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A67323	Infants baptism from heaven, of divine institution Being a brief yet satisfactory answer to some objections made by Hercules Collins, in his book entituled, Believers baptism from heaven, infants baptism from earth, &c. against certain truths proved in a book entituled, Baptism anatomized. Propounded in five queries, by Tho. Wall. Viz. 1. What water-baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true administrators of it? 5. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptise himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practice, they ought themselved to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein is also proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel, Exod. 19. and Deut. 29. are the covenant of grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall.	Wall, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing W484; ESTC R219349	20,257	43

have by Free Grace in Christ to Remission of Sins and so to the Visible Sign thereof Water Baptism to be administred on them And whereas he saith in the Title of his Eleventh Chapter that it containeth a brief but sufficient Answer to my Book Baptism Anatomiz'd he beginneth after this vaunting manner I Query 1. Whether this Man doth not act against the Light of Conscience Experience and Holy Scripture when he asserts Indefinitely the Infants of Believers have by the Free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace a Right to Remission of Sins and so a Right to Baptism To this he maketh this Answer by way of Query as his only reason to oppose the Truth aforesaid his words are these Had Cain Ismael Esau Absalom Samuel's Sons of Belial all Children of Believers a right to Remission of Sins To which I reply first he saith I assert Indefinitely that the Infants of believers have c. By by the word indefinitely he meaneth without limit or bound this is false for let him shew in what Page in all my Book I have asserted any thing otherwise but according to God's Revealed Will concerning the absolute Right that Insants of Believers have by the free Grace of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins by giving place to God's secret Election if they to wit Infants of Believers continue like Abel Isaac Jacob Timothy and the like in the way of Faith and Holiness they shall be Saved See p. 32. Baptism Anatomiz'd Secondly If Hercules Collins his Doctrin be a Truth that because some of the Infants of Believers prove not to be of the Election by their evil Fruits when grown up as appeared in Cain Ismael c. that therefore we must conclude from thence that none of the Infants of Believers have a Visible Right by the free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace to remission of Sins and so now in these last days to Water-Baptism then this will follow That because some actual Believers as Simon Magus Demas and the like fell away after they had been Baptised with the Visible Sign of remission of Sins that therefore all the rest of the Believers in the Apostles days had no Right to the Remission of Sins and so no Right to Water-Baptism But to come nearer to Hercules Collins the Persons Men and Women of his Society being in their Way Baptised and in his Judgment had right to Remission of Sins and some of these in time do fall into gross Sin as to deny even the Ordinance of Baptism and the Lord's-Supper as not to be administred at all as likewise into other gross Sins Will he conclude that all the rest of his Society because some are become so wicked have no right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Baptism If the former Reason of his be true against Infants of Believers the latter is true against Elder Persons And thus this Man at once hath granted by his not giving place to God's Election that no Persons among themselves have right to Remission of Sins and so no right to Water-Baptism for no other reason but because some of them prove Wicked and therefore he must never Baptise any hereafter until he can enter into God's secret Decree to know who only are the Elect that shall never fall totally away after Baptised And thus the Wicked Man is Snared in the works of his own hands Selah that is O mind this well This might serve for a sufficient Answer to his whole Book until he by acknowledging the Truth which I have asserted deliver himself out of this Snare that he is fallen into which he laid for others that because some Infants as Elder Persons visibly in Covenant with the Lord afterward do fall away that therefore all the rest have no right to Remission of Sins But I shall proceed further in laying open more of his Folly If it prove not a benefit to this Goliah-like Boaster it may be a Warning to others to beware of the Doctrin of Anabaptistry In which Book he further saith in Pag. 109. Query the Second Whether there is not good ground given to believe in reading a great part of this Book from Page 25. to 41. and 168. that he is of Origen's Opinion the whole World may be saved at last and then why not the Devils too For saith he in Page 168. If all Infants Sinned in Adam when Adam was restored they were restored in his Loins and when Born they were Born in a Gospel Covenant Page 26. God freely forgave Adam and his Posterity in him their Sin Reply In the 24. Page of Baptism Anatomiz'd I have shewed from Rom. 5. 12. how Sin came into the World as it is written wherefore as by one Man Sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed upon all Men for that or in whom all have Sinned thus the Apostle proveth that what I asserted is Truth that all Infants Sinned in Adam's Loins Secondly In Page 25. I shewed the manner or way God was pleased to restore those two sorts of Sinners the one Actual as Adam and Eve the other Passive who in Infancy by Original Corruption derived Sin and by Imputation charged on them Therefore because Adam and Eve had actually and willingly Sinned it was the Pleasure of God that not only our first Parents but also all actual Sinners in all Ages should Repent and actually profess Faith in Christ before they were accepted into Covenant with the Lord and have remission of their Sins Now because the Infants of such were only Sinners by Imputation as aforesaid through Original Corruption and not by their own Act God was pleased and still is pleased and that of free Grace to pass by the sin charged on Infants when the sin of their Parents was Pardoned and therefore the Children born in the Covenant of Grace are by the Lord called his Children accounted born unto him Ezek. 16. 8 20 and 21. And forasmuch as Children are by the Scripture called a Man's Family Gen. 10. 32. God being pleased that in Christ Families shall be Blessed therefore the Lord saith not only before the Law but in the time of the Law and also in the latter days he will be the God of all Families of his Israel that is the Israel of God namely Believers and their Infants whether Jews or Gentiles the truth hereof is confirmed by the Apostle in these words writing not to the whole World but to true Churches separated from the World wherefore as by the Offence of one namely the first Adam Judgment came upon all Men for a Child born is called a Man Gen. 4. 1. Joh. 16. 21. even so by the Righteousness of one namely Christ the second Adam the free Gift came upon all Men unto Justification of Life for as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners so by the Obedience of one many shall be made Righteous Now because when Adam and Eve were

restored by Grace in Christ I affirmed as the Apostle doth that as their Infants were sinners by their Parents sinful Action so by the Obedience of Christ the second Adam their Infants were made Righteous their Infants being their Family so in Christ as the Gospel promises Families shall be blessed with the Pardon of sin Now because the sinful World was first in one Family Adam and his Seed he should beget and these according to God's Revealed Will were Redeemed so are we only to Judge giving place to God's secret Decree Hercules Collins crieth out against me that I hold all the Seed of Adam shall be Saved notwithstanding all their actual Transgressions because it was and still is from the day Adam was Restored to restore the actual Believers and their Infants and so to judge of their Estate until any prove themselves as Cain did not to be of the Election by their wicked Works These things duly weighed how gloriously doth this Truth shine through the Scriptures that God was and still is in Christ Reconciling the World to himself by Families not every individual Family in the World to himself but some Families out of all Nations as that Evangelical Song by the Church in the Praise of Christ saith Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation So that hence it was when the Lord sent Paul to preach the Gospel in the City of the Corinthians the Lord told him saying I have much People in this City not all the City but some out of all by Families forasmuch as the Lord by his Free Grace acknowledgeth himself as aforesaid to be the God of Families and promiseth that they shall be his People so that all such gathered into Churches the Apostle in his Epistles call them Elect according to their visible State in Covenant whereas God only knoweth who are his according to his secret Decree which we are not to meddle with because the Scripture saith concerning the Church of God consisting of Men Women and their little ones Deut. 29. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our Children for ever Therefore according to Gods revealed Will Children with their Believing Parents are called a Holy Nation a Chosen Generation Exod. 19. 5 6. 1 Pet. 2. 9. until either Parents or Children manifest themselves to be in a Reprobate Estate as did Cain Ishmael Esau Simon Magus and Demas who were all visible Members in Covenant for a time called Saints until they by their Evil Works were hardned in Sin and so cast out as was Cain c. as Solomon saith He that being often reproved hardneth his Neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Thus the Children in Gods Covenant in time are known by their Doings whether their Works are Pure or Right but H. Collins mixeth Gods secret Decree with his revealed Will making no difference between them and so seeketh to overthrow the Doctrin of Election notwithstanding he hath set his Hand to a Narrative dated Sept. 3. 1689. wherein he then owned the Doctrin of Personal Election and Perseverance but now he denieth this Doctrin in that he rejecteth all the Infants of Gods Covenanted People to have by the Free Gift of God in the Covenant of Grace a Right to Remission of Sins and so a Right to Baptism because when grown up some prove Wicked as aforesaid Therefore I have proved in Baptism Anatomized Page 28. That as Sin entred into the World by Families so Christ came to Redeem Fallen Mankind by Families as by many Examples first Adam's Family and likewise Noah and Abraham's and also Israels Families as in Jer. 31. 1. Deut. 29. 10 11. is shewed and also many Families of the Gentiles as well as Jews all by Families joyned to the Lord in Church-Fellowship in the Apostles days as witnesseth all their Epistles the word Kindred by Families or Houshold which were Baptised as is largely proved in Baptism Anatomized Page 65. c. And thus the Reader may see how he falsly accuseth me to deceive his Reader to be of Origen's Opinion by what I asserted from Rom. ch 5. but he makes and confesseth himself to be the Man guilty of that Opinion of Origen in that he asserteth from Rom. 5. that the whole World may be Saved His words are these in Page 109. Now we know saith H. Collins the whole World is Adam 's Children then the whole World is in the Covenant of Grace and if in the Covenant of Grace for any thing I see the whole World may be Saved And that H. Collins is of Origen's Opinion is further confirmed in that he still denieth the Doctrin of Election by charging me that I tell a Lye in the Name of the Lord because I said Cain Ishmael Esau c. were for a time visibly in Covenant visibly under the Promise of Pardon of their Sins and after were cast out of the Covenant of Grace when grown Wicked as the Scriptures shew For what saith H. Collins have Believers Infants Remission of Sins sealed unto them yet no Remission will Men tell a Lye in the Name of the Lord to tell us that Baptism is a Sign of Remission of Sin and yet tell us that very Person may be Damned are not these Self-contradictions and Contradictions of Holy Scripture which saith Whom God Justifieth and Pardoneth them he Glorifieth Rom. 8. 30. Reply How is this Man benummed in his Understanding for that he knoweth not how to divide the Word aright but goes on making no difference between Gods secret Decree Rom. 8. 30. and his revealed Will Rom. 9. 6. in his written Word Rom. 10. 17. therefore he telleth not me only but the Apostles that they tell a Lye in the name of the Lord for they according to God's revealed will Baptised some for the Remission of Sins and after said to some of the same Persons in effect it was no sign of Remission to them as for Example in the Judgment of the Apostle Peter Ananias with Saphira his Wife were Believers and had Remission of Sins and were baptized Acts 4. 32. with ch 5. 1. Yet Peter said to Ananias afterwards Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost and the like may be seen for that many in the Apostle John's time who were in the visible Communion of Saints in Churches and for a time called by the Apostle Saints having a sign of Remission of Sins Water-baptism administred on them therefore by H. Collins his Doctrin the Apostle John also told a Lye in the name of the Lord when he said concerning some that were Visible Members they went out from them because they were not of them for saith John if they had been of us that is of the Election for so the Apostles according to Gods revealed will in his written Word count all the Churches Elect Persons Ephes 1. 4