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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53334	A brief defence of infant-baptism with an appendix, wherein is shewed that it is not necessary that baptism should be administred by dipping / by John Ollyffe ...	Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717.	1694 (1694)	Wing O287; ESTC R32212	67,029	72

holy People unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special People unto himself above all the People that are upon the Face of the Earth Which are the Appellations that are likewise given to the Members of the Christian Church in the New-Testament-Times by the Apostle 1 Pet. 2.9 Ye are a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar People that ye should shew forth the Praises of him who hath called you out of Darkness into his marvellous Light which in time past were not a People but are now the People of God So that these Titles being given to the Jews import their like Covenent-relation to God in a Church-sense as they here belong to Christians in the same Sense Now the whole Body of the People of the Jews being called by God into this holy Covenant-relation to himself are stiled by the Prophet Israel his called Isa 48.12 And as thus he chose and called them so he chose their Seed after them Deut. 4.37 The great Design of this Election and Call of God being to preserve pure Religion among them which was extinguish'd in the rest of the World and therefore he took and adopted their Seed likewise to be as a Nursery to the Vineyard of the Church And therefore as the Psalmist saith Psal 78.5 He established a Testimony in Jacob and appointed a Law in Israel which he commanded our Fathers that they should make known unto their Children that the Generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their Children According to Deut. 4.9 and chap. 6.7 the great Care and Design of God being to raise up an holy People to himself among the Nations to preserve the true Religion in the World and it being of great Import to this to have Children and little ones well educated and brought up in the Belief and Owning and Worship of the true God he therefore ordered them a visible Admission or Partnership and Membership in his Church that they might be also owned and received as his People and Children that their Parents and Guardians might be obliged to take the more Care of their Education for the promoting the great End of the Covenant Thus the Adoption and the Promises as the Apostle tells us Rom. 9.4 pertained to all Israel amongst whom the young Children also were included they being all God's Chosen and Called and so continued till they were rejected and cut off through their own actual Apostacy and Rebellion against God and then they were discovenanted both they and the Children of those that were guilty of this Apostacy But for others that continue still in a profess'd Adhesion to God and persist in the Profession of the true Religion this their Church-state and Covenant-relation to God as his peculiar People is continued still both to them and their Seed and was never taken off from either unto this Day Which is the second thing I am now to come to shew 2. I say that this Adoption of the Infants or young Children of his Covenant-People into this near Relation to himself as the Children of God and so their Partnership or Membership in the visible Church of God was never abolish'd or taken away by God but is still continued and rather confirmed For how indeed can it be imagined or supposed that now in the Gospel-Administration which is an Administration wherein there is a greater Extensiveness and Enlargement of God's gracious Respect to the World in respect of spiritual Privileges and Mercies than there was before that his Goodness and gracious Respect should be more restrained in reference to Infants and young Children than it was formerly For the Infants of Jews and Proselytes formerly were taken into the Number of God's Covenant-People and Children and had the Seal of the Covenant applied to them for the Confirmation thereof And if this Privilege and Benefit should be now taken away their Condition after Christ would be worse than before and they should be Losers by the World 's becoming Christian This one would think none should ever imagine Neither when we speak thus do we complain against God but against them who would exclude whom the Lord hath not excluded For we do not find that ever God hath repented of any Grace or Favour that he hath shewed to the little ones of his Covenant-People in respect of their being to be reckoned of his Church But in those Prophecies which we find in the Old Testament concerning the future Discoveries and Declarations of his Favour we find that there was the same Grace and Kindness foretold and intended to be shewn to the Children as to the Parents So that in this manner the Church should be propagated from Parents to Children and so the true Religion preserved in this way as the most proper means for it Thus in that Prophecy which hath relation to the Calling of the Jews in Gospel-times as appears by the Apostle's quoting some part of it to that purpose Rom. 11.26 viz. Isa 59.20 As for me this is my Covenant saith the Lord My Spirit that is upon thee and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth shall not depart out of thy Mouth nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds Seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever And so in like manner it is a Prophecy of Gospel times Isa 44.3 I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty and Floods upon the dry Ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my Blessing upon thy Offspring And they shall spring up as among the Grass as Willows by the Water-Courses And Ezek. 47.22 The Tenour and Intendment of God's Favour to little ones is always the same as it ever was in reference to their being of his Church and People nor is there the least Indication of any Design of the Dissolution or Alteration thereof For first for clearing of this Matter let us consider that when God first shewed this Respect to Abraham and his Infant-seed to take them near to himself as his peculiar People God's Election and Call of them to this peculiar Covenant-relation to himself as his Children and People and so his giving them a Partnership or Membership in the Abrahamical Church was not with Respect merely to their Proceeding by natural Generation from Abraham but from Abraham as a Believer and Worshipper of the true God there being a fair Prospect upon this Account that Abraham would take care to train them up and educate them in the true Religion Whereas the Children of Heathens where there was no such Prospect had no such regard shewn them by God This seems to be much upon God's Heart as we may express it in his treating with Abraham and giving of him those great Promises Gen. 18.19 For I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall

keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him It was with Abraham as a Believer and true Worshipper of God that God treated and made this Covenant and so took his Children also into that near Relation to himself when the Children of the Heathen were neglected as their Fathers were And so this Blessing in like manner was to be continued to his Children and Posterity to successive Generations as Believers or Children of Abraham's Faith still continuing to believe in and worship the God of Abraham In this Respect God promised to be their God and the God of their Seed upon condition that they keep his Covenant and his Statutes But if they refused to do so they were to be cut off and to have no Part or Inheritance in God or the Blessings of his Covenant neither they nor their Seed But on the other side they that were not of the natural Seed of Abraham but were bought with his Money or were born of Gentile Parents in his House they being brought into this near Capacity to be instructed and brought up in the true Religion were likewise to share in this Covenant and to partake of the same spiritual Privileges with the natural Seed of Abraham and were to be reckoned and numbred with them as the People and Children of God and God promised to be their God likewise as well as of Abraham's natural Seed And so also afterwards all those Gentiles that were at any time proselyted and brought over to the Faith and Religion of Abraham were with their Children admitted to the same Privileges So that it appears that it was with Abraham only as the Father of the Faithful and consequently with all those that are the Children of the Faith of Abraham was this Covenant made that God would be their God and the God of their Seed though they are not Abraham's Children or Seed according to the Flesh by natural Generation The Covenant was made with Abraham and all his spiritual Seed and not with his Seed meerly according to the Flesh The Apostle hath cleared this to us Rom. 9.6 7 8. Not as though the Word or Promise of God hath taken none effect because he will reject and cast off those that were descended of Abraham for their Unbelief and rejecting the Gospel to whom you think that the Promises were made For they are not all the true Israel of God to whom the Promise belongs which are descended of Israel neither because they are the Seed of Abraham by natural Generation only are they all Children of God's Covenant but in Israel shall thy Seed be called and chosen to whom the Covenant and Promises shall belong That is All they which are the Children of the Flesh as proceeding from Abraham only by natural Generation these meerly as such are not the Children of God that he reckons amongst his Covenant-People but the Children of the Promise only as Isaac was that is that are Abraham's spiritual Seed are accounted for the Seed that God took into that near Covenant-relation to himself and these he will own still in the same Capacity as ever both they and their Seed And therefore the Covenant of God to Abraham and his Seed stands firm against all the vain Objections of the unbelieving Jews From this Discourse of the Apostle then it followeth that it was not with the Nation of the Jews only as being that natural Seed of Abraham that the Covenant was made and that the Adoption did belong to them and to their Seed but it was and is a Benefit belonging to all Believers as the Children of Abraham's Faith that did or ever should join themselves to the People of the God of Abraham All such are still an holy and peculiar People to God both they and their Seed till they cut themselves off by their own actual Rebellion and Apostacy as the Jews did in our Saviour's and the Apostles times by their not receiving him that was sent of God The same spiritual Privileges do belong to all believing Parents and to their Seed and Family or those they become Guardians or Tutors to to bring them up in the true Religion now in the Gospel-Ministration as did belong to the Children and Family of Jewish Believers formerly This appears yet further by the Apostle's Discourse Acts 2.39 For the Promise or Covenant for these are Terms that do mutually infer each other is unto you and to your Children Compare Acts 3.25 Gal. 3.16 17 18 29. Rom. 4.16 Heb. 6.17 upon your Faith and also to all the Gentiles that are afar off Yet even as many as the Lord our God shall call to the receiving and owning of the same Faith and so consequently to their Children and Seed also as well as unto your selves Here the old Grant to them and to their Seed is declared to be continued and so by Consequence to the Offspring of all those that should hereafter believe But this Matter may be rendred yet more clear from several Passages in the Apostle's Discourse in Rom. 11. for it appears there by the Apostle that the Jewish and Christian Church are radically and fundamentally the same Church the same Stock and Root and the same Terms and Conditions of Church-membership or Dischurching do belong to both Nor is the Christian Church any new Constitution distinct from the Jewish nor is the way of Church-membership in it any other now than what was before The Laws are indeed altered in many things but in this Matter there is no Alteration there is the same Covenant and the same Church and the Church is still constituted of Abraham's spiritual Seed as it was before so that the same Church-members also keep their Place in it as there did then And consequently as Infants or little Children of Believers were Members of it before their Parents became Christian so they continue to be still after they became so And so the Children of all Gentile Believers for the future For consider ver 17. the believing Gentiles are but grafted in amongst them and with them partake of the same spiritual Privileges and ver 20. it is because of Vnbelief that any of the Branches are broken off and they that believe are always in it So that the Church is the same and still remains without any Discontinuance or Dissolution of it only Unbelievers are broken off from it and others that believe are grafted in their room It is the same Olive-tree or the same Church still but some of the Branches are broken off sc the unbelieving Jews and others that is believing Gentiles are grafted in And none are shut out but only through Unbelief They that believe continue still of it and so also their Children in the same manner as before they having no Unbelief of their own by which they should be broken off nor yet any imputed to them from their Parents they being Believers And ver