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A34433	The font uncover'd for infant-baptisme, or, An answer to the challenges of the Anabaptists of Stafford, never yet reply'd unto, though long since promised wherein the baptisme of all church-members infants is by plain Scripture-proof maintained to be the will of Jesus Christ, and many points about churches and their constitutions are occasionally handled / by William Cook, late minister of the Gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	Cook, William, Minister of the gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	1651 (1651)	Wing C6042; ESTC R1614	62,529	56

will Christ take it that his people and Churches are thus compared with the slaves and Synagogues of Antichrist 2. Yet we are not ashamed to own that which is of God amongst the Italians Spaniards and French Shall we reject the Scriptures of the old Testament or be equalled with the Jews because we embrace them as Gods word which the Jews also professe to do Or must we cast off the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and many precious truths gathered out of them because professed by the Papists who yet overthrow by many false doctrines and superstitions what truths they professe no sure Neither are we to think the worse of Infant-baptism because it is used amongst them 3. Yea we make no doubt but that if in Italy Spain and France they would hold only that in doctrine worship and practice which is agreeable to Gods word even the holy Scripture which they professe to imbrace with us and cast away superstitious idolatry and impieties contrary thereunto reforming according to the word God would own them for his Churches neither should they need a new constitution or new Baptisme any more then new Scripture They have added indeed to Scripture and Baptism of their own but let them repent of and cast away their additions and keep that which is of God in judgement practice and worship according to the Scriptures which are amongst them and they become forthwith true and good Churches The Church of Judah after it had fallen to idolatry by casting away that idolatry in the time of Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah and Josiah was acknowledged a true and good Church without new constitution Nay more if backsliding Israel after her many abominations had returned to God when they had lien long in idolatry Ier. 3.1 2. 4.1 God would have received them as his people without new Circumcision Fourthly Whereas you say From this Infant-Baptism they are called Christians or Christendom You do not prove it We deny it and assert That we are called Christians or Christendom from our faith in Jesus Christ and the profession thereof and from our interest in the Covenant of Grace which God hath made with us in Christ the Mediatour exhibited yet granting that Baptism is the badge of our Christianity but not that which constitutes Christians What they of Rome or Spain say we passe not Fifthly Whereas you say or imply Baptism is dipping in your sense and call it sprinkling by way of scorn in our sense and would imply that Christ ordained and his Apostles practised dipping or as others expresse it dousing over the head not infusion or sprinkling We wish you to prove it if you can either from the proper signification of the word Mark 7.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the accomplishment of this Prophecie Act. ● v. 3. 17 18. Act 10.44 11 15 16. Luk. 12.50 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat 20 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isa 63 1 3. or from the nature of the Ordinance or from the historical relation of the Apostles practice or otherwise We finde that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to wash or bedew or imbrew lightly whether by infusion of or dipping into any liquid thing with a light touch but that it should signifie only dipping or dousing the use of the word will not allow 1. It is used to signifie the ceremonial washing of cups pots brazen vessels or tables which may be as well done by infusion or pouring water upon them as by immersion or diping into the water yea in some of them much better 2. The same word is also used to signifie Christs baptizing with the holy Ghost and with fire This cannot be so understood that Christ should dip or douse men into the holy Ghost and fire but that in the Primitive times the holy Ghost should be poured upon them as the texts in the margin shew and that Christ would in after times pour his Spirit ordinarily on his people which Spirit in respect of operation is compared to fire as giving light heat c. 3. This word is used to signifie Christs death wherein his bloud was poured forth and sprinkled on himself and he washed in his own bloud I have saith he a Baptism to be baptized with and again Are you able to be baptized with the Baptism that I am baptized with 4. This word is also used to signifie Christs execution of Justice on his enemies he being compared to a mighty warriour which with wounding and slaying his enemies is besprinkled with their bloud which spouts out of their body when they are gashed and pierced by him Our Translators render that in the Revelation having his garments dipped in bloud Rev. 19 13. But it may be well read as that in Isaiah sprinkled with bloud For warriours do not use to dip or douse their garments in their enemies bloud lying on the ground but well may they have their garments besprinkled therewith as it gusheth out of their bodies being wounded by them 2. As for the nature use and end of Baptism it is to signifie the pouring of the bloud and spirit of Christ on our souls for regeneration remission of sins and sanctification wherein we are not said to be dipped or doused into Christs bloud or spirit but to be sprinkled therewith or to have them poured upon us Heb. 9.13 14. chap. 12.24 1 Pet. 1.2 Isa 44.3 Act. 2.18 So that Prophecie of Christs besprinkling many Nations Isa 52.15 may be understood of his sprinkling them with his bloud which having spilled he was so deformed more then any man ver 14. for justification and his Spirit which by his truth he purchased for sanctification The scope of the text and coherence speaking of Christs sufferings and the fruits thereof confirm the interpretation as most natural and proper 3. As for the relation which the Scripture makes of the manner of baptizing Iosh 3.17 Sometimes indeed it speaks of baptizing at the river Jordan but how improbable is it that they should go into that mighty stream 2 King 2.8 14. Act. 2.41 which could not be passed over safely on foot without a miracle and there be dipped with extream danger of drowning 2. We reade of baptizing in a City divers thousands in one day without any mention of their going forth to any great water to be dipped 3. We reade of baptizing a whole houshold in a City in the deep night without the least intimation of their going forth to a river or any great water to be dipped which if you consider well it may be you will not be so confident in calling baptizing dipping Sixtly You say that This baptizing or dipping of Beleevers was ordained of Christ and practised by the Disciples for the right constitution of true Churches This you speak as your own sense Ans This opinion was confuted before and by that which follows it shall further appear that neither Baptism

interest in Christ or the Covenant of grace constitutes a Christian for the joint and orderly profession of faith and interest in that Covenant or Gods owning a people to be his in Covenant is that which constitutes them a Church 2. Baptism is not essential to the constituting of a Church being but adventitious or additional as a sign or pledge of peoples admission into the Church The penitent thief on the Cross was a true Beleever though unbaptized and a multitude of such penitent ones jointly professing Christ should be a true Church Act. 7.38 though they wanted opportunity to be Baptized as that Penitent did The Israelites in the wilderness were a true Church Iosh 5.5 6. though they wanted Circumcision for fourty years 3. This Church or these Churches of England received its or their constitution in or anon after the Primitive times when by the Ministry of the word some were converted from heathenism to Christianity at which time we grant persons of years were Baptized upon their profession of faith or repentance Gen. 12.4 Gen. 15.6 Gen. ●7 1● 3 4 c. 7. and for they and their children received into Covenant As Abraham at the first setting up of a Church with a seal of admittance thereinto in his family was Circumcised when he had professed or declared his repentance faith and obedience and then his children and posterity were Circumcised whiles Infants by vertue of the Covenant into which they were taken with their fathers Now that being the first constitution of a Church in this Land which never yet was overthrown though many waies depraved through Antichrists usurpations of whom it was foretold that he should sit in the Temple of God for a time 2 Thes ● 4 but being after through the rich mercy of God repaired it hath continued still the same Church having been never rased to the foundation and so we need not a new constitution and therefore we deny that our Church was constituted by Infant-baptism any more then the Church of Israel was constituted by Infant-circumcision 2. Whereas you say that National-Churches are constituted by Infant-baptism or sprinkling Ans Ans 1. I know none that you oppose to plead for the constitution of National-Churches by Infant-baptism 2. Though we boast not of National-Churches nor is there any necessity that the mention of National-Churches should come into this dispute yet are we not ashamed of the name of a National-Church But seeing you urge it upon us as odious we desire you with us to consider these things 1. Gen. 22.18 Did not God promise to Abraham that all the Nations of the earth should be blessed in his seed Gen. 12.2 viz. Jesus Christ And how can Nations be blessed but by being made Churches as that one Nation which descended from Abraham was blessed by being a Church and people of God Psal 2.8 Hath not God promised to give to Christ the Nations for his inheritance and utmost parts of the earth for his possession Psa 22.27 28. and that all the ends of the earth and kindreds of the Nations shall turn to the Lord and worship before him Isa 49.23 That Kings shall be nursing fathers Queens nursing mothers to the Church And that Christ Jesus whose visage and form was marred with his bloud trickling down the same Isa 52.14 15. when crowned with thorns nailed to the Crosse and pierced into the heart shall sprinkle many Nations Mat. 28.19 Did not Christ bid his Apostles go into all Nations make Disciples and Baptize Rev. 11.15 Was it not foretold that the Kingdoms of the world should become the Kingdoms of God and his Christ and that the saved Nations should walk in the light of the New-Jerusalem Rev. 21.24 26. and that the Kings of the earth should bring their light to it and should bring the glory and honour of the Nations to it Why then should the name of National-Church be so odious 2. And surely if 1. A company of Beleevers in one house have been justly called a Church domestical Rom. 16.15 1 Cor. 16.19 Col. 4.15 Phil. 2.2 And if the number of Beleevers in a smal Village or Town may be called a Church Congregational Rom. 16.1 3. And the multitude of Beleevers in one City imbracing the truth in so great number that no one room or place could contain them all at once for the ordinary orderly edifying administration of Gods Ordinances may be called the Church of a City or Classicall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Church of Jerusalem which increased into many thousand yea many ten thousand and yet was but one Church Act. 2.44.47 Act. 5.14 15. 6.1 Act. 21.20 4. And multitudes of Beleevers scattered in many and several countries are still the flock and Church of God and an holy Nation 1 Pet. 2.1 with chap. 2.11 and chap. 5.2 1 Cor. 15.9 5. And if the whole company of the faithfull on earth consisting for the most part of many particular visible Churches may be called the Church Oecumenical Mat. 16.18 1 Cor. 12.28 6. Lastly If all the Beleevers in heaven and earth comprehending the militant and triumphant Church may yet in a more comprehensive sense be called the Church Catholick Heb. 12.23 I think no good reason can be given why men should make it so shy without scorn or reproach to call the faithfull in a whole Nation especially when the whole Nation doth generally profess the truth a National-Church 3. The National-Church was not constituted by Infant-baptisme but by the preaching of the Gospel God was pleased to call some in the Primitive times in this land and they became a Church Mat. 13 3● 3● 33. which was the first constitution of this Church Afterward the leaven of the Gospel seasoning the whole lump and that little grain of mustard seed growing up into a great tree and the Primitive Beleevers of this Land increasing into a Nation Ezek. 16.13 as Abrahams family did the Church did grow up into a Nation as was said before National Oecumenical Domestical or Congregational being accidental not essential to a Churches constitution or continuance Thirdly Whereas you say The National Churches of Spain England France and Rome were constituted by sprinkling of Infants I answer 1. This is a poisonous insinuation whereby the Church of England is put by you into the same condition with the Churches of Rome Spain France c. wherein you do not only wrong Gods holy people which have striven and continue striving for Reformation against Antichrist in matching them with the popish rabble and slander those Ministers and Ordinances of Christ amongst us by whose means if you have any knowledge of Christ and his truth you have received the same by equalling them with popish Ministers and superstitions but also blaspheme God himself at whose call and through whose grace we have come out of Babylon have attained some and breath after more Reformation How