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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17267	Baptismall regeneration of elect infants professed by the Church of England, according to the Scriptures, the primitiue Church, the present reformed churches, and many particular divines apart. By Cor: Burges ...	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1629 (1629)	STC 4109; ESTC S107058	180,308	364

This place therefore proues not Paul to bee without the spirit in his circumcision no more then it proues him to bee destitute thereof euen after his actuall Regeneration Wherefore now I turne this weapon backe vpon the Obiectors themselues and vrge it thus against them If the spirit may be in such as are carnall and sold vnder sinne then hee may be in elect infants although carnall and sold vnder sinne For if he may be yet in part carnall whom no man will deny to haue the spirit the spirit may bee in elect infants that are not after Baptisme vnder an absolute dominion of sinne as hath beene before proved So farre as there is any flesh not totally subdued so farre there is a want of the spirit even in a person regenerated therefore so farre as there is the least abatement of the absolute Dominion of sinne there is the spirit notwithstanding that the party be yet so far carnall as that he is sold vnder sinne and led captiue to the law of sinne in the generall course of his conversation till actuall regeneration be wrought within him 2 That place in 1. Tim. 1.13 where Paul saith J was a blasphemer a persecutor iniurious proues not Paul to be vtterly void of the spirit till his actuall Regeneration for if it doth it must bee either because the facts were so haynous as cannot agree to a regenerate man or because he committed them with such a witting malice as cannot subsist with the spirit of God in the same subiect 1 For the quality of the facts David after his conuersion committed as great sinnes for kinde haynousnesse as e●er Paul did in his kinde before his conversion What greater did Paul commit then Adultery Drunkennesse and murther committed by Dauid Now if the spirit were in Dauid notwithstanding so many crying sinnes at once especially in a time of warre when aboue all other times he should haue kept himselfe from euery wicked thing Deut. ●3 9 why might hee not bee in Paul If you say that to kill a Christian as a Christian that is because hee is a Christian is a greater sinne then to commit any other murther I answere that it is so indeed if the Persecutor doe willingly murther a Christian knowing him to be such and doing it out of malice to Christ and his religion Otherwise not Let vs therefore search a little further into the particular of Paul and wee shall finde That Paul did not commit those sinnes out of malice to Christ goodnesse nor so much as out of knowledge but onely out of ignorance that the way which hee blasphemed and persecuted was the truth He made conscience of the Law of God so farre forth as hee knewe it to bee the Law Phil. 3.6 and was zealous towards God Act. 22.3 even before his conuersion It was a blind zeale of the Law that made him to persecute the Gospell which he vnderstood not and not any malice to God So it followes in that very Text now vrged against me but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly Yea further he professeth that he did no more then what he thought himselfe bound in conscience to doe meerly in obedience vnto God For saith he J verily thought with my selfe that I ought to doe many things contrary to the name of Iesus of Nazareth Act. 26.9 And vpon this ground he did all those things wherewith hee so deeply chargeth himselfe Now if Dauid that committed as great sinnes for kinde and greater in regard of circumstances for hee did it wittingly willingly with premeditation knowing very well that hee ought not to haue done any thing of that he did shall be allowed to haue the spirit euen at that very time with what reason can wee deny the spirit to St Paul when he did those things which in that text of 1. Tim. 1.13 he so much bewaileth and condemneth in himselfe for as much as hee protesteth that all this was but through ignorance of the truth blind zeale towards God and the truth doing nothing wittingly either against God or his conscience but only that which he erroniously supposed would be acceptable vnto God All this therefore makes for mee and no way against me 3 As for that place in Tit 3.3 which is thought to make strongest against me it is as weake as those other two already examined Wee were sometimes foolish c. saith the Apostle When was that After Circumcision say some But how doth that appeare Those to whom hee writes were neuer circumcised for they were Gentiles Nor is there one syllable of his own Circumcision nor any circumstance of the Text that requires vs so to vnderstand it But he himself was circumcised True yet there is no mention in that place that he was such after circumcision as that he could not haue the spirit at all in him He only shewes what he they and all men are by nature before their effectuall calling or rather before their first initiation into Christ It will bee replied that this place shewes what he was euen after Circumcision for it containes a confession of sundry actual sinnes which must needs bee committed after his circumcision because hee was circumcised the eight day after his birth at which age he could not commit those actuall sinnes To this I answere that hee might be guilty of committing all those sinnes there reckoned vp and yet not wholy destitute of the spirit as hath beene proued before If the spirit may bee in such as are not actually conuerted they may commit many grosse sinnes in their course of life And in such hee may be notwithstanding the commission of such sinnes since they may sometim●s commit as grosse sinnes who are actually conuerted as we saw but now in the instance of David and others I neuer affirmed as the Obiection drawne from this Text would suppose that the spirit is so giuen either in Circumcision or in Baptisme as to keepe the elect from actuall sinnes it is enough that the spirit takes off that extremity of malice which is to be found in the sinnes of such as are not elected But haply there may bee more pregnant evidence in the words following viz in ver 4.5.6.7 I am content to ioine issue here also The words are these But after that the loue and kindnesse of God our Saviour toward man appeared not by workes of righteousnesse which we haue done but according to his mercy he saued vs. By what By the lauer of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our Saviour that being justified freely by his grace wee should bee made heyres according to the hope of eternall life And what of all this Doth any of this proue that Paul had not the spirit in his Circumcision Yes you will say it doth For Paul herein declares how and when hee and the rest of whom he there speakes were regenerated viz in their Baptisme of which