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A42248 The grounds of infant-baptism briefly explained 1693 (1693) Wing G2138C; ESTC R222580 20,167 16

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Infancy cannot hinder the Children of Believing Parents from being a kind of Bellevers and Members of the Church when they suck their Mother's Breasts Christ plainly says Whosoever shall offend one Mat. 18.6 Luke 18. 15. Mark 9. 36. of these little ones which believe in me c. And by comparing the Evangelists it will appear that by these lettle ones which believe in Christ he means Infants such as Christ took in his arms at least he doth not exclude Infants § III. The Adversaries of Infant-Baptism express their Doctrine in these words Those who do actually profess Repentance towards God Faith in and Obedience to Their Confession of Faith p. 97. our Lord Jesus are the only proper Subjects of Baptism And for proof hereof they refer us to two Scriptures in the Margin namely Mar. 16. 16. Act. 8. 36 37. Now from these very Scriptures it is already proved That it is enough for Baptism that Persons be Believers and that the Infants of Believing Parents are a kind of Believers and therefore proper Subjects of Baptism But no Scripture declares that those only who actually profess Belief are the proper Subjects of Baptism this is plainly an addition to God's Word and therefore to be rejected § IV. Christ's Commission to his Apostles is Go ye and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Mat. 28. 19. That is Go ye and Christianize all Nations make all Nations Christians Saints Believers Disciples of Christ get them into Covenant with God through Christ and then Baptize them and solemnly enter them into the Church of Christ by the Rite of Baptism For like as Jesus made and baptized Disciples first made and then baptized Disciples so we may reasonably think that Joh. 4. 1 2. Christ's Commission to his Apostles was That they should first make all Nations Christians Saints Believers Disciples and get them into Covenant with God through Christ and then baptize them At the time when Christ gave forth this Commission the whole World was either Jews or Gentiles The generality of the Gentiles were for the present Worshippers of Idols under the Power Acts 26. 17 18. Eph. 2. 12. of Satan drowned in Ignorance Infidelity and false Religion The Jews had been long used to Circumcision the Passeover and the rest of the Old Testament-Ministry and Pedagogy too many of them were Unregenerate though Worshippers of the true God the rest who were truly Godly did yet need Instruction concerning the true Messias and that this same Jesus whom we Preach is the Christ of God the Saviour of the World the sole Mediator between God and Men foretold by the Prophets and prefigured in ancient Types and Sacrifices and that all the Old Testament-way of Worship was now to cease and give place to the New Therefore the scope and true meaning of Christ's Commission may well be thought to be this Go ye my Apostles and Ministers into all the World and Preach the Gospel to every Person capable thereof reduce them from their Ungodliness and State of Damnation to a State of Grace and Salvation make them Christians Saints Disciples Believers Members of the Church get all both Parents and Children into Covenant with the true God through Jesus Christ throw down the Middle Wall of Partition between Jew and Gentile and make both One Holy Society in Christ and having so done Baptize them and let Baptism be the Token Sign and Seal of the Covenant between God in Christ and them If then the Infants of Christian Parents be a kind of Christians Saints Believers Disciples Members of the Church in Covenant with God through Christ all which for substance denote the same thing and are convertible then by the Tenour of Christ's Commission they are to be Baptized Now the Opposers of Infant-Baptism own and declare that Their Confession of Faith p. 115 116. the Infants of Believing Parents under the Old Testament were in Covenant with God and therefore they must needs own and agree That the Infants of Believing Parents under the New Testament are no less in Covenant with God unless they can prove that God's way is not equal which they never can For certainly his way is equal as himself declares but the ways of Sinners are Ez. k. 18. 25. unequal § V. It is plain from Deut. 29. 10 11 12 13. that Little Ones together with their Parents did enter into Covenant with the God of Israel And from the time of Abraham God ordained that all his Male-Seed successively in their Generations should be Circumcised the Eighth Day by that Rite a Divine Bond and Engagement was laid upon the Infants Circumcised to be the Lord 's faithful Acts 7. 8. Gen. 17.9 10 11. Servants all their days it was a token of the Covenant between God and them And long before Circumcision even from the Beginning there were by Divine Appointment Sacrifices which were typical and symbolical of Eternal Redemption through Faith in the Death of Christ as future In those Sacrifices Believing Parents did Covenant with God Gather my saints together unto me those Psal 50. 5. that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice They did also inter their Infants into Covenant with God they did first devote and consecrate themselves to the Service of the true God and engage Themselves to him and then their Infants the resolution of every pious Parent being the same with Joshua's As for me and Jos 24. 15. my house we will serve the Lord. The mutual Oath and Covenant between the Nation of Israel and the Gibeonites did bind their whole Off-spring and Posterity Jos 9. 2 Sam. 21. which because King Saul some Hundreds of Years after did presume to violate therefore God did severely revenge the Breach thereof by Three Years Famine in the Reign of King David and would not be pacified but by the Death of Seven of Saul's Sons the Gibeonites so desiring From all which it is plain that Parents may by Authority from God lay a Divine Bond Oath and Covenant upon the Souls of their Infants which when grown up they are bound inviolably to observe § VI. There was a Covenant between God and Christ considered as Man That he should be obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross and be therefore Rewarded and Crowned with supereminent Joy and Glory in Heaven for ever The Foundation and Corner-stone of this Covenant was laid in Christ's Incarnation according to the Eternal Purpose and Fore-knowledge of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost And hereupon the Infant Jesus was Circumcised the Eighth Day in Token of the foresaid Covenant between God and that blessed Babe And about the Thirtieth Year of his Age he was Baptized by John in Jordan which was another Token and Confirmation of the same Covenant And look as Moses bore up his Heart in all his Sufferings by having respect unto