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A86506	A vindication of baptizing beleevers infants. In some animadversions upon Mr. Tombes his Exercitations about infant baptisme; as also upon his Examen, as touching the antiquities and authors by him alledged or contradicted that concern the same. Humbly submitted to the judgement of all candid Christians, / by Nathanael Homes. Published according to order.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2578; Thomason E324_1; ESTC R200604	209,591	247

thy body with Oile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then the chiefe Minister baptizeth him hee means dippeth him three times and at every dipping of him down and pulling him up again he calls upon the essence of the Godhead Likewise he quotes divers other h Scham Panstr Tom. 4. lib. 5. cap. 3. § 7. c. As the Apostolick Canons as they are called If the Bishop or Presbyter doth not make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 three Baptismes he means dippings of one innitiating c. let him be deposed Zonaras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Three immersions or dippings in our innitiation that is in our Baptisme Gregory the first Ep. 41. lib. 1. Nosautem c. That is That we dip three times we signifie the mystery of Christs buriall three days I have given you a touch being necessitated by M. T. but have no mind of my self therefore I rake no further into this dunghill though I might find abundance more of invention Oile Salt c. Thus of human-inventions Secondly of Errours occasioned by or wayting upon Anabaptists adult baptisme 1 Let me tell you mine own experience that some of them and particularly M. Ta. formerly a Preacher and a considerable Scholar having as this weeke laid downe this position that nothing may be admitted into the New-Testament worship but upon an expresse command in the New-Testament the next weeke or thereabout came to me and told me Now Sir sayd he I doubt of the Lords day And M. Tombes himselfe sayth he will suspend his judgement about the quot a pars temporis how often there should be a Sabbath day c Examen Sect. 8. p. 28. l. 32. which in my opinion enervates all M. T. seems to speak for the Lords day 2 Epiphanius a Epiphan l. 6. Anaceph p. 408 Edit Lat. Basil relates that from Aetius a Deacon under George the Bishop of the Arians at Alexandria were the Actians called also Anomaeans that is unequall of some they are called Ennomians from one Eunomius the Disciple of Aetius who is yet alive With these were Eudoxius Arianissans that is Eudoxius Arianizing but through feare of Constantine hee severed himselfe and onely Aetius was cast out or banished But Eudoxius notwithstanding continued Arianizing that is to be and act as an Arian that denies Christ to be God but not with Aetius These Anomaeans and Aetians poenitus ab alienant do utterly alienate or separate Christ and the holy Spirit from God affirming him to be created And say there is no similitude between them For they affirme God the Father by Aristotelian and Geometricall syllogismes and by this means Christ cannot be of God But the Eunomians so called from him rebaptize all that come to them So Epiphanius There are other most abominable things there mentioned by Epiphamus which I have no delight to once name 3. Tertullian b Tertul. contra Marcion tells us of the Marcionites that were so curious in baptizing those of ripe years that they would not baptise married persons but single persons virgins widdows and divorced persons 4 Pontanus Osiander Bullinger and M. Aynsworth give us this list of the errors of the Anabaptists 1. That Christ did not assume his slesh and bloud from the Virgin Mary 2 That Christ is not God but indued with more gifts then other men 3 That our righteousnesse depends not on faith in Christ but upon the works of charity and affliction 4 That there is no originall sin 5 That man hath free will in spirituall things 5 John Cloppenburge c In his Gangren of Anabaptisticall Theology Professor of Divity at Franequer Printed 1645. gives us a great Catalogue of the Errors of the Anabaptists to the number of about 48. 1 That the true God is not called in Scripture by names that signifie his eternall increated essence and so are proper to him but by names that signifie onely Gods dominion or power which names are common to Moses and other Governours 2 That there is not an immediate omnipresence of the divine essence wherein they hold sayth J. Cloppenburge with Socinus and Vorstius And consequently they deny one of the Attributes of God namely his immensitie 3 God did not in the Old Testament command any thing of the Jews but externall acts not reaching with his word to the purification of the heart Nor did he make any promise of spirituall things in the Covenant in the Old Testament Nor ought we to interpret any of them but of temporall things That the old ministery of the Ceremoniall Law was not instituted to convince consciences of their spirituall uncleannesse and typically to seale the true attonement or expiation 4 That the Scripture doth no where cleerely testifie neither doth it seeme to be according to such reason as is consentaneous to truth that the soules of believers going out of the body are presently taken up to Christ their head to partake of celestiall joy And Christians may state the Question without any dammage to piety that likewise the soules of the wicked after death doe not immediately taste of the infernall torments in hell 5 That John the baptist was not in the least the Minister of the New Testament or Doctor and teacher of Evangelicall righteousnesse but of legall Note then how fit Johns Baptisme is in the opinion of the Anabaptists to be the ground of their forme and rule of baptisme which they so oft alleage 6 That the one onely per son of the Father was understood and acknowledged in the Old Testament And thus John Cloppenburge D.D. and Professor at the University of Franequer goes through the body of Divinity in publike disputations and quotes out of the Anabaptists own writings the severall dangerous errours they hold against the main heads of Religion to the sum of about 48. But I delight to name no more But that M. T. by his impertinent yet importunate way of disputation in his later arguments forced me to cleare our selves that we are not the onely originalists of by-opinions and to discover the weaknesse of this way of argument used by M. T. I had not mentioned any at all Thus for error 3 Some faults in Discipline have been occasioned by the way of baptisme among the Anabaptists 1 That a particular Church is constituted by Baptisme and formally united So Mr. K. d In his Answer to Dr. B. and M. T. in the close of his sixth argument Exercit. § 19. By baptisme sayth M. T. a person is exhibited a member of Christ and the Church But what Church doth M. T. mean If he means of the universall Church I yeeld That he is exhibited a visible Christian But if he means a member of any particular rightly constituted Church according to the platform of those in the New Testament and ancient antiquity I altogether deny it for these reasons 1 Those baptised Mat. 3. were in no particular Christian Church there being none gathered till a good while after that Christ had given

A VINDICATION OF BAPTIZING BELEEVERS INFANTS IN SOME ANIMADVERSIONS Upon Mr. TOMBES His EXERCITATIONS About Infant Baptisme As also upon his EXAMEN As touching the Antiquities and Authors by him alledged or contradicted that concern the same Humbly submitted to the judgement of all Candid Christians By NATHANAEL HOMES And Jesus called a little child and set him in the midst of them and said Except men be converted and become as little children yee shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdome of heaven And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which beleeve in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Matth. 18.1 2 3 4 5 6. Published according to Order London printed by M. Simmons and are to be sold by Benjamin Allen at the signe of the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1646. TO THE READER DEdications of Books are to me a scruple The truth of God is lesse mine then a day or a place to dedicate to creatures and more able to defend it selfe then any thing on earth And Delarations in Epistles are in my opinion so curious a thing rightly to manage as that there is more hazard of their miscarrying then hope of doing good Yet seeing importunity will not be satisfied without an Epistle therefore thus Hearing of Mr. Tombes his book against Infants-Baptisme comming forth with such a mighty shout of acclamation though of some fitter to admire then to judge this made me in haste to see it if it might prove convincing upon my spirit But finding upon a conscientions weighing that it was not of strength to bereave the faithfull sonnes of Abraham of their right and hope to give the little ones of their tender bowels to the pledge of God the first seal annexed to the promise I am the God of thee thy seed Acts 2. Gen. 17. The promise is to you and your children But like a violent motion to be forced at first and languid towards the end I further considered it And having upon occasion of the question among my brethren then in order to be discussed found that I could fairly answer Mr. T. his arguments with abundant satisfaction to my selfe and some others but all that doubted could not at first hearing feel the weight of every passage I was partly occasioned hereby to give them my thoughts in print And the rather that I might heare the judgements of the Saints whether I had thought aright of the question And if not by friendly conference to cleare up to me the mind of God in it Mean while I could not but lament the untimely birth of Mr T. his Exercitation and his unnecessary falling in travell with it after at least six able brethren and about so many dayes by nervous disput ation had given him so much cause to doubt of his Tenet or at least a while to suspend it For the question about Infants-baptisme is yet rather a controversie of privat persons then of Churches these being most prudentially carefull now rather about the right form of a particular Church to which the administration of the first seale doth nothing contribute at least in the first instant of its generation Matth. 3. Acts 8. Acts 10. Acts 16. For many were baptized in the New Testament whose baptisme neither found them in nor formed them into any particular New-testament Church The Scripture is either contrary to or utterly silent concerning it Josh 5.4 c. Even as the Israelites while they were fourty years in the wildernesse without the administration of Circumcision all the circumcised saving a very few being dead are called a Church Acts 7.38 So that the supposed want of the due administration of the first Signe doth not unchurch a Church or prejudice the proper forme thereof But the insatisfactory calling of the Anabaptists-Administrators of their pretended better baptisme upon a former worseconceited-baptisme being either not extraordinarily called or not having the first Seale themselves or being Sebaptists that is self-baptizers or baptised with the old sort of Infant-baptisme in either of which they are most unlike to John THE BAPTIST hath justly caused many to hold off from them and many to fall away from them And many that are with them to be at a losse where to rest One Congregation at first adding to their Infani-baptisme the adult baptisme of sprinkling then not resting therein endeavoured to adde to that a dipping even to the breaking to peeces of their Congregation Since that the Minister first dipped himselfe Not contented therewith was after baptized by one that had onely his Infant-baptisme Thus doth Gods justice leave us to find nothing in an or dinance when we put too much upon an ordinance and from too much to fall to nothing but a crying out All Ordinances Ministeries c. are all polluted So that as before they could not tel where to end so now not where to begin to reform and so out of that pretence turn As they were in order Nothing Contrary to that unanswerable place Ephes 4. That Christ ascending left a Ministery or Ministeries Ephes 4.8 9 10 11 12. all or some by succession or new election or extraordinary mission still a constant supply of a Ministery for the work of the Ministery the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ I was thus forward to put forth before others of my abler brethren not out of self-confidence the Lord knowes but beside mine owne private interest in my doubting friends partly from advantage of time in knowing some of Mr. T. his arguments and partly from the assault of them that gave me the first Alarme I sent forth this scattered forlorn hope scarce well rallied and arraied to my mind through haste to set the moveable popularity at a stand if it might be keep the passe and maintain the fight till better help should come in This though lesse then I hoped by reason of pressures of mine own businesse and slownesse of Presses I have attained And so I expect those worihy brethren that have perhaps more time and more parts and reading I am confident then my selfe to carry on the main Battalio and to maintain their ground with those Brigades wherein they are by name engaged For it would have been disorder if not presumption and prejudice to the cause for me to have anticipated them In that I have done as I was hopelesse to please all so unwilling justly to displease any saving in the very opinio in question And therefore let no ingenuous reader take offence either at