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A67323	Infants baptism from heaven, of divine institution Being a brief yet satisfactory answer to some objections made by Hercules Collins, in his book entituled, Believers baptism from heaven, infants baptism from earth, &c. against certain truths proved in a book entituled, Baptism anatomized. Propounded in five queries, by Tho. Wall. Viz. 1. What water-baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true administrators of it? 5. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptise himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practice, they ought themselved to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein is also proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel, Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the covenant of grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall.	Wall, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing W484; ESTC R219349	20,257	43

is the Lord not Men and Women only but their Infants with them in Scripture called the Lords People Psal 33. 12. which Blessing is the Pardon of Sin for Infants are as well capable of the Pardon of Sin in Infancy as in Infancy they were of the Sin derived from their Parents charged on them and this they take no notice of by way of answer Again H. Collins saith whereas he tells the World P. 16 17. Though the Scripture say they Baptised in Enon because there was much Water it would not be enough to dip half the Body in And further saith I suppose he never was there but speaketh by an implicit Faith Answer I not only gave you in my Book Reasons for what I said from the Scripture which you answer not but gave you two Histories Sandy's and The Travels of the Patriarchs But say you How will a little Water Figure out the Death and Burial and Resurrection of Christ Answer As well as a little Skin of the Superfluous Flesh cut off in Circumcision for Water-Baptism and Circumcision had one and the same Benefit in Christ's Death signified thereby as it is written Col. 2. 11 22. in whom also ye are Circumcised with the Circumcision made without Hands in putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh by the Circumcision of Christ buried with him in Baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the Faith of the Operation of God so to cover the Face which representeth the whole Person with Water the Person hath the Sign of Christ's Death signified to him for the Condemnation for Sin by the Law is compared to a Vail over the Face signifying Death 2 Cor. ch 3. until Christ take it away as was the manner among Men a Sign of Death was to cover the Face as the History of the Book of Esther sheweth Then said the King concerning Hamon Will he force the Queen also before me in the House As the word went out of the King's mouth they covered Hamon 's face Again H. Collins P. 14. saith That I say the Person is not Baptised but the Cloaths and these things are not becoming Modesty to discourse of let that vain Man know we do not Baptise the Cloaths in the name of the Blessed Trinity but the Person Answer The Face representeth the Person the Forehead being the place Gods Name is said to be writ on Rev 22. 4. signifying the bold Profession of the Gospel that is the place whereunto the Seal is to be set as I have largely shewed in Baptism Anatomized P. 12. which you answer not and so deceive your Reader by Objections and carping at words only for in Sealing Gods Covenant with Mankind it is written Gen. 9. 17. This is the Token of the Covenant which I make between me and you I do set my Bow in the Cloud and this Token of Gods Covenant is of Grace in Christ see Gen. 9. 11. Isa 54. 9 10. Rev. 4. 3. set in the Cloud not spread all over the Cloud so in the Seal or Token of Gods Covenant of Grace in Christ with Abraham and his Male Children in which the Females were included My Covenant saith God shall be in your Flesh for an everlasting Covenant Gen. 17. 11 13. not Circumcised all over but on a part for the whole as if the whole Man was Circumcised called the Circumcised Person so likewise in the Seal Sign or Token of Gods Covenant for the Remission of Sins by the Blood of Christ washed away by the Blood of Sprinkling now signifying in the Ordinance of Water-Baptism administred on the Person for a Sign not all over but on one part the principal part the Forehead and Face which as I have largely proved in Baptism Avatomized representeth the whole Person the Forehead and Face being the place whereby the open and bold Profession of Christ's Name as aforesaid or Gospel the Word of God is held forth for where should the Seal be set but to that part of Man where Gods Covenant or Name is said to be set or written therefore as in all Covenants between Man and Man the Seal for Confirmation is set or fixed but to one part of the Conditions and not spread all over although it confirmeth the whole Jer. 32. 9. to 14. Thus if this Man would take Council of God's Word then neither he nor others would lean to their own Understanding to limit the word Baptism in the Administration to their own mistaken Sense for as it was so it is a Sign and Seal of Mercy in Christ to Sinners set on one part of the Person agreeable to all Sealings a part being sealed to represent the whole Hereby the Contention about words would cease as about the Signification of the word Baptism as this Man and others do who confine it to one Sense contrary to the Apostles explaining the word Baptism 1 Cor. 10. and the agreeing in harmony with the Spiritual Baptism for as the Person is Passive in the Spiritual Baptism it being poured on as proceeding from above even so John's Baptism was from Heaven or from above therefore to be poured on the Person for as no Person puts the thing to be Sealed to or upon the Seal but the Seal is set on the thing Sealed which to understand in your sense of the Word overthroweth Order and it sets up your selves to be only Sealed and all others you make them Un-baptized and so that they have no right to partake of the Lord's-Supper but are deprived of all God's Ordinances in your Sense Now let the Reader judge who is the vain Man that would not in the administration of Baptism avoid uncomliness is it this Man or I let the Prudent Judge Again in Page 21. where it is asserted by me that many of the Three Thousand whom the Apostles Baptised Acts 2. 39. were Children seeing the Pardon of sin is by the Apostle Peter apply'd to Children H. Collins's answer is O horrible perverter of the Word of God! These Children whom he speaks of were no more as yet Baptised than the Gentiles which were a far off Uncalled Suppose some of their Children were Baptised it must be Believing Children not Infants my Child is my Child tho thirty or forty years Old You cannot think the Apostles would go beyond their Commission to Baptise any ignorant Infant Answer We read it was a part of the work of Christ's Priestly Office in the Redemption of Mankind to have Compassion on the Ignorant to wit Infants whom he blessed with the pardon of their sins Acts 3. 26. And therefore because Water-Baptism is the sign of Remission of Sins on that consideration the Infants of Believers have Right to Water-Baptism And for maintaining this truth he crieth out against me saying O how Sophistically doth this Man Reason And a●●n he saith in answering what I have said Page 140 to 162 of Baptism Anatomiz'd in vindication of the Covenant which God made with Abraham Gen. 17. 7. Exod. 19. 5 6. Deut. 29. 10. to 14. to be the Covenant of Grace in Christ and not the Covenant of Works he refers me to Mr Cary's Solemn Call What an absurd thing is this to refer me to that which I have already Answered and instead of Answering me his Malice ●● so great against me that he says of me Is he not Felo ' de se a Self-Destroyer Yet this I am fully perswaded of that neither he nor Mr. Cary nor yet any of his Principle shall be able to destroy or refute by God's Word the truth which I have Published in the name of the God of Families concerning the Right to remission of Sins to the Believers and their Infants and also the right they have to the Sign thereof Water-Baptism notwithstanding he boasteth that his Book is an Answer not only to Mr. Ainsworth's Censure upon a Dialogue of the Anabaptists and would make the World believe these following words were my Censuring of them no● 〈◊〉 my Book Page 113. out of Mr. Ainsw●●●●● Book his words are these It was Christ's last Farewel to his beloved Disciples to lift up his hands and Bless them Luke 24. 50. And it is the sum of the Gospel that in Abrahams Seed all Nations shall be Blessed This Grace Abraham's Infants had this Grace Christ gave to little Children and the same he vouchsafes to contin●● unto us and our Children throughout their Generations preserving us and them from the Curse of Anabaptistry whereby so many Errors are dispersed and Souls perverted to Destruction FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul 's Church-yard In Octavo GReek and Roman History Illustrated by Coins and Medals By O. W. Instructions 〈◊〉 Art of Grammar Baptism Anatomized Being Propounded in Five Queries viz. 1. What Water-Baptism is 2. What is the End for which it was Instituted 3. What giveth Right to it 4. Who are the true Administrators of it 5. Whether it be lawful for a Man to Baptise himself

Infants Baptism from Heaven OF Divine Institution BEING A Brief yet Satisfactory Answer to some Objections made by Hercules Collins in his Book Entituled Believers Baptism from Heaven Infants Baptism from Earth c. against certain Truths proved in a Book Entituled Baptism Anatomized Propounded in five Queries by THO. WALL VIZ. 1. What Water-Baptism is 2. What is the end for which it was Instituted 3. What giveth Right to it 4. Who are the true Administrators of it 5. Whether it be Lawful for a Man to Baptise himself WHEREIN The Right that the Infants of Believers have to Water-Baptism is vindicated The Duty of Believing Parents in that Matter asserted And that by the contrary Tenet and Practice they ought themselves to be excluded from the Lords-Supper is plainly and fully proved And wherein is also proved That the Covenant which God made with Abraham Gen. 17. and with Israel Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the Covenant of Grace in Christ and not part of the Covenant of Works made with Adam before his Fall London Printed by G. Croom for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with Acts of Parliament Speeches and other sorts of Discourses and State-Matters as also Books of Divinity Church-Government Humanity Sermons on most Occasions c. M DC XC II. Licensed and Entred according to Order TO THE READER Christian Reader THE Faith of our Lord Jesus call'd the Precious Faith the Faith of God's Elect in them compared to a Building Jud. v. 20. which Faith always dependeth upon the written Word of God called therefore the Word of Faith Rom. 10. Deut. 30. first preached to Adam and after to Abraham in which Word of Faith Christ is Lord in Sion a chief Corner-stone a sure Foundation on which Foundation all God's Elect build Gold Silver precious Stones when others build Wood Hay and Stubble Now they that build Gold Silver precious Stones are such whose Faith is built upon the Foundation or Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets Christ the chief Corner-stone joyning their Doctrin in one Harmony together in every Article of the Christian Faith to be tried by that Fire the seven Lamps the seven Spirits of God before his Throne in his Church to the Law and to the Testimony the Gospel made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets which by the Testimony of Christ is confirmed sending all that heard him to search the Scriptures of the Prophets to try his Doctrin by and so did the Apostles as by the Example of the Bereans who searched the Scriptures daily to wit of the Prophets to see whether those things were so as the Apostles taught If Christians would do so now they should see clearly the Doctrin of Anabaptistry concerning the State of the Infants of Believers refuted in this following Discourse as afore in my Book Baptism Anatomized is but Wood Hay and Stubble and will not endure to be tried in the Fire of God's Word and Spirit because what they teach out of Christ and the Apostles Writing in the New Testament is not proved by them to be agreeable to the Doctrin of the Prophets as in all their Writing doth appear as in particular now the Eleventh Chapter of H. Collins's Book where in the Title he boasteth that it is a sufficient Answer to my Book yet as concerning all he hath said in the Eleventh Chapter not one Scripture he bringeth out of the Prophets to confirm the Sense of any word he bringeth out of the Writings of Christ or his Apostles about the Doctrin of Baptism to disprove the Right the Infants of Believers have as I have proved both by the Doctrine of the Prophets and of Christ and his Apostles to Remission of Sins and so to Water-Baptism and therefore I affirm the Doctrin of Anabaptistry in this Point now controverted is neither Gold Silver nor precious Stones built on Christ the sure Foundation but Wood Hay Stubble so that till this Man with the rest of his Brethren prove what he asserts against the Truth I have proved in my Book by one Harmonious Agreement of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and lay aside their present Spirit of Insolence he must be ranked amongst Boasters as it is written Whoso boasteth himself of a False Gift or Gift of Falsehood is like Clouds and Wind without Rain Prov. 25. 14. as Jude hath noted such Teachers v. 12. they are without Water carried about of Winds Trees without Fruits raging Waves of the Sea foaming out their own Shame wandering Stars no fixed Guides to poor Souls speaking Evil of those things to wit of Faith which they know not but what they know naturally as Brute Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves therefore the Apostle Peter hath warned the Churches that as there were False Prophets among the People of Old Deut. 13. 1. even so there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies privily meaning as Christ hath warned of such pretending to be Sheep in Sheeps Cloathing in the outside so covering their false Doctrin with the Name of Christ to deceive many who by their privy or secret Doctrin steal into the Minds of Persons so as Ravening Wolves destroy Souls Now seeing we are warned of these Dangers try the Spirits as afore shewed believe none in what they teach in any Article of Faith unless they prove their Doctrin as aforesaid by the Harmonious Agreement of the Doctrin of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles which yet the Anabaptists have not done nor do in any of their Writings against what hath been publish'd by many worthy Servants of Jesus Christ concerning the Right the Infants of Believers have by the Free Grace of God in Christ to Remission of Sins and so a right to Water-Baptism So shall I conclude with the Council of the Lords Servants to the Churches Prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of Evil believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits or Doctrin as afore shewed whether they are of God because many False Prophets are gone out into the World From all such the Lord preserve his Chosen which is and shall be the earnest Prayer of him who is thine in the Lord Thomas Wall Infants Baptism from Heaven of Divine Institution c. IN my former Book Intituled Baptism Anatomiz'd and now further Confirmed is shewed the Vanity of some Objections made by Hercules Collins in the Eleventh Chapter of his Book Intituled Believers Baptism from Heaven Infants Baptism from Earth c. which said Book he sent me with this Challeng Come and stand before the Bar of God's word and make Answer Having perused his Book I find it no Christian Answer but a Compound of unsavory carping scurrilous Language and Goliah-like boasting as one puft up in his Fleshly Mind raging against the Truth which I have asserted concerning the Right the Infants of the Israel of God

5 6. 1 Pet. 1. 2. they would no doubt have continued with us and not have rent themselves from the Body but they went out that they might be made manifest they were not all of us even so Cain Ismael Esau c. were in the Church and in the Judgment of Man for a time a Holy Seed as was Demas a holy Person therefore concerning Demas one while the Apostle wrote in Commendation of Demas to the Colossians Col. 4. 14. Luke and Demas greet you and to Philemon vers 24. Demas Lucas my fellow labourers yet afterwards writes to Timothy 2 Tim. 4. 10. Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present World again in the Judgment of Philip Simon Magus was a Saint a Believer and had the sign of Remission of his Sins Water-Baptism administred on him now did Peter tell a Lye doth Hercules Collins think to say afterwards Judging him by his Fruits that he was in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity and had no part nor lot in that matter surely this Man Hercules Collins is utterly unfit to take Charge of Souls that thus by his Doctrin chargeth the Apostle to be a Lyer Thus as a blind Leader of the blind he leadeth the People into by-Paths out of the way of Understanding the Scriptures a Right for no other end but to maintain Falshood against the Right Infants of the God of Israel have to Remission of their Sins and so aright to the visible Seal thereof Water-Baptism Moreover he saith in P. 110 There are but two ways of being in Covenant absolutely or conditionally no Believer dares say all his Infants Seed are in the Covenant of Grace absolutely for then they must all be saved but we see that Abraham had an Ishmael Isaac an Esau David an Absolom Samuel Sons of Belial so that they cannot be Baptised under this consideration Reply As no Believer dares say nor did I ever say his Infants Seed are in the Covenant of Grace absolutely according to God's Secret Decree because that is only known to God so no Man dares say all visible actual Believers are in the Covenant of Grace absolutely which God only knoweth therefore Hercules Collins teacheth and granteth that no actual Believers may be Baptised under that consideration because he dares not say all actual Believers are in the Covenant of Grace absolutely and thus he hath again put an end to the Administration of Water-Baptism until he knoweth who the Persons be that are absolutely in the Covenant of Grace and in the mean time let all consider how this Man dissemblingly owned the Doctrin of Election when he put his hand to the Narrative aforesaid And therefore how contrary to God's revealed Will doth Hercules Collins take upon him to judge secret things concerning the state of Believers and their Infants and so censuring all Infants contrary to what the Scripture saith namely that they are the blessed of the Lord speaking of Believers and their Off-spring or Buds with them Esa 65. 23. A Godly Seed Mal. 2 15. A holy Seed Ezra 9. 2. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Children of the Promise Gal. 4. 28. Children of the Covenant Acts 3. 25. Yet this Man presumptuously for want of the Fear of God saith in his Book Page 82 as if he knew God's secret Council Those who Baptise Believers Baptise Christians but those who Baptise Infants Baptise Heathens all Children of Wrath by Nature before born again his Proof is Ephes 3. 2. Reply The Apostle having shewed what the state of Heathens is Eph. 2. 12. To be without Christ aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the World and this is the state H. Collins accounteth Believers Infants to be in yea and their own Children to be Heathens in this woful Estate yet this Man hath the face so brazened over as to say that I in Page 3 falsly say if not maliciously that the Anabaptists deny Infants to be Redeemed with Christ's Blood if as aforesaid he saith They that Baptise Infants Baptise Heathens then what is the state of a Heathen but to be without God and Christ out of the visible Promise of the Pardon of Sin as they account their Children and not in the Covenant of Grace how can such Infants be in the visible state of the Redeemed by the Blood of Christ by H. Collins his Doctrin let the Spiritual Man judge Again he saith in Page 113 that I say they reckon their own Children dying in Infancy by their own Judgment are lost and perish to all Eternity see how H. Collins confirmed my words against them First in that he saith all Infants Baptised are Heathens that is without Christ as afore shewed 2ly In Page 87. of his Book he saith All Infants Baptised are not in the Covenant of Grace In his Parallel now let him shew since the Fall whether there is any Salvation promised to any Soul out of the Covenant of Grace until then he concludeth all Infants are Damned because he saith all Infants are Heathens Again in the same Page he further saith in his Parallel all Infants of Believers do not receive Remission of Sins Then I would know of him how Infants can be saved without their Sins are pardoned Therefore that word pierced the Heart of H. Collins that I said from their own Doctrin in my Book Baptism Anatomized Page 1. That the Anabaptists reckon their own Children dying in Infancy by their own Judgment lost and perish to all Eternity being out of the visible Covenant of Grace Which put him upon such streights which way he might take to clear himself of this Just Censure upon this Cursed Doctrin concerning the visible State of Infants The way he hath taken is by devising a Lye against me saying Is not this Man's Doctrin agreeable to the Church of Rome 's and the Council of Carthage who decreed If any asserted Baptism did not take away Original Sin they should be Anathematized Now I ask this Man where and in which Page of my Book I have given the least grant that Baptism washeth away Sin any otherwise than being the Sign of Remission but the contrary I always affirmed That every Soul that shall be saved hath his Sins washed away in the Blood of Christ and that Water-Baptism is but a Sign thereof see Baptism Anatomized but my words aforesaid have so wounded him whether for a savour of Life unto Life or a savour of Death unto Death to him God knoweth which hath forced him to oppose his former words when he accounted Infants Heathens out of the Covenant of Grace Now to say in opposition pretended to me but rather to Rome's Doctrin and not mine concerning the Council of Carthage saying Water in Baptism washeth away Original Sin We saith he can tell you a better way of washing away of Original Sin by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to Infants dying in Infancy And thus the Reader may see