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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28341	The birth-priviledge, or, Covenant-holinesse of beleevers and their issue in the time of the Gospel together with the right of infants to baptisme / by Thomas Blake ...	Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3142; ESTC R12167	41,905	40

of his instruction They have no infirmity to be healed no capacity to be taught It is fit for men of abler parts not for Infants to make their addresse to him Let them come saith our Saviour and let not their infant-age exclude them how little soever they are capeable of the kingdome of Heaven Having the substance and thing signified in baptisme they may not be denied the signe This is the Apostles way of dispute Acts 10.47 By Argument And to deny them to have the thing signified in baptisme is an assertion of odious consequence Christ is the thing signified in baptisme as in all other Sacraments Gal. 3.27 c. And denying them Christ you either exclude them from salvation with the Papists or else exempt them from Originall sinne with the Pelagians The Anabaptists of the present age are well aware that the consequence can be no other they well see that all that joyne in this Tenent saile between those rockes either to affirme that infants die in their pollution and perish in their birth-sin or else to deny this originall pollution or any birth-sin at all the latter of the two they therefore generally choose judging it more faire to deny infants sinne then to affirme their condemnation joyning hands with Pelagians an heresie of old and forepast dayes rather then with Papists the present yoke and scourge of Christians And taking with these to deny originall sinne they straight fall upon universall grace freedome of will in things spirituall The free election of God they overthrow leaving it in our power to make choyce of Christ and not Christ to make choyce of us And so Popery is no sooner left but it is againe found they joyne hands with it as soone as they have left it And all such who have not yet waded so deepe but now begin to set this way I wish them to weigh with themselves what other way they can find to make children uncapeable of Baptisme unlesse they also make good such originall purity that they stand not in need of Christ or else be content to yeeld that they perish in their sinne without Christ withall sadly taking to heart whether the Genius of this doctrine leades plunging almost all that give it entertainement into so many damnable and pernicious errours such as themselves upon the first entry abominate If they think that they can make it good in this more innocent way keeping their judgements without taint of the errours mentioned they see more then all the Orthodox Churches whom in this they have left and the whole body of those to whom they beginne to joyne themselves The Churches whom they have left will be afraid to own them and the Sect to whom in this they are joyned will much more abominate and reject them The deniall of birth-sinne is the readiest way to the deniall of birth holinesse and no other way to be taken but by prejudging the salvation of them that dye as soone as borne that dye before yeares of ability to make profession of the faith of Christ Jesus But as the Apostle pressing the dangerous and odious consequences that follow upon the deniall of the resurrection of Christ which was his Medium to assert the Resurrection of the dead takes off all with this affirmation that Christ is risen from the dead 1 Cor. 15.10 So we pressing the danger of denyall Infants part and portion in Christ our Medium to prove their interest in baptisme may take off all with the like affirmation That Infants have their portion in Christ Infancy excludes not from their right to him and interest in him so that we need to run neither of these straits to exempt them from pollution or exclude them from salvation which easily may be made good They are accepted and highly honoured of God as we see in the text recited and further in our Saviours words Mat. 18.5 6. But it is in the beloved in Christ Ephes 5.1 6. Mat. 3.17 that we are accepted The voice from Heaven witnesseth that in him God is well pleased Deny infants Christ and God is alike pleased with them as with the brood of Cockatrices and the seed of Serpents Much sure is in those words of our Saviour Christ Who so shall receive one such little child in my name Mat. 18.5 receives me How doe we receive Christ in receiving them if they belong not to Christ if they be not members of if they have no interest in Christ For such as say that they would baptize an infant if any could make it good that he were in Christ Jesus they might as well say in the same manner to Christ that they would receive that little one or such a little one in case it could be made good that they were of his members and elect ones Nor let it be objected Object That Infants then are not to be denied the Lords Supper but are to be received to his table seeing Christ is the thing signified in that Sacrament as in Baptisme The difference as all may see is wide Answ In this Sacrament Infants are passive and so capeable of this honour to be taken in In the other we are active and Infants for that reason are incapeable They are not in capacity to performe so much as that which is outwardly sacramentall They cannot according to the Institution take and eat much lesse can they doe it in remembrance of Christ The very phrase circumcised baptised is enough to difference from eating with bitter herbes c. as at the Passeover from communicating as at the Lords table Infants are fit subjects for the one men of growth are only fit subjects for the other One to presse on this objection furnisheth us with a similitude Suppose saith he a King for some speciall service wherein the honour of himselfe and safety of his kingdome is much concerned should by Commission ordaine or command a Sheriffe upon paine of death to raise for his service ten thousand men the most able in his County and this Sheriffe finding the said number of children about six moneths old should present them to the King at the very instant of battaile as though he had thereby performed the Kings command Would this be taken for a sufficient performance of his duty But suppose that the King should appoint all his free-borne subjects to be inrolled and a list taken of their Names who in time might act in their places for his honour and enjoy Immunities as his subjects might not Infants then goe in the number So it is here Baptisme is the initiating ordinance The subjects of Heaven are here inrolled their names may therefore be taken as subjects though they cannot yet act as souldiers They are here intitled to all the Immunities of this kingdome yet orderly as they shall be of capacity and fitnesse to make use of them But their want of faith is challenged as an impediment to Baptisme Object When the Eunuch desired