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A80511	The Anabaptist washt and washt, and shrunk in the washing: or, A scholasticall discussion of the much-agitated controversie concerning infant-baptism; occasiond by a publike disputation, before a great assembly of ministers, and other persons of worth, in the Church of Newport-Pagnall, betwixt Mr Gibs minister there, and the author, Rich. Carpenter, Independent. Wherin also, the author occasionally, declares his judgement concerning the Papists; and afterwards, concerning Episcopacy.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1653 (1653)	Wing C618; Thomason E1484_1; ESTC R208758	176,188	502

is a particular Case and condition which condition and Case are not in Baptism it being set open to all sorts and conditions And in Types there is need of expresse Descension to particulars because the Rule of the Type is the first Rule In Antitypes there is not the same need because the Antitype is in some fashion regulated by the Type especially where there is a notable variation in the Antitype by the which it is widen'd and made large for the free reception and admittance of all persons as here there is Circumcision being appliable to Males only and Baptism agreeable with all And though Females were not Virtually Circumcised in their Parents yet some command they did undergoe answearable to their Kind as Circumcision answer'd to the Males in their Kinde and having the same end with it which together with Circumcision thaw'd and resolv'd it selfe into Baptism Moreover What need is there of a new-moulded and expresse Command for Infants when the old command in regard of the Substance of it that is as it substantially and essentially imports a divine Remedy against Originall sin according to the old works and warpings of Corrupt Nature inherent in our Children it being more than the meer Privation of Originall Justice is not antiquated but still in ancient force and ability As ●e have now no need of an expresse Commandement for the keeping of the Lords Day because the old Memento Commandement is quoad substantiam yet in force though the Church hath intermedled in the Circumstance of Time for the Commemoration of the new Creature rising from his own Nothing with Christ in whom he hath all Things the Substance and Morality of the Commandement remaining immoveable which obligeth us necessarily and substantially to the keeping holy of one Day in seven Whence in the most Primitive Tract of Apostolicall Times the Syriacke Arabick Greek and Roman Calendaria Syriaca Arabica Graeca Romana antiqua Calenders did equally reverence the Jewish Sabbath and our Lord's Day and I cannot cover as I go the Wind blows it open that the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the naturall Son of God by his eternall Generation and temporally conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary is found as ancient in these Calenders as our Lord's Day Let our Anabaptists therefore take to Heart that in generall Precepts and Laws the numeration of special Kinds or Matters is not only not necessary but also supervaneous and praeter morem besides the course and custome of generall Laws such especially which have been in any sort formerly modelized CHAP. LXI HEre is the Place and seat of my last chiefe Argument arguing from Consonancy The Seal of the Covenant belongs to all those who belong to the Covenant the Seales following alwaies the Right and Propriety And Children supplied with the Faith of the Church as also the children under the Law were belong to the Covenant For when God covenanted with Abraham for him and his Posterity he consigned the Covenant with Circumcision which having a Spirituall reference not only as referring to Spirituall Circumcision in respect of the Persons circumcised but also as referring to a Circumcision without hands under the Law of Christ received the Gentiles into the Covenant by Spirituall Adoption And as Mr Tombs honestly granteth Mr Tombs in his Examen The Covenant was the same in all Ages in respect of the Thing promised and Condition of the Covenant which we may call the substantiall and essentiall part of the Covenant that is in the Abstract But he dishonestly substracts the Covenanters or confederates who on our part as elected and called or as call'd only are also necessarily included in the Concretion of it The Covenant is exhibited in a short Scheme which notwithstanning is the Magna Charta or great Charter of God's free Mercy in Christ And I will establish my Covenant Gen. 17. 7. between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their Generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee that is thy seed after thee by flesh and blood or by spirit and Faith only that it may be an everlasting Covenant and that the Covenant may comprehend all them unto whom I shall be a God and in whom I shall be apprehended by Faith or by Faith here and hereafter by Vision And hence Isaac was Circumcised on the eighth day And hence againe the Apostle St Paul first to Rom. 4. 13. the Romans For the promise that he should be the Heir of the World was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law but through the righteousnesse of Faith and as he was the Father of all the Faithfull V. 16. And the Promise being made to him and his Seed under a Spirituall Consideration was therefore made to him as he was a Spirituall Father and to his Seed as they were his Children Spiritually and therefore all comming within the reach of this federal and pious consideration fall into the pious Arms of the Covenant Secondly to the Galathians Know ye therefore that they which are of Gal. 3. 7. Faith the same are the Children of Abraham Wherefore Zacheus after his Justification was presently stiled a Son of Abraham And when the Luk. 19. 9. Jews soared in their Thoughts because they were the Children of Abraham according to the flesh it came inauspiciously upon them to be called by John the Baptist a Generation Mat. 3. 7. of Vipers and to hear the reason of their being called so Think Verse 9. not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our Father he depressing them with a tacit reflection upon other children in the very consideration wherein they exalted themselves The Apostle St Peter speaks consonantly to the Jewes For the Promise Act. 2. 39. is unto you and to your Children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall Reade Eph. 2. call that is afar off in the Series and order of Generation as being yet in the loines of their Parents and afterwards to be born or in distance of Affection as the unbeleeving Jewes and ignorant Gentiles Severus the Emperour my Author is Lampridius had in his first Lamprid. in Alexandr● Severo Lararium the Images of Christ and Abraham to which every morning as Pontifex Maximus he sacrificed but he did not know or worship Christ aright neither was he a Faithfull Child of Abraham Now Children being involv'd in these Generations under the old Law and these Generations yet continuing must pertain as truly to the Covenant under the new Law The Adversary may raise a dust or a mud in darkning and dirtying Scripture with corrupt Interpretations as nothing is so notum in se a●t nobis notum clear in it selfe or clear to us but something may be said against it Yet Maledicta Glossa quae corrumpit Textum Cursed

Jesus After these Exorcisms they were brought unto the Baptistery and there they put on the Name of Competentes because they did there competition for Baptism And there were they put into the hands and tuition of the Catechists And now while they were taught and catechized they were named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These did frequently fast watch pray and hear Sermons being separated from others in the Church by a proper place called Catechumenium They departed from Vide Hospinianum in Tract de Templis the Church ante majorem Canonem before the Priest entred upon the greater Canon and Celebration of the Mysteries Yea they were not present in the Baptizing of others After their Baptism their Name was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a Twin-word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a new plant But except necessity pressed by occasion of sicknesse or other like evill inducing the Danger of Death they were Baptized only at the two great Feasts in the which S. H●eron in vita Paul● primi E●●mitae Anthony wore the Palm-Habit of Paul the first Hermite that is at the solemn Feasts of Easter and Pentecost Tertul. l. de Baptismo ad Ca'ccm Leo Magnus ep 4. quae ●si ad Episcopos Sicihae according to Tertullian and Leo the first And again before they were admitted into the number of Beleevers by Baptism let the Reader patiently if not reverently hear the repetition of some speciall Ceremonies of the Church raised from the reverend Monuments of pious Antiquity in the seattering of which I am only the Interpreter to the Fathers first they turned their faces toward the West and renounced the Devill and his works and the works of all them from whom the Sun of Righteousnesse was departed in the Apostolicall form as Dionysius Areopagita S. Dionys Arcop de Eccl. Hier. cap. de Baptisme recounts Secondly they tacked about and faced the East in which position of Body they professed the Christian Faith and their Defence thereof using the words of the Apostolicall Creed agreeably to the same Dionysius Idem ibid. and afterwards of the Nicen Symboll Thirdly the same writer attesteth Idem ibid. I can witnesse nothing in it but him to be a witnesse of it that the Signe of the Crosse was made on their Foreheads and on their Breasts by the which they were signed for God and for Christ crucified the ignominious and inglorious Passion of whom should be their Triumph and Glory as it was St Pauls Gal 6. 14. And yet againe After their admittance by Baptism first they were kissed osculo Pacis with a kisse of Peace by the Christians who were present in token that as Baptized Persons they were now their Bretheren this is enrolled by St Cyprian S. Cypr. l. 3. cp 8. ad Fidum Secondly a burning Taper was given into the hands of the Baptized Persons in signe of the Faith and Grace received and to signifie that now they were translated from the Power of Darkenesse to the admirable Light and lot of the Sa●nts this S. Greg. Naz. orat in sanctum Lava●rum Lactant. in Carmine Paschali is Chronicled by St Gregory Nazianzen Thirdly they were invested in a White Dresse as Lactantius hath left dressed in metricall black and white which they wore from the Sabbath or Saturday being the Eave of Easter and called Sabbathum Sanctum the Holy Sabbath to the Sunday after easter-Easter-Day which was therefore named Dominica in Albis The Lord's Day wherein the Baptized appeared all in their White Garments of this Dionysius is the Recorder S. Dionys ubi supra alii ex eo Aud then at their putting off these white Garments Divine Sermons were preached to them in the which they were exhorted to retain inward whitenesse and purity of which the outward purity and whitenesse was but a white Marke Hence we have most Heavenly Sermons In Bibliotheca Patrum amongst the Primitive Records entit'led De retinenda Puritate Of retaining Purity Fourthly Milk and Honey was given into their Mouths to be Tertul. l. 1. contra Marcionem cap. 14. S. Hieron in D●alogo contra Luciferianos vide eundem Comment in Is 55. 1. ubi vini Lactis mention●m facit tasted by them of which Tertulliaen and afterwards St Hierom who interprets it to have been done in sign of our new Infancy in Christ Wherefore on the Dominica in Albis in the Roman Church with reference to the Neophyts part of the Epistle of St Peter is read which containeth Quasi modò geniti Infantes lac concupiscite c. As new-born Babes desire the sincere Milk of Missale R●manum Dominica in Albis in Epistola 1 Pet. 2. 2 3. Dr Taylor Sect. 18. the word that ye may grow thereby If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious But I see not how Dr Tailor thumming this Baptismall Ceremony in his tailoring and cutting it out against the Baptism of Infants can hence peece it up that because Men who were Baptized were to be as Babes therefore Babes must not be Baptized untill they be Men. Yea rather Babes should be Baptized because their Innocency is the Scripture Measure and Rule by which Men are made Baptizable and to which they are now pleasantly and sweetly directed by the Ceremonious tasting of Milk and Hony This expression as new born Babes or as little Children hath an express Mat. 18. 3 Confirmation from Heaven in the Name Perfection and Adumbration of the Cherubims In their Name the Word Rub in the Hebrew Language as also Rabe in the Chaldee signifying a Child and Che signifying as In their Perfection their fullnesse of knowledge according to their other derivation being Character'd and compendiously delineated in the Faith of initiated and Baptized children because Faith here answereth to Vision or Face-Knowledge hereafter In their Adumbration the Cherubims having chiefly been effigiated as and in the shape of Children or Babes in respect of their Faces CHAP. LXXXXII THE fifth Result is The Senses of Scripture accepted by the Primitive Church and all venerable Antiquity being so violently and obstinately rejected in this our obstinate and violent Age we should give our Assent to the Senses of Scripture not rashly but secundùm Regulas Prudentiae according to the Rules of Prudence There is a Thing almost in every Text of Scripture beckening to Practise like that which the Painters call the Aire in every Face For if all the parts of the Face be taken in their proper feature and right Proportions and this Aire be not thus taken which Aire is a speciall kind of Center wherein all the consents of Similitude have a generall Meeting the want of this Aire is in the reason that the Judgements of Men give a different Air and sound and that while one strongly affirms the face to be like another denies it as strongly And if the words of any Text be taken or understood according to the partiall and