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A67323	Infants baptism from heaven, of divine institution Being a brief yet satisfactory answer to some objections made by Hercules Collins, in his book entituled, Believers baptism from heaven, infants baptism from earth, &c. against certain truths proved in a book entituled, Baptism anatomized. Propounded in five queries, by Tho. Wall. Viz. 1. What water-baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true administrators of it? 5. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptise himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practice, they ought themselved to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein is also proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel, Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the covenant of grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall.	Wall, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing W484; ESTC R219349	20,257	43

saith he to try our Wits to prove Infants Baptism although by true grounded Reasons from God's Word we have proved it without the help of Man's Natural Wit which all your Wits cannot disprove Again you say I quarrel because you do not Baptise always on the Lord's day I tell you affirm that which you Practise not Answer I set down in my Book your own words Page 85. 87. from your Narrative P. 17. which are these That although the holy Apostles and others that were Preachers took their opportunities to preach the Word on the Jewish Sabbath day and other days of the Week when they had convenient opportunities afforded them yet we have say you no Example of the Churches then Assembling together to celebrate all the Ordinances of our Lord Jesus peculiar to them but on the first day of the Week Reader mark that which manifest practice of theirs say you is evidently as plain a demonstration of its being a day set apart for Religious Worship by the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus as if it had been exprest in the plainest words Wherein you grant that the Example of the Churches and the manifest Practice of theirs in the purest of Times is evidently a plain demonstration that the Lord's day is the time of Worship to administer God's Ordinances and that it is the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus so to do Then why blame you me for telling you that you do not administer the Sealing Ordinances on that day only which Christ hath Ordained therefore it is your evil in condemning your self by your Practice seeing the first Church-meeting was on the Lord's day Acts 2. when they did Baptise and break Bread and Paul stayed at Troas several days Acts 20. 6 7 until the first day came about to perform the Ordinances of Worship even in the Sealing Ordinances and the Example of the Churches all being commanded to keep that day holy in the practise of God's Ordinances is therefore not to be neglected So then you have well said but practice not the Example of extraordinary Officers by you to be granted is not the Church's Pattern to Baptise any day but the Example of the Primitive Churches in the purest of Times is for all Churches to follow as they were commanded by the Apostles Now then when else but on the first day of the Week were the Churches to perform God's Ordinances as the Will and command of our Lord Jesus 2ly As you in your Narrative have asserted and yet you blame me for telling of you you plead for that you practise not you say in P. 69. I insist upon the Order of words Mat. 3. I Baptise to Repentance In answer you say see your Book Pag. 54 55 56. Your answer there is if you were only Sprinkled in Infancy you were never yet Baptised seeing your answer is not to the disproving of what I have laid down I refer the Reader to my Book because in in your answer you run away from the Matter and tell us of such as were Baptised that Repentence was required of we grant that such as never were Baptised in the Name of Christ whether Men or Women who had actually sinned of such God requireth actual Repentance this is granted by me and proved at large in my Book Pag. 70 to 72 yet no way hindereth the Infants of such to be Baptised that are Sinners not by their own act but by Imputation and whereas you say if I were only Sprinkled in Infancy I was never Baptised I have refuted this in my Preface third Leaf in these words shewing as in the Lord's Supper it is not the quantity of Bread and Wine more or less but the right apprehension of it and sincere Affection to the thing signified so it is not the quantity of Water cast on the passive Subject Baptised with Water which is but one by the visible Sign of Washing away of Sin in the Blood of Christ which in the Spiritual Baptism is likewise signified by Sprinkling with the Blood of Christ namely with the Imputation of the benefit of Christ's Death to Sinners whether actual or imputative all visibly in the Covenant of the Gospel H. Collins further saith That is a false Argument so largely insisted upon in my Book Pag. 44. If Persons have a right to Remission of Sins they have a right to the Sign Baptism this Argument I have answered fully in Baptism Anatomized in Pag. 36 37. yet I find no answer by him to this matter but it is H. Collins way to object against what I lay down and make no answer to that I have asserted in my Book that is Infants are born Sinners and cannot be Saved but by Christ's pardoning their Sin and all that have the Testimony from God's Word that their Sins are pardoned have a right to the Sign of Remission Water-Baptism again Whereas H. Collins opposeth what I say in Page 43. from Acts 15. 10. that Infants are Disciples Answer The Jews which believed were pressing that the Gentiles should keep the Law of Moses and be Circumcised which Law required not only the Father but also the Male Children to be Circumcised for of old when a Proselite Gentile was joined to the Church of Israel he was to Circumcise all his Males see Exod. 12. ch even so in Acts 15. those who were required to be Circumcised by the Jews was the same the Law required before namely the Father and his Male Children therefore the answer of the Apostle was accordingly why tempt ye God to put a Yoke upon the Neck of the Disciples that is on the Fathers and the Children so that it is clear that in Acts 15. here Children with their Parents are called Disciples which is Scholars therefore the Law of God bound the Parents to bring their Children with them to hear the Law before they had understanding Deut. 31. 11 12 13. after they were Circumcised as we are now commanded to teach our Children after Baptised proved in my Book As touching a Womans partaking of the Lords Supper you shew no other command than is consirmed by Consequence which I never denied but the Evil lyeth at your door seeing you allow a Consequence in one thing and not in another and therefore partial for although the Woman be included in the Man and Woman is said to believe yet she must have actual Faith before she be fitly qualified to take and eat at the Lords Table yet you cannot see how the Promise of God includeth the Children in Infancy to the Believing Parents to have the Sign of Remission of their Sins set on them although this Truth shineth in the Scripture for God saith I will be a God to thee and to thy Seed by reason the Seed in Infancy are Sinners by Imputation but that it is not in that Sense I will be a God to thee and to thy Wife for both are actual Sinners and both must actually believe and Blessed is the People whose God

restored by Grace in Christ I affirmed as the Apostle doth that as their Infants were sinners by their Parents sinful Action so by the Obedience of Christ the second Adam their Infants were made Righteous their Infants being their Family so in Christ as the Gospel promises Families shall be blessed with the Pardon of sin Now because the sinful World was first in one Family Adam and his Seed he should beget and these according to God's Revealed Will were Redeemed so are we only to Judge giving place to God's secret Decree Hercules Collins crieth out against me that I hold all the Seed of Adam shall be Saved notwithstanding all their actual Transgressions because it was and still is from the day Adam was Restored to restore the actual Believers and their Infants and so to judge of their Estate until any prove themselves as Cain did not to be of the Election by their wicked Works These things duly weighed how gloriously doth this Truth shine through the Scriptures that God was and still is in Christ Reconciling the World to himself by Families not every individual Family in the World to himself but some Families out of all Nations as that Evangelical Song by the Church in the Praise of Christ saith Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation So that hence it was when the Lord sent Paul to preach the Gospel in the City of the Corinthians the Lord told him saying I have much People in this City not all the City but some out of all by Families forasmuch as the Lord by his Free Grace acknowledgeth himself as aforesaid to be the God of Families and promiseth that they shall be his People so that all such gathered into Churches the Apostle in his Epistles call them Elect according to their visible State in Covenant whereas God only knoweth who are his according to his secret Decree which we are not to meddle with because the Scripture saith concerning the Church of God consisting of Men Women and their little ones Deut. 29. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our Children for ever Therefore according to Gods revealed Will Children with their Believing Parents are called a Holy Nation a Chosen Generation Exod. 19. 5 6. 1 Pet. 2. 9. until either Parents or Children manifest themselves to be in a Reprobate Estate as did Cain Ishmael Esau Simon Magus and Demas who were all visible Members in Covenant for a time called Saints until they by their Evil Works were hardned in Sin and so cast out as was Cain c. as Solomon saith He that being often reproved hardneth his Neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Thus the Children in Gods Covenant in time are known by their Doings whether their Works are Pure or Right but H. Collins mixeth Gods secret Decree with his revealed Will making no difference between them and so seeketh to overthrow the Doctrin of Election notwithstanding he hath set his Hand to a Narrative dated Sept. 3. 1689. wherein he then owned the Doctrin of Personal Election and Perseverance but now he denieth this Doctrin in that he rejecteth all the Infants of Gods Covenanted People to have by the Free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace a Right to Remission of Sins and so a Right to Baptism because when grown up some prove Wicked as aforesaid Therefore I have proved in Baptism Anatomized Page 28. That as Sin entred into the World by Families so Christ came to Redeem Fallen Mankind by Families as by many Examples first Adam's Family and likewise Noah and Abraham's and also Israels Families as in Jer. 31. 1. Deut. 29. 10 11. is shewed and also many Families of the Gentiles as well as Jews all by Families joyned to the Lord in Church-Fellowship in the Apostles days as witnesseth all their Epistles the word Kindred by Families or Houshold which were Baptised as is largely proved in Baptism Anatomized Page 65. c. And thus the Reader may see how he falsly accuseth me to deceive his Reader to be of Origen's Opinion by what I asserted from Rom. ch 5. but he makes and confesseth himself to be the Man guilty of that Opinion of Origen in that he asserteth from Rom. 5. that the whole World may be Saved His words are these in Page 109. Now we know saith H. Collins the whole World is Adam 's Children then the whole World is in the Covenant of Grace and if in the Covenant of Grace for any thing I see the whole World may be Saved And that H. Collins is of Origen's Opinion is further confirmed in that he still denieth the Doctrin of Election by charging me that I tell a Lye in the Name of the Lord because I said Cain Ishmael Esau c. were for a time visibly in Covenant visibly under the Promise of Pardon of their Sins and after were cast out of the Covenant of Grace when grown Wicked as the Scriptures shew For what saith H. Collins have Believers Infants Remission of Sins sealed unto them yet no Remission will Men tell a Lye in the Name of the Lord to tell us that Baptism is a Sign of Remission of Sin and yet tell us that very Person may be Damned are not these Self-contradictions and Contradictions of Holy Scripture which saith Whom God Justifieth and Pardoneth them he Glorifieth Rom. 8. 30. Reply How is this Man benummed in his Understanding for that he knoweth not how to divide the Word aright but goes on making no difference between Gods secret Decree Rom. 8. 30. and his revealed Will Rom. 9. 6. in his written Word Rom. 10. 17. therefore he telleth not me only but the Apostles that they tell a Lye in the name of the Lord for they according to God's revealed will Baptised some for the Remission of Sins and after said to some of the same Persons in effect it was no sign of Remission to them as for Example in the Judgment of the Apostle Peter Ananias with Saphira his Wife were Believers and had Remission of Sins and were baptized Acts 4. 32. with ch 5. 1. Yet Peter said to Ananias afterwards Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost and the like may be seen for that many in the Apostle John's time who were in the visible Communion of Saints in Churches and for a time called by the Apostle Saints having a sign of Remission of Sins Water-baptism administred on them therefore by H. Collins his Doctrin the Apostle John also told a Lye in the name of the Lord when he said concerning some that were Visible Members they went out from them because they were not of them for saith John if they had been of us that is of the Election for so the Apostles according to Gods revealed will in his written Word count all the Churches Elect Persons Ephes 1. 4