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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85020	The infants advocate of circumcision on Jewish and baptisme on Christian children. By Thomas Fuller, B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing F2447; Thomason E1431_1; ESTC R202071	87,089	272

was all mercy to such Bloudy Monsters who so much as lieth in their power by this their Murdering opinion Massacre the souls of so many Infants depriving them thereby of salvation CHAP. XII The fourth Reason drawn from some degrees of Faith conferred on little Infants THe Fourth Reason out of Scripture is thus formed They that have some degree of Faith may and ought to be Baptized But Infants have some degree of faith Therefore they may and ought to be Baptized The Major is the very same with the words of the Scripture The Eunuch askt of Philip Acts 8. 36. See here is water what doth hinder me to be baptized Philip answered if thou believest with all thy heart thou mayest Al the difficulty is in the proof of the Minor For our Adversaries wil say if the Infant could rejoyne with the Eunuch in the same place I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God then the now most zealous opposers would be the most earnest advancers of their Baptism For the proof then of Infants faith let us bring another Reason but still out of Scripture Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. But Infants please God Therefore they have Faith Herein the Minor alone is dubitable and may manifestly be evinced All men I know are ready to pretend that they please God And Hypocrites themselves most odious unto him as forward as any to claim this priviledge to themselves To put this therefore out of question it matters not what men say but what God says herein We appeal to him who best knows his own mind and he hath judged this case already That Infants please him Say not if so smal then were they insensible of any benefit by the blessing not conceiving the meaning of our Saviour therein This appears by Christs carriage towards the little children brought unto him in the Gospel Concerning whose years be this premised that though we have not the Register books of their several ages yet we may conclude at least some of them no bigger then Babes First because called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by S. Mark 10. and judiciously rendred by our Translators verse 13. young children verse 14. little children The diminution in the Original word being equally appliable either to their age or stature The same are termed by S. Luke 18. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and translated Infants alwayes used in Scripture for such as suck on their mothers breast Secondly they are said to be brought by their parents as unable to bring themselves Thirdly Christ took them up in his arms as not big enough to kneel down and be blessed which otherwise was the posture of striplings upon the same occasion That these little children pleased Christ is proved by his expressions the best interpreters of love or hatred in that heart which could not dissemble concerning them Mark 10. 14. Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God Of Such that is not only of those who are like unto these in which sense our Saviour might as significatively have said the same of Doves or Lambs that the kingdom of heaven consists of such who are like unto them but of these and also of those who imitate them in their innocential qualities Such make strange interpretation of the words who exclude the Original and only admit the Copy let in such as are like to children and shut out children themselves from the kingdom of heaven Secondly The complacency Christ took in these little children appears by his actions unto them vers 16. he took them up in his arms laid his hands on them and blessed them See wee such Infants were in a blessible condition Here we distinguish between childrens being sensible of the meaning and their being capable of the benefit by a blessing Probably some of the smallest children here presented unto Christ understood not our Saviours language nor the meaning of his gestures until their parents afterwards interpreted the same unto them as they grew up in years And yet such Infants might effectually partake of the vigour and vertue of Christs benediction Thus as many though by natural defect they never had or by sicknesse have lost their Taste and by their pallat cannot distinguish betixt sweet bitter sharp sowre c. and consequently take no pleasure or delight in what they eat or drink yet by the receiving thereof may have their hunger and thirst satisfied and their strength daily increased So these Infants purely passive in our Saviours Arms brought thither without their knowledge and blest there above their understanding did nevertheless some of them no doubt really participate of the spiritual comfort which the emphatical blessing of Christ impressed upon them CHAP. XIII The Fift Reason drawn from the Malady of Original Corruption THe Fift Reason out of Scripture may thus be contrived They who are subject to the malady of sin ought to partake of the remedy against it But Infants are subject to the malady of sin therfore they ought to partake of baptism the remedy against it For the proof of the major or first part thereof I appeal amongst Christians only to the married amongst the married only to the parents of children These cannot deny it but that against their wills as the unhappy instruments they have derived corruption to their infants as conveyed in the same charter of their being unto them If any should be so sensless as to deny Infants infected with Original Corruption the contrary will be sadly demonstrated by those several diseases and death it self to which they are subject before they have or can commit actual sin All will confesse no suffering can follow but where sin hath gone before and that Infants deeply share in sufferings daily experience approveth Some of them whilest they lie in the Cradle how lie they on the rack Such sighes such sobs such gripes such groans such convulsions such distortions enough almost to kill the hearts of the beholders relating unto them if all pitty be not dead in them before Nor can all the rending of the fathers hair abate the aching of the childs head nor all the rain of the mothers tears allay the wind in the babes body Quid teneri infantes in te committere tantum quid pueri potuere But these little Lambs wherein have they offended Their hands did never hurt others which could not help themselves Their tongues did never lie swear c. which cannot speak Their feet were never swift to shed bloud which cannot go All these miseries and death at last fals often on Infants uncapable of actual sin because of the corruption of their nature wherein they were born and conceived Seeing therefore Infants are subject to the malady of sin what a cruelty were it for parents to leave them in this pittiful case neglecting the remedy for the same By the Levitical Law Exod. 21. 33. If a man shall open a pit