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A25662 The antidote proved a counterfeit, or, Error detected and believers baptism vindicated containing an answer to a nameless author's book entituled An antidote to prevent the prevalency of anabaptism / by Hercules Collins. Collins, Hercules, d. 1702. 1693 (1693) Wing A3498; ESTC R26646 22,680 25

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others Feet believe with others Faith Covenant with others Tongues I am sure Christ went upon his own Feet to Baptism near forty Mile and the Eunuch also and believed with his own Faith and Covenanted with his own Tongue Now for the Conclusion I say Infants are not now Visibly in covenant it not being within my Sphere what they are as to Gods Decrees yet conclude well of all that Die in their Infant State But seeing there are so many Qualifications required individually to Gospel Church Membership your task is to prove that Infants have them or give up the Cause according to your Promise and confess the Covenant of Peculiarity made unto Abraham and his Seed is Repealed Whereas you mention Jeremiah and John Baptist Sanctified from the Womb on Jeremiah our Annotators say I have Appointed and Approved thee as a fit Minister for the Work I have Prepared and Ordained thee for Publick Service viz. not with Saving Grace tho that need not to be excluded and of John the Baptist they say being filled with the Holy Ghost from his Mothers Momb this is true both as to Prophecy which is an extraordinary gift of the Holy Ghost and also of the Holy Ghost considered as a Sanctifying Spirit Now consider our Annotators lay the great stress of those two Men Sanctified from the Womb upon their being fitted for publick Work for as much as they had insuperable Difficulties which in those degenerate and corrupt Times they must unavoidably Encounter with but what if it should be granted those two Men were not only Sanctified from the Womb That is set a-part to publick Work which the word Sanctified sometimes imports but that also they were Savingly Sanctified in their Hearts Is this a good Argument to prove that all the Infant Seed of believers have Habitual Faith from their Mothers Womb If so how comes it to pass that so many of them Die unsanctified Logicians will tell you its unsafe Arguing from particuliar Instances to general is this a good Argument Solomon was a very Wise man ergo all men are very Wise Sampson was a Strong Man therefore all Men have Sampson's Strength Abraham was a great believer● therefore all Men have great Faith Moses was a Meek Man therefore all Men are Meek and all Men Patient because Job was such I hope we shall never have these instances urged any more of John Baptist and Jeremiah for to prove that all the Infant Seed of believers have Habitual Faith SEEING some have queried where you find that Children are forbidden to be Baptised tho you know it is rather your work to prove the Positive That there is a Command for the Baptising of Infants than for me to prove the Negative That there is none for if you would but prove the former you would save me the Labour from proving the latter however I shall attempt it for once TO prove the Baptism of Infants Forbidden ALL positive Commands Prohibit whatever is repugnant thereunto but the Baptism of Infants is repugnant to the positive command of Christ for that Ordinance ergo the baptism of Infants is prohibited The Major is undeniable the Minor I thus prove I● Ignorance be opposed to understanding the want of an act of Repentance Faith and Obedience be opposed to the Act and Teaching be opposed to them not capable of it If a few drops of Water be opposed to a burial in Water In a word if a wrong Subject and a wrong manner of Administration be opposite to a right Subject and manner of Administration then Infants Baptism is repugnant to Christ's Command for that Ordinance and therefore roundly Prohibited for no man of Sense can imagin that our Lord can allow of any Practice repugnant to his own Commission the word all Nations in Matt 28. is referable only to the Teaching of all Nations all positive Commands prohibit whatever is repugnant thereunto We might Illustrate when we are commanded to Worship God in Spirit and Truth it forbids all Ignorant Devotion Formallity and Hypocrisy and when commanded to Worship God all Idols and Idolaty is forbidden to eat bread and drink Wine in remembrance of Christ forbids a belief of his Corporal Presence what need I do any act to put me in remembrance of him who is Corporally Present when God's Word asserts we are saved by Grace it forbids Works as Meritorious so when God Commands Persons that Profess Faith and Repentance to to be baptised it Prohibits all that are uncapable of those Qualifications Take heed of incurring Divine Displeasure by commanding that in the Name of the Lord which he never commanded Oh! what a dreadful Judgment did God threaten against Jerusalem for doing those things which God Commanded them not In offering their Children to Molech in the Valley of Ben Hinnom which I commanded them not saith God neither came it into my mind Jer. 19.5 The Geneva Note on that place saith Whatsoever is not Commanded by God touching his Service is against God's word because not commanded Was not Nadab and Abihu prohibited false Fire when commanded to take Fire from the Altar Is not Tertullian's Notion true every positive Command of Christ includes a Negative by this Argument you may set up a great part of the false Worship in Rome by Interrogating where it is forbidden read Matt. 28.18 Acts 2.37 Mark 16.16 Rom. 6.4 Acts 8.36 37. Acts 10. All which Scriptures shew that Infant Baptism must be Repugnant unto that Baptism which is from Heaven therefore is Prohibited Syllogistical Arguments against Pedo and for Believers Baptism Arg. 1. THAT which hath no Divine Command nor Example none Commended for its Observation nor Reprehended for its neglect cannot be of God or Divine Authority but the Baptising of Infants hath no Divine Command nor Example none Commended for its Observation nor reproved for its Neglect ergo the Baptising of Infants is not of God or Divine Authority Arg. 2. THAT which hath a Divine Command and Example some commended for its Observation and others reproved for its neglect must be of God and Divine Authority but the Baptism of Believers hath a Livine Command and Example some commended for its Observation others Reprehended for its neglect ergo the Baptism of Believers is of God and Divine Authority Mark 16.15 16. Luke 7.29 30. Arg. 3 THAT which was the Practice of the pure Primitive and Apostolick Times about Initiating persons into the Church ought to be the same unto the Second Coming of Christ But to Initiate persons into the Church by Baptism upon a profession of Faith was the Practice of the pure Primitive and Apostolick times ergo to Initiate persons into the Church by Baptism upon a profession of Faith ought to be the same unto the Second Coming of Christ This Argument doth stand Immovable against the Churches for Pedo-Baptism unless they can assign the time and place where Christ altered the Constitution of his Churches and changed the manner of Initiation into them or