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A62091 Primitive baptism, and therein infants and parents rights Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708. 1690 (1690) Wing S6332; ESTC R220779 19,616 43

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PRIMITIVE BAPTISM And therein INFANTS AND PARENTS RIGHT MATTH 19.6 What God hath joined together let no Man put asunder LONDON Printed for Ionathan Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXC TO THE READER THE Author of these Papers is one whom I have known long since to be a person of great Reputation for Knowledg Wisdom Gravity and Seriousness A Person not only skilful and diligent in his particular Calling and beautiful in his Christian Conversation but also a diligent and judicious Reader and Observer of the Sacred Scriptures and so far as I could either learn of others or my self discern by Conversation with him an impartial searcher after Truth and readily receptive of it in its discerned Evidence and consequently not tenacious of any Sentiments or Opinions through humour interest and self-conceitedness where any reasons do appear to prove them false or probably uncertain or unsafe That this small Tract is his I have great reason to believe It is small nervous and clear as to the great Design thereof of which the Title is a sufficient indication and account but let the matter speak for it self and force its way into the Readers breast by its own Strength carried home by God's blessing thereupon to such degrees as He sees fit who is the Original source and Fountain Patron and End of Truth I shall only add That when our Brethren who judg it improbable that any Infants had their solemn admission into the Church of Christ in Scripture-times by the instituted rite of Christian Baptism have tryed their Strength upon what is here offer'd and scripturally proved and have effectually Answered what is here briefly and in other Books more copiously demonstrated and improved they may probably gain more Proselytes to themselves Read carefully think deeply pray fervently design honestly judg impartially and give Christ's evident Truths Laws Institutions their just receptions and improvement and take in nothing for Truth or Duty for the sake of any Man but yield to Evidence and this will be most grateful Candid and Christian Reader To thine in and for our Blessed Lord whilst M. SYLVESTER PREFACE AS Civil Right is one of the great controverted Points in the World so is Religious Right in the Church What is here offered concerning Infants and Parents Right in the Church is a short Discourse maintained against two different Practices the One withholding Baptism from Infants of baptized Parents the Other withholding such Parents from their Infants in Baptism The Arguments brought against these Practices are those brought by Christ against a Practice of the like Nature namely that it is a putting asunder those whom God hath joined together and that from the beginning it was not so Which Arguments are not insisted upon as suspecting the strength of other Arguments but as agreeing therewith and the better to clear up the Apostolical Practice in these things All submitted to superior Judgments Primitive Baptism GOD who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son Who that our Religion and Manners Faith and Worship may be after the due Order hath commanded us to search the Scriptures containing Rules and Directions Precepts and Examples always evident and perfect in their kind though not always alike express The Sadduces finding no express mention of the Resurrection in the Books of Moses which they emphatically called the Scriptures not only denied the Resurrection but framed Arguments from those Scriptures against it One whereof they thought so unanswerable Deut. 25.6 that they encountred Christ himself with it Mat. 22. v. 23 24 c. Christ observing their Confidence reproves them as plainly both of Error and the Cause thereof in these Words ver 29. Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God and from the Scriptures proves the Resurrection Which Words of Christ Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God may have a double Aspect one unto the Scripture from whence they framed their Argument against the Resurrection and another unto the Scripture which he brings to prove the Resurrection by That the Sadduces did not know the Scriptures literally or the Power of God historically cannot be the meaning of Christ but take the Words as having an Eye to that Scripture brought by them ver 24. from whence they raised their Argument against the Resurrection and the Sense may be such as this Ye Sadduces say that there is no Resurrection and you seem very big of your Opinion as if you were in the right and had Scripture on your side and could from the Scripture prove it impossible but I tell you Ye err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God for though that be Scripture which ye have quoted yet ye not comparing it with other Passages of the same Sacred Writings nor Spiritual Things with Spiritual do not hold the Analogy of Faith contained in the Scriptures but speak evil of those things which ye know not whilst what you know naturally as brute Beasts in those things you corrupt your selves For that the Dead are raised even Moses shewed at the Bush when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob for he is not the God of the Dead but of the Living for all live unto him And though you pretend to know God yet you glorify him not as God nor consider that Power belongs unto him else why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the Dead Neither are your Notions of the future State to which the Dead are raised by his Infinite and Almighty power suitable to those high and excellent Apprehensions which you ought to have of it for in the Resurrection they neither marry nor are given in Marriage neither do they die any more but are as the Angels of God in Heaven Ye therefore do greatly err But taking the Words of Christ as having a respect to the Scripture which he brings to prove the Resurrection by ver 32. and then the meaning may be this or such like Ye deny that there is any Resurrection and conclude that you must be in the right because you find no express mention of it in the Scriptures and as if the Incapacity of the Dead made it impossible with God but do you not therefore err because you know not the Scriptures nor the Power of God For though it be not expresly said that the Dead are raised yet know that there is sufficient Proof for it in Scripture by good and warrantable Inference from Scripture For as touching the Resurrection of the Dead have you not read that which was spoken to you by God saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac Mat. 22.31 and the God of Jacob from whence you might have attained unto the knowledg of the Resurrection as satisfyingly as