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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54591	Infant-baptism vindicated from the exceptions of Mr. Thomas Grantham by Sam. Petto ...	Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.	1691 (1691)	Wing P1899; ESTC R35388	11,225	26

and personally admitted into the Covenant of Grace yet it was not as a common publick Person and Head of that Covenant representing all his Seed as he was before his Fall a Head of the Covenant of Nature for then Adam's After-Sins against the Covenant would have been imputed to all his Seed as his former were against the Covenant of Works Rom. 5. 12 c. v. 20. Now every individual Man was personally to be in Covenant and if he derived external Privilege it was only to his next or immediate Seed Hence if Adam's Infant-Seed might have outward Privilege by being his Posterity or any before Abraham yet if any of them after rejected the Covenant as Cain did they cast themselves out of that external Privilege and their Infant-Seed with them So in after Generations Hagar and Ishmael her Seed were cast out and Esau and his the Israelites and theirs Rom. 11. and those were Strangers to the Covenants Ephes 2. 12. See also Psal 37. 28. I know not that Adam and Eve two Persons made a Church Let Mr. Grantham prove it But that Promise laid a Foundation for the Erecting a Visible Church afterward If Adam's Family was the Church as you say and the whole World or all Mankind that then was and so his Infant-Seed were Members of it yet Cain and his Seed were soon rejected notwithstanding which many Persons believing in that Seed Christ were so saved in after Generations through that Promise But that all Infants of rejected Cain Ishmael or Esau were in a visible State of Salvation and of the Visible Church or that all dying in Infancy are certainly saved appeareth not Gen. 3. 15. Mr. Grantham asserting it is Presumption without Proof 2. That Gen. 3. 15. mentioneth a Seed of the Serpent which is part of the World as well as the Seed of the Woman which the Covenant of Grace extendeth to and hence this Text which he alledgeth is exclusive of some and so confuteth his Demonstration For if there be in it another opposite Seed then all Mankind or the whole World cannot be comprised in the Seed of the Woman who are under this Promise Will he say the Seed of the Serpent are visibly in a State of Salvation by the Covenant of Grace Or that they are no part of the World 3. Only those are this Seed of the Woman under this Covenant or Promise who have Enmity against the Serpent and such Power over him as to bruise his Head And this is exclusive of others For that is expresly the Qualification of the Seed of the Woman here intended Yea the whole of the Promise which here extendeth unto any of Mankind is Gen. 3. 15. I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed it shall bruise thy Head the following Words concern the Serpent viz. his bruising his Heel So then none else are this Seed of the Woman or visibly in a State of Salvation by this Covenant but such in whom is found that Enmity against the Serpent so as to conflict with and prevail against him Therefore this Seed of the Woman can be only Christ 1 Joh. 3. 8. Heb. 2. 14 15. and such as believe in him for 1 Joh. 5. 4. This is the Victory even our Faith Hence the whole World cannot be here intended If whole Mankind yea all Infants were that Seed of the Woman then all Infants have Enmity against the Serpent and then they are capable of yea have Love to God and Faith in him and so may be baptized It is the Covenant which I called the great Charter of Heaven viz. of the God of Heaven And as others by denying Infants Interest therein do take from it so let him take heed of adding to it A POSTSCRIPT THE foregoing Answer to Mr. Grantham should have been published soon after its Date 1687. with Mr. Firmin's if his had not been out before he expected and it is at the desire of some Friends that now it cometh forth He intimateth p. 9. that Salah Heber c. lived after Gen. 17. and were not circumcised nor had Obligation to Circumcision But this is more than he knows seeing so little is revealed to us of the way of their Worship in that Day And it seemeth to be false because Abraham then was declared the Father of many Nations v. 5. And so Believers of other Nations were then his Seed and obliged if some lawful Impediment hindred not However this is certain that believing Gentiles in Gospel-Times are graffed into or interested in the same Covenant that was made with Abraham Gen. 17. and his Seed the same Olive which the Jews were broken off from Rom. 11. 11 to 27. And as of old they were circumcised not merely by virtue of a Command but as a Token of the Covenant Gen. 17. 14. hence all under that Covenant that could were to submit to it and that as a Mark of Distinction for they were distinguished from others by Circumcision Even so it is now as to Baptism And whereas Mr. Grantham denieth that the Covenant Gen. 17. is a Gospel-Covenant or a Covenant of Grace This is his gross Errour for the Apostle proveth Justification in Gospel-Times to be by Grace from this Covenant with Abraham Rom. 4. 1 2 3 4 16 17. This is the very Ground which his Argument is built upon viz. That we under the Gospel are justified in the same way that Abraham was and therefore by Grace By the Promise and not by the Law If this could be denied all his Arguing were vain and false Now that Covenant with Abraham Gen. 17. which Circumcision did belong to is that which his Argument is bottomed upon as is evident Rom. 4. 16. Therefore it is of Faith that it might be by Grace How doth he prove that V. 17. As it is written I have made thee a Father of many Nations Now it is very observable that this is quoted cut of Gen. 17. 4 5. and it is no where else in foregoing Editions of the Covenant It is not found in Gen. 12. nor in Gen. 15. therefore that Gen. 17. was a Gospel-Covenant and not ceased Doth Mr. Grantham think that the Apostle would seek to prove our Justification by an abrogated Covenant and a legal one too as he would have this be I might prove it a Gospel-Covenant from his calling Circumcision a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 4. 11. and there is no Syllable in the Institution declaring it to be of one Use to Abraham and of another to other Persons Also From his setting this Promise to Abraham in opposition to the Law Rom. 4. 13 14. it is contradistinguished from that as elsewhere Gal. 3. 17. This evidenceth it to be a Covenant of Grace and still in force and if for Justification then also for External Privileges to the Subjects of it And once more from Gen. 17. 7 8. where twice he promiseth to be their God which is the great Blessing

of the new Covenant Heb 8. 10. What is objected to make it a legal Covenant as that Circumcision made Men Debtors to the whole Law c. is vain For either it speaketh of it in the Sense of the False Prophets who urge Circumcision for Justification and Salvation And thus if Men should urge any Duty even Baptism upon such a legal Ground it would make them Debtors to the whole Law Or it imports that neither Circumcision nor any Works of the Law do profit unless all be performed for the Law promised nothing but upon perfect Obedience Gal. 3. 10. Rom. 10. 5. As to Gen. 3. 15. It maketh no mention of Infants much less of all of them What Share they have in a Promise must be deduced from other Texts not from this Will he say that Seed and Infants or all Infants are synonymous Here no more is said of all Infants being the Seed of the Woman than of some of them being the Seed of the Serpent I shall only add that if Mr. Grantham should reply so as I be convinced that the substance of what I have here written be not Truth then I intend a Retractation But if I be silent it may be concluded that I do not account him worth the Answering A Catalogue of Books Printed for and are to be Sold by Edward Giles Bookseller in Norwich near the Market-Place SEveral Discourses concerning Actual Providence A Word in Season Defensive Armour against four of Satan's most fiery Darts Sermons upon the whole 1st and 2d Chapter of Canticles Thirteen Sermons upon several useful Subjects All published by John Collings D. D. of Norwich The Way of the Spirit in bringing Souls to Christ The Glory of Christ set forth with the Necessity of Faith In several Sermons Both by Mr. Thomas Allen late Pastor of a Church at Norwich Enoch's Walk with God and Christ a Christian's Gain By Mr. Timothy Armitage late Minister at Norwich A Discourse of the Preciousness of Christ and of the Preciousness of Faith Precious Promises the Portion of Overcomers Sermons on five several useful Subjects All by Mr. John Longher Minister in Norfolk The Saint's Ebenezer By Mr. Francis English late Minister in Norwich Directions to spell English right The History of the Protestant Reformation as it was begun by Luther The dead Saints speaking Being a Sermon preached upon the Death of Mr. Newcomb of Deadham in Essex The English Presbyterian The Miracles of Christ The ordinary Matter of Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Two Treatises The first Of Rejoycing in the Lord Jesus in all Cases and Conditions The second Of a Christian's Hope in Heaven and Freedom from Condemnation by Christ Both by Mr. Robert Asty late Minister of Jesus Christ in Norwich Obedience to Magistrates Recommended in a Sermon preached September the 9th 1683. being the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty's Deliverance By Jonathan Clapham Rector of Wramplingham in Norfolk A Present for Youth and an Example for the Aged Two Discourses one Of Spiritual Blessings the other That God hath an high Account of the least Grace in the Saints By Mr. John Cromwell late Pastor of a Church of Christ in Norwich Infant-Baptism of Christ's Appointment By Mr. Samuel Petto Minister of the Gospel in Sudbury in Suffolk Of the Conversion of Sinners to God in Christ the Necessity Nature Means and Signs of it With a Concluding Speech to the Unconverted An Answer to Mr. Thomas Grantham's Book called A Dialogue between the Baptist and Presbyterian Both by Martin Finch Pastor of a Church of Christ in Norwich Sincerity Or The Upright Man's Walk to Heaven Delivered in several Sermons in the Parish-Church of St. Michael in Long-stratten in Norfolk By James Oldfield late Minister there Alexipharmacon Spirituale Being a Defensative against the Poison and Sting of Death Or The Great Expedient how to make the Bed of the Grave so easie that we may lie down in Peace and take our Rest By Samuel Snowden Minister of the Gospel at Newton in Norfolk Christ set forth In several Sermons upon the 17th Chapter to the Hebrews By Mr. Robert Ottee late Pastor to a Congregation in Beckles in Suffolk Sacramental Discourses on several select Subjects To which is added A Discourse of the Life of Faith By Christopher Amarett Minister of the Gospel in Norfolk A Discovery of Audacious Insolence against the Doctrine of the Church of England vented in a malicious Pamphlet published against the Presbyterians by Thomas Grantham Together with a Poem thereon And a Postscript wherein some of the Citizens of Norwich are more particularly concerned and cautioned FINIS