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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

God receiueth into couenant and then sealeth Men possesse their cattel and instruments and then marke them they chuse and leuie souldiers then giue them prest money And yet as with a good landlord the right of my tenement ceaseth not hauing the promise of a faithfull man though the father should die without sealing vnto mee seeing an honest sonne commeth in place who will be a seale vnto his fathers words so though GOD the father should preuent vs of baptisme yet in that he hath promised a state of life to me and mine in his sonne hee will seale it to vs for him hath the father * Ioh. 6.27 sealed An honest souldier will venture his life in the battailes of the lord though hee had not his prest money The clayme of the owner is good though no actuall marke should bee vpon his good This is the marke of Gods children Beza confes c. 4. s 48. de bapt infant Chytreus Bern. ser 66. in Cant. Au l. 1. de peccat meritis Pet Martyr lo. com clas 4. c. 8. sect 7. Zuinglius de Baptismo pag. 68. tom 2. The Lorde knoweth who are his Nowe if children in the wombe as Iohn Baptist or before baptisme and in their infancie haue faith as diuers think or haue the spirit of God as others seeing they are partes of the Church as woe all professe and members of the body of Christ as wee all say howe can they perish none can take his sheepe nay not the least lambe of a day olde Iohn 10.29 nay not yet eaned nor brought into the world out of his hande though Sathan should stande by to deuoure it vpon the verie birth Apoc. 12.4.5 as he did once for the child the verie sonne of God which was taken vp to Gods throne And why may it not be that as in earthly paradise so in the heauenly Church Gen. 1.11.12 As there are some trees and hearbes seeding some budding some bearing fruite so in the heauenly paradise on earth the Church some of Gods seruants in the wombe some budding out some new washt as it were from the pooles If the first Adam could bring an euerlasting taint vpon them shal not the baptisme and death of the second Adam wipe it out The infant cannot reason yet it hath the seed of reason as it hath a soule though it know not so much of it selfe Thus some argue May it not haue faith shed in the heart of it Ephe. 3.17 for who can tell how God dwelleth in the heart of the elect Rom. 8.9 He that hath not the spirit of God is none of his Is not this the glorious impression and stampe of that heauenly seale that the child is assumpted into the association and fellowship of the blessed Trinitie Matth. 28.19 into whose name it is baptized Childrē must come to Christ Mark 10.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as Luk. 18.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What children Little ones they that are come to little reason but that they abuse in trifling yet theirs is the kingdome of God If theirs be the kingdom of God then are they cleane Apoc. 21.27 for no vncleane thing maye come in his pure sight Now what maketh cleane but faith and Gods spirite their hearts being purified alike by faith Act. 15.9 The working of Gods spirite is like the insensible pearcing of the winde Ioh. 5.8 which getteth in no man knoweth how And may it not get in into the hearts of little children if their children bee holie who can sanctifie them but the sanctifier 1. Cor. 6 11. why may not Gods spirite his winde get into them and if they bee sanctified then not damned Wherefore these speeches of the childe vnbaptized It is an heathen an infidell it is damned I would not haue my child in the like case for millions are speeches indeede heathenish full of infidelitie of rash iudgement vncharitablenes not onely by damnatorie speeches against the dead but against the liuing God that hath taken them away as he would Doth not the spirit speake better things Luk. 6.37 Iudge not and thou shalt not be iudged condemne not and thou shalt not be condemned nay acquite assoyle deliuer and thou shalt haue a measure of such mercifull construction measured vnto thee not as thou vsest to doe sparingly streight by the brimmes of the measure but with a measure pressed downe shaken together and running ouer And yet Protestants speake so So naturall a thing is Poperie so quickly doe wee drinke in error before wee bee taught it Ephe. 4.20 Haue we so learned Christ are his lawes so ful of ruefulnes Of Draco the lawgiuer it is written that al his lawes were death death if thou doe this death if thou doe not that still the fatall noyse of death ended the lawe Therefore they note the pen to drop crueltie the inke and writing to bee bloud But Christ is no Draco a Dragon Ioh. 1.29 He is a lambe that takes away the sinnes of the whole world a world of sinnes much more this lambe of God to heale these little lābes of his flocke His lawes are not lawes of Draco they speake peace Heb. 12.24 his bloud crieth better things then the bloud of Abel for that crieth vengeance vpon Cayne his brother Gen. 4.10 But Christs bloud crieth with a strong voyce as of a mightie Angel my bloud for all bloud Rom. 5.10 my bodie for all sinne euen of mine enemies This were to make Christ an Herode for Herode sent out his men of warre to sley and murder most butcherly infants from two yeares old downward Matth 2.16 among whom were some vncircumcised then Rachel in Rama lifts vp bitter voyces of lamentation no cōfort they are not Indeede if Christ were not a Herauld of peace rather then a Herod and that hee sent out his messengers of warre as death and graue to deuoure the diuell and hell to damne the vnbaptized then indeede might Rachel lift vp her voyce put on her mourning weede then euery mother and father sister and brother might howle and weepe and answere one an other with dolefull ecchoes and remediles complaints no comfort no consolation because they are not nay because they are that is they are in endles sorowe for better it were not to bee at all But blessed bee God who hath sealed a better couenant Gen. 17.7 With thee and thy seede I make my couenant blessed bee God who hath cleared our comfort 1. Cor. 7.11.14 Esay 9.6 Your children are holy Blessed be God that concerning the childe borne in Esai hath caused heauen and earth to heare a better melodie from an armie of heauenly souldiers Luk. 2.14 Glorie to God on high peace on earth belowe good will towards men Doe I speake this alone doe not likewise the generall voyce and language of Canaan Nehe. 13.24 Esay 19.18 I meane the Israel of God speake so

in parents and friends as in these two last cases or when parents and minister and all are willing death creepeth in and preuenteth both Such occurrents may bee matter of meditation to parents and Ministers and the whole people of the suddennes of death of the vncertaine ioy and stay of posteritie that he suffereth vs to beget but not to possesse to haue a sight of our babes and then suddenly taketh them to himselfe of Gods almightines that he doth what he will and that sometimes hee saueth with meanes sometimes without meanes as sometimes damneth with meanes sometimes without meanes but yet not so that any of these accidents ouerthrow the election of God What then establisheth the substance of Baptisme what ouerthroweth it Here wee must consider the institution Matth. 28. Goe Who The Minister Do what baptize that is powre on the water or dippe it in water Whom all nations that is men not bels c. How not in the name of the water or power of it or any other name in heauen or earth but of the blessed Trinitie So that a Midwife to baptize or a priuate man to whom it was neuer sayd Goe and baptize likewise to vse sande as sometime hath bin or some other licour * As oyle and water by Haeret I●●n ib. 1. cap. 18. also to applie it to bels then forsooth Bishops alone must do it as the Papists vse and lastly not to doe it in the name power and vertue of the Trinitie I take it to bee the violating of the Lords institution in which kinds wee ought to refuse it But if other circumstances onely be annexed or not accompanie it Eccle. 7.31 as it may be truly sayd of this sacrament God made it simple and righteous and vncompounde but man founde out many inuentions these things may a little exercise our zeale and faith and patience but they cannot abridge the counsel of God in thee and thine and therefore if thou maist haue it without the additamentes of men the better it is if not yet the seale of God remaineth sure they shall beare their iniquitie of stubble so meane a matter built vpon so good a foundation that haue brought it vp or maintaine it vntil God purge them by his triall of fire as in the worde so in the sacrament * 1. Cor. 3.15 when as the stubble shall vanish but the good foundation shall saue them Doe thou as much as thou canst communicate with God in his institution for as we are to desire not onely the milke of the worde 1. Peter 2.2 but the syncere milke of it so in the Lords seale wee ought rather to take his engrauing alone then any characters of man And to drawe to an ende I would not onely haue men peremptorie for the Sacrament but for the word also which is the life of the Sacrament what is water without the worde but water therefore if the neglect or the contempt of the Sacrament bee a sinne is not the despising of the word and neglect of it a sinne also because many are wonderfull passionate The necessitie of the word to be thought on as of Baptisme if God himselfe preuent of Baptisme but themselues for themselues and others are nothing compassionate making no care nor conscience of their assiduitie and diligence to heare the word Surely the worde hath saued without Baptisme but baptisme without the worde neuer Ioh. 15.3 You are cleane because of the word and that you may knowe the words despising hath power to damne also consider what the scripture saith Ioh. 12.48 The word shall iudge you and againe Hee that despiseth the worde his prayer is abominable Prou. 28.9 and againe Math. 10.40 He that reiecteth the Preacher reiecteth him that sent him which is the Lord and againe Faith commeth by hearing Rom. 10.14 Rom. 14.23 which faith alone pleaseth GOD. Christ Math. 23.16 calles the Pharisees blind guides fooles and blind because they counted it sinne to sweare by the gold of the Temple but by the Temple to sweare was nothing so to sweare by the Aultar nothing but by the offering vpon the Aultar a sinne Now fooles and blind which is greater gold or Temple Altar or offering For the Temple conteineth God that dwelleth in it the Altar that is God worshipped at it So let the despisers of the word either vanish wonder Act. 13.31 for Gods work vpon their blindnes that can see a mote of contempt in Baptisme and not the beame of contempt in the worde or else acknowledge their blindnes Baptisme is as gold it is as a holy offering but yet the word sanctifieth it and if it be not offered as it were vpon the holy Altar of the word this golde becommeth drosse because there wanteth Gods word as fire to trie it though it bee the offering of the fruite of thy body thine owne flesh to the Lorde yet vnles thou doe it as the Lord hath commanded there is a sauour of death in it and not of life The propo●tion must be kept Leuit. 17.4 In sacrifices disobedience is as murder and why not in sacraments Wherefore beloued let vs not despise Baptisme let vs not despise the word Baptisme is good and holy and comfortable with the word the word is wholsome and comfortable in his place with Baptisme and without it let vs get a spirite of discerning spirits to distinguish betweene outward washing and inwarde betweene the leauen of poperie who sowre the sweete water of baptisme make it Marah let vs rather season it with casting in some part of the tree of life 2. King 2.21 as Eliza did to the waters of Iericho and healed the land from vntimely birth Let vs preserue a good consciēce by communing with our hearts dayly examined so shal neither we nor our church haue vntimely birth for saluation as they had in Iericho so shall not Baptisme be vnfruitfull to vs but be laden with all the benefites of Christs resurrection ascension glorie at Gods right hand and dominions ouer Angels and then neither death nor life Baptisme nor not Baptisme neither things past present nor to come shall separate vs from the loue of Iesus Christ Rom. 8.38 which shal bring vs vnto God Errata In the epistle to the reader page 4. line 27. for insancicida reade infanticida p. 45. l. 18. for Secondly r. Seuenthly p. 59. l. 17. for that is God r. God that●s