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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Allowance or Command being it was used in the times immediately succeeding to the Holy Apostles and also if it had been disagreeable to the Mind of Christ it is very probable he would have forbid it or some way or other declared his Aversion or Dislike In short to conclude the Exposition of the Sence I have delivered of this Text Nothing can more disparage the Wisdom of Heaven and the long-approved Custom of the Jews than to affirm Children unfit by Sacramental Seal to be admitted to Covenant under the Holy Gospel that were admitted under the Law and which Heaven and the Jews allowed them For Heaven enjoyned Circumcision for Infants and the Church of the Jews enjoyned them Baptism as well as full-grown Proselytes and under the Law they were allowed both It is highly unreasonable then that under the Holy Gospel they should be denied one or any other Token of Admission into the Covenant as they must necessarily be by Antipaedobaptistic Principles CHAP. VI. The Sence of St. Matthew xxviij 19. proved by the Coherence and Connexion of the Words AND now that I may engage you to believe the Sence I have offered I will prove it by the Connexion of the Words Whereas the Antipaedobaptists say Children are to be Instructed before Baptized I will endeavour to evince That the Coherence of this Text seems to be of our side and that Children are to be baptized before taught Obj. I know the Antipaedobaptists by the placing of the Words in the Commission would insinuate that Infants must be Instructed before Baptized Answ To which I return That if the placing of the Words be a sufficient Objection against our Practice we have the same Argument by way of Retortion to urge against their Custom of Teaching first and if they do not like our Argument in that Case we have the same Reason not to like theirs For we find in St. Mark i. 4 John did baptize in the Wilderness and preach the Baptism of Repentance for the remission of sins Where we may observe Baptism precedes and Preaching is subsequent thereupon The same we may find in our Text with respect to the Verse before and that which follows ver 18. And Jesus came and spake to them saying All Power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth i. e Now I am exalted to the right hand of God I am the great King of all the World the Supreme Pastor and Head of my People the High-Priest of my Church Go you therefore and teach all Nations or as St. Mark expresses the Commission Chap. xvj 15. And he said unto them Go you into all the World i. e. Travel into all the World and from every Nation gather me Sheep into my Fold make Subjects to my Kingdom and then by Baptism receive them as Members of my Church And this is your Office of Discipling all Nations and then the Instructive part follows ver 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you CHAP. VII The Sence of St. Matthew xxviij 19 further evidenced from the Original IN truth the Term it self if seriously considered will not conclude what they would have it do for the Word in the Greek hath a peculiar signification and is not properly translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Word i. e. make Disciples or receive into Discipleship all Nations baptizing them And let this Form of Baptizing be the Rite for their Admission into my Church you may find the Word so rendred in another place of the Holy Gospel not unlike hereto St. John iv 1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more Disciples than John where to Baptize and make Disciples is the same thing with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Baptizing being immediately annexed to the making or receiving Disciples and the making Disciples not granting any foregoing Teaching but looking to it as a consequent Duty in like sort as in the next Verse ver 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Teaching subsequent to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baptizing which must signifie different from what he used for Discipling else why should he not continue the same word must needs inferr the no necessity of Teaching before Baptizing so that all that are thus admitted ad Discipulatum or to Discipleship to be taught and improved in the Religion of the Holy Jesus and such that shall and will be instructed for the future may certainly by being Baptized be admitted into the Church the Rite appointed and instituted whereby Disciples may have a Reception and Entertainment in his Family the Church Obj. And now give me leave to offer something further to an Objection of the Antipaedobaptists in reference to the Commission Their Objection as I have already hinted is from the Order of Words because Teaching is set before Baptizing Therefore none but the full grown can be admitted to Baptism Answ Now all that I shall say or need to say in return to the placing of the Words is this Teaching according to the sence we have given may go before Baptizing as in the Adult and Baptizing before Teaching as in Infants So that without altering the Order of the Words there is nothing in the true sence of the Commission that condemns the Baptizing of Children and I may say of Teaching and Baptizing or Baptizing and Teaching as it may be said of Faith and Repentance Divines do generally say Repentance is the fruit of Faith and yet in the Holy Gospel it is said Repent ye and believe the Gospel St. Mark i. 15. And now what I have said of the Order of Teaching and Baptizing the same may be said of Faith and Repentance There may be a Faith that may go before Repentance and a Faith that may follow it That which precedes may be said to be that Faith that fills the Head and informs the Judgment That Faith which may be said to be subsequent is the Faith that influences the Heart and saves the Soul The one may be called a sound Faith the other a saving Faith My meaning in short is this I must first believe the great Love of Christ which is a sound Faith or else I cannot so truly grieve for those Sins that pierced the Holy Jesus's side and put him to death and so Faith precedes Repentance But then I cannot exercise the other sort or kind of Faith untill I really detest and hate and fully purpose to relinquish and forsake those Sins that put my dear Lord and Master to so much shame and pain and then I may safely and comfortably make an Application of Christ's Merits to my self for my Salvation And this is that which is properly called a saving Faith and this is that which may be said to be consequent upon and follow true Repentance And this I do think may sufficiently satisfie us that the ordering or placing the words destroys not nor evacuates the sence I have given of the Commission And now seeing the

words that our Adversaries may see I deal fairly with them He argues from the Coherence and Sense of the 15 16 17 and 33. Verses of Acts 2. and recites Vers 38. And that by you and your Children are meant the same which are mentioned Vers 17. under the term of Sons and Daughters answ To all which I answer This cannot be the Sense so as to exclude Infants from Baptism if they have a Right unto the Covenant which the Holy Scripture seems plainly to assert and hath been sufficiently convincingly and undeniably proved by Learned Men which may supersede any Attempt of mine to evince it or make it plain and evident because it was Repentance and Baptism gave a Title to the Promise and till they did Repent and Believe i. e. Embrace the Holy Gospel they had no Right to the Promise for it is said Repent and be Baptized and you shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost But they were to be in Covenant by Repentance or Faith before they enjoyed the Priviledges of the Holy Gospel and until then were in the same Case with them afar off who were not in Covenant and so had no right unto the Promise until they did Repent or Believe But here it may be further objected by the Antipedobaptists An Obj. that the gentile Converts of Cornelius's Family had this Gift of the Holy Ghost antecedent unto Baptism so that that was not necessary unto the Gift Act. 10.44 For it is said While Peter spake these words the Holy Ghost fell upon all them which heard the word i. e. that believed and upon their hearing St. Peter was convinced of the Truth of his Blessed Doctrin and thereupon embraced the Faith of the Holy Jesus and became Christians So that the same Qualification that fitted them for the reception of the Holy Ghost capacitated them for Baptism as appears three Verses after Act. 10.47 Can any forbid Water that these should not be Baptized that have received the Holy Ghost as well as we answ To which I answer Supposing the Promise to relate to the Gift of the Holy Ghost it neither excludes the necessity of Baptism nor Children from coming or being brought to receive the benefit of that Holy Ordinance Vid. ch 8 9. pag. 43. 51. according to the rational and true Exposition we have already given of that Text in this Book to which I refer my Readers But here An Obj. like the monstrous Hydra another Objection springs up and arises It 's true saith the Antipedobaptist tho' we own by the Promise the Gift of the Holy Ghost yet we do not believe that Gift excludes from Baptism but we deny Baptism unto those that are not qualified as those first Converts were i. e. endued with the Gifts and Graces of Repentance and Faith answ This I acknowledge true in those Subjects that are capable of acting those Graces but not necessary in those that have a natural as well as moral incapacity to act those Graces as the Case with Children is because they are in Covenant as hath been already declared and proved And being Baptism is not the Covenant but the Seal of the Covenant he that is in Covenant hath a right to the Seal that ensures the Benefits and Priviledges of the Covenant by the same Rule and Reason as he that is the true Heir unto an Estate hath a Right and Title unto the Instruments that convey that Estate Moreover add to this Children have one of these Graces tho' not the other and if one be sufficient the other is not necessary I mean Faith which in some and a true Sense they may be said to have otherwise the Blessed Jesus would not have cautioned Persons against offending little Ones that believe in him Mat. 18. by whom he meant small Children as I hope we have made sufficiently to appear Vid. ch 7. p. 42 43. And that this was a true Faith we may be assured not only because it was spoke by Truth it self who would not therefore impose upon Mankind but also because Christ is the proper Object of Faith and him the Text expresly tells us they believed in and for Repentance it is not indispensably necessary which I shall thus endeavour to prove I may say of Hatred as is usually said of Love Ignoti nulla Cupido for that which is unknown we have no Desire or Affection So of Hatred the odiousness and deformity of that I am wholly ignorant of I cannot properly be said to hate Now before Hatred there usually preceeds Grief and Sorrow and I cannot be said truly to lament or mourn for a Thing if I understand not any loss or damage I thereby sustain Now to apply this to our present Case there may be a Sin pardoned in some Cases and in some Persons without Repentance as that word imports Grief and Sorrow Detestation and Hatred Dereliction and Forsaking by all this I mean Original Sin of which Infants are guilty as well as the Adult Person by the imputation and transmission of the Protoplast's or first Adam's Guilt Now Children by reason of their Infantile capacity are not allowed the ability of exercising these Passions and cannot be said to be afflicted and grieved to detest and hate to abandon and forsake that which was not their own proper and voluntary Act. So that upon this Account Repentance is not necessary for their state and condition because of their Incapacity to act the proper parts of Repentance and because they lye not under such a Personal Guilt as may be said in a more especial manner to be proper and peculiar to the exercise of some parts of Repentance But for Faith so far as it is necessary that Children in some sense may be said to have it as they have the Benefits of their Parents Faith derived to them But that Faith and Repentance are not always and in all Cases indispensably necessary unto Baptism may appear plainly from the Instance of the Holy Jesus who was Nullius Poenitentiae Debitor in him was no Guilt and so consequently no necessity of Repenting there was was no necessity of Faith in him For of Faith he was the Author and Finisher as the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews acquaints us Heb. 12.2 and yet he submitted to St. John's Baptism which was in order to Repentance and therefore called the Baptism of Repentance and hereupon it is that Faith and Repentance are not always absolutely and indispensably needful to the being baptized And this may sufficiently solve an Objection lately made to me against Infant Baptism An Obj. by an Antipedobaptist from our excellent Church Catechism who promised me upon conviction to return to our Church which Promise he is obliged in Conscience to perform if he give not a Rational Answer to what I have said and shall offer for the solution of this seeming Difficulty What is required of Persons to be baptized Repentance whereby they forsake