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A35308	A solemn call unto all that would be owned as Christ's faithful witnesses, speedily and seriously, to attend unto the primitive purity of the Gospel doctrine and worship, or, A discourse concerning baptism wherein that of infants is disproved as having no footing nor foundation at all in the Word of God, by way of answer to the arguments made use of by Mr. William Allen, Mr. Sidenham, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Burthogge, and others for the support of that practice : wherein the covenant made with Israel at Mount Sinai ... : together with a description of that truly evangelical covenant God was pleased to make with believing Abraham ... / by Philip Carey ...	Cary, Philip.	1690 (1690)	Wing C742; ESTC R31291	244,449	284

Spiritual We say not For it is plain there was no such Inquisition concerning the good or bad qualities the Fruitfulness or Unfruitfulness of the Members of the former Church in 〈◊〉 to Admission thereinto It was enough barely to be of Abraham's Seed or Family to be so esteemed But now saith John the Axe is laid unto the Root of the Trees And they must all be hewn down under the Gospel that have nothing else to pretend unto but that of a Godly Parentage which plainly excludes Infants as well as all other unfruitful Branches from the Gospel Church And to this same purpose is it that he doth further assure them ver 12. That Jesus Christ was now resolved with the Gospel Fan to Purge thoroghly the Floor of the Gospel Church and to gather the Wheat into His Garner Under the Law and before also even in Abrahmam's time the Chaff and the Wheat remained together unsevered but now the Fan must go to Work We read of no such Fanning Work in the former Church state And to what purpose is it else that Christ told the Woman of Samaria as he doth Jo. 4. 23. The Hour cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall Worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth For the Father seeketh such to Worship Him Which plainly sheweth that God expecteth now greater Purity Exactness and Spirituality in such as were to approach His Presence in the Celebration of Gospel Worship And indeed of this the whole fifth of Mat. is a sufficient and convincing Proof giving clear evidence concerning the refinedness and spirituality of the Gospel Administration above and beyond that of the Law For then saith our Saviour it was thus and thus but I am come to tell you a New Doctrine and do call you up to greater Purity and Strictness § 4. Secondly We Answer That that Holiness which was ascribed unto the whole Body of the Jewish Nation was a Typical Ceremonial Holiness and was no other than was ascribed to the whole Land City Temple Altar and divers other things and is therefore now Abolished For if all things under the Law were but a Figure and Shadow of good things to come then such was the Holiness of the Jewish Nation and People also Now this the Apostle in the 9th and 10th Chapters to the Hebrews proves at large shewing that all things under the Law all the Priviledges of the Old Covenànt with all the Perquisites Dependancies and Appurtenances thereunto belonging are called by such Names as make them evidently appear to be Typical As First they are called a Figure Heb. 9. 9. Which was a Figure for the time then present So verse 24. For Christ is not Entered into the Holy Place made with Hands which are the Figures of the true Secondly They are called a Pattern Heb. 9. 23. It was necessary that the Pattern of things in the Heavens c. Thirdly They are called a Shadow Heb. 10. 1. For the Law having a Shadow of good things to come and not the very Image of the thing● c. Now the Holiness of the Jewish Nation being an Appurtenance belonging to the Law or the Old Covenant It was but a Figure Pattern or Shadow of all good things to come and was therefore Typical and is now Abolished And if we will know what the Holiness of the Jewish Nation did serve to Typifie or Represent unto us It is evident that as it Typified the Holiness of Christ himself So of all Abraham's Spiritual Seed who are made Holy by Believing in Christ § 5. The Time of Reformation therefore spoken of in the forementioned Scripture Heb. 9. 8 9 10. being come wherein those Imperfect Gifts and Sacrifices with all those Carnal Ordinances which were for a Season Imposed on the Jewish Nation were to be done away and the Gospel-Church taking place in the Room thereof It cannot rationally be supposed but the one doth far exceed the other at least in Purity and Inward Glory For by how much Christ hath now obtained a more excellent Ministry than that of Moses and by how much also he is the Mediatour of a better Covenant Which is Established upon better Promises as the Apostle affirmes Heb. 8. 6. By so much of necessity must the gospell Church exceed in lustre beauty Refinedness and Spirituality the former Administration SECT VIII THE Second Argument in Mr. Allen's Book remaining to be Answered is this That all Persons and so little Children that were of the Legal Church must needs in one Respect or other have been Persons of a Religious or Spiritual Consideration And this considered saith he I know not upon what better to place the Visible Church-Membership of Infants or to Attribute it to than God's Electing and Calling them to his People and their Parents Dedicating and Devoting them to God and his Service And the Scripture useth to reckon little Children as having begun to do this or that when they are but placed in Circumstances that will bring them to it Actually in the Issue And thus the Children of the Kohathites of a Month Old were numbred with their Fathers as with them keeping the charge of the Sanctuary when they were but in a way of being trained up to it And for the same Reason little Children were said to enter into Covenant with God when their Parents did so Deut. 29. 11 12 § 2. To this we Answer First By granting that it was in a Religious Consideration that Children were then Admitted Members of the Legal Church But yet it doth not therefore follow that they are to be admitted Members of the Gospel-Church for the Reasons before rendered The Terms of Admission into that being far more strict and Spiritual than were those under the Law Secondly Whereas he tells us That the Reason of their Admission into the Legal Church was God's Electing and Calling them to that Priviledge This we also grant But then we also say that though the Call and Election of God in Reference to the Inward Substance of the Covenant of Grace or to an Invisible Membership in the Invisible Church is Invariable It doth not follow that the Gifts and Callings of God in Reference to External Membership are therefore also Invariable or Irrevokable as is afterward by Mr. Allen Asserted and unto which we have already in the Second Part of this Discourse given a sufficient Answer For we find by undeniable Evidence that those External Gifts and Priviledges that the Natural Posterity of Abraham were once Invested with are now Rescinded Repealed and Repented of and it cannot be affirmed that in any Religious Capacity whatsoever they are now at all owned by God as his Church and People as once they were neither Parents nor Children But for the most part remain broken off and Unchurched to this Day And if you say That they and their Children being broken off We and our Children are Ingraffed in their Room This is that which remains to be proved and indeed the

particularly mentioned by the Apostle upon very small Occasions as in Acts 21. 5. where the taking notice of Children is of very little moment and yet where we have an Account who should be Baptized as in Christ's Commission and of those Multitudes that in many places were Baptized Is it not strange that no Child should be mentioned if such had been or were to have been Baptized The Apostle took care in Acts 8. 12. to Record that the Multitude then Baptized were both Men and Women If Cbildren had been then Baptized surely the Holy Spirit would not have omitted that one Word Children And so Acts 5. 14. We have mention of Multitudes added to the Church and express'd particularly both Women 〈…〉 Now if their Children had been taken in with them would not the Holy Spirit have mentioned it whilst he foresaw of what need it would be in future Ages to warrant his People to do the like The Holy Scriptures therefore being wholly silent in the point of little Childrens Admittance and nothing found for it in either Precept or President what may more clearly be inferred But to conclude that the Baptism of little Children is more of Man than of God or wholly of Man and not of God I could never yet learn what material Benefit an Infant received by Baptism It cannot be a bringing them into Covenant with God because it is upon Supposition that they are in Covenant by vertue of their believing Parents one or both that a Plea is made for their Baptism The most that can be said or pretended to is that it brings them into Christ's visible Flock But alas what Priviledge is this whilst the Child is there but as one asleep Nay when this Child comes to Understanding it must not partake of any other Benefits in that Church more than one Unbaptized may do until it comes to Confession of Faith and Repentance and receive Confirmation and this Child after Baptism as it grows up is Preach'd to as much as any other as in a state of Nature and consequently the Child of Wrath and never like to come into the presence of God with comfort without Regeneration or actual Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by all which it appears That the Priviledges pretended to are but Nominal and without any substance of Reallity What then is this noise of Priviledges made with Rhetorical Flourishes but a meer Shadow and Pretence to keep up an Opinion for an Unscriptural Practice in the Favour of the People who are ready to be led to any thing by their Guides As for Infants being the Subjects of Christian Baptism it deserves to be well considered who gave command for it either God or Man And for the manner of Baptizing by sprinkling Water on the Face only by whose Direction was it And where is the Scripture from whence any Probability may be found that that part should be sprinkled more than any other Why not the Breast as a sign of the Hearts being sprinkled from an evil Conscience Or the Arms that should manage the Shield Or the Feet in token of being shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace Or rather that part that of old was appointed to be circumcised in token of Regeneration I know 't is frequently urged by the Poedobaptists to those of the contrary Perswasion Where do you find that Children are at any time or in any place forbidden Christian Baptism Which is a strange kind of Plea The very Jews were never in their greatest Apostacy so corrupt in their reasoning that ever I heard of It was enough that they practiced what they were commanded Is the Text of no force or quite forgotten which tells us That secret things belong to God but revealed things to us Would he have Infants Baptized before Faith and not Reveal it I could wish therefore that all empty Pleas on either side were put away and careful Attendance given to things weighty and material The changes that have been seen in the Opinions of men as times have varied in these late years may justly put every considerate man upon the conscionable search after what is the very Mind of Christ in the Holy Scriptures and not to take any thing upon anothers credit whilst that Word is made intelligible and unto which we may have all free Recourse I know there are some prophane ones that will take a Liberty to question the Truth of the Holy Scriptures but yet that should not afright good men from searching after the very mind of the Spirit in them if our Fathers had not done so we had abode in the depth of Antichristian Darkness I wonder that those that plead for the Right of the Seed of Believers to Christian Baptism from Circumcision do not as earnestly plead for a right for the Unbelieving Wife from the right of the Husband and for the Servants also whatever they be since such were not only admitted but commanded to be Circumcised Why are not our American Planters that buy multitudes of Negro's required to baptize them as fast as they buy them and their Children born in their Plantations Methinks it should clearly follow from the same way of arguing But to conclude What is Abraham to us We must make our claim to Holy Things by a right to Christ as being begotten by him who is the great and only Head of the New Covenant and prove Infants Right to him or Descent from him or else all will be found as Dung and Dross I shall not detain thee longer being not to dispute but to glance at things from beholding at large in this Treatise this great Point particularly handled and if thou art but as serious and Impartial in reading it as the Author whose Pardon I crave for adding this without his Knowledge I verily believe was in writing it thou wilt not think thy money nor labour lost Now the God of Truth and Peace that hath made his very mind communicable to us through his dear Son give us all Light therein and willing minds to obey him So Prays Thy Faithful Friend M. E. THE PREFACE TO THE Christian Reader I Do now Present Thee with a New Treatise of Baptism wherein that of Believers is Asserted to be the only true Christian Baptism by way of Opposition to that of Infants Which I hope thou wilt find in the Ensuing Discourse to be Demonstrated and with Scripture Evidence to be cleared up notwithstanding the many plausible Arguments or Objections which are usually urged for the support of the contrary Practice In the Compiling of which after having Humbly and Earnestly Implored the Divine Assistance I do confess that I have been much beholding to the pious Industry and laborious Travels of others that have trodden the same Path and have gone before me treating upon the same Subject from whom I have been supplied with many of the Materials in point of Argument which this present Discourse is furnish'd with I know it will be objected

not say to bring us to Christ as our Translation hath it For as we have already said that is the Work of the Covenant of Faith only And therefore that Notion that the Law was Subserviently a Covenant of Faith hath no Foundation Those Words to bring us being unduly added to the Original Text and are accordingly put in a Different Character in our Translation thereof But saith the Apostle in the words immediately following After that Faith is come we are no longer under a School-master But how can that be if the Law was a Covenant of Faith Must the Covenant of Faith cease at least in this World Must the Covenant of Faith Vanish be Blotted out taken out of the way and done away as the Apostle speaks of the Law Or was the Covenant of Faith against us and contrary to us as he speaks of the Hand-writing of Ordinances that is now Blotted out And indeed therefore neither could the Law be so much as Subserviently a Covenant of Faith For if it had the Apostle would never have described it as hath been now declared § 4. And 't is in vain to say That the Law was a Covenant of Faith though propunded in a more dark way and in a manner fitting for the State of that People and that present Time and Condition of the Church as Mr. Sedgwick speaks For the Apostle Expresly affirms that the Law is not of Faith It is not of Faith Absolutely not Comparatively but the man that doth them shall live in them Gal. 3. 12. The Law therefore was no other than a Covenant of Works since not only the Apostle doth here assure us that it is not of Faith but also the same Rule Do this and Live is that still retained therein as at first And it is therefore different from the Covenant of Faith not barely in respect of the Degrees or clearness of the Revelation of Gospel-Grace as is commonly Suggested For the Law as hath been already proved discovers none at all but leaves the guilty Sinner wholly Remediless without the least glimps of Light or Comfort The Law therefore differs from the Covenant of Faith Specifically in respect of the whole Nature or Essence of it In which respect the Law could never be appointed as a School-master to bring us to Christ Well it may convince us of our Necessity of him but bring us to him it cannot § 5. So that then these are the Reasons which the Holy Spirit himself Suggesteth why the Law was added Or why the Covenant of Works was Revived after Man's Fall and even after the Proclaiming of the first Promise concerning the Womans Seed Gen 3. 15. which was renewed to Abraham Gen. 22. 18. It was added saith the Apostle because of Transgressions till the Seed should come to whom the Promise was made And it entered that the Offence might abound It being appointed as a School-master to Christ to convince the Jews of their necessity of a Saviour And since it cannot be denied but that all the Sons and Daughters of Adam must of Necessity be under one or another of the two Covenants either that of Works or that of Grace And since all Men by Nature are Children of Wrath Eph. 2 3. And since it would be utterly absurd to affirm that such are under a Covenant of Grace till-Converted It of necessity follows that unto such the Covenant of Works is still in force and under it they are till wrought upon by the Grace of the Gospel the Law abating nothing but still exacting the utmost Farthing Neither from the Impossibility of Man's yielding that perfect Obedience which that Covenant requires can we justly conclude that therefore it is not still in Force For God hath not forfeited or lost his Right of Dominion though we have lost our Strength or Capacity of Obedience So that it is evident that the Law given upon Mount Sinai to the People of the Wilderness or the Law written in Stones which was a plain and clear Manifestation of the Law written in the Heart of Man at the first was no other than a Covenant of Works Thus it was to the Jews and thus it still continues in its full Power Force and Virtue to all Men in an Unregenerate State For what things soever the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every Month may be stopped and all the World may become Guilty before God Rom. 3. 19. SECT IV. NEither was the Law by the Jews only Interpreted as a Covenant of Works but as it is evident by Moses himself and by Paul also We are told indeed by Mr. Sedgwick in his fore-mentioned Discourse upon the Covenants p. 173. That we must distinguish between the intention of God in giving the Law and the Abuse or Perverting of the Law We grant saith he that many of the Jews did set up a Legal Righteousness for their Justifications and rested upon the Works of the Law as if Life came by them against which Paul doth notably Argue in his Epistles to the Romans and Galatians But this saith he was not the intention of God in the Sanction of Law They could never find a justifying Righteousness by the Law or Works of the Law under the Notion of a Covenant of Works nor did God ever propound it for that end § 2. For Answer hereunto we say That since by Mr. Sedgwicks own confession the Jews could never find a Justifying Righteousness by the Law or by the Works of it From hence it inevitably follows that it could not be a Covenant of Faith Sure it is that the Covenant of Faith Justifies all that are under it For being Justified by Faith we have Peace with God c. Rom. 5. 1. That Covenant therefore that could never Justifie any that were under it could never be a Covenant of Faith But the Scripture is Express that by the deeds of the Law there shall no Flesh be Justified in God's sight Rom. 3. 20. Therefore that Covenant could never be a Covenant of Faith And yet again that Covenant under which though many were Justified yet none were ever Justified by it or by virtue of it could never be a Covenant of Faith But such was the nature of the Law that though many were Justified under it yet none were ever Justified by it or by virtue of it Rom. 3. 20. Therefore that Covenant could never be a Covenant of Faith And if the Law was not a Covenant of Faith then ●t must of necessity follow that it could be no other than a Covenant of Works And indeed so it was appointed and declared by God himself Lev. 18. 5. Ye shall therefore keep my Statutes and Judgments which if a man do he shall live in them And this the Spirit of God by the Apostle Paul takes special notice of Rom. 10. 5. For Moses saith he describeth the Righteousness which is of the Law That the man that doth these things shall live by them And what