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A78296 A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians. S. C. 1673 (1673) Wing C123A; ESTC R223563 12,960 32

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But they are conceited if not more grosly deluded as if their Baptism made them members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven And this Doctrine they prescribe for all their members to believe and profess before they come to their confirmation vizt That in that Baptism by which they were baptized with God-fathers and God-mothers they were made members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven which I have good ground to deny and they can never prove it the Scripture is clear against this their vain conceit For the Apostle Peter saith It is not the outward baptism or washing away of the filth of the flesh which saveth but the answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet 3. 21. And the way of the Gospel is to baptise such only as are the children of God and members of Christ before And the Apostle Paul saith not that they are the children of God by outward baptism but by faith in Christ Jesus And faith doth not come by baptism Gal. 3. 26. but by the word of God And their baptism which they receive afterward is no more but an outward seal administred upon them of the righteousness of the faith which they had before baptism as Circumcision was to Abraham and Rom. 4. 11 Isaac as the Scriptures testifie and none ought to be baptised but such as give sufficient testimony before of their holynesse Or that the Lord testifieth for them So he testified of St. Paul and St. Act ● 15 17 18. 10. 47 Cornelius was baptised upon this ground that he had received the Holy Ghost before And whosoever hath not the spirit of Rom. 3. 9 2 Cor. 13 5 Christ is none of his Therefore the common Protestants are in a great error in this point of Baptism also For they should know that the Infants 1 Cor. 7. 14. Rom. 11. Ezek. 18. 4 Luk. 19. 9 of holy Parents are holy as their Parents They are as blameless as their Parents in their whole Spirit Soul and body The same grace gracious promises Act. 2. 39 Deut. 29. 11 2 Cor. ●0 3 and spiritual priviledges belongeth unto them as well as to their Parents Yea The kingdome of heaven it selfe And Mat. 19. 14. if the greater then the lesser For as touching eternal Election they are beloved Rom. 11. 2● for the fathers That is peculiarly chosen of God for the love that he Deut. 4. 37. Ezek. 18. 4. 20. had to their fathers and shall not dye eternally for the sins of their fathers Rom 2. 11. 8. which they never committed for herein God is no respecteer of persons meerly as they are persons and who can lay any thing to their charge sin remitted shall not be imputed unlesse irritterated and their parents righteousness is theirs by imputation as it was with Abraham and 2 Tim. 1. 5. Heb. 7. 9. 10 his seed before they were circumcised so it is with the Christians and their seed before they are baptised Yea the children of holy Patents are perfect in their wayes before they are baptised Ezek. 28. 15. even from the day they are created untill iniquity is found in them Such a perfection have they which is oposed to iniquity And the Scripture saith Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose Spirit Psal 32. 3 5. there is no guile Their nature of Creation is sanctified by the spirit of regeneration which dwelleth in them so that they are not imputed sinners of the world but clear as the Scripture saith of the natural Jewes who were Christians For although the children Gal. 2. 15. are partakers of flesh and blood as well as their Parents Christ himselfe also in like manner took part of the same and died for them all not to free them from temporal but to save them from eternal death though they should dye before they are baptised with water And therefore the Infants are not the Children of wrath more then their Parents but the vessels of mercy as Jeremiah and John the Baptist were And so it becometh them to esteem of them all and to speak honourably of them before as well as after their outward baptism which Baptism maketh not for the Isa 22. 24. being but for the better being of a Christian Therefore I cannot find in my heart to say that they are the children of wrath and therefore ought to be baptised but because they are not under the wrath of God nor under the curse of the Law but under the promise and grace of Christ who never sinned and yet was baptized by John the Baptist Therefore they ought to be baptised though they have never committed actual sin but sinned in their Parents as Lvey paid tythes in Abraham What though David declareth his Rom. 5. Heb. 7. ● 10. Original sin or sin of inclination the ground of his actual sin or sin of apprehension as it is written In sin hath my mother conceived me yet until he committed actual sin he was no more guilty of sin then his mother nor was Isaac a child of wrath more then faithfull Abraham and Sarah Original sin taketh no more hold of the Infants to damne them eternally then of their parents And touching actual sinne they are clear as their Parents though their Parents are as righteous as Noah Daniel and Job And therefore they have as much right to Baptism as their Parents And in this blessed condition are they before they are baptised with water And are not in the state of damnation though they die in their Infancie before but shall be eternally saved And the contrary Doctrine is very unsound eronious uncomfortable and destructive But Antichrists Church professeth the contrary openly And teach their children to say that they are made members of Christ in their baptism with God-fathers and God-mothers So then it is remarkable that they are their own judges that they baptise none but such as are not members of Christ before their baptism It followeth then by their own words that they are members of Antichrist and in the state of damnation before and until outward baptism be administred upon them which to affirm of the Infants of Godly Parents is an Antichristian error destroying the foundation and hope of the faithful and how can that Church be the true Church of God who are so corrupt and whose constitution manifested by such their eronious profession is so destructive openly to baptise such as are not members of Christ To conclude by their own ground their Church members are not members of Christ before their Baptism and I have proved that they are not made members of Christ by their Baptism after Much lesse can any of them truly say as each child of theirs is taught to say that In my Baptism I was made the child of God So James Nayler said I am the Son of God This dignitie belongeth only to the holy child child Jesus Christ the Son of God To whom be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen Here followeth A New and true Christian Creed built upon the old foundation of the Holy Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone I Believe in God the Father Gen. 1. Ioh. 1. 14. Luk. 1. 35. Mat. 1. 25. Iob. 19. 33. 42. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 4 5 20. Ioh. 20. 17 Mat. 2● 26 Mar. 16. 19 Act. 1. 11. Joh. 5. 29. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52. 1 Thes 4. 15 Joh. 14. 16 17 26. 1 Cor. 12 3 Rom. 8. ● 2 Tim. 3. 16. Act. 17. 11 Rom. 15. 4. Rev. 22. 18. 19. Mat. 18. 17. 20. 1 Pet 2. 9. Phil. 1 5. Rev 8 3 4 Mat 12. 31 32 1 Cor 15 1 Thes 4 14 Joh 3 16 Almighty maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried The third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Scriptures The holy Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The Resurrection of the body And the Life everlasting Amen London Printed for the Author S. C. 1673.