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B20542	Believers-baptism from heaven, and of divine institution Infants-baptism from earth, and human invention. Proved from the commission of Christ, the great law-giver to the gospel-church. With a brief, yet sufficient answer to Thomas Wall's book, called, Baptism anatomized. Together with a brief answer to a part of Mr. Daniel William's catechism, in his book unto youth. By Hercules Collins, a servant of the servants of Christ.	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing C5360; ESTC R224066	50,763	158

Circumcision therefore cannot be meant God's Ordinance of Baptism but sheweth the great Care God had of his Church that as he fed them miraculously and gave them Water out of a Rock in the Wilderness Baptism signifieth properly plunging in Water or washing by dipping Dr. Taylor 's Rule of Conscience so he did not leave them in the Red Sea but incompass'd them about by his Divine Providence with Water and the Cloud as Persons are encompassed with that Element when Baptized Hence in the 6th place Baptism is explained by the Metaphor of a Garment which the Apostle refers unto when he calls Baptism a putting on Christ Gal. 3.27 As the Servant by his Lord's Livery declares whose he is so the long white Robe of Baptism sheweth us to be the Servants of the Lord Jesus 7. Baptism is not only called a Washing by Ananias and Peter Acts 22.16 1 Pet. 3.21 Tit. 3.5 but the washing of the Soul in Regeneration is held forth in this Symbol and Sign Austin and Paulinus in the 7th Century in England Baptized great Multitudes in the River Trent and Swale Hence saith Mr. Fox there was no use of Fonts then Fox's Acts and Monuments 9 Edit Vol. 1. p. 132. by the Apostle Paul when he speaks of the washing of Regeneration unto Titus Now we know every Faculty of the Soul is washed in the Blood of Christ and every Faculty sanctified by the Holy Spirit not a part of the Faculties but all the Faculties therefore wisely set forth by Baptism wherein not only a part but the whole Body is wash'd and cleansed in Water 8. This is further cleared from the practice of the most pure Apostolick Times 'T is said of our most blessed Lord Jesus That he went up out of the Water Mat. 3.15 16 17. which in common sense signifies He first went down not only to the Water but into the Water and came up out of the Water Of Philip and the Eunuch 't is said Acts 8.36 40. They went down both not only to the Water but into the Water and came up out of the Water if Sprinkling would have done they need only go to and come from it but they knew the Commission could not be answered unless they went down into the Water The Minister is to dip in Water as the meetest Act the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notes it Rogers on the Sacrament Thus you see the Places where the Apostles Baptized were in Rivers and where was much Water You see their Act and Posture they went down into the Water you see their End was to exhibit and shew forth Christ's Death Burial and Resurection If any should ask Why Sprinkling will not do as well as Dipping I answer 1. Because that is another thing than Christ hath commanded and 't is high presumption to change God's Ordinances Isa 24.5 Tho there was no more virtue in the Waters of Jordan than of Damascus yet Naaman must keep to God's Appointment 2. In so doing we lose the End of the Ordinance which as aforesaid is to shew forth the Death and Resurrection of Christ 3. We must keep the Ordinances as they were delivered unto us 1 Cor. 11.2 'T is a known Maxim to practise any thing in the Worship of God as an Ordinance of his without an Institution ought to be esteemed Will-worship Idolatry And that there is a necessity for Scripture-Authority to warrant every Ordinance and Practice in Divine Worship is owned by Luther Austin Calvin Basil Theoph. Tertul Mr. Ball and in the 6th Article of the Church of England also Bellarmine as Moses was to make all things according to the Pattern shewed him in the Mount. 4. God is a Jealous God and stands upon small things in Matters of Worship Had Moses and Aaron but lifted up a Tool upon the Altar of ruff Stone to beautify it they would have polluted it because contrary to the Command 5. This hath no likeness to the holy Examples of Christ and his Apostles CHAP. IV. Shewing that professing Believers and them only are the proper Subjects of Baptism Which I demonstrate FIrst From Gospel-Precept Our Text saith He that believeth and is baptized Erasmus saith 'T is no where in the Apostles Writings Infants were baptized The parallel Text Mat. 28. is worthy of consideration by way of Division The Commission is Go the Subjects spoken to are his Apostles the Matter of it is to teach and baptize the Extent of it is into all the World not only in hot Countries but in Cold. The Order in this Commission is first to teach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then after taught and discipellized to baptize them Therefore to baptize them We meet with no Example in Scripture for baptizing Infants Magd. Hist Cent. 1. L. 2. p. 196. before taught is quite contrary to the Command The words of Institution in whose Name it is to be done is the glorious Trinity in the Name of Father Son and Holy Spirit this must be some great thing which is done by so great Authority Unto this is annexed a glorious Promise of Divine Presence not only to the End of that Age but the End of the World * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to put us out of all doubt about it 't is back'd with an Asseveration Amen so it shall be Finally here is a Note of Observation Lo our Lord would not have so great a Commission and Promise disregarded therefore saith he Lo that is observe what I have said wherever you find the word Lo Mark or Behold you will always find something very considerable it relates unto in the Context Now in pursuance of this Commission Peter exhorted the Murderers of Christ when they were convicted and cried out What shall we do he saith Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost 2ly This appears from Gospel-Precedent and Example the Apostles in pursuance of their Commission baptize none else but such Hence John the Baptist tells the Pharisees and Sadduces which came to his Baptism As Isaac was brought forth by the Word of Promise so must we be born of the Word of God which only makes Baptism powerful and effectual Magd. Cent. 5. p. 363. they must first bring forth Fruit meet for or to amendment of Life and not to think the old Argument for Circumcision that Abraham was their Father would give them a right to Gospel-Ordinances It 's not the Faith of Parents gives Children a right to the Seals of the New Covenant but a personal Faith hence Philip would not baptize the Eunuch but upon profession of Faith In a word all the Primitive Churches were constituted and planted upon this Foundation-Principle Heb. 6.1 2. Acts 2.41 Chap. 8.12 Chap. 16.14 Coloss 2.10 Acts 18.8 Rom. 6.4 Gal. 3.26 Acts 19.1 2 3. Ephes 4.4 as

Christians 'T is most likely those who baptize Infants baptize Heathens for we are all the Children of Wrath by Nature Eph. 2.3 It is you plead for Baptizing Heathens we plead for Baptizing Believers and Christians Object 11. There is no express Command for Womens receiving the Lord's Supper yet there may be good Consequences to prove it lawful so of Infant-Baptism I Answer Who will say there 's no Command for Women's communicating so long as that stands upon Record 1 Cor. 11.28 But let a Man examine himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Common Gender and so let him eat The Learned do know the original word signifieth Man or Woman The Apostle saith There 's one Mediator between God and Man 1 Tim. 2.5 the word signifieth Man or Woman Gal. 3.28 Male or Female all one in Christ it is the same word with the former in the Original Moreover we read of Women who believed and were Baptized Acts 8.12 so are fitly qualified for the Lord's Table We have also an Example of Women's communicating in Act. 1.13 14. we read Mary and other Women with the rest of the Disciples were altogether And in Act. 2.44 it 's said all that believed were together and in ver 42. these continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and in Fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayer So that here is a Command and an Example for Womens communicating tho none for Infants Baptism therefore the Objection is false and weak Object 12. Infants are Disciples therefore they may be Baptized I Answer This Objection being grounded on Act. 15.10 11. we shall shew the Occasion and Scope of it and see whether it can prove Infants Disciples or that they ought to be Baptized Some having asserted who came from Judea Vnless a Man was Circumcised he could not be saved Then the Church of Antioch determined that Paul and Barnabas with certain of the Church should go to Jerusalem to the Apostles and Elders concerning this Question which when they came together to consider this Matter Peter rose up and said Why tempt you God to put a Yoke upon the Necks of the Disciples Acts 15.10 This proves not Infants Disciples neither that they ought to be baptized which neither our Fathers nor we were able to bear The Meaning of the Apostle is Why should we impose the Yoke of Circumcision upon the Necks of the Disciples viz. Believing Gentiles which are by no Law obliged unto it this is to bring us unto that Bondage God hath delivered us from Now how this doth prove Infants Disciples and so ought to be Baptized I leave to all judicious Considerers Object 13. Circumcision nor Vncircumcision avails any thing but a New Creature We fear Persons lay too much stress upon Circumstantials not minding the Power of Godliness I Answer Those who lay too much stress upon Circumstantials 't is doubtless their Evil But can any lay more stress upon it than our Saviour who though unspotted yet would not live without it Tho Circumcision be nothing which is abolished is Baptism nothing which is called Righteousness and the Counsel of God and calls it Righteousness The laying the stress of our Happiness upon Christ should not hinder but further Obedience and always doth where the Faith is of the right Kind And whereas the Apostle saith Circumcision avails not any thing it did avail something when God threatned Moses with Death for not circumcising his Son Exod. 4. And when God said Whoever was not Circumcised should be cut off from among the People Gen. 17.14 The Apostle never intended to undermine Gospel-Commands by saying Circumcision nor Vncircumcision avails any thing for in 1 Cor. 7.19 he adds but the keeping the Commands of God What tho Circumcision is nothing because abolished is Believers Baptism nothing which is a standing Ordinance What tho some Jews might lay more stress upon Circumcision than upon the Lord Jesus for Salvation which might be the principal Cause of the Apostle's thus speaking I hope Persons have more charity than to conclude we lay more stress upon Baptism than our Lord's Merits Object 14. If Children may not be Baptized under the Gospel their Priviledg is less than under the Law I Answer The Priviledg under the Law and under the Gospel is the same to Infants as to the Covenant of Grace and as for Circumcision it was indeed a Priviledg to the Jews in comparison of the Heathens but called a Yoke in comparison of them under the Gospel We grant Why should this be esteemed the loss of a Priviledg more than not enjoying literally a holy Land a holy City Temple or Succession of a High Priest and Priesthood by Generation it 's a great Mercy for Children to have Godly Parents having the advantage of a good Education Prayer and good Examples But what benefit can Infants have from Baptism when God never appointed it for them nor made any Promise to them in it but most glorious ones are made to such as believe and are baptized namely Remission of Sins the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Eternal Salvation Mark 16.16 Object 15. The Children of Believers are Holy therefore they ought to be Baptized I Answer By explaining the Scripture upon which the Objection is grounded 1 Cor. 7.14 The Apostle is here giving an answer to a Case of Conscience that is Whether it were lawful for the believing Husband or Wife to leave or depart from the unbelieving Wife or Husband The Apostle in the Negative answers By no means for these Reasons First Now your Children are Holy viz. lawfully begotten in Wedlock but if the Husband leaves the Wife The Greek Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is well translated to by the Geneva or Wife the Husband every one will count your Children unclean that is Bastards therefore don't part but live together because the unbelieving Husband is sanctified or set apart by God's Ordinance to the use of the Wife and the Wife to the use of the Husband in a matrimonial way 1 Cor. 7.14 This is not an inherent spiritual nor a federal Holiness as some would beg and therefore argue for Baptism this Holiness is a legitimate Holiness And there can be no more concluded because these Children are said to be Holy therefore to be baptized than the Baptizing Zacharias's Bells or Pots in the Lord's House because they are said to be Holy Zach. 14.20 Object 16. All Nations are to be Baptized Infants are a part of the Nation Ergo Infants may be baptized I Answer The Lord Jesus Christ saith Mat. 28.19 20. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Disciple all Nations but that must be first by Preaching and Instructing them in the Principles of the Christian Faith And addeth I cannot be of their mind who think that Persons may be baptized before taught Pool's Synopsis on Mat. 28. Baptizing them c. Never intending any should be baptized but what

before he examined them of Repentance and Faith in the Messiah to come 5. To Baptize unto Repentance the sense can be nothing else than my Baptism being the Baptism of Repentance I Baptize them for my Baptism is the Baptism of Repentance I must see something of that else I have no Commission to Baptize 6. Penitent Souls may well be said to be Baptized unto Repentance Should I say Sir Walter Rawleigh was beheaded in Palace-Yard and made an excellent Speech none would understand that he spoke after he was dead because Beheaded is first and Speech after c. So tho John say I baptized to Repentance it could not be he baptized first because he required Repentance and Faith according to Christ's Commission as necessary to Baptism because 't is an every day's Work after his Baptism to amend and reform However John's words may be placed the scope of the Place sheweth they must repent before they were baptized because when the Pharisees and Sadduces came to his Baptism that is to be baptized said he O Generation of Vipers bring forth first Fruits meet for Repentance or unto or according to the nature of true Repentance and then I will baptize you and not without it Object 21. Water-Baptism is John's Baptism Paul was not sent to Baptize We have the Substance we need not the Shadow we are baptized with the Spirit we need not that of Water I Answer Cornelius and his Houshold were baptized with the Holy Ghost to that degree as they spake with Tongues Acts 10. yet thought it not beneath them to submit to Christ's blessed Ordinance of Water-Baptism I know not but this Scripture may be an everlasting Testimony against some which pretend to the Spirit who have it in that degree as now Cornelius and his Houshold Where the Spirit is Acts 10.44 to 48. there is Obedience to the Command I marvel any who pretend to great degrees of the Spirit should call God's Ordinances Shadows and Shells Is it a Command of Christ and a Shadow did Christ ever call it so Thou may'st as well say all other Ordinances are Shadows as Prayer Preaching c. And where wilt thou run is it a Command hath it a Divine Stamp if so dispute not Christ's Authority Are you wiser than he who subjected himself to it or can you think you have more of the Spirit than him who had it without measure and yet was was baptized in Water Whereas it is Objected Christ sent not * Bullinger in his House-book saith of 1 Cor. 1.17 'T is not slightly to be understood as if Paul was not sent to baptize at all but that Teaching should go before Baptism for the Lord commanded both Teaching and Administring Sacraments Paul to Baptize but to Preach Paul did baptize several either he did it by Commission or Presumption surely not by the latter therefore the former His meaning is that Baptism was not his first and principal Work he was sent to preach and Baptism fell in as a part of his Preaching-Office None are fit for Gospel-Ordinances until they have the Spirit of God Doth Cornelius and his House submit to Water-Baptism after Baptized eminently with the Spirit then that can be no Argument we are Baptized with the Spirit and need no Water This is cleared by our Lord's Word who said I am not sent but to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel not but he came also to be a Light to the Gentiles he was first to preach to them hence called the Minister of the Circumcision And whereas Water-Baptism is called John's Baptism I query the Baptism of John Was it from Heaven or of Men If from Heaven as it was for God sent him to Baptize then let all keep silent I know no difference between John's Baptism and that Christ gave his Apostles but that the former Baptized in the Name of Christ to come the latter in his Name being come Whereas some urge John said He must decrease Christ increase This hath no reference to the ceasing of Gospel-Ordinances but unto the Splendor and Glory of Christ in the World above what John's was in Holiness and Miracles for John did no Miracle John 10.41 Object 22. There are no fit Administrators therefore for the present Sacraments and Church-Ordinances cease I Answer When Christ gave Commission to Preach he gave Power in the same to Baptize Mat. 28. How comes this to pass that those very Persons which thus object do Preach which requires as great Ability and Sanctity to the due performance of the one as of the other I know some object that Commission Mat. 28. lasted no longer than to the end of that Age. To which I Answer Then Preaching ended too Christ commands his Disciples to teach all Nations all things which he commanded them Now Christ's Commands were Holiness Repentance and Faith was this to be no longer than to the end of that Age was Christ's Promise of his Presence but to the end of that Age this would be uncomfortable Doctrine The Promise is I will be with you to the end of the World the Learned know it 's the same original Word as in Matth. 13.39 40. where it is said The Harvest is the end of the World As the Tares are gathered together and burnt in the Fire so shall it be in the end of the World All conclude I think or ought that this hath respect to the final end of all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this being the same word in Mat. 28. We conclude teaching the Gospel baptizing them which are taught and the gracious Presence of Christ If Baptism ended in the Apostles Age then preaching of Repentance Faith and Holiness ceased also because all in the same Commission Yea the promise of Christ's Presence must cease also in the end of that Age a more uncomfortable Doctrine cannot be is to remain in his Church till the World's end that is till the final end of all things Moreover Paul asserts Ephes 3.21 that Christ will have a Church and glory in the Churches throughout all Ages World without end From whence I argue if God have a Church in all Ages he must have Ordinances there because no Church of Christ can be constituted without them If there be Ordinances in the Church in all Ages there must be some to administer them or else they would be insignificant But that he hath fit Administrators in the Church and will have Paul asserts in Ephes 4.12 13. He gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers For what end for the perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry for the edifying the Body of Christ How long till we all come to the Vnity of the Faith and of the Knowledg of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the measure of the Fulness of Christ Let Men take heed how they put a slight upon the Ordinances of God in crying up the Spirit with