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A91845 The second part of the vanity & childishnes of infants baptisme wherein the grounds from severall Scriptures usually brought for to justifie the same, are urged and answered. As also the nature of the divers covenants made with Abraham and his seed, briefly opened and applied. A.R. May 3. 1642.; Treatise of the vanity of childish baptisme. Part 2 Ritor, Andrew. 1642 (1642) Wing R1541; Thomason E59_5; ESTC R3120 27,552 31

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THE SECOND PART OF THE VANITY CHILDISHNES OF INFANTS BAPTISME WHEREIN The grounds from severall Scriptures usually brought for to justifie the same are urged and Answered AS ALSO The nature of the divers Covenants made with Abraham and his Seed briefly opened and applied A. R. May 3. 1642. Gala. 3. 1 3 4 6 7. O foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth dre yee so foolish that after yee have begun in the Spirit yee would now be made perfect in the flesh Have yee suffered so great things in vaine Was not Abrahams beleeving God accounted to him for righteousnesse Know you therefore that they which are of Faith the same are the Children of Abraham LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1642. THE SECOND PART OF THE VANITY CHILDISHNES OF INFANTS BAPTISME HAving formerly Treated of the Baptisme of the Nationall Church I have now thought it meet likewise to consider the grounds upon which the Separated and some other Churches doe Baptise their Infants which are from severall places of Scripture especially these five which I will examine in order The first is that in the Acts. 2. 39. where it is said The promise is to you and your Children which Text although it be to no purpose in the point and so confessed by the ingenuous yet because many inconsideratly do still alledge it I shall for their sakes shew their great weaknesse in their thus reasoning thence If the promises be made to us and our Children then the Seales of the promises To which I answere it is not there said of Infants but to your Children not promises but promise it is therfore worthy inquir● to finde out what is there meant by you and your Children in both these we shall be satisfied if we looke back into the former part of the Chap. where when the gifts of the holy Ghost were given forth upon the 120. and they speaking in divers tongues and the Jewes thereupon some marvailing some mocking and saying that they were full of New wine ver 13. Peter hereupon stands up and speakes to these Jewes thus These men are not drunke as yee suppose but this is that which is spoken by the Prophet Joel that in the last day saith God I will powre out my Spirit upon all flesh and your Sonnes and Daughters shall Prophecy c. ver 15. 16 17. And immediatly when he had thus spoken he preached unto them Iesus Christ whom they had murthered and whom though dead and buried yet God had raised up and who being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of his Father the promise of the Holy Ghost had shed forth this which they then did see and heare ver 33. As if Peter should have said to the Jewes thus we are not filled with wine as yee suppose but are fil'd with the Spirit promised to our Fathers long since that should be poured forth in these our daies And that their Sonnes and their Daughters should Prophecy which is now fulfilled upon us their Sonnes and Daughters and may be also poured out upon you and your Children to make you all Prophecy and speake with tongues as we do for you and your Children are all the Sonnes and Daughters of the Jewes our Forefathers to whom this Prophecy was spoken aswell as any of us If you repent and be Baptized every one of you in the name of thi● Lord Iesus whom you have crucified for the remission of your s●nne notwithstanding your dealing so wickedly with him and moreover yee shall also receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is to you and to your Children aswell as unto us ver 38. 39. So then by this time we may see what is meant by the promise to wit The gift of the holy ghost mentioned in the 17. ver to be prophecyed of by Ioel and in the 33 verse to be received of the Father and to be shed forth by Iesus Christ and also recited in the 38 ver thus And yee sh●ll receive the gift of the holy Ghost for the promise is to you and your Children And likewise we may see who are meant by you and your Children to wit the very same which are mentioned in the 17 ver under the termes of Sonnes and Daugheers that should Prophecy therefore no Infants are meant in this place nor is there so much as any colour for the Baptizing of Infants from hence for the text is not be Baptized for the promise is to you and to your Children as many in Print do falsely alledge But repent and be Baptized c. and yee shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is to you and to your Children Object If they say then surely these Children were in the Covenant seeing the promise is said so plainly to be to them Answ To this I answere that this objection hath no colour of footing in the Text as appeareth by that which is already said thereto yet neverthelesse I will further demonstrate the same by these reasons First The Promise is made equally to them and to their Children and to them that are a farre off But these which are a far off are not within the Covenant by the promise untill they beleeve the same Secondly If they were in the Covenant by having this promise made to them then were they of the New Covenant and Church of the Gospell for there were no other people to be accounted in Covenant with God save those which be of this Church but those were not of this Church but they were afterwards added thereunto as appeares ver 41. and therefore were not of it before and consequently notwithstanding the Promise being so to them and their Children yet neither they nor their Children were of the Covenant nor Church untill they did beleeve al●hough they were Jewes and so the children of faithfull Abraham Their second Argument is from those places which speake of Baptizing whole Households for say they there may be Infants in the Household thence they conclude that Infants may be Baptized To which I answere that there might be no Infants there and my negative is as good as their affirmative without any proofe and more probable for it is said Act. 18. 8. That Crispus the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue beleeved on the Lord with all his Household and that many of the Corinthians hearing it beleeved and were Baptized And it is said of the Goaler who was Baptized and all his Act. 16. 32. That Paul and Sylas first preached the word of the Lord to them and to all that were in his House And in the 33 ver it is said that he and all his were Baptized and in the 34 ver it is said that hee with all his Household beleeved in God So then it is plaine that they first beleeved and then were Baptized and although it be barely spoken of Pauls Baptizing the Household of Stephanus 1 Cor. 1. 16. And of the
the Gospell worship As nationall Churches Oblations Sacrafices first fruits Tythes Offerings Holy Ceremonies Holy Dayes Holy feasts Holy Temples Holy Altars Holy Places Holyest places Holy Persons Holy Garments Musicke c. And many other pretty trinkets of that kinde And into Government Office and Ministery likewise variety of sorts as Sextons Clarkes Curates Vic●ars Parsons Singing-men Orgenists Canons Petty-Canons Prebends Deans Arch-Deacons Abbotts Lord Abbotts Lord Bishops Lord Arch-Bishops Chancellors Officialls Commissaries Doctors Proctors Apparitors c. with a rable of them even to the Pope himselfe alluding to Moses Aaron and to the Kings and State of Israel Hence also collaterally have they brought the power of the Civill Magistrate into the Church as their Executioners and as subordinate and particular heads under the Pope the universall head who challengeth hence most wickedly to dispose of their Crownes and Kingdomes at his pleasure being willingly ignorant that the State and Church of the Iewes is to be considered in a two-fold respect one as it was a civill State and Common-wealth and Kingdome in respect whereof it was common to other Civill States and Kingdomes in the world the other as it was the Church of God and in relation thereto had Worship Commandements a Kingly office and government which no other state or Kingdome had or ought to have for herein it was altogether typicall this Kingly office and government in relation to the Church concentred only in Christ who now is onely the head King and Law-giver to Israel his Church and admitts of no other head to his Church subordinate or otherwise in any respect Ephes 1. 22. and 4. 15 and 5. 23. Col. 1. 18 2. 10. 19. 1 Pet. 2. 7. For this State being sprituall admits of none but him their spirituall King Head and Law-giver Iam. 4. 12. Hence the Gospel is called the Gospell and word of this Kingdome Mat. 4. 12 and 13. 19 Acts 2. 25. And the true Ministery of the Gospel a Ministery of the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 6. whereby men being converted to God are said to be translated into the Kingdome of his deare sonne Col. 1. 13. Hence God proclaimes from heaven commanding us only to heare and obey his Sonne Matth. 17. 5. he being the Christ of God Luke 9. 20. Hence Christ himselfe declares to us that all power in heaven and earth is given to him and commands his Disciples therefore in his name and by vertue of his power and authoritie alone to goe into all Nations and make Disciples baptizing them c. Matth. 28. 18. 19. And this honour of being Head of his Church gives hee to none at all by deputation or otherwise in any kinde it being the greatest prerogative and dignity for the greatest Monarch upon earth to become a true member and subject of Jesus Christ in his Church under the Gospell for by his being so he is made a childe of God a fellow heire with the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. yea a coheire with Iesus Christ of the everlasting Inheritance Kingdome and Glory Rom. 8. 16. 17. And the same honour have all the Saints for there is no respect of persons with God Col. 3. 25. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Jude 16. Eph. 6. 9. Iam. 2. 1. 2. 3. 9. and this will one day be made manifest to all men when Christ shall say Bring hither those mine enemies that would not that I should raigne over them and slay them before mee Luke 19. 27. At which time hee will be terrible to all yea to the greatest Monarches upon earth which rebell against him Psal 76. 12. and 82. all the Psalme Be wise now therefore yee Kings be instructed yee Iudges of the earth serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling kisse the sonne lest hee be angry and yee perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little then will it be manifest that they and onely they are blessed that put their trust in him Psal 2. 10. 11. 12. 3. This may likewise teach us to see and bewaile the great apostafie both in faith and worship that is brought into the world by this childish baptisme And what a glorious uniforme Babilonish Tower the man of sinne hath reared upon this rotten foundation bringing there by whole Nations at once into subjection to his carnall worship and indeed what is more sutable to his carnall Gospell and Worship then such carnall worshipers and nothing more conduceth to his Exaltation nor better serveth to the maintenance of him and his sutable Clergie in all their riches Pompe and Pride then this nay how possibly could he otherwise have corrupted the whole Earth and brought whole Nations to admire and follow and worship the Beast as he hath done And why then think we of reformation of Religion continuing this foundation Can we wash the Black-more white Or give spirituall life to a whole nation in a lumpe Hath God any such need of worshipers as to accept such lip-service meerely compelled by the laws and commandements of men Isa 29. 13. Mat. 15. 8 9. Is not every man first to be perswaded of the truth in his owne mind before he worship else is he not damned in himselfe Rom. 14. 5. 23. And who art thou that judgest and usurpest Authority over another mans servant 1 Cor. 7. 23. Seeing likewise the Church of England in the 13. article of her doctrine doth maintaine and a verre that works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his spirit are not pleasant to God for as much as they spring not of faith in Iesus Christ neither doe they make men meete to receive Grace or deserve grace of congruity yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the nature of sinne And this then being so what spirituall house thinke we can be built unto God upon such a carnall foundation May we expect grapes of thornes or figs of thistles must not the Tree first be made good and then the fruite had not God respect first to Abell and then to his Offering hath not God long since abrogated the state of the Iewes under the law and cast off Israel according to the flesh the naturall seed of Abraham to whom and his seed the promises were made Gal. 4. 29 30. Ioh. 8. 34 35. 36. And do we thinke to bring in the naturall seed of us Gentiles as acceptable on Gods Altar none in the time of the Gospell when the true seed is produced Gal. 3. 19. and when onely spirituall worship and worshipers are accepted Io. 4. 23. must the parents whether Iew or Gentile needs be borne againe of the spirit and onely by faith become the seed of Abraham and heires according to promise Gallathians 3. 7. 29. Romanes 4. 11 12. And shall their children become the same seed by nature can our natures produce a spirituall seed to Abraham which Abrahams owne nature never did nor could doe Rom. 9. 7. 8. Ioh. 3. 6. Neither can any shew any one such promise to any Believer in all the whole world and his seed as was and is to Abraham his seed who is therefore the father of us all to wit of all Believers and onely of Believers sew and Gentile father and child c. Rom. 4. 16. and therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed but the promise is sure only to Believers therefore Believers only are the seed of Abraham to whom the promise and ordinance of the new Testament doe properly appertaine Againe That administration of Baptisme which overthrowes the very nature of the Covenant of Grace and whole Gospell of Christs is Antichristian and abominable But the administration of baptisme upon Infants doth so because it stands upon the ground and interest which they have in the Covenant by naturall generation onely or by the meere profession of faith in the Parents or Sureties without faith in their owne persons whereby faith is made void and the promise which is the Gospel and Object of Faith is also made of none effect and so the preaching thereof becomes uselesse and vaine also Rom 4. 14. therefore the administration of Baptisme upon Infants is Antichristian and abominable These things being so it is most certaine that the baptisme of Infants is the greatest delusion and a thing of as dangerous consequence as ever the Man of Sin brought into the world and therefore the greatest maintainers thereof are justly to be esteemed the greatest deluders wherefore it is high time for us to looke about us to awake out of this drunken slumber and to see how hitherto wee and our fathers have beene blindly lead by our blind Guides into this depth of Ignorance and mist of iniquity and let us seeke out by what meanes and by whom wee are so miserably intosticated as to stumble and grope for our way thus even at noone day Rev. 17. 1. Come hither I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great Whore Rev. 18. 3. 8. 11. For all Nations have drunke of the wine of the wrath of her fornications and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the Merchants of the earth have waxed rich through the abundances of her delicacies Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord who judgeth her And the Merchants of the earth shall weepe and mourne over her for no man buyeth their merchandize any more FINIS