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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43650	The case of infant-baptism in five questions ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Philpot, John, 1516-1555. Letter of Mr. Philpot, to a friend of his, prisoner the same time in Newgate.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1844; ESTC R227769	76,836	97

Holy Spirit which they shall receive as soon and as fast as their natural incapacity removes This distinction betwixt having the Spirit and having a Right unto the Spirit holds not only in Infant-Baptism but in the Baptism of Hypocrites and secret Sinners who by submitting unto the Ordinances of Baptism acquire an actual Antecedent Right unto the Spirit although they are in a moral incapacity of receiving the Graces of it till their Hypocrisie is removed Nevertheless their Baptism is not ineffectual as to this End but is a means of conferring the Holy Ghost upon them without re-baptization because though they cannot receive it at the moment of their Baptism by reason of their Hypocrisie as sincere Penitents do in whom there is no such Moral Impediment yet by virtue of it they will be sure to receive it afterwards as soon as they shall in any degree become capable thereof Those are the Blessings and Benefits consequent upon Baptism by God's appointment of which Infants are as capable as actual Believers and let any Impartial Man judge Whether it is more for their benefit that this manifold capacity in them should be actually answered by the timely Administration of Baptism or that it should lay void and unsatisfied till they came to years of Discretion Which is best for a Child that hath the Evil to be Touched for it while he is a Child or to wait till he is of sufficient Age to be sensible of the Benefit Or to make one Comparison more which would be best for a Traytors Child to be presently restored to his Blood and and Estate and his Princes Favour or to be kept in a meer capacity of being restored till he was a Man But besides these Benefits which are consequent upon Baptism by God's appointment there is another no less profitable to young Children which will justifie the practice of Infant-Initiation and that is to have such an early pre-engagement laid upon them which without the highest Baseness can Ingratitude they cannot afterwards retract No Person of common Ingenuity who hath any sence of honour or any tolerable degree of Conscience within him can without shame and horrour break those Sacred Bonds asunder by which he was bound to God in his Infancy when he comes to Years of understanding but on the contrary will think himself in Honour and Gratitude bound to own and stand to the Obligation which he then contracted when he was graciously admitted to so many Blessings and Privileges before he could do any thing himself towards the obtaining of them or understand his own good It would argue a Person to be of a very ill nature and untoward Disposition to break such solemn Foederal Vows and therefore we see that Children generally do readily take upon themselves their Baptismal Obligations when they come to the use of reason whereas were they left alone to their own Freedom when they would be Baptized they would be apt to put it off from time to time through the aversness that the corrupt nature of Man hath to such strict and Spiritual Engagements and in such a State of Liberty as this Men would need as many and as earnest Exhortations unto Baptism as unto the Lord's Supper and in such an Age as ours is at least reluct as much to come unto that as we see by experience they do unto this Wherefore upon Supposition that Christ doth but allow Children to be brought unto him in Baptism The Wisdom of the Church is highly to be applauded for bringing them under such an early and beneficial pre-engagement and not leaving them to their own liberty at such years when Flesh and Blood would be apt to find out so many Shifts and Excuses and make them regret to be Baptized And therefore in the Second place as the Baptism of Infants is very Beneficial and profitable unto them So it conduceth very much to the well-being and edification of the Church in preventing those Scandalous and Shameful delays of Baptism which grown Persons otherwise would be apt to make putting of it off till the time of some great sickness as many were wont to do in the third and fourth Century when being not Baptized in their Infancy they did ordinarily receive Baptism as Papists now receive extream Unction when they were ready to expire For as it is usual now for Persons to defer the receiving of the Lord's Supper for fear of Damnation mistaking the Apostle where he saith He that Eateth and Drinketh unworthily Eateth and Drinketh Damnation to himself So in those Ages it was usual for Persons to defer their own and their Childrens Baptism out of a * Dr. Caves Prim. Christian part 1. ch 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nazianz. Orat. 40. p 647 649. Sed mundus rursus delinquit quò male comparetur diluvio itaque igni destinatur sicut homo qui post Baptismum delicta restaurat Tertull. de Baptismo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyssen de Baptismo kind of Novatian Principle for fear that if they fell into Sin after Baptism there would be no place for Repentance mistaking that place of the Apostle where 't is said that if they who were once enlightned i. e. Baptized fall away it is impossible to renew them again unto Repentance Now the Baptizing of Children being deferred by their Parents out of this Superstitious fear they when they came to be Men and Women put the doing of it off for several Reasons and Pretences which we learn out of the Writers of those times Some deferred it out of Worldly Love and a Carnal loathness to renounce their sinful Pleasures and take upon them the Yoke of Christ Some put it off pretending want of leisure through multitude of worldly business others out of laziness and careless negligence Others were wont to plead the insufficiency of their knowledge See Mr. Walker's Excellent Preface to his Treatise of Infant-Baptism others the inconveniency of the present time others would not be Baptized but at such a time or in such a place as such a City or such a River or by such a Person or in such a Company Some would put it off upon a pretence of not having such or such Relations present others would decline it upon the account of some small Expences that attended it others because they relucted to confess their Sins others because they favoured not the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity or to comply with the Arians some because they would imitate the Example of Christ who was not Baptized till the 30th Year of his Age and some out of fear of Persecution This happened formerly to the great shame and dishonour of the Christian Religion though the * Gregor Nazianz Greg. Nyss and St. Basil Fathers sharply and vehemently Wrote and Preached against it and therefore upon supposition of the bare lawfulness or indifferency of Infant-Baptism I cannot but approve the Wisdom and Prudence of those Churches which appoint it because