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A57687	Paedobaptismus vindicatus, or, Infant-baptism stated in an essay to evidence its lawfulness from the testimony of the Holy Scripture, especially St. Matthew, XXVIII, 19 : the grand, if not sole place, so much insisted on by the antipaedobaptists, to prove their mistaken principle : handled in a different method form other tracts on the subject, as appears in the contents : with an account of a conference publickly held with an antipaedobaptist of no small fame / by J.R., A.M., a Presbyter of te Church of England.	Rothwell, John, d. 1661.	1693 (1693)	Wing R2005; ESTC R6073	107,326	230

will give a full Answer and for which I shall in great part Vid. Mr. Ellis's Treat called Pastor and Clerk Or a Debate real concerning Inant Baptism p. 182 195. be obliged to the Judicious Mr. Ellis 1. I am not obliged to make any return 2. This is a perillous Method of arguing to Religion 3. That it doth not further their Cause 1. I am not obliged to make any return For we may well continue the Custom seeing we have so strong Reasons from holy Writ for it and seeing we have so long enjoyed and used it by so many Instances from the Primitive times as may be proved so that we have Prescription to plead and that Lawyers tells us in some Cases is a good Bar against all other Titles It is upon these Accounts your duty that contradict it to declare any one Instance or Proof that these Reasons and this continued Custom of all times since the holy Apostolick Age should not be continued which I am satisfied they will not be able to perform if they should be so couragious as to undertake it and therefore it will be in vain to make any attempt that way 2. This method of demanding positive Words from Holy Writ for all that Men are to believe or do is extream hazardous to Religion where there is sufficient reason without such an Authority to engage our Faith 1. As to Doctrin it would censure the Method of arguing used by our Blessed Saviour and his Holy Disciples and so make way for a falling from the Truth and giving entrance to the most pernicious Heresies and therefore he that believes such a Doctrin can be no good Christian and possibly for this Reason several have gone from one Sect to another till they came to be of no Religion at all and looking for what is not to be had in Holy Writ nor should be expected from any sort of arguing they have thereupon cast off all 2. As to customary Practices what a door of entrance would there be for strange Doctrins and stranger Practices there is no Command for or Instance of a Woman partaking in the Holy Communion we read not of the baptizing of the Holy Disciples no Command or Instance of one that is not a Clergyman may not have more Wives than one whereupon I have read of one in Essex that married more than one at a time and as it was supposed for that Reason 3. It doth not further their Cause because where there is a good Reason for us to believe or do we are not to stop or stay our belief or defer acting till we have an Instance from Holy Scripture What Command or foreknown Instance had the Holy Apostle of the Circumcision to admit the Centurion of the Italian Band and his Family to Baptism seeing they were not circumcised only that he collected it that because he had a Title to the Covenant by the miraculous Gift of the Holy Ghost he had right to the Sign that conveyed the Priviledge of the Covenant The Commission the Holy Jesus gave to his Blessed Disciples at his leaving the World in relation to the persons is in the Masculine Gender and the Account of St. Peter's baptizing his first Converts was in the same Gender Why then did St. Philip admit to baptism Women as well as Men Acts viij 12 And why do the Antipedobaptists as well as we admit Women to the Communion when there is neither Command nor Rule to enjoyn it To conclude all I shall need to say by way of Exposition upon these three Texts As the Obligatory Power of the Ceremonies and Rites among the Jews was abolished because they did not agree with the ingenuous temper of the Christian Institution so more principally was it taken away as being disagreeable to the Notion of its being an Universal Society for it would have impeded the Propagation of the Religion of the B. Jesus had it been burdened with the Ceremonies and Rites of the Jews which were grown hateful as well as nauseous to the Heathenish part of Mankind and to name no other Instance he was upon this account engaged to alter the Sacrament for Admission into his Church or the Sign of the Old Covenant Circumcision I mean whereby the People of Israel excepting some few Nations as the ancient Egyptians Ethiopians Ishmaclites and Colchians were differenced from the rest of Mankind They were I say Vid. Case of Infant-Baptism pag. 20. grown nauseous and hateful to the World for the use thereof as it is insinuated by several of the Poets as Martial Horace Petronius and Juvenal Is any man called being circumcised let him not become uncircumcised i. e. 1 Cor. vij 18. Let him not use means to attract the Praeputium or Foreskin which the Jewish People were frequently wont to do to shun reproach and to deliver themselves from Persecution in Paganish Kingdoms And upn this account it would have been a great hindrance to the propagation of the New Dispensation should the Heathen World have been admitted to the New Covenant by that way no Sacred Ceremony could be more unacceptable to Mankind in general and hereupon the Wisdom of our Merciful Redeemer as well as New Legislator is to be commended in altering the old antiquated Sign into a more gentle pleasant way of admission by Water which was as of a more universal use so of a more general signification because the Heathen World as well as the People of Israel used it For Heathenism was little else but the Jewish Religion abused by the Prince of Darkness and Father of Lies as Christianity was little more than pure Natural Reason exalted and improved by the King of Light and Purity CHAP. XII A Defence of the Expositions delivered from Jewish Customs AND now that I may engage you to the belief of the sense I have given of these three Texts of Holy Scripture I declare the Account I have offered is according to Jewish Custom and the sense of things well known among them which is the only true and proper way of coming to their right meaning and without such an Exposition or Allusion it is impossible to understand several Phrases and Places in the New Testament Dr. Hammond's Case of Infant-Baptism in his Resolution of six Queries And this may appear from an excellent Account given by the Reverend Dr. Hammond in eight Particulars which I will only mention but not enlarge upon referring you to the Account he gives and then add one memorable Instance to confirm this way of expounding H. Scripture 1. In the calling and receiving Disciples 2. In the Donation of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven 3. In the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's H. Supper 4. In Imposition of Hands 5. In the Title of Apostles 6. In the Name and Office of Bishops 7. In the Title of Deacons 8. In the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Church in both Notions of it for the People and the Rulers thereof or Church-Representative