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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76088	The storming of the Anabaptists garrisons, vvith a brief discovery of the weaknesse of the same, & of the inconsiderableness of the sconces and forts of all the other sectaries, in despight and contempt of all the which, any Christian souldier may safely march to Heaven, without the least danger; ... In a word, in the insuing discourse, the vanity of all novell opinions is discovered, the ignorance of all the which can no way hinder any mans happinesse: and the baptisme of little children borne of Christian parents, whether Iewes or Gentiles, is proved by the word of God to be lawfull, ... / By Iohn Bastwick, Doctor in Physick.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Smart, Richard, fl. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1071; Thomason E390_23; ESTC R201542	43,659	52

wander and stray to their destruction or should but raze the names of his children and progeny out of his evidences and assert they had no right to their fathers estates or say they were unlawfully begotten or were bastards or should really indeavour to rob their Parents of their children or steale away the affections of their wives from their husbands or the husbands from their wives and their children or servants from their Parents or Masters is there any man I say of sound understanding that would thinke such a generation of people a harmlesse company of men much lesse call them the harmlesse men when they doe all the in●ury to people ●hat men possibly can doe How therefore can any man call the Anabaptists a harmlesse people when they not only thrust the children of Christian parents out of covenant with God and raze out their names out of the divine records telling them that their children are no more in covenant with God then Turkes and Infidels and that they have no more right to Baptisme then catts and dogs proclaiming them to the world an unc●eane and unholy generation labouring to seduce the people and to lead them into damnable errours and b● that meanes rob the Parents and Masters of their children and servants and steale away the affections of those that are joyned together in most relations and that against all the lawes of God and Nations which is indeed the greatest robbery and unrighteousnesse that can be perpetrated against God or men for it not only robbeth God of his honour and glory by making nothing of his holy Word but parents likewise of their children and the comforts of their children whom their parents according to the doctrine of the Anabaptists cannot looke upon but as on a company of Infidels and when they dye can have no more hope of their eternall happinesse then of the happinesse of a heathen which must needs sad the hearts of all such as beare any reall affection to their children when they cannot behold them but with such thoughts as that dying without the Covenant they are damn'd If when Christ came towards Ierusalem he wept over it foreseeing their misery how must those Parents that dearly love their children weepe over them when they dy of whom they have no hope Yea it must needs exceedingly sad the hearts of such Parents and make them greatly to mourne and be over-sorrowfull at the death of any of their children if they have any tender affections towards them if they beleeve the principles of the Anabaptists who account children of Christian Parents no better then Infidels and Heathens But Saint Paul in the first of the Thessaloniaxs and the 4th hath taught all Christians not to mourne as those without hope knowing that they and their children are within the Covenant and therefore all these tenents of the Anabaptists make them not only an hurtfull people to all good Christians and their children but a company of fighters against God and such as must one day give a dreadfull account if they speedily repent not for all these their unchristian and unrighteous proceedings But say ●ste Anabaptists these are arguments by consequent which are not binding But had we only arguments by consequence they would be sufficiently binding being groūded upon the holy Scripture and divine authority and taken from Presidents of the like nature for Christ himselfe hath taught us so to argue who in the 22. of Mathew to prove one of the greatest points of the Christian saith against the false teachers of his time viz. The Resurrection of the dead he evidenceth it from this that Abraham Isaac and Iacob were living and therefore by consequence that there should be a Resurrection which the Saduces excepted not then against alledging that it was but an argument by consequence and therefore not binding they poore ignorant soules were not so learned as our Anabaptists Saint Paul also in the first of the Cor. and the 15th chap. proves the Resurrection of the dead with many arguments by consequence as is there to be seene at large Now if arguments by consequence will stand good from both Christs and Pauls example and doctrine to prove the fundamentallest point of religion without which all preaching is vaine and our faith is vaine as the Apostle affirmes had we no better arguments they upon the same grounds would ever hold good for the confirmation of our faith in any point of religion of lesse consequence But we have not only arguments by consequence to prove that the children of the beleeving Jewes were Baptized and therefore that the children of beleeving Gentiles ought also to be baptized but expresse Scripture as I proved before from the Commission of Iohn the Baptist's and Christs Disciples before Christs death and from their practice who were sent to baptise the Jewes without distinction or limitation either of age or sex and who as the Scripture recordeth Baptized all that came unto their ministry they only excepted that rejected the counsell of the Lord against themselves which neither women nor children nor none of the people did but the Saduces Pharisees and Lawyers and their complices who neither entred into the Kingdome of heaven themselves nor would suffer others to enter by their good wills though the Publicans and harlots beleeved Iohn and were saved Math. ●1 ver 31. 32. and all the other people were baptized both men women and children for Ierusalem and all Iudea and all the region round about Iordan were baptized by the Baptist and all that waited upon Christs ministry and the world that followed him were baptized for the Disciples baptized more then Iohn and all that attended upon their ministry for wee read of none that were exempted but the above-named amongst which women and children are not included And even after the Ascension of Christ we read that in the City of Samaria Acts the 8th from the greatest to the least both men and women were baptized and we read that Cornelius his whole Family and all his friends there with him were baptized Acts the 10. ver 48. and of Lydia and her houshold Acts the 16. ver the 15th and the Goaler and all his houshold ver 33. and of Stephanus and his houshold 1 Cor. the 1. ver 16. who were all baptized which is more then if they had sayd that they baptized all the men and women in those families for Houshould includes all young and old of all sects and ages and therefore all the children as well as growen persons in the severall families of those that then embraced the Faith were baptized and made partakers of the Seales of the Covenant and of the Promises according to the old manner of admission under the Old Testament as well as the Parents and masters of those families Seeing therefore we have such pregnant proofes out of the holy Scripture and such a cloude of witnesses for the confirmation of this truth that children of christian Parents are as

meeke and lowly of heart And here he so dignifieth little children that he sends his Disciples to schoole to them which I affirme is as eminent a favour as he shewed to any men when he was up●n eatth and therefore doubtlesse those that Christ so graced in all respects are worthy of Baptisme and have a right unto it and all such as despise little children borne of Christian parents and count them Infidels highly offend Yea there are other passages yet not to be passed by concerning little children It is related Math. 21. ver 14. 15. 16. That the blind and the lame came unto Christ in the Temple and he healed them And when the chiefe Priests and Scribes saw the wonderfull things that hee did and the children crying in the Temple and saying Hosanna to the Sonne of David they were sore displeased and sayd unto Christ hearest thou what they say And Jesus sayth unto them yea have ye not read out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise Here we see that when Christs enemies were offended at the acclamation of the children Christ allowed of their witnesse and confirmes it by Scripture teaching all men that they did well and their duty and that God was honoured by it and that in all ages God would be glorified by the very mouthes of babes and sucklings who should set forth his praises as they did so that by the words of Christ it is sufficiently manifest that they confessed him before men and were not ashamed of him and hee had taught his Disciples and all men that they that confesse him before men hee would confesse them before his Father in heaven and here hee approved of them and owned them as his witnesses which is also as high a dignity as is conferred upon any of Christs followers and therefore I will never doubt to conclude that those children had right to Baptism that Christ so honours and that they were baptized by John and Christs Disciples amongst the other people and world that followed Christ for Jerusalem and all Iudea and all the regions round about Iordan were baptized and Christs Disciples baptized more then Iohn and children by Christs testimony beleeved in him and confessed him as well as others Ergo they were baptized And therefore in all these regards I may use the same words to all the Anabaptists that Saint Peter used when the Holy Ghost fell on them in Cornelius his house Can any man saith he forbid water that these should not bee baptized that have received the holy Ghost as well as we Acts 10th 47. I say in all these regard I may say unto the Anabaptists Who can forbid water that the children of those that are borne of such parents as are in covenant with God as the Jewes children then were and Christians children now are should not bee baptized God having graced them with such eminent significations of his favour and owning them so often to be his children and having put no difference between the Christian Jewes and their children and Christian Gentiles and their children yea they being now under a better Covenant and more surer promises Surely all those that doe forbid water that the children of Christian Parents should not be baptized are such as withstand God which Saint Peter durst not doe Acts 11. ver 16. and for my part I never will doe who by Gods assistance shall live and dye in this faith that children as well as women and men amongst the Jewes had not only right to Baptisme as well as their Parents but that they were really Baptized and that the children of the Christian Gentiles were as well baptized in their severall families as their Parents and that they ought still to be till the comming of Christ and in this faith by the grace of God I will live and dye This Mr. Smart to gratifie your desire I thought fit to write unto you whom I truly love in the Lord that you may know not only my opinion concerning this point of controversie but have by you my reasons for the same All that I have now to say unto you is this The times in which wee live are perilous times in respect of the many dangerous and desperate opinions that are now abroad destructive to the life of godlinesse which our Baptisme tyes unto and tending to the ruine of Christian Religion and disturbing of Church and State if the Lord from heaven by his mighty power doth not rebuke this spirit of errour that is now gone out into the world yea it is sad presage that great Judgements hang yet over this Land for the preventing of the which we ought cortinually to be put upon the duties of fasting and prayer and all watchfulnesse in them the meanes that God himselfe hath appointed for the diverting of his wrath and to these duties we ought to the uttermost of our power to joyne a godly life and a holy conversation as we have covenanted by our baptisme that so wee may set forth the praises of him that hath called us out of darknesse into his marvellous light knowing that the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ which that you and I and all such as feare his Name may doe and for ever persevere with all constancy in the truth is the daily prayer of him Aprill this 27. 1647. That loves you for our Masters sake JOHN BASTVVICK Errata PAge 6. line 33. for Mountaine read Mountague P. 7. l. 32. for which incertaine freemen and bonds r. within certaine Precincts and bounds P. 8. li. 16. for forced r. fed P. 8. l. 24. for and r nor P. 14. l. 24. for a man this r. this man a. P. 20 l. 27. for in Ierusalem r. Ierusalem P. 20. line ult for the concerning c. read the places above quoted all the doubt is concerning the Major which being FINIS