to mince so much of a text as will serve his turn and to leave out the rest so to delude the Readers I pray use fairer play in your next and deal above board The next thing I observe of your alike fair dealing is about that text 1 Cor. 15.22 that all die and go to the dust in the first Adam in that all have sinned or in whom all have sinned Rom. 5.12 and here sure the dust so flies in your eyes that all the skil and labour you can take will never wipe it away For first you do confess that all Infants as well as others sinned in Adam and why should you not alike confess from that very place Rom. 5.18 that therefore judgement upon all to condemnation should pass upon infants as well as others but probable it is that here your meaning is that Adams first transgression whereon I shall have occasion more fully to answer when I come to examine and resolve your postscript of Queries till when I shall dismiss this paradox and shall apply my self to enquire into the mind of God in that text by you cited Ezek. 18.20 the soul that sinneth it shall die the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father c. Upon which your comment is by death in this place is meant eternal death that which is the portion of the wi●ked for their wickedness for as for the temporal or natural death that is the portion as well of the righteous as unrighteous and therefore from this place you suppose it clear that no soul shall eternally be cast into the lake for the sin of another i. e. for Adams sin But I pray Sir what think you first of the sufferings of Christ both in his soul and body ●am 1.12 Isa 53.3 there was no sin inherent in himself neither of original nor actual sins yet was there never any sorrow or sufferings like unto his and therefore called a man of sorrowes which though they were not eternal in respect of duration yet were they eternal according to the nature and essence of them and in respect of the dignity of the person being God-man they were equivalent to any or all of those sufferings which are eternal for time and continuance and yet all this was undergone not for the satisfaction of any sin in himself but for what sins were acted in the

be to all people for unto you is given this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. This was the first Sermon that was preached of God incarnate of Christ Immanuel God with us wherein the universal particle All doth not signifie all and singular the elect and Reprobate but onely all and singular of those for whom Christ was born to be a Saviour as appears by these words Mat. 1.21 Mat. 1.21 where the Angel saith with a limitation He shall save his people from their sins Therefore by all people must necessarily be understood o● all believing people no● of the Jews onely but of the Gentile● also Besides we find it otherwise that this joy was not communicated to all and singular some there were that had no portio● in it Mat. 2.3 because Matth. 2.3 when Herod heard hereof he was troubled and all Ierusalem with him and Pro. 14.10 tells us that the strangers intermeddle not with this joy Mich. 4.11 And thus having thrown down all your strong holds wherein you trusted as to the support of that notion of Universal Redemption I proceed to that other denyed by you viz. the Baptizing of Infants wherein you say there is neither precept nor president of the sprinkling or washing of Infants in his name Suppose now that I should tell you that what as to the proof of an ordinance of Christ here is not sufficient enumeratio partium for a thing may be at the appointment of Jesus Christ yet neither express precept nor exact practise for it standing upon record I pray Sir tell me if you can what precept have you in the letter of the word or practise hanging on the file for the change of the seventh day Sabbath for the abrogation of the one or substitution of the other in its stead No Sir we have a greater and yet warrantable latitude in our probates of divine Injunctions that if a thing can be proved by a necessary and undeniable consequence it will equipend with either precept or president I could give Instances 1 Cor. 11.16 but that is bootless at this time 1 Cor. 11.16 We have no such custome neither the Churches of Christ is a good Argument with the Apostle negatively We have such a custome and so have the Churches of Christ is as good an argument with us affirmatively yea even now since the times of the Apostle But lest that you should take this rather as a tergiversation than an answer I will apply my self more particularly to say some what as to satisfaction And 1. That there is a command extant Mat. 28.29 Of Baptizing all the members of the Church whereof children are a part the promises appertaining to them as well as to those of years Acts 2.39 If you look for a special command and shall deny that Infants are comprehended under that general command because they cannot be taught I must tell you that whosoever proposeth a thing in general terms he doth thereby comprehend all specials unless he make a particular exception and whatsoever is and hath been of a perpetuated and continued right and use in the Church of Christ once established viz. that the covenant of God should be sealed upon the covenanters there will be no need of any repetition of any sort or condition of persons who they are or should be that are intended to be those covenanters And yet truly Sir in my judgement if you were well put to it you would find more difficulty in your baptizing of Infants And for the qualification you require of these which are to be Baptized that is appliable to the primitive Church which was gathered of persons of ripe years and as in reference to such they were first to be taught before Baptized But for Infants who follow the condition of their parents the promises appertaining to the parents being entayled to the children another course is had And as to matter of president we have examples for the Baptism of whole families Acts 16.45 33. and 1 Cor. 1.16 out of which Infants cannot be excluded shew me else when and where and upon what grounds that priviledge that Infants formerly had was reversed and repealed and then you will say somewhat And yet if this will not satisfie I will put you one argument to boot Arg. To whomsoever God is pleased to be a God in covenant and to make a covenant-promise those are to be Baptized by the command of Christ But to the Infants of those which are in covenant God hath been pleased to express himself to be in covenant and to make covenant-promises unto them Therefore such Infants are to be Baptized by the command of Christ Both the propositions are confirmed out of Acts 2. The Major from ver 38. and 39. compared together Repent and be Baptized every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the promise is made to you and to your children The minor proposition is likewise proved from ver 39. for the promise is made to your children But because that the strength of the Argument may more evidently appear I will annex somewhat for Illustration of the text 1. There is set down the command of being baptized Be Baptized every one of you 2. There is added a reason of the command for which is not to be restrained to the last words in the former verse of receiving the gifts of the holy Ghost promised in Ioel but of all other gracious blessings of the Covenant which will appear by comparing of those places Acts 3.25 Gen. 17.7 Ier. 31.33 3. There is the subject receiving the promise which is amplified by a distribution where to the parents are joyned children indefinitely without any manner of difference either of sex or age 4. Both of them viz. Parents and Children their receiving into the Covenant of Grace is most clearly to be gathered from the first Covenant entred into with Abraham the father of the faithful whether of Jews or Gentiles ratified from Rom. 4.10 11. Where the Infants are accounted in the same condition with the Parents and the males were circumcised the eighth day Gen. 17.10 11. And therefore likewise in the New Testament the Infants of Christians are to be esteemed in the condition of their Christian Parents they are sanctified in them 1 Cor. 7.14 and therefore with them are to be baptized More I have written on this subject and committed it to some of your friends to reading which if you desire to peruse no question you may have the view of it but in the mean time do you chew the cud upon this Having done with these impertinencies to the business in contest between us you proceed to Revolters of whom you wrote thus But that some who have been professors of the truth have withdrawn themselves from the same it is evident and proved Traytors thereunto as did Iudas for love of mony and as Demas to imbrace this present world yea some have been so far