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A26961	Much in a little, or, An abstract of Mr. Baxters plain Scripture-proof for infants church-membership or baptism with a few notes upon the anti-queries of T.G. / by the same hand that wrote the Fifty queries.	Barret, John, 1631-1713.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Plain Scripture-proof of infants church-membership and baptism.; Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. Quaeries examined.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1314; ESTC R14073	29,895	84

Christianity hath not God appointed another primary more ordinary way of making Disciples of the children of the Godly viz. godly education Hath not God commanded the use of this means to all Parents that they teach them the Law of God and bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord from their childhood And may we not conclude that God appoints no means to be used from which he will ordinarily withdraw his Grace or to which he will deny his Blessing if it be used aright though the Word convert many that have neglected their Parents or have been neglected by them And further doth not experience confirm it that God frequently blesseth this means Now according to you how many thousands are there that should never be Baptized because they were not first made Disciples by Teaching according to the sense of Mat. 28. 19. which is Ministerial Teaching 5 Your ordinary practice of Baptizing by Dipping over head in cold water which you use as necessary is it not a breach of the Sixt Commandment Thou shalt not kill Being ordinarily and generally used doth it not tend directly to overthrow peoples health and lives How vain is it to say that many are appointed the use of Bathing as a Remedy against Diseases Is it an Universal Remedy yea how few Diseases have cold Baths appointed them And how many that have been tenderly brought up and take but little of the cold Air that dipping in cold weather in cold water in the course of nature would kill either presently or by casting them into some Chronical Disease Will you say if it be Gods way he will prevent the danger how great soever But hath God appointed any Ordinance contradictory to his great Moral Commands Hath he appointed any Ordinance in his Church which will destroy men except they be preserved by Miracle Will you say he hath tied himself to a constant working of Miracles which he hath not done except the Doctrine of Transubstantiation be true May we tempt God And have you duly considered what our Saviour saith Mat. 12. 7. If you had learned what this meaneth I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice ye would not have condemned the guiltless If in case of danger you should have and allow of a warm Bath should not you that are wont to call for express Scripture for Infant-Baptism be required to bring express Scripture for this warm Bath If you say they may stay till the heat of Summer where have you any Scripture for that Farther is it yet proved by any of you that Dipping was constantly used in the Scripture-times Is it plain or so much as probable that the Jaylor was dipt over head who was Baptized in the night in his house And does not the Greek word signifie to Wash as well as to Dip Is it not so taken when applied to other things as Mar. 7. 4 8 c. And is not the thing signified set forth by the phrase of Washing or Sprinkling and need the Sign exceed the thing signified See Isa 44. 3. Ezek. 36. 25. Joel 2. 28. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Tit. 3. 5. Heb. 10. 22. and 12. 24. 1 Pet. 1. 2. And if it was otherwise might it not be only occasional from a Reason proper to those hot Countries Where hath Christ appointed the measure of water or the manner of washing any more than he hath appointed in the Lords Supper what quantity of Bread and Wine each must take May not a little signifie as well as much as a clod of Earth doth in giving possession of much Lands c. 6. Is it not a breach of the seventh Commandment Thou shalt not commit Adultery to Dip persons naked or next to naked Doth not the seventh Commandment forbid all incitements to uncleanness and all immodest actions And is it not such to Baptize Women naked or next to naked Can that practice be of God which would turn Gods worship into contempt and make it ridiculous and bring a general reproach upon the Christian profession among all the Enemies of it yea among the most sober and discreet and that upon so probable grounds And to Dip persons cloathed will it not overthrow the Argument usually brought for the necessity of washing the whole Body Though the garment be washed yet may it not hinder the washing of some parts of the Body 7. What fruit of these things How many of you that instead of labouring after the winning of Souls from sin to God make it the main scope of your endeavours in publick and private to propagate your opinions How many of you make a great stir till you have brought poor Souls which is too easily done to place their Religion in being of your opinion here and being re-baptized How many of you are great hinderers of the Gospel and of the work of converting Souls making it your business to bring the Ministers of the Gospel into contempt Whether may not this be one thing that greatly confirmeth men in their enmity to the Doctrine of the Gospel and the Preachers thereof when they hear those despise the Ministry that once were constant hearors yea hear them perswading people that Ministers are Seducers false Prophets c. As if the first thing they had to learn was to sco●n their Teachers What way could be found out more effectual to make people disregard and despise the Gospel and so to ruin their own Souls than thus to teach them to vilifie the Messengers of the Gospel and perswade them that it is a vertue to reproach and forsake their Guides And whether the most of you do well that have made your Doctrine a ground of separation And that perswade people that it is a sin to hear our pretended Ministers as they have been called because they were never Baptized If you can make them believe that the Ministers are Seducers and that it is a Sin to hear them what good are they likely to receive by that Ministry And what a case was the Land in if all did believe as some of you teach And where the Gospel before prospered and Christians spent their time and conference in the edifying of each others Souls and in heavenly duties and lived together in unity and love according to the great command of Christ have not many of you when you have come turned this to vain janglings and unprofitable disputes and turned their Unity into Factions and Divisions and their Amity into Jealousies and Contentions yea how many a distracted family is there in England upon this account where one will pray and the other will not pray with him because he is unbaptized who were wont to Worship God in unity And here I would have ended Only there are two or three Queries more which offer themselves that I commend to your serious consideration Q. 1. Whether it be at all credible that Satan would be so charitable to Believers Infants

as to plead for their priviledges or would be a propagater of Christs Kingdom and forward to engage and bring in Subjects and Disciples to him Q. 2. Whereas we tell sinners of the hainous aggravation of their sins as being committed after Baptism and after their solemn Vow and Covenant made to God whether you that make Infant-Baptism a nullity dare undertake to bear the burthen of this Aggravation for them And whether you may tell sinners that we do but serve them as some serve foolish children Fright them with Bug-bears that there is no such matter they were never Baptized and therefore never sinned against their Baptism they were never so engaged to God and therefore never sinned against that engagement Will you warrant them that they never need to repent for their sinning against their Baptism and the Covenant then made Or will you bear the blame for them Q. 3. Whether it should not lie heavy on any tender conscience to add to Gods Word holding the repeal of the Ordinance of Infants Church-membership which no Scripture affirmeth to be guilty of the Churches doleful Divisions and the great grief that hereby oppresseth the hearts of so many of Gods people to censure if not unchurch all the Churches of Christ since the Apostles times or almost all And all this in contending that your own children are out of Christs visible Church How doleful is it that any Christians should be so zealous to dispute their own children out of Christs Church and to plead that they have no right to be admitted Members that they are no Disciples of Christ no Christians And whether they that are zealous in solliciting men not to engage their Children in Covenant with God may not have as many thanks from Christ as the Disciples had for keeping such from him FINIS Books Printed for and are to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside SErmons on the whole Epistle of Saint Paul to the Colossians by Mr. I. Daille translated into English by F. S. with Dr. Thomas Goodwins and Dr. John Owens Epistles Recommendatory An Exposition of Christs Temptation on Matth. 4. and Peters Sermon to Cornelius and circumspect walking By Dr. Tho. Taylor Books 4 to The Door of Salvation opened by the Key of Regeneration by George Swinnock M. A. An Antidote against Quakerism by Steph. Scandret An Exposition on the five first Chapters of Ezekiel with useful observations thereupon by William Greenhil The Gospel-Covenant opened by Peter Bulkley Gods holy-Mind touching matters Moral which he uttered in Ten Commandments Also an Exposition on the Lords Prayer by Edward Eston B. D. The Fiery Jesuit or an Historical-Collection of the rise encrease doctrines and deeds of the Jesuits Horologiographia optica Dyaling universal and particular speculative and practical together with a description of the Court of Arts by a new Method by Silvanus Morgan The Practical Divinity of the Papist discovered to be destructive to true Religion and Mens Souls by J. Clarkson The Creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hand and the good Mans mercy to the Bruit-creatures in two Sermons by Tho. Hodges B. D. Certain considerations tending to promote Peace and Unity amongst Protestants Mediocria or the most plain and natural apprehensions which the Scripture offers concerning the great Doctrines of the Christian Religion of Election Redemption the Covenant the Law and Gospel and Perfection The Morning-Lectures against Popery or the principal Errours of the Church of Rome detected and confuted in a Morning-Lecture Preached by several Ministers of the Gospel in or near London Four useful Discourses 1. The Art of improving a full and prosperous condition for the glory of God being an 〈…〉 the Art of Contentment in three Sermons on Philip. 4. 12. 2. Christian submission on 1 Sam. 3. 18. 3. Christ a Christians life and death is gain on Philip. 1. 21. 4. The Gospel of Peace sent to the Sons of Peace in six Sermons on Luke 10. 5 6. By Jeremiah Burroughs A new Copy-Book of all sorts of useful hands The Saints Priviledge by dying by Mr. Soot The Unity and Essence of the Catholick Church-visible by Mr. Hudson The intercourse of Divine Love between Christ and the Church or the particular Believing Soul in several Lectures on the whole second Chapter of Cant. by John Collins D. D. Large 8 vo Heart-Treasure or a Treatise tending to fill and furnish the Head and Heart of every Christian with Soul enriching treasure of truths graces experiences and comforts The sure mercies of David or a second part of Heart-treasure by Oliver Heywood Heaven or Hell here in a Good or Bad Conscience by Nath. Vincent Aesop's Fables with Morals thereupon in English-Verse The Young-Mans Instructor and the Old-Mans Remembrancer being an Explanation of the Assemblies Catechism Captives bound in Chains made free by Christ their Surety both by Tho. Doolittle Eighteen Sermons Preached upon several Texts of Scripture by William Whitaker Sin the Plague of plagues or sinful sin the worst of Evils by Ralph Venning M. A. Speculum Sherlockianum or a Looking-glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the Man as to his Acuracy Judgment Orthodoxy Small 8 vo A defence against the fear of Death by Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed by W. Gearing The godly mans Ark or a City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mr. Moors evidences for Heaven by Ed. Calamy The Almost-Christian discovered or the false-Professor tried and cast by M. Mead. In small 12 s. The Duty of Parents towards their Children A little Book for little Children A method and Instruction for the Art of Divine Meditation All three by Tho. White The Prisoners Prayers FINIS * In your Title page you say Fifty Queries gathered out of the works of Mr. Rich. Baxter * In Serm. on 1 Cor. 12. 1. p. 95. To which see something in my Treatise of the Covenants p 430 c. And more in Mr. Whistons Priv. Doct. of Bapt. Some Queries out of Mr. Baxters Plain Scripture-Proof for Infant-Baptism v. p. 3. v. p. 4. v. p. 5. v. p. 6. v. p. 125. v. p. 2. v. p. 6. v. p. 7. v. p. 8. v. p. 9 10. v. p. 244. v. p. 11. v. p. 12. v. p. 15. v. p. 14. v. p. 15 v. p. 16. v. p. 18. v. p. 19. v. p. 20. v. p. 21. v. p. 22. v. p. 23. v. p. 24. v. p. 26. v. p. 27. v. p. 38. v. p. 99. v. p. 40. v. p. 42. v. epistle to Bewdly p. 7. v. p. 43. v. p. 44. v. p. 45. v. p. 46. v. p. 48. v. p. 49. v. p. 50. v. p. 51. v. p. 52. v. p. 53. v. p. 55. v. p. 56. v. p. 57. v. p. 251. v. p. 58. v. p. 59. v. p. 60. v. p. 61. v. p. 70. v. p. 71. v. p. 72. v. p. 74. v. p. 82. v. p. 83. v. p. 84. v. p. 105. v. p. 106. Epistle to Bewdley pag. 7. v. p. 110. v. p. III. v. Preface p. 2 3. v. p. III. v. p. 112. v. p. 253. v. p. 178 179. v. p. 113. v. p. 250. v. p. 115. v. p. 243. v. p. 115. v. p. 116. v. p. 117. v. p. 117 118. v. p. 118. v. p. 119. v. p. 124. v. p. 125. v. p. 126. v. p. 127. v. p. 341. v. p. 128. v. p. 130. v. p. 131. v. p. 132. v. p. 290. v. p. 133. v. p. 134. v. p. 136. v. p. 135. v. p. 136. v. p. 137. v. p. 138. v. p. 144. v. p. 146. v. p. 144. v. p. 145. v. p. 146. v. p. 149. v. p. 177. v. p. 174. v. p. 160. v. p. 161. v. p. 177.