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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

by its Parents in Baptism or that they made any Covenant with God then 5. It cannot be an Affront to all the Godly because there are thousands that deny the thing and I am bold to say it were the Holy Apostles alive now they would not have been affronted for any to deny their Parents dedicating Children in Baptism or Children denying they made any Covenant then because it 's a thing God never revealed 6. It cannot be a rejecting of Christ as he saith because there are thousands which own Christ and accept him for King Priest and Prophet who deny Infants Baptism and look upon it as nothing but an Invention of Men. And it 's very severe to say that those many thousands who now deny and disown their Parents baptizing them in Infancy that they do reject Christ their Saviour or the Blessings of the Gospel 7. It cannot be a Self-killing Cruelty to my own Soul nor a damning Sin not to agree to or refuse the Covenant made in Infant-Baptism though I do not refuse to be the Lord's and in sincerity care to know love believe obey and worship him and serve him all my Days and depend upon him through Christ for all Happiness yet this I do not because my Parents or Sureties did covenant or promise I should do it nor because I my self made any such Covenant in my Infancy for as much as it is all unscriptural and without a Divine Rule therefore cannot be Self-killing nor Cruelty to my own Soul nor a damning Sin as this Gentleman saith for the damning Sin is final Impenitence and Unbelief Mark 16.16 He that believeth not shall be damned Persons may believe the Covenant God hath made and be saved and though they deny the Covenant in Infant-Baptism they cannot be damned I do not believe in time in Christ because either I my self did in Infancy covenant so to do or because my Parents or Sureties covenanted for me but I deny it because an human Invention Yet I believe and obey from more solid Considerations 1. Because I am commanded to it by God 1 John 3.23 2. Because his great Love constrains me 2 Cor. 5.14 3. Because of those glorious Promises made to believing and obedient Souls 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Chap. 7.1 4. I am obliged unto it from the Law of Creation Psal 95.6 5. Without Faith and Obedience I am in danger of losing my Soul Therefore for Mr. Williams to tell the World It is a damning Sin not to agree to or refuse the Covenant made in Infancy is a new Doctrine which hath no footing in the unerring Rule of the Word of God If you will see the damning Sin read Mr. Pool's Synopsis on John 3.18 He that believes not the Doctrine of Christ and doth not upon the Terms of the Gospel receive him for his Saviour is already condemned for his obstinate Infidelity which is the certain Cause of Damnation And further The not believing in the only Son of God who is able to save to the utmost all that regularly trust in him is such a contempt of the merciful alsufficient sole Means of Salvation that 't is absolutely necessary and most just that all those who refuse to be saved by him should perish by themselves Thus you see what the damning Sin is Therefore Mr. Williams's Gospel and Doctrine is to be looked upon as New in this Thing and not agreeing to the old Gospel to assert That it is a damning Sin the Heart of all Sin a rejecting Christ our Saviour a renouncing the Blessings of the Gospel Rebellion against my Maker Ingratitude and Perjury to my Redeemer gross Injustice to my Parents an Affront to all the Godly and a self-killing Cruelty to my own Soul not to agree or refuse to agree to that Covenant made in Baptism in Infancy though there be not one word in all the Holy Scripture to warrant that Practice or Principle 8. If refusing to agree to the Covenant to which my Baby-Baptism engaged me be the Heart of all Sin then I for my part and many thousands more must be guilty of all Sin for it is the Heart of all Sin saith this Gentleman For my own part I do profess that I do not observe any Gospel-Duty neither believe nor repent by virtue of any Covenant my Parents made or was made by my self in my Baby-Sprinkling because God did never require such a Covenant of my Parents nor of my Self who was wholly uncapable of such a thing in Infancy But the Reason why I desire to observe the Terms of the Gospel is because it 's God's Requirements and Command That we believe on the Name of the only begotten Son of God 1 John 3.23 And since I believed I have made that Covenant with God in Baptism which you say pag. 131. was made in Infancy which I never remember nor can I believe it is true viz. I have engaged against being governed by Satan or the Flesh as my Rulers and against taking up this World's Goods as my Portion and against the Customs of the Men of the World as my Guide therefore I reject that Baptism because a Custom of the World Now should I refuse to agree to this Covenant which I made after I believed then I were a great Sinner indeed because one of my own making But if I keep this Covenant tho I refuse to agree to that Covenant made in my Infant-Baptism I am a great Sinner saith Mr. Williams for it 's the Heart of all Sin If the Heart of all Sin then of Murder Adultery Sabbath-breaking Incest Heresy Drunkenness Idolatry Sorcery Lying Covetousness Railing Robbery Buggery Extortion Envy Witchcraft Contention Gluttony Rebellion Perjury Ingratitude Injustice an Affront to the Godly Self-killing In a word saith Mr. Williams it 's a damning Sin Now it 's high time for the poor Baptists to cry Lord have Mercy upon us for this Gentleman damns us all at once But this is our Comfort he shall not be our Judg nor that Doctrine he hath delivered but both he and we must be tried by another Gospel and another Doctrine than he preacheth upon this Subject And whereas he calls Baptism in Infancy a Seal of the Covenant pag. 130. Pray Sir what did it seal to the Infant then did it seal the Love of God pardon of Sin Reconciliation or Adoption Justification or Remission If so as you grant by referring to Acts 2.39 then Sir if they are justified and their Sins remitted then they must be glorified saith the Apostle Rom. 8.30 Whom he justified them he glorified I suppose you may be for final Perseverance if so then not an Infant of these can miscarry But if you say these things may be sealed in Infancy and yet be never enjoyed for want of actual Faith How then is a Person pardoned and not pardoned justified and not justified in Covenant and not in Covenant these are Contradictions with a witness What! is the Covenant sealed and nothing in the Covenant enjoyed doth God seal to a Blank Men are more wise than so to do for there is always something antecedent to the Seal When a Covenant is sealed among Men something is sealed unto them so when God seals 't is not to a Blank but it 's his Covenant of Grace sealed After you believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise Ephes 1.13 Mark 't is not before they believed but after they believed they were sealed Therefore Infant-Baptism is no Seal of the Covenant of Grace for they do not believe But after Persons believe then the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper are Seals of the Covenant of Grace but not before And whereas Mr. Williams asserts pag. 130. Believers and their Infant-Seed are in the Covenant We reply This Word Covenant is an unintelligible word for not one in an Hundred if one in a Thousand knows what is meant by it I know but two ways of being in the Covenant of Grace either Absolutely or Conditionally 1. No Believers dare say all their Children are Absolutely in the Covenant of Grace because there is no falling away from it But behold how many of God's People have their Children die of whom they have little hope Or 2. they are in the Covenant of Grace conditionally that is to say If they repent and believe Upon this Condition and on these Terms the Children of Unbelievers are in the Covenant of Grace also and have the same right to the Seals of the Covenant as the Children of Believers have and there are none to have the Seals or Signs of the Covenant but those whom God hath ordained and appointed should have them which are those who repent and actually believe For mark though Lot was a holy Man yet he had no such priviledg to Circumcise his Infant-Seed because it was limited unto Abraham and his Seed and the Male Sex and the eighth Day appointed by a special Command Even so Baptism is limited by a special Command of God to Actual Believers FINIS ERRATA PReface Page 3. line 3 4. read two or three hours In the Book PAg. 35. Marg. r. Gen. 17. P. 41. l. 14. r. fit or unfit P. 55. Marg. l. 6. for Christ r. John P. 69. l. 4. r. Church of Rome P. 90. Col. 1. l. 1. f. Persons r. Believers P. 95. l. 15. r. Bishop of Munster P. 100. l. 2. f. bave r. bad P. 118. l. 25 26. r. the word Baptist

the Name of Lollards Hence we read in Mr. Fox of Lollards Tower commands all sorts to Baptize their Children and to forbear Rebaptization upon the penalty of Pecuniary Mulcts and Imprisonments The second Edict extended to Banishment Confiscation and Death this was five Years after in 1530. Many starved and died in Prison The Duke of Newburgh Anno 1653. banished all the Anabaptists out of his Country who thereupon disperse themselves into the Dukedom of Cleave and Brandenburgh An Abstract of the bloody Edict of the Emperor Charles the 5th of Spain made June 1535. against the Anabaptists or Waldensian Christians and the execution thereof in the Seventeen Provinces viz. COmmanding all Persons to renounce those Perswasions and Practices and refrain the publishing the same by Preaching or otherwise upon penalty of forfeiture of Life and Goods without Mercy The Men to be burnt the Women to be drowned And all that Conceal Harbour and do not in their Places prosecute the Law against them to suffer the same Penalty And that those that discover them to have the third part of their Estates forbidding all Mediation or Intercession upon severe Punishment Many hundreds suffered Death upon this Edict and what his Son Philip made in 1556. Thus you see Christ's Words made good His People shall suffer for Righteousness sake See this Chapte● much enlarged in Danvers on B●ptism CHAP. IX Contains an Epitome of this Book in a Comparison of Believers-Baptism and Infant-Baptism together Believers-Baptism GOd hath promised in the Text That all who believe and are Baptized shall be saved Mark 16.16 There is a lively Similitude between Christ's Death Burial Resurrection and Believers being buried in Baptism Rom. 6.4 Believers Baptized are converted and shall never come into Condemnation John 5.24 Believers Baptized love God and keep his Commandments John 14.15 It 's Christ's Command that Teaching Repenting and Believing should precede and go before Baptism Matth. 28.18 19. Those who baptize Believers baptize Christians In Believers Baptism there are no Contradictions attend the practice of it Believers Baptized come lawfully and immediately to the Lord's Supper Acts 2.41 42. Believers Baptism is a sign of Regeneration unto them Tit. 3.5 Believers Baptism hath a Command Mat. 28.18 19. Believers Baptism confirms unto them Justification Remission and Salvation Acts 2. Chap. 22.16 Mark 16.16 We have many Examples for Believers Baptism Acts 8. Chap. 10. Ch. 16.18 Christ was faithful in all his House and St. Paul delivered the whole Counsel of God and so Believers Baptism is a part of God's Counsel Luke 7. Believers Baptism hath been gloriously sealed in the Holy Ghost's coming upon Christ in the likeness of a Dove when he was coming up out of the Water Mat. 3.16 In Believers Baptism the Person baptized acts Faith Acts 8.37 In Believers Baptism the Subject baptized hath the Answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet. 3.16 A Man might comfortably die as many have done in Mentz Holland Germany and the Palatinate for asserting Believers Baptism because it hath God's Word for its Foundation The Publicans glorified God in being baptized with John's Baptism because it was the Counsel of God Luke 7. The Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the Counsel of God against themselves in not being baptized with the Baptism of John Luke 3. In Believers Baptism there is a glorious Harmony with the Commission Mar. 16.16 Believers Baptism requireth much Water as according to God's Word John 3. It 's without all doubt Believers were Baptized To baptize Believers is to keep the Ordinances as they were delivered 1 Cor. 11.2 To baptize Belielievers is no change of God's Ordinance Such as are baptized on their own Faith shall never perish John 10.28 Believers are baptized as an Act of their Judgment Choice Will and Affection so worship God in Spirit and Truth John 4.24 All those who baptize Infants do confess Believers were baptized Believers know and remember when they were baptized All Believers baptized are in the Covenant of Grace Believers Baptism is from Heaven and the Counsel of God Mat. 21.25 Believers baptized are not the Children of Wrath John 3.36 To baptize Believers is to act according to the Pattern and Command of Christ All Believers baptized receive Remission of Sins Acts 2. In Believers Baptism the Person subjects in Acts of Obedience Believers Baptism hath no Absurdities attending it Believers rejoice and shew their full Consent when they are baptized Acts 8. Believers Baptism hath the plain Word of God All the World may affirm Believers were baptized by the Apostles All Believers baptized are spiritual believing Stones fit to be laid in God's House 1 Pet. 2.5 Believers baptized may repel Satan as Christ did saying It is written Luke 4. God will not say unto Believers baptized Who hath required these things at your Hands because it is his own Command Believers Baptism must stand as long as God's Word doth stand Mat. 5.18 To baptize Believers is to have respect unto God's Command the only way not to be ashamed Psal 119.6 The most Holy the most Wise the most Learned Person that ever was in the World submitted unto Believers-Baptism Mat. 3.13 14 15 16 17. Persons baptized believe repent examine themselves make Judgment of things love one another take up Christ's Cross Watch and Pray and have the same care of each others Souls these are fit Members of a Gospel-Church Believers Baptism hath Antiquity to plead being as old as John Baptist Christ and his Apostles Believers ought to be baptized who have an inherent Holiness wrought by the Holy Spirit Believers Baptism hath many glorious Promises annexed unto it Acts 2.38 39. In Believers Baptism all the holy Ends of it are preserved as to be a sign of present Regeneration dying to Sin burying rising with Christ Answer of a good Conscience a mutual Stipulation and Contract between God and the Party In Believers Baptism by Dipping the Manner and true Administration is preserved the Usage of the Primitive Times retained and the Ends of it manifest Believers Baptism introduceth no Error nor false Doctrine into the World Believers baptized are taught of God and made his Disciples Matth. 28.18 Acts 15.10 If none ought to forbid the Baptism of Water unto those who had been baptized with the Holy Ghost Acts 10.44 45 46 47 48. Christ submitted unto Water-Baptism and ate the Supper with his Disciples who had the Holy Spirit without measure Water-Baptism is to continue unto the End of the World and the Sacrament of the Supper unto the second coming of Christ 1 Cor. 11.26 Mat. 28.19 20. If Christ will have Glory in the Churches throughout all Ages World without end then he must have a Church and Ordinances administred which is the Essence of a Church-Constitution and so cannot want Administrators because Christ hath given Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry edifying of the Body of Christ How long till we all come to