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A93239	Infant-baptism and church-membership proved: and also the mode of baptism to be by sprinkling &c. In answer to Mr. Benjamin Dennie's book. By Giles Shute of Limehouse.	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3708; ESTC R231568	45,328	72

as Circumcision was the door of entrance to all the Members of the former even so Baptism is now the door of entrance to all the Members of the latter Thus you see all the Arguments to prove the contrary are confuted notwithstanding Mr. D's saying that the male children of Abraham's natural Posterity were only to be circumcised and his wondering that from this Covenant should be devolved a Right on the Gentile Church to baptize their Children both males and females is brought to nought 6. And lastly I shall humbly offer some Reasons why the male children were to be circumcised and not the females 1. It was to praefigurate the death and sufferings of Christ who was given for a Covenant of the People and was to be cut off and die for the Sins of his People Therefore as St. Paul saith in another case Was Paul crucified so say in this viz. Was a female to be crucified for the sins of the People I think there are none but will deny that 2. This also was the reason why the Paschal Lamb for Sacrifice must be a male of the flock without blemish and not a female which did likewise praefigurate Christ's Incarnation and Crucifiction For 1. He must be a man and not a woman 2. He must be a man without sin 3. He must be taken out of the flock of God namely the Tribe of Judah 4. And lastly He must be offered up without spot to God for the sins of his People 1 Cor. 5.7 Therefore for these Reasons the male children were circumcised and not the female But yet notwithstanding the female seed of Abraham were as much in the Covenant of Grace and shared as much in the Redeeming Love of Christ as ever the male children of Abraham did 3. The Token of the Covenant was and still is to be on the flesh because all flesh had corrupted its way therefore nothing short of the death and sufferings of Christ could appease the Wrath of God and reconcile him unto us and retrieve us from that lost and condemned state of sin and misery into which the Fall of Adam had involv'd us But Christs Deity did not suffer for it was impossible it was only the Humane Nature of Christ that suffered and was cut off but not for himself but for the sins of the People Dan. 9. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off There was the Antitype or end of Circumcision for he suffered both in body and soul Isa 53.11 His soul was made an offering for sin Thus I have proved That the female seed of Abraham were interessed in the Token of the Covenant as well as the males and so are all the seed of Believers now and have all a Right to the Ordinance of Water-baptism the successive Token of the Covenant of Grace For as Circumcision of the Heart and Baptism of the Holy Ghost both signifieth one and the same thing even so Circumcision in the Letter and Baptism with Water signifieth one and the same thing namely Regeneration and Sanctification by the death merits and Spirit of Christ 3. Mr. D. hath positively asserted That the Covenant God established with Abrahnm and his Seed was a Covenant of peculiarity viz. a Covenant made peculiarly with Abraham and 〈◊〉 Natural posterity but this I shall make appear to be a very gross mistake for several Reasons 1. Because it was not a new made Covenant with Abraham which never had a being before as appeareth by the very words in Gods Declaration to Abraham viz. for thus saith the Lord And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee c. Though it is true that it was new to Abraham and his seed because they were never in it before 2. This Covenant which God calls my covenant which he established with Abraham and his seed is the same which God made first with Adam and his seed after the Fall Gen. 3.15 and secondly it 's the same which God established with Noah and his seed after the Floud for God used the very same frame of Speech with Noah as he did with Abraham as you may see Gen. 9.9 And I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you That was with Noah and his Houshold and their Posterity Gen. 7.17 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee 1. Behold I establish my covenant c. 2. And I will establish my covenant c. What difference is there between these Two establishments of the Covenant Even none at all Then it must be one and the same Covenant nay God telleth us so for both to the one and to the other God calls it emphatically my covenant So it was not a Covenant made peculiarly to Abraham and his natural posterity 2. Let us address our selves to Gods frame of Speech concerning the Tokens of the one and of the other 1. In Gen. 9.12 And God said This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you That was Noah and his Houshold 2. In Gen. 17.11 And ye shall circumcise th● flesh of your fore-skin and it shall be a token of 〈◊〉 covenant betwixt me and you But it may be Objected What congruity or agreement is there between these two Tokens of the Covenant to the Rain-bow and Circumcision Why there is a very sweet agreement between them both 〈◊〉 in effect it 's one and the same for they are bo●● Tokens of God's Love and Grace primarily an● especially unto his own covenanting people 3. Persons may as well say That the Rain-bow is the Covenant as to say that Circumcision is the Covenant being both but Tokens thereof 4. The Covenant of Grace had its beginning at the Fall of Adam for had our First Parent stood in their primitive state of innocency the● would have been no room for the Exercise o● Grace and Mercy for misery in a sense may be said to beget Grace and Mercy for in Gen. 3. ● there came in all our misery and in verse 15 there came in Gods free preventing Grace a● Mercy which is his Darling Attribute for Mercy is his delight 5. The Covenant of Grace ran down in a ●neal Descent from Adam and his posterity 〈◊〉 Noah and his and took in Job Melchizedec Eli●● and Abraham Isaac and Jacob Moses Dav●● and all the Patriarches and last of all it ●●volved upon the Gospelized Gentiles and all th● posterity and this only is the Covenant of Grace for was it not great Grace that God should 〈◊〉 only spare Man when he first broke out into ope● Rebellion against him but found out a Ranso● for him 6. All those that are or have been or may be in the Covenant of Grace are not nor new may be in the Covenant of Redemption but a● that are in the Covenant of Redemption 〈◊〉 go through the Covenant of Grace to Glory 7. All the Elect of God are in the

Ceremonial Law for immersion or dipping in baptism otherwise let them cease from such an unwarrantable practice 2. In the Second place Let us observe how excellently the Apostles have conjoined and applyed those Heavenly things in the Gospel new Dispensation their proper center 1. In Heb. 9. For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heiser sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh Here is Sprinkling and Sanctification joined together 2. In Heb. 10. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Here is Sprinkling and Washing joined together 3. In Heb. 11. Through faith he kept the passever and sprinkling of blood Here is the Passover and Sprinkling of blood joined together the one a Type or Pattern of the Lords-supper and the other of Baptism the two Seals of the Covenant and both pointing to the Death and Sufferings of Jesus Christ the Essential Covenant and also Regeneration and Sanctification as Baptism and the Lords-supper most compatibly do 4. In Heb. 12. And to Jesus the mediatour of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling Here the Covenant of Grace under the new Dispensation of the Gospel and Sprinkling are joined together namely Baptism the Seal or Token thereof 5. And lastly Here is the Foundation of all these Sprinklings clearly explained by the Apostle St. Peter in these Words in 1 Pet. 1.2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ Here is the Covenant and Sprinkling the blood of the Covenant joined together namely the blood of Christ And what God hath joined together let not proud carnal Reason part asunder Thus you see I have clearly proved from the Ceremonial Law That baptism is by sprinkling and pouring water on the subjects baptized for nothing can be the Antitype of all these Sprinklings but this Heavenly Thing namely the Sacrament of Water-baptism Therefore baptism cannot be by dipping because there is no Example or Pattern for it among all the Ceremonies for if it had been one of the Heavenly Things then there must have been a Pattern for it but there is none as I know of unless it be those two which are not of the Heavenly Things here mentioned but a Dispensation of Wrath from Heaven namely the drowning the old ungodly World and proud Pharaoh and all his Host they were all immersed or dipped and drowned Therefore dipping in baptism is of the Earth and but a humane Invention Now to bring things nearer home still Wha● did all these Sprinklings with blood and water signifie under the Mosaick Dispensation which are brought down into the New Testament and applied by the Apostle 1. As they were Examples and Patterns of Water-baptism so they pointed unto the same things as Water-baptism doth viz. Regeneration and Sanctification both which we have in John 3. Jesus answered Verily verily I say unto thee Excep● a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cann●● enter into the kingdom of God 2. Sprinkling under the Ceremonial Law is baptism under the Gospel for they both point at one and the same thing namely the Death and Sufferings of Jesus Christ without which there had been no Regeneration or Sanctification for without shedding of blood there could have been no Remission of sins 1. Sprinklings under the Law pointed forward to the Death of Christ to shew that he was to come and suffer 2. Baptism under the Gospel points upward to shew that Christ is come and hath suffered and is ascended though baptism was instituted before Christ's Sufferings just as things are spoken in the present Tense for the future as concerning Christ's birth and nativity in Isa 9.6 For unto us a child is born Christ came by water and blood 1 John 5.6 For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5.7 Therefore Christ called his own Sufferings his baptism That is calling the thing it self by the name of that which represents it And Christ was really circumcised and also baptized both which pourtrayed his Death and Sufferings Col. 2.13 14. Thus you see how the Ceremonial Law and the new Dispensation of the Gospel were related one to the other the Ceremonial Law was a Shadow of the Image of Christ in his Ordinances And in the Gospel-Ordinances those Heavenly Things the Image of Christ himself is held forth unto us Heb. 10. For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things 5. Those that are baptized by the Holy Ghost are not said to be dipped into the Holy Ghost but the Graces of the holy Spirit are poured out upon them and shed abroad in their Hearts Isa 44.3 Joel 2.28 Acts 2.18 Thus you may see that I have proved from the Ceremonial Law that baptism is by sprinkling and not by dipping 6. And lastly I shall add one Scripture more to corroborate that which hath been said touching the mode of baptism which is that famous Text in 1 Pet. 3. When once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water The like figure whereunto baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ Here are several things of great note in this Text of Scripture 1. Here is the twofold patience of God first he waited patiently on the old ungodly World for their Repentance 2. His patience in waiting on Noah until he had prepared the Ark for the saving himself and his Houshold 3. Here is the fewness of the Number of these which were saved among the many Thousands of Families of the Earth viz. but eight persons and they were saved by water that which was a most dreadful dispensation of Gods Wrath to the old ungodly World was a dispensation of distinguishing Love and Grace unto Noah and his Family for the Text telleth us they were saved by water the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us 4. Here are two things enveloped in these words First As Noah's temporal preservation and deliverance in and by the Ark was typical of eternal Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ the Ark of Gods Covenant so is baptism also 5. None are eternally saved by nor for their being baptized no more than all were saved eternally that were in the Ark for if it were so then all would be saved that were are or shall be baptized for external holiness will not give them a Right to eternal Salvation nor foederal holiness neither though inherent holiness doth Pray mind the Apostles Words for saith he The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us not the putting away