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B20526	The font-guard routed, or, A brief answer to a book written by Thomas Hall superscribed with this title, The font guarded with 20 arguments therein endeavouring to prove the lawfulness of infant baptism wherein his arguments are examined and being weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary are found too light : the most considerble of Mr. Baxters arguments for infant-baptism being produced by Tho. Hall are here answered likewise / written by Tho. Collier ; to which is added A word of reply to Tho. Halls word to Collier and another to John Feriby's [ap]pendix called The pulpit-guard relieved ; with An answer to Richard Sanders's pretended Balm to heal religious wounds, in answer to The pulpit-guard routed : with an humble representation of some few proposals to the honorable committee appointed by the Parliament for propagation of the Gospel.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1652 (1652)	Wing C5285; ESTC R5188	90,512	112

It s true there is grace in this Covenant yet it is not the Covenant of grace there is grace in this for it is grace for God declaratively to be a God to a People And secondly there was the everlasting grace included typically in this Covenant for it relates in the mysterie unto Christ as all outward Covenants Services and the Land of Canaan it self did Gal. 3. 6 Col. 2. 17. Heb. 4. from ver 3. to the 8. That it was an outward Covenant will appear 1. The thing promised in the Covenant was outward i. e. The Land of Canaan Object He promised to be a God unto them in an everlasting Covenant Answ 1. This was a promise in an outward Covenant as will appear Isa 10. 22 23. compared with Rom. 9. 29. Though the Children of Israel be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant of them shall be saved Now if God had been a God unto them in the Covenant of grace they must have been all saved and have continued in that Covenant unto this day but it being but an outward and typical Covenant relating to Christ the antitype and substance when Christ was come that Covenant was dissolved into Christ and is given forth upon the true spiritual account to the spiritual seed Gal. 3. 16. with 29. 2. It s said to be an everlasting Covenant either 1. because it was to continue its appointed time so called Everlasting as usually the old Testament Ordinances were so God promised in this Covenant to give the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession yet they are and have been many hundreds of years turned out of it and if they had not yet that could but have been a poffession for them in their generations till the end of the world But the Covenant of grace reaches to eternity without end Psal 103. 17. Hence the Priesthood of the Law was called an everlasting Priesthood Exod. 40. 15. Num. 25. 13. Or secondly it s called Everlasting upon the account of Christ who was the substance and the Covenant it self when he came ending all other Covenants and Services Isa 42. 6. So Davids Kingdom was said to be Everlasting upon the account of Christ who was and is the true spiritual King of whom David was a type 2 Sam. 7. 16. Ps 89. 35 36. compared with Ezek. 37. 24 25. David was dead long before yet David viz. Christ must be their King for ever Thus it appears first from the Covenant it self on Gods part that it was not the Covenant of grace though grace was darkly and typically included in it only the enlightened renewed soul saw into it and partaked of Christ the substance But secondly it will appear likewise if we consider the second part of the Covenant on Abraham and his childrens part Every man-child shall be circumcised at eight dayes old v. 10. 11 12. Here is an external obedience suitable to an external covenant God promiseth the land of Canaan in lieu of this they must be circumcised which shall be a sign of their obedience and to God of his Covenant as the Rain-bow in another case 2. The Covenant being thus considered it followeth that notwithstanding this Covenant was to Abraham and his seed natural yet it is not to Believers now and their seed natural This denies your Minor and this Scripture produced by you doth not prove it Your other Scripture Act. 2. 39. I shall answer in its place when I come to your Argument drawn from it And whereas you say That there are some Infants in the Covenant of grace I deny it positively that there are Infants in the Covenant of grace upon your account viz. the account of nature because born of believing parents all fleshly boasting being taken away Rom. 3. 27. As the Covenant to Abraham and his seed was outward and typical so the Covenant of Christ or Christ the Covenant is to the spiritual seed and that only those who are of the saith of Abraham who do the works of Abraham they and they only are the seed of Abraham Joh. 8. 39. He is not a Jew that is one outwardly but he is a Jew that is one inwardly Rom. 2. 28 29. where as the outward Covenant so the natural seed are cut off and only the spiritual stands And whereas you say there is an outward being in this Covenant c. Ishmael was circumcjsed I say so too for in it self it was wholly outward this and all other Covenants and services were outward and typical except the first promise Gen. 3. The Covenant of grace now in the dayes of Christ is wholly spiritual Those then that were enlightened which were but few saw and enjoyed the substance in the shadow and form We first the substance and with it the form They were first brought by works to Christ we first to Christ and then to works as fruits of faith And whereas you conclude Baptism to be a Seal of the Covenant of Grace you are as much besides the truth in this as in the Covenant it self Because you have heard others say it therefore you affirm it too as children use to speak by tradition but where is your Scripture for it Did you ever read of any New-Testament seal besides the Spirit of Christ Ephes 1. 13. ch 4. 30. But I suppose because that it 's said Rom. 4. 11. that Abraham received the sign of Circumcision a seal of the righteousness of his faith which he had before he was circumcised that therefore Baptism is a seal of the Covenant of grace Oh gross mistake Abraham believed God when he first promised him the land of Canaan and commanded him to forsake all and go into it and that he would keep him and bless him Gen. 12. Here Abraham believed God and obeyed and went out not knowing whither and v. 17. God gave him Circumcision a sign and seal to confirm his faith which he had before in this promise And as Circumcision was given a seal of Abrahams faith in Gods promising him the land of Canaan so the Spirt of grace is the seal of faith to every believer of his interest in the spiritual land the substance of the outward the Lord Jesus So you are lost both in Covenant in Seal in the Subjects of the Covenant and all You mention Gal. 4. 28. I say upon the Gospel-account its truth as Isaac was heir to that Covenant so all true believers are heirs of the true promise and none else Whereas you say pag. 11. in way of answer to an objection That theirs is old and ended c. you answer That to make that old none but carnal Anabaptists will do it Your mouth is wide but let it pass I answer To make that Covenant which was of an outward land the same as ours which is of a spiritual land to bring in the natural seed upon that account when it is only to the spiritual seed none but a carnal and blind generation of men dare to do Christ saith

an innovation not of many years standing in this Nation as is well known Austin when he came first into England baptized in Rivers in particular as History relates he baptized some thousands in a River neer York Thus have I given you a brief Answer to the material things in your Guard I leave it to the consideration of the Reader and shall proceed to give you a brief Reply to your inveterate Word to Collier A Reply to Thomas Hall Sir YOu are pleased to write a Word to Thomas Collier c. A Love-letter he that runs may read it And indeed we did conclude before what we might expect from you if the Lord gave you power according to your will And I make no question but what you have here written will make the Magistrate the more sensible of what spirit you are and will keep from you what you so much expect viz. a Coercive power to compell or persecute all that are contrary to you And in what you have done I believe you have more wounded your self and your own interest then either the truth or me the Truth standing pure in it self getting advantage by its enemies though no thanks to them And as for my self a poor weak and contemptible Creature held forth in the hand of the Lord and being upheld by Divine assistance shall I doubt not but with joy pass through good report and bad reportt till I have finished my course and done the work whereunto I am appointed accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt viz. Tythes You say I Colly every thing Trinity Scripture Law Gospel c. Sir you are mistaken in it all and so indeed have written forged falshood and sent it abroad into the world But I own and honour all these you mention in their proper place and according to the appointment of the Lord and your self it is who have been in the Black so long that you Colly all as will appear anon and you will be the Hall it seems the storehouse which retains all blackness darkness c. and from thence it cometh forth unto the rest You say I set my self against the Anabaptists themselves whom I canonize for Saints in the highest form yet blame them for adhering to Ordinances It s very false there is no such word written but it is for making too much of them not for making use of them And if some fail is it not lawful to reprove but Thomas Hall must raise an untruth and reproach upon it change my words for his own ends I pass your foul and filthy language more fit for Billinsgate then the Press and come to your particular Charges 1. An Heretick and a Blasphemer To this purpose you mention the Discourse at Axbridge where Parson Smith and Parson Carlile both Cavaliers falsly swear 1. That he denied Jesus Christ to be the eternal Son of God 2. He denied a local Heaven 3. He denied the equality of the Son with the Father 4. He denied that Jesus Christ by his death upon the Cross did satisfie Divine Justice 5. He denied the Trinity 6. He affirmed that the Saints are the sons of God in the same manner as Christ 7. He affirmed that the Divine Essence was communicated to the Saints 8. That the bodies of the Saints should be turned into spirits 9. That the Moral Law was abolished Ans Were you not of the same blind and malicious spirit as those two lying Parsons were you durst not call such things Blasphemies as were in truth by me maintained and is apparent in the same Book or Discourse 1. I denied not the Eternity of Jesus Christ but the eternal generation in the Godhead for which there is not one Scripture that speaks the least hint 2. As to the locality of Heaven that I said was that God was not locally limited c. 3. The Equality of the Son Quality and equality is proper only to man there is no quality or equality in the Godhead whatever is in God is in him essentially not as a quality It s true Christ as the Messiah is equal with God but in the union of the Divine essence there is no quality nor equality but union in essence and essence in union 4. For Satisfaction to the Divine Justice I own it and have proved it had you not been blind upon the true account it was the great end why Christ was inabled to the work and sent forth that so he might satisfie the righteousness and truth of the Father which man could never do unto justification 5. As to the Trinity that is false likewise it was the Trinity of Persons not the Trinity that I own but no Person in the Godhead no Scripture saith it 6. That the Saints are the sons of God in the same manner as Christ that is in being made partakers of the same Spirit Rom. 8. 9. 7. That the Divine Essence is communicated to the Saints If the Spirit of Christ be in them then the Divine Essence is in them But the Spirit of Christ is in them Therefore the Divine Essence is in them I do not mean the whole Essence but a spark or influence of the Divine Essence 8. That the bodies of the Saints should be turned into Spirits that I said was no other then what the Apostle saith they shall be raised with spiritual bodies 9. That the Moral Law was abolished to Believers as a dispensation in the hands of Moses all this more at large might you see in the discovery of that Discourse but you were blinde it seems and could not see afar off But you manifest your minde Collier it seems is in your way you would fain have him burnt with his Books What another Bonner Will you justifie your Fathers in their wickedness and so bring upon your self all the righteous blood shed from Abel to this day but if the Lord hath so determined I trust in the strength of the Grace of Christ my life and blood will be as ready to witness to the truth as my tongue and pen. I say no more about your Charge of Blasphemy but this After the way you call Blasphemy and Heresie worship I the God of my Fathers And that seed you falsly and wickedly call the Devils seed am I still sowing and doubt not but there will grow up such a happy and blessed Harvest as will be to the honour of Truth and joy of Saints though to the grief and amazement of enemies and gain-sayers Mean while go you on blaspheming God and them that dwell in Heaven gnaw your tongue for pain yet not repent of your deeds 2. You say he is a Lyar dyed in grain You say You can prove him guilty of above a thousand lyes and errours c. Was there ever the like lyar heard of in the world What above a thousand lyes yet mentions but 15. when he hath done all that he can and these fifteen are most of them truth by him falsely called lyes