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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88109	Yperaspistes or a buckler for the Church of England against certaine queries propounded by Mr Pendarvis (late lecturer of Wanting) called Arrowes against Babylon. By way of reply to the most remarkable passages contained in them, and an addition of severall anti-queries in the close. / By William Ley Minister of the Gospell at Wanting in Bark-shire.	Ley, William, b. 1620 or 21.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1888; Thomason E882_1; ESTC R207277	27,478	28

misled and not only be Passively seduced but Active seducers Why may no Mr P. be in danger of shooting at Rovers except some of his Disciples Voutch for his Infallibility An Error that hath been objected unto them by none of the Orthodox Preferments I will not say such a mortified man as your selfe aimes at them Gloria potius Contemnenda dicitur quam contemnitur Buchol But I am Sorry that you should harbour this grosse opinion That the choycest of our Ministers oppose Reformation upon Carnall Sordid Dunghill Principles Here if ever it were necessary to take notice of your boldnesse Windel in Ep. de Eutheranis and to give you Convitium Resorbendum but I forbeare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a morall vertue taught us in Ethicks Divinity sure will teach it us much more Phil. 4.11 Q. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whether the greater number of People in the Parish Assembly are not in danger of Eternall Domnation through their high Presumption they are in Christ and Regenerate in Baptisme A. If they be for the most part they may thank themselves either they have better Teachers or may have But that God in Judgement doth sometimes make them like People like Priest We tye not Regeneration to the time of Baptisme it may be as well before and after as in eodem Articulo Perk. in Gal. p. 204. Sigillum foederis non facit foederatum sed declarat Windel Th. p. 376. yet there is an Analogy between them Titus 3.5 See the Confession of our Faith by the R. Assembly The Efficacy of Baptisme is not tyed to that moment of time wherein it is Administred It admits into the Church but makes not Members It Conferres not the first grace but confirmes it The seale of the Covenant makes not a Covenanter but declares him saith Windelinus If Pharisaicall Spirits and Morall honest men will think there is more in the outward Seale then there is If being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse they Labour to establish their own Righteousnesse Rom. 10.3 I suppose Baptisme is not the cause For if Circumcision may become Uncircumcision Rom. 2.5 Then also Baptisme may become no Baptisme and hereupon they may be reputed no better of then for Heathens and Publicans Q. 13. Would it not be a Praise-worthy deed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to declare the Sin of their Predecessors in declaring the People to be borne againe in Baptisme and should they not informe the Godly they are in no visible orderly Church state and should they not give a Plaine deniall to administer any Ordinance of Christ to the common multitude A. There is very little in this Querie to be dissented from I wish promiscuous Administration of Ordinances as well of Baptisme as the Lords Supper were repented of and that by an Edict of State But I would know what you intend by supposed Christnings in the Close of the Query If you oppose that Ordinance as supposititious I shall God willing discusse that poynt with you at farther leasure Shall God make Inquisition for blood of Bodies and not soules Yea verily and as for all Antichristian Ministers and Prostitutors of Gods Ordinances to a prophane Rabble I wish in Mr Latimers phrase the State would make Quondams of them I believe the a Henricus septimus Imperator Germaniae venenata Hostia infectus dixit Monache Domine c. Func Chr. Emperour Henry the 7th was not the first nor the last that was Poysoned by the Sacrament The Lord Pardon this Crying sinne to England and let the Godly Reader say AMEN Q. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 14. Justifying the sprinkling of ungodly prophane and popish children and though they refuse to sprinkle them themselves yet strengthen the hands of them that doe A. We justifie it not any more then Civilians do justifie Clandestine marriages fieri non debuit factum valuit But this Answer doth not satisfie you for say you this may defend any act of will worship as well as that but you cannot make baptisme to be will worship seeing there is a command for it I suppose the ground of this answer was tooke upon this account that Baptisme in no case was to be Reiterated which with submission to better Judgements I doe not altogether allow For it was enacted in the Councell of a Placuit de Infantibus quoties non inveniuntur Certissini Testes absque ullo scrupulo Rebaptizandos Concil 5. River de Bapt. §. 55. Carthage that if any Children doubted of the certainty of their Baptisme when they came to age they might be baptized And Leo saith that cannot be counted an iteration which is not known to be done before This one thing I desire my reverend bretheren to take notice of that the sprinkling of prophane mens Children promiscuously may prove justly scandalous Amesius in his cases of conscience tells us that that b Incuria illa ideirco neutiquam potest excusari qua promiscue sine discrimimine admittantur ad baptismum quicunque a quibuscunque offexuntur Amesc c. c. l. 4. c. 28. carelesnesse whereby all are admitted to baptisme hand over head whosoever whensoever and presented by whomsoever cannot be excused and Calvin also in his Epistle to c Lib. Ep. Calv. p. 112. Knox tells us that nothing is more preposterous then to offer to insert such into Christs body whom we cannot hope will ever be his Disciples Strengthen the hands of them that doe I doe suppose here is some reflexion cast upon your Antagonist But whose hands hath he strengthened Nay hath he not weakened the hands of M. R. and M. H and prosecuted them upon his own charge and brought up some of his own members for witnesses against their promiscuous dealings when not one of your party did afford us the least assistance or encouragement If there be any man that acts contrary to any Law or Act now in being oppose him and spare not The times are strict enough and you want not some favourers of yours to be their judges I never heard or knew of any Popish children baptized amongst us and yet the parish is populous and of a great extent nay I retort were they Popish Children they would not be baptized though you and I could wish that pure ordinances might never be polluted yet there is no mortall man can chuse but now and then an Hypocrite will tast of them I referre you to Apollonius d Soboles ex sanctis piis Atavis progenita quamvis Apostatae fuerunt Avi Parentes ad ecclesiae corpus pertinent Cal. Spanhemius Rivet Calvin to try whether the immediate unrighteousnesse of the parent be sufficient to dispossesse the Child of his right to the ordinance seeing in the Covenant of grace the Sonne shall not beare the iniquity of the Father nor can the unrighteousnesse of man make the covenant of God of none effect Rom 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Q. 15. Likenesse