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spirit_n	death_n	life_n	power_n	7,316	5	4.8859	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96525	The sealed fountaine opened to the faithfull, and their seed. Or, a short treatise, shewing, that some infants are in the state of grace, and capable of the seales, and others not. Being the chief point, wherein the separatists doe blame the Anabaptists. By John Wilkinson, prisoner at Colchester, against John Morton prisoner at London.	Wilkinson, John, of Bernards Inne.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2243; Thomason E1205_2; ESTC R208780	11,502	29

wormwood which fell into the third part of the Rivers and Fountaines of waters and made them bitter x Rev 8 10 11 But there is a River which alwayes runneth and a Fountaine which alwayes floweth the streames therof maketh glad the City of GOD y Psal 46 5 by watering the Olive trees upon which doe grow the Olive branches which branches are the Infants of Beleevers in whose life the Parents have joy in whose death they have comfort because their mourning for them is mixed with hope * 1 Thes 4 13 and this their hope is grounded upon Gods everlasting and unchangable promises z Acts 2 39 made unto them in Christ which is a motive to move them to love their heavenly Father because as he hath made them holy so also hath he made their Children holy * 1 Cor 7 14 which are reconciled to God with their Parents who are by the will of our heavenly Father sanctified in their life blessed in their death and shall also be glorified at their resurrection for the second death shal have no power over them Deut 33 29 because they are blessed and holy a Rev. 20 6 having part in Christ who is the resurrection and the life b Iohn 11 25 to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all glory throughout all generations Amen Your affectioned Brother in the Patience and Faith of the Saints William Arthurbury Psal 37. 25 I have been young also I am waxt old and I have not seen the Just-man forsaken and his seed seeking bread 26. All the day he sheweth grace and lendeth and his seed are in the blessing A reproof of some things written by John Morton and others of his Company and followers to prove That Infants are not in the state of Condemnation And that therfore they are not to be Baptised By John Wilkinson a Prisoner in Colchester for the Patience and Faith of the Saints 1613. FIRST they write of Infants as if concerning salvation and damnation the estate of all Infants were alike which is not true but very erronious for some Infants are in the estate of salvation and those so farre as they may be discerned are to be baptized for a testimony thereof And others are in the estate of damnation and these so farre as may be discerned are not to be baptized That some Infants are of the seed of the Serpent a● some of the seed of the Woman I presume no reasonable man will deny That God hath put enmity between those two seeds from the beginning is manifest Gen. 3. 15. 4. 8. 25. 22. The seed of the Woman was adopted in Christ before the world was Ephes 1. 5. and were given him of his Father for an heritage Ioh. 17. 6 10. and that to this end that he should give unto them eternall life Ioh. 17. 2. and that he should not loose one of them ver 12. but that he should raise them up in the last day Ioh. 6. 44 54. Now therfore it is a sure truth that not any that be of the seed of the Woman are at any time in the state of damnation and that some Insants are of the seed of the Woman no man that hath any illumination will deny Concerning such therfore their saying is true that Infants are not under the state of damnation to wit those that be of the seed of the Woman Againe it is not to be doubted but that some Insants are or the seed of the Serpent and such are even enemies to the seed of the Woman and those were known to God before the world was and for all such condemnation was prepared from the beginning and they are reserved of God unto the day of vengeance and such are never but in the state of damnation Thus therfore it may appeare that to say that Infants are not in the state of condemnation in respect of some Infants is true and in respect of other Infants is false In that therfore they speake of Infants indefinitely without noteing whether they speak of all Infants or but of some they deale loosly for if they speak of all they speak untruth if they speak but of some they doe but trifle But in that they speak of Instants as though they were all of one condition they bewray manifest ignorance concerning the truth which is that some Infants are in the state of condemnation and some are not and therfore they which speake of Infants in this case should not speak indefinitely but by distinction Secondly to free Infants from being under the state of condemnation they imagine them to be without sinne But if Infants were without sinne then should death have no power over them for death is the reward of sinne Rom 6. 23. And the same soule that sinneth shall dye Ezek. 18. 4. 20. Seeing therfore death hath power over Infants it is a plain case that Infants are not without sinne as they may imagine Thirdly the ground from which they gather Infants to be without sinne is this that Infants have transgressed no Law of God because they are uncapable of any In this they shoot short for it doth not follow that because Infants have not transgressed as they are Infants therfore they have not transgressed at all They transgressed before they were Infants that is to say in the loynes of Adam even as Levi payed Tithes in the loynes of Abraham Heb. 17. 9 10. And if Infants be without sinne then let them tell me how sinne by one man entred into the world as the Apostle testifieth Rom. 5. 12. 19. Till then let this be the conclusion That as that which is bred of a Serpent is not without venome so that which is bred of a sinner is not without sin And thus is diminished all that which they have said to prove that God hath given no Law to Infants for all Infants were in the loynes of Adam when the Law was given unto him and when he transgressed the same sundry broken ●reames they have whereby they are strengthened in their errors First they conceive that because Infants were not alive in their own persons apart from Adam when the Law was given him that therfo●e the Law given to Adam doth nothing at all concerne Infants but was only given to Adam and Hevah But they should consider First that Adam and Hevah were such publicke persons as they not only repreented all mankind but were all mankind both when the Law was given unto them when they transgressed the same and that therfore the Law given to them was given to all mankind in them and they transgressing that Law all mankind transgressed the same in them as before I have sayd Againe they should consider that if Infants had been alive in their own persons distinct from Adam when the Law was given and he trangressed it then could not Adam sinne have hurt them for the sonne shall not die for the Father but when a man is a