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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82035	A declaration against anabaptists: to stop the prosecution fo [sic] their errours, falsly pretended to be a vindication of the royall commission of King Jesus, as they call it. Briefly and fully answering all their allegations, and clearly proving the anabaptisticall doctrine to be against the glory of God, the honour of Christ and his church, against the covenant of grace, and against the word of God, and the priviledges of the church made over to them by promise, and also against the solemne league and covenant of the three kingdomes. In answer to a book, by Francis Cornwall, presented to the House of Commons, on Friday last, for which he is committed.		1644 (1644)	Wing D520; Thomason E12_9; ESTC R4990	5,983	8

A DECLARATION AGAINST Anabaptists To stop the Prosecution fo their Errours falsly pretended to be a Vindication of the Royall Commission of KING JESUS as they call it Briefly and fully answering all their Allegations and clearly proving the Anabaptisticall Doctrine to be against the glory of God the honour of Christ and his Church against the Covenant of grace and against the word of God and the priviledges of the Church made over to them by promise And also against the Solemne League and Covenant of the three Kingdomes In Answer to a book by Francis Cornwall presented to the house of Commons on Friday last for which he is committed Ephes 4.4 5. There is one Body one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your Calling One Lord one Faith one Baptisme Rom. 16.17 18. Now I beseech you brethren marke them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus but their own belly and by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Imprimatur Ja Cranford Octob. 9th London Printed for R. W. 1644. A DECLARATION against Anabaptists to stop the prosecutition of their errours falsly pretended to be a vindication of the Royall Commission of KING JESUS as they call it I Shall neither spend much time nor wast much Paper in the answering of a Case so plaine I shall passe by the circumstances and only gather what you Master Francis Cornwall doth say for your selfe and answer that breefly and fully I. You Argue thus That which God hath joyned together no man ought to seperate But Faith and Baptisme or more properly dipping God hath joyned together Therefore faith and Baptisme or dipping as the originall renders it no man ought to seperate The Major is true Sir but that helps you nothing for I shall prove your Minor and your Argument to be both false 1. That God hath not inseperably joyned Faith and Baptisme together is very evident and there is proofe enough for it the Apostles were sent to teach and Baptize all Nations Matth. 28.19 but many have after fallen away and perished in unbeliefe And on the contrary many have gone to heaven that were never baptized for we are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Jesus Gal. 3.26 And though a man be baptized yet he that believeth not shall be damned Mar. 16.16 All Christians are not Saints and no doubt there are many Saints that were never made Christians 2. So that now you see this proves no Argument and moreover were this granted then by the same Argument none ought to be baptized untill they were able to cast out Devils and speake with new tongues for those were the signes which Christ declared should follow them that believe Mar. 16.17 And if they object and say that the working of miracles are ceased then may I very well answer that for mens spirits to discerne and know who are believers and who not that is also ceased In the next place you quote the decree of Pope Innocentius the third and the decree of Gregory Lib. 3. Tit. 42. C. 3. out of Doctor Willets Synopsis brought in by him to prove the lawfulnesse of the baptizing of Infants now as well as circumcising Infants under the Judaicall Law which you reprove and call the Doctrine of Antichrist But let me tel you doctor Willet doth alledge better testimony then that in the very same place namely that children of beleevers are to be baptized 1. Because they belong unto the Covenant as it is Gen. 17.7 I will be thy God and the God of thy seed 2. Because they are called holy 1 Cor. 7.14 Againe 3. Because they are redeemed by the blood of Christ who died for all the children of God John 11.52 And to them belong the Kingdom of God Mar. 10.4 And 4. Lastly it is proved by the practise of the Apostles who baptized whole families with all persons that thereunto belonged Act. 16.33 and children are of the family to this is added the testimony of divers learned men besides the forementioned as Augustine Lib. 5. Cont. Pelag. Hypognostic Gregory Nazianzen Orat. 3. in sanct lavac The confession of Helvetia Sect. 13. pag. 397. confession of Bohemia pag. 399. And in the English confession Article 9. pag. 402. No not babes are not to be restrained from Baptisme because they pertaine to the people of God Now for the Covenant in respect of the seales of circumcision and of Baptisme you and the rest of your opinions are mistaken in the maine thing of all for the Covenant which was made to Abraham of which the circumcising of the flesh was an outward Seale it s an everlasting Covenant Gen. 17.13 and circumcision being taken away because Christ is come himself the grace of God being the inward seale as Calvin saith and baptisme a perpetuall supply thereof Chrisistom hom 39. in Gen. But in regard of the Protestation you have taken you say you oppose the baptizing of infants and your first reason is because there was a precept from God to enjoyne circumcision Gen 17.11 and an example Gen. 24.4 But neither precept nor example in Scripture for baptizing of Infants To answer this in the first place I will give you a precept out of the Scripture where all both young and old are to bee baptized and that is Act. 2.38 39. Be baptized every one of you saith Peter there and let it be done in the name of Jesus Christ old and young all were to be baptized and if they did repent and were baptized then saith he they shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost and to encourage them and in them us also to baptize infants he tells them the promise is unto you and to your children yea and to the children of those that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call And for that which you speake of dipping or sprinkling it much matters not so there be the external element which is water Acts 10.47 And there is likewise an example Acts 2. In the infancy of the Church there were added to the Church in one day three thousand souls which received the outward Seale of Baptisme ver 41. and all that believed were together and had all things common ver 44. which was after that the Apostle had declared to them that the promise was to them and their children ver 39. and therefore we must needs thinke that the children pertooke of the same priviledges with them Your second reason is because that there was a prefixt day for circumcision to wit the eight Gen. 17.12 but no day appointed when it shall be dipped or sprinkled To which I answer That the place you mention Gen. 17.12 is a command that every son of eight dayes old shall be circumcised not that the command is absolute for the eight day For all the people that were borne in the wildernesse