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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45397	The baptizing of infants revievved and defended from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes in his three last chapters of his book intituled Antipedobaptisme / by H. Hammond ...	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing H515A; ESTC R875	90,962	116

in habit Next to these succeeds S. Augustine who died in the 30th year of this 5 t age and was the great champion of the Church against all the invaders of the depositum committed to it His passages on this subject are to many to be enumerated and some of them have already been set down in the Resol of the Quaere p. 217. making it the perpetual doctrine of the whole Church of all ages before him and expressly including that of the Apostles So de Bap contra Donat. l. 4. c. 23. Quod traditum tenet universitas Ecclesiae cum parvuli infantes baptizantur qui certè nondum possunt corde credere ad justitiam ore confiteri ad salutem tamen nullus Christianorum dixerit eos inaniter baptizari This is held as tradition by the Vniversal Church when little infants are baptized which are sure yet unable to believe with the heart or to confesse with the mouth and yet no Christian will say that they are baptized to no purpose a severe sentence again for the Antipaedobaptist adding the Ecclesiastical rule by which to judge of Apostolical tradition and evidencing the benefit of infant baptisme by the example of circumcision that as in Isaac circumcised the eighth day the seal of the righteousnesse of faith preceded and the righteousnesse it self followed in his riper age by his imitating his Fathers faith ita in baptizatis infantibus praecedit regenerationis Sacramentum si Christianam tenuerint pietatem sequitur in corde conversio cujus mysterium praecessit in corpore so also in baptized infants the Sacrament of regeneration praecedes and if they hold fast Christian piety conversion in the heart followes the mystery whereof had been formerly received in the body So De verb Apost Serm. 14. being come to handle this subject of the baptisme of infants he begins thus sollicitos autem nos facit non ipsa sententia jam olim in Ecclesiâ Catholicâ summâ authoritate fundata sed disputationes quorundam The doctrine it self gives us no trouble being long since founded in the Catholike Church by the highest authority that sure must be by Christs and the Apostles but the disputings of some men and again Non enim quaestio est inter nos ipsos utrum parvuli baptizandi sint Baptizandos esse parvulos nemo dubitat quando nec illi hinc dubitant qui ex alterâ parte contradicunt the question betwixt them and us is not whether infants are to be baptized Let no man make doubt of this seeing neither do they doubt of this which contradict us in the other question concerning the benefit of it And again in a farther process with those disputers Dic mihi obsecro te parvulis baptizatis Christus aliquid prodest an nil prodest Necesse est ut dicat prodesse Premitur mole matris Ecclesiae Doth Christ profit infants that are baptized or doth he not He must needs say that he doth profit he is prest with the weight of the Church our mother And again authoritate reprimuntur Ecclesiae si enim dixerint Christum nihil prodesse baptizatis infantibus nihil aliud dicunt quàm superfluè baptizantur infantes They are represt by the authority of the Church for if they say that Christ profits not infants baptized they plainly affirme that infants are superfluously baptized but this those very heretikes the Pelagians dicere non audent dare not say and so were faine to secure their hypothesis by another evasion viz. that they were baptized not for salvation but for the kingdome of heaven And yet farther Hoc habet authoritas matris ecclesiae hoc fundatus veritatis obtinet canon contra hoc robur contra hunc inexpugnabilem murum quisquis arietat ipse confringitur Fundata ista res est ferendus est peccator errans in aliis quaestionibus non tantum progredi debet ut fundamentum ipsum ecclesiae quatere moliatur This the authority of our mother the Church is possest of this the grounded Canon of truth holds fast against this fort this invincible wall whosoever makes assault is broken to pieces This is a grounded thing Hee is to be born with who erres in other questions but he must not proceed thus far as the Antipaedobaptist certainly doth as to indeavour to shake the very foundation of the Church i. e. certainly a doctrine laid by the first planters of the faith Christ and the Apostles themselves So Ep. 89. Non est superfluus baptismus parvulorum ut qui per generationem illi condemnationi obligati sunt per regenerationem ab eâdem liberentur The baptisme of infants is not superfluous that they who by their birth are bound to that condemnation which came by Adam should be freed from it by regeneration and more to the same purpose in that place So in Enchirid. c. 42. à parvulo recens nato usque ad decrepitum senem sicut nullus prohibendus est à baptismo ita nullus est qui non peccato moriatur in baptismo From the infant new born to the decrepit old age as none is to be kept from baptisme so there is none who dyeth not to sin in baptisme Which words are soon after transcribed by Leo ad Episc Aquileg who was advanced to the Papacie about the year 440. About this time was the Epistle of the Councel of Carthage written to Innocentius made Bishop of Rome about the year 400. In which these words we find by way of Decree Quicunque negat parvulos per baptismum Christi à perditione liberari salutem percipere sempiternam anathema sit Whosoever denyes that Infants are by the baptisme of Christ freed from perdition and receive eternal life let him be anathema About the same time whilest Innocentius lived and to the same purpose was the Milevitan Canon at which S. Augustine was present a Bishop in that Councel This hath been set down in the Resol of the Quaere p. 219. and is an evident testimonie that this doctrine was such as Ecclesia Catholica ubique diffusa semper intellexit the Catholike Church every where diffused alwaies understood and asserted and so it is that Councels witness of the Apostolicalness of it To these it were easy to adde Theodoret also and Leo already cited soon after him both falling within the former part of that fift Centurie and in every age after this store enough But the question is not and in any reason cannot be extended to those times the clear definitions through all those first ages being all that could be required to decide the controversie concerning the matter of fact whether it were practised or not practised by the Apostles And having so largely deduced them it is not imaginable what should be now wanting to the completing of the evidence when I have onely added that there is no one testimonie of dissent either pretended or producible from the writings of all those first ages nor consequently the least