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A87257 Infants baptizing proved lawfull by the Scriptures: objections against it resolved and removed. Aug. 24. 1644. Imprimatur, John White. 1644 (1644) Wing I162; Thomason E8_31; ESTC R15802 13,658 16

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INFANTS BAPTIZING Proved lawfull by the SCRIPTVRES Objections against it resolved and removed MAT. 18. 6. Whosoever shall offend a little child which beleeves in me it were better for him that a mil-stone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Aug. 24. 1644. Imprimatur JOHN WHITE LONDON Printed by George Miller dwelling in Black-Friers 1644. The Printer to the Reader Reader PErceiving some Pamphlets to be sent abroad against Baptizing of Infants to corrupt the people I thought it my duty to the Church of God to publish this short discourse which came to my hands to give some check to the spreading of Anabaptisticall fancies untill some Learned penne shall more fully and largely evince the truth in this controversie consider thou seriously what is said in it and be established in the present Truth and not carried off from thy stedfastnesse with every wind of Doctrine shew thy selfe to be sollid wheate and not slight chaffe in the garner of God Farewell INFANTS BAPTIZING Proved lawfull by the SCRIPTURES COnsidering the present strange and dangerous spreading of the old Error of the Anabaptists That children are not to be baptized which in all ages of the Church under the Gospell hath been condemned whensoever it hath beene stirred and is now againe revived and pressed by the workings of Satan who hath prevailed to the infection of many therewith even among those that pretend unto holinesse and have obtained a good degree in the Church of God I could not be satisfied in my selfe till I had searched into first the title and claime of Infants unto this ordinance of Baptisme and then into the barrs and pretences brought against it and finding the claime of Infants to be by the Scriptures strong and cleere and the batteries raised against it weake and slight my spirit was at rest and setled in the truth and justice of the constant and generall practises of all the Churches in it and did not so much as think of making any of my thoughts and meditations concerning these things legible till by occasion of some debate I had with some Ministers I reverenced and of a Letter sent unto me by one of them I addressed my selfe to set downe in writing solutions and answers to those things which I perceived to stick with them whereby it comes to passe that in this following discourse there is no methodicall handling of the controversie as it well deserves but the stating of the question and proofe of Infants baptisme falls in by parcels as the objections against it gave occasion And whereas one basis upon which the Infants right is founded is suggested by the Anabaptists to be a promise proper to Abraham and not to extend to all professors of the Gospell nor to any of them I begin with that namely GEN. 17. 7. I will be the God of thee and of thy seed THis is a double Promise First I will be the God of thee Secondly I will be the God of thy seed The first promise is no peculiar of Abrahams but is common to every beleever under the Law and Gospell a branch of the new Covenant Jer. 31.33 The second being the same Promise signifying and carrying in it the same things and in termes the same only varying the subject extended to seed his seed as related to him must be of as large extent as the first and common to every beleever with Abraham and this is plaine and manifest by the Grammaticall construction of this Promise Secondly It is farther evidenced by comparing this with other Scriptures Deut. 28.4 The righteous shall be blessed in the fruit of their bodies where blessednesse is promised to their seed as theirs in reference to them Deut. 30.2 6. God promises to the true penitent to circumcise their heart and the heart of their seed to love him Isa 44 3 I will powre out my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thy off-spring Isa 59.21 My Spirit and my words shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor of thy seeds seed for even Mat. 19.14 and Luk. 18.16 Jesus Christ declares his mind concerning the children of the members of the Church he would have them brought to him he blesses them and saith that of them is the Kingdome of God Acts 2.39 The Apostles speaking to converted Jewes and Gentiles penitent beleevers affirmeth that the Promises belong to them and to their children Thirdly That the said Promises were no peculiars of Abraham appeares by that of the Apostle Gal. 3.16 that the Promises made to Abraham were made to Christ and so to Abraham as interessed in him in whom Abraham and all the nations of the earth are blessed All promises of grace are made to Christ and to Abraham and to beleevers under the Gospell in him in respect of our interest in him In him are the promises yea and Amen unto us Abraham was an antecessor in the faith whose steps the faithfull follow Rom. 4 12. but neither father of our persons nor of our faith God honoured him to be the first to whom this promise was expresly made after the same made in the beginning to Jesus Christ the seed of the woman and so he was a father and not otherwise more then any other beleever There was also another speciality in this Promise to him that of his naturall seed should proceed a people that should have the honour till Christ came to be the only visible Church on earth but the Scriptures make this rather a peculiar of Isaack then of Abraham and made to him in Isaack and not generally Gen. 17.19 Rom. 9.7 The Promise to Abraham comprehended Ishmael also whereupon the seale of it was given to him by Gods appointment cleerely declaring the extent of that Promise to all in the visible Church and so it belonged to Ishmael till for his mocking of Isaack by which he forfeited it he was justly excommunicate Fourthly Another thing manifests this truth namely that God gave Abraham the seale of the Promise not as Abraham nor as a Jew but for and in respect of the righteousnesse of faith he had before circumcision instituted in his uncircumcision by that it appeared he was in Christ capable of the Promise and intituled unto it and this is common to Christians of the uncircumcision as well as to Abraham that received circumcision Rom. 4.11 Fifthly This further appeares by the thing contained in this Promise namely the appropriation of God to beleevers by a free Covenant of peculiar grace above and before others and this grace as believing is either outward for and concerning visible Church priviledges to be members of the visible Church partakers of Baptisme * The visible Church is called Christ 1 Cor 1● 12. And the Kingdome of Christ Mat. 13. c. or inward and meerely spirituall which none but true Saints in whom the new creature is formed have Covenant-right unto Cleerely all the naturall seed