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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86561	Diatribē peri paido-baptismoū, or, A consideration of infant baptism: wherein the grounds of it are laid down, and the validity of them discussed, and many things of Mr Tombes about it scanned and answered. Propounded to the consideration of the Church of God, and judgment of the truly religious and understanding therein. Together with a digression, in answer to Mr Kendall; from pag. 143. to the end. By J.H. an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ, and preacher of the Gospel to the congregation at Lin Alhallows.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1654 (1654)	Wing H2798; Thomason E729_3; ESTC R17948	148,371	168

by undeniable consequence that Infants in the language of the Apostle Paul and so of the Scriptures were baptized so that to that common demand Where read we of any Infants baptized we can produce an answer very demonstrative And that is in 1 Cor. 10.2 3. Moreover Brethren I would not have you ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the Sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the Sea I pray let it be well minded All our Fathers saith Paul were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea Search the Scriptures and we shall find that amongst these Fathers there were many that when they passed through the Sea and under the cloud were but Infants See for this the History in the Book of Exodus First in Exodus 10.8 9. Pharaoh after several plagues poured out upon him and his people for refusing to let the Israelites go out of his Land being perswaded by his servants calls for Moses and Aaron and bids them go and serve the Lord but would know of them who should go To whom Moses gave this answer We will go with our young 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and with our old with our sons and with our daughters with our flocks and with our heards And whereas Pharaoh then would not condescend to that Proposition God bringing another plague upon him brought him to yeild to thus much of it That their little ones might go with them only leaving their flocks and heards with them Ver. 24. Only let your flocks and your heards be stayed let your little ones also go with you the word is in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies parvulus a little child so that here we see plainly they had little children amongst those Fathers that after proved Fathers too of the Jewish Nation these too passed under the cloud and through the Sea and were baptized to Moses in them Object But here it may be objected That this was not the Ordinance of Baptism appointed and instituted by Jesus Christ for discipling men to himself and therefore this is nothing to the purpose Answ To which I say by way of concession That that indeed was not the Ordinance of Baptism appointed by Christ as come in the flesh for discipling men into the faith of him as so come nor was it that we find called a baptizing them by Moses in his Writings but yet by way of Exception I say it s much to the purpose For 1. The Scripture here and the Apostle calls it Baptism and therefore it may not be denied to have been truly Baptism though not so instituted by Christ come in the flesh as that we have to treat of so that still our assertion is true in the Apostles language which may not be gainsayed by us that those Infants were baptized 2. Yea this Baptism is mentioned and spoken of by the Apostle as answerable to the Baptism the Believers and Churches of Christ received into the Name of Christ as a priviledge answerable to this of the Gospel-baptism and a testimony of Gods favour toward them answerable to what this Baptism is now to us and upon that account partly hath it the Name of Baptism put upon it by the Apostle his intent and scope here being to shew that those Fathers were all partakers of like priviledges yea and in substance of the same with the Churches of Christ now only the difference was in way of Administration those Priviledges and Ordinances being administred by the hands of or under the conduct of Moses these nor by and from Christ himselfe come in the flesh those typing out or fore-signifying Christ then to come in the flesh these signifying and leading to confess him come in the flesh and the grace that is in him as so come and held forth to us by him which is the same grace as well as the same Christ as the Apostle sayes ver 3. that was pointed to by them now more clearly witnessed and held forth then not so plainly And indeed if this be not so that that Baptism was equivalent with and answerable to this of ours since Christ manifested in the flesh as to the substance of it the Apostles argument as much as ours from it would be rendred invalid For whereas he brings these instances of them to answer a secret objection occasioned by his discourse in the preceding Chapter from his exhorting them so to run as to obtain and from his setting before them his own Example how he kept down his body in subjection lest having preached to others he himself should prove or become a Reprobate Chap. 9.24.27 That they were called by the grace of God into the grace of Christ and baptized into him and so delivered from that state of enmity and irreconciledness in which as Gentiles they before lay yea were under his conduct guidance and protection his Church and people observing his Ordinances and tasting the sweetness of his goodness and therefore what need of their so running as if they were in danger else to lose the prize or to be rejected of God again the Apostle brings the Fathers of old as instances of people under like favour and priviledges according to the dispensations of those times baptized as well as they and eating the same spiritual bread in substance and signification with them and yet God was displeased with many of them as follows ver 4.5 c. Now they might easily have replyed that the case was far different that was no baptism in comparison of theirs their priviledges were not like theirs c. and so they might as easily have retorted the Argument in that manner as the Antipedobaptists may to us if there were not a truth in it that that was to them as much for that dispensation yea the same with this to us as to the main matter or substance We must either argue the Apostle guilty of a weak argument here as to his purpose of proving them alike priviledged with us and we notwithstanding our priviledges as obnoxious to displeasure from God in case of unbelief or unworthy walking as they or else we must confess this to have weight in it for this business viz. That those Infants though not baptized into Christ expresly and immediately yet were truly and really as to external baptism baptized into the Doctrine of God then delivered concerning Christ as we be or the Church of Corinth were they had that that carries correspondency with and was answerable to our Baptism 3. Yea further It s to be minded here That all our Fathers and so the Infants of them I mean such of them as then were but Infants were baptized into Moses or unto Moses that is had an obligation put upon them by those their passages under the cloud and in the sea to listen to obey and follow after Moses and his Doctrine what ever incapacity was in them