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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	milk_n	mother_n	suck_v	1,826	4	10.3986	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

before Three or four days after another child in the same house sick of the same disease was by a divine hand doubtless sensible of the approach of death an unusual thing at that age and called to its father and said I am going to God several times repeating it I am going to God The mother as other mothers use to do had made for the child a little basket a little spoon and a little tray these things the child was wont to be greatly delighted withall as all children will therefore in the extremitie of the torments they set those things before it a little to divert the mind and chear the spirit but now the child takes the basket and puts it away and said I will leave my basket behind me for I am going to God I will leave my spoon and trey behind me putting them away for I am going to God and with these kind of expressions the same night finished its course and died The father of this child is named Robin Speen in whose confessions he maketh mention of this child that died in faith When he related this storie to me he said he could not tell whether the sorrow for the death of his child or his joy for its faith were the greater 4. They are capable of union with Christ fo● first Christ lays hold on us before we lay hold on him Phil. 3 That I m●y apprehend that for which also ● am apprehended of Christ Jesus 5. Of eternal life All which things are signifie● and sealed in the holy sacrament What hinder therefore why children may not be baptized Act 10. 6. Baptism is of eternal use for what God doth remains for ever Eccl. 3. not onely for the present but for the future therefore children are capable o● it For 1. As parents may plead a Covenant for their children which is no small prop of their faith strengthened and confirmed by this visible word Exod. 4 5● so children may afterwards plead a Covenant as from their ancestors for a seal of an estate made to infants in their cradle is firm and come in their fathers or mothers name to God as David and others have done Psal 86.16 Save the son of thy handmaid for that Covenant extends not onely to temporals but spirituals Luke 71. The Covenant with the forefathers is made the rise of that deliverance v 75 which deliverance from our spiritual enemies is collected from the general promise I will be thy God the God of thy seed Rom. 11. Beloved so as to be called for their fathers sakes Deut. 30. I will circumcise the heart of thy seed Which promise being spoken indefinitely who dare limit it to such as are of years of discretion seeing that babes are the seed of the faithful as well as such as are adult and we know it 's as great a sin to limit God in his grace as in his power who hath so wisely ordered that Covenant of grace 2 Sam. 24. that as in every moment some die and surely half of the elect if half of mankind die in infancie so in every moment some are regenerate Which grace of regeneration from the dawning and springing of reason doth appear in many who suck in something of Christ whilst they suck in the milk from the mothers breasts 2. It lays a tie and obligation upon the child to future repentance faith and obedience 1. To repentance therefore it 's called th● baptism of repentance because it obligeth and engageth them to repentance Mat. 3.11 Baptismus est lavacrum regenerationis sed n n ita vt rege●e ati debeant tantum illo obsignari sed regenerandi Musc in Matt. 22. I indeed saith John baptize you Pharisees a generation of vipers with water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto repentance therefore seeing you have now been baptized bring forth fruits worthy of repentance v. 8. 2. It obligeth to future faith for circumcision was a seal of the rightousness of faith which is the condition of the Covenant of grace Mar. 16.16 To Adonijah and Absalom as well as Solomon if they believe for so the tenor of the Covenant runs It 's well observed by some that God dealt in a way of preventing grace with Israel in instituting the Passover before their deliverance and so in appointing the Lords Supper before the work of redemption was wrought And thus hath he ordered the baptizing of children as that which is precedaneous to faith as well as sub●equent to it 3. It obligeth to obedience for as in all duties we do virtually say I take this God for my God and give up my self to him as one of his people Psal 50. That make a Covenant with me by sacrifice So in this Ordinance of baptism the child doth implicitly covenant with God and doth bind it self to obedience for the future He that is circumcised saith Paul Gal. 5. is bound to keep the whole law if not legally as a Covenant of works yet evangelically as the condition of the Covenant of grace If he dare not stand to the former Covenant as who dares let him cleave to the later and in so doing he shall live Nonnulli habent a●tificium quo prius persuadent quam docent veritas autem docendo suadet non suadendo doect Tert. I would not first move and then teach but having taught move Cujuslibet artis datur praxis erg Paul will rather seem to speak false greek not understanding his greek grammar as Jerom saith though it be an Articism than that they should not apply to themselves in particular what he spoke in general Gal. 6.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Restore ye such an one or put him in joint again considering thy self Having spoken sufficiently to the jus divinum of Paedobaptism and shewed plainly that it hath a divine stamp of truth upon it Let us come to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or practical part of this point which shall be a dissuasive from Anabaptism and what I shall say herein I would say in a Church full of Kings Now the Lord grant me good success this day And that I may the more effectually prevail with you consider 1. The way of Anabaptism is not the way of God for first it 's not of Gods planting therefore secondly not of his watering For whatsoever the Lord hath not planted whether persons or things that certainly he will not water therefore it cannot stand but must of necessity be rooted up Mat. 15.13 For the first That it 's none of Gods planting or That that way is not the way of God which they walk in it appeareth 1. In that they stand not in the ways and ask not for the old paths where is the good old way that they may walk therein Jer. 6.16 Thus Mal. 2. Seek the law at the Priests mouth They advise not nay they are not usually willing to be advised by the faithful messengers of Christ enquiring after the footsteps of the flock by the