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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	sting_n	14,375	5	12.1860	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96525	The sealed fountaine opened to the faithfull, and their seed. Or, a short treatise, shewing, that some infants are in the state of grace, and capable of the seales, and others not. Being the chief point, wherein the separatists doe blame the Anabaptists. By John Wilkinson, prisoner at Colchester, against John Morton prisoner at London.	Wilkinson, John, of Bernards Inne.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2243; Thomason E1205_2; ESTC R208780	11,502	29

a bodily death therefore he died not at all this is too Childish for those which would be teachers But let God be true and every man a lyer Adam by dying died the same day that he sinned not a bodily but a spirituall death under which death he lay untill the promise that the Womans seed should destroy the Serpents power quickened and revived him againe That Curse which is layd upon the earth and the labour which is layd upon Adam was to bring man to a further knowledge of his owne misery and Gods mercy and justice Bodily death is appointed to dissolve man into dust and ashes that from thence hee may rise unto an immortall and unchangable estate either of glory or confusion Their imagination therefore that Adam should have been consumed if Christ had not been provided is but a dreame which will not stand with the stabilitie of the Eternall whose decree is immutable neither altereth hee the thing that proceedeth out of his mouth Concerning Infants they have found at the last that by Adams sinne they have upon them the Corruption thereof and that in such sort as that thereby they are made Subject to death here meeting the truth in their way unsought for and seeing glimse of it so dazeleth their eyes that a increaseth their blindnesse for first their imagine that Infants are not otherwise cory rupted with Adams sinne nor made subject to death then other creatures are and that though Infants be subject to death yet not to be cast into hell fier For the first they should know that there is as much difference betweene the Corruption that is in Infants by the meanes of Adams sin and the corruption that other creatures are subject unto as there is between a young Serpent venemous by nature and that which is stung or invenomed by the ●iting of a Serpent The posterity of Adam have a lust to sin the creature is s●bject to the vanity of mans abuse unto evill not of its own accord Rom. 8. 20. In this therfore their apprehension is too grosse to conceive that Infants are no otherwise corrupted with Adams sin then other creatures are For the Second they sho●ld know that out of Adam a●e sprung two contrary seeds fo● which the●e was prepared two contrary conditions before the world was and therfore all Infants are not under one and the same state condition but some are u●der the state of damnation in hell and some are under the state of salvation in heaven and t●at from the wombe though they cannot tell how to deny this yet will they not rest but imagine still that condemnation comes by some other means then by Adams sault for else think they God could not be just Converning the point of Adams fault their resolution is that it came on all men to condemnation ●ut how so to corrupt their natures that when the Commandement comes they cannot obey and live but sin and dye Here the truth hath met them again and they have looked upon her but have loosed her againe and themselves also for at the First Infants were not without sinne but now their nature is so corrupt that when the Commandement comes they cannot obey and live but sin and die And whersore that let the Apostle answer it is because sin dwels in them Rom. 7. 17. 20. If sin dwell in them how then are they without sin Thus by wandring they have lost themselvs The truth they have loosed by mistaking Paul where he saith that once hee was alive without the Law for out of this they gather that Paul was no sinner till the Commandement came and they confirme themselves in this errour by misunderstanding another Scripture namely that whatsoever the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law And they are further confirmed in this by the mistaking of a third Scripture which saith That sinne is not imputed whilest there is no Law Out of these they gather that Infants are without sinne untill they know the Law and break it But Paul ●s no Patron of this opinion it was no part of his Doctrine that whilest he was without Law he was without sin but this is that which he teacheth that when he was without Law he was without the knowledge of sin because the knowledge of sin comes by the Law and the reason of this is because without the Law sin is dead that is hath no power to wound and kill the Conscience but the Conscience is quiet and at peace notwithstanding sin untill the Law come for as the sting of sin is death so the strength of sin is the Law This is that which Paul teacheth And it doth not follow that because sin is dead in a man untill the Law come that therfore there is no sin in him for if sin were not in him how should he find it by the coming of the Law in this therfore they understand the Apostle very childishly and against all reason for where he saith That he found by the Law that sin dwelt in him they understand him to the clean contrary that sin was not in him And as in this they misunderstand so doe they in this that the Law speaketh to those which be under the Law Out of this they gather that a man must know the Law before he be under it and he must be under the Law and transgresse it before he have sin so that untill a man know the Law and transgresse it he is without sin wheras indeed the transgression of the Law is but the finishing and bringing forth of sin conceived before of lust which as an harlot consenteth to the tempter and bringeth forth transgression I am 1. 15 The Apostle in saying that whatsoever the Law saith it ●aith it to those that be under the Law doth it to prove that ●hose things which are rehearsed from the tenth verse of the ●hird Chapter to the Romans unto the eighteenth verse are ●rue concerning the Iews and that therfore the Iewes were ●nder sin together with the Gentiles and that all the world ●re under condemnation verse 19 Now therfore if Infants be a part of the world then are ●hey under condemnation The Apostle saith not that a man is without sin till he be under the Law but he saith that the L●w convinceth all that be under it of sin which could not be if sin were not in them Here therfore they shoot farre short of the Apostles mark he concludes the whole world to be under condemnation and proves it by the Law And they imagine that when the Law comes it finds those to whom it comes to be without sin and free from condemnation So that still where th' Apostle saith one thing they understand him of another thing yea to the clean contrary The Lord open their eyes that they may see it The third Scripture which they pervert is this That sin is not imputed whilst there is no Law Rom. 5. 13. Out of this they gather

that untill the Law be known and transgressed there is no sin But the Apostle saith to the contrary That sin was in the world even unto the Law though sin was reckoned no sin so long as there was no Law Yet that sin was in the world though not reckoned of as may appeare by this That death Reigned from Adam unto Moses which it could not have done if sin had not been in the world for death is the reward of sin and therfore reigneth over none but those which sin hath dominion over though not transgressors after the same manner that Adam transgressed Thus the Apostle teacheth and by this we may learne that no Infants are without sin Now if this will not be yeelded them that Infants are without sin then would they know how they can be reconciled unto God Vnto this I answer That unto those which are the seed o● the Woman God was reconciled in Christ and in him adopte● them to be his Children before the world was And unto such the corruption of their nature shall not b● imputed God hath made them accepted in his beloved But they presume that it must be yeelded that Infants a● without sin and being so they would know what need they have to be Baptized To this I answere That Baptisme is the ordinance of God and therfore is to be used of all his people to that end fo● which it was ordained It was given of God to set forth and declare what benefit those which be members of Christ have by his death and resurrection That Infants have benefit by the death and resurrection of Christ these men will confesse though not aright Gods people therefore must Baptise their Infants to declare their faith concerning the benefit that they have by Christ They give us a needlesse caution or warning that we should not conclude that because Infants are subject to bodily death with their Fathers that therfore they perish i● hell No we will neither mount so high nor dive so deep as so to determine But this we doe affirme that if Infants were without sin bodily death should have no power over them But they will say that bodily death hath power over other creatures which be unreasonable I grant it But may a man as lawfully kill an Infant as he may a Sheep or a Bullock Surely no he which sheddeth mans bloud by man his bloud shall be shed These men therfore are very unreasonable to match Infants and other unreasonable creatures together But this is monstrous that they imagine that unreasonable creatures that are dead and have perished have prepaed for them the glorious liberty of the Sons of GOD and ●hall be freed from the bondage of corruption when the Sons of GOD shall be revealed And that this is the glory and liberty wherof Infants shal be ●artakers yea and that all other creatures shall have ●tory after death for th' afflictions of this life and not the ●embers of Christ only unto this vanity of mind are these ●en given up The Lord give them better understanding if it he his will From 2 Cor. 4. 10. and Rev. 20. 12 13. they conclude that Infants shall not appear before Christ to receive judgement because they have done no works in the flesh good or evill What works Infants doe GOD knoweth I know not Iohn the Baptist sprung in his Mothers womb Ieremie was sanctified in the Womb Iacob and Esau strove in the womb God is wonderfull in his works Therfore I dare not determine of the doings of Infants But Iohn in his vision saw all the dead both small and great stand before God and the●fore Infants as I unde●stand And Paul saith we must all be made manifest before the judgement seat of Christ I understand him to speak of all mankind and so of Infants And it is too much boldnes for any to say none where the Apostle saith all But what dare not ignorant zeale doe Their conclusion is that Infants have not sinned And therfore need no Baptisme for the remission of sins And I answere that in Adam all mankind sinned and that by meanes thereof all Infants come tainted with sinne from the womb And that therfore there is no hope of salvation for any Infants further then they may be reckoned to belong un●o Christ as ●eing the fruit of such branches as are ingraffed in him by Faith And thos● which be such are to be Baptized thereby to declare wha● benefit all have by Christ that are partakers with him whos● holinesse is such that he sanctifyeth all that have fellowship with him To whom be glory for ever Amen JOHN WILKINSON FINIS