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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57682	Infant-Baptism; or, Infant-sprinkling (as the Anabaptists ironically term it,) asserted and maintained by the scriptures, and authorities of the primitive fathers. Together with a reply to a pretended answer. To which has been added, a sermon preached on occasion of the author's baptizing an adult person. With some enlargements. By J. R. rector of Lezant in Cornwal.; Infant-Baptism.	J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1993; ESTC R218405	76,431	137

yet we do not continue in it but repent and turn from it But how shall we you 'l say thus mortifie our Sins Why we must fetch our Weapons against our prevailing Lusts from our Baptism As David took the smooth Stones out of the Brook of Water with which he slew Goliah 1 Sam. 17.40 So ought we to draw help and directions from the Water of Baptism to deaden the force of the most Giant-like Sin and to lay it at our Feet Yea our Baptism doth not only direct us herein holding forth the conditions on our Part what Duty is incumbent upon us and likewise impower and enable us for the Encounter as it conveys unto us the Grace of God and the assistance of his Spirit but moreover it obligeth us thereto in the highest nature by the most solemn and the strongest Bonds that may be in that we Vow to God through Christ to perform it The firmest Obligation imaginable upon the deepest penalty as ever we hope to have an interest in Christ or in the Death of Christ q. d. we disclaim all hope and interest in Christ and his Death if we be not the Death of every ruling Sin in us This surely is enough to make us bestir our selves and set upon it and even to compel us to it When the forty Jews Act. 23.12 bound themselves with an Oath that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul how did the consciousness of this Oath urge them to lie in wait for him v. 16. and how resolved were they upon his Death with all suddenness And we saith they e're he come near are ready to kill him v. 15. We are under such an Oath to God by our Vow of Baptism to mortifie and kill our prevailing Sins as these were to kill Paul theirs was unjust to murther an Innocent ours most just and necessary to Execute the greatest Traytor in the World And therefore let us remember when our hearts would fain spare our Sins and any way indulge them That this sacred Vow is upon us What was the Reason Jonathan durst venture to tast of the Hony in the Wood when the Israelites durst not touch it 1 Sam. 14.27 He considered not the Oath by which he and they were obliged not to eat of it So why do you thus follow and pursue such and such a pleasing profitable Sin You mind not the Oath the Sacrament the Vow in which you are obliged not to tast such forbidden Fruit but on the contrary to renounce the devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh But to come more near and home in the way of Application Is Baptism an Ordinance that engages us to Duty and that as the Condition of the continuance of the Benefits contained in the Promises and Covenant to which it is the Seal We see what a Foundation of loose vain hope a bare Baptismal Christianity is What slight tinctured Christians those are that have only the outward washing of Baptism but abandon the practice of a Christian Life Who please themselves in a Sign without the effect and boast themselves in a Figure and Shadow without the Substance and Grace of it The Baptism of Water howsoever it may avail us in the state of Infancy in which state God requires no actual Performance of Duty Yet when we grow up to Years of Knowledge and Reason and come under the Law of Duty it availeth nothing without the Baptism of the Spirit in actual Regeneration and Sanctification I mean without an actual Repentance and Abrenunciation of Sin and Satan and the practice of a Holy Life Our Baptism will but remain as a Testimony against us of our perfidious violation of the Covenant of God and of the falseness and treachery of our evil Hearts who pretend to be and own our selves the Subjects and Servants of Jesus Christ and yet basely revolt from and disobey him This is to speak Christ fair and then to betray him Mens receiving the name of Christ's Disciples and Servants in Baptism makes the Disobedience of their sinful Lives more hateful and abominable In this respect some had an erroneous conceit of Old which made them defer their Baptism thinking they had a greater Liberty before than after their Baptism and therefore were wont to say in St. Austin's time Sine illum facere nondum baptizatus est let him alone he is not yet baptized implying the strict Obligation that lies upon Men by Baptism unto Holiness of Life What is Christian Baptism without a Christian Life 'T is not this external Badge or Cognizance 't is not a common profession that follows it that will be a Title to Heaven 'T is in vain to pretend that we have been baptized into Christ or are buried with him in Baptism and have made profession of his name if we be workers of iniquity our doom at last will be to depart from him That which is most material and considerable in our Baptism and which most contributes to our eternal Interest and Salvation is not as at first I noted from St. Peter the putting away the filth of the Flesh But the Answer of a good Conscience towards God What then doth our Conscience answer touching the performance of the Conditions on our Part We build our hopes and confidences upon the Sands unless we keep the Faith whereinto we are baptized and perform the Duty to which our Baptism obligeth How vainly do Men bear themselves up upon the Title of an outward Baptism as if thereby they were good Christians though the course of their Lives be a flat Contradiction to the holiness and purity of the Christian Religion and in effect the renouncing of it The truth is there is a sad answering of this Engagement in the generality of those that are baptized What backsliding from and violations of the baptismal Covenant From the observation of whose Lives a Heathen might conclude as Salvian complained of old Si Christus sancta docuisset if Christ had taught holiness why don't Christians practise it Either as he goes on your Christ is no God who allows such evil Lives or you are no Christians who practise such Things Are they Christians are they dedicated to the honour and service of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost who lead such impure Lives who slight the ways of Religion and set at nought the Laws and Commands of Christ and are so devoted to the ways of their own evil hearts Would Men but consider how they have performed their Covenant with God into which they were entered by Baptism and what an aggravation of the Sin of their unholy unchristan Life ariseth hence this must needs give a check to their sinful Carreer If Infidels and they that know not God do Blaspheme his holy Name and fight against Heaven by their open Impieties this is no such great Wonder but for you that have given up your names unto