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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for Austen it is true that hee in the matter of the sacraments necessitie yea in both of them made it an exigence of necessitie both to be performed so that as vpon this place he groundeth though falsly as vpon a foundation of water the necessitie of Baptisme so vpon the next place Ioh. 6.53 Vnles ye eate the flesh of the Son of man and drinke his blood yee haue no life in you Not only hee but Innocentius al that age almost ground a necessitie of the Supper insomuch that they gaue it to infants contrary to the rule of Paul Let a maÌ„ examine him selfe c. the meaning of this place which is of the spirituall receiuing of Christ and incorporating into him by the spirite in generall and in particular by the meanes of the spirite working in the worde in Baptisme or in the Supper or in whatsoeuer Fitly is it sayd to this purpose by Saint Hierome in Psalm 147. When we heare the worde of the Lorde the flesh of Christ and his bloud is powred in at our eares Let vs now come to the vse The third and last part comfort ende and necessitie of Baptisme which though it be not absolutely simply necessarie yet in his due place and time if it may bee had according to Christs institution cannot bee neglected without great sinne For herein of diuers men there are diuers extremities as of the most of the Papists who make it absolutely necessarie so of the Manichees on the other side who generally cut off al signes Aug. in Faustum lib. 19. because they making God not to be the author of these sensible and earthly things thereupon inferred that the worship by these earthly things could not bee gratefull to him So the Cathatists who because God is a spirit and men must worship him in spirit reiected all helpe of earthly meanes And last of all Aug. haer 88. the Pelagians who because they exempt men from originall sinne doe thinke Baptisme needles to purge that which is not wherein you may first see the notable wilfull and spitefull malice of the Rhemists who in Iohn 3.5 ioyne the Caluinists and Pelagians together as both promising alike life eternall to children dying without Baptisme when as they differ as hell and heauen in the causes of saluation For Caluin acknowledgeth children to bee vnder originall sinne Pelagius did not yet Caluin thinketh not the elect of God to perish if in some case they bee preuented of outward Baptisme Lastly of Anabaptists who would not haue infants baptized but them of yeares against whom at this time beside that which is sayd aboue this may be sufficient that seeing childreÌ„ haue sin they ought to be washed and seeing they belong vnto GOD they ought to bee sealed As for the Manichees seeing wee acknowledge the same Lord Creator of heauen and earth one God maker of both the same almightie and most holie spirite to haue made the greatest Angell and most despised worme and that hee made al things good and to a most excellent end that therefore both against them and the Catharists 1. Tim. 4.8 though it be true that bodily exercise profiteth little as washing by water taking of bread and wine much reading much repeating of prayer much hearing and sitting by it to heare much preaching also vnles the spirit also concurre and our inwarde desire yet as God made bodie and spirit and therefore must be glorified in both so seeing he made both visible and inuisible things both spirituall and corporall things both serue for his glorie both are helpers of our faith if first wee remember that we vse them when wee haue the expresse word of God for them As because the Lorde biddeth vs baptize with water therefore in doing so we build vpon the rocke and we thinke wee should tempt GOD if when he should teach vs the washing away of our sinnes in Christ by the powring on of water wee should refuse such a comfortable and liuely representation and deserue to heare the check that K. Achaz had Esai 7.11.12 who being in weaknesse of faith when Ierusalem was besieged would not aske a signe when the offer was made in Christ but was reproued as one not that despised the minister and bringer of the signe but had grieued the God of the minister and author of that signe Is it a small thing to grieue men Esay 7.11 but you must also grieue my God sayth Esay The defeating of Baptisme seemeth to come three waies one by open contempt and despising of Gods wisdome in it Heathenish and prophane men cannot tell what to make of the sprinkling of water nor of the blessing of it in the name of the blessed trinitie as the Infidels and Atheists and Paynims doe vnto this day being ignorant that Christ Matth. 28. when he ordained Baptisme sayd Al power in heauen and earth is giuen vnto me goe and baptize I am with you for euer So that here is not naked water or the bare clemeÌ„t or a few words repeated but here is the power of God with it his wisedome to establish it his constancie to auowe it his holines to sanctifie it his mercie to blesse it so that as an odde thing or new thing they which despise it despise not maÌ„s aduise but Gods counsel against them selues Luk. 7.30 as did the Pharisies And hee that will not followe Gods counsell how shall he thriue though all the heads in the world should deuise for him Another disappoyntmeÌ„t of Baptisme commeth by negligence as in the people of Israel intermitting circumcision for 40. yeares Exod. 4.24 as in Moses who no doubt acknowledged Gods ordinance for circumcision and yet either hauing learned Aegyptian or Midianitish manners or to please his wife deferred to do it so that God had like to destroyed him in the Inne for it Which I would haue parents consider that defer their childrens baptisme from Lords day to Lords day and from one time of assemblie to another for no end but to get such and such witnesses such and such furniture of their houses and such other complement and outward circumstances till death strike their children which sinne though the Lord may remit theÌ„ yet their comfort cannot be so great as if they had taken the due time which the Lord offered them seeing by their meanes it commeth to passe wheÌ„ Minister and place and time and all did concurre they only were wanting by the sinne of omission which thing gouernours Ecclesiastical are to looke vnto lest that if euery man by this example should defer if death should intercept Anabaptistrie might creepe in and scarse any child be baptized The Primitiue Church suffered them to want an honourable buriall Concil 1. Braccar who deferred their baptisme Of the third defeatement of Baptisme by vnauoydable necessitie wee haue spoken at large when either the child is preuented by death in the wombe or out of the wombe either by negligence or contempt

the childe before that time no disparagement to saluation Lombard l. 4. sent dist 2. ca. si vero Indeed Lombard the maister of the senteÌ„ces that is of the senteÌ„tious positiue diuinitie out of whom they gather their tenents coÌ„clusions giueth daÌ„natory sentence vpoÌ„ infants that die without circumcision as vpon theÌ„ that dye without baptisme But here he is noted with a blacke coaâ—e of dislike None commonly holde with master Lombard in this Magister hic non tenetur onely our countrieman Beda thinking that verie hard doth labour to salue qualifie it thus that in time of necessitie of death they circumcised peraduenture before the 8. day without offence But who dare pluck vp the stakes of the time appointed by God Quaest 3 de Baptismo or remoue them It is but a fancie The Iesuites in their controuersies yeeld the infants of the Iewes that were preuented by death before the 8. day to bee saued because they say God set downe this time Whereas the libertie that it is arbitrary to the church when to administer baptisme so no neglect bee of that holy seale argueth rather that the preuention of it should bee no more preiudiciall to the sauing of thy child vnbaptized then of it vncircumcised And the other reason which the Iesuits giue why Iewish infants might bee saued without circumcision namely that the parents prayers and offeringes might bee a remedie to succour them will serue for the infants vnbaptized if they meane of prayers before death namely that the deuotion of the godly of godly parents who many times pray exercise deuotion in their hearts for their babe vnseene as Iob for his aliue Iob. 1.5 Gen. 25.22 as Rebecca went to the Lorde for the babes in the wombe that it may haue life the mother a good howre that it may proue the seruaÌ„t of God shal be as auailable for their children as the offringes of the Iewes for their vncircumcised But see the force of trueth howe great it is that it maketh stiffe aduersaries to yeeld somewhat namely that by priuiledge and dispensation infants vnbaptized may bee saued for so at last they say Gen. 15.6 But wee proue more then a speciall priuiledge Abraham before the lawe was iustified by faith Rom. 4 3. euen while hee was yet vncircumcised Iohn the baptist Luke 1.15 Iere. 1.5 in the wombe was filled with the holy Ghost Ieremie vncircumcised was sanctified from his mothers wombe so Paul vnbaptized was sanctified also froÌ„ the womb Gal. 1.15 if Moses and Ieremie had dyed without circumcision had they been damned if Iohn Baptist and Paul had dyed in the wombe had they perished God forbid where then is absolute necessitie Therefore indeede saluation dependeth vpon Gods election of olde Ephes 1.4.5 Rom. 9.21.22 when in his euerlasting counsell seeing a ruine like to come vpon all he sorted the soules of men and women some to mercie some to wrath and this election remaineth sure and vnmoueable in his church hauing this seale not that man knoweth by baptisme or not baptisme 2. Tim. 2.19 who are his absolutely but * this the Lord knoweth who are his so that indeede the holding of the necessitie of baptisme to saluation ouerthroweth Gods election destroyeth his omnipotencie and the freenes of his purpose from euerlasting Of Iacob God sayth Him I haue loued Rom. 9.13 in him is vnderstood the corps of the faithfull the communaltie of the saintes Gods loue is no fancie that want of baptisme may breake off for then it were a heauie case that the negligeÌ„ce or contempt of the parent or minister should debarre the helpeles child from the societie of saluation Esau hated of God in him is vnderstood the brood and spawne of the wicked therefore saluation dependeth vpon Gods acceptance and receiuing into fauour and not vpon the outwarde elemente of water euen ritually and formally administred for to say that water hath this power it is to deifie it to make it God to make it an Idoll to sacrifice to it and to bring vp again a Neptune a God of the water with the gentiles Therfore neither had Iacob perished if hee had died in the wombe seeing GOD spred his banner of loue ouer him neither Esau was saued because hee liued till his foreskin was done away seeing the Lord had no liking to him The scripture is rich in examples of Gods fauour before any touch of Sacraments besides these alreadie touched the children of the Hebrues also as it is charitable and probable to thinke Dauids childe Abraham Iacob Ieremie Iohn Baptist the Apostles Paul the theefe vpon the crosse whom all the scripture commendeth to leaue the vncertain as Nicodemus Ioseph of Arimathia Gamaleel c Before any sacrament receiued * Luk. 19.9 of Zacheus it is sayd This day is saluation come into thy house O Zache this day not the day of his baptisme so the * Act. 8.37 Eunuch accepted to God by faith before his baptisme so Cornelius a man that feared God before his baptisme so Lydias hart opened by the Lord Act. 10.2 by the key of the word Act. 16.14 as it were turned about by the preaching of it before baptisme so the iaylour in the same place so Mary Magdelene that was caried to sinne as if 7. diuels draue the tide with wind and saile Luk. 17.50 Her faith saued her as Christ sayth not her baptisme vnles you say shee baptized herselfe with her teares which though they were holy and precious water fit to be preserued in Gods bottle Psalm 56.8 falling from her humbled cheekes and a contrite heart which God wiped with his mercie which had many sinnes forgiuen because shee loued much yet they are not this actuall baptisme of water which wee speake of So sayth Hierome of Asella sanctified from the wombe And in deede the very vse of the Sacramentes which wee giue and afforde the elect onely as wee hope proueth a non necessitie of saluation in them and by them For why are children baptized 1. Cor. 7.11.14 because they are holy though onely one parent should beleeue howe holy and who holy how holy * Quaest 3 de bapt necess not as the Iesuits imagine holy that is legitimate no bastarde but holy because of the glorious profession of Iesus Christ because of the couenant of grace Gen. 17 7. Act 2.39 I will be thy GOD and the God of thy seede Who holy only the baptized children of the christians no it is generally and vniuersally sayd your children as likewise of the whole Iewish race it is spoken the roote being holy Rom 11.16 so are the branches And why are the growen and them of discretion baptized is it not that wee see some reason to seale vnto them Gods mercie for baptisme is a sâ—â—â—e as was circumcision Rom. 4.11 Now as among men the conditions are agreed vpon then the seale annexed so

they dye without Baptisme they are damned O cruell sentence and bloudie decree The first is refuted by that wee haue sayd alreadie that in them that haue yeares no grace commeth by the sacrament but a disgrace rather no good but euill if there bee not a good conscience towards GOD examined and washed with the fruites of Christs death and passion For here are vnderstood the workes of his humiliation as his incarnatioÌ„ dwelling in the shape of a seruant his crucifying and such like though there are touched onely foure workes of his exaltation And our Apostle sayth plainly though Noahs Arke saued yet saying that the washing of the flesh saueth not he seemeth to say gather not that outward washing saueth How then say our aduersaries that all are damned that haue not Baptisme Test Rhemis Ioh. 3. vers 5. or doe they say so No not all say they Who then and who not All infants say they that dye without Baptisme O pitifull cruell sentence whose eares will not tingle at it infants who cannot speak think or do ill the child whose flesh is scarce curded in the wombe whose bones are scarce gristled out of the wombe from the darknes of the wombe passe to the vtter darknesse for euer Thus speaketh the dragon all gored with bloud Apoc. 12.3 But doth the lambe of God say so also no doubt this lambes bloud extendeth it self euen to these little laÌ„bes and sucklings Is there no pardon from this general daÌ„natorie sentence cruell definitiue are none excepted Yes God doth accept theÌ„ as baptized who are martyred before they could be baptized Rhe. in Ioh. 5. vers 2. and they that depart this life with desire and vow of Baptisme Onely they Yea onely they who earnestly intend desire and seeke for the same that is a fewe very fewe O happie rare case of them aboue all others to be singled out vnto life What is their proofe that the vnbaptized must needs be daÌ„ned Ioh. 3. Vnles a man be borne of water and the holy Ghost This is generall euen against all whosoeuer haue not outward water and if generall why not to martyrs and the other that dye with desire of Baptisme But they can make general wheÌ„ they will Pighius Hierar eccl l. 1. c. 4. and speciall when they will euen as blasphemously they haue sayd of the Word it is a nose of waxe Linda in praef so they make the sacrament a scale of waxe But suppose a Martyr or a Christian conuerted not yet instructed in the doctrine of Baptisme as they that led the Martyrs to death seeing their patience faith zeale were suddenly conuerted and cried out Christianus sum I am a Christian and thereupon suffered with them how could they desire that they knowe not of were they damned for this Popish diuinitie maketh all damned who in their owne persons doe not earnestly intend desire and seeke for Baptisme of water euen as earnestly as the proportion of the speech carrieth it as the man desired to bee in the water Iohn 5.6.7 when it was troubled and had none to helpe him What then became of Iohn Baptist for who baptized him He indeede sayd to Christ Math. 3 14. I haue neede to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me He desired it but that is not enough seeing hee liued in a time when hee might haue had it Iohn 3.22 4.2 for Christs Disciples then baptized Or what shall wee say of the Apostles who seeme Act. 1.5 to be borne indeede of the spirit but not of the outward water except Paul or Andrewe Iohn 1.36.40 and some that were Iohns disciples to haue been baptized with the holie Ghost but not with water What dare they say of the theefe who was neither Martyr Acts 9.18 nor yet was so farre instructed to desire baptisme of water but by speciall influence of Gods sudden touch of his heart and lightening of his minde Luk. 23.42 desired to bee with Christ in his kingdome and obtained that princely paradise Last of all seeing themselues coÌ„fesse that the desire of parents or godfathers Catech. Trident as they tearme them serueth for to procure grace to children baptized who haue not the wit nor grace yet to aske it why should not the desire of parents or friends who hunger and thirst for the righteousnes of God in Baptisme for the infants to bee borne or alreadie borne and yet dying without baptisme be accepted in Gods sight Themselues for the innocents and Martyrs whom Herod tragicallie murdered in the massacre of Bethlem and yet they not baptized nor baptisme desired for them least of all this baptisme of blood which al lamented al fathers and mothers cryed out vpon themselues I say confesse these not only saued Rhe Test in Math. 2.16 but gloriously saued to bee Martyrs and solemnize their feast And thus the ground and foundation is weake their building also vpon it pauÌ„cheth In the primitiue church of the world no doubt many children dyed before the eight day vncircumcised as Dauids childe begotten in adulterie 2. Sam. 12.18 which dyed euen the seuenth day the greater griefe if it bee as they would haue it in baptisme that it came so neere the iust time and missed the seale of the couenant as it were a man escaping all shipwracke to die in the port hauen Likewise the Israelites remained vncircumcised without all desire to haue it counting it a rebuke because they learned heathenishnes of Aegypt Iosh 5.8 or kept themselues vncircumcised as meaning to returne into Aegypt Num. 14.4 Yet who dare be so peremptorie Baptisme the great Circumcision so called by Epiphanius as to pronounce damnation vpon them for looke howe baptisme answereth circumcision so the deceasing without baptisme should be by suite and proportion no worse thing then dying without circumcision Vnles a man will say that the state of the Gospell hath lesse mercy and pitie then the lawe and that it went harder with infants vnder Christ then infants vnder Moses seeing Christ also became an infant to saue and redeeme infants seeing also on them by Herod was laide the first testimonie that the world should hate the Lord Iesus euen yet as it were a babe and suckling Math. 3.16 and that vnto death Adde hereunto that seeing the Lorde appointed a set time to circumcision Gen. 17.12 which was hard and dangerous somwhat for life * Ge. 34.25 in the Sichemites who were soare for the cutting three daies and not able to defend themselues I meane the eight day and designed no certaine time to baptize that seeing it is freer for disposing of that least of all necessitie dependeth vpon it whereas if the 2 or 3. * As some in Cyp. time l. 3. cp 8. ep the 7. or 8. day had beene appointed or such like then the deferring of baptisme beyond that time had beene great offence but the departing of

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