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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94766	Four sermons, preach'd by the right reverend father in God, John Towers, D.D. L. Bishop of Peterburgh. 1. At the funerall of the right honorable, William Earl of Northampton. 2. At the baptism of the right honorable, James Earl of Northampton. 3. Before K. Charles at White-Hall in time of Lent.	Towers, John, d. 1649.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1958; Thomason E1861_2; ESTC R210178	89,836	224

the high-way the common door by which he hath appointed us to enter and therefore on our part we are bound to this way if we can get to it but if there be an impossibility on our part and that without our contempt or neglect of his Ordinance it shall please God we be prevented I speak not of them that are born out of the Church Qui foris sunt Deus judicat 1 Cor. 5.13 we leave them with S. Paul to be judged by God but for them who are born in fidere in that league which God made with Abraham and his seed for ever God forbid such unmannerly uncharitable thoughts in Christians that because God binds our obedience to this ordinary meanes we should likewise prescribe to him and tie him to his owne Ordinance that we should thinke he has not other wayes to let us into his Kingdome that because he does not usually therefore he cannot extraordinarily work saving Grace in the hearts of some without this outward means As therefore on the one side we blame those men as too remisse who have too mean a regard of this ordinary and immediate meanes of life relying wholly upon the bare conceit of that eternal Election which notwithstanding includes a subordination of means without which we are not actually brought to enjoy what God secretly did intend and therefore to build upon Gods Election if we keep not our selves to the wayes which he hath appointed for men to walk in is but a selfe-deceiving vanity So on the other side we may as little approve the too severe conceit of those who condemn the children of Christian Parents dying before Baptism into a place in Hell which their owne fancies have built for them and that of severall fashions according to their severall conceits a Limbus Infantum wherein some are so milde as to inflict no other punishment upon them but the not seeing God Vid. Bellarm De Amissione Gratiae Tom. 3. l. 6. c. 1. which they call Poena damni Some more anstere will have them suffer some grief also for that loss others cruelly award them the perpetual torment of Sense added to the losse of Gods presence so well they agree amongst themselves who are at discord in opinions to the Church of England S. Tom. 7. De Bapt. l. 4. c. 22. Austin tels us another tale that the Sacrament of Baptism is then invisibly fulfild when not contempt of Religion but the point of necessity does exclude it And seeing that our Baptism under the Gospel does succeed in the very stead of Circumcision under the Law we ought not to set a harder censure upon the Babes of believing Parents dying without Baptism and without contempt of it than all antiquity has done upon the sons of the Hebrewes whom either Infirmity of disease untimely cut off or the cruelty of Pharaoh Exod. 3. or of Antiochus 1 Maccab. 1. suffered not to see the eighth day of their age till when by the Law they might not be circumcised In which case it hath ever been held the part of prudent and holy charity to hope and to make men rather partial than cruel Judges as having reason in a charitable presumption to gather a great likelihood of their salvation to whom the benefit of believing Parents being given the rest that should follow is prevented by some such casualty as man had in himselfe no power to avoid One errour more there is Paedobaptismus concerning this way of Children in Baptism comming to Christ with which though I may not now trouble you long yet unlesse I would betray my Text I must needs discover it unto you because it does so flatly bid defiance to my Text and stands in such direct terms of opposition to it The Disciples here may be suspected to be in a fair way to have turn'd Anabaptists they lik'd not that Children should come to Christ but Christ was displeased with them and for fear the Divel who is such a profest enemy to the Church of God and to the encreasing of his Kingdome should from this ill example of theirs take advantage afterwards to establish such a Sect he nips it in the bud he takes the children of this Edom and throws them against the stones he sets downe a Canon in his Church for the direction of succeeding Ages a Canon of such a Council as can never erre nor which shall ever be repealed Suffer little Children and forbid them not to come unto me Could any man have thought that so long as this Canon had been in force it should not have been preservative strong enough against that poison which the Divel hath since instill'd into some mens brains who have enacted a Statute in their Conventicle as it were in spight of this that till they come to years of discretion to the use of reason they come not to Baptism that is to say say Christ what he will till they cease to be children they shall in no wise come to Christ They slept surely while the enemy sow'd these Tares in their hearts Is' t possible they should be conversant in any of Christs fields that they should read any of his Gospels and not light upon this Ear of good Wheat which growes in so many of them Me thinks the Divels should have clapt these three Gospels into the Inquisition or caused the Council of Trent to have taken them into their consideration to have enlarg'd their Index expurgatorius and expurg'd this sweet command of Christ out of all these three Evangelists before he had gone about to make an Anabaptist The very Reason that they give for their Fancy is the same that is given by so many for the Disciples mistake here because that for want of the use of Reason they are not yet capable of such heavenly Mysteries which had it been of force S. Peter had also long since with his too much modesty depriv'd himselfe of that mysticall heavenly blessing of having his feet wash'd with our Saviours owne hands Lord saies he dost thou wash my feet thou shalt never do it but what Christ said then to him who was but a Childe in the knowledge of Heavenly Mysteries the same may the Ministers of Christ in his Name pronounce to any of these Children upon the like occasion Quod ego facio tu nescis modo What I do thou knowest not yet but thou shalt know hereafter Jo. 13.7 Euntes Docete Baptizate 't is our Saviours last charge to his Disciples in the end of S Matthews Gospel Go and teach all Nati●ns baptizing them not to ward this blow with the original Text which does not signifie to teach but to make Disciples but to try it out with their owne translated weapon See say they The Word preach'd and the Sacrament must go together therefore they that are not capable Auditors of the one are not fit Receivers of the other And Qui crediderit baptizatus fuerit Mark 16. He that believeth and is baptized