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A89619	Divinity-knots vnloosed or a cleare discovery of truth; by resolving many doubts, according to scripture, orthodox divines, and sound reason, so as weake capacities may receive satisfaction therein. To which purpose, a number of points are explained by familiar simile's. A treatise intended specially for the instruction of young Christians in Rothstorne parish in Cheshire: but published for a further extent of the benefit thereof, to the Israel of God. By Adam Martindale, one of the meanest labourers in the Lords harvest.	Martindale, Adam, 1623-1686.	1649 (1649)	Wing M856; Thomason E1352_2; ESTC R209407	38,259	96

bringin their Children to Christ the children themselves are sayd to come to him q Mat. 19 1● 14. Mark 10.13 14. Luke 18 1● 16. If you allow not this consider what dangerous Doctrine and uncharitable judgement you must needs by consequence entertaine Viz. that all which dye Infants are damned for it you say an Infant cannot be baptized because it hath not faith by the same reason you must conclude also that because it wanteth faith it cannot be saved for the Text you alleadge is farre more expresse for that then the other He that beleeveth not shall be domned 68. Doubt Some conceive 1 Cor. 7.14 proveth a Child to be out of Covenant except one of the next and immediate Parents be a Beleever I pray you tell me your apprehension thereof Resol Truely I think it doth not * Nec stantem a parte affirmativa cogit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 locus 1 Cor 7.14 ubi Apostolus dicendo liberos cujusvis parentis fidelis majoribus omnibus ethnicis esse Sanctos liberos amborum parentum immediatorum reliquis omnibus majoribus membris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esse 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Apolloaium Ca. 2. p. 38. for although in such a case as theirs when the Gospell was newly sowne amongst them and all their Ancestours had been heathens one of the Parents must needs be a Beleever or the Child be destitute of federall holinesse yet I judge far otherwise concerning the seed of beleeving though remote Parents r Exo. 20.6 Gen. 17.7 Psa 89.29 103.17.18 69. Doubt How may the Papists be answered which contend for Christs reall presence in the Host seeing Christ sayd expresly This is my body and his words must needs be true Resol We confesse he is present truely though not corporally but Sacramentally in the same sense that Paul saith The Rock was Christ ſ 1 Cor. 10.4 that is a figure of Christ 70. Doubt If a man must examine himselfe and so eate of that bread and drinke of that Cup t 1 Cor. 11.28 why should any other examine him Resol It is not intended exclusively as if none else might but that himselfe must except he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord and eate and drinke damnation to himselfe u Ver. 27 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word which is translated so is an Adverbe of likenesse and therefore it cannot be rendred Let a man examine himselfe and so that is without more adoe let him eate c But thus Let a man examine himselfe and so that is in that frame of selfe-examination let him eate of that bread c. CHAP. XVI Of the state of Men after death and withall of the Resurrection and last Judgement 71 Doubt HOw can a man comfort himselfe in the death of his prophane kindred Resol He may quiet his heart with these confiderations following 1. God is ready to forgive those which repent at the last moment and for ought we know may worke repentance when the party is too far spent to expresse it 2. Gods decree is unchangeable and therefore they either were elected and are saved or Reprobates and could never have been saved had they lived a thousand yeares 3. Had such as are rejected of God lived longer their impenitent hearts would have caused them still to have treasured more wrath to themselves by proceeding further in wickednesse a Rom. 2.5 4. Our relation to them the maine cause why we are grieved for them ceaseth after this life b Mat. 22.30 5. However it is with them God will dispose of all things for his onely glory which should be more deare to us then our friends yea our owne soules 72. Doubt If the whole man soule and body sinned how can it otherwise be but the soule must dye as well as the body Resol Man in his actings is to be considered collectively not distributively and as sin is not acted by the soule and body in a divided sense but joyntly by the whole man consisting of soule and body as its constitutive parts c Gen. 2.7 So man dyes not in a distributive sense as if the body dyed by it selfe and the soule by it selfe but as a creature compact of both he dyeth or ceaseth to be what he was when the soule which is the essentiall forme of a man is taken away A Parliament when dissolved looseth its essence as such though all the members be alive so doth an house dimolished though all the materialls remaine whole So when the soule and body are disunited the man is dead howbeit the soule lives either in happinesse or woe d Eccles 12 7. Mat. 10.28 Luk. 12.4 16.23 1 Pet. 3.19 Revel 6.9.10 11. 73. Doubt If there be no satisfaction of the justice of God after this life which men having given shall be forgiven and saved how is it sayd Till thou hast payd the last mite e Luke 12.59 or uttermost farthing f Mat. 5.26 Resol This word till is often found in Scripture signifying or at least not excluding perpetuity g Gen. 8.7 28.15 1 Sam. 15.35 2 Sam. 6.23 Psal 110.1 123.2 Mat. 1.25 28.20 2 Tim. 4.13 2 Pet. 1.19 and taken in that sense the force of it is thus much if thou be not reconciled to God in Christ before thy death thou shalt be cast into the prison of Hell there to abide the exact justice of God for ever because thou never canst so satisfie his wrath as to be acquitted from it 74. Doubt If every soule when it leaveth the body goeth either to Heaven or Hell immediately to what purpose is the resurrection or day of judgement Resol There is very great reason for them a● First That the whole creation may be purged and delivered from the bondage of corruption h Rom. 8.19 20 c. Secondly That the soule and body which suffered or finned together may in the righteous day of the Lord be crowned or punished i 2 Thes 1.6 7 c. 2 Tim. 4.7 8. Thirdly That all hidden things k Eccl. 12.14 Luke 12.2 yea the secrets of hearts l Rom. 2.16 may be discovered that thereby Gods righteous judgement may be also revealed m Rom. 2.5 Fourthly That he may publickly right his people upon their enemies n 2 Thes 1.6 c. 75. Doubt Godly men are men still and Christ avoucheth That every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account thereof at the day of judgement o Mat. 12.36 How then can they be sayd to be discharged from all sinne Resol The meaning is not as if the godly shall be called to account for their idle words or any other sins but onely thus much that the judgement of God shall be so exact and severe that even so much as an idle word shall not passe him without ful satisfaction to his justice on the transgressour or his surety and that he which hath not his

be baptized and Peter includeth Beleevers Children in the number of Disciplet Such Children are to be baptized 2. Argument If Baptisme be come into the roome of Circumcision Infants may be as capable of it as they were of Circumcision But Baptisme is come in the room of Circumcision g Col. 2.12 Therefore c. 3. Argument 64. Doubt Stay a little before you proceed to any other Argument I desire you would vindicate the assumption of the last from just exceptions How can Baptisme be come in the place of Circumcision When first they were both on foot together a long season Secondly Males onely were Circumcised but Females are also baptized Thirdly Circumcision must be administred strictly on the eight day but no such rule is observed in baptizing Children Fourthly Circumcision was to confirme Canaan and certaine temporall blessings to Abraham and his seed h Gen. 17.8 9 10. for such was the Covenant of God with him i Gen. 17.4 c. 15 18 c. Resol To these your foure allegations I shall shape you out as many particular answers 1. 1 Exception removed They might be both on foot at once and yet one succeed in the place of another Solomon was anoynted King his Father being yet alive k 1 King 1 39 43 44 c. in like manner was Eleazar made Priest before his Fathers death l Num. 20.26 yet who doubts but they were their Fathers successours Gospell-Ordinances came in the roome of typicall Ceremonies m Joh. 4.22 23 24. Heb. 10.1 though they were in being at one time n Act 16.2 So Circumcision was in being but even expiring when baptisme was instituted 2. 2 Exception taken away Males onely were circumcised because they onely were capable but Women were also included in the Covenant for it was made to Abraham and his seed whereof the Females were a very considerable part and though they were not personally circumcised because uncapable they were not excluded from Circumcision but included in the Circumcision of the Males A Church or Family was accounted circumcised when the Males were circumcised The whole houshold must eate the Paschall Lambe o Exod. 12.3 4. and yet no uncircumcised person must eate thereof p Ver. 48. surely then Women in Israel were not reputed uncircumcised But now for Baptisme Women are not onely virtually and constructively but actually properly personally and formally capable thereof as well as men In a word we read that Lydia a Female was baptized q Acts 16.15 and that an Infant may be it hath been and by Gods help shall be surther proved and then why not a Female Infant 3. 3 Exception taken of Whatsoever in the time of the Law was not established on such grounds as concerne our times also but was either typicall or grounded on speciall reason peculiar to those times we never judged our selves obliged thereby Of which fort of precepts that concerning the precise observation of the eight day is one Master Tombes himselfe if my memory faile not for I have not his Book now at hand doth acknowledge that the eight day typ fied the resurrection which confession is indeed ingenious but not all the proofe we have for the Scriptures shew that the eight day was exactly limited because of the Mothers Ceremonially uncleanenesse the first seven dayes which must be past ere the Child could enjoy this Ordinance whereof we speake r Lev. 12. Vers 2. compared with ver 3. If any man shall here reply this can be no reason because shee was uncleane three and thirty dayes Å¿ Ver. 4. I answer first that though shee was uncleane soking yet not with the same kind of uncleanesse for else the spirit of God would not have divided them but have sayd she shall be uncleane forty days nor have called them by distinct names the one separation of infirmity t Lev. 12.2 the other blood of purifying u Ibid. v. 4. Secondly though it were the same uncleanesse it did not prejudice the reason because the eight day was an intermission betwixt the seven and three and thirty dayes as the word then shewes And shee shall then that is after the eight day is over and the Child Circumcised continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty dayes c w Ver. 4. To conclude there is good reason that as they were to take the first opporrunity wherein the Ordinance of Circumcision could be orderly administred which in ordinary cases was the eight day so should we take the first fit opportunity for the Baptisme of our Infants and not defer it when it may be orderly administred but the strict observance of the eight day by speciall reason concerned the Jews but not us 4. 4 Exception answered In the Covenant made with Abraham some things be peculiarly promised to him and his Seed as those you recited but some things common to all the faithfull with him as that passage To be a God to thee and thy Seed after thee x Gen. 17.7 Now Circumcision confirmed both sorts of promises to his Seed after the flesh but onely the spirituall mercies to Proselytes which were his Children onely by Faith and profession not by generation It is not to be imagined that every Circumcised bond-servant had an inheritance in Canaan bestowed on him Neither reason nor History make for such an assertion much lesse that Proselytes dwelling in farre Countreys must have possessions in the Land which God gave onely to the Sons of Jacob y Gen. 28.3 though they had right to their holy things z Exod. 12 48. Understand therefore that when we say Baptisme succeedeth Circumcision we meane onely so far as Circumcision was a seale and argument of a mans being in the spirituall though externall Covenant of God and not as it confirmed temporall rights and priviledges Having thus vindicated the assumption according to your desire I shall proceed and lay you downe more Arguments 3. Argument All that belong to the externall Covenant of God ought to be Baptized But The Infant-seed of beleeving and repenting Parents belong to the externall Covenant of God Therefore They ought to be baptized The Proposition is proved Acts 2.39 where Peter urgeth the repenting Jewes to be baptized on this ground because the promise that is the externall Covenant of grace or rather the externall part of the Covenant of grace was to them and their Children If this was a good reason then it is so still And that the Infant-seed of beleeving and repenting Parents belongeth to the externall Covenant of God is as plain 1 Cor. 7.14 To understand which place consider that there be onely three sorts or kinds of holinesse of which Children can be capable which we may call till better names be found out for them personall conjugall and federall The first cannot be here intended for many a Beleever hath unsanctified and gracelesse Children which could not