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A12284 A censure upon the dialogue of the Anabaptists intituled, A description of what God hath predestinated concerning man ... By Henry Ainsworth. Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622? 1623 (1623) STC 226; ESTC S100100 65,025 70

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14.24.25 compared with Psal. 77.16.17 c. and they may see there vvas vvater enough in the clowd and they will not say I think that there vvas no vvater in the sea All outward baptising or washing must be with water or some other liquor If they were not baptised with water vvhat other liquour were they baptised in not vvith bloud as in the Baptisme of suffering death for Christs sake which they impertinently mention Not vvith vvine or strong drinke for they found none such in the wildernesse If they can shew nothing but water to baptise them in let them deny no more for shame that they were baptised with water God spake to our fathers by the Prophets at sundry times or in sundry parts as it vvere by peice meale as the Apostle teacheth Hebrew 1.1 By Moses he shewed how the clowd removed from before Israel and stood behind them as they passed through the sea and gaue them light but vvas darknesse to the Aegyptians and from this fierie cloudie pillar the Lord looking troubled the Aegyptians and took off their charret wheeles that they draue them heavily Exod. 14.19.20 24.25 This being briefly and obscurely told by Moses God after inlargeth by Asaph another Prophet vvho sheweth the manner of it how not onely the vvaters of the sea saw the Lord vvhen they fled and parted but the clouds also from aboue poured out vvater vvhen they rained the skies sent out a sound by thunder c. thus the ground being softned vvith the raine occasioned the charret vvheeles of the Aegyptians sticking in the mire to fall off and hindred their pursuit Psa. 77.16.17 c. After this the Apostle taught by Gods spirit manifesteth the mystery which before was kept secret namely how this passage under the cloud which rained and through the sea was a baptism to the Israelits even as Christian mens washings in rivers or vessels was a baptisme to them And as the manna which Israel ate and vvater from the rock which they drank vvas the same spirituall meat and drink which we haue signified by bread and wine in our Lords supper so their vvashing in the cloud sea and our vvashing in vessels or rivers is spiritually the same baptisme From hence we gather the baptising of our infants by two arguments 1 All our fathers saith Paul were baptised in the cloud and sea therfore say we infants for seeing there vvas no other baptisme but that in the cloud and sea such of our fathers as then vvere infants vvere at that time baptised or else many of our fathers even al the infants of many thousand families vvere never baptised vvhich is contrary to the Apostles doctrine And if infants had baptisme under Moses it cannot vvith any colour of reason bee denied them under Christ. 2. In that the Apostle teacheth us that the extraordinary and temporary sacraments or seales of salvation vvhich Israel had vvere the substance and truth vvhich wee now haue though Moses doth not so express it followeth upon like ground that their ordinary seales namely Circumcision and the Passouer vvere the same in truth and substance vvith baptism and the Lords Supper vvhich vve now haue And being the same as infants had circumcision then so they are to haue baptisme now Secondly vvheras they say that of Moses was called baptisme by comparison as if it were not properly baptisme they swerue from the right way it was as truely and properly baptisme to them as ours is to us though the manner of administration differ even as their Manna and vvater vvere as truly and properly the sacrament of Christs body and blood to them as bread and wine in the Lords supper are to us Otherwise the Apostle should not say truly that hey vvere the same 1. Cor. 10.3.4 Thirdly Noes ark is not called the figure of baptisme as these corrupters of scripture tell us but baptisme sayth the Apostle is a like-figure or antitype 1 Pet. 3.21 So that the saving by water of eight men in the Ark was a type or figure and the saving of a few now by vvater in baptisme is an antitype or like figure both of them figuring salvation by the death of Christ. Fourthly neither do these men set down the reason fully and rightly why they are sayd to be baptised namely because the cloud and sea was their safetie as Noes ark was for though it may in some sense bee granted that these were th●ir safetie as baptisme is our safetie for it is sayd to saue us 1 Pet. 3.21 yet properly th●y were sayd to be baptised in the cloud and sea because they were in them sacramentally washed from their sins planted together in the likenesse of his death buriall and resurrection as we are now by baptisme Rom. 6.3.4 5. The cloud served them for three users 1. to protect and keep them safe Esai 4.5.6 2 to guide them in the way that they should go Numb 9.17 c. Exod. 13.21 and these two were ordinary 3. to baptise them by powring down water and this was extraordinary and but one time in the red sea for ought we finde And in this respect Paul sayth they were baptised in it Fiftly their last speech of inioyning infants to suffer persecution as well as to baptise them is spoken vvith a wry mouth for as vve enjoyne not infants to bee baptised though we baptise them so can we not enioyne them to suffer persecution But this we say and know as infants are baptitised into Christ so oftentimes they suffer persecution for Christ being with their parents afflicted imprisoned banished c. yea and bereaved of life it selfe so that they haue even the baptisme of blood or martyrdome also Wheras we find mention of whole housholds to haue been baptised by the Apostles from which example it is probably gathered that infants also were baptized Against this they dispute thus 1. There are many housholds in which there are no infants Ans. This is true and it is also true that in many there are infants Therefore this argument is propounded but as probable not as certaine 2 They say It is most sure as the Apostles practised in one houshold so they practised in all But in the Iaylors house they baptised such as they preached the word unto and such as beleeved Act. 16.31.34 and this is most plaine that infants cannot heare nor beleeue c. Ans. It is not most sure but altogether unlikely as themselves I think will acknowledge For there is no likelihood that all housholds to whom the Apostles preached did beleeue every one in them though some did And they grant that none but beleevers were baptised So then if the goodman of the house and the men onely beleeved there none but men were baptised if women onely beleeved they onely were baptised Therfore the Apostles practise was not alwayes alike in respect of the persons that they baptised So for infants such houses as had none wee easily grant