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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91845	The second part of the vanity & childishnes of infants baptisme wherein the grounds from severall Scriptures usually brought for to justifie the same, are urged and answered. As also the nature of the divers covenants made with Abraham and his seed, briefly opened and applied. A.R. May 3. 1642.; Treatise of the vanity of childish baptisme. Part 2	Ritor, Andrew.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1541; Thomason E59_5; ESTC R3120	27,552	31

receive the truth upon Gods owne bare word that wee might beleeve and so be saved out of this quick Sand of delusions And indeed how can wee beleeve giving and receiving honour thus one of another and seeke not that honour that cometh of God alone As Christ tells us Io. 12. 44. There be some other scattering Objections which I have met withall such as these Object 1 Cor 11. 2. The Apostle saith I praise you Brethren that you remember me in all things and keepe the ordinances as I delivered them unto you whence some inferre that seeing the Apostle calleth them Ordinances when he delivered them unto the Church that therefore Ordinances depend not upon the Church nor upon Office nor yet upon the Subject And therefore must be esteemed the Ordinances of Christ by whomsoever or on whomsoever they are Administred Answ I answer that by the Ordinances of Christ here spoken of wee are onely to understand the Commandements of Christ 1 Cor. 14. 37. or the minde of Christ as it is revealed in his word which is all one 1 Cor. 2. 16. And then the weaknesse of his objection will presently discover it selfe as wee shall see if but a little wee open this Scripture brought for the countenancing of the same The Apostle in the 23. ver of this Chap. telleth the Church of Corinth that he delivereth unto them that which he also received of the Lord and from the 23. unto the 27. ver he relateth what that was which he had received from the Lord and delivered unto them to observe that is to say that the Lord Jesus Christ the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread and hen he whad given thanks he brake it And said take eate this is my body which is broken for you This do yee in remembrance of mee And after the same manner also he tooke the Cup when he had supped c. And this is one of the Ordinances or Commandements of Christ which in this second verse the Apostle commendeth and praiseth the Church for the keeping or doing according as he had delivered unto them But now contrary hereunto this Objection imports that had but the Idolatrous Corinthians taken Bread and Wine broken it and devided it amongst themselves nay or which is more grosse had they broken and devided the same amongst their dogs and swine yet this should have bin the Ordinance of Christ if it must remaine his by whomsoever or on whomsoever it is administred But I demand whether the Apostle received any such Ordinance or Commandement as this is from Christ or whether he delivered any such thing to the Church or whether it be any such thing as this which he prayseth them for keeping and observing or whether this be the Commandement or minde of Christ any where revealed in his word There is no man surely dare say so and therefore I do not say that this or any such action of any man should nullifie the ordinance or Commandement of Christ before expressed for his word standeth fast for ever And Heaven and Earth shall passe away but his word shall not faile But I deny this to be the minde the Commandement or Ordinance of Christ at all or that ever such a thing came into his heart And therefore for any to call such actions his Ordinances can be no lesse then Blasphemy against the Son of God Object But they will reply that Bread and Wine received by any in such a manner and Water sprinkled in the name of the Father c. Are his Ordinance and therefore whosoever hath these hath his Ordinance Answ I answer that Sheepe and Oxen offered in sacrifice under the Law were as much the Lords Ordinance and therefore Ieroboams Sacrifice of Sheepe and Oxen by this argument must needs be the Lords Ordinance whereas the Lord calleth them the Sacrifice of Devills 2 Cor. 11. 15. But these men it appeares have learned of King Saul that if in one particular amongst many they do but hit of that which the Lord requireth they like him presently affirme that they have performed the Commandement of the Lord when there is no such matter in the Lords accompt 1 Sam. 15. 3. 13. compared with 11. 19. 23. See this set forth by one familiar Example and so I will passe this objection Suppose a King for some speciall service wherein the honour of Himselfe and safety of His Kingdome is much concerned should by Commission ordaine or command a Sheriffe upon paine of death to raise for his service tenne thousand of the most able men in his County and this Sheriffe finding the said number of Children about six monthes old or rather so many Bartholomew Babies should present them to the King at the very instant time of Battaile as though he had thereby performed the Kings commandement would this be taken therefore for the Kings Ordinance or appointment delivered to the Sheriffe It would be little lesse then death for any man so to affirm yet this is the case in hand but nothing so bad as any man that hath eyes may easily discerne I instance in this example the rather because the Apostle doth in divers places resemble a Christian to a Souldier 2 Tim. 2. 3 4. 4. 7. Phil. 2. 25. And also the Ministers in the Church of England require their Infants in Baptisme manfully to fight under Christs Banner and to continue his faithfull Souldiers c. Object It is said 1 Cor. 10. 1. of the Children of Jsrael that they were all baptized in the Cloud and in the Sea there being young Children as well as men of yeares Answ The text is That they were all baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea But our question is not of baptizing unto Moses but of baptizing unto Christ by being dipped or buried in water into the similitude of his death according to the Institution of Christ thus were not these Israelites baptized for they were in the Cloud and in the Sea dry nor was Baptisme then Instituted thus then is the sence of the place That no enjoying of any outward Priviledge as Baptisme or the Lords Supper without true faith accompanied with obedience will now save us any more then the many outward Priviledges visible signes of Gods presence and the great outward deliverances which the Lord by the hand of Moses afforded and wrought for the Israelites in bringing them through the Sea in defending and guiding them in the wildernesse by the Cloud did exempt and save them from Gods Judgements for notwithstanding their enjoying all these outward favours many of them perished in the wildernesse for their sinnes and disobedience which Saint Paul sets out as examples unto us and therefore here by way of allusion compareth their outward Priviledges to the outward Priviledges and Ordinances of the New Testament even as Saint Peter in like manner figuratively speaketh of the Arke 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. when once the long suffering of God