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A53334 A brief defence of infant-baptism with an appendix, wherein is shewed that it is not necessary that baptism should be administred by dipping / by John Ollyffe ... Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717. 1694 (1694) Wing O287; ESTC R32212 67,029 72

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are born and are a part of the Church in Adam's Family Even Cain was so Gen. 4.1 3. till cast out from the Presence of God therein for the Murder of his Brother ver 14. being now manifestly one of the Seed of the Serpent 1 John 3.12 and so becoming the Father of a wicked unchurch'd Race But then God appointed unto Eve another viz. Seth in whom to continue the Line of her Church-seed Gen. 4.25 And how it did continue in his Seed in their Generations is shewed in Gen. 5. And hence the Children of the Church are called the Sons of God which is as much as Members of the visible Church in contradistinction to the Daughters of Men the Progeny of unchurched Cain Gen. 6.2 Again if righteous Noah be taken into the Ark then the only preserving Place of the Church to which the Apostle applieth Baptism as having a mystical Relation to it his Children also are taken in with him Gen. 7.1 though one of them viz. Ham after proved degenerate and wicked but till he so appears he is continued in the Church with his Brethren And as the Race of Ham or his Son Canaan Parent and Children are cursed Gen. 9.25 26 27. So likewise Shem Parent and Children is blessed and continued in the Place of Blessing the Church As Japhet also or Japhet's Posterity still Parent and Children shall in time be brought in And the holy Line mentioned in Gen. 11 10 26. shews how the Church continued in the Seed of Shem from him unto Abraham And when that Race grew degenerate as it is plain they did Josh 24.2 then God called Abraham out of his Country and from his Kindred and established his Covenant with him which still took in Parents and Children Gen. 17.7 And here was a Token or Sign ordered for the Confirmation of this Covenant which was to be applied to Children in their Infant-state even at eight Days old ver 10 11 12. Here indeed we have the first mention of Infants as owned by God and taken into Covenant by him together with their Parents as here we read of the first Token of the Covenant that was to be applied to them But the same is also to be held of those that are spoken of before though it be not particularly mentioned because there was no Sign then appointed for the confirming of this Covenant to them as there now was Yet forasmuch as they are reckoned still to be and continue in their Church-state till by their Wickedness or Apostacy they were cut off and are reckoned to be in this Church-state as coming and proceeding from such Parents as God had chosen and called into so near a Relation to himself they are therefore to be reckoned even from their Infancy to have been in this State And as for the Covenant made with Abraham and his Infant-seed I shall briefly observe for the preventing of Objections that it was the same which in the Gospel is called the new Covenant And Circumcision which was ordered to be the Token or Seal of it and to be applied to the same Infant-seed was a Token and Seal of it as such as appears by the Terms which in the main Article of it are the same with those which are reckoned by the Apostle to belong to the New Covenant Gen. 17.7 For I will establish saith God 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 This is the main Point And thus that which the Apostle calls the New Covenant runs in the same Terms in that main Article likewise Heb. 8.10 I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a People And the Psalmist hath taught us that this imports and signifieth much more than any kind of outward Prosperity whatsoever or all together For howsoever a People may be look'd upon happy that is in such a Case yet this is the chief Point the all in all the Sum of that Blessedness that can belong to a People Psal 144.15 Happy is that People whose God is the Lord. And our Saviour hath deduced the Promise of the Resurrection it self from God's being the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob Matth. 22. So that consequently the Resurrection of all others to whom God is a God may be concluded from the same Covenant-relation likewise So that the Covenant made with Abraham and his Seed in their Generations was the Gospel-Covenant for the main Articles of it and contained in it the greatest Gospel-Blessings The Promise and Giving of Canaan was but an Appendix or Appurtenance to it and not the principal thing respected but under that a better Country was intended And so Abraham understood it for he looked for a City which had a Foundation whose Builder and Maker is God Heb. 11.10 But he sojourned in that earthly Land of Promise as in a strange Country dwelling in Tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the Heirs with him of the same Promise ver 9. So that neither he himself nor many others to whom the Promise was made did enjoy the earthly Canaan for an Inheritance But they confess'd themselves that they were Strangers and Pilgrims upon Earth and they desired a better Country that is an heavenly ver 13 16. which they did no doubt by virtue of the Promise as they understood it And this the Apostle looks upon a verifying and making good that Relation that God engaged himself in to them for therefore saith he he was not ashamed to be called their God because he had prepared for them a City ver 16. So that Abraham had that which the Apostle calls the Promise of eternal Inheritance Heb. 9.15 For if the Inheritance be of the Law it is no more of Promise but now the Apostle saith God gave it to Abraham by Promise Gal. 3.18 So that the Promise of eternal Life and Happiness in Heaven is contained in the Covenant that God made with Abraham and his Seed together with those that were born in his House Gen. 17.12 13. who yet had never any share with his Seed in the Land of Canaan as an Inheritance at all nor was the Messiah to descend from their Loins And what was this then less than the gospel-Gospel-Covenant And it the Promise of eternal Life was contained in this Covenant then we may be sure it contained also the Promise of Justification or Remission of Sin And if so then what was it less than the Gospel-Covenant And thus the Apostle assures us likewise it was and that the Gospel was preached unto Abraham Gal. 3.8 For the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Heathen through Faith preach'd the Gospel before unto Abraham saying In thee shall all Nations be blessed It is true this Clause which the Apostle quotes is not in Gen. 17. wherein the Covenant is made with Abraham and his Seed which we have insisted upon but in