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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

iudgement Fiftly why presently a Priest sent for might she not thinke the same power that restored life to her childe able to preserue him in life or was not the life quite gone at al and this deuise taken vp by cōpact to nourish superstitious minds or if it must needes bee presently baptized because this their false Saint Steuen gaue it such a weake deadly life that would not hold out why might not her selfe or some woman present for it is not improbable others also to haue gone with her in neighborhood or superstition according to their doctrine haue baptized it but they must tarie the time till a Priest come who hold in their good diuinitie in such a case of necessitie that euen women may doe it or lastly why did she not goe to Saint Steuen for a second life But lyers and inuentors haue no absolute good memories let vs come to their scriptures they are two the first Ioh. 3 5. Except a mā be borne of water the spirit he cānnot see the kingdom of God This place necessarily inferreth say they the necessity of baptisme Why the words are plaine and yet if so it is as plaine for them that vse a hot 〈…〉 Iron in Baptisme not to go from this matter for example because it is sayd Christ shall baptize with the holy Ghost with fire and not to goe from this place it is as plaine for an olde man to be borne againe so plaine that ●●●●…enus once mistook it though a master in Israell But to come to the meaning doth water signifie here of necessitie the element of water vsed in Baptisme howe knowe they that for in the former chapter no occasion is giuen to speake of Baptisme nor in the beginning of this And secondly Christ seemeth rather to tell what is necessary for men in yeares who can make profession as Nicodemus who dissembled then for infants neither is any mention made of Baptisme all the time of his abode in Galile where he was at the marriage or whilst he was at Ierusalem where this speech seemeth to bee vntill hee came into Iury vers 22. As though Christ sayd thou wouldest learne the way to heauen thou knowest it in part alreadie that I am a teacher come from God vers 1. And yet thou haltest in the day betweene two and goest vpright in the night onely but I tell thee I being a true teacher tell thee that thou must walke as a child of the day thou must be borne againe that is bee renued in the spirit of thy minde to bee of another iudgement euen to professe the name of God opēly els thou canst not see the kingdome of God Vnles thou shewe thy selfe to be in my kingdome of the Gospell by open profession on earth thou canst not see my kingdome aboue vers 3. Except a man that is of such a iudgement as thou alreadie art and all naturall men be vers 4. be borne againe and altered in the spirit they cannot see the kingdome of God When he marueiled what it was to bee borne againe Christ expoundeth it thus I say vnles he bee borne againe of water and the spirit making it all one to be borne againe of the spirit and of water and the spirit making it all one to be borne againe of one of them and of thē both and which is the more exclusiue for that which he had sayd in one word Except a man be borne of the spirit he after expoundeth the manner how the spirit must work as water in washing vs in sanctifying vs in renuing vs. For he sayth Vnles a man be borne of water and the spirit which to bee the meaning the tenour and passage of all the speech had with Nicodemus sheweth as first the opposing of earthlie birth and spiritual vers 6. That which is borne of flesh is flesh which sentence proueth rather that water saueth not as though fleshly earthly and carnall things can goe no further then flesh earth nor haue no further effects A mans soule is a spirite water an elementarie bodie an earthly thing can not purge a spirituall substance no proportion betweene the agent patient the doer and sufferer euen as of old the bloud of beasts could not take away sinnes Heb. 10.1.2.3 so not now the washing of water can take away sinne Secondly the ascribing of the meanes to Gods free-will vers 8. and his loue vers 16. by the worke of the spirite and incarnation of the sonne vers 13. telling the hardnes of it vers 8.11.12 whereas outward washing is easie finally in that verse 18. Christ maketh faith the meanes of saluation and not faith damnation He that beleeueth is saued he that beleeueth not is damned So that vnles a man will say that infants haue faith this toucheth infants nothing at all and if they haue faith then those only saued who haue this faith by the gift of God So that this general rule Except proueth this that without conuersion of heart and renuing of the spirit of our minde inwardly there is no saluation And that by water is mēt Gods spirit the fruits the graces of it many scriptures declare especially in the stile and phrase of Christ himselfe in this Euangelist in the next chapter vers 14. He that drinketh of the water which I giue shal neuer thirst for Baptisme is not generally a wel of water to euerlasting life therefore it is ment of Gods spirit the miracle of Christ healing without water Iohn 5. declareth that the elemēt ought not to be in that credite So Iohn 7.39 He that beleeueth riuers of water of life shall flow out of his bellie But if any man aske how will you proue water to signifie the spirit here I answere euen hence vers 39. This he sayd of the spirit It also hath the accord of the old Testament so Iere. 2.3.10 Ezech. 36.25 Esai 4.4 The Lorde shall wash the filthines of Sion with the spirit of iudgement and burning Lastly I aske whether if this proposition vers 5 bee generall exclusiue Except a man be borne of water and the spirit c. why the former proposition vers 3. which is first by nature consisting of as generall tearmes in arte Except a man bee borne of the spirit c. be not as generall which if it bee and what reason can be shewed to the contrarie then it being also general and exclusiue why should it not shut out the necessitie of materiall water Here also if absolutely materiall water be vnderstood then no Martyr saued without it not the theefe on the crosse not the Apostles vnbaptized not the good Emperour Valentinian and many other who in prison or warre desire it The other place Mark 16.16 answereth it selfe ascribing all to faith for hauing sayd He that beleeueth and is baptized shall bee saued addeth straight way to preuent error but he that beleeueth not and not hee that is not baptized shall bee damned Now as