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A85387	Cata-baptism: or new baptism, waxing old, and ready to vanish away. In two parts. The former containes LVIII. considerations, (with their respective proofs, and consectaries) pregnant for the healing of the common scruples touching the subject of baptism, and manner of baptizing. The latter, contains an answer to a discours against infant-baptism, published not long since by W.A. under the title of, Some baptismall abuses brielfy discovered, &c. In both, sundry things, not formerly insisted on, are discovered and discussed. / By J.G. a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1155; Thomason E849_1; ESTC R207377	373,602	521

thing may be agreeable enough with another when there is a disagreeablenesse between them in many properties and scarce a similitude in any Righteousnesse is agreeable enough with Christ and so with a regenerate soul yet in how many properties or considerations do they differ The meat which a man eats if it be wholesome though Mr. A. p. 32. 33. it be dead or without life yet may it be agreeable enough to his body which is alive So that this argument hath not so much as the face or colour of a proof in it And 3. When he saith that the Gospel-ministration is therefore called the ministration of the spirit because the worship and service which God receives from men under it is or ought to be more spirituall then that was under the Law 1. I do not very well understand what he means by the Gospel-ministration as viz. whether the publication or manifestation of the Gospell which was made by Christ and his Apostles unto the world in their dayes or whether that publishing or preaching of it which hath been made since in generations succeeding by the ordinarie ministers and Preachers of it If he means the former I confesse the ministration of the Gospel may well be termed as it is by the Apostle the ministration of the spirit for the spirit was abundantly poured out under and by this ministration But if the latter I make a great question whether the Apostle intended to stile this the ministration of the spirit considering how sparingly and for the most part imperceptibly and without observation the spirit hath been or in these our dayes is given under it This by the way 2. Neither is it so demonstratively true that the worship and service which God generally receives from men under the Gospel-ministration in the latter sence either is or ought to be more spirituall then that was in reference to many persons at least or ought to have been in respect of all under the Law For it is no great shame for any man to believe that the worship and service which Moses Aaron Joshua David with others in great numbers exhibited unto God under the Law was altogether as spirituall i. had as much of their spirit heart and soul in it as any worship or service which is no● at least ordinarily performed unto him under the Gospel And it is yet lesse questionable of the two that that worship and service which Moses Aaron Joshua David did perform under the Law were no works of Supererogation and consequently not more spirituall then they ought to have been or then the Law required So that this third and last proof levied by Mr. A. upon the account of his said Proposition hath lesse in it then either of the former Sect. 146. Neverthelesse Mr. A. maketh a long businesse to fill up with words an argument so empty of weight and truth as we have heard But he that pleadeth an evill cause cannot do it effectually by speaking truth and pittie it is that Mr. A's understanding should be so over-mated with an unfeasible undertaking as I find it here 1. He saith that Baptism is a part of the Gospel-ministration If it be so then is an Ordinance a piece or part of an action For certain it is I suppose to Mr. A. himself that Baptism is an Ordinance and suppose no lesse certain that the Gospel-ministration is an action But who ever notioned or conceited an Ordinance to be a part of an action If he had said the administration of Baptism is a part of the Gospel-ministration it had been more regular and proper though haply no whit more a truth For as Baptism is rather an appendix unto the Gospel then a part of it as was formerly shewed Sect. 102. so is the administration of Baptism rather an Appendix to the ministration of the Gospell then any part of it And doubtlesse if Paul had included the Administration of Baptism in the Gospel ministration when he termed it the ministration of the spirit he would have been so far from thanking God that he had baptized so few as those mentioned by him 1 Cor. 1. 14 16. that he would rather have been humbled or sorrowfull before God that he had baptized no more yea in the very next words ver 17. he makes a plain opposition between Baptizing and Preaching i. ministring the Gospell For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospell Yes 2 Cor. 5. 18. he expresly saith that God had given or committed unto him with the other Apostles the ministerie of reconciliation what is this but the ministration of the Gospell again 1 Cor. 9. 17. that the dispensation of the Gospel was commitred unto him Therefore certainly had he judged the administration of Baptism any part of the Gospel ministration he would not have affirmed that Christ sent him not to baptize Sect. 147. 2. Concerning what he argues from Act. 2. 38. to prove that Baptism when duly administred and received contributes towards mens receiving the spirit c. hath been answered at large already viz. Sect. 89 90 91. c. I here adde 1. I presume Mr. A. will acknowledge that when John baptized Baptism was duly administred and received yet he did not look upon his Baptism as much contributing towards the receiving of the spirit in respect of a greater presence and operation nor did he bear his baptized ones in hand that any such thing was to be expected by it or from it but represented it unto them as a matter of inferiour concernment declaring unto them from whom they might expect another Baptism which was of a rich and high concernment indeed I indeed have baptized you with water meaning that his Baptism was of mean consequence but he viz. Christ who came after him SHALL baptize you with the holy Ghost a Mar. 1. 8. Mat. 11. 11. Luk 3 16. If upon or by means of Johns Baptism they had received the Spirit or had bin baptized with the holy Ghost he would not have said he SHALL baptize you or ye SHALL be baptized with the holy Ghost but ye have been already herewith baptized So likewise Act. 19. we read of Disciples who had been baptized by John or by some authorized in that behalf by Iohn and therefore their Baptism doubtlesse had been duly administred and received yet this notwithstanding they had been so far from receiving the Spirit by their Baptism that they professed that they had not so much as heard whether there were an holy Ghost or no. And Pauls question unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye BELIEVED plainly importeth that the receiving of the holy Ghost either depended upon or was a consequent of their believing not of their being baptized according to that of our Saviour He that believeth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly b Ioh. 7. ae 8 39. shall flow rivers of living waters But this he spake of the Spirit which they that

other forms and fashions of professing Christ which he hath devised to please the humours and fancies of unstable persons in these latter days 6. Beware especially of the Notions and §. 9. Doctrines of those who to magnifie as they suppose the inward teachings enlightenings and workings of God or of the Spirit of God in or upon the hearts and minds of men vilifie his Ordinances and outward administrations judging these to be but impertinencies and things which may without loss yea and as the prophane madness of some uttereth it self with no spiritual disadvantage be layd aside For though neither he that planteth be any thing nor he that watereth any thing and so neither preaching any thing nor hearing any thing viz. comparatively or in respect of God who giveth the increase yet he that speaketh this saith also though with a modest expression to Philemon that he owed unto him even his own self Philemon v. 19. And elsewhere giveth thanks unto God who always caused him to triumph in Christ a meaning in respect of the great success of his Ministry in the conversion of men unto Christ where ever he came preaching the Gospel yea and ascribeth unto Timothy the saving of the souls of those who should hear him 1 Tim. 4. 16. All which with very many more like unto them clearly assert a Soveraign necessity of the Ministry Yea where he that planteth and he that watereth are despised it is not God but the Devil that giveth the encrease For we read of no increase at least ordinarily given by God but upon and by means of the planting and watering by men Yea if there were nothing but meer sacramentality in the preaching of the Gospel and other Ordinances the teachings and inspirations of God and of his Spirit cannot upon any competent ground be expected without them no more then Naaman had ground to expect a cleansing from his leprosie without washing seven times in Jordan or Moses and the Israelites that the waters of the Red Sea would have been divided and afforded them a passage thorough on dry Land had not Moses lift up his Rod over them as God had directed him and so divided them Exod. 14. 16. 21. 7. If you shall at any time be by the Providence of God seated and setled under such a Ministry where the words of eternal life are preached unto you with power and as the Apostle speaketh in the evidence and demonstration of the spirit know that you cannot better your selves by changing your Station but you may by such a change endamage your selves in the things of your eternal peace exceedingly Lord saith Peter to whom shall we goe Thou hast the words of eternal life Joh. 6. 68. There is no removing or going from before the face of the Gospel where the glory of it from time to time shines out in the face of the inner man but with imminent danger of spiritual loss upon the remove For though there are that are called Preachers of the Gospel whether in one form of a Religious profession or of another as there are Preachers of the Gospel many and Teachers many yet to those who have a true and lively tast of the Gospel and of the spirit thereof the able and faithful Preachers thereof are very few Nor will nor can the practise of any carnal Rite or Ceremony one or more especially by others least of all when not onely the necessity but even the lawfulness of the practise of them is matter of doubtful disputation ballance the loss that is like to be sustained by exchanging the Sun for the Moon I mean a lightsome spiritful and lively Ministry for that which is cloudy flat and of small execution 8. You can hardly enter into and walk in any of § 11. those many by-ways or new-devised forms of profession which are at this day occupyed and used by men and women pretending highly to Religion amongst us but there is signal cause of fear that your spirits will receive some ill tincture or other even from the best of them and that your hearts wil be disordered and levened with some un-Christian impression by means of them Amongst those known by the name of QUAKERS who are at present the rising and growing Sect or Faction and whose way hath in a short time welnigh swallowed up quick the way of Ana-Baptism which till of late magnified it self above all its fellows there is little question to be made but that the Devil dwelleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bodily and subjecteth the Proselites of this way unto his own most inhumane tyranny under the pretence and shew of mortification self-denyal austerity of life c. teaching them to give heed unto and follow the light as they term it which is within them without any examination or search whither this light be darkness or no which the Lord Christ supposeth it may very possibly be If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness Mat. 6. 23. Such a Doctrine as this viz. to forbid all examination or tryal when as God expresly counselleth us to try all things is the express Character of the great enemy of the precious souls of men Another Sect we have amongst us borderers upon the former whom I know not yet how to call by any appropriate name but the way of their folly is to cast behind their back or trample under their feet all the Ordinances of God unless it be such a kind of preaching which strengthens their hand thereunto teaching that God or the Spirit of God doth all with a total exclusion of mans care study thoughts or endeavours whatsoever A Doctrine exactly calculated for the Meridian of Hel and serves with an high hand for the advancement of the Devils Kingdom amongst men Amongst these men you wil learn to honour every Spirit that shall at any time enter into you though never so frantique and fanatique though never so lying or unclean with the worthy name of the Spirit of God Yea you wil learn negligence sloathfulness and prophaneness as matters of duty and regular submission unto God Amongst the Ana-Baptists I mean those of the § 12. Ana-Baptists high form you wil be tempted to build upon the water instead of the Rock and to rejoyce in a thing of nought You wil be apt to learn pride peremptoriness self-conceitedness unquietness and turbulency of spirit the despising of those that are good the magnifying of a minute of wil-worship against or above the divine Nature it self in men above Faith Love Holiness Humility Mortification Self-denyal Fruitfulness in wel doing and whatsoever do most unquestionably commend both men and women unto God and sober men Antinomianism is a Schole of Lawless Liberty wherein is taught how without the least regret of conscience to turn the grace of God into wantonness and where the progymnasmata or impure Elements of Ranting the dregs and retriment of all Sects and where men and women are

those that brought them 4 If Christ had blessed these children only as emblems or types of Gospel converts in case Lambs or Doves or Sheep had been brought unto him likewise he might upon such an account as well have layd his hands upon these and blessed them and have said Suffer Lambs and Doves and Sheep to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of God But is it meet to make any part of a sober mans faith to beleeve or think that the Lord Christ in the case specified would either have done or spoken according to the tenour of these things 5. And lastly because the conceit we oppose is in it self so uncouth and improbable that it is not like to ride any mans judgement unless he finds it bowed down with prejudice the reason which Christ gives for this his order that Children should be suffered to come unto him and consequently of his gracious intentions towards them upon their coming is this viz. That of such is the Kingdome of heaven This clearly proveth that the blessing wherewith hee now blessed those children that were brought unto him and intended to bless those that should be brought unto him afterwards was a blessing appropriate unto Saints or such who are subjects in the Kingdom of God But the Bread in the Sacrament is no Saint though the Papists dream it to be the King of Saints and therefore no capable subject of such a blessing which the children obtained by their coming to Christ A Table of some Texts of Scripture occasionally handled or touched in the preceding Discourse and to which some light is given besides many others cited only probation-wise GEn. 17. 1. The uncircumcised Man-child shall be cut off from his people page 349 Exod. 3. 6. I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob p. 3 12 Eccles 7. 11. Wisdom is good with an inheritance 230 12. 1. Remember thy Creator in the daies of thy youth 347 348 c. Isa 1. 11 12. To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices unto me c. 103 Mat. 3. 11. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance 246 248 328 375 3. 15. Suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness 263 390 401 12. 3. Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungry c. 12 12. 8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath-day 323 18. 6. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones who beleeve in me c. 166 167 19. 13. Then there were brought unto him litle children that he should put his hands upon them and pray c. 132 161 162 344 22. 31. But as touching the resurrection of the dead have ye not read c. page 3 28. 19. Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. 167 168 c. Mar. 1. 4. The Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of sins p. 246 372 c. 1. 8. I indeed baptize you with water 328 1. 38. For therefore came I forth 247 10. 13 14 c. And they brought young children unto him that he should touch them c. and he layed his hands on them and blessed them 132 159 160 161 162 344 16. 16. He that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved 229 230 c. 373 Luke 3. 15. And all men mused in their hearts of John whether he were Christ or no 284 7. 29 30. And all the people that heard him and the Publicans justified God being baptized with the baptism of John But the Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves not being baptized of John 182 183 260 261 Joh. 1. 31. But that he should be made manifest unto Israel am I come baptizing with water 175 176 3. 5. Except a man be born of Water and the Spirit c. 216 333 3. 23. And Iohn also was baptizing in Enon neer Salim because much water was there 62 63 3. 32. No man receiveth his testimony 152 5. 31. If I bear witness of my selfe my witness is not true 206 6. 40. And this is the will of him that sent me that he that seeth the Son and beleeveth on him c. 331 7. 39. This he spake of the Spirit which they that beleeve on him should receive pag. 329 13. 7. What I doe thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter 202 20. 29. Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have bleee 8ed 331 Acts 2. 3. Then Peter said unto them Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost 234 235 236 c. 330 376 2. 39. For the promise is unto you and your children c. 145 2. 41. And the same day there was added about three thousand souls 294. 3. 19. Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out c. 235 5. 14. And beleevers were the more added unto the Lord multitudes both of men and women 157 7. 25. For he supposed that his brethren would have understood how God by his hand would deliver them but they understood it not 4 8. 10. To whom they all gave heed c. 157 158 10. 47. They were baptized both men and women 152 158 10. 47. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptised 25 15. 10. Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples c. 85 17. 31. Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead 4 21. 5. And they all brought us on our way with Wives and children 155 22. 16. And now why tarriest thou Arise and be baptised and wash away thy sins c. 252 253 c. Rom. 2. 26. Therefore if the uncircumcision shall keep the righteousness of the Law shall not his uncircision be counted for circumcision 294 295 4. 11. And he received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the Faith which he had being yet uncircumcised that he might be the Father of all men that beleeve 187 188 c. 4. 18. Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might be the Father of many nations 188 189 c. 6. 5. For if ye have been planted together in the likeness of his death ye shall also c. 280 8. 14. As many as are ●●d by the Spirit of God these are the Sons of God 286 8. 23. Even we do sigh in our selves waiting for the adoption 249 8. 24. For we are saved by hope 303 10. 1. My hearts desire and prayer for Israel is that they may be saved 246 10. 10. For with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness c. 249 14. 22. Hast thou Faith Have it to thy selfe before God 107 1 Cor. 1. 17. For Christ sent me not to baptize but c. 128 327 3. 8. The ministration of the spirit 326 7. 9. It is

better to marry then burn 108 9. 9. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the corn 4 10. 1 2. And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud c. 37 38 11. 28. But let a man examine himself c. 25 26 14. 12. Seek to excel to the edifying of the Church 173 14. 26. Let all things be done to edifying 345 1 Cor. 14. 31. They may all prophecie one by one that all may learn c. 246 2 Cor. 2. 16. And who is sufficient for these things 23 13. 1. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established 133 138 Gal. 3. 12. For the Law is not of Faith but the man that doth them shall live in them 299 3. 24. Wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith 266 267. 3. 25 26 27. But after Faith is come we are no longer under a Schoolmaster For ye are all the children of God by Faith in Christ Iesus For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ 265 266 c. 286. 3. 29. If ye be Christ ' s then are ye Abraham ' s seed 271. 272 5. 5. We thorough the spirit wait for the hope of the righteousness by Faith 249 7. Ye are all partakers of my grace 276 Philip. 1. 16. The one preach Christ of contention not sincerely suppossing to adde affliction to my bands 24 Col. 2. 8. After the rudiments of the world 318 319 2. 11 12. In whom also ye are circumcised Buried with him in Baptism 145 256 1. 5. The unfeigned Faith which is in thee which first dwelt in thy Grand mother c. 190 2 Tim. 4. 3. For the time will come when men will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts shall heap to themselves Teachers having c. 2 Heb. 12. 14. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord page 373 Iam. 3. 2. For in many things we offend all 212 1 Pet. 3. 21. The like figure whereto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh c. 256 302 2 Pet. 1. 19. We have also a more sure word of Prophecie c. 322 1 Joh. 3. 10. Whosoever doth not righteiusness is not of God c. 373 A Table of the particulars contained in the preceding Discourse A ADmin●stration No administration comprehendeth or expresseth the whole mind of God in or abou● the Ordinance administred 110 111 118 Agreeableness may stand in the community of one property only 325 Mr. Allen his Petition p. 101. His discourse how censured by some p. 102. His abuse of Baptism the greatest 104. His question not properly about Baptism nor the administration of Baptism 104 111. Not stated in opposition to his adversaries 108. His prescription how to come to satisfaction in it 111. Makes the night overseer of the day 111. Takes no notice of a want of a Baptismal Institution ibid. His late opinion about anoynting with Oyl 113. He turns aside from his business 123. Alters the state of the question 261. Differs from his Master Fisher 34 199. Cites Scriptures against himself 154. Rends Christian society upon had-I-wist 216. Alloweth not the holy Ghost the liberty of his own understanding to draw up his own records 152. Maketh himself wise above what is written 151. Offereth sacrifice to an unknown God 185. Contradicteth himself 228 198 214 265 305 340 371. Most heavily censureth the whole Christian world 218 221 222. Blameth in Paedobaptists what himself practiseth 314. Citeth Scriptures impertinen●ly 306. Triumpheth without a Conquest 278. Mispropoundeth the argument of his adversaries 359. In his citations of Scripture he somtimes putteth in w●rds that make for him and sometimes leaveth out words that make against him 181 182 260 302 Ana-baptism can sail with any wind 162. Not so termed by way of disparagement or disgrace 165. Not justifiable by the Scriptures 72 73. The wrath of God hath been from time to time revealed from heaven against it and this in several kinds 80 81 82 c. An harbinger to erroneous wild and fond opinions 81 82 83 c. Anabaptists Some Samaritan●ze better Jews then themselves 9. No good conseque●tialists 13. Multiply bands of conscience without Scripture 14. Improvident in exchanging their Infant-baptism 18. Superstitious and Will-worshippers 30 41. Make the entrance into Christian Churches more dangerous and grievous then the entrance into the Jewish Church was 39. Act beside and without Scripture warrant or example 42. Former and latter compared 86. Two sorts of them 88. Their Churches divided 362. They have alwaies been injurious to the Gospel 85 86 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it sign fieth 25 Augustin for Infant-Baptism from the Apostles 133 134 c. 140. Accounteth for the original of Godfathers c. 41 B Baptism A seal of the righteousness of Faith page 34 190 191. Not to be administred with danger 20 21. May be performed without dipping 29. Questions about in like to be endless 104. and little advantageous to the Gospel 107. Contendings about Baptism now and Circumcision of old compared 102 103. Idolized by Mr. A. ibid. Never expressed by the Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which properly signifieth to dip 47. Typifies Christs applying him ●lf unto men 55. not given for bodily cures 57. Manifestation of Christ to the world no end of it 175 176 c. 283. Justifying God in the sight of the world no end of it 259 260. compared with Circumcision 187. When it is common it is no argument of Faith 178 179 c. It is not unlawful when some one end of it only is not attained 258. It is not a part of the Gospel 263. Is no Scripture test o● visible Saintship 274. 275 276 c. 281. No declaration or profession of Christ made by it unto the world 283 284. c. Administred in Rivers and in cold seasons prejudicial unto health yea and life it self 39. Three kind● of Baptism besides Water-baptism 236. Whether Christ be put on by Baptism 285 286. How it saveth 302 303. Whether it be a part of the Gospel ministration 327. Whether it contributes towards the receiving of the Spirit 327 328 c. Requireth no active principle in the subject in reference to the reception of it 241 338. It is still in force 349. although the arguments to the contrary have not been well answered by any Anti-pado-baptist 231 232. Why called the Baptism of Repentance for the remission of sins 380 381. Whether and how rewardable 353. Why described as relating onely unto persons of discretion 372 373. How rewardable without Faith 153. What it must be that qualifieth for it 380 Adult baptism a seminary of confusion in Churches constituted 32. Amongst persons born of Christian Parents not consistent with the Gospel rule of Baptizing 70 71 72 c. Baptism administred to non-beleevers 112. 113