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A91845 The second part of the vanity & childishnes of infants baptisme wherein the grounds from severall Scriptures usually brought for to justifie the same, are urged and answered. As also the nature of the divers covenants made with Abraham and his seed, briefly opened and applied. A.R. May 3. 1642.; Treatise of the vanity of childish baptisme. Part 2 Ritor, Andrew. 1642 (1642) Wing R1541; Thomason E59_5; ESTC R3120 27,552 31

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THE SECOND PART OF THE VANITY CHILDISHNES OF INFANTS BAPTISME WHEREIN The grounds from severall Scriptures usually brought for to justifie the same are urged and Answered AS ALSO The nature of the divers Covenants made with Abraham and his Seed briefly opened and applied A. R. May 3. 1642. Gala. 3. 1 3 4 6 7. O foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth dre yee so foolish that after yee have begun in the Spirit yee would now be made perfect in the flesh Have yee suffered so great things in vaine Was not Abrahams beleeving God accounted to him for righteousnesse Know you therefore that they which are of Faith the same are the Children of Abraham LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1642. THE SECOND PART OF THE VANITY CHILDISHNES OF INFANTS BAPTISME HAving formerly Treated of the Baptisme of the Nationall Church I have now thought it meet likewise to consider the grounds upon which the Separated and some other Churches doe Baptise their Infants which are from severall places of Scripture especially these five which I will examine in order The first is that in the Acts. 2. 39. where it is said The promise is to you and your Children which Text although it be to no purpose in the point and so confessed by the ingenuous yet because many inconsideratly do still alledge it I shall for their sakes shew their great weaknesse in their thus reasoning thence If the promises be made to us and our Children then the Seales of the promises To which I answere it is not there said of Infants but to your Children not promises but promise it is therfore worthy inquir● to finde out what is there meant by you and your Children in both these we shall be satisfied if we looke back into the former part of the Chap. where when the gifts of the holy Ghost were given forth upon the 120. and they speaking in divers tongues and the Jewes thereupon some marvailing some mocking and saying that they were full of New wine ver 13. Peter hereupon stands up and speakes to these Jewes thus These men are not drunke as yee suppose but this is that which is spoken by the Prophet Joel that in the last day saith God I will powre out my Spirit upon all flesh and your Sonnes and Daughters shall Prophecy c. ver 15. 16 17. And immediatly when he had thus spoken he preached unto them Iesus Christ whom they had murthered and whom though dead and buried yet God had raised up and who being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of his Father the promise of the Holy Ghost had shed forth this which they then did see and heare ver 33. As if Peter should have said to the Jewes thus we are not filled with wine as yee suppose but are fil'd with the Spirit promised to our Fathers long since that should be poured forth in these our daies And that their Sonnes and their Daughters should Prophecy which is now fulfilled upon us their Sonnes and Daughters and may be also poured out upon you and your Children to make you all Prophecy and speake with tongues as we do for you and your Children are all the Sonnes and Daughters of the Jewes our Forefathers to whom this Prophecy was spoken aswell as any of us If you repent and be Baptized every one of you in the name of thi● Lord Iesus whom you have crucified for the remission of your s●nne notwithstanding your dealing so wickedly with him and moreover yee shall also receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is to you and to your Children aswell as unto us ver 38. 39. So then by this time we may see what is meant by the promise to wit The gift of the holy ghost mentioned in the 17. ver to be prophecyed of by Ioel and in the 33 verse to be received of the Father and to be shed forth by Iesus Christ and also recited in the 38 ver thus And yee sh●ll receive the gift of the holy Ghost for the promise is to you and your Children And likewise we may see who are meant by you and your Children to wit the very same which are mentioned in the 17 ver under the termes of Sonnes and Daugheers that should Prophecy therefore no Infants are meant in this place nor is there so much as any colour for the Baptizing of Infants from hence for the text is not be Baptized for the promise is to you and to your Children as many in Print do falsely alledge But repent and be Baptized c. and yee shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is to you and to your Children Object If they say then surely these Children were in the Covenant seeing the promise is said so plainly to be to them Answ To this I answere that this objection hath no colour of footing in the Text as appeareth by that which is already said thereto yet neverthelesse I will further demonstrate the same by these reasons First The Promise is made equally to them and to their Children and to them that are a farre off But these which are a far off are not within the Covenant by the promise untill they beleeve the same Secondly If they were in the Covenant by having this promise made to them then were they of the New Covenant and Church of the Gospell for there were no other people to be accounted in Covenant with God save those which be of this Church but those were not of this Church but they were afterwards added thereunto as appeares ver 41. and therefore were not of it before and consequently notwithstanding the Promise being so to them and their Children yet neither they nor their Children were of the Covenant nor Church untill they did beleeve al●hough they were Jewes and so the children of faithfull Abraham Their second Argument is from those places which speake of Baptizing whole Households for say they there may be Infants in the Household thence they conclude that Infants may be Baptized To which I answere that there might be no Infants there and my negative is as good as their affirmative without any proofe and more probable for it is said Act. 18. 8. That Crispus the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue beleeved on the Lord with all his Household and that many of the Corinthians hearing it beleeved and were Baptized And it is said of the Goaler who was Baptized and all his Act. 16. 32. That Paul and Sylas first preached the word of the Lord to them and to all that were in his House And in the 33 ver it is said that he and all his were Baptized and in the 34 ver it is said that hee with all his Household beleeved in God So then it is plaine that they first beleeved and then were Baptized and although it be barely spoken of Pauls Baptizing the Household of Stephanus 1 Cor. 1. 16. And of the