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A96442	An ansvver to Mr. Francis Cornvvells positions & inferences, concerning dipping, anabaptisme, antipædobaptisme, tythes, and consecrated churches. Wherein the English Ministry is vindicated from the Anti-Christianisme, so deeply by him charged upon them. Published in speciall reference to the good of Mr Cornwells misled congregation. / By Robert Whittle, minister of the word of God at East-Malling in Kent. Whereunto are annexed, the fore-mentioned positions of Mr Francis Cornvvell, entituled, the Nevv Testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus, is the Magna Charta of Beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped; by which they are justified to be no hereticks.	Whittle, Robert, 1597 or 8-1679.; Cornwell, Francis. New testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2046; Thomason E516_1; ESTC R206141	27,828	25

second comming to restore all things Rev. 22. 19. Luke 22. 20 This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud shed for you viz. Beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped For the new Testament being in ●●rce is not to be questioned amongste us it is the undoubted Doctrine of the Church of England And the Apostle tells us what that Testament is Hebr. 8. 10 11 12. I will put my Lawes in their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people c. For Testament Covenant here are both one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or if you speak of the writings of the Evangelists and Apostles which by a Metonymie are commonly knowne by the name of the new Testament we reverence and receive them all we will be farre from adding to them or detracting from them but if you account our receiving the Morall Law and the Prophets any adding to this new Testament there we leave you to the Anabaptists your Brethren who as Polanus tells us are divided into two Sects the modester reject the writings of the old Testament the other reject the whole Scripture both old and new Testament and pretend immediate Revelation you seeme to incline to the former but we doe not make void the Law through faith but we establish the Law Rom. 3. 31. And are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner-stone Eph. 2. 20. But suppose both your Positions as farre as you speak plaine granted onely with a reservation of something to be said concerning your affected Word Dipped whether you referre it to Christ or Beleevers where you impose a necessity of it to salvation what will follow hereupon That you are no Hereticks Nay in the very first consequence you draw from thence you shew your selfe Hereticall For say you First then it will necessarily follow that no man nor woman according to the Scriptures of the new Testament can be saved except they beleeve in Jesus the Christ and be dipped Mark 16. 6. What a necessity fo Baptisme to salvation So that none can be saved without Baptisme the Text by you alledged doth not prove it what then is this your assertion upon it but an addition to it and so a bringing your selfe under your threatned Anathema the Text threatens indeed Damnation to unbeleevers but not to the unbaptized Neither will your following exception helpe you Corcerning the salvation of the elect whom he will save in mysticall Babylon even in the darkest times of Poperie and Superstition wee meddle not say you But how can you meddle with the Salvation of any if not of the Elect seeing salvation belongeth onely to the elect againe if you except onely the elect whom he will save in mysticall Babylon even in the darkest times of Poperie and superstition what then shall become of the Elect under the light of the Gospel shall not the foundation of God stand sure for these without mans putting to his helping hand to dip them Shall their salvation depend upon that which is in the power of man to give or deny I should thinke it blasphemy in my se●● so to limit the power or restraine the grace of God Againe suppose you should convert one to be and make profession for matter of faith altogether as your selfe and that he should desire to be Dipped if hee should dye as it is possible he might before you could dip him were it unpossible for him to be saved It is an ucomfortable Doctrine to your poore Congregation not any way warrantable by the Word of God you must goe to the Councell of Trent for your Warrant for this your necessity and to Bellarmine for arguments to uphold it and then in pitty to some poore soules set up a Limbu●● or else it will downe The Apostle tells us that we are justified by Faith Rom ● 28. and saved through faith Ephsians 2. 8. Without annexing dipping why then doe you make Dipping necessary to Salva●ion for that without which a thing cannot be done is absolutely necessarie to the doing of the thing and of this kinde you make dipping to Salvation As for your second consequence if you understand it of men and women disting●ished from children we account Faith and Baptisme necessarie for their admission and continuance in the communion of Saints but because you afterward require a ma●ifestation of the beliefe of their hearts by the confession of their lips and would for want of this exclude children from Baptisme and the Communion of Saints we shall hereafter examme that more fully Here you will have Baptized more properly Dipped and so impose upon us a necessity of Dipping which is the maine thing wherewith you trouble ignorant people That their Baptisme was no Baptisme because they were not dipped The Question then is whether Dipping bee necessry in Baptisme which you and your followers much insist upon First the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Baptize is of a larger signification than that it can be expressed by any one word in any language knowne either to you or me and therefore that word it selfe borrowed from the Greeks is used in most languages It signifies as the Masters of the Greek tongue declare as to Dippe and to dye so to wash and to cleanse by any appliction of water to the thing or the thing to water as sprinkiling or powring on of Water and of a larger extent even in Scripture Phrase than all these and therefore not to be restrained to your one word dipping If so often as th● Word Baptizing is used in Scripture you should render it by dipping you would make it ridiculous to your owne Congregation unlesse you had prepared them to swallow any thing upon your bare word Doe you think that the washing of Tables was by dipping co●ld every house have a place fit to dip a Table in yet it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baptisme Mark 7. 4. Let any indifferent reader judge whether it were proper or fit to render that Matth. 3. 11. He shall dippe you with the Holy Ghost and with fire which signified the Holy Ghosts comming upon them Acts 1. 5. 8. being a fulfilling of that Prophefie Joel 2. 28. I will powre out my Spirit upon c. Acts 2. 3 4. Acts 2. 16 17. So that here you see by Bapti●ing is not meant dipping but powring upon and so in Ba●tisme we powre water upon the childe Or that place they were all Baptized to Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea ● 〈◊〉 10. 2. Will you render it dipped When the Scripture tells us that Israel went on drie ground through the middest of the Sea Exod. 14. Or can it be imagined that they were dipped in the Cloud when the Cloud was made a comfortable covering unto them and it cannoto be conceived how they were baptized in it but by the sprinkling drops that fell from it The Apostle tells us

ordained a Law that Children should be within the Covenant and have the initiall Seale of the Covenant Gen. 17. let them shew where the Law is repeal'd that Children may not have the initiall Seale as well now under the Gospell as under the Law unlesse Children be by the comming of Christ debarred from some manifestation of Gods grace to them which before they were partakers of as to be members of the Church and to have the initiall Seale of the Covenant which Baptisme is to us as Circumcision was to them even a Seale of the righteousnesse of faith Rom 4. 11. Baptisme succeeding in stead of Circumcision Col. 2. 11 12. where the Apostle tells them they are compleat in Christ not wanting Circumcision being Baptized as is to be collected from that place As also Children belong to the kingdom of God Luk. 18. 16. how can we let them come to Christ but by Baptisme So likewise the children of Beleevers are holy 1 Cor. 7. 14. and the promise belongs to them Acts 2. 39. and they were Typically baptized in the Cloud and in the red sea 1 Cor. 10. 2. and we have Christs command for Baptizing all Nations Matth. 28. 19. And the Apostles examples for Baptizing whole Families without any exception of children which are a great part of a Nation and Family and not one word in Scripture against the Baptizing of children therefore I can see no reason why Children should not bee Baptized and whosoever shall despise that Baptisme which they received in their Infancy despise the Bloud of Christ which was therein offered unto them and unlesse they repent of their heinous sinne they may justly feare that God hath given them over to strong delusions and have great need to pray as we shall be ready to pray for them that if it be possible this their wickednesse may be forgiven them that they may returne from their wandrings and come home to that great Shepheard into his owne Fold to hold the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace and love to the praise of the glory of Gods Grace The New Testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Iesus is the Magna Charta of beleevers in Iesus the Christ dipped by which they are justified to be no Heretiques Certaine Positions subscribed by Francis Cornwell a beleever in Jesus Christ dipped to be tryed by the Doctrine of Christ whether they be Hereticall yea or nay Position 1. THat there is no salvation for any man or woman save in the Lord Jesus Christ onely Act. 4. 12. There is salvation in none other For there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved 2. That the New Testament is the last Will and Testament of Jesus the Christ ratified with his owne blood and given to the Church of beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped together with all the promises ordinances priviledges and the inheritance therein bequeathed the Testator Jesus being dead is now in force to all beleevers in Jesus Christ dipped And no men nor powers by what name or title soever distinguished under the pe●●l●ie of an Anathema Marana●ha for not loving the Lord Jesus Christ may adde to is o● 〈◊〉 from it lest they dis-anull the everlasting Testament of the Lord Jesus which is to continue untill Christs second comming to restore all things Rev. 22. 19. Luk. 22. 20. This Cup is the New Testament in my bloodshed for you viz. beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped These Positions being granted which I cannot see how otherwise under the penaltie of a curse they can be denyed First then it will necessarily follow That no man nor woman according to the Scriptures of the New Testament can be saved except they beleeve in Jesus the Christ and be dipped Mark 16. 16. He that beleeveth in Jesus the Christ and is dipped shall be saved But he that beleeveth not viz. in the Christ is damned because there is salvation in none other Mark 16. 16. Concerning the salvation of the elect whom he will save in mysticall Babylon even in the darkest times of Popery and Superstition we meddle not with because secret things belong to God and revealed things contained in the inspired Scriptures of the New Testament belong to us Secondly no man nor woman is a fit subject to be admitted into the Church of beleevers in Jesus Christ to continue in the Apostles-Doctrine and fellowship in breaking of bread and prayer according to the Scripture-record of the New Testament unlesse he or she beleeve in Jesus the Christ and be baptized or more properly in English dipped Act. 2. 41. They which gladly received his word were dipped and the same day were added to them viz. the congregation of Christ gathered consisting of an 120 persons in one place both of men and women Act. 1. 4 15. about 3000 soules And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship in breaking of bread an● prayer These things being thus premised I hope it will appeare plainly to every loyall English Covena●ter that standeth for a Reformation in England agreeable to the word of the New Testament ratified with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ That beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped are no Hereticks as M. Whittle Minister of East-Maling in Kent and his brethren doe affirme in publick they are For these ensuing Reasons 1. The Congregations of beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipped doe confidently affirme in all their teaching that there is no salvation save in the Lord Jesus the Christ onely Act. 4. 12. 2. That Jesus who was crucified dead and risen through whom we that beleeve receive remission of sinnes and are justified from all things from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses Act. 13. 39. even I say that Jesus in whom we beleeve and preach is exalted to be the Christ as holy Paul affirmeth Act. 17. 3. and Peter Act. 2. 36. 1. The Lord Jesus is the Christ in English Annoynted of God to be our high Priest that offered his owne body in sacrifice to take away our sinnes Heb. 10. 10 14. and that ever liveth to make intercession for us Heb. 7. 5. 2. He is the Christ in English Annoynted of God to be our Prophet whom the Father of glory commandeth us to heare Matth. 17. 5. Heare him Peter telleth us the extent how far in all thing whatsoever he shall say unto us Act. 3. 22. Else the danger followeth It shall come to passe that every soule which refuseth to heare that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people Act. 3. 23. He is the Christ in English Annoynted of God to be our King whom the Father of glory hath exalted to be the highest power in heaven and earth Ephesi 2. 20. Matth. 28. 18. 22 Christ himselfe acknowledgeth therefore every soule must be subject in spirituall things to this highest power For whosoever resisteth this power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist receive

to themselves for not obeying the voyce of the everlasting Gospel that cryeth to them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for remission of sinnes Act. 2. 38 39 40. compared with 2 Thess 1. 6 7 8 9. damnation Hence it is that we poore despised beleevers in Jesus the Christ dipt owne Jesus the Christ to be our eternall high Priest that manifested his love to us in the Covenant of Free grace to dye to take away our iniquitie who were sometime foolish and disobedient c. Tit. 3. 3. and ever liveth to reconcile us to the Father of glory This love discovered caused us to hearken to the voyce of Jesus our Annoynted Prophet for his voyce is lovely And when he revealed to us by his word and good Spirit that none was the subject of baptisme but such as beleeve in Jesus the Christ and repent of their dead works When this truth was revealed we hearkned to the voyce of Christ onely as his sheepe ought to doe Job 10. and regarded no more the voyce of a stranger the Pope the Bishop the Priest Nay when Christ was discovered to be our King and that we were but as Rebels untill we did obey his command when he by his good Spirit discovered what his commandement was namely that we which beleeve in Jesus Christ must repent and be dipped in the name of Jesus Christ the love of Christ our King constrained us to arise and be dipped in the name of Jesus Christ as we find 3000 at one time gladly received his word and were dipped Act. 2. 41. Yea and Saul and the cruell Jaylor being instructed what dutie Christ required of them arose and were baptized Seeing it is written for our everlasting consolation Christ to become the author of eternall salvation to them that obey him Heb. 5. 8. Now M. Whittle seeing you and your brethren the English Ministery acknowledge That there is no salvation but in Jesus Christ alone Act. 4. 12. it is your dutie to prove that the same Jesus whom you say you preach is the very Christ namely that you owne him in all your practices and ordinances your Annoynted Priest Prophet and King lest by denying Jesus the Christ you discover your selves Antichristian 1 Joh. 2 22. Now M. Whittle though you and your brethren confesse Jesus to be the Christ with the lips yet by your practices you deny him in all his royall Offices Namely first they which hold up any part of the Ceremoniall Law which Christ by his death hath abolished deny Jesus the Christ to be come in the flesh But you M Whittle and your brethren the English Ministery hold up some part of the Ceremoniall Law that Christ by his death hath abolished as Tythes Temples viz. Consecrated places for Worship Offerings and Priesthood to receive Tythes and Minister in your Consecrated places Therefore you deny Jesus the Christ to be come in the flesh whatsoever you seeme to professe to the contrary Secondly you and your brethren hold and teach that beleever-infants have a right to heaven by a fleshly Covenant Namely the promise of life in Christ belongeth to the beleever and his seed and the seed and posteritie of all the faithfull borne within the Church have by their birth an interest into the Covenant of grace and a right to the seale of it Baptisme which you say is a seale of the infants ingrafture into Christ and union with him Regeneration Adoption Remission of Sinnes and Life Eternall Which Doctrine of yours contradicteth the Lord Jesus Christ who telleth Nicodemus a forme of beleeving Abraham and borne within the Church of the Jewes and circumcised the eighth day That which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the Spirit is Spirit Marvell not that I say unto you that you must be borne againe Joh. 3. 6. So that by the Doctrine of Christ who is Truth it selfe and cannot er●e though M. Whittle and the whole English Ministery may that it is not generation nor any fleshly priviledge can give the Infant of a beleever an interest into the Covenant of grace but Regeneration Doe you not M. Whittle by this your Assertion deny Christ your Annoynted Priest that according to the Scriptures purchased eternall life for beleevers Act. 10. 43. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 20 21 22. Againe M. Whittle you and your brethren deny Jesus the Christ to be your Annoynted Prophet whom you are to heare in every thing he shall say unto you or your soules must perish Act. 3. 22 23. Now Christ teacheth that none are the subject of baptisme but such as manifest the beliefe of their hearts by the confession of the lips That the Lord Jesus is the Christ Act. 8. 38. And repent of their dead workes Heb 6. 1. Act. 2. 38. yet you baptize or rather rantize Infants that cannot confesse their faith in Christ nor manifest repentance from dead workes Yea M. Whittle some of your brethren as M. Bright M. Aliston and others preach and publish though there be no command from Christ for baptizing Infants yet there is no command against it therefore they may baptize them Now truely Sir my soule is sadded to heare what they affirme knowing what is written Deut. 18. 20. That Prophet which shall presume to speake a word in my Name that I have not commanded him to speake Even that Prophet shall dye So that your soules are in danger of wrath my learned Countrey-men if you have not commandment from Christ to warrant your Infant baptisme Moreover M. Whittle you and your brethren deny Jesus Christ to be your Annoynted King in that you yeeld not obedience to his Gospel-Commandement namely Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for remission of sinnes and ye shall receive the gift of the holy Spirit Act. 2. 38. Seeing they are the first Gospel Commandements with promises and for your rebellion against the Crowne and Dignitie of King Jesus and your disobedience in not obeying the Gospel of the Lord Jesus you can expect no other but to be punished with everlasting perdition 2 Thess 6. 7 8 9. unlesse the good Lord perswade you to change your mind and be dipped in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sinnes which are very grievous before the Lord. First your sinne of persecution For you persecute them that contend for the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ in truth that you seemingly professe so are abominable and disobedient c. Tit. 1. 1. 16. Secondly you stand out In rebellion against the Crowne and Dignitie of Jesus Christ And would not he should reigne over you Luk. 19. 27. These mine enemies that would not I should reigne over them bring them hither and slay them before me Thirdly the blood of the righteous that have contended for the faith of the everlasting Gospel once given to the Saints that keepe the Commandement of God and the faith of Jesus