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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57955	A vindication of the baptized churches from the calumnies of Mr. Michael Harrison, of Potters Pury in Northampton-shire. Being an answer to his two books, intituled, Infant baptism God's ordinance. By William Russel, M.D. A lover of primitive Christianity.	Russel, William, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing R2360A; ESTC R218555	79,105	138

in being under the Gospel a thing so contrary to the tenor of the Gospel and the express Words of Holy Scripture The whole Fabrick of the Jewish Church-state being pulled down and a New Church-state erected in the room thereof it is not the House of God erected by the Mosaical Law but the House of Christ erected by the Son himself Heb. 3.6 opposed to and in contradistinction from that former one under the Law which all that were circumcised were obliged to observe For the Apostle saith If any man he circumcised he is a debtor to the whole Law But in his next Paragraph he entangles himself with a difficulty I suppose he will not be able to free himself from For he saith in page 21. This promise the Apostle speaks of was that promise or covenant of which Baptism was the Seal And in the words following he tells us that Circumcision and Baptism are Seals of the same covenant Now whereas I have already proved that the covenant of Circumcision was not the covenant of Grace I think I need not prove that Baptism is a duty belonging to the New Covenant because all acknowledge it so to be And as certain I am that the Apostle Paul opposes the Law of Works to the Law of Faith It is of Faith that it might be of Grace and circumcision obliging to keep the whole Law which covenant being now abolished he saith If ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing And he gives this reason for it Whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are fallen from Grace And that this respects the covenant of circumcision with its adjuncts is plain from Gal. 5.1 where the Apostle exhorts them To stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage which he explains in the following verses to be meant of the covenant of circumcision So that Mr. H. may see what a Labyrinth he is in out of which I suppose it will not be easie for him to extricate himself The late Learned Dr. Neh. Coxe in his Excellent Discourse of the Covenants hath given us the true ground of these perplexities that the Learned have fallen into which I shall transcribe for the sake of those who have not his Book to inform them nor are likely to obtain because it 's out of print Sect. 6. pag. 12. Now as it is evident from what hath been already said that all soederal transactions of God with men flow only from his good pleasure and the counsel of his Will so upon that ground it is certainly to be concluded that our knowledge and understanding of them must wholly depend upon Divine Revelation None can pretend acquaintance with the secret of God but as he hath pleased to reveal it in his Word this light must guide all our inquiries after it and our Sentiments of things of this nature must be strictly governed by this Rule seeing the nature of them is such as transcends the common principles of reason or natural Light inasmuch as they owe their original to the free acts of the Divine Will and Wisdom which are unaccountable 'till revealed by God himself and therefore it becomes us to captivate all our thoughts of them to the obedience of Faith as knowing that Learning and strength of Parts tho' of excellent use in their place not guided by Scripture light in these Inquiries can only form an Ingenious Error and lose a man in the Labyrinth of his own Imagination and uncertain Guesses seeing the single advantage of those assistances in this case trusted to and stretched beyond their line can reach no farther than to enable him cum ratione errare and so to wander from truth in a path seeming more smooth tho' no less dangerous than others light upon And therefore in these things lyes the spring of most mistakes and corruption of Doctrine and Practise in matters of Religion men do easily find out and agree in the true Dictates of the Law of Nature but in things pertaining to the covenants of God how various are their Sentiments Yea many great Learned and good men have been divided in their Judgments about some things of great importance to the Faith and Edification of the Church And some one Error admitted about the nature of God's soederal transactions with men doth strangely perplex the whole System or Body of Divinity and entangle our Interpretation of innumerable Texts of Scripture and by this means Jars and Contentions have been perpetuated in the Church to the great grief and hindrance of all the offence of the weak and greater scandal of the blind World and all this hath been much occasioned thro' the want of a due and humble attention to that Revelation of Truth which God hath given us in the Holy Scriptures and endeavouring to collect the mind of God from thence without prepossession of Judgment which is a greater occasion of these mistakes than men are generally aware of and careful avoiding the undue mixture or confusion of things natural with those that are purely of a soederal nature Now I would earnestly beg of Mr. H. both for his own good and the good of the people he stands related to that he would be pleased to consider seriously what this Learned Man hath said and by laying aside all pre-conceived Prejudices and pre-possession of Judgment would apply himself to an humble inquiry after the mind of God as revealed in his Word and not trust to his Learning nor lean to his own understanding in the matters of Divine Truths but labour to satisfie his conscience from the Revelation of God in his Holy Word that thus it is written and therefore I believe And to apply it to the present case if Mr. H. can shew us where is written that Infants ought to be baptized by any appointment of God or where it s written that any one Infant was baptized or where it s charged as a sin upon any one to neglect carrying them to be baptized or where any Minister is blamed for not teaching them to bring their Children to Baptism or for not baptizing them when they were brought or indeed if there be any thing said about it directly or indirectly to enjoyn the practise thereof or any the least mention made of it in all the Book of God we will grant him the cause But I perceive himself is satisfied there is no such thing and therefore he is pleased to ridicule us for demanding of him to shew us where it is commanded in the Scripture But let him know that all instituted Worship hath no foundation but the Divine Will requiring it and therefore his pretence to evade the Objection is vain But however seeing he thinks he is so excellent at consequences and that he can do mighty things that way let Mr. H. if he can prove by consequence or any other way that Infant-baptism is God's Ordinance But I perceive he cannot do