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A59660	The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithfull ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1663 (1663)	Wing S3108; ESTC R14745	40,639	50

Passages citing the thesis of Suarez the Iesuit viz that any body whosoever that 〈◊〉 speak and wash may be a sufficient Minister of Baptisme whether he be man or woman believer or unbeliever baptised or not baptized if so be he know how to wash and utter the Words with a due mention haec assertio saith the Jesuit est omnino certa But saith Chamier in the name of the Orthodox we teach the contrary viz. that the right of conferring Baptisme belongs to those only who are publick Officers in the Church c. which accordingly he there makes good against the Papists 7 Baily the Iesuite whom Rivet encountereth to the Question between the Orthodox and the Papist viz. Whether the Infants of believers are holy before Baptisme he answereth roundly for them NO Rivet Cath. Orthod Tract 3. q 3. And touching that famous place controverted between our selves and the Anabap●●sts in regard of their wresting and perverting the sence of that Scripture 1 Cor. 7.14 ●ls● w●r● your Children unclean but now they are Holy we may observe how they tread in ehe steps of the Papists that have gone before them therein as they likewiso do in that noted Scripture Col 2.11 12. not allowing Baptisme to answer Circumcision according to the mind and meaning of the Holy-Ghost wherein see Ames against them Bel. Enerv. Tom. 3. l 1. Ca● 4. Thes. 13. and Rivet in Gen. 17 Exercit 88. Pag. 340. c. Take a tast of that 1 Cor. 7. as followeth Baily the Jesuit before Cited ibid quest 3. laboureth thus to avoid the dint of that text The Apostle saith he either speaks of a civil Sanctification before men that the Infants should not be ILLEGITAMATE or BASTARDS or else of an Instrumental Sanctification because that one shall procure the Salvation of the other c. the like we find of Bellarmine's apprehention and Judgment of the sence of that Scripture Such Children saith he are said to be not unclean that is Infamous and BASTARDS but holy that is LEGITIMATE and free from civil ignominie Ames Ibid. Lib. 2. C. 1. Thes. 6. The Rhemists also very perniciously abuse this Scripture and are not therein without their Antipaedobaptisticall followers Blessed Cartwright excellently upon the place in his confutation of their annotations on the new-Testament defend's this cause of Christ against their Popish glosses It is saith he one thing oftentimes in the Scripture to be Sanctified and another to be holy as for you you err in both for when it is said the unbelieving party is Sanctified by the believing it is not only meant as you say that the Marriage is an occasion of the Sanctification to the infidel party but that the use of the infidel party in Marriage company is Sanctified or made holy and lawfull unto the believing party as meat and drink is said to be Sanctified unto us by the word Prayer 1 Tim. 4.5 and as your Interpretation here is short so in the exposition of the Holiness of the Children which are begotten in this Matrimony it is utterly false and first it is to be observed that the Apostle speaking of the Children doth not as you do apply one word of them to both saying that they are Sanctified but saith that they are holy which is more then he had spoken before of the infidel party for although our meat and drink be Sanctified unto us and that the use of them is holy to those which are holy yet the meats and drinks themselves are not holy if therefore you were short in the interpretation of Sanctified you fail much more in giving the same exposition unto the holiness of the children for if the holiness here spoken of be not in the children when they are begotten and born of the Parents but come unto them afterward by Baptisme and Faith there groweth no sufficient comfort unto the faithfull party to continue in marriage with the Infidel consid●ring that occasion of holiness might come otherw●se then by marriage For that which is able to uphold the faithfull in comfort and strength to abide in marriage with the infidel is the knowledg that the Children begotten in that Marriage are in Covenant and are Children of Gods favour and grace washed in Christs Bloud and Sanctified by his Spirit and if you will know what this Holyness of Children new-born is the Apostle telleth you Gal. 2.15 That it is through the Covenant to be a Iew by nature or birth and if you will yet further understand what the Holyness of Children is the Apostle in the same place telleth you that it is not to be Sinners by Nature as those which are born of the Heathen for as much as their sins who are in Covenant are by Christ not reckoned unto them And this Doctrine of the Holyness of the Children which are born of the Faithfull if you could not attain unto it is so sensibly s●t forth unto you that unless together with the knowledg of the Truth you are also bereaved of your common sence you cannot be ignorant of it for how can you but understand that if the root be holy the branch is holy Rom. 11.16 and if the first fruits be holy the whole crop is holy All which privilidges of Children new-born sometime being proper to the Iewes are now our priviledges as well as theirs sithence we are grown int● one body w●th them Ephes. 2.15 and being Burgesse● of the same Heavenly City that they are must needs have the same infranchisement and Prerogatives t●●t they have not that every one which is ●orn under the Covenant is holy but t●●t they are so to be taken of the Church until the contrary do manifestly appear c. By the premises we may see therefore whence even from that MOTHER of harlots probably this Illegitimate birth this antichrist an fl●ud of Anab●●t●●me hath issued forth yea and I also fear is l●ke to be ●●sed and maintained ●n it's course unt●l God hath dried up those breast and rive●s of spiritual Babylon in the mean while Calvins admonition touching Anabapt●sme may not be unseasonable meri ò debet nobis esse suspectum quicquid à tali officina proa●erit Opuscu● ●n Psychopannychia Pag. 411. S. M. There are some who though they graunt the Baptisme of some Children yet utterly deny the continuance of that Covenant-mercy of God to their succeeding Generations though the Church-society whereof they were Members be not dissolved nor the surviveing posterity so much as deserve to be by the Discipline of Christ in his Church excommunicated This seems in truth to arise f●om their not acknowledging sufficiently or not abiding by the true genuine grounds of the Baptisme of those whose right to Baptisme is acknowledged by them For the information therefore of the minds of the weak and stablishing their hearts in this Truth of God according to the Scriptures even in the Doctrine of P●●dobaptisme a Doctrine of so great concernment and of so much comfort and incouragement

of them and such As do their interest in him grutch Crispus with Gaius Stephanas With others were not all through Grace Baptis'd that of their Houshold were And Children who will doubt were there Then let us not to them deny Nor seem as if we did envy The priviledge which God from heaven Hath through his grace and favour given Nor let us limit his good Spirit In applycation of Christ's merrit Whose bloud was shed for them as well As those who them in age excell If such be taught of God who dare Deny they his Disciples are III. THOMAS SHEPARD Anagr More hath po●s'd MOre from this holy pen d●th ●ast'd The Baptisme to defend 〈◊〉 Infants 〈◊〉 at Church members are If well you do attend Then any Anti-baptists can with solidness confute I wish with all my heart that God will grant these labours fruit As good or better then the paines by other Godly taken That thereby all his precious Saints be would please to awaken That none may any more oppose with Zeal preposterous The Truth which Gods most holy word commendeth unto us That who were less convinced by this holy Shepards voice Yet in his Letter left behind they may ●●e more rejoyce He was a shining Light indeed few other such are left The Lord vouchsafe we be not by our Sinns of them bereft And poure down of his Spirit more upon his Sons surviving That will be more and more unto Truth 's lovers a reviving IIII. THOMAS SHEPARD Anagr Arm'd as the Shop ARm'd at the shop of God's good word ●oth weapons unto him afford ●●●●nd's the right of little ones Whom God in the Church Covenant ownes The Child●e● of ●is Church among To whom 〈◊〉 Kingdome doth belong And there withall the Seal thereof Through his free Mercy Grace and Love Yet are there some which them forbid As once his weak Disciples did To come to Christ and ●cruple make Whether therof they should partake But Christ was very angry for it As for such Zeale he did abhor it Oh come said he and welcom'd such With tokens of affection much As if that they and scarcely ●hy But such as they might chalenge any Or part or portion in his grace So did his favour th●m embrace His Babes his Lambs his little creatures He call's them As for such d●features Christ they defeat as well as them Whom they presume so to contemn This holy Shepard is like David From Ly●●s mouth and Beare 's who saved That Little Kid whom God did crown With great and singular renown And so this Shepard hath no doubt A glorious crown his head about For all his lab●urs and for this In high and everlasting bli●s And as the Lord doth honour him For Christ his sake so his esteem Both is and ought to be most rare 'Mongst them who Christ hi● followers are And oh how should we bless his Name That o●●is Son he pour's the same Good Spirit that was in the Father Or doubles it upon him rather LORD these Epistles do thou bless And as thy Truth they do confess So make them precious in the eyes Of all that do thy Gospel prize Amen IOHN WILSON Senior THE CHURCH-MEMBERSHIP OF CHILDREN CLEARED VP IN A LETTER IN ANSWER To the Doubts of a Friend WHen we say That Children are Members by their Parents Covenant I would premise three things for Explication 1. That Children of Godly Parents come to the fruition of their Membership by their Parents Covenant but that which give 's them their right and interest in this Membership is Gods Covenant whereby he engageth himselfe equally to be a God to them and to their Seed This I suppose is clear 2. That according to the double Seed viz. 1. Elect Seed 2. Church-Seed So there is a double Covenant 1. Exernal and outward 2. Internall and inward And because the Covenant makes the Church hence there is an inward and outward Membership and Church estate there is an outward Iew an inward Iew Rom. 2.28 29. All are not Israel i. e. the elect Seed that are of Israel i. e. the Church-Seed of in outward Covenant to whom the Apostle saith belong's the Adoption the Covenants and the promises that is the externall Adoption whereby God account's them his Children or the Children of his house and family the Children of the Church and accordingly have the promises belonging to them in respect of outward dispensation although they be not Children by internall Adoption to whom belongs the promises by effectuall and speciall communication of saving Grace It is clearer then the day that many who are inwardly or in respect of inward Covenant the Children of the Devil are outwardly or in respect of outward Covenant the Children of God Isay. 1.2 I have brought up Children and yet Rebellions and in the next verse they are called my People i. e. by outward Covenant and yet worse then the Ox or Asse Deut. 32.19 20. they are called Sons and yet provokeing God to revengefull Wrath and Children and yet without Faith And look as some may be externally Dogs and yet internally Believers as the woman of Canaan whom in respect of outward Covenant Christ calls a Dog and the Iewes who yet rejected him Children Mat. 15.26 so many may be externally Children in respect of external Covenant and yet internally Dogs and evil men and we see that the purest Churches of Christ are called Saints and faithful Children of God and yet many among them Hypocrites and unbelievers because they that in respect of Church estate and outward Covenant and profession are outwardly or federally Saints are many times inwardly and really unsound Hence therefore it is that when we say that Children are in Covenant and so Church-Members the meaning is not that they are alwaies in inward Covenant and inward Church-Members who enjoy the inward and saveing benefits of the Covenant but that they are in external and outward Covenant and therefore outwardly Church Members to whom belongs some outward priviledges of the Covenant for their inward and eternall good These things being clear I the rather make mention of them to undermine divers usual objections againts the Membership and Covenant-Interest of Children as that they have no saving Grace many times and that they make no actuall profession of any grace and that many of them degenerate and prove corrupt and wicked c. for suppose all these yet God may take them into outward Covenant which is sufficient to make them the Church-Seed or Members of the Church although he doth not receive them into inward Covenant in bestowing upon them saving Grace or Power to profess it nay though they degenerate and grow very corrupt afterward 3. Because you may question what this outward Covenant is to which the seales are annexed and under which we shall prove Children are comprehended and because the Knowledg of it is exceeding usefull and very pleasant I shall therefore give a short taste of it as a light to