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A48758	Pneumat-apologia. Or, An apology for the power & liberty of the Spirit as at first to give a being to, so still to give a blessing by his ordinances. In three sermons preacht at Great Budworth, to some persons of honour, and several of the clergy then present to communicate in reference to the late act. By James Livesey, A.M. & vicar of Budworth.	Livesey, James, 1625-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing L2595; ESTC R213711	65,921	192

season for the greatest work of all which is not fit for any work at all Shall the best Master be the last the least the worst served Why should our vain hopes of living long remit or abate our cares of living well and working hard Most never think of going faster till they are forc'd to think they shall not go much longer Let us mind our way and mend our pace Vprightly Doctr. 12. 'T is an important duty which concerns us all to walk uprightly Gen. 17.1 And 't is the priviledg of such to have the word of the Lord to work for their good They shall not hear in vain Their souls shall live Isa 55.3 But the proposition on which I purpose now to fix waving all the rest is this and it takes most of them in Doct. The spirit of the Lord is not so straitned but that he can cause his Word and Ordinances to do them good who walk uprightly St. Ambrose writing three Books to Gratian the Emperour concerning the Spirit of the Lord fronts his first with this passage Sp. S. non aut alienae potestati est subjectus aut juri sed suae libertatis arbiter omnia pro authoritate propriae voluntatis c. There are three great Ordinances of God 1 The Ministry of the Word 2 Baptism And the Lords Supper is the third The first we have dispatcht and in our last discourse the second was finish'd too to refresh your Memories give me favour to hint the heads thereof or some few only and them briefly Ad templū Dei pertinent parvuli sanctificati Sacramento Christi regenerati spiritu sancto qui certè per aetatem nondum possunt cognoscere Deum Aug. Epist 57. Darda circa Med. 1 It was proved by Scripture that the Infants of Christian Parents visible Professors are true Denizons of the visible Church and Kingdom of God and have a just right to and interest in Gods Magna Charta or Covenant of Grace That the truth of Grace in the Parents is not the rule we are to act by in admitting Infants to this Ordinance Surely he would never make that the condition upon which his Ministers must apply this his Ordinance which none but God himself can infallibly know let Parents be what they will vicious and scandalous if the Church cast not them out we must not cast theirs out A visible profession of Faith and Holiness in the Parents though there be not a conversation congruous to that profession intitles the Child to Baptism That Infants are capable of the Spirit of the Lord of saving Grace of Union with Christ of Regeneration of pardon of Sin all which are sealed in Baptism if any deny this they must then say either That these are not necessary unto Salvation or That no Child dying in his Infancy can be saved Both which are absurd enough That if Infants have no right to this Seal of the Covenant their condition under the Gospel is much worse and their priviledges less than were those of Jewish Infants under the Law theirs had one viz. Circumcision ours none That the Commandment for Circumcision being so express plain and legible in the Old Testament there is no more need of a new Commandment for Infant-Baptism in the New than for a new Commandment for the holy Observation of the Lords-day That the Covenant and not only the Commandment was then the principal ground and reason of Circumcision and is now of Baptism Circumcision was called the Covenant and not the Commandment and the contempt or violation of it was call'd the transgression of the Covenant not of the Commandment Vide Whitakerum contra Duraeum fusius hâc de re pag. 681. 682. and the despisers were threatned to be cut off for the violation of the Covenant not of the Commandment Gen. 17.10 13. That Esau and Ishmael were regularly circumcised as well as Isaac No Scripture rule was transgressed when Judas and Simon Magus when Ananias and Sapphira were baptized yet what they were you know the whole multitude of the Israelites were baptized 1 Cor. 10.1 2. Yet were not all true Believers vers the 5. That we cannot infallibly know but only charitably judg who are true Believers and that Though Infants cannot lay hold on Christ by the hand of Faith yet he can and will embrace them in the arms of his love and bless them That he whose child was uncircumcised by his neglect was in Gods account uncircumcis'd himself Exod. 12.48 't is so in this case of Baptism and if uncircumcised he was not admitted to the Passover no nor into the Sanctuary Ezek. 44.9 That the enemies of Infant-baptism deal not ingenuously in requiring from us an express Commandment for our practice whilst mandment for our practice whilst they cannot produce one for theirs Where is your command to keep the Infants of visible professors from this ordinance till they be six ten or twenty years of age or till they can make profession of their Faith Or where is your command to baptize Children when grown up if you insist upon example then where is your example for your admitting of Women to the Lords Supper But of this more the last time Secondly the Antiquity of this Ordinance was vindicated from the imputation of Novelty Nullus est Scriptor tam vetustus qui ejus originem ad Apostolorum seculum pro certo non refert Calvin and that assertion of Judicious Calvin in his Instit lib. 4. cap. 16. sect 8. and of learned Zanchy in Ephes 226 page was considered and confirmed by the concurrent Testimonies of the Ancients in the several Centuries as of Justin Martyr Irenaeus Origen Cyprian Ambrose Austin Nazianzen c. Thirdly The high and noble ends for which it was instituted The great usefulness and advantagiousness of it was shewed not only to those who are of maturer age but even to Infants Elect ones I mean ordinarily when they are baptized As the Spirit moving upon the waters produc'd a world Gen. 1.2 and brought forth living Creatures so the Spirit moving upon the Soul can produce the seeds of Grace in it Consult at better leisure the 27th Article of Religion and you will find it corresponding with the judgment of the Fathers with the most eminent Divines of these latter ages with the Holy Scriptures which is instar omnium All which assert the present Infants ordinarily in the act of Administration to clear this perhaps a more important truth than many in this Age are apprehensive of I refer you to what an eminent Doctor of our Church hath left up record D. C.B's Baptismal Regeneration It shall suffice now to mention only four or five Chrysostom calls Baptism our initiation Christ 1 Homil. in Act. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Baptism the chief part is the spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which the water becomes effectual Basil in answer to that question How are Christians saved makes this return 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉