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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03779	An apologie of infants in a sermon: prouing, by the reuealed will of God, that children preuented by death of their baptisme, by Gods election, may be saued. By W.H. preacher in the Tower of London. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1595 (1595)	STC 13898; ESTC S104267	27,538	80

Doth our Church alone thinke so and doth not other Churches make vp the harmonie Rogers in the English Creed set out by authoritie pag. 33. par 2 art 25 The Creede of our Church confesseth this among the errors of the Papists that so many as are not incorporated into the visible Church by the Sacraments at the least of Baptisme are assuredly damned So doth two cōfessions of Switzerland the confession of the Church of Bohemia the Protestant Church of France so of Flanders so of Auspurge so of Saxonie and Sweueland which may be seene more at large in the booke of the Harmonie of confessions Alanus Cope reckoneth this vp as one of our errors in England Dial 6. cap. 9. Infants before they are baptized to belong to the people of GOD And to this agreeth most soundly euen he which hath now by the disposition of God the chief place in this Church In his replie in the great volume pag. 516. and professeth that he misliketh the opinion of these who thinke out of Ioh. 3. infants to be condemned being not baptized as much as any It shall bee ambition to muster the names of them who haue borne the standard in their places and are on our side so doth * Aret. proble theol par 2 de 〈◊〉 sacr Aretius at Barnes * Caluin instit l. 4. c. 16. sec 26. Caluin and * Confess c. 4. sect 49. Zuingl de prouid Dei c. 6. tom 1. pa. 369. Beza at Geneua certainly Zuinglius at Zurich calleth them sacramentaries who attribute so much grace to the sacramēt so much vertue to Baptisme of it selfe Such a cloud of witnesses hath this trueth and this is not only the consent of the later Churches but euen a long hath testimonie from this Apostle Baptisme saueth but I meane not sayeth hee the washing of the water but the examination of a good conscience towardes God Ephe. 5.26 The Apostle Paul saith Christ gaue himselfe for the Church to sanctifie it by the lauer of water but how through the word Psalm 8.2 In Dauids time the Church professeth GODS praise out of the mouth of sucklings In the primitiue Church the Cathecumen the not baptized not onely saued but glorified as Martyrs such an one was Heraclides Origens scholler beheaded vnder Seuerus and Rhais a woman whō Origen saith to haue obtained Baptisme by fire Cyp epist ad lubia Cyprian about the 260. yeare after Christ professeth that not only suffering for Christ De conse distinc 4. ca. Baptismi but faith and conuersion of the heart supplieth the want of Baptisme The councell of Nice sayth our Baptisme is not to bee considered with sensible eyes but with the eyes of the mind Ambros in sine Ora. sunes de obitu Valē Ambrose about 380. yeare after Christ sayth of Valentinian the Emperour who dyed without Baptisme Christ baptized him when mens offices failed againe his faith washed him Saint Austen Aug. in l. de side ad Petrum though he is alone almost except them that suruiued in his owne age in the necessitie of Sacraments making out of the sixt of Iohn a necessitie of the supper euen for infants Ioh. 6.53 because it is sayd Vnlesse you eate the fleshe of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud you haue no life in you contrary to the rule of the Apostle that none should eate but they who can examine thēselues 1. Cor. 11.23 yet in diuers places where God assisted him more and hee remembred himselfe Aug. l. 13. de ciuit Dei ca 7. he yeelded also to this truth making faith and a contrite spirit to be in stead of Baptisme for thus hee saith he that sayd Vnles a man be borne of water and the spirite hee cannot enter into the kingdome of God Ioh. 3. sayd as generally Hee that confesseth mee before men Luk. 12.8 I will confesse him before my Father and the holy Angels And againe Luk. 9.24 Hee that leeseth his life shall saue it and againe Psal 116.15 Precious is the death of the Saints in the sight of God Nay hee rather commendeth them that dye sometimes without Baptisme for others for feare of death defer not their baptisme further but these for loue to God deferre to liue longer he exemplifieth also in the theefe and * Aug. lib. 4. de baptis in don cap. 24. againe then is Baptisme fulfilled when not the contempt of religion but when the instant or momēt of necessitie excludeth from visible Baptisme * Serm ad infantes Againe none is depriued of the benefit of the sacrament so long as hee findeth in himselfe the thing which the sacrament signifieth again among whom do you reckon children vnbaptized verely among beleeuers Aug de verbis Apostoli ser 14. So. l. 3. de quaest vet test The inuisible sanctification may bee without the visible signe as the visible signe without the true sanctification * In serm de 40. Martyribus Basile sayth of the iaylour or keeper of the 40. Martyrs who became a Martyr hee was baptized by his owne faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by the hand of another not in water but in his owne blood Hieromes iudgement of Asella we heard aboue Yet the diuersitie of customes and practise of olde is strange herein with the multitude of humane inuentions crept in euen in the primitiue church that wee may blesse God for this puritie of Baptisme which we enioy De consecr dist 4. cap. non ratione in seq Terrul de Baptis dutiusculè loquitur For they vsed only solemne times for baptizing as Easter at Rome by Victors constitution at Easter and Pentecost in Tertullians time or the time of mariage or at their dying day or on the feast of the Epiphany as in Asia insomuch that as Christ at 30. yeares of age was baptized Baptisme more syncerely performed now then of olde so Gregorie at 30. yeares olde though his father were a Bishop So Austen about the same time so Ambrose a Bishop elect before hee was baptized and in a Synode of Rome 40 yeares are appointed except for the sicke In 4. Orat. de Lauac sanct and great with childe who might at all other times bee baptized And Nazianzene appointed the 4. yeare when they could giue a reason of their faith so that when a man once departeth from this that any thing saueth speedy Baptisme or Baptisme deferred Baptisme or no Baptisme nay prayer or no prayer word or no word whē any thing saueth but this onely Sauiour Christ who rose ascended raigneth ouer men and Angels one error increaseth vpon another one inuention accrueth vpon his former hence came the crosse * Origen ho. 2. in Psal 38. Tertul. de resur Cyp. de haer bapt hence a kisse in Baptisme l. 3. ep 8. Cyp. hence a ring Tertul. l. de pudicitia hence to haue oyle * Tertul. de