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A78189 Fifty queries, seriously propounded to those that question, or deny infants right to baptism By J.B. an hearty well-wisher to their souls, and to the Churches peace. Barret, John, 1631-1713. 1675 (1675) Wing B907A; ESTC R212079 15,280 32

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FIFTY QUERIES Seriously Propounded To those that QUESTION Or deny Infants Right TO BAPTISM By J. B. an hearty well-wisher to their Souls and to the Churches Peace LONDON Printed for Nevil Symonds at the Princes Arms and Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church Yard 1675. Men and Brethren THough many of you are exceeding zealous and confident in your Way yet I hope you do not think your selves infallible or to be as sure that you are in the right here as you are that there is a God or that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God Now granting that it is possible you may be under a Mistake in denying our Childrens Interest in the Covenant and Right to Baptism methinks it concerns you to enquire and examine again and again whether you be not indeed mistaken seeing if the Truth lieth in the Affirmative that Children have such a Right which you oppose then you must needs be found very ungrateful unto God in denying so much of his Grace and Favour injurious to our poor Infants in depriviving them what in you lieth of their Birth-right and of the Blessing and very troublesome to the Church of Christ in raising so great a busle there and making so great a Breach And therefore I cannot but earnestly request this of all of you that have any seriousness and tenderness of Spirit that you would not take up your Opinion upon Trust but make some further Search and enquiry after the Truth It may be safe for you let it not be grievous to you to view over these Queries Of which yet I must say as the Young Prophet said of the Axe 2 Kings 6.5 They are but borrowed being collected out of a seasonable and useful Piece of a Worthy Authour Entituled more Proofs of Infants Church membership and consequently of their Right to Baptism I would hope that these Lines will lead and direct you to the Book it self being as an Index to it Some of the Questions put here I am sure are such as you should be prepared to answer unto God and Conscience Consider of these things and the Lord give you Understanding Farewel Reader IF thou wouldest have fuller Satisfaction that it is the undoubled Will of God that Infants be Members of his Visible Church as verily as they are Members of Kingdoms Cities and Families and that they are as capable of it and that Christ was in his Infancy the Chief Member of the Church even the Head its Prophet Priest and King though yet he did not Teach Sacrifice Rule or Intercede actually and that God never had a Church on Earth since there were Infants in the World of which Infants were not Members except any did congregate that had no Infants or a few singular Persons in the end of the World have upon mistake refused the Priviledge and that the Gospel hath clearly acquainted us that Christ hath not deprived Infants of this Benefit but more fully given and confirmed it and that he hath instituted Baptism to be the initiating Sacrament and Solemn Investiture of Visible Church-members And yet that we may hold Loving and Comfortable Communion with those that by unwilling Error do think that Infants should not be baptized if they will but profess that they heartily consent that their Children be Christ's as far as he will accept them and with them that to satisfie their doubting or mistaking Consciences are rebaptized and when they have done will live in Love and Communion with others And that those few of the Ancients that were for the delaying of the Baptism of Infants a while did not dream of denying or delaying their Covenant-interest and Church-membership according to their Infant Capacity but only the Baptismal Solemnization and Investiture that it might be more powerfully obligatory as Kings are oft crowned long after they are Kings All this and much more you may see fully proved in the Book from which these Queries are collected lately Printed and in the Authors former Treatise of Infants Church-membership and Baptism These Queries more are here further offered to every conscientious Doubter Whether it be at all credible that those Jews that were so quarrelsome with Christ and tenacious of their Legal Rights would never have quarrelled with Christ or his Apostles for shutting all Infants out of the Visible Church if he or they had done it And whether those Jewish Christians that were so loath to let go Circumcision would have let go even their Infant-Membership and Covenant-right without one Word of Exception What considerate Person can believe this 2. Yea when Christ offered to gather all Jerusalem and her Children as a Hen gathereth her Chickins and the Jews were broken off but by Vnbelief whether the Children of the Believing Jews then were broken off 3. And when the Kingdoms of the World becomes Christ's Kingdoms are Infants no part of the Kingdoms Some Sober Queries gathered out of Mr. Baxters more Proofs of Infants Church-Membership and consequently their Right to Baptism seriously offered to such as are taken with the unthankful Error of denying and rejecting of their Infants Rights and Blessings Q. I. WHether under the Covenant of Works V. p. 77 79 112. if Adam had not sinned Infants should not have been holy to God and so Members of the Innocent Church or Kingdom of God Q. II. V. p. 112. Whether God was any more obliged to order it so that the Children of Righteous Parents should have been born with all the perfections of their Parents and enjoyed the same priviledges than he was obliged in making the Covenant of Grace to grant that Infants should be of the same Society with their Parents and have the Immunities of that Society Q. III. V. ibid. Whether we have any reason when the design of Redemption is the magnifying of Love and Grace to think that Love and Grace are so much less under the Gospel to the Members of Christ than under the Law to the Members or Seed of Adam as that then all the Seed should have partaken of the same Blessings with their righteous Parents and now they shall all be turned out of the Society whereof the Parents are Members Q. IV. V. p. 79 80. Whether though our Innocency be lost parents be not parents still and have not as much Interest in children and whether God have ever reversed this natural Order and if God change not his order therein whether parents be not as capable of consenting to Grace for their children as they were of being innocent for them Q. V. V. p. 81 83. Whether Infants be not included in the first Edition of the Covenant of Grace made with Adam Gen. 3.15 Whether unless it can be proved that Insants are none of the Womans Seed we must not take that Fundamental promise to extend to Infants V. p. 96. And was she not thereby obliged to list her self and all her Infant-progeny in the