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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	7,267	5	12.9330	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34433	The font uncover'd for infant-baptisme, or, An answer to the challenges of the Anabaptists of Stafford, never yet reply'd unto, though long since promised wherein the baptisme of all church-members infants is by plain Scripture-proof maintained to be the will of Jesus Christ, and many points about churches and their constitutions are occasionally handled / by William Cook, late minister of the Gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	Cook, William, Minister of the gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	1651 (1651)	Wing C6042; ESTC R1614	62,529	56

that had such qualifications only as their children but that those very babes might be admitted to Christ for prayer and laying on of his hands The Disciples rebuked them for bringing not humble persons of ripe years and otherwise qualified as children but those babes Christ is angry with them for hindering those very children pleads for the children and the bringers of them commandeth that the children should be permitted to come to him not such as them in humility and like qualifications at this time and gives this reason For of such is the Kingdom of heaven Now how were this speech and reason of Christ pertinent or convincing if when the question was about little ones he should speak only of those which were endued with humility and such qualifications yet of ripe years 2. The word such is taken most usually in Scripture if not alwaies for the same persons or things of which mention was made immediatly before and those that are of the same nature and kinde not those of different kinde of form that only agree in some remote unquestioned unmentioned qualifications 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as may appear by these and such like Scriptures Joh 4.23 But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him 1 Cor 5.5 To deliver such an one to Satan this is meant of the incestuous man of whom the Apostle had spoken before and of those that were guilty of the same or like sins as he so 2 Cor. 12.2 Such an one taken up into the third heaven vers 3. I know such a man ver 5. Concerning such a man I will glory It 's plain that this is spoken of the man that had Visions and Revelations of God whether in the body or out of the body he knew not and that Paul would glory of that very man or such others for whom God had done such things as none of the false Apostles could glory of the like The same may be observed Gal. 5.21 Heb. 7.26 and Heb. 13.16 By which examples it is plain that though the word such in the English tongue often signifies but similitude yet in the Original it notes entity both specifical and numerical and consequently here are not meant those who were only like babes in humility and such qualifications but those very Infants that were brought and other such Infants viz. of the Church 3. If therefore only Christ admitted children took them in his arms laid his hands on them and blessed them because of their humility and such qualifications wherein these that will enter into the Kingdom of God must resemble them not because they themselves had interrest in the Kingdom of God and were capable of spiritual blessings then it will follow that it had been lawfull and commendable for men to have brought to Christ Sheep Doves or Serpents Salt Lights or Vine-branches good Wheat o● good Fish Mat 5.13 14. Mat. 10 16. Ioh. 10 14. Mat. 13. Ioh. 13.1 c. to have him put his hands upon them and prayed for them and that Christ would have taken these all or any of them into his arms or hands laid his hands on them and blessed them for the Godly are resembled to these and we required to be like unto them in some qualifications as we will be saved and where the same or like cause is the same or like effect will follow But the consequent is absurd and ridiculous if not blasphemous Therefore the antecedent is false I come now to the third Argument taken from this History and it is my fourth Argument in order Arg. 4. Arg. 4 Those and such as those to whom Christ hath vouchsafed his dear imbraces prayers blessing and imposition of hands as a sign or pledge of his blessing are doubtlesse in Covenant and have right to the sign or pledge of entrance thereinto which is Baptism now in time of the Gospel But Christ hath vouchsafed the little children of the faithfull his dear imbraces prayed for them blessed them Mat. 10 13.15 Mat. 10.16 and laid his hands on them as a sign or pledge of his blessing Therefore the children of the faithfull are in Covenant and have right to the seal of entrance thereinto which is Baptism To the clearing of the Proposition let it be remembred 1. The tender imbraces of Christ and ready entertainments of persons argue those to be in Covenant and in his favour whom he so entertaineth For he that forbad his Disciples to go to the Gentiles and Samaritans Mat. 10.5 Mat. 15.24 Luk 7.29 Luk 15.1 2 3. was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel would not have eaten with publicans and sinners but as they had been lost sheep and prodigall sons yet sheep and sons found again which had been humbed by Johns Ministry would not doubtlesse tenderly imbrace any young or old that were without God hope Christ or Covenant 2. These whom Christ prayeth for are not of the world and therefore called out of the world to the Church and Covenant Joh. 17.9 3. Christs laying on of his hands being a sign or seal of spiritual blessing for we reade not that these children were brought to be cured of any corporal malady but Christs saying Of such is the Kingdom of God sufficiently implieth that the blessings which he bestowed and confirmed to them Rom. 14.17 by laying on of hands were blessings of his Kingdom which are principally not corporal but spiritual was of the same nature or equivalent to or at least implied right in Baptism For we never reade that God or Christ or any by Divine appointment communicated imposition of hands as a sign of the blessings of his Kingdom to unbeleevers and persons out of Covenant and so uninterested in the seal of entrance into Covenant 4. Hence follows each of these favours of Christ much more all laid together prove that those to whom they are vouchsafed are in Covenant and so have title to the pledge of admission thereto As to the Assumption let it be noted 1. That it is in the very words of the text 2. That though this priviledge of corporal or visible imbracing and laying on of hands and vocal or audible prayer and blessing from Christ was peculiar to those Infants that were then brought to him yet that the same blessings for substance invisibly and spiritually to be conferred by Christ and what is equivalent to these outward signs belong still to children of Beleevers under the Gospel may be gathered from the whole context is partly cleared in the handling of the two former Arguments and might be further proved if need were and intended brevity would suffer Arg. 5. Arg. 5 If all Nations were by the Apostles to be made disciples and baptized then the children of those in the Nations by whom the Gospel is received for children are a very great and considerable part of a