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A03779	An apologie of infants in a sermon: prouing, by the reuealed will of God, that children preuented by death of their baptisme, by Gods election, may be saued. By W.H. preacher in the Tower of London. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1595 (1595)	STC 13898; ESTC S104267	27,538	80

good Secondly I obserue negatiuely what saueth not namely the outward washing of Baptisme water of it selfe being readier to drowne then to saue seeing of old they baptized with their bodies vnder the water Act. 8.38 Matth. 3.16 and not sprinkled alone which yet was indifferent as appeareth Act. 9.17.18 Act. 16.33 Cyp. lib. 4. epist 7. Thirdly that it is necessarie and fit to bee had if it may bee had after Christs institution So that the Prince Minister or parent or whosoeuer he bee sore offendeth by whose negligence or meanes it is omitted or cannot be had For the first all scripture aimeth onely at this poynt Iesus to be the Christ all the sacrifices of the old Testament did foresignifie it Iohn did poynt at him This lambe takes away the sinnes of the worlde GOD proclaimed it from heauen by an apparition of a Doue with a celestiall oracle when he was crowned with the holie Ghost This is my welbeloued sinne in whom I am well pleased that is Matth. 3.17 I am not pleased in the Prophets in any holie men or women not in thee nor in thy people O my seruant Iohn Baptist nor in this water of Iorden but in him I am well pleased euen for all other that beleeue in his name 1. Iohn 2.1.2 of him saith Iohn If any sinne we haue an aduocate with the father and he is the propitiation for our sinnes Act. 4.12 There is no saluation in any other no name vnder heauen by which we may be saued no name neither of person as Angels or Saints nor yet of other creature as Water Bread or Wine This I neede not to stande vpon among Christians the meanes of application to vs must bee thought vpon rather which is by faith vnfained which maketh the questioning of a good conscience towards God here a good conscience well examined is mentioned But to Timothie and to the Hebrues it is thus expressed vnto Timothie thus 1. Tim. 1.5 * The end of the commandement is loue out of a pure hart from a good conscience and faith vnfained Againe to the Hebrues thus Heb. 10.22 * Let vs draw neere with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an euill conscience Then what sanctifieth the conscience faith Now a good conscience is here described to bee such an one that maketh such an enquirie into it selfe by straight examination as in Gods presence examination of a good conscience to God-ward tho men mislike So that that is not an ill conscience that sinneth for then who is free but that which suffereth sinne to lie vpon it selfe vnexamined that flattereth it selfe that bolstereth sinne in it selfe and others Paul would bee one among them that stoned Steuen Act. 7.58 Act. 22.20 at least he would keepe their garments if it should come to voyces he would giue a voyce Act. 9.1.2.3 yea he put himselfe to paine to molest men women that loued the trueth Act. 23.1 Act. 24.16 and yet when he had beleeued in Iesus Christ he professed before the Councell that he had serued GOD in a good conscience Therefore that is not an euill conscience alwaies that hath been defiled but that which lyes in the defilement For if thou risest from sinne this rising sitting at the right hand of God this ascension this subduing of heauenly powers are for seruiceablenes vnto thee they bee as a bunch tyed together to besprinkle thine heart Thou art cleane euen as Dauid professeth of himselfe after he had been bathed in pleasure and been dyed red as scarlet in the bloud of Vrias that if God wash him Psalm 51.7 bloud it selfe and adulterie shall bee as cleane washt off as though they had neuer been A man so scoured shal be as white as snowe in his cleanenes from the clowdes a man so spotted shall bee as cleare as the picked the smooth and cleare transparent glasse when the sunne beames do shine vpon it Yea but some wil say though with God it bee so that my sinnes bee taken away Psalm 51.3 yet my sinne is alwaies before me it runnes in my mind I can haue no rest for it Yet againe remember as the scripture sayth 1. Ioh. 3.20 Though thy heart condemne thee yet this Christ so rising so ascending so sitting in glorie that Angels that do homage vnto him euen as he is man is greater then thy condemning heart to saue thee And therefore beloued to the man or woman whom sinne or sathan hath deceiued his owne flesh or the world I say let not sinne lye vnexamined vnquestioned with neuer examining the hart and raines but rather still as sinne stealeth vpon thee search it out as with tents wee search the bottome of our sores lance the wound 1. Cor. 11.31 sit in commission vpon thy selfe cast thy selfe and damne thy selfe and thou shalt bee saued if thou doest thus thou hast the right vse of Baptisme of the Supper of the Word of Prayer and all the good that can come to a man by Christes death resurrection ascension sitting in glorie and power ouer Angels thou shalt stop the mouth of Sathan Apoc. 12.10 He is an accuser of the brethren Doe thou therfore step to God before him when sathan seeth that thou hast done so much against thy selfe by accusing thy selfe as he desired to doe he will depart confounded Lastly it appeareth that a man that beareth with his own soule in sinne or with others that winketh at it that lends thē countenance of letter cloth good word excuses colours shifts that neuer calleth himselfe to question whether he stand in state of grace in what case hee is with God being frosen in his dregges this man hath no part with Iesus in the holie citie his Baptisme washeth him not his bodie sprinkled towards men but not his conscience to God Christ rose from death he lyes still in sinne Christ sits at Gods right hand he sits vpon the seate of wickednesse Christ ascended he descendeth downward to hell Christ hath Angels vnder him he diuels aboue him The 2 part Now by the way of passage of speech to the next part euen out of this place I reason thus He that saueth vs must haue risen from death ascended into heauen sit at Gods right hande Angels also to adore him but no Angel nor holie man or woman euer did rise for vs or ascēded for vs Baptisme hath no such power to raise frō death nor hath it selfe mounted to heauen nor hath any place at Gods right hand nor do the Angels worship it Therefore no saluatiō of necessitie depēdeth vpon Baptisme though it should bee most holilie ministred The Popish Church hath two errors in it the one Concil Trid. censur Colon. in dial 7. de Sac. that sacraments by the work wrought by the receiuing of them bring grace to the receiuer vnles some enormous sinne be vpon him which they tearme mortall Another that children infants innocents if

12.17 in euery house a dead childe to fall dead from a windowe as Eutichus to sicken in the field and die at home presently as the woman of Sareptaes childe especially if it enioy not the next morning sunne as Ionas shade especially if it dye as Dauids child did before circūcisiō so it before baptisme the former ioy doubleth the grief sillie leauened people lift vp their voice as Agar did for hers Gen. 21.19 in a gentiles distrust as a people without hope 1. Thess 4.13 as though their babe were Ismael of Aegypt not of the Israell of God as though they were Agar of Sina engendring vnto bondage not of Sion bearing childrē vnto God moning there is no water they blame not thēselues that they keep not houres with God and his Church in regarde of gossips and outward complement breaking out as the Sareptane 1. King 17.18 O thou man of God what haue I to doe with thee Would to God they would thinke also with that good woman God in my childe brings my sinnes to remembrance that departure of children might cause departure from iniquitie For many take on piteously with God and man if their children misse Baptisme but take no care if they miscarie their owne Baptisme Math. 28.19 forgetting the fellowship of the blessed Trinitie into which they were baptized so that the water of Baptisme is not the sweet water of life vnto life Act. 8.23 but Marah as in Simon Magus A gall of bitternes still in him Christ should dissolue the workes of the diuell 1. Ioh. 3.8 but a bond of iniquitie in him still To such it should bee fearefull in their eares which is written The children which yee sayd should bee a praye Deut. 1.19 and your sonnes daughters which haue no knowledge between good and euill they shall possesse mine inheritance but as for you Numb 14.32 Your carkeises shall fall in the desart Where is he that hath Dauids hart a man after Gods owne hart he moned for feare of death 2. Sam. ● but neuer moued to haue respite of life for circumcision which no doubt he would if it had beene so daungerous to haue dyed without it at least where is the mouth of Iob Blessed be the Lord that gaue mee children blessed bee the Lord that tooke away my children blessed is he in giuing blessed in taking away and blessed in the manner though strange of him it is sayd Iob. 1.21.22 Hee sinned not with his mouth nor charged God foolishly But thy child is thine Image and thy shadow and behold as Ionas shade it vanished from thee in a night it vanished before thou well lookedst vpon the face of it howe pitifull a thing Ionas 4 11. But the pitifull God telleth him and thee also that hee pitieth little ones that cannot discerne betweene right hands and left euen to the number of six score thousand in one citie and that in Ashur and Niniueh and is his compassion shut vp from the seede of Christians Yea but if it had beene sprinkled with water of Baptisme Iohn 5.7 When the bedridden man for 38. yeares had none to helpe him into the souereigne water Christ healed him without water saying vers 17. Though the Angell moue not alwaies the water vers 4. but at times yet saith he My Father still worketh and I also work And though the spring of Baptisme should sometime be dammed vp it followeth not infants to bee damned for as Christ said to his Disciples Gen. 21.19 Ioh. 4.32 I haue meate that you know not of so the Angell telleth Agar and all mothers of water that she seeth not and Christ here telleth of saluation which the Angell and the water wrought not Thou missest thy children in thine armes beholde they are in the hand of God they are pluckt from thy brests but are in Abrahams bosome not in thy cradle below but in the throne of immortalitie aboue How oft is it seene amōg men that friendes take a babe from a weake mother a daughter a nurse and bring it vp for their owne Exod. 2.10 as Pharaos daughter did Moses so that the parents peraduenture neuer see it or not till long after What else doth God when he taketh the childe from the wombe or breast to haue it nursed in heauen lost it should haue ill bringing vp here A conflict with such dispositions vpon a like sodaine accident made mee gather against the next Lords day these remembrances touching this argument which nowe I haue more perfectly recognized Then it bred such alteration in their apprehensions and opiniōs that heard it that as once they who sayd of Paul Act. 28.4 hee was a murderer as if some should say infancieida when they sawe the reuealed glorie of God they changed their mindes These also are a holy seede Luk. 15.31 The childe that was dead to mee is aliue he that was lost is found blaming themselues as Dauid Psal 73.23 so foolish were wee euen as beastes vntill wee wēt into the sāctuary of God where we vnderstood the end euē of these little ones Math. 9. The Lord of the haruest giue blessing to this according to the riches of his glorious wisedome and teach vs to abound not with captious knowledge which by scanninges descantings comparings puffeth vp 1. Cor 8.1 But to abounde with loue which buildeth vs vp to one heade ouer all euen the Lord Jesus to whom be ascribed saluation for euer A SERMON PROOVING THAT THE VNBAPTIZED PREVENTED BY DEATH may be Gods children and by his election may be saued THE TEXT 1. Pet. 3.21 To this Arke of Noah the figure also that now saueth vs euen Baptisme agreeth not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the questioning of a good conscience to God by the resurrection of Iesus Christ. 22. Who is at the right hand of God gone into Heauen to whome the Angels and powers and principalities are subiect THis Scripture as touching my purpose at this time openeth the meanes of our saluation and that two waies touching GOD in Christ touching vs. Touching god in Christ who is the cause of it the supreme and soueraigne cause of it the cause of causes euen Christ the alone cause of our saluation The meanes of performing and purchasing it are set downe by foure actions the first his rising from the dead the second his sitting at the right hand of God thirdly his ascending into heauen fourthly his subiecting of Angels vnto him The conditiō on our part is two-fold outward the element of water in Baptisme inwarde the questioning of a good conscience to God Of the type Noahs Arke and the complement of it in the correspondence of Baptisme vnto it elsewhere hath been at large handled Now further I obserue affirmatiuely what saueth Namely Christ apprehended by faith from a good conscience as being risen ascended sitting at Gods right hand subduing Angels and all for thy