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A94730	An antidote against the venome of a passage, in the 5th. direction of the epistle dedicatory to the whole book of Mr. Richard Baxter teacher at Kederminster in Worcestershire, intituled, The saints everlasting rest, containing a satyricall invective against Anabaptists / by Iohn Tombes B.D. Lately teacher at Bewdley in the same county.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing T1797; Thomason E602_20; ESTC R206421	26,378	40

that is legitimate For 1. The word Sanctified signifies somewhat more then lawfully used Pagans actions may be said to be lawfull not Sanctified 2. It is no good consequence your Marriage continues lawfull in the use in opposition to Fornication therefore you may dwell together lawfully in opposition to Piety 3. The argument is taken a notiori but it could not be more known to them that their Children were legitimate then that their Marriage was lawfull 4. If it were better known that their Children were legitimate then that their Marriage were lawfull because of the change of Religion then they should doubt of their Childrens legitimation who were borne since their conversion and not of those that were borne before which were an irrationall Fancy To this I answer 1. It is not said the Unbelievers action is sanctified but the Unbeliever and Unbelieveing Medes are said to be Gods Sanctified ones Isai. 14 3. But be the word taken so as not to be applied to a Pagan in its proper acception yet the sence I give alters not the usuall sense onely it supposeth the meaning of the word to be taken with some diminution by a Catachresis or acytology that is abuse or impropriety of speech which is a very frequent thing as 1 Cor. 10. 2. were Baptized that is quasi baptizati sunt as Grotius rightly notes on that place they were as if they had been baptized the Cloud and Sea were to them as baptisme to us And so here the unbelieving Husband hath been Sanctified that is to his Wife in respect of the use of him as if he had been Sanctified which is a plaine and easie Exposition 2. The Corinthians doubted of the lawfulnesse of living with the Unbelieving yokefellow by reason of the unholiness of the Unbeliever which they questioned whether it did not necessitate a divorce or departure though they doubted not of their Childrens legitimation either borne afore or after their conversion they yet living with the Unbeliever The Apostles answer I conceive to be thus You may lawfully continue together notwithstanding the unbelief of the yokefellow for he being a Husband though an Unbeliever is as if he were Sanctified in respect of Marriage use else were your Children you have borne in this estate uncleane that is illegitimate which you do not conceive Though the occasion of the doubt were the Impiety of the one party yet the doubt was onely whether divorce were necessary which is rightly answered by telling them they might lawfully continue in Marriage use As in like case if a Papist doubt whether she must not be divorced from her Lutheran Husband lately converted to it the answer is right by telling her no for the Marriage relation continues though her Husband be an Heretique else should her Children borne since he was made a Lutheran be illegitimate of which she doubts not 3. It might be more known to them that their Children were legitimate then that living with the Unbeliever continued lawfull because there was not such occasion of doubt concerning the Children as of the Professed Unbeliever and for some other reasons perhaps through meere incogitancy of the connexion between the unlawfulnesse of their living together and the illegitimation of their Children as it happened to them 1 Cor. 15. 12. and is incident to men and women as rationall as they 4. According to the interpretation I give there is no intimation of doubt concerning the Childrens legitimacy either borne before or after conversion nor needs there be to make good the Exposition I give As for else were your Children unclean the consequence of the Apostle might be good in my sense if it be meant either of the Children borne before or after conversion of the one party it is true of either that if the Unbelieving husband were not as if he had been sanctified to his Wife in respect of lawfull conjugall use their Children were illegitimate but I think upon mature consideration it is the most cleer Exposition to understand it of those borne since the conversion of one Party Upon this Answer to Mr. Baxter I presume the Reader will perceive my Exposition no irrationall fancy which is the interpretation of Ambrose Hierome Anselme Aquinas Melanchthon Camerarius Osiander Gagnaeus Musculus Suarez Mariana and many others who have been conceived men able to discerne between reason and irrationall fancies as actuely as Mr. Baxter though I conceive of his abilities as excellent However still the Christian that would not delude his conscience me thinks should feare to goe against the plaine Institution of Christ and Practise of the Apostles and first Ages of the Church in which Infant-baptisme was neither appointed nor Practised upon such uncertaine Expositions and Consequences as Mr. Baxter hath brought and I may now freely say however they seemed somewhat at the first hearing yet now upon exact consideration for the consequences from his three first Scriptures here brought frivolous and I doubt urged more like a Sophister then a lover of truth The rest of Mr. Baxters Passage hath with it a manifest tincture of reviling little of reason yet because such speeches too easily take with People who are of all others most prejudiced against those they call Anabaptists and who I thinke are as unequally dealt with as any men I will make an answer to it SECT. 8 Of Gods speaking by judgements from Heaven against Anabaptists MAster Baxter goes on thus I cannot digresse to fortify you against these Sects you have seene God speak against them by judgements from Heaven what were the two monsters in new England but miracles Ans. He is pleased to stile Antinomians Socinians Arminians Separatists Independents Anabaptists falsly so called Sects Those whom he calls Independents disclaim the Title and deny themselves to be a Sect and so doe Antipaedobaptists Let reason be heard why should men be any more called a Sect for denying that it is of Divine appointment that a Synod of many Churches should have power to excommunicate then others called Presbyterians for holding it why should Antipaedobaptists be called a Sect for denying that Infants are appointed by Christ to be Baptized rather then Paedobaptists for affirming it If for their Tenet they are called a Sect surely they that so plainly turne aside from the expresse institution Mat. 28. 19 20. Mark 16. 5. 16. which almost all Expositors and not a few Paedobaptists even in their writings for Paedobaptisme do acknowledge to appoint onely the Baptizing of Disciples made by Preaching and from the manifest Practise of the Apostles are more worthy the Name of a Sect or Sectaries if for non-Communion with others of a contrary judgement I wish each man would lay his hand on his heart and examine whether he hath not been the maker of the breach For my own part I am assured I can better aquit my selfe from it then the chief of my Antagonists Surely Mr. Baxter in this his Invective chiefly in his rash and hasty reckoning me