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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25460	Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3218; ESTC R36639	391,570	601

initiatory Ordinance of Baptisme to extend to the Infants of Believers under the Gospel though he did to those under the Law but leaves them and hath no more to do with them then he hath to the seed of Infidels and Heathens God would not without question have left his Church in so great and necessary a point as Baptisme without instruction if it had not been his Will that the seal of the Covenant should be as large now and extend as far as it did then Let the Scriptures be searched and the Bible exactly veiwed with the most piercing eye and it shall never be able to find that Text that abridgeth or straightneth the Covenant made under the Gospel but every way shall be found at large as that under the Law which reacheth not to Abrahams person onely but also all his seed To say that the Covenant made with Abraham was onely temporal or carnal that is that Canaan should be his and Circumcision sealed that brings dishonour to the faith of Abraham and tends not to Gods honour or glory that he should onely regard his people so far as to give them a Land flowing with milke and honey and assure them of that by Circumcision but that he was their God to save them any more then he was the Aegyptians never to give them a sign seal or assurance takes away abundance of that comfort which the Heavenly-minded soul might enjoy besides it is most false for both before and after Moses we know Circumcision was given to many that never did nor never were to inherit the land of Canaan so that Circumcision was a mystical seal of Abrahams faith in God for spiritual mercies unto which ex a●n●dante by way of Augmentation the promise of the pleasant land was made he eyeing and seeking first the Kingdom of God had that kingdom of this world over and above given to him 10. Infants were typically baptized under the Law 1 Cor. 10. 2. All of Israel both small and great were baptized with the sprinkling drops or shours that fell from the cloud in their passage through the sea this denotes that all the faithful both old and young may lawfully be baptized unto Christ since the type holds forth the Antitype and the one is fulfilled by the other 1 Cor. 10.2 If it be here said that by the same Text we may give to infants the Sacrament of the supper for all of Israel did eat of the same spiritual meat and drank of the same drink it it is Answered infants shall have the Sacrament of the supper given unto them if they can finde no Text that requires any other duty to be performed by the receivers of the one then there is for the receiving of the other 11. The Apostles in their going through the world did baptize whole housholds Acts 16.15 Acts 16.33 1 Cor. 11.16 Now in Scripture the word House implies all within the family even children Gen. 30.30 As soon as Ioseph was born Iacob began to provide for his own house If children in these houses had not been baptized without doubt they had been excepted And it is most incredible in all those families there should be no woman fit to bear children but all prove barren and unfruitful which to prove were some thing a hard taske and until it be proved I may truly conclude that the children in those houses were baptized If it here be said that there is no express mention made of children in those houses we may say again and as truly that there is no express mention made of servants and in some of them not of wives it may be Answered these are included in the word houshold it may be replied children are included also the word house holding forth even them 12. The evil fruits and consequences that follow the denial of this with wise men might be an argument to maintain it As 1. The denying of Original sin the Hereticks acknowledgs that if Infants had Original sin this Sacrament were not to be denied them it being a seal of the remission of sin to hold up the one they must of necessity deny the other and so all infants born of Heathen parents are not holy just and righteous contrary to the doctrine of the Catholick faith which teacheth that by the offence of one viz of Adam judgement came upon all men to condemnation and by the disobedience of one many were sinners Rom. 5.18 19. and also to their own experience who see death fall even upon the young as well as upon the old which is the wages of sin Rom. 6.23 2. The denying of Scripture consequence the Anabaptists because they can finde no express Text for infant baptisme therefore they deny it the Bedalists upon the same reason deny the Godhead of the Holy Ghost there being no direct place in Scripture pronouncing that yea by this reason we may charge the Holy Ghost with a notorious untruth Iames 4 5. and by the same ground may deny great and glorious truths as the souls eternal condition as soon as out of the body c. there are many things darkly revealed in Scripture and not to be found but by comparing Text with Text and we finde as good consequence and grounds this way for baptizing infants and better and more sure then ever they shall be able to finde for dipping of men and women as by the argument above given may be discovered 3. It is the usual trap-dore unto all error when men begin to Apostate from truths of grand concernment they usually begin to quarrel with this denie first their own infant baptisme and then how or rather whether are they not hurried with every wind of doctrine This is a Catholick principle a foundation stone a fundamental truth Heb. 6.2 he that falls from it it will fall upon him and break him to pieces how many thousands have perished upon this in our dayes and how many souls are run into perdition by falling from all truth that at first but quarrelled at this The very final obduration and hardening of the hearts of many that but fell first from this in our dayes is an evident token that God hath branded this sin that it might appear a Capital offence against his Majesty 13. The reasons that the seducers give for their denial of this are false and insufficient and maybe reduced to three chiefly 1. Because it is said teach and baptize all nations Math. 28.19 therefore none are to be baptized say they but such as are taught which infants cannot be to which as before hath been spoken we may Answer that not teaching but make Disciples is our Saviours word baptizing and teaching them c. And it is to be wondered at that they will leave his words Why our Translators Englished that word Teach as I have no sure knowledge of it so for the present I have no purpose to han dle it Of this I am sure that our Saviour with his own mouth

or her pleasure openly expound and preach the Gospel that it was no lawfull for a Minister to have humane learning or that it was unl●wf●ll to hear such that it was and would be unlawful for Ministers to prepare themselves to preach by study that it was unlawful for a Gospel-Minister not to have some handy Trade and work in a Mechanick way for his living Ought they not since it was known to have been long used by Gods people before the Law and by his people after the Law to have told that to receive Tythes now was to deny that Christ was come in the flesh why was it not told us that the whole ●●sterity of man whether of Heathens or Christians during their Infancy are pure and holy there being no Originall sin why did not that wise Master builder lay his foundation aright and show us that to enter any into th● Church by Baptism without declaration of Faith and Repentance though born of holy parents was a sin and also if any such thing were done in the name of the holy Trinity wherein consists the essence of Baptisme with the application of the spirit which is not hindred by Infancy yet that they ought to be baptized again Why did they not inform the Church that though God was pleased to receive the Children of the Jews so far into his favour as to give them the outward sign of his Covenant with the Fathers viz. by circumcision yet would not have the Children of Christians to receive the outward sign of his Covenant with their Fathers viz. by Baptism Why did they not inform us that there were none baptized nor none should account themselves baptized except they were plunged or dipped in a River And that any member of the Church might do that why did he not tell us that it was and would be a sin for one to teach his child to say the Lords Prayer or call God father since they had no faith in Christ Why do they not shew us that to be in a place hearing his word with those that were not all holy was a great sin before God and that there should be a parity in the Church of God That no civill Magistrate hath any power at all to be command any thing to be done in the Church of God and that no Christian ought to pray in a set form and therefore that the Lords prayer was not to be used yea was as abominable unto God as Swines flesh unto a Jew as I have read some of them do however we know it is disused by them all Why was it not told us that to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was either a vain thing or an indifferent thing or to eat it with unholy persons a sinful thing and also that any one that had gifts might administer the same or that the profit of the Sacraments depended upon the goodness or holynesse of him that gave it or did administer them These with a thousand more are the Principles that our Hereticks walke and teach by and if they be true doctrine how long hath the Church been without truth and in matters of greatest concernment as Preaching the word and Sacraments Why did not the Apostles once at least encourage Christians to persevere in Holiness upon the account of Christs comming personally to Reign upon Earth and why would they not tell that it was a decent holy seemly thing to hear a woman Preach It seems strange that neither by word nor by Epistle this was made known that any man might assume the office of the Ministry unto himself though he were not outwardly called as was Aaron why would they not tell us that Ordination was but a toy and was not to continue longer then themselves But what am I doing If these be true Churches and this Doctrine true Gospel the Apostles have been faithlesse and unjust I speak it trembling for no such thing did they ever teach but the contrary we finde them often times in the Scripture handling those very points and laies down contrary conclusions particularly Heb. 5.4 speaking of Priest-hood in generall and of Christs in particular who is the high Priest of the Gospel saies no man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called as was Aaron And that Aaron had an outward call for that Office and was deputed and set apart for that function in a publick way is clear from Ex. 29. and Levit. 9. Rom. 5.12 where the Apostle handling the infectious nature of sin maintains That by one man sin entered into the World and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all had sinned viz. by the sin of that one man I can find here no exception of Infants which if true doctrine the wisedome of God would have discovered in such an apt and proper place And truly that Infants should dye having no sin since death is the wages of sin Rom. 6 23. is a Doctrine that either charges God with unjustice or St. Paul with a falshood or at least a grosse mistake Of Baptizing of Infants we shall speak in it's own place and touching receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper with a mixed Congregation in its propper season and of Dipping when we come to the Font. Touching the peoples Ordination let the Scripture be produced that gives the people power for to set apart a Lay or Mechanick or any person and to constitute him a Church-Officer in the least Let the Scripture be produced that gives a power to a multitude so to do or that approves of a mans assuming to himself the power ministerially to teach Baptize give the Sacrament of the Lords Supper show or produce me that Scripture that gives authority to a Lay-man such a one we count him that is not Ordained by an Ecclesiastick person according to Apostolicall Tradition to bind or lose to cast out of the Church by judicial Excommunication or ●o receive in by authoritative absolution I say again let any of our ●ereticks produce me that Scripture show that text and I here promise them to renounce my Ordination forsake my calling and deny my Baptisme For I am not ignorant that the whole stream of the Scripture goes smoothly in another Channel If these or any of these be Churches then the candle hath never been upon a candlestick the City hath never been upon a hil Kings have never been her Nursing Fathers nor Queens her nursing Mothers except Iohn Buckhold alias Iohn of Layden with his fifteen Wives which Iohn being a Botcherly Taylour was by a mad crew of Anabaptists despisers and otherwise opposers of all government appointed King at Munster in Germany An 1534. where wearing Royall Robes of Embroidered work Spurs of gold Scabbards of gold and two Crowns of gold he had his Chancellours Cup-beares Carvers one holding up the holy Bible and another a naked Sword the handle whereof glistered with gold and pretious stones went before his Botcherly Majesty