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A03779	An apologie of infants in a sermon: prouing, by the reuealed will of God, that children preuented by death of their baptisme, by Gods election, may be saued. By W.H. preacher in the Tower of London. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1595 (1595)	STC 13898; ESTC S104267	27,538	80

the childe before that time no disparagement to saluation Lombard l. 4. sent dist 2. ca. si vero Indeed Lombard the maister of the sentēces that is of the sentētious positiue diuinitie out of whom they gather their tenents cōclusions giueth dānatory sentence vpō infants that die without circumcision as vpon thē that dye without baptisme But here he is noted with a blacke coa●e of dislike None commonly holde with master Lombard in this Magister hic non tenetur onely our countrieman Beda thinking that verie hard doth labour to salue qualifie it thus that in time of necessitie of death they circumcised peraduenture before the 8. day without offence But who dare pluck vp the stakes of the time appointed by God Quaest 3 de Baptismo or remoue them It is but a fancie The Iesuites in their controuersies yeeld the infants of the Iewes that were preuented by death before the 8. day to bee saued because they say God set downe this time Whereas the libertie that it is arbitrary to the church when to administer baptisme so no neglect bee of that holy seale argueth rather that the preuention of it should bee no more preiudiciall to the sauing of thy child vnbaptized then of it vncircumcised And the other reason which the Iesuits giue why Iewish infants might bee saued without circumcision namely that the parents prayers and offeringes might bee a remedie to succour them will serue for the infants vnbaptized if they meane of prayers before death namely that the deuotion of the godly of godly parents who many times pray exercise deuotion in their hearts for their babe vnseene as Iob for his aliue Iob. 1.5 Gen. 25.22 as Rebecca went to the Lorde for the babes in the wombe that it may haue life the mother a good howre that it may proue the seruāt of God shal be as auailable for their children as the offringes of the Iewes for their vncircumcised But see the force of trueth howe great it is that it maketh stiffe aduersaries to yeeld somewhat namely that by priuiledge and dispensation infants vnbaptized may bee saued for so at last they say Gen. 15.6 But wee proue more then a speciall priuiledge Abraham before the lawe was iustified by faith Rom. 4 3. euen while hee was yet vncircumcised Iohn the baptist Luke 1.15 Iere. 1.5 in the wombe was filled with the holy Ghost Ieremie vncircumcised was sanctified from his mothers wombe so Paul vnbaptized was sanctified also frō the womb Gal. 1.15 if Moses and Ieremie had dyed without circumcision had they been damned if Iohn Baptist and Paul had dyed in the wombe had they perished God forbid where then is absolute necessitie Therefore indeede saluation dependeth vpon Gods election of olde Ephes 1.4.5 Rom. 9.21.22 when in his euerlasting counsell seeing a ruine like to come vpon all he sorted the soules of men and women some to mercie some to wrath and this election remaineth sure and vnmoueable in his church hauing this seale not that man knoweth by baptisme or not baptisme 2. Tim. 2.19 who are his absolutely but * this the Lord knoweth who are his so that indeede the holding of the necessitie of baptisme to saluation ouerthroweth Gods election destroyeth his omnipotencie and the freenes of his purpose from euerlasting Of Iacob God sayth Him I haue loued Rom. 9.13 in him is vnderstood the corps of the faithfull the communaltie of the saintes Gods loue is no fancie that want of baptisme may breake off for then it were a heauie case that the negligēce or contempt of the parent or minister should debarre the helpeles child from the societie of saluation Esau hated of God in him is vnderstood the brood and spawne of the wicked therefore saluation dependeth vpon Gods acceptance and receiuing into fauour and not vpon the outwarde elemente of water euen ritually and formally administred for to say that water hath this power it is to deifie it to make it God to make it an Idoll to sacrifice to it and to bring vp again a Neptune a God of the water with the gentiles Therfore neither had Iacob perished if hee had died in the wombe seeing GOD spred his banner of loue ouer him neither Esau was saued because hee liued till his foreskin was done away seeing the Lord had no liking to him The scripture is rich in examples of Gods fauour before any touch of Sacraments besides these alreadie touched the children of the Hebrues also as it is charitable and probable to thinke Dauids childe Abraham Iacob Ieremie Iohn Baptist the Apostles Paul the theefe vpon the crosse whom all the scripture commendeth to leaue the vncertain as Nicodemus Ioseph of Arimathia Gamaleel c Before any sacrament receiued * Luk. 19.9 of Zacheus it is sayd This day is saluation come into thy house O Zache this day not the day of his baptisme so the * Act. 8.37 Eunuch accepted to God by faith before his baptisme so Cornelius a man that feared God before his baptisme so Lydias hart opened by the Lord Act. 10.2 by the key of the word Act. 16.14 as it were turned about by the preaching of it before baptisme so the iaylour in the same place so Mary Magdelene that was caried to sinne as if 7. diuels draue the tide with wind and saile Luk. 17.50 Her faith saued her as Christ sayth not her baptisme vnles you say shee baptized herselfe with her teares which though they were holy and precious water fit to be preserued in Gods bottle Psalm 56.8 falling from her humbled cheekes and a contrite heart which God wiped with his mercie which had many sinnes forgiuen because shee loued much yet they are not this actuall baptisme of water which wee speake of So sayth Hierome of Asella sanctified from the wombe And in deede the very vse of the Sacramentes which wee giue and afforde the elect onely as wee hope proueth a non necessitie of saluation in them and by them For why are children baptized 1. Cor. 7.11.14 because they are holy though onely one parent should beleeue howe holy and who holy how holy * Quaest 3 de bapt necess not as the Iesuits imagine holy that is legitimate no bastarde but holy because of the glorious profession of Iesus Christ because of the couenant of grace Gen. 17 7. Act 2.39 I will be thy GOD and the God of thy seede Who holy only the baptized children of the christians no it is generally and vniuersally sayd your children as likewise of the whole Iewish race it is spoken the roote being holy Rom 11.16 so are the branches And why are the growen and them of discretion baptized is it not that wee see some reason to seale vnto them Gods mercie for baptisme is a s●●●e as was circumcision Rom. 4.11 Now as among men the conditions are agreed vpon then the seale annexed so

God receiueth into couenant and then sealeth Men possesse their cattel and instruments and then marke them they chuse and leuie souldiers then giue them prest money And yet as with a good landlord the right of my tenement ceaseth not hauing the promise of a faithfull man though the father should die without sealing vnto mee seeing an honest sonne commeth in place who will be a seale vnto his fathers words so though GOD the father should preuent vs of baptisme yet in that he hath promised a state of life to me and mine in his sonne hee will seale it to vs for him hath the father * Ioh. 6.27 sealed An honest souldier will venture his life in the battailes of the lord though hee had not his prest money The clayme of the owner is good though no actuall marke should bee vpon his good This is the marke of Gods children Beza confes c. 4. s 48. de bapt infant Chytreus Bern. ser 66. in Cant. Au l. 1. de peccat meritis Pet Martyr lo. com clas 4. c. 8. sect 7. Zuinglius de Baptismo pag. 68. tom 2. The Lorde knoweth who are his Nowe if children in the wombe as Iohn Baptist or before baptisme and in their infancie haue faith as diuers think or haue the spirit of God as others seeing they are partes of the Church as woe all professe and members of the body of Christ as wee all say howe can they perish none can take his sheepe nay not the least lambe of a day olde Iohn 10.29 nay not yet eaned nor brought into the world out of his hande though Sathan should stande by to deuoure it vpon the verie birth Apoc. 12.4.5 as he did once for the child the verie sonne of God which was taken vp to Gods throne And why may it not be that as in earthly paradise so in the heauenly Church Gen. 1.11.12 As there are some trees and hearbes seeding some budding some bearing fruite so in the heauenly paradise on earth the Church some of Gods seruants in the wombe some budding out some new washt as it were from the pooles If the first Adam could bring an euerlasting taint vpon them shal not the baptisme and death of the second Adam wipe it out The infant cannot reason yet it hath the seed of reason as it hath a soule though it know not so much of it selfe Thus some argue May it not haue faith shed in the heart of it Ephe. 3.17 for who can tell how God dwelleth in the heart of the elect Rom. 8.9 He that hath not the spirit of God is none of his Is not this the glorious impression and stampe of that heauenly seale that the child is assumpted into the association and fellowship of the blessed Trinitie Matth. 28.19 into whose name it is baptized Childrē must come to Christ Mark 10.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as Luk. 18.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What children Little ones they that are come to little reason but that they abuse in trifling yet theirs is the kingdome of God If theirs be the kingdom of God then are they cleane Apoc. 21.27 for no vncleane thing maye come in his pure sight Now what maketh cleane but faith and Gods spirite their hearts being purified alike by faith Act. 15.9 The working of Gods spirite is like the insensible pearcing of the winde Ioh. 5.8 which getteth in no man knoweth how And may it not get in into the hearts of little children if their children bee holie who can sanctifie them but the sanctifier 1. Cor. 6 11. why may not Gods spirite his winde get into them and if they bee sanctified then not damned Wherefore these speeches of the childe vnbaptized It is an heathen an infidell it is damned I would not haue my child in the like case for millions are speeches indeede heathenish full of infidelitie of rash iudgement vncharitablenes not onely by damnatorie speeches against the dead but against the liuing God that hath taken them away as he would Doth not the spirit speake better things Luk. 6.37 Iudge not and thou shalt not be iudged condemne not and thou shalt not be condemned nay acquite assoyle deliuer and thou shalt haue a measure of such mercifull construction measured vnto thee not as thou vsest to doe sparingly streight by the brimmes of the measure but with a measure pressed downe shaken together and running ouer And yet Protestants speake so So naturall a thing is Poperie so quickly doe wee drinke in error before wee bee taught it Ephe. 4.20 Haue we so learned Christ are his lawes so ful of ruefulnes Of Draco the lawgiuer it is written that al his lawes were death death if thou doe this death if thou doe not that still the fatall noyse of death ended the lawe Therefore they note the pen to drop crueltie the inke and writing to bee bloud But Christ is no Draco a Dragon Ioh. 1.29 He is a lambe that takes away the sinnes of the whole world a world of sinnes much more this lambe of God to heale these little lābes of his flocke His lawes are not lawes of Draco they speake peace Heb. 12.24 his bloud crieth better things then the bloud of Abel for that crieth vengeance vpon Cayne his brother Gen. 4.10 But Christs bloud crieth with a strong voyce as of a mightie Angel my bloud for all bloud Rom. 5.10 my bodie for all sinne euen of mine enemies This were to make Christ an Herode for Herode sent out his men of warre to sley and murder most butcherly infants from two yeares old downward Matth 2.16 among whom were some vncircumcised then Rachel in Rama lifts vp bitter voyces of lamentation no cōfort they are not Indeede if Christ were not a Herauld of peace rather then a Herod and that hee sent out his messengers of warre as death and graue to deuoure the diuell and hell to damne the vnbaptized then indeede might Rachel lift vp her voyce put on her mourning weede then euery mother and father sister and brother might howle and weepe and answere one an other with dolefull ecchoes and remediles complaints no comfort no consolation because they are not nay because they are that is they are in endles sorowe for better it were not to bee at all But blessed bee God who hath sealed a better couenant Gen. 17.7 With thee and thy seede I make my couenant blessed bee God who hath cleared our comfort 1. Cor. 7.11.14 Esay 9.6 Your children are holy Blessed be God that concerning the childe borne in Esai hath caused heauen and earth to heare a better melodie from an armie of heauenly souldiers Luk. 2.14 Glorie to God on high peace on earth belowe good will towards men Doe I speake this alone doe not likewise the generall voyce and language of Canaan Nehe. 13.24 Esay 19.18 I meane the Israel of God speake so