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A91973	Pædo-baptisme: or, the baptizing of infants justified: by the judgement and practice of ancient and moderne Protestant divines, both foraine, and of this nation: clearly proving the absolute necessity of baptizing infants, from the authority of sacred scripture and the force of undeniable reason. Together with an excellent letter of Mr. John Philpots to the same purpose. / Collected by Robert Ram, minister of Spalding in Lincolnshire. Published by authority.	Ram, Robert, d. 1657.; Philpot, John, 1516-1555.	1645 (1645)	Wing R194; Thomason E276_12; ESTC R209870	23,751	33

and unchangeable love to his elect 2. The occasion of the covenant the same as mans misery by his fall in the loynes of Adam of which this covenant of grace is a pregnant and mercifull remedy 3. The Author is the same as God gracious mercifull slow to anger pardoning iniquity c. 4. The thing promised is the same as Christ the redeemer and Saviour of mankind 5. The spirituall efficacy of the Ordinances the same as the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the creature to Gods Image in Jesus Christ 6. The subjects the same as a people in covenant with God to yeeld obedience to the faith 7. The end cujus the same as the glory of Gods mercy to his elect and the unexcuse of the reprobate 8. Finally the end cui the same as good workes here in this life and the immortality of the soule and eternall blessednesse in the life to come In another place concerning the baptizing of all without difference he saith That though divers borne within the Church are reprobates yet as they come one and one unto us we cannot say that this or that child is a reprobate he may be an elect vessell for ought we know And the adequate end of baptisme administred is not salvation of the baptized The glory of God is the principall end namely the glory of Gods singular mercy in the salvation of his elect and the glory of Gods justice in the unexcuse of the reprobate As all outward ministrations in the Church serve for the glory of Gods mercy and justice We put them all under the initiall seale of the gospell that they may be made subject to the gospell and be judged by the gospell Wynells covenants plea for Infants Next to the arguments drawne from expresse testimony of Scripture for the baptizing of children Dr. Featley we have a most forcible argument drawne from the consent of the universall Church testified by their constant practice of admitting children to baptisme even from the Apostles daies unto this present This argument if it be well weighed is of very great moment and may convince the conscience of any ingenuous Christian For no Christian doubteth but that the Apostles were inspired by the holy Ghost and Christ promised his Spirit to lead his Church into all truth which promise he hath hitherto made good in such sort that it cannot be proved that ever the whole Church of Christ universally erred it is true particular Churches have erred and may erre and generall Councels which the Schooles terme the representative Church are subject to error and have sometimes decreed heresie and falshood for truth but the formall Church as they speake that is all the assemblies of Christians in the world cannot be impeached with error at any time whence I thus frame my argument That which the Apostles in their daies began and the whole Christian Church scattered over the face of the whole earth hath continued in all ages and all Countries where Christianity hath been and is professed cannot be an erroneous practise But the Catholike Christian Church in all places and ages even from the Apostles times hath admitted the children of faithfull parents to holy baptisme Ergo the practise of christening children cannot be erroneous or unwarrantable as the Anabaptists teach Featly Disputation with Anab. pag. 19. Confessions of Reformed Churches for Baptizing of Infants Helvetian WE condemne the Anabaptists who deny young infants born of faithfull parents to be admitted to baptisme for according to the doctrine of the Gospell theirs is the Kingdome of God and they are within the covenant of God why therefore should not the signe of the covenant of God be given unto them why should they not be initiated by holy baptisme that are Gods peculiar and within his Church The Helvetian confession cap. 20. Belgick Certainly Christ shed his blood that he might no lesse wash infants of faithfull parents then those of yeeres and therefore it is requisite they should also receive the signe or Sacrament of that thing which Christ for their sakes accomplished The Belgicke confession Article 34. French We acknowledge onely two Sacraments common to the whole Church the former whereof is Baptisme given unto us to witnesse our Adoption because in it we are engrafted into the body of Christ that being washed with his blood we might also be renewed by his Spirit unto holinesse of life Confession of France Articl 37. Augustane Infants being by Baptisme commended to God are received into the favour of God and made his sonnes as Christ testifieth Matth. 18. saying It is not the will of your Father which is in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish Augustane confession Article 9. Saxon. We retaine the baptisme of infants also because it is most certaine that the promise of grace belongs even to infants nor doe we we judge this a meere idle ceremony but that then they are truely received by God and sanctified The Saxon confession cap. 14. I believe and confesse that our children forasmuch as they also are included together with us in the covenant when they are baptized into the Articles of the ancient Catholique faith Palatine are made partakers as wel as we of the death of Christ and of all other good things c. Palatinate confession Baptisme is a notable badge of the people of God Harmony c. for it serves us to shew of what profession we be and by our baptisme we declare in the Church what faith we professe both we our children and our families namely the Christian Religion Ex actis concordia inter Lutherum Bucerum Helveticas Ecclesias A Letter of Mr. Philpot to a friend of his prisoner the same time in Newgate Wherein is debated and discussed the matter or question of infants to be baptized The God of all light and understanding lighten your heart with all true knowledge of his Word and make you perfect to the day of our Lord Jesus Christ whereunto you are now called through the mighty operation of his holy Spirit Amen I Received yesternight from you deare brother S. and fellow prisoner for the truth for Christs Gospell a Letter wherein you gently require my judgement concerning the baptisme of infants which is the effect thereof And before I doe shew you what I have learned out of Gods Word and of his true and infallible Church touching the same I thinke it not out of the matter to declare what vision I had the same night whiles musing on your Letter I fell asleepe knowing that God doth not without cause reveale to his people who have their minds fixed on him speciall and spirituall revelations to their comfort as a taste of their joy and Kingdome to come which flesh and blood cannot comprehend Being in the middest of my sweet rest it seemed me to see a great beatifull City all of the colour of Azure and White foure square in a

PAEDO-BAPTISME OR The Baptizing of Infants JUSTIFIED By the judgement and practice of Ancient and Moderne Protestant Divines both Foraine and of this Nation clearly proving the absolute necessity of baptizing Infants from the authority of sacred Scripture and the force of undeniable reason Together with an excellent Letter of Mr. JOHN PHILPOTS to the same purpose Collected by ROBERT RAM Minister of Spalding in Lincolnshire PROVERBS 11.14 In the multitude of Counsellors there is safety Aug. ad Hil. Epist 89. Tanto magis pro infantibus loqui debemus quanto minus ipsi pro se loqui possunt Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright in the Old-baily 1645. To my honoured Colonell Colonell Edward Rossiter SIR ACcording to my promise I have transcribed Master Philpots Letter for baptizing infants to which I have added the universall and continued practice of the Church of God from the Apostles time hitherto together with the judgement of the most learned orthodox and godly Divines both ancient and moderne which may serve as a cloud of witnesses to prove that infants of Christians not onely may but ought to be baptized I am confident that these collections with the blessing of God will give full satisfaction to any that are not fore-stalled with wilfulnesse in their owne opinion For if Venerable Antiquity Vniversall Practice un-interrupted Custome Harmony of Churches strength of Argument and the Authority of sacred Scripture be of any force then doubtlesse we have sufficient warrant for admitting the children of believing parents to this Ordinance of baptisme The testimonies I have here produced lie scattered up and downe in severall Authors I sum them up together in this little Treatise which I strove to make little because little bookes do most good or most harme being every mans purchase and soon read over My Apologie for troubling you with a businesse of this nature is onely this that I am Your humble servant in the Lord ROBERT RAM The names of the Authors here cited for the baptizing of Christian infants Fathers 1. CYprian 2. Origen 3. Augustin 4. Athanasius 5. Gregory Naz. 6. Bernard 7. Hierom. 8. Chrysostome 9. Isidorus Hisp The Divines of Magdeb. for 1300 yeeres Foraine Divines 1. Mercer 2. Calvin 3. Sadeel 4. Junius 5. Vossius 6. Polanus 7. Aretius 8. Brentius 9. Pareus 10. Spanhemius 11. Lavater 12. Gualter 13. Musculus 14. Chemnitius 15. Marlorat 16. Beza 17. Hemingius 18. Zanche 19. Daneus 20. P. Martyr 21. Bucer English Divines 1. Dr. Ames 2. Dr. Davenant 3. Mr. Th. Rogers 4. Mr. Hooker 5. M. Perkins 6. Mr. Ainsworth 7. Dr. Willet 8. Mr. Hildersham 9. Dr. Fulke 10. Mr. Hieron 11. Dr. Whitaker 12. Dr. Jewell 13. Dr. Mayer 14. Mr. Wynel 14. Dr. Featley Confessions of reformed Churches 1. Helvetian 2. Belgick 3. French 4. Augustane 5. Saxon. 6. Palatine 7 Harmony c. Mr. Philpots Letter THE JUDGEMENT OF the ancient Fathers in this point of baptizing Infants THe Spirit refuseth not to communicate himselfe even to infants and the holy Scriptures declare Cyprian That divine grace is dispensed to all aswell infants as others which was shadowed out in Elishnes stretching himselfe upon the infant insensible of the good which the Prophet did unto him Cyprian Epist ad Fidum Because by baptisme originall sinne is done away Origen therefore children are baptized Origen Hom. on Luke 14. We say that in infants baptized Augustin although they be not aware of it the Holy Ghost doth dwell August Epist ad Bonifacium of baptizing infants Whence may a man know plainly that he hath been baptized Athanasius and received the spirit of baptisme seeing he was but an infant when he was baptized Athan. in his booke of questions quest 2. Baptisme hath force even upon infants Gregory Nazianzen and therefore it is necessary that they be baptized For it is better that they be sanctified without any apprehension of the thing done then that they should depart this life without baptisme and initiation And if this thing Circumcision may afford us any president for that being the forerunner of baptisme that was administred to such as could not by the use of reason discern what it meant Nazianzen in his Oration of baptizing infants He who denies baptisme to infants of Christian parents Bernard doth declare a diabolicall envy even such an envy as brought death into the world this man is not of God who doth and speakes so contrary to God Bern. Epist. 240. Hieronymus We hold that there is one baptisme and that this Sacrament is to be administred to infants in the same words that it is administred to them of elder yeeres Hieron Symboli explanatio ad Damasum Chrysostom Therefore the Catholique Church teacheth that infants ought to be baptized because of originall sin And the uniforme practice of the holy Church throughout the universall world concerning baptisme whether of infants or of young men should not be accounted as an idle thing Chrys Homil. de Adam Heva Isidorus In such as are of yeeres baptisme serves either to clense them from originall sin or to wash them from the guilt of actuall sinne but infants are onely freed from originall sin by it Isid Hispalensis de officiis Eccles l. 2. The continued practice of the Church for baptizing infants for 1300 yeeres together from the Apostles times collected out of the Centuries Written by the Divines of Magdeburgh Cent. 1. lib. 1. cap. 4. ALthough the Apostles before they were rightly informed did forbid children to be brought to Christ yet were they reproved for it and did without question afterwards baptize infants themselves being better instructed by the Spirit of God as Origen Cyprian and others doe testifie and that the custome of baptizing infants was from the Apostles continued to posterity Cent. 2. cap. 4. Cent. 3. cap. 6. We read no where in this age that infants were denied baptisme In this age both men and women infants and those of elder yeeres were baptized according to the tradition received from the Apostles Cent. 4. cap. 6. In the same Churches and waters all sorts of people of whatsoever sex age or condition were publickly baptized The Churches of Africa baptized infants in this age Nazianzen speaking of the Asian Churches saith That they used to baptize infants if they were in any eminent danger otherwise baptisme was deferred till they were about three yeres old neverthelesse he saith that baptisme is sutable to any age Nazian Orat. 3. of Bapt. That Infants should be Baptized Cent. 5. cap. 4. Chrysostome affirmeth in his Homily of Adam and Eve Augustin saith That the Baptizing of Infants came not into the Church by the constitutions of any Councells but hath been alwayes retained by the Church and ought to be beleeved as an Apostolicall Tradition Contra Donatistas lib. 4. Infants are Baptized Cent. 6. cap. 4. not only that they might attain the Adoption of Sons