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A77739	A confutation of the Anabaptists, and all others who affect not civill government; proving the lawfullnesse of it: and a full answer to all their cavills, that are, or can be made against it. With a nut-cracker for an unnaturall nut, whose shell is as hard as the scales of Leviathan, and the kernell of his heart as hard as a piece of the nether mill-stone, Iob 41.15.24. yet the hammer of Gods word that breaketh in pieces the rocks, Ier. 23.29. will break this nut, that all may see the devillish kernell that is in it. Also arguments against the Anabaptists, proving that infants borne of Christian parents ought to be baptized: with a full answer to all their cavills that are (or can be) made against it. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B530; Thomason E51_20; ESTC R209932	98,225	89

soules may be saved for all that yet it is of very dangerous consequence to slight or contemn any ordinance of God it is damnable of it selfe without repentance There was a law in Israel that the uncircumcised man-child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised that soule shal be cut off from his people the reason is rendred because saith the Lord he hath broken my Covenant Gen. 17.14 Now it was not the Infant that despised or slighted the Covenant but it was the parents that sinned by slighting or despising the ordinance of God and did procure this judgment upon their child also the childe when he came to age refused to be circumcised and so hee broke the Covenant of God and therefore he was cut off from the people and why may not this be a just judgement of God upon the Parents neglect of the ordinance of baptisme which is come in the place of circumcision And if the Lord were so severe with those that were not circumcised which was a heavy burden for Infants to beare see Ezod 4.26 How much more now baptisme is come in the place of it which is far easier But wash and be cleane 2 Kings 5.13 Then let them take heed how they neglect this ordinance of God for when they expect to have them answer for themselves they may justly answer with contempt and despise the ordinance of God and so for ever be cut off from his people and from the visible Church and so by that meanes debard from the ordinary means of salvation For the Lord addeth to his Church daily such as shal be saved Acts 3.47 Yet I grant that place is chiefly to be understood of the Invisible Church into which who soever shall enter being the Kingdome of grace shall without faile come to the Kingdome of glory for ever But except a man be borne of water that is baptized with water he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God here which is the visible Church and he that is entred into it is either in the invisible or in Gods way to it which is nothing else but heaven begun and heaven is nothing else but grace perfected We al with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image from glory to glory even by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 But they will object and say that Infants cannot be knowne to us that they are indeed the children of God and if they be not say they we may not to baptize them I answer the same may be said of men of yeares for we know not certainly whether they be the children of God or no therefore by this argument we may not only exclude Infants from baptisme but men of years yea all sexes and ages from both Sacraments and so admit of none at all into the Church of God But to come a little nearer to them do they beleeve that the patents are the children of God and in Covenant with him then they ought to beleeve the same of their children till they manifest by their wicked life to the contrary For is God the God of the Parents and not the God of their seed this is flat against the tenor of the Covenant Therefore if the child have a right to the Covenant he must needs have a right to the seale of it Secondly they object that Infants have no faith and therefore baptisme is of no use to them I answer they may have the seeds of faith and regeneration although we know it not For without faith it is unpossible to please God Heb. 11.6 And he that beleeveth not shal be damned Mar. 16.16 But howsoever they have an infolded faith because that their parents by their faith receive the promise of God both for themselves and their children so that the faith of the Parents is also the faith of their children And th●●● to be born of Christian parents and in the Church of Christ is in stead of the profession of faith and so it wil be usefull and profitable for Infants to be baptized Thirdly they will object that Infants know not what is done when they are baptized I answer no more did those Infants that were circumcised yet it was usefull to them and their parents both to have the Covenant sealed unto them and is it not the same also to Christian Infants many benefits come with it it is a meanes to admit them into the fellowship of the visible Church and by that meanes made right members of it For as the Father makes a purchase for himselfe and his children and they being Infants at the time of the sealing of it and so not able to know what was done yet the purchase is not in vaine for them but as those Infants grow to understanding they can rejoyce that they have an interest in their Fathers purchase so will Infants baptized when they come to understanding they will rejoyce in the great love of God that should vouchsafe to take them into Covenant and seale so many gracious promises unto them in the Sacrament of baptisine which will be an engagement to them all their days to endeavour to keepe the conditions of it Fourthly they will object that the weaknesse of the Infant is such that the coldnesse of the water to be dived into it may be the death of the Infant therefore say they it were better to let them grow to more strength and to take the warmnesse of the Summer season rather then to endanger the life of the Infant I answer it is true that dipping the child doth more resemble our spirituall washing for saith the Apostle we are buried with him by baptisme into his death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walke in newnesse of life If we be planted in the likenesse of his death we shal be in the likenesse of his resurrection Rom. 6.4.5 But there is no necessity of dipping the Infant to endanger the health and life of it in these cold countries when as the word baptizing signifies not only such a washing that is by diving of the body into the water but that also which is by sprinkling water upon it and the Lord saith by the Prophet speaking of these times under the Gospell Then will I sprinkle cleane water upon you and ye shal be cleane from all your silthinesse Ezek. 36.25 Therefore without all question in these cold Countries sprinkling is accepted Again Gods word teacheth modesty see Deu. 23.13.25 ●● 12.1 Co. 11.6.14 But what modesty were it for a man or woman grown of age to go naked into the water to be baptized whether it be before one man or before the whole congregation saith Paul let all things be done decently 1 Cor. 14.10 Again we are taught to pray the Lord to keep us out of temptation and we have the example of David's fearfull fall into adultery and murder by

Christ should by his own sins and wickednesse make himselfe a dead member I should tell that man it is unpossible For the spirituall Temple is made of living stones 1 Pet. 2.5 And they are passed from death to life John 5.24 And beleevers are of the houe and flesh of Christ that can never dye more Ephesians 5.30 9. It may be demanded what seale or marke is set on Gods people by this ●acrament of baptisme I answer there is a two-fold seale one outward and ●●e other inward The outward and visible marke or seale is to distinguish Christians from Turkes Jewes and Infidels as the blood of the Pascall Lamb did betweene the Israelites and the Egyptians Now the inward or invisible marke or seale that is set upon us in baptisme being effectuall is the knowledge of our election this baptisme being effectuall shewes unto us that the foundation of God remaineth sure having this seale the Lord knoweth who are his 2 Tim. 2.19 By vertue of this saith Christ I know my sheepe John 10. And by this the elect of all nations are marked Rev. 7.9 The second inward seale is the gift of regeneration which is nothing else but the imprinting of the image of God in the soules of men and by this beleevers are sealed Epes 1.13 2 Cor. 1.22 Now baptisme is a meanes to see this marke in us because it is the laver of regeneration for as the water washeth away the filth of the body so the thing signified which is the blood of Christ doth wash away the sin of our soules Here I thought to have ended this discourse concerning baptisme being already I suppose sufficient to satisfie the Reader but I looking about me saw one Servetus a mighty Anabaptist the glory of their company he came matching with his twenty arguments and he set upon me and forced me to give him Battell First saith he the signes of Christ are perfect therefore saith he they that receive them must bee perfect or at least able to conceive perfection But here this man is a litle too hasty to require perfection the first day saith Paul not as though I were already perfect but I follow after and presse toward the marke Phil. 3.12 13 14. Baptisme extendeth it selfe throughout all our life till death therefore we must grow unto perfection in degrees Secondly he saith the signes of Christ were ordained for remembrance that every man should remember that he was buried together with Christ but here the man hath left his baptisme and is fled to the Lords Supper see 1 Cor. 11.24.25 Thirdly he saith all they abide in death which believe not the Sonne of God and the wrath of God abideth on them and therefore infants which cannot believe lie in their damnation I answer Christ only threatneth the despisers of the Gospell which proudly and stubbornly refuse the grace that is offered them but what is this concerning infants saith Christ it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these litle ones should perish Mat. 18.14 But how can this be if they he still in damnation under the wrath of God no the spirit of God can worke the seeds of grace in them although wee cannot conceive the maner how it is done 4. he objecteth that we are first in our natural condition therefore we must tarry for baptisme which is spiritual It i● true we are shapen in iniquity conceived in sin Ps 51. And by nature children of wrath Ephes 2.3 But by his good leave God is able to remedy this even in Infancy as I shewed in Ieremiah Iohn the Baptist Fiftly then he bringeth an allegory saying David tooke neither blind nor lame but strong souldiers with him into the Tower of Sion 2 Sam. 5.8 But here I shall split his allegory with a parable of Christ wherein God calleth to his heavenly banquet both the blind and the lame Luke 14.21 Sixtly then he bringeth another allegory saying that the Apostles were fishers of men Mat. 4.19 And lesus said unto Simon henceforth thou shalt catch men and not litle children Luke 5.10 To this I reply and demand what that saying of Christ meaneth that into the net of the Gospell are gathered all kind of fishes Mat. 13.47 Neither were the Apostles when they were sent to preach forbidden to baptize Infants and when the Evangelists name them Anthropous men which word comprehends all mankind without exception why then should they except against Infants when as God makes no exceptions against any Age Sex or Nation Seventhly he saith sith spirituall things agree with spirituall therefore Infants which are not spirituall are not meet for baptisme I answer here Paul speakes of Doctrine where the Corinthians were very quick to apprehend carnall things and blames them to be very dull to conceive spirituall things 1 Cor. 2.13.14 But what is this to infants which are not required to heare points of Doctrine is any thing here to hinder them from baptisme He replies that if they be new men they must be fed with spirituall food I answer the signe of Adoption may suffice till they be growne of age and able to beare stronger meat But he objecteth that Christ calleth all his to the holy supper I answer he admitteth none but them that are already prepared to celeb●●te the remembrance of his death this infants cannot doe yet Christ doth vouchsafe to imbrace them which argues they are not strangers although Christ hath stronger meat for them yea many things hee hath to say to them which they cannot beare now John 16.12 Eighthly hee saith it is monstrous that a man after he is borne should not eat I answer the soule may be fed although they doe not eat outwardly of the supper Christ is meat to infants though they abstaine from the signe which is the supper but of baptisme the case is otherwise for by it alone the gate into the Church is opened to them Ninthly he saith a good steward distributeth meat to his houshold in due time I grant it but then withal let him prove that baptisme is given to infants out of due time Tenthly he bringeth the commandement of Christ to make haste into the harvest for the fields are already white John 4.35 I answer from this place Christ would have his Apostles to take notice of the present fruit and good successe of their labours that they may the more cheerefully prepare themselves to teach because they were fitted to heare but I say againe what doth this concerne Infants to keep them from baptisme 11th reason he saith in the first Church Christians and disciples were all one It is true those that were converted and baptized were both Disciples and Christians but what of this will he gather hence that infants borne of Christians are strangers and out of the Covenant let him prove it 12. He alledgeth that all Christians are brethren but infants are out of this number so long as we debar them from the supper I answer