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A67323	Infants baptism from heaven, of divine institution Being a brief yet satisfactory answer to some objections made by Hercules Collins, in his book entituled, Believers baptism from heaven, infants baptism from earth, &c. against certain truths proved in a book entituled, Baptism anatomized. Propounded in five queries, by Tho. Wall. Viz. 1. What water-baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true administrators of it? 5. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptise himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practice, they ought themselved to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein is also proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel, Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the covenant of grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall.	Wall, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing W484; ESTC R219349	20,257	43

have by Free Grace in Christ to Remission of Sins and so to the Visible Sign thereof Water Baptism to be administred on them And whereas he saith in the Title of his Eleventh Chapter that it containeth a brief but sufficient Answer to my Book Baptism Anatomiz'd he beginneth after this vaunting manner I Query 1. Whether this Man doth not act against the Light of Conscience Experience and Holy Scripture when he asserts Indefinitely the Infants of Believers have by the Free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace a Right to Remission of Sins and so a Right to Baptism To this he maketh this Answer by way of Query as his only reason to oppose the Truth aforesaid his words are these Had Cain Ismael Esau Absalom Samuel's Sons of Belial all Children of Believers a right to Remission of Sins To which I reply first he saith I assert Indefinitely that the Infants of believers have c. By by the word indefinitely he meaneth without limit or bound this is false for let him shew in what Page in all my Book I have asserted any thing otherwise but according to God's Revealed Will concerning the absolute Right that Insants of Believers have by the free Grace of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins by giving place to God's secret Election if they to wit Infants of Believers continue like Abel Isaac Jacob Timothy and the like in the way of Faith and Holiness they shall be Saved See p. 32. Baptism Anatomiz'd Secondly If Hercules Collins his Doctrin be a Truth that because some of the Infants of Believers prove not to be of the Election by their evil Fruits when grown up as appeared in Cain Ismael c. that therefore we must conclude from thence that none of the Infants of Believers have a Visible Right by the free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins and so now in these last days to Water-Baptism then this will follow That because some actual Believers as Simon Magus Demas and the like fell away after they had been Baptised with the Visible Sign of remission of Sins that therefore all the rest of the Believers in the Apostles days had no Right to the Remission of Sins and so no Right to Water-Baptism But to come nearer to Hercules Collins the Persons Men and Women of his Society being in their Way Baptised and in his Judgment had right to Remission of Sins and some of these in time do fall into gross Sin as to deny even the Ordinance of Baptism and the Lord's-Supper as not to be administred at all as likewise into other gross Sins Will he conclude that all the rest of his Society because some are become so wicked have no right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Baptism If the former Reason of his be true against Infants of Believers the latter is true against Elder Persons And thus this Man at once hath granted by his not giving place to God's Election that no Persons among themselves have right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Water-Baptism for no other reason but because some of them prove Wicked and therefore he must never Baptise any hereafter until he can enter into God's secret Decree to know who only are the Elect that shall never fall totally away after Baptised And thus the Wicked Man is Snared in the works of his own hands Selah that is O mind this well This might serve for a sufficient Answer to his whole Book until he by acknowledging the Truth which I have asserted deliver himself out of this Snare that he is fallen into which he laid for others that because some Infants as Elder Persons visibly in Covenant with the Lord afterward do fall away that therefore all the rest have no right to Remission of Sins But I shall proceed further in laying open more of his Folly If it prove not a benefit to this Goliah-like Boaster it may be a Warning to others to beware of the Doctrin of Anabaptistry In which Book he further saith in Pag. 109. Query the Second Whether there is not good ground given to believe in reading a great part of this Book from Page 25. to 41. and 168. that he is of Origen's Opinion the whole World may be saved at last and then why not the Devils too For saith he in Page 168. If all Infants Sinned in Adam when Adam was restored they were restored in his Loins and when Born they were Born in a Gospel Covenant Page 26. God freely forgave Adam and his Posterity in him their Sin Reply In the 24. Page of Baptism Anatomiz'd I have shewed from Rom. 5. 12. how Sin came into the World as it is written wherefore as by one Man Sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed upon all Men for that or in whom all have Sinned thus the Apostle proveth that what I asserted is Truth that all Infants Sinned in Adam's Loins Secondly In Page 25. I shewed the manner or way God was pleased to restore those two sorts of Sinners the one Actual as Adam and Eve the other Passive who in Infancy by Original Corruption derived Sin and by Imputation charged on them Therefore because Adam and Eve had actually and willingly Sinned it was the Pleasure of God that not only our first Parents but also all actual Sinners in all Ages should Repent and actually profess Faith in Christ before they were accepted into Covenant with the Lord and have remission of their Sins Now because the Infants of such were only Sinners by Imputation as aforesaid through Original Corruption and not by their own Act God was pleased and still is pleased and that of free Grace to pass by the sin charged on Infants when the sin of their Parents was Pardoned and therefore the Children born in the Covenant of Grace are by the Lord called his Children accounted born unto him Ezek. 16. 8 20 and 21. And forasmuch as Children are by the Scripture called a Man's Family Gen. 10. 32. God being pleased that in Christ Families shall be Blessed therefore the Lord saith not only before the Law but in the time of the Law and also in the latter days he will be the God of all Families of his Israel that is the Israel of God namely Believers and their Infants whether Jews or Gentiles the truth hereof is confirmed by the Apostle in these words writing not to the whole World but to true Churches separated from the World wherefore as by the Offence of one namely the first Adam Judgment came upon all Men for a Child born is called a Man Gen. 4. 1. Joh. 16. 21. even so by the Righteousness of one namely Christ the second Adam the free Gift came upon all Men unto Justification of Life for as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners so by the Obedience of one many shall be made Righteous Now because when Adam and Eve were

Infants Baptism from Heaven OF Divine Institution BEING A Brief yet Satisfactory Answer to some Objections made by Hercules Collins in his Book Entituled Believers Baptism from Heaven Infants Baptism from Earth c. against certain Truths proved in a Book Entituled Baptism Anatomized Propounded in five Queries by THO. WALL VIZ. 1. What Water-Baptism is 2. What is the end for which it was Instituted 3. What giveth Right to it 4. Who are the true Administrators of it 5. Whether it be Lawful for a Man to Baptise himself WHEREIN The Right that the Infants of Believers have to Water-Baptism is vindicated The Duty of Believing Parents in that Matter asserted And that by the contrary Tenet and Practice they ought themselves to be excluded from the Lords-Supper is plainly and fully proved And wherein is also proved That the Covenant which God made with Abraham Gen. 17. and with Israel Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the Covenant of Grace in Christ and not part of the Covenant of Works made with Adam before his Fall London Printed by G. Croom for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with Acts of Parliament Speeches and other sorts of Discourses and State-Matters as also Books of Divinity Church-Government Humanity Sermons on most Occasions c. M DC XC II. Licensed and Entred according to Order TO THE READER Christian Reader THE Faith of our Lord Jesus call'd the Precious Faith the Faith of God's Elect in them compared to a Building Jud. v. 20. which Faith always dependeth upon the written Word of God called therefore the Word of Faith Rom. 10. Deut. 30. first preached to Adam and after to Abraham in which Word of Faith Christ is Lord in Sion a chief Corner-stone a sure Foundation on which Foundation all God's Elect build Gold Silver precious Stones when others build Wood Hay and Stubble Now they that build Gold Silver precious Stones are such whose Faith is built upon the Foundation or Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets Christ the chief Corner-stone joyning their Doctrin in one Harmony together in every Article of the Christian Faith to be tried by that Fire the seven Lamps the seven Spirits of God before his Throne in his Church to the Law and to the Testimony the Gospel made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets which by the Testimony of Christ is confirmed sending all that heard him to search the Scriptures of the Prophets to try his Doctrin by and so did the Apostles as by the Example of the Bereans who searched the Scriptures daily to wit of the Prophets to see whether those things were so as the Apostles taught If Christians would do so now they should see clearly the Doctrin of Anabaptistry concerning the State of the Infants of Believers refuted in this following Discourse as afore in my Book Baptism Anatomized is but Wood Hay and Stubble and will not endure to be tried in the Fire of God's Word and Spirit because what they teach out of Christ and the Apostles Writing in the New Testament is not proved by them to be agreeable to the Doctrin of the Prophets as in all their Writing doth appear as in particular now the Eleventh Chapter of H. Collins's Book where in the Title he boasteth that it is a sufficient Answer to my Book yet as concerning all he hath said in the Eleventh Chapter not one Scripture he bringeth out of the Prophets to confirm the Sense of any word he bringeth out of the Writings of Christ or his Apostles about the Doctrin of Baptism to disprove the Right the Infants of Believers have as I have proved both by the Doctrine of the Prophets and of Christ and his Apostles to Remission of Sins and so to Water-Baptism and therefore I affirm the Doctrin of Anabaptistry in this Point now controverted is neither Gold Silver nor precious Stones built on Christ the sure Foundation but Wood Hay Stubble so that till this Man with the rest of his Brethren prove what he asserts against the Truth I have proved in my Book by one Harmonious Agreement of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and lay aside their present Spirit of Insolence he must be ranked amongst Boasters as it is written Whoso boasteth himself of a False Gift or Gift of Falsehood is like Clouds and Wind without Rain Prov. 25. 14. as Jude hath noted such Teachers v. 12. they are without Water carried about of Winds Trees without Fruits raging Waves of the Sea foaming out their own Shame wandering Stars no fixed Guides to poor Souls speaking Evil of those things to wit of Faith which they know not but what they know naturally as Brute Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves therefore the Apostle Peter hath warned the Churches that as there were False Prophets among the People of Old Deut. 13. 1. even so there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies privily meaning as Christ hath warned of such pretending to be Sheep in Sheeps Cloathing in the outside so covering their false Doctrin with the Name of Christ to deceive many who by their privy or secret Doctrin steal into the Minds of Persons so as Ravening Wolves destroy Souls Now seeing we are warned of these Dangers try the Spirits as afore shewed believe none in what they teach in any Article of Faith unless they prove their Doctrin as aforesaid by the Harmonious Agreement of the Doctrin of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles which yet the Anabaptists have not done nor do in any of their Writings against what hath been publish'd by many worthy Servants of Jesus Christ concerning the Right the Infants of Believers have by the Free Grace of God in Christ to Remission of Sins and so a right to Water-Baptism So shall I conclude with the Council of the Lords Servants to the Churches Prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of Evil believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits or Doctrin as afore shewed whether they are of God because many False Prophets are gone out into the World From all such the Lord preserve his Chosen which is and shall be the earnest Prayer of him who is thine in the Lord Thomas Wall Infants Baptism from Heaven of Divine Institution c. IN my former Book Intituled Baptism Anatomiz'd and now further Confirmed is shewed the Vanity of some Objections made by Hercules Collins in the Eleventh Chapter of his Book Intituled Believers Baptism from Heaven Infants Baptism from Earth c. which said Book he sent me with this Challeng Come and stand before the Bar of God's word and make Answer Having perused his Book I find it no Christian Answer but a Compound of unsavory carping scurrilous Language and Goliah-like boasting as one puft up in his Fleshly Mind raging against the Truth which I have asserted concerning the Right the Infants of the Israel of God