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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

Doth our Church alone thinke so and doth not other Churches make vp the harmonie Rogers in the English Creed set out by authoritie pag. 33. par 2 art 25 The Creede of our Church confesseth this among the errors of the Papists that so many as are not incorporated into the visible Church by the Sacraments at the least of Baptisme are assuredly damned So doth two cōfessions of Switzerland the confession of the Church of Bohemia the Protestant Church of France so of Flanders so of Auspurge so of Saxonie and Sweueland which may be seene more at large in the booke of the Harmonie of confessions Alanus Cope reckoneth this vp as one of our errors in England Dial 6. cap. 9. Infants before they are baptized to belong to the people of GOD And to this agreeth most soundly euen he which hath now by the disposition of God the chief place in this Church In his replie in the great volume pag. 516. and professeth that he misliketh the opinion of these who thinke out of Ioh. 3. infants to be condemned being not baptized as much as any It shall bee ambition to muster the names of them who haue borne the standard in their places and are on our side so doth * Aret. proble theol par 2 de 〈◊〉 sacr Aretius at Barnes * Caluin instit l. 4. c. 16. sec 26. Caluin and * Confess c. 4. sect 49. Zuingl de prouid Dei c. 6. tom 1. pa. 369. Beza at Geneua certainly Zuinglius at Zurich calleth them sacramentaries who attribute so much grace to the sacramēt so much vertue to Baptisme of it selfe Such a cloud of witnesses hath this trueth and this is not only the consent of the later Churches but euen a long hath testimonie from this Apostle Baptisme saueth but I meane not sayeth hee the washing of the water but the examination of a good conscience towardes God Ephe. 5.26 The Apostle Paul saith Christ gaue himselfe for the Church to sanctifie it by the lauer of water but how through the word Psalm 8.2 In Dauids time the Church professeth GODS praise out of the mouth of sucklings In the primitiue Church the Cathecumen the not baptized not onely saued but glorified as Martyrs such an one was Heraclides Origens scholler beheaded vnder Seuerus and Rhais a woman whō Origen saith to haue obtained Baptisme by fire Cyp epist ad lubia Cyprian about the 260. yeare after Christ professeth that not only suffering for Christ De conse distinc 4. ca. Baptismi but faith and conuersion of the heart supplieth the want of Baptisme The councell of Nice sayth our Baptisme is not to bee considered with sensible eyes but with the eyes of the mind Ambros in sine Ora. sunes de obitu Valē Ambrose about 380. yeare after Christ sayth of Valentinian the Emperour who dyed without Baptisme Christ baptized him when mens offices failed againe his faith washed him Saint Austen Aug. in l. de side ad Petrum though he is alone almost except them that suruiued in his owne age in the necessitie of Sacraments making out of the sixt of Iohn a necessitie of the supper euen for infants Ioh. 6.53 because it is sayd Vnlesse you eate the fleshe of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud you haue no life in you contrary to the rule of the Apostle that none should eate but they who can examine thēselues 1. Cor. 11.23 yet in diuers places where God assisted him more and hee remembred himselfe Aug. l. 13. de ciuit Dei ca 7. he yeelded also to this truth making faith and a contrite spirit to be in stead of Baptisme for thus hee saith he that sayd Vnles a man be borne of water and the spirite hee cannot enter into the kingdome of God Ioh. 3. sayd as generally Hee that confesseth mee before men Luk. 12.8 I will confesse him before my Father and the holy Angels And againe Luk. 9.24 Hee that leeseth his life shall saue it and againe Psal 116.15 Precious is the death of the Saints in the sight of God Nay hee rather commendeth them that dye sometimes without Baptisme for others for feare of death defer not their baptisme further but these for loue to God deferre to liue longer he exemplifieth also in the theefe and * Aug. lib. 4. de baptis in don cap. 24. againe then is Baptisme fulfilled when not the contempt of religion but when the instant or momēt of necessitie excludeth from visible Baptisme * Serm ad infantes Againe none is depriued of the benefit of the sacrament so long as hee findeth in himselfe the thing which the sacrament signifieth again among whom do you reckon children vnbaptized verely among beleeuers Aug de verbis Apostoli ser 14. So. l. 3. de quaest vet test The inuisible sanctification may bee without the visible signe as the visible signe without the true sanctification * In serm de 40. Martyribus Basile sayth of the iaylour or keeper of the 40. Martyrs who became a Martyr hee was baptized by his owne faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by the hand of another not in water but in his owne blood Hieromes iudgement of Asella we heard aboue Yet the diuersitie of customes and practise of olde is strange herein with the multitude of humane inuentions crept in euen in the primitiue church that wee may blesse God for this puritie of Baptisme which we enioy De consecr dist 4. cap. non ratione in seq Terrul de Baptis dutiusculè loquitur For they vsed only solemne times for baptizing as Easter at Rome by Victors constitution at Easter and Pentecost in Tertullians time or the time of mariage or at their dying day or on the feast of the Epiphany as in Asia insomuch that as Christ at 30. yeares of age was baptized Baptisme more syncerely performed now then of olde so Gregorie at 30. yeares olde though his father were a Bishop So Austen about the same time so Ambrose a Bishop elect before hee was baptized and in a Synode of Rome 40 yeares are appointed except for the sicke In 4. Orat. de Lauac sanct and great with childe who might at all other times bee baptized And Nazianzene appointed the 4. yeare when they could giue a reason of their faith so that when a man once departeth from this that any thing saueth speedy Baptisme or Baptisme deferred Baptisme or no Baptisme nay prayer or no prayer word or no word whē any thing saueth but this onely Sauiour Christ who rose ascended raigneth ouer men and Angels one error increaseth vpon another one inuention accrueth vpon his former hence came the crosse * Origen ho. 2. in Psal 38. Tertul. de resur Cyp. de haer bapt hence a kisse in Baptisme l. 3. ep 8. Cyp. hence a ring Tertul. l. de pudicitia hence to haue oyle * Tertul. de

AN APOLOGIE OF INFANTS IN A SERMON Prouing by the reueal●● will of God that children preuen●●d 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 BY WISDOME PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY AT LONDON Printed by the Widowe Orwin for Thomas Man 1595. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD ROBERT DEVOROX EARLE of Essex and one of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councel all graces fit for so worthie place and trust be multiplied THE great Messias the Lord Iesus right Honorable being on the Crosse readie to dye cast his eye aside and sawe his mother and the disciple standing by whom hee loued on whose breast he leaned and sayd to his mother Woman behold thy sonne Iohn 19.26 and to the disciple Behold thy mother This voyce then spake from the altar of the crosse on earth The same voyce seemeth to speake still from the arch of heauen the Church being grauen on the palme of his hands Esay 49.16 and her walles euer in his sight on the one side seeing the Nobles of the world on the otherside especially such Nobles whō hee loueth on whose shoulders his truth leaneth in whose breast the loue of the trueth dwelleth He seemeth to say to the Church as to a faint weak woman of them O woman behold thy sonnes the Nobles of the earth Psal 45.16 Thou shalt haue children the Potētates thorow the whole earth And to them O ye sonnes of the Nobles Galath 4.26 behold your mother also This mother the true Church maketh you the sonnes of God That voyce then wrought obedience he to whom it was spoken tooke it to heart and took her home So ought the Peeres and States of the world especially whom Iesus hath loued by education in the trueth to take this mother the church her sonnes and daughters the trueth and her defence home to them to surround it with their power and countenance euen as in two circles Israel with all their tribes and gouernours did hemme in the Tabernacle of God Numb 3.38 In the inmost circle Moses and Aaron on the forefront of the Tabernacle Eastward stood next to it vers 24. On the other side three families of Leui The Gersonites pitched their tents behinde the Tabernacle Westward vers 29. The Kohathites had their standing on the South side vers 35. The Merarites on the North side These were the inward lists of it In the outward wall of it so to speak Eastward did Iuda claspe it in and his associates Issachar and Zabulon Num. 2.5 On the South side vers 10. Re●ben fastned his standard with Gad and Simeon On the West vers 18. ioyned Ephraim with Manasses and Beniamin On the North vers 24. as closing vp all came Dan with Asher and Naptali So strongly and politically was Gods Tabernacle and Church then mannaged and conducted in so sightly manner did it march on with this alarme Num. 10.35 Arise O Lord and let thine enemies be scatrered In so puissant and stable manner did it take vp his standing with this solemnitie Returne O Lorde to the many thousands of Israel The Nobles who thus stand about Gods Church at this time and lend their shoulders for his trueth to leane vpon haue a greater place thē Naamans 2. King 5.18 the King to leane on their hands then Atlas the arch of heauen to rest vpon their shoulders they haue the honour to be the noble disciples whō Iesus loueth on whose breasts he leaneth in whose hearts he dwelleth to whom he hauing sayd Behold your mother the Church the trueth they doe not onely take her home to them vnder their roofe dwel with it conuerse with it but enter into a strict vow and solemne protestation for this is the heroicall protestant as Ruth the Moabitish did to Naomi concerning her cleauing to the trueth and Gods people though discouraged by contrarie example of one that lay in the same wōbe though aboured with by the womb that bare her she sayd Ruth 1.16.17 Intreate me not to leaue thee nor to depart from thee whither thou goest I will goe where thou dwellest I will dwell thy people shall be my people thy God my God where thou dyest I will dye and there will I be buried The Lord doe so vnto me and more also if ought but death part thee and me The obedience to this voyce of God to take the loue of the trueth home to you seeing it hath dwelt in your familie and progenie long and now hereditarily resteth in your Honour and the experience of your care by whose meanes not onely the standard of the preaching of the word is lift vp in this place tanquam in arce Minerua Phidiae in the midst of captiued enemies which was not before but by whose fruites of faith also it is cherished emboldened me to present this firstling of my labors in this kind in the cause of many speechles infants to your Honour remembring what Salomons mother sayd to him Open thy mouth for the dumme in the cause of all the children of destruction Open thy mouth Pouer. 31.8 c. The argument though diminutiue and low yet parents loue to heare of the state of their childrē in this life much more of life to come specially the godly Euen graue fathers after serious matters dispatched forbeare not to vse modificatiō of speech to lispe with the little ones saying Chesippus not Chrysippus as he in Tullie Coniah Iere. 22. not Ieconiah as in the scripture But why do I seeke further Haue not these little ones the Dukes and Pecres of heauen for their Patrones Matth. 18.10 Their Angels sayth Christ alwaies behold the face of God the father in heauen And he that set a child in the midst of his Apostles striuing for honour Matth. 18.3 with this charge Verely except ye be conuerted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen and he that humbleth himselfe as this child is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen knew that the case of little children their harmlesnes innocencie mildnes are matters for all sorts to meditate vpon to schoole them to GOD. In which argument Dauid so profited Psalm 131.2 that he professeth euen before the Lorde that he demeaned himself as a weaned euen as a weaned child though the court and field had been his nurse But I may not exceede the measure of a Preface The Lord ripen the good worke he hath begun in your Honour and increase it with the mightie increasings of God Your Honors in the Lord to be commanded William Hubbocke To the Reader AS the blessing of peace is great Zach. 8.8 streets full of children playing so among them to come sodainely the stroke of God Exod. 12.29 as at midnight in Aegypt Virgil. Aeneid lib 4. Si quis mihi paruulus aula Luderet AEneas Act. 20.9 1. King 17.18 Ionas 4.7 2 Sam.

in parents and friends as in these two last cases or when parents and minister and all are willing death creepeth in and preuenteth both Such occurrents may bee matter of meditation to parents and Ministers and the whole people of the suddennes of death of the vncertaine ioy and stay of posteritie that he suffereth vs to beget but not to possesse to haue a sight of our babes and then suddenly taketh them to himselfe of Gods almightines that he doth what he will and that sometimes hee saueth with meanes sometimes without meanes as sometimes damneth with meanes sometimes without meanes but yet not so that any of these accidents ouerthrow the election of God What then establisheth the substance of Baptisme what ouerthroweth it Here wee must consider the institution Matth. 28. Goe Who The Minister Do what baptize that is powre on the water or dippe it in water Whom all nations that is men not bels c. How not in the name of the water or power of it or any other name in heauen or earth but of the blessed Trinitie So that a Midwife to baptize or a priuate man to whom it was neuer sayd Goe and baptize likewise to vse sande as sometime hath bin or some other licour * As oyle and water by Haeret I●●n ib. 1. cap. 18. also to applie it to bels then forsooth Bishops alone must do it as the Papists vse and lastly not to doe it in the name power and vertue of the Trinitie I take it to bee the violating of the Lords institution in which kinds wee ought to refuse it But if other circumstances onely be annexed or not accompanie it Eccle. 7.31 as it may be truly sayd of this sacrament God made it simple and righteous and vncompounde but man founde out many inuentions these things may a little exercise our zeale and faith and patience but they cannot abridge the counsel of God in thee and thine and therefore if thou maist haue it without the additamentes of men the better it is if not yet the seale of God remaineth sure they shall beare their iniquitie of stubble so meane a matter built vpon so good a foundation that haue brought it vp or maintaine it vntil God purge them by his triall of fire as in the worde so in the sacrament * 1. Cor. 3.15 when as the stubble shall vanish but the good foundation shall saue them Doe thou as much as thou canst communicate with God in his institution for as we are to desire not onely the milke of the worde 1. Peter 2.2 but the syncere milke of it so in the Lords seale wee ought rather to take his engrauing alone then any characters of man And to drawe to an ende I would not onely haue men peremptorie for the Sacrament but for the word also which is the life of the Sacrament what is water without the worde but water therefore if the neglect or the contempt of the Sacrament bee a sinne is not the despising of the word and neglect of it a sinne also because many are wonderfull passionate The necessitie of the word to be thought on as of Baptisme if God himselfe preuent of Baptisme but themselues for themselues and others are nothing compassionate making no care nor conscience of their assiduitie and diligence to heare the word Surely the worde hath saued without Baptisme but baptisme without the worde neuer Ioh. 15.3 You are cleane because of the word and that you may knowe the words despising hath power to damne also consider what the scripture saith Ioh. 12.48 The word shall iudge you and againe Hee that despiseth the worde his prayer is abominable Prou. 28.9 and againe Math. 10.40 He that reiecteth the Preacher reiecteth him that sent him which is the Lord and againe Faith commeth by hearing Rom. 10.14 Rom. 14.23 which faith alone pleaseth GOD. Christ Math. 23.16 calles the Pharisees blind guides fooles and blind because they counted it sinne to sweare by the gold of the Temple but by the Temple to sweare was nothing so to sweare by the Aultar nothing but by the offering vpon the Aultar a sinne Now fooles and blind which is greater gold or Temple Altar or offering For the Temple conteineth God that dwelleth in it the Altar that is God worshipped at it So let the despisers of the word either vanish wonder Act. 13.31 for Gods work vpon their blindnes that can see a mote of contempt in Baptisme and not the beame of contempt in the worde or else acknowledge their blindnes Baptisme is as gold it is as a holy offering but yet the word sanctifieth it and if it be not offered as it were vpon the holy Altar of the word this golde becommeth drosse because there wanteth Gods word as fire to trie it though it bee the offering of the fruite of thy body thine owne flesh to the Lorde yet vnles thou doe it as the Lord hath commanded there is a sauour of death in it and not of life The propo●tion must be kept Leuit. 17.4 In sacrifices disobedience is as murder and why not in sacraments Wherefore beloued let vs not despise Baptisme let vs not despise the word Baptisme is good and holy and comfortable with the word the word is wholsome and comfortable in his place with Baptisme and without it let vs get a spirite of discerning spirits to distinguish betweene outward washing and inwarde betweene the leauen of poperie who sowre the sweete water of baptisme make it Marah let vs rather season it with casting in some part of the tree of life 2. King 2.21 as Eliza did to the waters of Iericho and healed the land from vntimely birth Let vs preserue a good consciēce by communing with our hearts dayly examined so shal neither we nor our church haue vntimely birth for saluation as they had in Iericho so shall not Baptisme be vnfruitfull to vs but be laden with all the benefites of Christs resurrection ascension glorie at Gods right hand and dominions ouer Angels and then neither death nor life Baptisme nor not Baptisme neither things past present nor to come shall separate vs from the loue of Iesus Christ Rom. 8.38 which shal bring vs vnto God Errata In the epistle to the reader page 4. line 27. for insancicida reade infanticida p. 45. l. 18. for Secondly r. Seuenthly p. 59. l. 17. for that is God r. God that●s