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grace_n	covenant_n	infant_n	seal_n	3,527	5	9.6632	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85422	VVater-dipping no firm footing for Church-communion: or Considerations proving it not simply lawful, but necessary also (in point of duty) for persons baptized after the new mode of dipping, to continue communion with those churches, or imbodied societies of saints, of which they were members before the said dipping; and that to betray their trust or faith given unto Jesus Christ to serve him in the relation and capacity, whether of officers, or other members, in these churches (respectively) by deserting these churches, is a sin highly provoking in the sight of God. Together with a post-script touching the pretended Answer to the Forty queries about Church-communion, infant and after baptism. By John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1213; Thomason E723_15; ESTC R202234	72,402	91

is not his meaning in saying so many of us as c. clearly this that as many of us Saints or of us beleevers who have been baptized For in what other consideration rel●●ion or respect he should make himself one of them is not easie to imagin Evident it is from Chap. 1. 13. 15. that he was no dweller in Rome at the time of writing this Epistle nor had been any time before So likewise when he writes to the Churches and members of the Churches of Galatia thus For as many of YOV as have been baptized c. can his meaning be as many of you who dwell in Galatia as have been baptized Or doth not such a sence as this plainly imply that he wrote his Epistle aswel to the Infidels in the Countries of Galatia as to the members of the Christian Churches there Therefore questionless the Apostles meaning in the words before us is plainly and directly this As many of you who being members of the Churches of Galatia have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ and consequently the particle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as many as is not partitive of the beleevers in the places mentioned from the rest of unbeleeving Inhabitants there but of beleevers amongst themselves those that had been baptized from those who were at present unbaptized in either place respectively This to be the express sence of the two passages mentioned might be further evidenced by the light of sundry considerations but that we judge the premises already levied sufficient to establish that conclusion It being then so clear a case that there were some members of Churches in the Apostles days who were unbaptized at least for a time it undenyably follows that Baptism is no Constitutor of Churches as the beloved notion of my Anti-querist beareth Concerning that Copweb-piece stiled by the Author Some Baptismal abuses briefly discovered wherewith some silly flies as I understand have been intangled and catched there is a besome preparing for the brushing away of that also from the Temple of God so far as it is catching and hath not been dismantled by the contents of these papers For the tail of it wherein the sting and the worst of the poyson lies hath been cut off and swept away hereby THE ANATOMY OF Ana-Baptism ANa-Baptism is by the Modern Architects of it built upon Foundations or Grounds of three sorts Some 1. True but not pertinent 2. Fals and therefore not pertinent 3. Conjecturall onely and therefore very little pertinent 1. Of the first sort are 1. All those Texts of Scripture on which they mis-ground first their Opinion and then their Practictise As Mat. 19. 28. Mar. 16. 16. Act. 2. 38 41. Act. 8. 37. Rom. 6. 3 4. Coloss. 2. 12. Heb. 6. 2. possibly with some others These are true Grounds of Doctrines and practises corresponding but are irrelative to the Doctrine and Practise of Ana-Baptism 2. Of this sort also are these and some other like Tenents upon which they build their said Fabrick 1. That in the Scripture there is no particular or expresse either Precept or Example for Infant-Baptism 2. That no Ordinance of Christ can be neglected or omitted without sin This rightly understood and with due limitation is a truth also but thus understood it reacheth not their practise 2. Of the second sort are these 1. That in case Infants were not Baptized in the dayes of Iohn the Baptist nor of Christ nor of his Apostles then ought not Baptism to be administred unto Infants now 2. That Circumcision was neither sign nor seal of the Righteousness of Faith or of the Covenant of Grace but unto the person of Abraham onely 3. That Baptism it self is no Seal of the Covenant of Grace unto any person whatsoever but a sign onely 4. That an Administration of Baptism made to professing Beleevers doth more conduce unto and better answer the ends of Baptism then that which is made to Infants 5. That Infant-Baptism is disagreeable to the Ministration of the New Testament 6. That none ought to be Baptized but such who in their own person appear voluntarily willing to be Baptized in obedience unto God 7. That Infant-Baptism is a nullitie 8. That Infant-Church-member-ship was a Leviticall Ceremonie and abolished with the rest of the Legall Ceremonies by Christ in the Gospell 9. That a profession of Faith whether reall or feigned is a more warrantable ground whereon to administer Baptism then an estate in Grace though attested by God himself 10. That any Person un-baptized may without special Commission from God and without proof-making of such a Commission administer Baptism and that such a mans Administration together with all the administrations lineally descending from it is the Institution of Christ 11. That any person whatsoever pretending to beleeve and to have been baptized whether invested into any Office or not may as lawfully administer Baptism as he that is an Officer in a Church 12. That not simply Baptism but the administration of Baptism to beleevers onely is an Ordinance of Christ properly so called 13. That there can be no warrantable ground for the administration of an Ordinance to such or such a subject or after such or such a manner but either a particular and express precept for or example of the one and the other 14. That there ought to be a resemblance or similitude between the sign and the thing signified as there is between the bush and the wine in the Vintners celler and was between the streight pole on which the brazen Serpent was lift up and the cross timber on which the Lord Christ was Crucified and again between the Rain-bow and the safty of the Earth from drowning between Circumcision and the Covenant which God made with Abraham and his seed 15. That the Baptizing of Infants is unlawful because it is not a Ordinance of Christ 16. That obedience to external Rites Ordinances and Institutions is to be preferred before obedience to the Law of nature or to the precepts of the Moral Law 17. That no circumstance mentioned in the Tenour of an Institution or observed in the first Administration thereof can without sin either be omitted or varied in after Administrations upon any occasion or consideration whatsoever 18. That persons baptized after the new mode of dipping though void of saving Grace and strangers unto Holiness are notwithstanding by vertue of such their Baptism rendered visible Saints whereas others not so baptized are invisible notwithstanding the greatest Exemplariness of Saint-ship in the whole course of their lives and conversations otherwise 19. That children under the Gospel are more unworthy more unmeet less capable subjects of Baptism then they were of circumcision under the Law 20. That it was better and more edifying unto men to receive the initiating or first Sacramental pledg of Gods Fatherly love and care in the time of their Infancy under the Law and that now under the Gospel it is worse and less edifying unto