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A87257 Infants baptizing proved lawfull by the Scriptures: objections against it resolved and removed. Aug. 24. 1644. Imprimatur, John White. 1644 (1644) Wing I162; Thomason E8_31; ESTC R15802 13,658 16

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seale of the Covenant being meerely passive in the administration of it both in respect of the outward element and inward grace of it and it is a strong ingagement of them to devote themselves unto God when they attaine discretion that from the beginning they are consecrated unto God and have such excellent promises c 2 Cor. 7.1 sealed unto them and what then hinders them to be baptised It is yet further objected That baptising of children hath no foundation in Scripture To which I answer There is a two-fold testimony of Scripture expresse in termes and that is not to be had for some principall truths Secondly by necessary cleere deduction from cleere Scriptures and such grounds Scripture abound withall for Pedobaptisme and some of them I have above opened and cleered Ob. It is further said and but said That Baptisme cannot be administred Infant baptisme to infants as John the Baptist and the Apostles did administer it Sol. To which I answer That it may be and that sufficeth in an answer expecting the proofe of the objection But because I desire to drive the adversary of this truth out of all his coverts and seeming strengths I answer further That in the administration of Baptisme according to the institution of it and the use of it by John and the Apostles and others recorded in Scriptures there are some things essentiall and necessary in all cases and some things accidentall that are not necessary nor usefull in all but only in some cases The essentials are three only first a Minister of the Gospell to administer it Mat. 28.19 they only have commission and authority for it Secondly A person that hath right unto it either by his own personall profession of faith and repentance d Mat. 3.6 Acts 8.37 or otherwise upon whom it is to be conferred Thirdly To baptise in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost And that such personall confession is not necessary where it is otherwise apparant the person to receive it hath right unto it is plaine by Johns baptising of Jesus Christ who had Covenant-right unto it and could not confesse sinne Mark 1.9 and by Ananias baptising Paul without confession of sinne or profession of faith Acts 9.15 18. God telling him he had a right unto it being his chosen vessell and Peters baptizing the Centurions friends upon whom he saw the Holy Ghost in extraordinary gifts to fall without their personall confessions Acts 10.47 and yet those extraordinary gifts were not certaine evidences of election to eternall life And by Pauls baptising of all Lydias houshold * Act 16 1● meerly upon their submitting willingly unto it without distinct personall confessions for ought appeares and so the Jaylors a Act. 16.31 33. houshold and Stephanas b 1 Cor. 1. ●6 his houshold and it cannot be reasonably imagined that there were no children among them And 1 Cor. 10.2 All the children of the Israelites being within the Covenant were baptised in the cloude and in the sea as well as those that were of full age Ob. But it is further objected That by what I have said children are to partake in the Lords Supper also being another seale of the Covenant and by it Infant-Communion may be as strongly inferred as Infant-Baptisme Sol. To which I answer the case is wholy unlike and followes not for there is in the institution of the Lords Supper required necessarily and as essentiall unto it such things as Infants are not capable of and are not required in Baptisme In Baptisme the Sacrament of regeneration the receiver is passive both in the outward and inward administrations thereof But in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the Sacrament of corroboration and increase the partaker of it must be active An infant cannot examine and judge himselfe discerne the Lords body doe it in remembrance of Christ all expresly required in the receiver of the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11.25 26 28 29 31. But an Infant can receive the sprinkling of water and is capable of the Spirit of life and grace and if he be a child of a beleever and member of the visible Church nothing in the institution of Baptisme excludes him and the Covenant includes him expresly which is to be sealed by it Some other arguments are brought against Pedobaptisme but because they are from humane testimony negatively a way of arguing exploded by all Logitians I will not mispend pretious time in dealing with them but leave them as of no weight or value But I shall subjoyne some few considerations of some further absurdities and mistakes of the opinion of those that deny Baptisme to the children of beleevers by which the truth in this question will more cleerely appeare Besides that by their opinion the children of beleevers under the Gospell are in as bad a case as the children of infidels strangers from the Promises and Covenant of grace strangers from the wombe which is the condition of the wicked Psal 58.3 so as one observes Gods holy lambes should live like straies not marked with his brand ordained to distinguish his from those he will not owne which is expresly against the Scriptures as I have above cleerely evinced But they be also in a worse case then the children of the Jewes under the law were they were within the Covenant of grace and had the seale of Circumcision a Sacrament the same in substance with Baptisme of the same spirituall use and end in the place and stead whereof Baptisme succeeds which is also cleerely against the Scriptures which informe us that better things are reserved for us under the Gospell a better condition then they had under the Law Heb. 11 40. Yea the children of the Christian Jew are by their opinion put in a worse condition then the children of the Jew before Christ were in and yet they grant them to be within the said Promise made to Abraham first above-mentioned The children of the circumcised Jew might have the seale but the children of the Christian Jew may not whereby the comming of Christ is made to turne to the disparagement of the children of the Christian Jewes to depose them from the hereditary dignity they had under the Law contrary to the Scriptures Heb. 7.19 22. ● 6 which testifie that Christ Jesus hath brought us a better hope a better testament and his Ministery to be more excellent and established upon better promises Secondly These men would have the Church and the Ministers of Christ refuse and refuse to blesse those whom Jesus Christ himselfe in person received embraced and blessed as those to whom the Kingdome of Heaven belonged contrary to the Scriptures Ephes 5.1 Be ye followers of God as deare children and the Scriptures call upon the children of the Church even those that suck the brests to partake in the extraordinary duties of the Church namely fasts Joel 2.16 Ezra 10.1 for which they are more unfit then for Baptisme Thirdly These men