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B20542	Believers-baptism from heaven, and of divine institution Infants-baptism from earth, and human invention. Proved from the commission of Christ, the great law-giver to the gospel-church. With a brief, yet sufficient answer to Thomas Wall's book, called, Baptism anatomized. Together with a brief answer to a part of Mr. Daniel William's catechism, in his book unto youth. By Hercules Collins, a servant of the servants of Christ.	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing C5360; ESTC R224066	50,763	158

Circumcision therefore cannot be meant God's Ordinance of Baptism but sheweth the great Care God had of his Church that as he fed them miraculously and gave them Water out of a Rock in the Wilderness Baptism signifieth properly plunging in Water or washing by dipping Dr. Taylor 's Rule of Conscience so he did not leave them in the Red Sea but incompass'd them about by his Divine Providence with Water and the Cloud as Persons are encompassed with that Element when Baptized Hence in the 6th place Baptism is explained by the Metaphor of a Garment which the Apostle refers unto when he calls Baptism a putting on Christ Gal. 3.27 As the Servant by his Lord's Livery declares whose he is so the long white Robe of Baptism sheweth us to be the Servants of the Lord Jesus 7. Baptism is not only called a Washing by Ananias and Peter Acts 22.16 1 Pet. 3.21 Tit. 3.5 but the washing of the Soul in Regeneration is held forth in this Symbol and Sign Austin and Paulinus in the 7th Century in England Baptized great Multitudes in the River Trent and Swale Hence saith Mr. Fox there was no use of Fonts then Fox's Acts and Monuments 9 Edit Vol. 1. p. 132. by the Apostle Paul when he speaks of the washing of Regeneration unto Titus Now we know every Faculty of the Soul is washed in the Blood of Christ and every Faculty sanctified by the Holy Spirit not a part of the Faculties but all the Faculties therefore wisely set forth by Baptism wherein not only a part but the whole Body is wash'd and cleansed in Water 8. This is further cleared from the practice of the most pure Apostolick Times 'T is said of our most blessed Lord Jesus That he went up out of the Water Mat. 3.15 16 17. which in common sense signifies He first went down not only to the Water but into the Water and came up out of the Water Of Philip and the Eunuch 't is said Acts 8.36 40. They went down both not only to the Water but into the Water and came up out of the Water if Sprinkling would have done they need only go to and come from it but they knew the Commission could not be answered unless they went down into the Water The Minister is to dip in Water as the meetest Act the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notes it Rogers on the Sacrament Thus you see the Places where the Apostles Baptized were in Rivers and where was much Water You see their Act and Posture they went down into the Water you see their End was to exhibit and shew forth Christ's Death Burial and Resurection If any should ask Why Sprinkling will not do as well as Dipping I answer 1. Because that is another thing than Christ hath commanded and 't is high presumption to change God's Ordinances Isa 24.5 Tho there was no more virtue in the Waters of Jordan than of Damascus yet Naaman must keep to God's Appointment 2. In so doing we lose the End of the Ordinance which as aforesaid is to shew forth the Death and Resurrection of Christ 3. We must keep the Ordinances as they were delivered unto us 1 Cor. 11.2 'T is a known Maxim to practise any thing in the Worship of God as an Ordinance of his without an Institution ought to be esteemed Will-worship Idolatry And that there is a necessity for Scripture-Authority to warrant every Ordinance and Practice in Divine Worship is owned by Luther Austin Calvin Basil Theoph. Tertul Mr. Ball and in the 6th Article of the Church of England also Bellarmine as Moses was to make all things according to the Pattern shewed him in the Mount. 4. God is a Jealous God and stands upon small things in Matters of Worship Had Moses and Aaron but lifted up a Tool upon the Altar of ruff Stone to beautify it they would have polluted it because contrary to the Command 5. This hath no likeness to the holy Examples of Christ and his Apostles CHAP. IV. Shewing that professing Believers and them only are the proper Subjects of Baptism Which I demonstrate FIrst From Gospel-Precept Our Text saith He that believeth and is baptized Erasmus saith 'T is no where in the Apostles Writings Infants were baptized The parallel Text Mat. 28. is worthy of consideration by way of Division The Commission is Go the Subjects spoken to are his Apostles the Matter of it is to teach and baptize the Extent of it is into all the World not only in hot Countries but in Cold. The Order in this Commission is first to teach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then after taught and discipellized to baptize them Therefore to baptize them We meet with no Example in Scripture for baptizing Infants Magd. Hist Cent. 1. L. 2. p. 196. before taught is quite contrary to the Command The words of Institution in whose Name it is to be done is the glorious Trinity in the Name of Father Son and Holy Spirit this must be some great thing which is done by so great Authority Unto this is annexed a glorious Promise of Divine Presence not only to the End of that Age but the End of the World * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to put us out of all doubt about it 't is back'd with an Asseveration Amen so it shall be Finally here is a Note of Observation Lo our Lord would not have so great a Commission and Promise disregarded therefore saith he Lo that is observe what I have said wherever you find the word Lo Mark or Behold you will always find something very considerable it relates unto in the Context Now in pursuance of this Commission Peter exhorted the Murderers of Christ when they were convicted and cried out What shall we do he saith Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost 2ly This appears from Gospel-Precedent and Example the Apostles in pursuance of their Commission baptize none else but such Hence John the Baptist tells the Pharisees and Sadduces which came to his Baptism As Isaac was brought forth by the Word of Promise so must we be born of the Word of God which only makes Baptism powerful and effectual Magd. Cent. 5. p. 363. they must first bring forth Fruit meet for or to amendment of Life and not to think the old Argument for Circumcision that Abraham was their Father would give them a right to Gospel-Ordinances It 's not the Faith of Parents gives Children a right to the Seals of the New Covenant but a personal Faith hence Philip would not baptize the Eunuch but upon profession of Faith In a word all the Primitive Churches were constituted and planted upon this Foundation-Principle Heb. 6.1 2. Acts 2.41 Chap. 8.12 Chap. 16.14 Coloss 2.10 Acts 18.8 Rom. 6.4 Gal. 3.26 Acts 19.1 2 3. Ephes 4.4 as

these Scriptures show in the Margent viz. the Church at Jerusalem Samaria Cesaria Philippi Coloss Corinth Rome Galatia Ephesus c. To conclude If the Churches of Christ were so planted and constituted in the Primitive Times they ought to be so still unless any can shew where Christ hath since that altered the Constitution of his Churches 3ly This Ordinance cannot concern Infants but Believers because it 's a testification of the Remission of Sins and Salvation to the worthy Receiver and Subject of it Acts 2.38 Mark 16.16 else why doth Peter promise remission of Sin and the Gift of the Holy Ghost to such And why did our Lord join Faith Baptism and Salvation all in one Verse Baptism is never enjoined as a Means of Remission of Sins and Eternal Life but something of Duty Choice and Sanctity is joined with it in order to the production of the End so mentioned Dr. Taylor but that the Ordinance should be a Pledg to the Believer of those great things We collect as much from Acts 22.16 where Ananias exhorted Paul to arise and be baptized and wash away his Sins that is put that Duty in practice which will be a Confirmation of thy Justification so we understand Peter The like Figure whereunto Baptism doth now save us viz. As the Ark was the instrumental way of God's saving Noah by his Grace 1 Pet. 3.20 Baptism is our Marriage-Ring Military Press-mony our ingrafting into Christ our Badg and Cognizance our Ship our Ark our Red-Sea our putting on Christ Dan. Rogers so Faith in Christ's Death and Resurrection is the way God saves our Souls this being confirmed unto us in the Figure of Baptism as well as at the Lord's Table But what have Infants to do with this who are not capable to take in the Comfort exhibited and held forth in it This is Meat for strong Men not Babes 4ly Believers only must be the Subjects of this Ordinance because it holds forth a Covenant the Subject makes actually with God Hence saith the Apostle Rom. 6.3 Know you not as many as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his Death as if he should say In that Ordinance you did covenant and promise to die unto Sin and live a new Life Therefore saith he how can you that are dead to Sin live any longer therein And this you have profess'd in your Baptism as in the words of the Institution Gossops and Sureties are no where found in Holy Scripture but in the Pope's Decree and Common-Prayer Book Which the Parliament in K. Edward the 6th's time confessed There was no other difference between that and the Mass-Book only a few things left out but that one was in Latin the other in English Fox's Acts Mon. Edit 9. Vol. 2. Book 9. p. 14 15. the whole Trinity gives it self unto the Believer So he dedicates himself voluntarily to the Service of the whole Trinity Father Son and Spirit In all Covenants of this Nature there is required the Information of the Judgment Consent of the Will it must be an Act of Choice As the Eunuch said See here is Water what hinders me to be baptized But none of these things are agreeable to an Infant and as they are not able to enter into Covenant themselves if others do it for them 't is not only Unscriptural but Antiscriptural Can Persons covenant to keep others from Sin when they find it too hard a work to keep themselves 5ly Baptism is a lively representation of Regeneration therefore can only affect Believers The Apostle alludes unto Baptism when he speaks of the washing of Regeneration Titus 3.5 His meaning is that the Ordinance is a lively Badg Symbol and Sign of Regeneration and the New Birth The Apostle to the Colossians Ch. 2.12 tells them That their Baptism did exhibit and shew forth their being dead and risen with Christ through that Faith which was of that Omnipotent Operation which raised Christ from the Dead but no Signs of Regeneration appear in Infants at Baptism that is untruly said Saith the Papist to the Prelat You prove that Sacraments convey Grace in the very Act as we assert for just before Baptism the Child was an Heir of Hell and Child of Wrath but being baptized it is Regenerated and born again as your Common-Prayer Book saith in the Common-Prayer Book after the Child is sprinkled Forasmuch as this Child is regenerated and born again which just before was acknowledged to be a Child of Wrath and an Heir of Hell We say tho God hath promised his Presence in all his Appointments yet we also say Persons are not to be Baptized that they may be Regenerated but to hold forth and signify Regeneration therefore Baptism can no ways affect little Infants CHAP. V. Contains the Answer of Objections Objection 1. FEW Learned Men own this way of Baptizing only a few mechanick poor illiterate Persons I Answer The Apostle saith Not many wise Men after the Flesh are called 1 Cor. 1.24 29. Christ did not ordinarily make use of the learned Rabbies among the Jews to preach the Gospel but rather those who were counted illiterate and ignorant that no Flesh might glory in his Presence God gets the more praise by making use of Babes and Sucklings Christ thanks the Father Psal 8.2 that Divine Things were hid from the Wise and Prudent such as the World so accounted Mat. 11.27 and revealed unto Babes because they would render the Glory unto God while the worldly wise Men would take it to themselves 2. Those who have the most humane Literature are no Rule but God's Word we must follow Paul no further than he follows Christ 3. The Holy Scriptures account no Man truly Wise and Learned but those taught of God and that keep his Commands Psal 111.10 The Learned Pharisees and Expounders of the Law rejected the Counsel of God against themselves in not being Baptized 4. Are there no Learned of this Practice What think you of St. Augustine See Danvers on Baptism p. 60 61 62 63. Many of those born of Christian Parents Basil Gregory Nazianzen Jerom Ambrose Chrysostom Constantine Theodosius Paul and as the Crown of all our Lord Jesus were all these Illiterate and Ignorant Object 2. The Children of Believers are in the Covenant They say the Foederati were to be the Signati therefore ought to have the Seal of the Covenant Baptism I Answer There is but two ways of being in the Covenant Absolutely or Conditionally Let it first be proved the Infant-Seed of Believers are in Covenant then 2ly if so that they ought to be baptized Female Children under the Law had a legal or federal Holiness yet not to be Circumcised No Believer dare say all his Infant-Seed are in the Covenant of Grace absolutely for then they must all be saved but we see Abraham had an Ishmael Isaac an Esau David an Absalom Samuel Sons of Belial c. so that they cannot

was imputed to him for Righteousness not when Circumcised but Uncircumcised This being the scope of this Place a Man had need have a great deal of skill to prove Pedo-Baptism from it Object 6. Christ said Suffer little Children to come unto me c. I Answer Yet Christ may be said to baptize when his Servants do it by his Commission For what were those Children brought to Christ not to be Baptized for he Baptized none 't is enough for the Lord to command his Servants to do it These Children were brought to Christ probably to be touch'd by him to the healing some Diseases Consider here is not one word of Baptism in this Scripture Also the Greek word signifieth a Child capable of teaching for 't is the same word where 't is said Timothy knew from a Child the Holy Scriptures that is since he was a Boy not an Infant So Piscator maintains it Luke 18. and he put his Hands upon them and prayed Mat. 19.13 Not to Baptize them for we cannot imagine our Lord would act contrary to his own Commission which was to Baptize them who were first taught and did believe Again because Christ saith Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Some infer they may be baptized having a right unto the greater much more to the lesser We say this is a non sequitur It does not follow Persons may by Election have a right to the Kingdom of Glory yet no right to Gospel-Ordinances because under no Obligation to it by any Precept or Promise and wanting those Qualifications which the Gospel requires By the same Argument Infants may be brought to the Eucharist or Table of the Lord because what fits them for the one fits them for the other Object 7. If the first Fruit be Holy the Lump is also Holy if the Root be Holy so are the Branches Hence some would infer a Derivative-Holiness from the Parent to the Children therefore to be baptized I Answer This Objection is raised from Rom. 11.16 The scope of the Apostle in this place is to shew That Abraham Father of the Faithful is the Root not as a Natural but Spiritual Father And if we boast our selves of being Branches of this Root we must have the Faith of our Father Abraham for the grafting in here does not consist in outward Ordinances but in saving Grace not in the Visible but Invisible Church by Faith Mark ☜ none can be called Father of the Faithful but Abraham only No particular Believer which is but a Branch of this Root can infer they are a Holy Root to their Posterity See Mr. Cary of Baptism because Abraham is called the Father of the Faithful for Abraham is a Spiritual Father but we are accounted Natural In this Chapter the whole Body of Believers are compared unto the Olive-tree each Believer to a Branch which partakes of the Root and Fatness of the Olive-Tree which Root and Fatness is Christ the grafting in is by Faith into the Invisible Church which was first among the Jews therfore called the Olive Tree out of Abraham the Root who is here said to bear them for Abraham stood in a double Capacity God was a God unto Abraham and his natural Seed in giving them a literal Canaan unto his Spiritual Seed a God in giving them a Spiritual Canaan one as a Natural Father to the Jews the other as a Spiritual Father to the Gentiles According to the former Capacity some are called Branches according to Nature but in the latter the Gentiles are called wild Olive-Trees by Nature yet grafted in by Faith this being the Scope He must be a Man of great Learning that will undertake to prove Infant-Baptism from this Scripture Must the Child be necessarily Holy and in Covenant because the Father is Must the Child be Baptized because the Father is Good this hath no Warrant from God's Word which is our Rule Object 8. Many godly learned Men are for Pedo or Infant-Baptism Many Learned Men are against Infant-Baptism the Donatists Novations Waldenses Albigenses Ancient Britains Christ and his Apostles Humanum est errare I Answer With Sir Walter Rawleigh from Vadianus we pass over many gross Errors by the Authority of great Men. Are there not many in the Roman Communion who are very Learned The Pharisees and Lawyers were Learned Men who rejected the Counsel of God against themselves in not being Baptized Luke 7.30 Say not as they once said Have any of the Rulers believed on him Godly Men are not to be imitated in their Errors but their Vertues Elias was a good Man yet called for Fire from Heaven Luke 9. We must not do so Luther was sound in Justification by Faith in Christ yet was not to be imitated in Consubstantiation c. Asa and Jehoshaphat were good Men yet both out in not removing the High Places 1 King 15.4 That which is called the Reformed Religion had better deserved that Name had they shut out that Relique of Antichrist Infant-Baptism Object 9. Infant-Baptism is no where forbidden I Answer Is it lawful because not forbidden It is therefore not lawful because the Scripture doth not command it Every Affirmative Command of Christ includes a Negative Tertullian Where-ever Christ commands the Baptizing Believers there is an implicit prohibition of all others not so qualified Nadab and Abihu had no prohibition from using strange Fire yet destroyed for not using that Fire upon the Altar which was commanded and using that which the Lord commanded not By this way of arguing we may bring in the Baptizing of Bells as the Book of Martyrs tells us of them that did it and an hundred more Ceremonies of Rome Object 10. Those the Apostles Baptized were converted from Paganism Heathenism whose Parents never believed in Christ as ours but were Heathens I Answer There is no more reason to baptize the Child of a Believer Christianity is not hereditary as the Son of a Freeman is free for Isaac had an Esau and Samuel Sons of Belial than the Child of an Unbeliever as such and there 's the same reason to baptize the Child of an Infidel if it believes as the Child of a Believer upon his or her personal Faith The worthiness or unworthiness of the Parent does not affect the Children so as to make them fitter or unfitter for Gospel-Ordinances if they bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance tho their Parents were Idolaters they are proper Subjects of Gospel-Ordinances and if the Parents are never so Holy unless the Children have personal actual Faith they are not to meddle with God's most holy Things Whereas you say they were Heathens the Apostles baptized we say they were Christians Believers Was the Lord Jesus an Heathen The Ennuch a Worshipper of the true God and Cornelius's Prayers and Alms came up before God for a Memorial but whatever they were before Faith Heathens or Infidels the Apostles baptized them not until they believed and became

for Men go down into the Sea So accordingly it was practised in the Apostles Time they went down into the Water which if it had not been to be dipp'd in it they need to have gone only unto it therefore how vain is that he asserts John baptized standing at the brink of the River Jordan pag. 8. This is to contradict the Word of God which saith plainly Philip and the Eunuch went both down into the Water not to the brink of it and came up out of the Water In pag. 4 5. his great Ordnance by which he thinks to do the most Execution is from 1 Cor. 10.1 2. where it is said All our Fathers were baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea Answer 1. Consider it is said the Fathers not the Children were baptized 2. If you will have it the Children also then you must include there Beasts and Cattel for the Cloud poured Water upon them all 3. Where-ever the word Baptism is used whether it be applied to the Spirit to Sufferings or to Water it always sheweth some large measure of all So here they were baptized in the Cloud and in the Sea not properly baptized for that Ordinance was not in use then but the scope of that place is the Apostle thought fit to borrow that word Baptize for to show God's gracious protection of them in the Red-Sea as in the Wilderness he fed them with Manna from Heaven and gave them Water out of a Rock So he left them not in the Red-Sea but encompassed them about in safety by his Divine Providence with Water on each side of them and the Cloud over them as Persons are encompassed with that Element when baptized Again for the true understanding of the Word we must have recourse to the common Acceptation of it and not imagine the Spirit of God doth contradict the common Acceptation of Words among Men. When the Prophets wrote by Inspiration and the Apostles they always used such words as were vulgar and commonly accepted amongst Men so that the common acceptation of the Hebrew word Tabal among the Hebrews and Baptizo among the Greeks always signifying to dip there being other words to signify sprinkle or pour How then can pouring Rain from the Cloud be called Baptism as John Wall would needs have it though he beg for it because it can never be proved see my Book pag. 16 17. And is he not full of audacity or boldness to tell the World in pag. 8. That there is not one word that any by John or Philip were dipped when the very word properly signifieth dipping Hence the Dutch call John the Dooper And our Translators might as well have rendred baptize dip in all the places where it is as to render Judas sopt dipp'd and Christ's Vesture dipp'd in Blood being all from the same Original Word And whereas he tells the World pag. 16 17. Though the Scripture say they baptized in Aenon because there was much Water He saith It would not be enough to dip half the Body in 1. I suppose he never was there to see it but speaks by an implicit Faith 2. Common sense directs us to believe there was need of much Water to the due performance of that Ordinance or else the Holy Spirit would not have mentioned it as commodious for that Work because much Water there a little Water will sprinkle hundreds but much Water is necessary unto the due performance of this Ordinance of Baptism because it must be so done as to figure out the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ Now I would fain know how sprinkling or pouring Water upon the Face doth figure out Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection Rom. 6.1 2 4. In pag. 9. how disingenuously doth he deal with Coloss 2.12 We are buried with Christ in Baptism To follow their natural Fancy saith he the Person buried is wholly passive and must be taken in Arms laid upon the Water then Water cast upon him till covered as Earth is upon the Dead Answer This way of discourse is a kind of trifling with God's Word You are to know Similitudes do not run upon all four as we say but respect must alway be had to the chief intent and design of a Metaphor which in this Text is to hold forth the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ for our Justification and also holds forth our Death to Sin and Resurrection to a new Life This being the prime scope of the Apostle his way of discourse is nothing but to evade the strength of the Argument Whereas in pag. 10. he saith The Person baptizeth part of himself because he goeth into the Water We answer That is false because he doth not lay himself down in the Water but that is done by the Administrator he lays him along as one buried under the Water his whole Body not the upper part only to figure out Christ's lying in the Grave for as the Persons stands upright in the Water that is not Baptism but when laid along under the Water by the Administrator using the words of Institution I baptize thee in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost this is Baptism In pag. 14. he saith The Person is not baptized but his Cloaths Those things are not becoming Modesty to discourse of Let that vain Man know we do not baptize the Cloaths in the Name of the Blessed Trinity but the Person and should we baptize otherwise I fear this poor Man would be the first would reproach the Interest of Christ upon that account Whereas he chargeth B. K. pag. 80. with the whole Assembly of Baptized Believers that they were forced to try their Wits for want of those literal words Remember you keep holy the First Day Answ Our Arguments for observing the First Day do greatly satisfy our Consciences being grounded upon the Word of God Also our Arguments against Pedobaptism and for Believers Baptism also being proved from the same Divine Revelation But alas how are Men put at their Wits end to find Arguments for Pedobaptism or else they would never prefer a dark Consequence before a plain Command which is beneath the Reason of a Man nor run to the Law to prove a Gospel-Ordinance and reject God's Institution and set up Man's Invention Could he say as much for Pedobaptism as we can for the Lord's Day the Controversy would not have held so long Could he give us such Examples of Infant-Baptism as we can for our religious observing that Day we shall give him thanks And whereas in pag. 104. he quarrels because we do not Baptize always upon the First Day We do not judg we are confin'd to that Day The Lord's Supper Christ himself did institute it and practise it with his Apostles on another Day than the First Day of the Week Although we do grant it is very commendable to do such Work on such Days when retired from our Labour yet we do not think we are confin'd to that Day for