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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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if it had been expresly said that the Dead are raised for God is not a God of the Dead but of the Living which had you considered you might have known that the Spirits of Men though separate from their Bodies are by the Power of God the God of the Spirits of all Flesh still held in Life and that therefore he can and will by the same Power according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself raise their Bodies and unite them to their own Spirits which Inferences being agreeable to the Holy Scriptures and a true and right asserting of the Power of God are as Scripture of which ye being willingly or wilfully ignorant have erred in this main Article Now though the Sadduces still persisted after such Conviction in their Error saying that there is no Resurrection and in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ Luke 20.37 38. that there is neither Angel nor Spirit yet the way of proving by Consequences is not less cogent or commendable And if the Resurrection might be thus proved why not other Points why not the baptizing of Infants It is true the Resurrection is not Worship yet it is an Article of Faith which if not believed 1 Cor. 15.13 14 c. all our Worship is in vain And though nothing is to be admitted into the Worship of God as such which is contrary to express Precept and Command by Consequences yet these rightly drawn from Scripture are no less a Rule for our Practice than they are for our Faith Now tho the baptizing of Infants hath been abundantly proved from time to time by many plain and undeniable Consequences rightly inferred from the Scriptures which being Christ's way of proving should satisfy us yet since express Precept or Example are so much called for let us a little enquire into that What the First Commission of Christ was about baptizing is not recorded but must be gathered from his Second Commission and from the Practice of his Disciples and Acts of the Apostles The Second Commission of Christ for baptizing is Mat. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost c. The Practice of the Disciples and Apostles was to baptize particular Persons and with Parents their House and Houshold as Lydia and all her Houshold Acts 16.14 15. the Jailor and all his ver 33. and Crispus and all his House Chap. 18.8 Quest The Question is Whether these were only Adult or Adult and Infants Answ Adult and Infants These words Houshold His and House when spoken of Persons being an Hebraism for Children of the House who are the Seed of the House 1 Sam. 2.33 Deut. 25.5 Mat. 5.12 19. whether they be Infants or adult Children Thus Gen. 34.30 I and my House and 41.13 19. Pharaoh said Take your Father and your little ones and your Wives and come and 46.31 My Brethren and my Father's House are come Numb 16.32 And the Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up and their Houses that is their Sons and little Children ver 27. to wit of Dathan and Abiram Deut. 11.6 whereas of Korah it was all the Men that appertained unto him as in the same 32d Verse not his House for chap. 26.11 the Children of Korah died not Judg. 9.16 Now therefore if ye have done truly and dealt well with Jerubbaal and his House for my Father fought for you c. and ye are risen up against my Father's House and have slain his Sons If ye have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and his House then rejoice c. 1 Sam. 3.12 13 14. In that day I will perform against Eli all which I have spoken concerning his House c. 2 Sam. 3.1 6. Now there was long War betwixt the House of Saul and the House of David c. And chap. 7.16 18 19 23 29. Thine House shall be established c. And chap. 9.3 And the King said Is there not yet any of the House of Saul And chap. 12.10 Now the Sword shall not depart from thy House 1 Kings 13.34 And this thing became Sin to the House of Jeroboam And chap. 21.21 22. And will take away thy Posterity And will make thy House like the House of Jeroboam 1 Chron. 13.14 The Lord blessed the House of Obed Edom that is chap. 26.4 5 6. his Children And chap. 1.16 43. David returned to bless his House Psal 114.1 When Israel went out of Egypt the House of Jacob from a People of a strange Language Micah 2.2 They oppress a Man and his House Habbak 2.10 Jer. 23.34 Thou hast consulted Shame to thine House Luke 19.9 This day is Salvation come to this House Titus 1.11 Who subvert whole Houses Add unto these Gen. 7.1 And the Lord said unto Noah Come thou and all thy House So chap. 18.19 I know Abraham that he will command his Children and Houshold after him that is his Children who are his Houshold after him for no others of the Family tho' it exclude not them were properly his Houshold after him but his Children called his Seed after him Thus ch 30.30 And now when shall I says Jacob provide for mine own House also So Exod. 12.27 It is the Sacrifice of the Lord 's Passover who passed over the Houses of the children of Israel when he smote the Aegyptians and delivered our Houses Thus Deut. 25.9 So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house So 1 Tim. 3. v. 4 5. One that rules well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God And Chap. 5.8 But if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own House which according to the same Apostle 2 Cor. 12.14 is his Children For the Children ought not to lay up for the Parents but the Parents for the Children Thus we see the Hebraism of these Words Houshold His and House in Scripture according unto which these Words in these three first cited Examples of Lydia the Jaylor and Crispus are by some very great Interpreters rendred The Children of the House and are necessarily to be so taken there Infants not excepted unless some sufficient reason be given to the contrary Now the main Reason to the contrary given is That these Houses and Housholds who are said to be Baptized were such as to whom the Word of the Lord is said to be spoken and who are said to believe in the Lord which it is pretended they could not do if spoken of Infants so that there were either no Infants there or no Infants there Baptized But this Reason is not sufficient because it supposeth these Houses and Housholds to be said to have the Word of the Lord spoken to them and to be said to Believe without the