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ground_n	believe_v	faith_n	sufficient_a	1,462	5	7.5981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12284	A censure upon the dialogue of the Anabaptists intituled, A description of what God hath predestinated concerning man ... By Henry Ainsworth.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1623 (1623)	STC 226; ESTC S100100	65,025	70

that no infants vvere there baptised But such as had infants their parents beleeving we hold that their infants vvere baptized for there is no exception of infants at all in any place of the Apostles Acts. The barre vvhich they put that infants cannot heare nor beleeue is soone removed We know infants can heare though not vvith understanding we know also and haue proved before that they beleeue though not actually or professantly And this faith begun in them in their regeneration is a sufficient ground vvhy infants should be baptised as I haue formerly manifested Finally unto Christs words Mark. 1● 14 suffer ye little children to come unto me c. for of such is the kingdome of God they say It is not s●yd Infants are of the kingdome of heaven that is obeyers of the Gospel Luk. 4 43 but that they that enter into the kingdom of heaven must become as little children for of such like is the kingdome of God And This is Christs meaning men must bee converted and receiue the kingdom of God as a child c. Ans They speak like children in understanding 1. The people brought yong children properly unto Christ not men converted become like children Mark 10.13 For the children the disciples rebuked the bringers for their rebuking Christ vvas much displeased and sayd Suffer the little children to come unto me What reasonable creature will now deny that Christ speaketh here of children in yeares not of old men like children The children that were brought Christ took up in his armes put his hands one them blessed them may we think he took up aged persons 2 The reason vvhy he would haue such chil●ren suffered to come to him is for of such is the kingdome of God Mark 10.14 If he had not meant this of yong children themselues but of men like children in some condition there had been no weight in his words but the people might haue brought unto him upon that ground doues and serpents for Christ to lay hands upon and blesse for as godly men must in some thi●gs be like children 1. Cor. 14 20. so must they in some things also be like serpents and like doues Math. 10.16 3 They wrest the t●xt when they expound f●● of such is the kingdome of God thus for of such like as if Christ meant n●t the children properly but ancienter men like such children They might even as well say that when Paul writeth I beseech thee being such a one as Paul the aged Philem. v. 9 that he ●peaketh not this of himselfe but of some other man like himselfe that made request for Onesimus But ignorant and unstable men vvill pervert all scriptures to their owne perdition That infants of the faithfull are indeed of the kingdome of God is before proved from Rom. 5. and many other scriptures Now vvhereas Christ blessed the children they tell us he baptised them not vvhich we grant but if they vvhich were by nature children of wrath and curse were now by grace made children of blessing in Christ then were they in deed of the kingdom of God and such as might receiue baptisme the signe and seale of blessednes Lastly they say It is a blessing to infants to be created to liue to grow in stature wisedome c. to haue their sight their limbs c. so that Christs blessings extend as well to this life as that which is to come Answ. All Gods benefits for this life and the next are in deed blessings But Christ blessed not those children with any such vvordly temporal blessings particularly but gaue them the blessing of God in generall and men are too presumptuous that will vvithout due proofe restreine that to some particulars vvhich the Lord hath not restreyned Wee know that our blessednesse from God in Christ is our eternall salvation Rom. 4 6. c. It vvas his l●st farewell to his beloved disciples to lift up his hands and blesse them Luk. 24.50 and it is the summe of the Gospell that in Abrahams seed that is Christ all nations shall be blessed Gal. 3.8 This grace Abrahams infants had this grace Christ gaue to little children and the same he vouchsafe to continue unto us and to our children throughout their generations preserving us and them from the curse of Anabaptistrie whereby so many errours are sparsed scriptures wrested and soules perverted unto destruction FINIS Page 5. Page ● Page 7. Pag. 10 1● Page 13. Pag. 15 16. Page 16. Page 17 1● Pag. 18. * So it is explained in Ezek. 18.21 Pag 18. Pag. ●● Pag. 2● Pag. 26 27. Pag. 28. Pag. 29. Pag. 32. Pag. ●● Pag. 34 36. Pag. 39. Rom. 9.25.26 Rom. 11.5.7 Act. 17.28 29. Rom. 8.29 Page 41. Pag. 4● Pag. ●● Pag● ●● Pag. 78. Pag. ●9 Pag. 80. Pag. 84. Pag. 1● Pag. ●7 ● Tim. 2.12 Pag. 89. Pag ●0 Pag. 91. Pag. 92. Pag 94. Joh. 8.34 36 Page 95. Confess 18. Concil Pag. 113. Pag. 113. Pag. 80. Pag. 11● Rom. 7.1 Pag. 114. Pag. 115. Pag. 116. Pag. 117. Pag. 117. Pag. 117. Pag. 118. Pag. 119. Pag. 119 Pag. 120. Pag. 121. Pag. 122. Pag. 122. Pag. 129. Pag. 131. Pag. 132. Pag. 13● Pag 145. Pag. 145. pag. 146. Pag. 147. Pag. 148. Pag. 148. Pag. 150. Pag. 151. Pag. 152. Pag. 136 Pag. 136 Pag. 138. Pag. 141. Pag. 142. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 16.25.26 1. Cor. 10.1.2 Mark 1.5 Act. 16.33 Pag. 143. Mat. 10.13 14. 1 Cor. 7.13.16 Pag. 143.