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A93044	Truth prevailing against the fiercest opposition being a vindication of Dr. Russel's True narrative of the Portsmouth disputation ... Also, a sermon upon Mat. 28. 19. by Mr. John Williams ... As also An answer to the Presbyterian dialogue, by another hand / published by Mr. John Sharp ... who was moderator at the disputation in Portsmouth.	Sharp, John, of Froome, Somersetshire.; Williams, John, minister.	1700 (1700)	Wing S3005; ESTC R217599	120,924	184

that were admitted to Church-membership and Circumcision under the Law then Children are losers by the coming of Christ in respect of outward Privileges To this I answer 1. If this be granted where shall the ●lame be laid It was the Pleasure of God under the Legal Administration that Children should enjoy these Privileges ●nd it 's the Pleasure of God under the Evangelical Administration that they should not enjoy them Men that were known after the Flesh before Christ came were no longer known after the Flesh when Christ was offered up Birth-Privileges were utterly ceas'd 2 Cor. 5. 16. The Apostle stops ●he mouth of all Objections in this matter by letting us know ●hat all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself ●y Jesus Christ 2. If there must be no alteration under the Gospel of ●hat there was under the Law what then do you allow your ●hildren in the room of the Passover which then they had 〈◊〉 right to there was a Lamb appointed for a House Chil●ren were a part of the House and we can prove that ther● were Children in those Houses where the Passover was eaten Why do ye not plead for the Supper for your Children in the room of the Passover as well as for Baptism in the room of Circumcision you have as much ground to plead for the one as for the other And what have we in the room of the Feast of First-fruits and of the Feast of Ingatherings shall we say that we are losers by the coming of Christ in respect of outward Privileges because we have nothing in the room of these Feasts Object 11. But we are to teach all Nations and to baptize them Children are a part of a Nation therefore they must be baptized To this I answer 1. Turk and Pope are parts of a Nation tho not both of the same Nation and so are all the Pagans and Heathens in the World must all these be baptized because they are part of a Nation 2. Tho Children are part of a Nation yet they are not part of a discipled Nation they themselves being not discipled to Christ the word them is relative to all Nations so and so modified and qualified it is not all Nations considered as such but all Nations discipled to Christ that ought to be baptized III. I shall give one Reason of the Point why Believers or such as are discipled to Christ by the Word are the only Subjects of Baptism according to Christ's Commission and that is because such only are put into the Commission these are to be found there and there are none but these to be found there Ministers must keep close to their Commission and if they do they will find that there are no more to be baptized by them than are discipled unto Christ IV. I shall make some Application of the Point And first By way of Information Is it so that Believers or such as are discipled to Christ by the Word are the only Subjects of Baptism according to Christ's Commission Then 1st It may inform us that Ministers have sufficient Authority to disciple to Christ by the Word and to baptize such as are discipled That if the Question be By what Authority they do these things and who gave them this Authority they have their Answer ready at hand they have it from Christ they have it not of Man nor from Man they have it not from the Magistrate nor from Ministers that were before them nor yet from any Church or Churches but from Christ That they have sufficient Authority for what they do of this kind will appear in a few Particulars 1. They have a Commission from Christ for what they do and that under the broad Seal of Heaven Christ came and spake unto them and said Go teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost They are sent by Christ and have their Work assign'd them by Christ they have their Commission to show for what they do The Baptism of Disciples is not of Men but of God their Commission is from him who is God as well as Man 2. Jesus Christ had Authority to give them this Commission and he declared his Authority before he gave it Mat. 28. 18. All Power is given unto me both in Heaven and in Earth 3. Christ had his Authority from the Father who is the Lord of the whole Earth in whom all Power is originally vested by right of Creation John 5. 22 23. The Father judgeth no Man but hath committed all Power unto the Son That all Men might honour the Son even as they honour the Father 2dly It may inform us what the use and benefit of Baptism is that a Believer may expect in taking up of the Ordinance 1. It is an obliging Ordinance it binds the Soul to die to Sin and live unto Holiness Rom. 6. 2 3 4 5. How shall we that are dead to Sin live any longer therein Know you not that as many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his Death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that even as Christ was raised by the Glory of the Father we also should walk in newness of Life We are buried with him by Baptism into Death that as the Body that is buried in the Grave lies rotting and consuming away so the body of Sin should waste and consume away 2. It 's a confirming Ordinance it 's of use to confirm our Faith in the remission of Sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ Acts 2. 38. Repent and be baptized for the remission of Sin c. Baptism doth not remit Sin but it 's a figure of that Blood by which the guilt of Sin is wash'd away it 's an Evidence together with Faith of our Title to Salvation Mark 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved It 's no Evidence by it self but together with Faith it is as it 's taken up in Obedience to the Will of God without Faith it 's of no use at all and therefore there is no reason to contend for it for such as do not believe but together with Faith it 's of great use Secondly I would make use of it by way of Caution first to Ministers and secondly to People First To Ministers and that in two Branches 1. To beware they do not mistake the Subject of Baptism and so administer the Ordinance to those that have no right to it I shall here propose a few things to be considered 1. There are a great many Ministers that are mistaken I mean such as are for Infant-Baptism I do not lay down this upon a bare Conjecture but upon certain knowledg Ministers are divided into four Parties about the Subjects tho they are all for baptizing of Children yet not for the baptizing of all Children and three of these Parties are mistaken which is ground enough to put the fourth upon a further search and inquiry