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sin_n	dead_a	life_n	trespass_n	5,011	5	10.5955	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79489	A Christian plea for infants baptisme. Or a confutation of some things written by A.R. in his treatise, entitutled, The second part of the vanitie and childishnesse of infants baptisme. In the answer whereof, the lawfulnesse of infants baptisme is defended, and the arguments against it disproved, by sufficient grounds and forcible reasons, drawn from the sweet fountains of holy Scripture. S.C.	Chidley, Samuel.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3836A; Thomason E32_2; ESTC R11383	164,121	171

not amongst the living in Jerusalem but the dead in Palestina And therefore by the same rule if any of his male children who were at yeares of discretion would not be content to come in with his father as his father was to reckon him among the uncircumcised so was he not to circumcise him nor compell him to be circumcised till he submitted voluntarily yet if this Prosolyte had male infants borne of her that was sanctified to him though she did not sanctifie him he was to circumcise them and to rank his holy infants both male and female among the circumcised Salemites and to put such a reall difference between them and his disobedient children as between holy and prophane as between members of the Church and not of the Church as between circumcised Israelites and uncircumcised Philistines And so the holy Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 7.14 teacheth all beleevers to esteem such Children holy and directly opposite to those Children whose unbeleeving parents are not so much as sanctified to any beleever for procreating a holy seed and therefore the Infants of one or both beleeving parents are to be esteemed holy and it is a sinne to rank them with those infants whose parents are not any one of them in Covenant with God or at least so to be esteemed for wee have nothing to doe with secret things which belong only unto God but things revealed wee are to look into and so to judge of the tree by the fruit and in doing thus we shall not doe amisse or commit sin because we so judge though things fall out afterward contrary to our former expectation since those persons declare themselves otherwise then before they did or that God discover them unto us to be otherwise then wee were formerly to esteeme them But to this objection * Pag. 5. lin 34 A. R. That they are here termed holy and are so to be esteemed You answer * Pag. 5. lin 36 37 38. That so were the unbeleeving Jewes when they were broken off Rom. 11.16 and so is the unbeleeving wife in this place yet neither of these are to be baptized for their being tearmed holy and therefore not Children for their being here tearmed holy To which I answer that you doe not observe the scope of the Apostles words for he would not have us to judge that those are holy in visibilitie who are visibly Apostated and are cut off for the Apostle speaking of the Apostate Jewes sayth What shall their receiving be but life from the dead * Vers 15. For sayth he if the first fruits be holy so is the whole lump and if the root be holy so are the branches * Vers 26. Intimating that those branches are visibly holy which abide in the Vine and Olive tree and receive nourishment from and are borne up of the root Ver. 17. And the Apostle declareth that those unbeleeving Jewes were broken off and were not then partaker of that benefit which the beleeving Gentiles had by being grafted in in stead of the Jewes and so made partaker of the root and fatnesse of the Olive tree Ver. 18. yea further the Apostle declareth the cause of the Jews cutting off namely unbeliefe Through unbeliefe they are broken off Ver. 19. and therefore he exhorteth the beleeving Gentiles not to be high-minded Ver. 20. but to feare Ver. 21. and to take heed and to behold the bountifulnes and severitie of God Toward them which have fallen Ver. 22. Severitie but sayth he towards thee bountifulnes if thou cōtinue in his bountifulnes or els thou shalt be cut off And they also Ver. 23. if they abide not still in unbelief shal be grafted in for God is able to graft them in So then it appeareth that the Apostle doth teach us that their abiding on the Olive tree doth demonstrate them to be holy in the appearance of men Howbeit those are holy in the sight of God who shall be saved though they are not knowne unto men to be holy but ought to be esteemed unholy in visibilitie So the incestuous person of the Church of Corinth when he was cut off from them was by the Church to be esteemed unholy in visibilitie but afterward when he repented he was then to be esteemed holy by those persons who formerly and rightly according to visibilitie esteemed him unholy even at the time when he fell from his steadfastnesse And so it is sayd * Isa 4.3 that he that is left in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written amongst the living in Jerusalem So it appeareth that till we see them to be of the number of those who are in mount Sion and in Jerusalem wee are not to esteeme them holy What they are in Gods secret account his sacred Majestie knoweth but the revealed will of God hath directed us not to call those visibly holy who are visibly unholy as all visible unbeleevers are nor are we to esteeme those unholy outwardly who are outwardly holy as all visible beleevers are for the Apostle putteth a difference between branch and branch between visible beleevers and visible unbeleevers as we must doe between the members of the visible Church and those that Apostate therefrom and are cut off But the holy children of beleevers in their infancie cannot justly be said to Apostate from God or to degenerate frō that heavenly state and holy olive tree in which they are by faith ingrafted and therefore well might the Apostle teach us that we are to esteem them holy Whereas you say so is the unbeleeving wife in this place I Ans It is not so The Apostle sayth not that the unbeleeving wife of the beleever is holy but sanctified but he declareth that the children are holy And as for the baptizing of such branches that are broken off before they are grafted in againe or the unbeleeving wife before shee be a beleever we plead not but alledge the contrary for they are not visibly holy as you would inferre but they are unholy in visibilitie and are not to be esteemed as written among the living in Jerusalem but as dead in sins and trespasses till they repent and beleeve and live thereby and so the Apostle sayth Rom. 11.15 What shall the receiving of the unbeleeving Jewes be but life from the dead But so long as they are spiritually dead they are not to be esteemed holy nor reckoned among the living in Jerusalem * Rev. 22.15 For as such unbeleevers were not meet to be members of the visible Church in the time of the Law no more are they meet to be members of the visible Church in the time of the Gospel for as the Church of God both was and is a spirituall holy Church so it hath refused and doth and ought to refuse all those persons that a●e not living stones holy and spirituall for holinesse sayth David becometh thine house O Lord for ever