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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85949	Vindiciæ vindiciarum: or, A vindication of his Vindication of infant-baptisme, from the exceptions of M. Harrison, in his Pœdo-baptisme oppugned, and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes, in his chief digressions of his late Apology, from the manner to the matter of his treatises. By Io. Geree M. of Arts, and Preacher of the Word in S. Albanes. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Geree, John, 1601?-1649.	1646 (1646)	Wing G604; Thomason E363_13; ESTC R201234	35,208	49

VINDICIAE VINDICIARVM OR A Vindication of his Vindication of Infant-Baptisme from the Exceptions of M. Harrison in his Poedo-baptisme oppugned and from the Exceptions of M. Tombes in his chief digressions of his late Apology from the manner to the matter of his Treatises By Io. Geree M. of Arts and Preacher of the Word in S. Albanes ACTS 2.39 The promise is to you and to your children Quod universa tenet Ecclefia nee concilijs institutum sed semper retentum est non nisi authoritate Apostolicâ traditum rectissimè creditur Aug. lib. 4. contra Don. cap. 24. Imprimatur Edm. Calamy LONDON Printed by A. M. for Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1647. To the VVorshipfull the Major and Burgesses of St Albanes with the rest of my worthy and loving Auditours there grace and peace My loving friends WHat S. James so long since asserted that the experience of our times hath confirmed Where strife is there is confusion and every evil work Jam. 3.16 Amongst other evils to which our divisions have been the midwife corrupt opinions have been one most eminent and amongst them that which opposeth the birth-right of Christian Infants to the Covenant and seal of initiation hath been broacht with that confidence as though the abettours bad hope that that leaven would leaven the whole lump Not long after my coming to you there was a book set forth by an ancient friend of mine which because it was adorned with much art and reading things formerly rare to be found in the writers for that opinion there was almost as much triumph in it as sometimes by the Philistines in their Goliah And to say the truth the camp of Israel was not a little moved with it Whereupon my self as having more leasure then many abler was called upon by divers friends to stand up in the defence of truth And others with my self quickly made it appear that the Authour in whom there was so much triumph had rather put a better face on then added any great strength to that errour For all the arguments brought by him save those that are ordinary in every Anti-paedobaptists mouth were easily enough and utterly quasht The vindication of Infant-Baptisme which I first put forth was partly Cataskeuasticall to confirm the truth partly Anaskeuasticall to refell the objections of the adversary My learned opponent hath not yet publisht an answer to either only in an Apology for the manner of his writing tanquam canis ad Nilum he hath here and there given a little touch about the matter But a neighbour Minister hath attempted the oppugnation of these six arguments which I made good for confirmation of Infant-Baptisme His exceptions I here refute together with what M. Tombes hath inserted materiall in his Apology And this Vindication of my former labour I thought good to present to you That if providence should hereafter otherwaies dispose of me this may remain as a testimony of my thankefulnesse to God and you That with you in the time of Englands distraction I found an haven of rest with good help to a comfortable subsistance And that by it you may be the better guarded against the Sophismes of those that cease not to labour to draw Disciples after them The opposition that is made to truth is to the conscientious lovers of it an affliction that is grievous Therefore to make some spirituall use of it is not only a duty we owe to God but a priviledge which we our selves have need of to sweeten the bitternesse of the crosse for a crosse never seems intolerable after we finde it medicinable There be two speciall uses that may and ought to arise from the controversy in hand First to see further into the grounds of and to be more setled in the truth The questioning of a good title though it make it not more firm yet usually it renders it more cleer because the grounds of its firmitud● are by search found out and laid open And so hath it been and so ought to be with us of this present age in this spirituall title of Christian Infants And if any new grounds or arguments be added to cleer an ancient practise In vain and unjustly is that pretended to disparage the antiquity of the thing which is vouchsafed of God as a fruit of the industry of his servants whereof the opposition of the erroneous is sanctified of God to be an occasion 2. A second use of the opposition of truth should be That as we hold the right more firmly so we should use it more holily to cut off occasion from those that seek occasion Antipadobaptists doe more oppose the use by occasion of the abuses of Infant-Baptisme Were it performed with that holines and solemnity that it ought it would cary more beauty with it and have lesse opposition against it We should therefore study by the opposition and vindication of truth to be excited to and helpt in an holy and honourable use of that priviledge for our children The more the grounds and nature of Infant-Baptisme are cleared the better may we be inabled to use it in faith The more may we be moved to consider the wofull condition of our Infants as they are from us and we from Adam and so humble our selves the more for that corrnption that is inharent in us and propagated from us The more may we see necessity of vertue to flow from Christ to ours to restore them to the favour and Image of God and so to have this ordinance of which only in infancy they are capable sanctified to them which works not naturally by the deed done but morally by vertue of Gods blessing which is to be procured by praier This would not only quicken parents to cry for a blessing on this Ordinance to their Infants but ingage them to chuse the time of most solemn Assemblies for it when having the most and best praiers they may more comfortably expect the blessing of God on it But I would not exceed the limits of an Epistle Therefore with my daily praiers that God would blesse this and my other labours to you and glorifie his Word among you I am Yours in all Christian affection and service JO. GEREE From my Study at S. Albanes Octob. 14. 1646. The Preface CHRISTIAN READER HAving some moneths since published a defence of Infant-Baptisme by way of answer to a Divine of note It not long since met with an answer from an obscurer Authour to which I presently drew a reply But hearing a rumour of an answer in the presse by M. Tombes which was expected to be of greater strength I withheld my hand from publishing my answer to the first that I might if I saw cause answer both together But when M. Tombes his book came forth I found it for the most part an apology for the manner of his writing not a defence of the matter and that chiefly against exceptions taken by M. Marshall And for the