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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85810	A treatise of baptisme: wherein is clearly proved the lawfulnesse and usefulnesse of believers baptisme; as also the sinfulnesse and vanity of infants baptisme. With many usefull instructions, concerning the same matter. Grounded upon Ephes. 4. 5. One lord, one faith, one baptisme. / By Robert Garner.	Garner, Robert.	1645 (1645)	Wing G263; Thomason E314_16; ESTC R200501	29,978	40

the Sonne and of the Holy Spirit carry the force of a promise in them for in that the Lord hath commanded his servants to baptize believers in his Name to Put or Call his Name upon them in baptisme he saith Amen to it he confirmeth the word of his servants he performeth what he promiseth to them Agreeable to what he saith by Moses Numb 6.27 They shall put my Name upon the Children of Israel and I will blesse them Now the summe of what the Lord promiseth or saith Amen to and which his servants declareth in his Name unto believers in baptisme is this to wit The Lord is your Father and Master and Lord requiring honour and feare and service and Obedience from you there is his Authoritie And not onely so but likewise promising loving kindnesse mercy truth peace blessing strength teaching and preservation to you there is his Grace And indeed as his Name alone is excellent in respect of Authority so in respect of Grace also The second thing which is implyed is this to wit Believers in baptisme do professe to put or call the Name of the Lord that is his Authority and Grace upon themselves for in baptisme there is as it were a promise on their parts And it is as much as if they should openly declare before the Lord and his servants thus we do now professe the Lord alone to be our Lord our God our Father and our Master and our selves to be his Children his servants his people and that we give up our selves wholly and onely to him to serve him to love him to feare him to honour him there is an acknowledgment of his Authority and not onely so but likewise to depend upon him and to trust in him onely for mercy righteousnesse peace blessing strength Wisdedome preservation and all good things there is an acknowledgment of his Grace And thus or to this purpose believers are said to put on Christ in baptisme as it is expressed by the Apostle Gal. 3.27 And thus as the Lord hath taught me I have shewed you what it is for Disciple or Believers to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. And therein I have briefly declared to you one of those glorious priviledges which the Lord Jesus gives to Believers in baptisme And indeed such to whom the Lord gives a spirituall understanding will acknowledge that this is a glorious priviledge Instruction That which I have said for the clearing up of this priviledge is usefull to instruct believers who are under the obedience of this Ordinance as believers to look upon their baptisme neither as shamefull nor beggarly but as honourable and precious through Christ whose Name is called upon them in the same Therefore be not ashamed of your baptisme but own it continually and before all men as an honourable and rich priviledge to you through the Lord Jesus And again let Believers be instructed to walk answerably to this priviledge which the Lord Jesus gives them in their baptisme Let them in all things and at all times be subject to him as their Lord and Master let them be subject to none other in the things of Christ but Christ only whose Authority only they have professed in baptism to be subject to Let them in all their ways relations walk according to the Lord Christ whose commandements they have professed to be subject to Let them likewise look for all supply of Grace from the Lord Iesus that in his grace and strength they may serve him in all things and at all times that in all their conversation they may shew forth the praise and honour of their Lord and Master whose Name is called upon them Tryall Again This priviledge which Believers have in baptisme through Christ may serve as a third Touchstone of Infants Baptisme for I thus conclude Baptisme may lawfully be administred to none but unto such onely whom the Lord hath made meet to be partakers of such a priviledge as to have his Name called upon them in Baptisme And who are these But first such as know the Lord such as know the Father and the Sonne and the Holy Spirit such as know the Authority and Grace of the Lord Iesus such as know what the Lord declareth and promiseth to them and what they promise or professe before the Lord and his people in baptisme as I have above shewed Secondly such whom the Lord hath inabled in some measure to walk answerably to such a priviledge and such a profession as the Lord puts upon them and they take upon themselves in baptisme from thenceforth to walk as the servants of the Lord whose Name therein is called upon them being subject in all things to him and depending for all things upon him onely Now then the baptism of Infants being wisely and sincerely applyed to this Touchstone it will evidently appear to all discerning humble spirits not to be of God but of men onely for hath the Lord made them to be meet partakers of this Ordinance Do they know the Lord Do they not want this necessary thing How then shall his name bee called upon them How shall his Authority and Grace be declared to them in Baptisme and they promise and professe before the Lord and his people from thenceforth to be subject unto him and depend upon him seeing they do not know him Do not therefore such as command and practise Infants baptisme goe a direct contrary course from the mind of the Lord Jesus I leave it to the consideration of the wise And heare I may take occasion to deale with such in a word or two who plead so earnestly for the baptisme of the Infants of believers upon this ground because they are holy to wit say they with a foederall holynesse by vertue of their Parent or Parents being believers which holynesse say they gives them a Right to baptisme Their alone ground is from the Apostles words 1. Cor. 7.14 else were your children uncleane but now are they holy I might answer first that not such a holynesse neither any other but a naturall holynesse contrary to a naturall uncleanesse is there intended by the Apostle as will evidently appeare to such to whom the Lord gives a discerning Spirit Secondly I might say the Apostle speaks not the last word concerning baptisme neither was it to his purpose in that Chapter But Thirdly if I grant to them seeing they are so earnest upon it that the Infants of believers are foederally holy yet this will be no advantage to them concerning the baptisme of these Infants seeing I may affirme from the Lord Iesus according to cleare scripture that no holynesse whatsoever can admit any to baptisme but a professed holynesse or knowledge or faith or repentance in their owne persons onely Yea I may boldly affirm that if the Lord should witnesse from heaven to our knowledge that such an Infant of such Parents was an elect vessell one ordained to eternall life an heire with the Lord Jesus