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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80416	A learned and full ansvver to a treatise intituled; The vanity of childish baptisme. Wherein the severall arguments brought to overthrow the lawfulnesse of infants baptisme, together with the answers to those arguments maintaining its lawfulnesse, are duly examined. As also the question concerning the necessitie of dipping in baptisme is fully discussed: by William Cooke Minister of the Word of God at Wroxall in Warwickwshire. Printed and entred according to order.	Cooke, William.	1644 (1644)	Wing C6043; Thomason E9_2; ESTC R15425	103,267	120

let them looke backward unto their baptisme and their consecration unto God and their abrenunciation of the world and the devil transacted therein and remember that they were buried with Christ in baptisme and professed a death unto sinne and a resurrection to holinesse so that now it were a monstrous and absurd thing to live in sinne as for a dead man to rise or a living man to lie in the grave Remember you are not your owne but Christs who is your Lord and Master and so resolve to continue still doing his worke and resisting his and your soules enemies Thus the Apostle teacheth us from baptisme to fetch arguments of sanctification both for the mortifying of our corruption and for the quickning of us to holinesse Rom. 6.1 2 3 4 c. Fifthly In times of doubt desertion temptation to distrust c. Christians should have recourse to the consideration of their baptisme and remember the ancient love of God to them in their infancy in taking them into his family and undertaking to be their God in baptisme wherein the whole Trinitie Father Sonne and Holy Ghost became ours giving us under seale assurance of pardon and peace direction and support perseverance and salvation So that let our temptations miseries and discomforts be what they will if we can but cast our eye back on baptisme and the covenant of grace sealed therein we may gather strong consolation therefrom And if we can in these and such like particulars testifie our prizing and improvement of our baptisme we shall not easily be cheated of it or drawne to question whether we were ever truly baptized seeing we daily find the comfortable fruits and effects thereof not shall we give occasion to others to queston whether our Infant baptisme were true baptisme when we give a reall demonstration to them that by vertue of the covenant of grace sealed therein unto us we walke as Christians in all holy conversation Sixthly this may serve to stirre up the Ministers of Christ among whom I professe my selfe the meanest and unworthiest of any that seeing there are so many pragmaticall deceivers abroad to seduce Gods people not afraid to call in question well-grounded truths buzzing into the eares of the simple such things as tend to the overthrow of Christian consolation and chearfull obedience speaking perverse things by which they overturne whole houses This I say should stirre us up if there be any conscience of our owne weightie duty and dreadfull charge any sparke of compassion to mens soules love to the truth or zeale for Gods glory to endeavour to prevent the inundation of errours rents distractions licentiousnesse and profanenesse that will unavoidably follow upon the plucking up of these flood-gates to the overflowing of the Church if some speedy remedy be not applied which belongs to the Ministers of Christ principally should it not grieve us to heare this holy function of the Ministery spoke of so disdainfully as it is in this Pamphlet answered as if our Ministers were but a company of ignorant covetous and ambitious men And oh would too great occasion of this imputation were not given by too many of our Ministers Woe to the world saith Christ because of offences Luk. 17.1 2. but woo to them by whom offences come They that runne into these errours of Anabaptisme by occasion of the badnesse of some Ministers shall not thereby be excused nor escape the woe unlesse they repent But it had beene better for those men never to have meddled with the Ministery yea to have beene throwne into the bottome of the sea with a milstone about their necks when they undertooke the charge of soules who by their ignorance lazinesse covetousnesse pride and superstition have given occasion unto some to raile on our Ministery as Antichristian And it is apparent that these errours are growne so rife and over-spreading through the silencing of good Ministers and setting up and maintaining of such as have beene carelesse and scandalous Therefore it greatly concerns all good Ministers to seek a remedie to this evill 1 Tim. 4.15 2 Tim. 2.15 2 Tim. 4.2 by giving attendance to reading exhortation and doctrine To study to shew themselves approved workmen of God that need not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth yea to preach the word in season and out of season rebuking and reproving and exhorting with all long-suffering and doctrine seeing the time is come when people will not endure sound doctrine but after their owne lusts heape to themselves Teachers having itching eares If ever they had need t is now to hold fast the faithfull word that they may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort Tit. 1.9 10 11. and convince the gain-sayers Because there are many unruly vaine-talkers and deceivers whose mouthes must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not There is great need that Ministers should take heed to themselves Act. 20.28 29 30. to the flock over which the holy Ghost hath made them Overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud seeing grievous wolves are entred among us not sparing the flock and from among our selves are men risen which speak perverse things to draw disciples after them These exhortations of the holy Ghost and many more in Scripture to call us to our dutie were never more seasonable and necessary In obedience to which charges of God let us therefore by painfull studie constant preaching fervent prayer and holy conversation fit our selves for employ our selves in and procure authoritie to the work of the Ministery that we may be free from the bloud of all men and that the people may be no more as children carried about with every winde of doctrine nor for want of plenty of pure streames be forced to drink up the puddle waters of errours and delusions Lastly The consideration of the pragmaticalnesse of many in these dayes to impoyson the mindes and trouble the hearts of Gods people with strange doctrines and dangerous errours who doe not onely creepe into houses to pervert the simple but also are so bold as to divulge their opinions to the danger of many souls as it appeareth by this Pamphlet answered and the effects it hath wrought The consideration I say of the boldnesse of such persons and of the distractions and unsettlednesse of the hearts of Gods people by occasion thereof should stirre us up every one in his place to doe what we can for applying a remedy to this miserable distraction and spreading sore Let us receive the truth in the love thereof 2 Thess 2.10 11. 1 Joh. 4.1 lest God be provoked to give us over to strong delusions to beleeve lyes Let us not be so fond as to beleeve every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God Let us labour for soundnesse of judgement that we may discern between things that differ But especially that we may procure a generall