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A96712	The summe of diverse sermons preached in Dublin, before the L. Deputie Fleetwood, and the Commissioners of Parliament for the affairs of Ireland. wherein the doctrine of infant-baptism is asserted, and the main objections of Mr. Tombs, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Blackwood, and others, answered / by Samuel Winter ...	Winter, Samuel, 1603-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3089; ESTC R43829	127,074	209

and God did not make the worms neither for the worms are living creatures as well as the flies true said he I grant it the devil did make the worms but then said the other If the devils made the worms they made the birds also for the birds are living creatures as well as the worms true said he the devils made the birds then said the other If he made the birds he made the beasts for the beasts are living creatures as well as the birds true I grant it said the other the devil made the beasts too then said the other If the devil made the beasts he made man c. Thus saith Austin by denying God in the flie he came to denie God in man and to denie the whole creation So I say in denying one Ordinance to be an Ordinance of Christ many come to denie all Ordinances yea the God of those Ordinances and turn mere atheists But though some have not cast off Ordinances yet it is to be feared and I can assure you some have sadly complained that they never saw God so powerful in their way as in others Blessed be that glorious name of his free grace who freely breatheth where and when he listeth and useth as much libertie in using as in chusing instruments in his hands And no marvel for they being not commissionated from Christ to do what they do cannot expect Gods presence with them Mat. 28. ult I beseech you therefore brethren in the bowels of Christ consider seriously what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things 7. Are not many of them loose in their lives I know some of them are precious saints Can you shew me one man of them who is not blemished with some of the aforesaid wickednesses I mean lying treachery perjury disobedience sedition idleness de●enion of their wives uncleanness c. Baxt. p. 142. which in the simplicitie of their hearts follow their leaders as they that followed Absalom but by their fruits saith Christ ye shall know them that is by that which they naturally and usually bring forth in time ye shall discern them Mat. 7. Which phrase is twice repeated to shew us the certaintie of rhe thing 8. This practice of them hath never helped on but hindered the work of God wherever it comes It 's well observed when the light of the Gospel from the lamp of Luther did begin to shine in all the corners of Germanie high and low those unhappy men Stork and Muncer did begin also to breath out a pestiferous vapor to overcloud those golden Candlesticks Satan and Antichrist his eldest son got not so powerful assistance against the spirit of God in Luther from the Emperor Charls although the greatest prince of all those that for five hundred years did sway the imperial scepter nor from all the Bishops of Germanie though the most potent Clergie that is or ever hath been in christendom as from these two obscure and ignorant creatures who together with their practice went out in a snuff 9. God hath usually appeared against them in all their disputes for that way witness the dispute at Coventry betwixt Doctor Brian and Mr Kiffith and others witness the dispute betwixt Mr Baxter and Mr. Tombs who in his review doth ingenuously acknowledg again and again that he was worsted by Mr Baxter witness the dispute betwixt Mr. Cragge and Mr Tombs aforesaid in which Mr. Tombs was egregiously nonplus't though he had all advantages against his adversary he having not studied the point and being taken at unawaies whereas Mr. Tombs was well versed in that controversie It 's very observable how Isaiah expresses himself ch 42.3 He shall not quench the smoaking flax untill he bring forth judgment unto truth but Matthew renders it untill he bring forth judgment unto victorie Whence we may gather the truth of that old maxim Great is the truth and doth prevail And therefore I dare boldly say There is such a light kindled in the three nations as the Martyr once said of the Gospel in England which all the adversaries in the world will never be able to extinguish 10. How many thousands are there in the world of papists and others that are confirmed in their religion hardened in their sinful courses by reason of the miscarriages of many of that way It 's not without cause that caveat is given Mat. 18. concerning offences Wo to the world because of offences where he speaks of little children from the 2 and 3 verse to the 5. Seeing that this way hath given as great a blow to religion as any one thing I know acted for these many years But Anabaptism is at the height and therefore nearer it's fall for their folly is made known to all men 11. Consider their actings from first to last and how blasted by divine providence The time would fail me to tell you of Muncer Quid●m illorum sunt commiseratione dignatores quam supplicio Beza Etiam Erasmus Anabaptistas commiseratione dignos ●iebat ut qui magnam partem errore potiùs quam malitiâ peccarent who at the point of death did acknowledge his error his mind being exceedingly cast down so that he was not able to give an account of his faith the first of that sect in Germanie and his consort Stork of Balthasar John Bocold that botcher of Leiden others who said That the grace of the Gospel had been long enough offered that from henceforth all who had rejected it were to be killed with the material sword Although there were some good people amongst them yet these their leaders with many others were corrupt and did miserably deceive the people as in other things so in this persuading them That now was the time come the saints should possess the kingdom but they were mistaken as the sons of Ephraim in taking the cattel from the men of Gath. It 's supposed to be about the time when the Israelites dwelt in Egypt Exod. 13.17 who upon the promise to Abraham concerning Canaan before their time did make an inrode upon the Philistins and were destroyed by them 1 Chron. 7.21 And what the issue was of that party in Germanie I refer the Reader to Sleidan Hornbeck and others 12. Auxentius an Arrian with his adherents saith Mr. Philpot was the first that denied infant bap●ism Anabaptismi institutio non nupera nova est sed anie annos quoquè mille trecentos turbas in Ecclesiâ dedit gravissimas tantum virium acquisivit ut hujus saeculi nostri conatus tantum lu●u● adhuc si eum illo con eratur videri possit interim tamen d●vinae veritatis te●s tu●c quoque exrugnatus planè dejectus esse Zuingl de Paedobapt Origo ●anaticae Anabaptistarum sectae buic anno debetur sc 1521. Sculpt An●al he died Aº 380. Fox ad 1555. After him others opposed it who were the great disturbers of the Church in ●hose days It 's observable that in the

for new Scriptures or a new Gospel to save us Is not the faith that is the Doctrine of faith delivered once and for ever as a perpetual rule Is not God one and the same though we be changeable and at odds with him Gal. 3 20 Is not Christ yesterday and to day and for ever the same Heb. 13 8 Was this once an evangelical promise I will be thy God and is it not so still And if that be evangelical as is confessed shall we deny the later I will be the God of thy seed to be evangelical also 6. If the command of teaching our children which God gave to Abraham belong unto us then the promise made to him and his belongs to us also for the promise is the ground of the duty and the duty is the means of the performance of the promise Gen. 18 19 For I know him that he will command his Children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him 7. Christ came not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to loosen or slacken the Law much less the prophesies or promises but rather to confirm them made unto the fathers Rom. 15 8 that is not onely to the Jews but also the Gentiles and because the incorporating of the Gentiles was a great mystery i. e a divine hidden secret to the Jews the Apostle quotes * Hence Ministers may learn in doubtful things to be more copious in proofs four places of Scripture to evince that great controverted Truth sc That the Gentiles should be incorporated into one and the same body with the Jews 8. Why should it be conceived that the Covenant of Grace should run in a different course from all other of Gods Covenants God made a Covenant with * Mr. Patient saith That Covenant with the Priests was a Covenant of works Observe there is a vein of error runs through his whole Discourse Phineas did it not reach his posterity Num. 5 So with David Psalm 89 28. And did not that extend to his posterity also Did God ever make a Covenant with any wherein the children were not comprehended In the first place where this Covenant is mentioned it runs thus To thee and thy seed Gen. 15 18 8 which was ratified by the dividing of an heifer of three years old 9. Gentiles are ingrafted into the same olive tree and made partakers of the fatness thereof that is the ordinances promises and their appertenances the root was Abraham and the holy ancestors the bodie of the tree the Church the branches particular members whereof Infants were a great part Observe three things 1. That Children were in the Covenant this cannot be denied 2. They with their parents were broken off and therefore may plead with their Mother as an harlot Hos 2. 3. They with their parents are to be ingrafted in again into the olive tree of the visible Church of Christ 10. Where is that great Statute repealed or that Magna Charta vacated and made void I will be thy God and the God of thy seed Was not this one of the greatest promises of the old Testament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exceeding great nay the greatest promises 2 Pet. 1.4 greater than which could not be The promise in the 17 of Genesis is greater than that in the 22. For the Father was greater than Christ as Mediator and therefore doubtless that was chiefly in the Apostles ey This promise was confirmed by many and sundry ways 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by piece-meals or parcels Heb. 1.1 yet one and the same Covenant gradually revealed to Abraham as he walked more exactly with God The glorious discovery of the Covenant was reserved to Christs time for the farther the times were from Christs coming the less light they had but the nearer they came to Christ the more fully was that Covenant discovered as appears from Dan. 9. to whom the Angel reveals the time of Christ's suffering and so doubtless when Christ shall more gloriously appear in his Kingdom upon the calling of the Jews then shall the Ark of the Covenant be seen in the Temple Rev. 11.19 But the Covenant was confirmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Abraham 1. By Sacrifices Gen. 15.18 being not mentioned before 2. By the Sacrament of Circumcision Cap. 17. 3. By an oath Cap. 22. Yea it was confirmed by God in Christ therefore must needs be of grace Gal. 31.7 1. By the death of Christ 2. By the merits of Christ 3. By the preaching of Christ and his Apostles Dan. 9. He shall confirm the Covenant for one week which was spent in the confirmation thereof for Christ preached * Usually the work of a Minister for conversion is done as to the old standers in 7 years three years and a half and the Apostles three years and a half or thereabouts before the Jews were discovenanted the ceremonies de jure did cease at his death with all the sacrifices when the vail was rent asunder but the Covenant was not made null till they voluntatarily and obstinately rejected the Lord Christ This Covenant I will be thy God was before the Law and therefore was not made void by the Law and the ceremonies annexed thereunto Gal. 3.14 15. That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles which blessing extends to fathers and children Brethren saith the Apostle I speak after the manner of men Though it were but a mans Covenant if it be confirmed as this was no man disanulleth or addeth thereunto who then shall dare to disanull Gods Covenant made to Abraham and Christ mystical that is the whole visible Church as we see clearly in the body of the Jews to whom the external administration of the Covenant did appertain if there be any force in the Arguments of the Antipedobaptists pleading for the spiritual seed onely the like might have been pleaded against all the carnal seed of Abraham as the Lord pleads Psal 50 What hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth And yet even the Children of such had a right unto Circumcision though their parents were suspended from the Passover as being Children under Abraham's Covenant The 11 Argument is taken from the absurdities that will follow from the contrary tenent 1. If Children be excluded then the Covenant is not the same seeing the persons engaging are not the same 2. Then are the Children of believers no more priviledged than the Children of heathens for even the Children of heathens when called have an interest in the Covenant and Seal as well as the Children of believers 3. Then are no Children in a visible way of salvation Eph. 2.12 and without hope and therefore Rachel may weep for her Children because they are not There was a great Lamentation in Israel when one tribe was cut off but have not all the Churches in the world cause bitterly to

which always behold the face of their heavenly Father and are ready at a beck as knowing his mind by his looks to revenge the wrong of these little ones Mat. 18.10 Yea this Angel of the Covenant Esa 9.3 9. stands betwixt them and hell suspending the execution of that sentence of wrath In the day thou sinnest thou shalt dy the death which is an axiom true at all times but the seed of the woman comes in reprieves such for a while Heb. 1.3 Fifthly By the bloud of this Covenant were they brought out of Aegypt yong and old Hence it is that he makes mention of this name I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob this is my memorial to all generations Exo. 3.15 By the same bloud of Christ sealing that Covenant were they and their little ones brought out of Babylon and shall be brought out of this their last captivity Zac. 9.11 Sixthly They have many temporal blessings Psal 37. I never saw the rightous forsaken especially if liberal for so is the word often used nor his seed begging bread It was so rare athing for the seed of the rightous to beg their bread as that David professeth for his part he never saw it He is ever merciful and lendeth saith the Text v. 26. And what then are his children beggers No they shall enjoy a blessing Gen. 21. Ismael will I make a great nation v. 13. because he is thy seed so that wicked children fare the better for their parents as to outwards at least Deut. 8.18 It is he that giveth thee power to get riches that he may establish his Covenant with thee Luke 13.16 And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham be loosed from this bond Filiam Abrahami sic appellat propter ejus gentis praestantiam quam deus singulari gratiâ amplectebatur propter fadus cum Abraham● pactum Dominus arguit à re notâ consessa Piscat his Covenant which he made to thy Fathers So that we may safely say the Covenant is made with believers and all their seed in respect of the external part but with believers and their elect seed onely as to the internal part thereof Seventhly They have common gifts constraining and restraining grace by virtue of this Covenant though their nature be not changed as the prophet speaks Esa 11. Yet at least they are restrained but a lion is a lion still though a tame lion He hath received saith the Psalmist gifts for the rebellious that is saving grace for some Ministers and people restraining grace for others that the Lord God may dwell among them else there were no abiding for the people of God in this world Eightly They had by this Covenant offers and tenders of grace in that sense they were called the children of the Covenant Act. 3. partly because it was tendered to them but not solely for this cause for so all nations to whom the Gospel is preached should be in Covenant which we utterly deny and partly because accepted by them herein many are mistaken that make the offers and tenders of the Gospel simply as sufficient to render a people in Covenant with God without their acceptation but we say There must be the accepting of those offers and tenders and closing with Christ externally at least else it 's no Covenant properly so called Ninthly Many children have saving grace wrought in them by virtue of this Covenant Deut. 30.7 I will circumcise the heart of thy seed Jer. 31. That great intruder sin that usurps authority over all even over such as have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression comes in by the fall of our first parents and why may not children therefore be restored by the next parent instrumentally If the Lord did admit such onely as believe then the faith whereby we believe were not given by any Covenant but what saith the Prophet Jeremiah ch 31. v. 34. They shall all know me from the least to the greatest that is yong and old which knowledg is interpreted to be faith John 6.45 I will write my Law in their hearts what law onely the moral law Yea the evangelical law if so then the law of faith Have then elect children no saving benefit by the Covenant till they believe Yes they have this benefit That they shall believe for there are promises for grace 2 to grace When the Lord saith I will be the God of thy seed there is a promise for grace q.d. The vein of election shall break out in some of them not all for such promises as these are indefinite promises Rom. 3. Excid●rit sermo ille viz. promissio illa gratiae Ero deus ●●us seminis tui and therefore true though not verifyed in all Rom. 3.3 What if some did not believe to whom the promises were made shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect I say then that the vein of election shall break forth in some though for the present it runs under ground as some rivers do for it cannot be but that some of Gods peoples children should prove religious seeing that the church shall have a seed and seeds seed for ever the word and the spirit in those shall continue till the coming of Christ saith the Lord Esa 59.21 To which place the Covenant mentioned Rom. 11.27 is to be referred q.d. That Church of the Jews shall not fail in her spiritual offspring for ever This is a promise for grace in the seed to grace in that Church out of which Covenant the Lord hath not excluded any children of believers therefore parents have a ground to hope he hath included all he having not excepted any Here then is an object for the faith of parents to work upon but know assuredly that according to your faith so things go with you Psal 33. last Let thy mercy Lord be upon us according as we put our trust in thee 1 Ioh. 5.16 comp Iam. 5.15 If any man see a brother sin a sin which is not unto death let him pray for him and it shall be forgiven him It 's not to be expected that all should be heard in this particular as it is not in that of Iam. 5.15 Such promises are not universal but indefinite because ofttimes not always the Lord grants such their desires the meaning is prayer is an ordinance to which God hath made such a gracious promise and he often doth restore the sick prayers being put up by believers for them therefore in such cases we are to rely on God by an act of recum●encie though we cannot relie on him by an act of full assurance but such as have much communion with God may know much of his mind and have a particular faith for a particular marcie whether spiritual or temporal children have general and indefinite promises and conditional upon faith and obedience such as determin not the kind of good promised nor the particular person