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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80416	A learned and full ansvver to a treatise intituled; The vanity of childish baptisme. Wherein the severall arguments brought to overthrow the lawfulnesse of infants baptisme, together with the answers to those arguments maintaining its lawfulnesse, are duly examined. As also the question concerning the necessitie of dipping in baptisme is fully discussed: by William Cooke Minister of the Word of God at Wroxall in Warwickwshire. Printed and entred according to order.	Cooke, William.	1644 (1644)	Wing C6043; Thomason E9_2; ESTC R15425	103,267	120

remedy not onely for our selves but for our whole kingdome also Let us by our repentance and prayers and all pious endeavours religious and civill help our Religious Honorable and with all praise and thankfulnesse to God ever to be mentioned Parliament into whose gracious hearts the Lord hath put a sincere desire and stirred up to expresse an holy resolution of endeavouring to finde out a remedy to this evill that their holy endeavours may be blessed First earnestly craving of God That as he hath been pleased so farre to honour the Honourable Assemblies endeavours and his poore peoples prayers as to call together an Assembly of Gods faithfull Ministers being men of approved pietie sinceritie and abilitie so he would vouchsafe to stirre them up direct and inable them in the feare of God without prejudice by the Rule of the Scripture to examine all sorts of tenents that are controverted in the Church giving libertie to every one that hath any thing to say for the truth though but in pretence to speak their minde freely that so Gods truth being cleared and established and errour unmasked and suppressed Gods peoples hearts may be quieted That this means is likely by the blessing of God to prove effectuall if our sinnes doe not hinder and deprive us of it and its expected blessing may appeare by Christs promises Matt. 18.18 19 20. and the Apostles practise together with the Primitive Church Act. 15.1 2 3. to 32. Secondly Let us penitently humbly and heartily crave of God his blessing on his servants endeavours for the settling of an able painfull and godly Ministery in this Land and rooting out of the ignorant idle and scandalous Ministery seeing the abounding of this and the want of that hath been a principall cause of ignorance errour Popery Separation and Anabaptisme in the Land That every Congregation being furnished through Gods mercy if we may be accounted worthy such an happinesse with a faithfull Ministery and Gods pure Ordinances might be faithfully instructed in the truth of God So that all Superstition and Reliques of Popery on the one side being rooted out and all phantasticall opinions on the other side confuted and exploded Gods people may be guided in the even and cleare way to heaven so that they may neither turne to the right hand nor to the left Thirdly We ought by our prayers Repentance and all holy endeavours to promote and help forward that Religious designe of settling Church Government 1 Tim. 1.4 Rev. 2.2 and the Discipline of Iesus Christ amongst us That an Authoritative charge may be laid on them that bring in strange doctrine that they proceed not to disturbe the Church And those which say they are Apostles but are not may be found lyers That by it all truth pietie and sinceritie may be established approved and maintained with all means furthering the same And that all things that tend to the maintaining of superstition profanenesse and ignorance and occasioning of divisions jarres and separations may be removed That these things have been and still are intended and laboured for by that Honourable and Gracious Councell and that Religious and Learned Assembly we have had large testimonies It remaines that we finde out and remove as much as lyes in us what hinders such a mercy most humbly and earnestly intreating our gracious God on whose blessings depends the successe of all holy endeavours and in whose hands are the hearts of all men That he will still prosper the labours of his servants and stirre up the hearts of those whose concurrence in this most Christian designe is of great concernment to joyne with them and further them therein and remove out of the way whatsoever are the impediments thereof 1 Cor. 1.10 That so occasions of divisions being removed we may be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement Eph. 4.3 and 12 13 14 15. in the truth Endeavouring to keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace That so the body of Christ may be edified till we come in the unitie of the faith and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carryed about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive But speaking the truth in love may grow up in him in all things which is the head even Christ to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost three Persons but one onely wise God our Saviour be all Glory and Majestie Dominion and Power now and ever AMEN FINIS

one Religion viz. worshippers of the true God of Abraham inclining by his speciall providence these couples to make choyce of one another So that now for them to divorce their wives is to cast away part of themselves In all these respects it may be said that God made them one viz. in regard of the first institution of marriage in regard of lineage Religion their mutuall choice one of another whereby they became one and in regard of the nature of marriage which is to make one man and one woman no more two but one flesh And though God had the rest of the spirit that is the disposition of all persons and the inclination of their hearts in his power yet as to Adam he gave but one wife so to these that are here reproved he gave to each of them but one wife with whom their severall husbands should become one inclining their spirits at their first choice to mutuall and conjugall affection one to another though it was in his power to have given them other yoke-fellows if it had seemed fit to him Therefore they are bidden to take heed to their spirits vers 15. 16. that is looke to their hearts that they should not wander after adulterous lusts Fifthly the fifth Reason or Argument to shew that this putting away was odious to God which the Prophet brings is Because God therefore made them one as in other forenamed respects so principally in Religion for that he speaks principally if not onely of this appears in that he complains of marrying the daughter of a strange god to the end that he might seek a godly seed or seed of God that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there might successively proceed from them a seed in covenant with God whereas otherwise the holy seed would be stained and God provoked to discovenant them and their posteritie so many as should marry idolatresses This seemes to be the meaning and summe of this Scripture whereon I have stood the longer because it is somewhat obscure But howsoever A. R. will gather that the godly seed here or holy seed as he will metaphrase it must needs signifie a seed onely legitimate or borne in lawfull matrimony and so conclude that no more is meant by holy 1 Cor. 7. His ground I can see to be none other but because God is said to make one seeking an holy seed But I answer First that this place is too farre fetcht to gather clearly therefrom that all children begotten in lawfull matrimony are an holy seed and that unholy seed is so called in respect of the first institution onely of marriage which is the ground of the marriage of Heathens and Infidels Secondly I have shewed that in divers other respects God may be as truly said to have made them one as in respect of the first institution of marriage which may as pertinently to this place and agreeably to the scope of the H. G. to the truth it self have place here Thirdly I shewed that the scope of this Scripture imports that onenesse in Religion must needs here be meant whether with or without the other significations I say not which quite overthrowes his ground for if unitie in the true Religion must needs concurre in parents at least as the case stood with them to make an holy seed then they that are of a false religion cannot produce an holy seed let their marriage be never so lawfull Fourthly though I should grant which yet you can never prove nor will I yeeld that this making one to seek a godly seed were to be referred onely to Gods first institution of marriage yet will not your conclusion at all follow Therefore all children borne in lawfull matrimony of what Religion so even are an holy seed For if God at first intending to have a holy seed from Adam and Eve and so successively that should be in covenant with him appointed that one man should have but one woman and set down this as a law of nature to be observed by their posteritie to the end that they should not pollute themselves with promiscuous copulation and should be discerned from other people as by other pious conversation so by their chastitie in marriage and avoyding of polygamy and wicked divorces will it hence follow that what parents soever avoyd polygamy and live chastly in marriage generate a godly feed in no wise For that a people may be Gods people and their seed a godly seed or seed of God many things are required as that they be worshippers of the true God that they be no idolaters no witches blasphemers murderers c. and divers things more both affirmative and negative are required in the covenant Whereof if a man performe one or two he is not forthwith in covenant nor his seed a godly seed Besides what an absurd collection is it which you make hence that all legitimates or not bastards are a holy or godly seed for now you that pleaded against the holinesse of Christians children will have all children though of Turkes Indians and most grosse Idolaters to be holy so that they be borne in lawfull matrimony which you grant may be and it is plaine commonly is among the heathen You say This that is here spoken of a godly seed is of universall concernment to all mankind by the law of creation But I answer It is plaine that the Israelites onely in regard of the covenant with God were called the holy seed Ezr. 9.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Semen sanctitatis or semen sanctum i. e. vocatum ad sanctitatem Dei gratia ab aliis separatum Trem. Jun. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons so that the holy seed have mingled thēselves with the people of the Lands yea the hand of the Princes and Rulers have been chiefe in this trespasse So Ezek. 16.20 21. The little ones which the Iewes had offered to idols and caused to passe through the fire were borne unto God and were Gods children so that these places speaking of a godly seed an holy seed children born to God Gods children to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those that were borne of a people in covenant make directly against you as setting forth the sinne of the Israelites who being a godly seed by covenant would mingle themselves with the heathen that were out of covenant and so profane and discovenant their seed and offer those children to idols which by vertue of the covenant were dedicated to God which places shew clearely how that in Malachi is to be understood You adde In the same sense is that to be taken Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge And gather hence if marriage be honourable the bed undefiled then the issue of the bed must needs be undefiled that is cleane and holy on the other side the issue of unlawfull conjunctions are unclean illegitimate and bastards Now