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A93239 Infant-baptism and church-membership proved: and also the mode of baptism to be by sprinkling &c. In answer to Mr. Benjamin Dennie's book. By Giles Shute of Limehouse. Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51. 1695 (1695) Wing S3708; ESTC R231568 45,328 72

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submit to the discipline of Baptism Thus I have proved Infant-baptism and Church-membership to be of divine Institution and therefore have a right to the Ordinance of Baptism by vertue of Christs command and the Apostles argumentative mandatory Exhortation and also their covenant interest 1. Therefore I challenge all our Opponents to prove that ever the children of believing parent were once denied the Ordinance of Baptism is our Saviours time or his Apostles 2. I also challenge them to prove by any one Text of Scripture that none but adult believer● were to be baptized 3. Let them give us but one single Instance among all those Housholds which were baptized that any one child was exempted 4. And lastly Let them prove that Infant-baptism is any where forbid in the holy Scripture But if they can do neither of these as I am sure they cannot where then is divine Right which they so highly boast of and so confidently la● claim unto Why it appears clearly to be on our side and not on theirs and the Reason for it is undeniable For nothing can be of divine Right that is repugnant to the holy Scriptures But to deny the Infant-seed of Believers to have an Interest in the Covenant or Promise of God which intitles them to Baptism is repugnant to the holy Scriptures and therefore cannot be of divine Right as is clear from Acts 2.38 39. 1 Cor. 7.14 and Gen. 17.7 5. Some of those that are against Infant-baptism have publickly and confidently asserted in print that the children of Turks and Heathens have as much priviledge as the children of believing Christians but Mr. D. seems to be of another mind if he had but held tightly to it for saith he in page 2. Many of those you call the outward priviledges of the covenant of Grace our children have as well as yours Pray note by the way Mr. D. saith we call these Priviledges so he doth not own them to be really so and yet at the same time he saith their children have them This is a contradiction in it self for it is to have and enjoy that which they hold is not in being 6. I will prove that the children of believers have a far greater priviledge than the children of Turks and Heathens 1. First of all when the ungodly World was drowned and all destroyed all those children whose parents were not in the covenant were destroyed with their parents not so much as one of them escaped Pray take notice I do not judge nor meddle with their future estate But holy Noah and all his Houshold were saved Heb. 11.7 not one of his children perished in the Flood because they were all in the Covenant of Grace 2. When Sodom and Gomorah were destroyed by Fire from Heaven all those children whose wicked parents were not in the covenant perished with them in that conflagration but righteous Lot who was in the Covenant of Grace was saved and all his own children 3. Where is the chapter or verse to be found in all the Book of God that doth declare that the children of Turks or Heathens are holy children as it doth the children of either believing father or mother in 1 Cor. 7.14 4. And lastly Where is it said in Scripture to Turks and Heathens while such that The promise is unto you and to your children as in Acts. 2.39 Thus you see I have proved That the children of Christian believers have a far greater priviledge than the children of Turks and Heathens by which I have utterly destroyed that carnal ignorant presumptious Assertion of theirs 6. Saith our Opponents What benefit is it for a child to be baptized To which I Answer thus So might proud carnal Reason and natural Affection much more have queried in the time of the Mosaick Law What good doth this smarting Ordinance do to our children Or what benefit is it for them to be circumcised at eight days old which the Apostles themselves counted to be an intolerable yoke which they were not able to bea● Acts 15.10 and yet in Rom. 3. he counts it a very great priviledge and advantage for saith he What advantage then hath the Jew or wh●● benefit is there in circumcision Much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God Here you see the Apostles Answer is very compatible to this Query but saith he farther For what if some did not believe shall their 〈◊〉 belief make the faith of God without effect Here you see those eight-day disciples were capable of receiving the Oracles of God or else they would not have been committed unto them 6. Saith Mr. D. in p. 3. The primitive Fathers for six hundred years after Christ had a far different Medium to prove Infant-baptism by viz. The necessity of it to salvation Your notion of covenant-right from Abraham and habitual faith is not to be found in their Writings To which I Answer We are not bound to sail by their Compass if the Fathers were mistaken must we be so too I can produce some that were mistaken in a paraelel case long before their time and some of Mr. D's own Opinion that have been mistaken also in this Point in our Time 1. Some of those Jews that were converted to the Christian Faith in the Apostles time who were Teachers of others Acts 15. And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved Here those men laid a very great stress upon the very manner of circumcision it must not be after the manner of Abraham but Moses 2. I have heard of some even in our Time that are against Infant-baptism that have held the same thing in effect for say they No baptism no salvation and they hold That there is no Baptism but that of dipping which is to reprobate all those who are not for dipping in baptism and all their own children also that die before they are dipped which is to place an Ordinance in the room of Christ's Righteousness But my good Friend It is safer relying upon Thus saith the Lord than upon Thus say the Fathers 2. I shall in the second place prove that the mode of baptism is by sprinkling or pouring water on the subjects in baptism and this I shall do partly to satisfie my much esteemed friend Mr. B. D. who gave me a strict charge on the Royal Exchange so to do though I have been very large already on this subject in my Replication to Mr. B. K's Book 1. I shall begin and make some Observations from Acts 2. where we find a great number that were baptized at one time but we do not find that the Apostles did lay any Injunction upon them to change their Rayment to be baptized in 1. They did not command the men to strip themselves and put on other Garments proper for the Ordinance and then come and be baptized neither did they say unto the women and
shall add by clear Scripture Proof as followeth in Exod. 25.40 Acts 7.44 Heb. 8.4 5. Heb. 10.1 2. That the frame of the Jewish Church was made more glorious at the coming in of the Gospel New Dispensation I readily grant but the state of the Church was never altered and the Materials or Subjects are still of the very same kind without any substantial variation 2. Their spiritual Food in Gods House the Church is still the very same though under a better and more glorious Dispensation 3. If Mr. D. could have proved that the state of the Church had been plucked up by the roots and the Covenant dissolved and that it was but a carnal Constitution as Mr. H. C. and Mr. B. K. laboured in vain to do as may be seen in their Books against me then Mr. D. might have gained the Point but he is wiser than to attempt such a gross Absurdity which borders upon blasphemy and therefore he hath rather chosen to contradict those two populous Authors or Champions 4. The Jews and all their children under the Law were Members of the Church visible and the state of the Church was never altered Therefore all the children of Christian believers are Members with their Parents of the Church visible also now under the Gospel Dispensation unless any of them sin themselves out of it when they are grown Persons John 15.2 Rom. 11.17 But that the state of the Church was never altered I shall prove as followeth 1. The Jewish Church state was built upon the Rock of Ages namely that spiritual Rock Christ Jesus as in 1 Cor. 10.3 2. The Church hath its Foundation in the Covenant of Grace of which Christ is the chief Corner-stone Isa 28.16 3. The Covenant of Grace was first declared and made with Adam immediately after the Fall for Adam had the Gospel Preached first to him by God himself who spake as never Man spake like him Gen. 3.15 4. Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness 2 Pet. 2.5 that was he Preached the Gospel for he that doth not preach up the Righteousness of Christ for Justification Satisfaction Sanctification and Salvation doth not Preach the Gospel for the Righteousness of Christ is the very Marrow and Quintessence of the Gospel 5. Abraham had the Gospel Preached unto him as in Gal. 3.8 And the scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the heathen through faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying In thee shall all nations be blessed Pray observe The Gospel is that which was Preached before unto Abraham that was when God first blessed Abraham and in him both Jews and Gentiles at his first establishing his Covenant with him in Gen. 12.3 And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed 2. This Preaching the Gospel before unto Abraham 1. It was before the Covenant was so fully declared and established with him And 2. before God had changed his Name 3. And lastly It was before God had fixed a Token unto the Covenant All which you have in Gen. 17.5 7 11. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram but thy name shall be called Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your fore-skin and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you The Covenant was as much a Covenant to Abraham before God added ● Token unto ●● as it was unto him after as is also clear from Verse 4. As for we behold my covenant is 〈◊〉 thee and thou shalt be a father of man● 〈◊〉 God did not change nor alter his Covenant with Abraham when he added Token to it though he changed his Name Thus you see 1. by whom the Gospel was preached unto Abraham 2 When it was preached unto him 3. How is was preached unto him 4. And lastly What the Gospel was that was preached before unto him Why it was the Covenant of Grace it self in the first broaching of it to Abraham Which utterly destroys that new invented Notion of a Covenant of Peculiarity made with Abraham of Circumcision That is to place the Token of the Covenant in the room of the Covenant it self which is absurd and false And this we must observe also that this was not the first broaching of this Celestial Liquor viz. the Gospel though it was so to Abraham and his Seed for it was first broached and set a running to Adam immediately after the Fall and hath run down upon his Posterity ever since from Generation to Generation and will continue to the end of the World So that to Preach up the Covenant is to Preach the Gospel Hence by the way I infer How unfit all those are who take upon them the Ministry of the Gospel that disown the Covenant that are so ignorant of these profound Mysteries that cannot distinguish between the Covenant and the Token thereof 2. That the Church-state is still the same and the substantial Matter and Form the same now as it was under the Law plainly appears by our Saviours Words to the unbelieving Jews who were then Members of the Church visible as in Mat. 21. Therefore the kingdom of heaven shall be taken from you and gives to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof And in Mat. 8. A●● I say unto you that many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven That is they shall be brought into the same Covenant which God established with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and into the same Gospel-Church as they and their Seed were in for this cannot be meant of the Kingdom of Heaven above for none can be cast out of that as these were to be in the remainder of the Verse Mind it but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness there shall be weeping 〈◊〉 gnashing of teeth 1. From hence we may observe that the unbelieving Jews were to be cast out of the Church or Kingdom of Heaven and the Elect Gentiles were to be taken in for them in their room which did not destroy the Constitution of the Church no more than the casting out of Hypocrites out of a Church doth now but it was to purge and refine the Church from all its chaffe Hypocrites and to gather in the Elect Gentile-wheat into the Garner Mat. 3. Whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner but he will burn up the ch●ff with unquenchable fire 2. When this Threatning was executed viz.