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A17599	Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.; Institutio Christianae religionis. English. Abridgments	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Piscator, Johannes, 1546-1625.; Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.	1596 (1596)	STC 4374; ESTC S107177	82,272	222

in vs. XVI The third benefite by Baptisme is our holy vnion and communion with Christ that we may know that we are vnited a 1. Cor. 11.15 and receiued to felowship with Christ knit vnto him as the members to the head and therfore shal be coheires with him in heauen For Christ to this end sanctified Baptisme in b Math. 3.16 his owne body that he might haue it as commō with vs that so it might be as a most sure bande of our vnion and communion with him And Paule hereby proueth vs to be the sons of God because that in Baptisme we haue put c Gal. 3.14 on Christ that is because by the seale and testimony of our Baptisme were are ioyned vnto Christ the onely begotten sonne of God XVII And thus these three ends of Baptisme serue right well for the confirmation of our faith and so may minister great comfort vnto vs. Againe for our profession among men Baptisme is a badge of that for thereby we testifie that our desire is to be a Iohn 4.1 Act. 2.41 numbred among Gods people professing that we consent with all Christiās in one forme of the religious worship of one God onely and this profession also respecteth the glory of God And this meaning hath Christ when he commandeth to baptize b Mat. 28.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost that is that by Baptisme men may be bounde to worship the true God who is Father Sonne and holy Ghost and that this phrase is so to be vnderstood the very wordes of the Apostle can teach vs. 1. Cor. 1. v. 12.13.14.15 XVIII Now by the premisses learne that they onely rightly receiue and rightly vse Baptisme which referre it to the ends for the which Christ ordained it that is that they may feele and by faith receiue remission of sins regeneration and life euerlasting in Christ alone so receiue Baptisme as Gods holy seale of all these benefites XIX Therfore those men greatly abuse Baptisme which seeke remission of sinnes in that externall actiō as if the power of washing away sinnes were shut vp in the very element or at the least in the bloud of Christ as lying hid therein CHAP. XXV The Baptisme of infants I. APHORISME BEcause the Anabaptistes do oppugne the Baptisme of infants as a point disagreeing with Christes institution it is needfull to know the reasons whereby the Baptisme of infants is proued by the scriptures and next to shewe the vanitie and weakenesse of the Anabaptistes argumēts which they bring to the contrarie II. Now then that the children of the faithfull ought to be baptised may be shewed out of Gods word by foure speciall arguments The first is from the example of Circūcision which assuredly had the like a Col. 2.11.12 reason the same signification that baptisme hath For like as by Circumcision God testified to the people of Israell the b Rom. 4.11 remission of sinnes and c Deut. 30.6 Rom. 2.29 Coloss 2.11 regeneration so by Baptisme doth he promise the very same things vnto the Christians If therefore their infants then at Gods d Gen. 17.12 Leuit. 12.3 cōmandement were Circumcised it is a good consequent that the children of the faithfull vnder the Gospell be baptised III. For albeit we haue no such charge for the baptising of infants yet we know right well the Lordes good pleasure herein by the very nature and end of Baptisme especially seeing Baptisme is ordained to succeede in the a Col. 2.11.12 place of Circumcision Now the charge giuē to them of old which professed the Iewish Religion was that they should not onely be Circumcised them selues but also all b Exo. 12.48 the males that did belong vnto them Wherefore in like manner such as professe Christian Religion they are bounde to bring their infants to be baptized IIII. Againe the children of the faithfull are partakers of that which is signified by Baptisme that is the remission of sinnes regeneration for they belong to Gods a Gene. 17.7 Act. 2.39 1. Cor. 7.14 couenant wherein these benefits are promised with what colour then of reason shall we denie them the seale of the couenant V. And if our infants may not be baptized then the grace of God by Christs cōming doth lesse appeare vnto vs then vnto the Iewes in times past for that the faithfull Iewes were confirmed by the seale of Circumcision cōcerning the saluatiō of their children wherefore it is against all reason that Christiās should not in like maner by the testimonie of Baptisme be assured of the saluation of their infants VI. Lastly the children of the faithfull ought to be offred a Mat. 19.14 a Col. ● 12. vnto Christ as they that haue communion with him in the kingdome of heauen therfore we must giue them their Baptisme as the seale of that communiō and heritage they haue with Christ in heauen VII For whereas the Anabaptistes denie that the baptizing of infantes was vsed in the Apostles time we must know that the old writers say contrarie and the same may also appeare by the Acts of the Apostles which Luke a companion of the Astles as eye-witnesse of all the things for the most part hath left written for the Church of Christ where it a Act. 2.38.39 is sayd in the wordes of Peter to the Iewes conuerted by his Sermon that they be baptized for the remission of sins and that they should receiue the gift of the holy Ghost for that this promise was made not onely vnto them but vnto their childrē Where in the word children it can not be denied but that infants must be vnderstood Againe this Euangelist recordeth that Paule Silas in whose companie he him self also was baptized b Act. 16.15 Lydia her house and the Iayler c Ibid v. 33. with all his houshold VIII Next whereas they say that infants may not be baptized because they cannot cōceiue the doctrine of faith repentance The like reason might be made against the Circumcision of infants Wherefore it sufficeth that they are baptized vnto the repentance and faith to come euen as the infants among the Iewes were Circumcised IX Thirdly whereas they obiect that Baptisme was giuen for the remission of sins and that infants haue not sinned the assumption is false for albeit infants haue not sinned after the like manner of the transgression of a Rom. 5.14 Adam that is actually in their own person yet they sinned in b Ibid. v. 12. him or in his loynes for that they are c 1. Cor. 15.22 dead in him and d Rom. 5.14 and 6.21 dye dayly no lesse then such as be of yeares X. Fourthly whereas they say that Christ hath cleansed a Ephe. 5.26 his Church by the washing of water and that infantes haue no neede of this cleansing because they be not vncleane againe the