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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

Necessity But doubtless they shall feel no pain Nescio an habeant Regni honorem But he cannot say They shall enter into Heaven Thus far Ambrose and 't is well he will conclude with Nescio He cannot tell But the common Opinion of the Papists is peremptory That all Infants dying without Baptism are shut out of Heaven into a Limbus an imagined place of theirs where they shall feel no pain at all no poenam sensus but poenam damni No Torments but the Torment of Loss which they all say is the greatest to be deprived of that visio beatifica the sight of God The farther opening of the Text will open a way to answer all their Arguments unless it be those from Authority Now that the Fathers should be so violent in this matter we shall not wonder if we consider The frailty of men and how far the heat of Opposition doth oft times transport us How have we seen Authority idolized by some and submitted to with blind Obedience whiles others cry down all Magistracy and Superiority as unlawful unsufferable in Christian Societies Some in some Cases do patronize perjury Jura perjura c. Others condemn all Oaths as simply unlawful though before a Magistrate and for the testifying of the truth In the Observation of the Lords Day because Some require a Jewish Rigor and such a strictness as cannot sute with Christianity Others let loose the Reins to all Intemperance and Profaneness And thus have we gone from a Superstitious Lenten-fasting to feasting on the Passion Friday From praying over the Graves of the Dead to cry down all Decency in Christian Burials Sic trahit in vitium Culpae fuga God help I can be too copious in this Theme And therefore to return to the Fathers They were men also Vigilantius undervalued Virginity and Hierom to cross him speaks disgracefully of holy Wedlock The Manich●es take away all Free-will from Man in Morals in Naturals Many of the Fathers in heat of opposition cry it up too fast Pelagius held the Baptism of Infants a thing needless useless The Fathers again and against him so far urge the Necessity thereof That they exclude all Infants dying unbaptized from the hope of Heaven But will the Scripture say as much They say it will and the Master-Argument is this of my Text. Except a Man be born of Water and the Spirit that is Except a Man be baptized he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God You heard before what Answer most of our Side made unto this place That nothing less is here intended than the Sacrament of Baptism But we have granted it And yet the Universal Negative shall not hold Universally You have such another place 2 Thess 3.10 Except a Man will work he must not eat And shall an Infant then be kept from Meat because Impotency disables them to work Again 't is said in sixth of John Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you And must all perish who do not partake of that other Sacrament of the Supper q v. Aug. contra 2. Epist Pelagii l. 4. c. 4. in Ps 64. l. 1. de peccat Merit c. 20. Cypr. de lap c. Indeed the Fathers some of them were sometime of this Opinion And therefore did they moysten some little portion of the Bread and so imparted it unto the Little ones Stillantur quaedam de Sacramentis This Opinion is long since exploded And Except ye Eat must suffer an Exception And why not here as well Except a man be born of water r lib. 4. dist 4. ● The Master of the Sentences understands it of those who may and do contemn to be baptized And the whole Schools except many They tell us The Baptism of Blood will suffice a Martyr They tell us Votum sufficit in Adultis If they come to years of Discretion the Desire of Baptism will suffice Now then if the words of my Text be not so General as to exclude All absolutely that dye unbaptized why shall poor Innocent Babes be here excluded If some may be received into bliss without Baptism Why should any Man tye the Mercies of God to second Causes in the case of Innocents Absit ut Vniversi parvuli pereant c. Innocent 3. Decret l. 3. tit 42. c. 3. They are the words of Innocent the Third in favour of Innocents God forbid that all those poor Souls those harmless Babes which daily dye should perish everlastingly but God hath allotted out some means to bring them also to Salvation Where though he understand the Means or Remedy to be Baptism yet I may s●y the same of other Ways if Baptism cannot be had God forbid That all those should perish those New-born Babes to whom that Sacrament is wanting they are not wanting to the Sacrament Epist 77. Bernard tells us there were other Remedies in elder times To Abraham and his Seed was given the Sacrament of Circumcision The Gentiles many of them were saved by faith and sacrifices And for their little Ones Solam profuisse imo suffecisse parentum fidem 'T was enough and enough to be born of faithful Parents The faith of the Parents did suffice for the Children And this saith he endured till the time of Baptism An verò ultra penes Deum est non meum definire But yet he concludes with the rest That Infants dying without Baptism go not to Heaven But I would ask him The Faith of others shall suffice the Infants which are baptized and why not those which born within the League or Covenant did die without it when not the Contempt of the Sacrament but the Article of Necessity excludes the Mystery Augustine himself will tell us That in others the Visible Sacrament is then supplyed invisibly De Baptis cont Donat. l. 4. c. 22. Epist. 77. nd Hug●n vict And why not here Me thinks in Bernards words it stands well with the gratious Mercies of the Almighty That where age alone hath denyed faith of their own there Grace should accept the supply of faith from another I farther add what all Men grant That Baptisme came in place of Circumcision Now Davids Child dyed without Circumcision yet could the Prophet comfort himself with that Heavenly Resolution I shall go to him 2 Sam. 12.23 Besides the Little Children slain by Herod some of them as 't is granted by Bellarmin and others in all probability not eight daies old and therefore by the Law not Circumcised yet are these Little Ones enrolled by their Church into the Alb of Saints Again That Circumcision was not simply and absolutely necessary which had yet as absolute a Command as this of Baptisme those forty years will testifie in which it was omitted in the Wilderness Jos 5 5. Gen. 17.14 Besides Jeremy and John Baptist were both sanctified in their Mothers womb And who then durst cut them off from the hope of Heaven