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.PUBLICK DISPUTE 
 
 Betwixt 
 JOHN TOMBS, B. D. Rcfpondent. 
 JOHN CRAGGE, andrM. A. Op- 
 HENRY VAUGHAN,5 ponents, 
 
 Touching 
 
 INFANT-BAPTISM, 
 
 The fifth of September, 1653. 
 in the Church of St. Maries in 
 
 Abergavenie in Monmothjfare. 
 
 Occafioned by a Sermon Preached the 
 day before, by Mr. Tombs^ upon St. Mark. 
 
 16.16. He that believer h, and is b affiled, 
 
 (hall be Caved, but he that believeth not, 
 
 (hall be damped. 
 
 Alfo a Sermon preached by Mr. Cragge, 
 
 the next Lords day following , upon 
 
 the fame Text : 
 
 Wherein the neceflity of Dipping is rcfuted 3 
 and Infant- Baptifm aflerted. 
 
 L O ND O N , Printed for H.Twyford, N.Broo\, 
 
 J. Place, and are to be fold in Vine-Court 
 
 Middle Temple, the Angel in Cofnbill, and ai;- 
 
 Furnivals- Inn- Gate in Holbow. 16*4. 
 
tssa 
 
 ej$ici& 
 
 <&*> ttto tfto 
 
 To his P\everend 
 Grace, Mercy, and Pea^fe mjS^ed 
 
 "»»VV* 
 
 Received your Letter, full of 
 Zeal j and Chriftian Piety , 
 the Contents whereof may 
 be reduced to thefe fix heads, 
 wherein you defire refolution 5 
 firft , what my fenfe is of the 
 Anabaptifts - ? fecondly, when was the fprinz 
 and rife of them 5 thirdly, what is the caufc 
 of this prefent growth, and increafe of them 5 
 fourthly , why they are permitted 5 fifthly ' 
 what I think of Difputes and Conferences 
 had with them 5 fixthly i a true Relation of 
 that had with us of late , ( which you fay is 
 vanoufly reported) of all which briefly Fie 
 endeavour to give fatisfa&ion. For the firft 
 I referr yon to tnc Sermon , and Conference 
 here following, to the Harmonies and Con- 
 
 feffions 
 
The E fifth Dedicator f* \ 
 Feffions of the Reformed Churches , of all 
 Churches fince the Apoftles , efpccially the 
 Weftern , where you fliall find Univcrfali- 
 tie, Antiquity, and Succeffion (befides many 
 pregnant places of Scripture ) pleading for 
 Inf ant-baptifm 5 And that ( as Aufiin faies ) 
 which the whole Church holds , was never 
 begun by any Councel,but alwaies obferyed, 
 cannot otherwife be believed , but that it 
 came from the Apoftles. For the fecond, the 
 fpring and rife of Anabaptifm , as all Er- 
 rours, fo it had its beginning after Truth, 
 the Husbandman firft fowed good Corn, 
 then the Enemy Tares-, No Age was free: In 
 the firft hundred years arofe the Ebiomtesy 
 ChilUfts, and Gnofticks h In the fecond , the 
 Marciomtes , Valentinians , and Mont amps ; 
 In the third , the Novations, Sabellians, and 
 Manichees h In the fourth , the Arrians, Do- 
 natip, and Emomians •, In the fifth, Nefto- 
 rians^ Eutychians, and Patripajfians - 7 In the 
 fixth , Jacobites , Armenians , and cflOtftf- 
 ihtlites ; in which time the My ftenc of Ini- 
 quity began more fully to work, which was 
 firft nafcent, then crefcent , then regnant, 
 then triumphant. 
 
The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
 
 » And no fooner appeared a Reformation in 
 Luther s time , but there were Hereds that 
 fought the life of this Babe, Dragons watch- 
 ing while the Woman was travelling , to de- 
 vour the Child s Amongft whom the Ana- 
 baptifts of Germany were mod venemous; 
 The firft Author whereof was one Nicholas 
 Stocky then Phipher, Knipper doling y Munfter, 
 with their Tayler-King John Beccold of 'Ley- 
 den, who gave out that he had a Commiffion 
 from Heaven to deftroy all Nations that 
 would not fubmit to his Gofpel 3 and be re- 
 baptized • raging with fword ahd perfec- 
 tion, till he was taken J and being examined 
 by exquifite tortures b confeffed he received 
 his Do&rine from an impure fpirit 3 there 
 you have the fpririg and rife of it. 
 
 Now for the third s the prefent growth , 
 and increafe of it, the reafons may be many ; 
 *. Times of divifion , wherein the hedge of 
 Difcipline is broken down$ Liberty in Reli- 
 gion is like free converfing without reftraint, 
 or watch in time of peftilence, one houfe ea- 
 iiiyinfefts a whole City. 2. Satan's malice, 
 
 a ^ Rlver > the further ic S oes > the deeper, 
 and fiercer. 3. The corruption oi man's na- 
 
 A . ture. 
 
The Efiftle Dedictttrf. 
 
 pretending to the Spirit of God 5 Nttma Pm- 
 filius feigned that he converfed with the 
 Goddefs^m-4, Minos with Jupiter in the 
 Cave, Solonwith the Delphian Afollo^ Ma- 
 hornet with the Angel Gabriel 5 Montana* ± 
 and the Shakers, with the Holy Ghoft; the 
 white Witches , with the Spirit in the fhape 
 of a Dove , and all but to palliate their un- 
 found opinions and pra.&ifes. Let not his 
 Soul profper that does not acknowledge and 
 thirft after the true Spirit of God , yet let us 
 try the Spirits , and not believe every Jying 
 Spirit. 18. The learning, fubtilty, and in- 
 duftry , of fome Anabaptifts , to gain Pro- 
 felytes ; Arrius^ Pelagius^ Marcion, were not 
 wiferin their generation than they, to in- 
 veagle the poor fimple people, efpecially 
 Women and inferiour Tradefemen, which 
 in feven years can fcarcc learn the Myfteric 
 of the loweft profeflion , think half feven 
 years enough ( gain d from their worldly 
 imploymentsj to under ftand the Myfterie of 
 Divinity, and thereupon meddle with Con- 
 troverfies, which they have no more ca- 
 pacity to pry into, than a Batt to look up into 
 tk third Heaven. Thcfe* and many more, 
 
The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
 are the caufcs of the increafe of Anabaptifm.' 
 Now, for the Fourth, you enquire why they 
 are permitted,, and their Books printed , and 
 publifhed , feeing thofe of Arrim of old , 
 Dr. Pocklingtons ; and Mr. Archers of late 
 ( more innocent ) were burned i To fatisfie 
 you in this, fomethingis to be imputed to 
 the Providence of God , fomething to the 
 Wifdome of the State. The Providence of 
 God, who fuffers Errours* i .That Truth by 
 oppofition may more diligently be fearched 
 out. 2. That the fincerity and conftancyof 
 the Faithful! may be tryed. 3. That the im- 
 penitent, and proud in fpirit, may be blinded 
 and hardned. The wifdome of State , who 
 like wife Chirurgions, will not launce a tur- 
 gid Ulcer, till it be ripe ; a skilfull Phy- 
 fician , that will not purge Tome floating hu- 
 mours, till they be fetled. Therefore the late 
 Parliament declared , that they would not 
 have them cudgcll'd, butperfwaded out of 
 their Errours. The two 
 Lights of our Gojhen (though Mr « Crdnk > **& 
 they differ in judgment from J£^- ** 
 them J endeavour not to 
 force them, hw byfwcet insinuations and 
 
 arguments 
 
The Zfifile Dedicatory] 
 arguments to win them 5 Befides , fome of 
 them have been efteemed Godjy , amongft 
 which Mr. , foimfo may be ranged 5 who 
 knows but that may be verified of him , that 
 was oiCyfrun r Nov videt htc.utvideat me* 
 lhra*hz fees not theft things, that he may fee 
 better things t God, itmaybe, fuffershim 
 to fall, with Peter, that his rife may be more 
 glorious , Tu confer [us , eonfirma Fratres r 
 that being converted , he may ftrengthen his 
 Brethren ; will burn his Stubble , Hay , 
 Wood, with the Spiritual Fire of the Word, 
 or affli&ion, that his Gold may he the purer. 
 Fifthly, you enquire whether it may be fit to 
 difpute, and conferr with them * feeing their 
 Po&rine eats as a Canker , for which cayff 
 the. Eqiprefs would not fuffer her Son The*- 
 dbfimjs difcourfe with the He retick £««<*- 
 mm, To which \ anfwer 5 the Sword of 
 the Spirit, which is the Word of God, is the 
 oneiy Weapon to wound the hairy fcalp of 
 Falfe Teachers 5 with this, Chrift confoun- 
 ded the Sadduces 5 St. Peter , Simon Magus j 
 jithamifius^xho, Arrians 5 AupnthtfeUgi- 
 ans^ and Manicbees. There an? none that 
 fpeaLagainflrfeafonabk Difputcs, but either 
 
 thofe 
 
The Epftle Dedicatory: 
 thofe that underftand them not , or with 
 fpiritual pride ftorm againft thofe that are 
 gifted with that faculty above them, or they 
 that cannot endure that their Errours be un- 
 masked , and their Soars galled •, Camels , 
 confeious of their deformity , trouble the 
 water , Foul Faces love not the Looking- 
 glafs. True it is , we ought to receive the 
 weak in faith ^ not to doubtfull difputations 5 
 but when Falfe Teachers have infufed Poy- 
 fon , may we not apply an Antidote * when 
 they have fowed Darnel, and Cockle , may 
 not we weed them out ? This is ( to fet 
 Towns and Cities on fire , and to deny Buc- 
 ket» to quench them -, to fuffer Invafions , 
 and to permit none to rally together an 
 Army to refift them. The Difputes at 
 Pewdly, Hereford, and. Rofs , have been fuc- 
 cefsfulltoaftonifllment-, and in this laft at 
 Abergavenie ( though tumultuary , and on a 
 fudden ) hath appeared the Finger of God 5 
 he that with Spittle , and Clay ; opened the 
 Eyes of the Blind , overthrew the Walls of 
 Jericho with the found of Ramms-horns 5 
 with thefe weak means hath wrought ftrong 
 effe&s, that no Creature may glory in the 
 Arm of FlcOi. To 
 
The E pi file Dedicatory. 
 To the relation whereof (in the laft place) 
 and the occafion of it , I come now •, which 
 was thus •, Mr. Tombs for feveral months to- 
 gether being importuned by Letters and 
 MefTengers , came at length to water that , 
 which Mr. Miles, Proffer ^ and others had 
 planted , or ( as Tome think ) to confirm a 
 Child lately baptized in London - 7 when he 
 cntred the Pulpit , great expedition was , 
 what Mountains would bring forth % his 
 Text was Mark. \6. 16. whence he con- 
 cluded, that Infant- baptifm was a nullity , a 
 mockery 5 no Baptifm but by Dipping, or 
 Plunging, was lawfully all that would be fa- 
 ved muft be re-baptized , or baptized after 
 profeffion •, that there was no fuch thing as 
 Infant- baptifm in the Primitive times, but 
 that it came in with other corruptions, upon 
 unfound grounds $ and challenged the whole 
 Congregation to fpe^k , if they had any 
 thing to fay to the contrary. There were 
 many well learned that heard him, efpe- 
 cialiy two , Mr, Bonner a neighbouring Mi - 
 nifter, and Mr. Vaughan Schoolmaftcr of 
 the Town, formerly a Fellow of tfefus 
 College in Oxford, who both for the prefent 
 
 kept 
 
TheEfifile Dedicatory. 
 keptfilence, onely Mr. Bonner clofed witfi 
 him in the way to his Lodging , and told 
 him > that he had delivered fome things 
 contrary to that he had read in the An- 
 tients > and other things that grieved his 
 fpirit to hear , and defired therefore to 
 conferr with him thereabout the next mor- 
 ning : He flighted the grave old Gentle-; 
 man, with as much contempt , as \^iufifa 
 the Monk did the Britifli Commiffioners 
 at Bangor , yet told him, that he would 
 tarry in the Town till fuch an hour ; In the 
 mean time , the grcateft part of the People 
 wereoffended^ftagger'd, or fcrupled, fome 
 not knowing what to think of their own J 
 their Children , and their Anceftours fal- 
 vation. The Anabaptifts that night , and 
 cfpecially the next morning, triumphed, 
 faying, where are your Champions now? 
 fome of them are ftruck' dumb , others 
 dare not fliew their faces , whil'ft Matter 
 Tombs is in the Town, naming Mr.Cragge, 
 another neighbouring Minifter-, the report 
 whereof being brought unto him , he re- 
 paired inftantly to the Town , and meet- 
 ing 
 
The Bfifile Dedicatory^, 
 jpjg with Mr. Bonner , and Mr. Vaughan , 
 they went all together to Mr* Tombs , 
 where he was at a private houfe^ little 
 was faid there, by rcafon of the throng 
 of people preffing in-, but it was agreed 
 ippon , that they fliould meet in the Church, 
 or Publick Meeting place , at one a Clock, 
 which was done accordingly •, Mr; Tombs 
 took the Pulpit, the Opponents a Seat 
 over againft it : Mr. Bpnner was prepa- 
 ring to give the Onletj but a Gentleman 
 diflwaded him , by reafon of his age , and 
 bodily infirmities, left it fliould impair his 
 health-, Mr. Vaughan began, Mt.Craggc 
 fucceeded , continuing the oppofition be- 
 twixt them for almoft five hours. When 
 the Difputc was ended 5 Mr. Cragge was 
 defired by many Godly Perfons to preach 
 upon the fame Text Mr. Tombs had done, 
 the Lords Day following , which he did 
 accordingly, I fend you here enclofed 
 the fum of all-, a Copy of Mr. Vaughan '< 
 Conference , which a Friend procured me? 
 from his own hand, Mr. Cr^e'sSermor 
 and Difpute , I took from his own mouttf 
 
 ] 
 
The Eftftle Dedicatory. 
 by Short- writing 5 you have the Difputa- 
 tions firft , then the Sermon 5 the Lord 
 blefs them to you 5 and you to his glory,, 
 which (hall be the prayer of him , who is 
 
 Tours to ferve you in the 
 Lord Jefus $ ' 
 
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 To 
 
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 tWIte 
 
 To the 
 
 
 Courteous Reader , 
 
 TO pleafe my [elf \ and perhaps thee > 
 1 Jhall dtfpleafe many, Firft ? my 
 Friend^ for making his private 
 token apublick fr click. Secondly + 
 Mr. Tombs, for hinging him in this lajl 
 Cat a fir of he wounded in the heel by Troilus and 
 Paris , who vaunts that in former Scenes 9 
 (like Achilles 5 fo far as he was dipped in the 
 River by his Mother Thais) he hath been tm- 
 perced by the Weapons of ihefiouteft HcdorS. 
 Thirdly , Mr. Cragge ; and Mr. Vaughan, 
 for expo ft ng their D iff ute s \ conceived in an 
 hour and an half \ and the Sermon contri- 
 ved in a day and a half \ to long cenfure* 
 Fourthly ^the Anabaptifts ( 4* they will deem) 
 
 for 
 
To the Reader; 
 for too uncourteoufly galling their [oars] 
 Fiftly > their Adverfaries the P^dobaptifls , ! 
 for too court eoujly ^ or ( as they mil fancy ) 
 partially concealing Mr. Tombs harjh lan- 
 guage ^ and his Favourites Incivilities. Sixtl% 
 the Learned in general , for bringing thefe 
 Nilus-//£e hatched Births in a moment into 
 the of en Amphitheater with thofe Elephants 
 that have been ten years in conception. My 
 Apologie for the whole is as followeth 3 The 
 hulk of this Manual is J mall 5 fome may reach 
 to the price of it ^ that cannot of thofe forger 
 Volumes?, may have time to read it , v $hat 
 cannot them. 7 he method of this is fMle , 
 the language plain 5 fome will under flancTth is > 
 that cannot them. Befides 3 we naturally love 
 the tranfaCtions of thofe , whofe perjons we 
 know ; Some heard them tranfiently as they 
 rtere delivered^ and would be glad delibe* 
 rately to read them $ Some heard them not r 
 but at the fecond hand , as they were vari- 
 mfly reported ( according to the judgement 
 and affettion of ? the Relator) who would be 
 willing to know the bufinefs truly flated. if 
 my of the fatties concerned find themfelves 
 aggrieved, and intend to bend their file 
 
 againfl 
 
To the Reader: 
 
 infi m*> ft* anfwer them at the Day of 
 Jdgement , when the fecrets of all hearts 
 flat be difclofed: In the meantime, if Truth 
 may be advanced , Err our difc our aged , Ged- 
 linefs countenanced 5 Hypocrifie unmasked, 
 thou edified , God glorified, I have mine ends. 
 Farewell. 
 
 Tours in the. Lord, 
 
 I. T. P. 
 
rn 
 
 
 A relation of a conference had 
 
 between Mr. John Tombs B. D. zn& Hen- 
 ry Vaghan M. A. in St. Mir/*; Church in 
 Abergevennie^ Sep.%.\6%$. touching In- 
 fants Baptifm, briefly, and pun&ualSy ft? 
 down to the fenfe of both. 
 
 Nfants may lawfully be Bapti- 
 zed ; for they may be admitted in- 
 to the covenant of grace now by 
 Baptifm, as they were before, and under the 
 Law, admitted into the fame covenant by 
 Circumcifion- 
 
 T. I deny your confequence. 
 t. You muft deny ^either becaufe the co 
 venant of grace made with Abraham, and 
 his feed, is not the fame, in fubihnce with 
 that which is now actually in force with be- 
 leevers, and their Childi;en,or Secondly, be 
 caufe Baptifm fucceedeth not in the rbom 
 ofCircumcifion. 
 
 B T. I 
 
I */ 
 
 T. 1 could deny your divifion : jet ifaj, to 
 gratifie you, for both thofe reafons. 
 
 V. For the Former. That the covenant 
 made with Abraham^ and his feed,is the fame 
 which is now a&ually in force with belee- 
 vcrs,appears by comparing Genef. 17.2. with 
 Galat. 3.14. whw it is clearly fet forth, that 
 the promife made to ^dbraham^ came unto 
 the Gentiles through %efus Chrifi. 
 
 T. Here be difiinguijheth of a tow fold Jeed 
 0/ Abraham, the naturally and fpirituall, and 
 faith , that the covenant was made with kbtz.- 
 hm\sffiritnallfexdy and not. the natn-rall. 
 
 V. Evenallthe children of Abraham were 
 Circumcifed.and confequently admitted into 
 the covenant, not one excepted v ror every 
 Man : child was tobe.GircumcifccJ 3 Gen 17. 
 10. It appears by whathapned to Mofes for 
 not circumcifing his Child, Bxod 4. 24. 
 Even Ijhmael wascireutneifed, Genef ij. 23.* 
 who belonged not to the promife, but was 
 ofthenaturallfeed. ,.,, £ 
 
 T. Iflimael, and the naturall Children of 
 Abraham rvere admitted to the externall 
 part, namely outward privileges, and tempo- 
 raHblefings, and not to the intern*^ or fpt- 
 ritualipart thereof. By 
 
(3) 
 
 By the Internall part he muft needs mean 
 that part ofitexprefTed(7<r//. 17.7. inthefc 
 words, To be a Goh unto thee^ and unto thy 
 feed after thee, and in the end of v.Z.iwitl 
 be their God. 
 
 To juftifie this his diftin&W, he refer- 
 red us to lta#.9. and I thinks. 8. wherethe 
 Children of the promife are contradiftin- 
 guiflicd from the Children of the flefh, 
 or the naturall Children of Abraham t, So 
 that the covenant was made not to the na- 
 turall Children of Abraham^ buttofuchof 
 them as were ele<a, and faithfull. 
 
 F. This covenant was made alike in the 
 fame extent, and latitude, promifoioufly 
 with all the feed of Abraham 5 and thofe that 
 loft the promife, and the benefit of this co- 
 venant ( which men you call the naturall 
 feed ) loft it not becaufe they were not at 
 firft comprehended in the covenant, but 
 becaufe of their own unbelecf, Rom.11.20. 
 I confeftc that the Children of Ifaack are, 
 Rom.9. called the Children of the promife, 
 not in regard of any peremtory eledio^qr 
 designation to faith, and Salvation, or on 
 B 2 the 
 
the contrary of any abfolute reprobation of 
 the feed of ijhmael. 
 
 For if it had been Pauls dcCignc ro declare 
 the Children of ijhmael , yea the greateft 
 part of the Reives, to have been reje&edby 
 a certain abfolute decree, whyfhould hei/. 
 1.2. fo much lament their incredulities 
 wilh himfelf accurfed for their fakes, i>. 3. 
 andRom. ip.a/.i. defire, and pray for their 
 converfion? fiaceupon fuch an abfolute de- 
 cree of reprobating them, all that happened 
 to them was inevitable. 
 
 But the Children of ifaack are called the 
 Children of promife,Firft,becaufe they onely 
 were to inherite the land of Canaan 5 and Se- 
 condly, becaufc Chrift according to the flefh 
 was to defcend from the progenie of ifaack, 
 not of ijhmael, 
 
 I might have added, that if none but the 
 cleft, and faithfull, can be admitted into the 
 covenant, there is no fubjed left for the or- 
 dinance of Baptifm , it being impoffible for 
 man to know who are ele<ft, fpirituail, and 
 true believers. Neither can you Baptize with 
 right, or fafety,all fuch grown perfons as you 
 Baptize , fince you cannot be aifured that 
 
 they 
 
they are eled, Spiritual!, or true, believers^ 
 (Revel. 2.17. J nor have any light to guide 
 you, fave that of charitable opinion , and 
 conje<5ture. 
 
 Again, it being admitted that none but the 
 Spiritually eleft, and believing, can be Bap- 
 tized , the fame charitie that fwayes your 
 judgment for grown perfons , muft much 
 rather move you to hope the beft of innocent 
 infants, guiltieof noa&uall fin,finceir hopes 
 all things, and thinks noevill, 1. Cor. 13. 
 2. They may have faith {infemine & habitn) 
 in the feed (as they have the habit of prin- 
 ciples, and'reafonj tho they cannot exer- 
 cifeittill ripe years. 3. Though they have 
 not a&uall faith, yet the faith of their parents 
 may, and doth, put them into a capacitie of 
 being admitted into the covenant, nor is it 
 news that the parents faith advantageth the 
 Children. 3^.4. 5c 
 
 T. Iceuldwijh you c$uld prove that Infants 
 of believers might be admitted to Bapifmby 
 virtue of their parents faith. 
 
 V. They were admitted into the fame co- 
 venant by Circumcifion, into which we arc 
 admitted now by Baptifm, but Circumcifi- 
 B 3 on 
 
on isa fed of the righteoufnefs of faith , Rom. 
 4. 1 1 , 1 2 . Whence it will follow, that either 
 they had the rightcoufnefsof faith inherent- 
 ly in thcuifelves, or that of their parents im- 
 puted to them ( chufe you whetherj or elfe it 
 will follow thatCircumcifion was a falfe feal. 
 
 T. It is not faid there that Circumcifion was 
 the Jeal of righteoufnefs of the Childr ens faith \ 
 but onely 0/ Abrahams own faith in parti- 
 cular. 
 
 V* But the covenant, or promife, was the 
 fame and alike 10 Abraham ^znA his kcd ,Rom. 
 4. 13. Gen* 17.7. and alike to us believers, 
 and to our Children,^. *. 39. i^ 
 
 2. This truth appears yet further from. 1. 
 Cor. 7- 14. Where we find that the faith of 
 either of the parents makes the Children ho- 
 ly, at leaft in that degree of holynefs ( which 
 is the meaneft imaginable) to be in capaci- 
 tic of being admitted into the fame covenant 
 with their parents. 
 
 T. The Jc ope of the Apoftle here^ is tofatif- 
 
 fe a Jcruple of the Corinth, viz. whether the 
 
 believing joak -fellow might live in the enjoy- 
 
 ingandujeof the unbelieving j oak- fellow' 1 : he 
 
 refolve* them in the affirmative, (aying^The 
 
 unbeletving 
 
it) 
 
 unbelieving hufband is fantfifyedin ( as 'tis in 
 the Greek ; or to ( net for, or by ) the wife, 
 drc. That is , he may lawfully ufe, and en- 
 joy her^andfhe enjoy him—andtheir Children 
 holy^ that is, legitimate. 
 
 V. But here is certainly fome fpeciall pri- 
 vilege fet forth to the Children of believers 
 accruing to them from the believing parents. 
 Bcfides,it had been no news to tell them they 
 might have the lawful! ufe of one another, 
 and Aat their Children were legitimate ., 
 andnobaftards. For where both husband, 
 and wife were unbelievers, no man ever 
 doubted but their enjoyment of one another 
 was lawfull, and their iffue legitimate. 
 
 T. The cafe is meant where both far ties at 
 their entrance into marriage were unbelievers, 
 but afterwards one of them ha f fens to be con- 
 verted, whether then they might cohabit^ and 
 enjoy the ufe of one another* 
 
 V. Though this were granted (which I 
 (hall not contend about ) yet die Apoftles 
 fenfe can not be of the lawfuUJpfe, and en- 
 joyment of each other, for the^ord *>'$** 
 fan&ifycd, never denotes to be lawfull. Or if 
 ever you fhew me that «V®- which is render'd 
 
 holy, 
 
I < 8 > 
 
 holy Signifies lawfull, I (hall urge no further, 
 
 T # Thers that 'deception of the word i. 
 Tim»3..4 5 5.£^>7 creature of God is good, and 
 not to be refufed, if it be received with thanks- 
 giving, for it is jan Rifled ( *3*#«j ) by the word 
 of God. and prayer*, here fmUifyedis for law- 
 fully ufed , as ftanding in oppofition to that 
 which is refufed. 
 
 V. The fenfeis, thatfuchufe of the crea- 
 ture is pleafing to God, as acknowledging 
 him the authour, and fender 3 for fuppofe a 
 fi* full man eat his meat without invoking 
 God for a ble fling, hath he not a lavvfull ufe 
 of the creature ? 
 
 T. His next inftance was i.Thef. 4.3,4, 
 7. Where fantttfication is iifed for chaftitie^ 
 and might bear that Jenfe in this place, 1 Cor. 
 7 .17. in agitation. 
 
 V. I deny it,for fan&ification is there ufed 
 In its full latitude, as appears by the context. 
 
 But I will defcend to prove the fecond 
 ground of my conference, at the beginning, 
 which youd&ed, viz, 
 
 .^ Thai: J Pifm fucceeded in the Room of 
 Circumcifm 
 
 Mr. Tombs haa told us that it was impof- 
 
 fible, 
 
(9) 
 
 !ible, for then women fhould not be Bap- 
 :ized, becaufe they were not Circumcifed, 
 ' which is BelUrmines Argument ] To which 
 [ anfwered, that indeed the males only were 
 mentioned in the covenant of Circumcifion, 
 for in the eyes of all laws whatfoever, the 
 women are but as ignoble creatures, and 
 therefore the ufuall ftile of laws, and cove- 
 nants is y Si Quis and Qui in the mafculine [ex- 
 cept fuch as particularly refpeft their fex ] 
 
 2. That they are included in the word 
 Seed, and becaufe defcended from man, 
 did partake of the privilege , and promife 
 annexed to the covenant. [ I thought al- 
 fo to have told him, that I well knew that 
 before Chrifts time, Baptifm and Circum- 
 cifion were both pra&ifed on the Frsfelites 
 called Tr&fcUttZ JnftitLt (as I could have 
 fhewed out of feverall authoursj y:-E that 
 hindered not, but that Baptifm now under 
 the Gofpell fhould be the fole means to ad- 
 mit us into the fame covenant, into which the 
 Jews were adnjitted by Circumcifion. Even 
 as the bread and wine were taken by the 
 Jews at the -eating of the Paffeover, and now 
 that the femjh Paffeover is abrogated, the 
 
 bread 
 
bread and wine were only by Chrift retain- 
 ed to commemorate his paflion, the true 
 PalTeover. i. Cor. 5.7. 
 
 And in like manner when Circumcifion 
 was abolifhed, yet was Bnprifm retained to 
 admit the Infants of Chriftians,as Circumci- 
 fion admitted them of the ^ews ; But the 
 time, and his clofe manner of difputingnot 
 permiring this Enlarging by recourfe to the 
 original], and inftitution of Baptifm, which 
 ferved more to illuftrate than convince, I 
 kept to the tedder allowed . and came at 
 length to prove that propofition ] fromCol. 
 2. 1 1.1 2. Where 1 the circumcifion of Chrift 
 isfetin oppofmontothc $crvtjh circumcifi- 
 tion made with hands. 2. An explanation of 
 what is meant by the circumcifion of Chrift 
 in thefe words, being buryed with him in 
 Baptifm. 
 
 T\ Paul here diffwades them from the ufe 
 cf Je Willi ceremonies \ which (ome would have 
 itit>-orfuced among ft them ) and particularly 
 of Circumcifion, becauje ail thoje were but (ha- 
 dowes^ but the body andrealitie was of Chrift* 
 
 V. T'is confefiedthe Apoftle fpeakshere 
 Sgainft impofcrs of -pewfh ( and alfo Pytha- 
 gorean 
 
(") 
 
 gorean) do&rines, and pra&ifcs/ 
 
 But fee ye not here a doubleCircumcifion* 
 and the CircumcifionofChriftdcfcribed by 
 being buried with him in Baptifm. The word 
 buried implyeth but the re femblance betwixt 
 Chrifts death, and refurre&ion, with what 
 is done in Baptifm, where there is an Immer- 
 fion or plunging in the water, to fhadow his 
 buriall, and Emerfionorrifing up out of the 
 water, to reprefent his refurredion, which 
 refemblance is more fully fet forth Rom.c.6. 
 
 T. Here Mr. Tombs interrupted me, and 
 deftredthe people to take notice of my ingenu- 
 ous confefion^ that Baptifm was then pratii- 
 fed by plunging. He readalfoa parage out of 
 Cafaubons annot. on the New Tefh where he 
 faith that e**-nfrn to Baptife, denoteth a plung- 
 ing of the whole body &c. Had he read out the 
 paffage, he might have found how that great 
 fcholar affirm es this to he a (lender Argument 
 againjl fuch as only fpr inkle at Baptifm^ for 
 faith he^ the vertue and efficacie of Baptifm* 
 conjijles not in that, meaning the manner of 
 wajhing. 
 
 V. I fhall fatisfie the Auditours herein 
 anon, in the mean time I defirc Anfwer to 
 
 my 
 
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 my Argument, the Analogic between Cir- 
 cumcifion and Baptifm being fo evident 
 m this place. But receiving none, Iaddref- 
 iedmy fclftothe people, according to pro- 
 mife faying , That indeed itfeeracd tome 
 that for fome Centuries of years, that Bap- 
 tifm was pradifed by plunging: Forfprink- 
 lingwas brought firftin uTe by occafionof 
 the Clinicks ( as Cyprian Epift: a Magnum 
 relates) being men which deferred their 
 Baptifm till fome extremitie of ficknefs, who 
 then in iuch cafe were only fprinkled with 
 water, left the plunging of their bodies 
 might over- offend them in that feeble def- 
 perate condition. 
 
 T. Mere take notice that far inkling took its 
 rife from a corrupt cujlome. 
 
 V. Though plunging be confefTed the 
 more antient way, yet is this no ground for 
 that over-uncharitable fpcech of yours , in 
 your fermon yefterday : That our Baptifm, 
 meaning of Infants, and by fprinklins, was 
 but a nullitie, and Mockery, which concludes 
 ourfelves, and all our Aunceftours, even all 
 in the weftern Church for 1500. years, un- 
 der damnation. 
 
 For 
 
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 For the Church hath power upon the fight 
 of any inconvenience, and for order and 
 decencies fake,to alter the circumftantials and 
 externalls of any Ordinance. 
 
 T. What have they to doe to alter any thing 
 from the form of Chrifls infiitution ? 
 
 V, That they have fucha power iscon- 
 feffed by all divines, and he is none that de- 
 nies it, yea I believe it is acknowledged by 
 your own pra&ice. 
 
 T. Wherein? 
 
 V. In the adminiftration of the Lords 
 fupper, which was done by Chrift in the 
 Evening , and alfo then by his Apoftles 
 after their Love-feaftcs : The whole 
 Church of God, ( and your felf I fuppofe y 
 take it in the morning , which cuftornt 
 hath taken place , and obtained every 
 where for very many ages, even from their 
 dayes who immediatly fuccecdcd the A- 
 poftles. 
 
 Thus advifing him to be wife to Sobrie- 
 ty, and ceafe to imbrbyl the Church of 
 God ( fo infinitly torn already ) and to 
 fubmit to the judgment, and fcarce-inter- 
 rupted pra&ife of the Weftern Chprches^ 
 
 cvfca 
 
even for 1500. years, To which Gods pro- 
 vidence could not be fo far wanting, as tc 
 fuffer them to fall into fuch an Errour of ad- 
 mitting and retaining a Baptifm ( which in 
 his account was none ) we broke off, 
 
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 A relation of the difpute 
 
 had between Mr. John Tombs B. D. re- 
 {pondentyznd Joh»Cragge Mr. A. oppo- 
 nent,^ St.MariesChmch \nAbergevennie, 
 Septemb. 5. 1653. touching Infant-Bap- 
 tifm. 
 
 Mv.Cragge having briefly exprefled that 
 he was farced to undertake this task, 
 onafudden, and unprovided, againftfo ex- 
 perienced a champion*- defired , firft,ifhe 
 ihouldfail, the caufe might riot fufFer preju- 
 dice in mens opinions foi his fake. 
 
 2. That libertic might be granted qf a 
 premeditate, and treatable difpute hereafter, 
 not doubting that if he fliould but ftudy the 
 Queftion fo many hours as Mr. Tombs hath 
 done dayes,fo many dayes as he hath done 
 weeks, fo many weeks as he months, or fa 
 many months as he years, the truth was fo 
 evident on his fide, he would not fear ( Man- 
 gre all oppofition ) to make it clear. In the 
 
 mean 
 
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 mean time truftiog to Godsaffiftance, (whofe 
 caufe it was ) he would attempt it, beginning 
 with this Enthymema. 
 
 C. Some Infants may not be Baptized, 
 therefore fome Infants may be Baptized. 
 
 T. Having repeated, he deny ed the con/e- 
 querice. 
 
 C. Which he proved thus, Subcontrary 
 propofitions in a Contingent matter maybe 
 both true. But thefe, viz,: (fome infants 
 may not be Baptifed 5 fome infants maybe 
 Baptized ) are Subcontrary propofitions in 
 a Contingent matter. Therefore they maybe 
 bothtrue.'* / .*,_>.< «* 
 
 T. Having repeated the Sy/Itgifm, he faid 
 there were four terms in it. 
 
 C. He enquired where? 
 
 T. He anfaered in thefe words '{may be 
 hth'true) in the Premises, and\are both true) 
 in ike Condition. 
 
 C. He returned, that was Mr. Tombs Syl- 
 logifrri, none of his 3 reciting that diftick 
 of Martial* 
 
 Qtum recite mens eft o Ft dentine logifmus, 
 fed male duns recitas^ incipst ejfe tuns. 
 
 T . Rep'ttwgit over again after bir/iyfaid, 
 
 that 
 
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 C. Which he took thus away • That which 
 proves the thing denied>is fufficient- But that 
 Subcontrary propofitions in a Contingent 
 matter may be both true 5 proves the thing de- 
 nied, that fome infants may not be Baptized, 
 fome infants may be Baptized 3 Therefore 
 it is fufficient. 
 
 T. He denyed the CWinor , tho it be an 
 Axiom> Subcontrary proportions in a Con- 
 tingent matter mty be botb'true, yet it wa* 
 not consequent that thefe fubcontrary contin- 
 gent propofitions {fome Infants may not be 
 baptized^fome Infants may be bapized ) may 
 be both true. 
 
 C. Which was proved thus.That which is 
 affirmed and predicated of the Species, may* 
 and is affirmed of every Individuum , and 
 particular under that Species: But it is af- 
 firmed of the Species,that Subcontrary Pro- 
 pofitions in a Contingent matter may be 
 both true , therefore it may be affirmed of 
 thefe particular Propofitions ( fome Infants 
 may not be baptized , fome Infants may be 
 baptized) that they may be both true, 
 
 T, He faid it was a, fallacy y he went a- 
 m to entrap fc him, insonfefifrg thatfub- 
 C contrary 
 
(is; 
 
 contrary Vropofiiions may be both true^ where 
 the fubjeSt is capable , but here the fubject> 
 ( to wit infants ) are not capable of B*}>- 
 
 tifm. . ; 
 
 C. Then replyes he, they arc not Contin- 
 gent (which is here required ) but Neceffary 
 Proportions , in materia necejfaria , if the 
 fubjeft be not capable, but we fpeak of Con- 
 tingent Propofitions, the Predicate whereof 
 may be affirmed or denied of the fubjed 
 without contradiaion 5 which while he was 
 framing into a Syllogifm, 
 
 T. Mr. T. interrupted him, }ajwg> what 
 would the man Jay if he could fpeak t 
 
 C You love not to hear truth fpeak, but 
 would ftrangk it in the birth, like the Egypti- 
 an Midwives-, but to give you further SatiC 
 fadiiori, I will prove that they are aauallj 
 both true, efpecialiy that fume infants maj 
 be baptized, for of the other there is no con 
 troverfie. Which he did thus, To whom be 
 longs the Effence ofBaptifm, they may b 
 Baptized 5 But to fome infants belongs th 
 Effence ofBaptifm •, therefor e fome infant 
 may be Baptized. 
 
 T. He denyedthe Minor, that the Mjjem 
 
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 tfBapifm did belong to feme Infants: 
 
 C. Which was proved thus 5 To whom 
 belongs the definition of Baptifm, tothetn 
 belongs the ECTcnce $ But to fome infants 
 belongs the definition of Baptifm; Therefore 
 to fome infants belongsthe EfTence of Bap 
 tifra# 
 
 T. He anfwered fir ft ik the Major +(120 
 whom belongs the definition of Baptifm ^ 3 to 
 them belongs the Effeme^ ) it was idem per 
 idem proving of the fame thing by the fame. 
 
 C. To which was replyed, why then 
 fayes Ariftotle^ that h?w§r *& ™thvri*< y & Wsh 
 the definition is a manifeftation of the 
 EflTence, and Logicians defcribe a definition^ 
 to be explkatio rei Ejfentia, thecxpreflion 
 of the EfTence of a thing, now that which 
 exprefles a thing $ and which is expreffed, 
 are two diftinft things. Then he denied the 
 Minor, which was proved thus. 
 C, The definition of Baptifm, as of all 
 i otherRdationsJs made up of the fundament, 
 correlative, and termini. Butallthefe three 
 fmdamentum, correlatuw, & terminus^ be- 
 long to Infants 5 Therefore the definition 
 of Baptifm belongs to Infants. 
 
 C % * 
 
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 T. He denied the Major, that Baptifm w a* 
 a Relation, or was made up of thofe ingredi- 
 ents. 
 
 C. He replyed, that feemcd ftrange to 
 him, feeing all the Divines, and Logicians 
 that he had read, affirmed Baptilm to be a 
 Relation, and it was evident, it could be put 
 in no other Predicament, ( as might be pro- 
 ved by Indu<aion,but that the people under- 
 stood it not,) feeing the whole nature of 
 Baptifm &•£• « % in Relation to another. 
 
 T. He [aid he cared not for authorities, but 
 bid him prove it. 
 
 C. Which he did thus •, Every Sacrament 
 is a Relation*, But Baptifm is a Sacrament; 
 Therefore Baptifm is a Relation. 
 
 T. He faid he might deny both Prop oft ions, 
 frfi The Major, for any thing he knew, every 
 Sacrament was not a Relation ^ And the Mi- 
 nor too, that Baptifm was a Sacrament, for 
 the word Sacrament was an invention of man 9 
 not grounded ufonferipture. 
 
 C. Which both Propofitions together 
 were proved thus $ That which is an 
 outward , and vifible fign , of an inward, 
 and invifibk grace > is both a Relation, 
 
 and 
 
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 and a Sacrament 5 But Baptifin is an out- 
 ward and vifibk fign 3 of an inward, and invi- 
 fible grace % Therefore it is both a Relation, 
 and a Sacrament. 
 
 T. He denyed the Minor ^ that B apti fm was 
 an outward, andvifiblefign^ of an inward, and 
 invisible grace, 
 
 C. He told him, it was St. Aufiens defini- 
 tion, avouched by learned men in fucceed 
 ing ages 5 confirmed , and approved hy the 
 Church of England in the old Catechifm. 
 
 T. Mr. Tombs [aid he looked for Artifi- 
 ciall or divine Arguments^ not humane Tefti- 
 monies^ at which anfwer while Mr.C.feemed 
 to be aftomifhed) he took occasion to triumph \ 
 contumelioujly Jaying he never heard Juch an 
 ^Argument. 
 
 C. To which he replyed, Nov Alexander 
 ever faw fuch a knot, as the Gordian, which 
 made him cut it, when he could not untie it; 
 you teach me by experience to know that 
 there is no difputing againft them that deny 
 all Principles •, as where you think the people 
 doe not underftand, you make no fcruplcto 
 deny clear truths inLogick,and Divinitie; 
 Therefore! fee I muft goe to plain fcriptures, 
 • • C 3 that 
 
that all the people may underftand the ab- 
 furdities. Now that the Definition of Bap- 
 tifm ( which was the thing denyed ) belongs 
 to Infants, I prove thus. 
 
 If God inftkute Baptifm for infants, 
 Chrift merited it for them, and they ftand 
 need of it, then to infants belongs the Defi- 
 nition of Baptifm 5 But God inftituted, 
 Chrift merittcd, and Infants ftand need of 
 Baptism; Therefore to infants belongs the 
 Definition of Baptifm. 
 
 T. He denyed the Minor , that God did not 
 inftitute Baptifm for infants^ Chrift did not 
 merit it for them> nor Infants ftand in need 
 of it. 
 
 CV Which he promifed to prove in or- 
 der, Firft that God did inftitute Baptifm for 
 infants. He that appointed infants Church- 
 members under the Gofpell, did inftitute 
 Baptifm for them*, But God appointed In- 
 fants. Church-members under the Gofpell*, 
 Therefore God did inftitute Baptifm for 
 infants. 
 
 T. He f aid firft the Major might be quefti- 
 
 mtd^ becaufejo be Church -members ( whereas 
 
 he fbould have hid Chunk-members under 
 
 J \- v • t k* 
 
in) 
 
 tb e GofpeU ) and to be Baptized, were not ter- 
 mini convertibles. 
 
 C. He confefled it, for infants under the 
 Law were Church-members, and yet not 
 Baptized, but Circumcifed, and before the 
 Law Church-members, and yet neither Cir- 
 cumcifed, nor Baptized - but under the Gof- 
 peU they were fo convertible, that all that 
 were Baptized, were Church-members, 
 and all that were Church-members were 
 to be Baptized, which is that which he af- 
 firmed now, and is a truth, a truth fo clear, 
 that Mr. To/^ confeffes it all along in his 
 Books, and upon that confefled ground, 
 Mr . Baxter goes in many of his Argu- 
 ments. 
 
 T. Be would have denied it, till a Gen- 
 tleman told him , that he heard him affirm 
 the fame in his Sermon the day before, 'Then he 
 deny ed the minor, that God did injiitute infants 
 Church-members under the GofpeU. 
 
 C. That riconfirm(fayeshe)with a three- 
 fold cord, which will not eafily be broken, 
 before the Law, under the Law, under the 
 GofpeU, which he framed into an Argument 
 thusThofe whomGod did promife before the 
 
 Law 
 
Law, foretell under the Law, a<9ually re- 
 ceive into covenant under the Gofpell, thofe 
 God did appoint Church-members under 
 the Gofpell; But God did promife before 
 the Law, foretell under the Law, andadtu-r 
 ally receive Infants into Covenant under the 
 Gofpell-, Therefore God did appoint In- 
 fants Church-members under the Gofpell. 
 
 T. He denyed the Minor, That 'God did 
 not fromife heforc the Law, foretell under 
 the Law, and actually receive infants into co- 
 venant under the Gojfell. 
 
 C. Which was proved in order, firft that 
 God did promife before the Law that in- 
 fants fliould be in covenant under the Gof- 
 pell, thus. 
 
 That which God did promife to Air a- 
 ham, was before the Law 5 But God did prp- 
 nufe to Abraham, tnat infants fhould be in 
 covenant under the Gofpell- Therefore God 
 did promife before the Law , that infants 
 fliould be in covenant under the Gofpell. 
 The Minor being denyed, he proved out of 
 Gen. 17.7. 1 mil eflablijh my covenant be- 
 tween m e ^ and thee, and thy feed after, thee, in 
 their generations Jor an everlajlmg €Ovemnt. 
 
(2j) 
 
 be a God unto thee, and nntfr thy feed 
 after thee. Thus framing his Argument •, He 
 that makes an cvcrlafting covenant to Abra- 
 ham, and his feed after him in their generati- 
 ons, promifed that infants fhould be in cove- 
 nant under the Gofpcll,butGod makes anever- 
 laftmg Covenant with Abraham 3 and his feed 
 after him in their generations 5 Therefore 
 God promifed that infants {hojuld he in cove- 
 nant under the Gofpell. 
 
 T. He denied the Major, fay ing, that ever- 
 lafting fignifyed onely a long time, not that 
 it fhould be fo under the GeffeU to the worlds 
 end 5 and was to be interpreted by the verfe 
 following J will give unto thee theLandofQzr 
 naan for an cvcrlafting pojfeflton, and yet the 
 Jews are now difpoffejjed of Canaan. 
 
 C. They are now difpofftft, butfhallbe 
 pofleffed of it again at their converfion, and 
 fohave an everlafting poffeflion, in the type 
 to the end of the world, in the Antitype fori 
 ever, but that the covenant that God made 
 with Abraham is to continue to the end of 
 the World appears in that it is a Gofpell 
 covenant 5 That which is a Gofpell cove- 
 nant is to continue to the end of the world $ 
 
 But 
 
( »«!) 
 
 But the covenant that God made with Abra- 
 ham and his feed to all generations, is a Gof- 
 peil covenant, Gal. 3.8. and the fcripturc 
 forefeeing that God would Juftifie the hea- 
 then, through faith, preached the Gofpell 
 before to Abraham, faying, In thee [hall 'na- 
 tions be blejfed . Therefore it is to continue 
 to the end of the world. 
 
 T. Without repeating , he confusedly an- 
 swer d thus, that it was an everlaftiug cove* 
 tiant, and to continue to the end of the world, 
 but not to infants. 
 
 C. He told him firft that it was a denying 
 oftheConclufion, then took away his an- 
 fwer thus 5 If God command infants to ftand 
 before him, in covenant, then it is to con- 
 tinue to infants •, But God commands infants 
 to ftand in covenant before him j Therefore 
 it is to continue to infants. Deut. 29.10, 1 *. 
 fee ft and this day all of yon before the Lord y 
 jour God, your Captains of your tribes, your 
 
 elder s, and your officers, with allthemenof 
 
 Ifrael,)w litleones. 
 
 T. tie [aid that he jhould have proved that 
 
 it fhonld continue to infants to the worlds end, 
 
 for he did not deny but that infants in jfme 
 
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 fenfe were in covenant under the Law, But not 
 under the Go fpU. 
 
 C. Yes under the Gofpell ^ If Chrift hath 
 obtained a more excellent Miniftrie, and is 
 a Mediator of abetter covenant , which is 
 cftabliftied upon better promiffes , then if 
 infants were in covenant under the Law, 
 they arc in covenant under the Gofpell 5 
 But Heh.S.6. Chrift hath obtained a more 
 excellent Miniftry, was a Mediator of abet- 
 ter covenant , which was eftablifhed upon 
 better promifes 5 Therefore if infants were 
 in covenant under the Law, they arc in co- 
 venant under the Gofpell. 
 
 T. He denjed the consequence of the Major^ 
 that tho the covenant of the G off ell was a bet- 
 ter covenant than that of the Law> yet infants 
 were not in covenant as votH under the Gofpell^ 
 as under the Law. 
 
 C. Which was thus taken/ away/ That 
 which unchurches the one half of Chriftem- 
 dome, and leaves them no ordinary means 
 of Salvation, can not be. a better covenants 
 But to defny infants; to be in covenant lin- 
 churchesthe one half of Chriftcnddme, and 
 leaves them po of dinagj means of Salvation; 
 
 Therefore 
 
Therefore it cannot be abetter covenant 
 
 T. Without repeating the Sjllogijm^or de~ 
 nying either of the Premises, or formally ap- 
 plying any diflinciion^ he jaid, the covenant 
 under the Gofpell was made onely with the fpi- 
 rituallfeed 0/ Abraham. 
 
 C. Which was thus difproved* If the 
 covenant was made in the fame manner, 
 and extent, to the Gentiles, as to the femes, 
 then under the GofpelUt was not onely made 
 to the Spirituall fted 5 But it was made in the 
 fame manner, and extent^ to the Gentiles, as 
 it was to the fewest Therefore under the 
 Gofpell it was not onely made to the Spiri- 
 tuall feed. 
 
 T, He denyed the Minor * 
 
 C. Which was proved by this Enthytne- 
 ma: The partition wall is pulled down, and 
 f ewe 2nd Gentile are all one in Chrift-Je- 
 fus$ Therefore the covenant is made in 
 the fame manner,and extent, to the few, and 
 Gentile. 
 
 T. He denyed the confequent> that, tho 
 
 the partition wall was taken down, and both 
 
 Jew and Gentile are all one in Chrifl-fefus, 
 
 feeing the Gofpell was effered to all nations % 
 
 **t- Tet 
 
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 yet under the G off ell the covenant was onely 
 with the Eleff) and believers. 
 
 C. Which was confuted thus 5 That 
 which is made with the whole vifible 
 Church, is not onely made with the Elcft, 
 and true believers ; But the covenant is made 
 with the whole vifible Church-, Therefore 
 not onely with the Eled,and true believers, 
 
 T. Hedenyedthe CMajor. 
 
 C. Which was proved thus 5 That which 
 is made to the kingdom of God upon earth, 
 is not onely made to the Ele<51: 5 But that 
 which is made to the whole Church vifible 
 is made to the kingdom of God upon Earthy 
 Therefore it was not onely made to the 
 Eleft. 
 
 T. He denied the CMa\or , that , that 
 which was made to the kingdom of God*fon { 
 earth 9 is not onely made to the Elect. 
 
 C. Which was proved thus y In the king- 
 dom of God, that is in the Church Militant, 
 there are not onely Ele<3 3 but reprobates, 
 Saints, but hypocrites, for all that are out- 
 wardly called, are of the kingdom of God 
 in this fenfe, and many are called, but few 
 chofen, The kingdom of God is compared 
 
 ta 
 
to a field, where there are tares, as well as 
 wheat 3 a fould, where there are goats as well 
 as ftieep-, to a noble mans houfe, where there 
 areveflelsof diflionour, as well as honour 5 
 And if the Church in regard of outward ad- 
 miniftration of ordinances ( which is the 
 QueftionJ were onely the Eleft , then it 
 would follow that there were no vifible 
 Church upon earth, the Reives had no more 
 vifible Church than the heathens, the dift- 
 in&ionofthe Church vifible, and invifible, 
 were frivolous,for no man,nor angell,knows 
 who are Eled, nor any but God, 
 
 To which iffue the firft branch of the Ar- 
 gument being brought, Mr. C. referred the 
 judgment of it to the people, And proceed- 
 ed to the fecond, that God foretold under 
 the Law, that infants fhould be Church- 
 members under the Gofpell. 
 
 T. Mr . T. perceiving that the people ap- 
 prehendedthat be was brought to an af parent 
 abfurdity^ would have waded into a large dif- 
 eourfe to wind himfelf out. 
 
 C. But Mr. C. told him , that it was his 
 office (being Refpondent ) to deny or dift- 
 inguifli, but not authoritatively to determine 
 
 the 
 
<30 
 
 the queftion, as if he were the Dr. of the 
 chair 5 And with much ado (the Anabap- 
 tiftcs crying let him* have liberty to fpeak 
 on) brought him to difpute again, and to 
 turn to Efay. 49.2 2. Whence he framed this 
 Argument. He that foretold that he would 
 lift up his hand to the Gentiles, and fet up 
 a ftandard to the people, and that they fhould 
 bring their fons in their Armes, and their 
 daughters (hall be carryed upon their Shoul- 
 ders, foretold that infants fhould be Church- 
 members under the Gofpell-, But thus faith 
 the Lord God 5 Behold I will lift up my hand 
 to the Gentiles, and fet up my ftandard to 
 the people, and they (hall bring thy fons in 
 their Arms, and thy daughters fliall be car- 
 ryed upon their fhoulders $ Therefore God 
 foretold that infants fhould be Church- 
 raembers under the Gofpell. 
 
 T. He denjed the Major 5 And [aid the 
 meaning was, that the Jcwes fimld bring the 
 Gentiles children, 
 
 C. To which he replyed, God fayes I 
 will lift up my hand to the Gentiles , and 
 they, that is the Gentiles, (hall bring thy fons, 
 and Mr. Tombs fays the $cws (hall bring thy 
 
 fons 5 
 
fons % Then a Gentleman read the words> 
 and faid it is the Gentiles (hall bring, &c. 
 
 T. Then Mr.T. r ec olle tting him f tiff aid ^ 
 the meaning was, the Gentiles foould bring 
 the Jewes children from captivity ; And that 
 it did not point at the time of the Gofpell. 
 
 C. To which was replycd, the contents 
 of the Chapter fayes that it points at the 
 time of the Gofpell -, Mr. Tombs fayes it 
 points at the time of the $ewes captivitie^ 
 Whether (ball we believe? and repeated the 
 contents : Chrift being .fent to the Jewes, 
 complaineth of them to the 5. verfe, he is 
 fent to the Gentiles to the i$.verje y Gods 
 love to his Church to the end 5 then the peo- 
 ple laughed, &c. 
 
 The pith of which was framed into an 
 argument thus •, That which is the judg- 
 ment of the Church of England ought to be 
 entertained before the groundles aflcrtion 
 of one private man •, But that it points at the 
 time of the Gofpell is the judgment of the 
 Church of England^Therefore it ought to be 
 entertained before the groundles aflcrtion 
 of one private man. 
 
 T. He denied that it was the judgment of 
 $hc Church of England. C m 
 
C. Which was thus proved ,If the Churcfi 
 of England caufes it to be printed, and com- 
 mands it to be read before the Chapter, then 
 it is the judgment of the Church of Eng- 
 land; But the Church of England caufes 
 it to be printed, and commands it to be read 
 before the Chapter^ Therefore it is the judg^: 
 ment of the Church of England. 
 
 T. Mr, T. /aid it was not commanded to 
 be printed, and read fo before the Chapter, 
 for he knew not vithat kind of Bible his rvas. 
 
 C. He told him, it was the fame with 
 the great Church Bible, which was not onely 
 authorifed with a Proclamation, but an A& 
 almoft fifty years agoe, and will Mr. Tombs 
 without giving of a reafon condemn a 
 whole nation to have flept in fuch an errour 
 all that while? Then Mr. Abbets preacher 
 refident there, one who hath been dipped, 
 being in pulpit with Mr. Tombs, flood up 
 and faid, the words were, They (hall bring 
 thy. fons in their Arms 5 To which Mr.C 
 rejalyed, what then ? may they not be Gods 
 fons by adoption, and their own by naturall 
 generation.? 
 
 Mr. Tombs fell upon expounding vM 
 D "" £* ia P te £ 
 
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 Cfiapter from verfe to vcrfe. Mr. C. told 
 him, that they came not to hear him ex- 
 pound, hut difpute, and repeating the laft 
 Argument, wiflied him toanfwer^atwhich 
 'Ablets flood up again, and faid the words 
 of the text were, that they, that is, the Gen- 
 tiles, lhall bring thy Children , that is the 
 zpenrcs. To which Mr. C. replycd, that was 
 an additioh to the textior there is no mention 
 of the Jewess But grant it were, muftitbc 
 therefore meant of the Captivities the 
 20. and %i m verfes of this Chapter con- 
 futes it , intimating that the ffetves after 
 *Chrifts comming (hall lofe their own na- 
 turall, and the Gentiles Children fhall be 
 adopted, and engrafted into their place 5 
 They, that is the Gentiles converted, fhall 
 bring thy fons, thine by a kind of adoption, 
 and fpirituall fuccelfion, for the Gentiles 
 Children were ingrafted into the flock of 
 the Jewes Children broke off 5 And this is 
 fo clear from the Context ( compared with 
 Mom. 11.) That with reafon it could nofcbe 
 denyed$ But he was to fpeakto Mr. Tombs 
 whounderftood the nature of a difpute, and 
 «**' *<\lum, and if he would take upon him 
 
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 toModcrat, kwas fit that he fhould have 
 another. 
 
 T. Mr. Tombs asked Mr. C. what he 
 iwderftood by fiandart^ what by kings , what 
 bj nurfing Fathers^ &c. 
 
 C. He told him, that it was not his plate 
 todifpute Somatically by asking of qucfti- 
 ons , but to anfwer ad Affofitum. But to 
 give him Satisfaftion ( which he needed 
 not; by Standart he underftood fome vi- 
 (ible Gofpell ordinance^ Baptifm,by Kings 
 fupream Magiftrats, by nurfing Fathers, and 
 nurfing Mothers, patrons, and prote&ours 
 of the Gofpell. 
 
 T. tie faid that it was a Met afhor hall 
 ffeechy and thaf nothing could be gathered 
 from it ^ ^HP**** " 
 
 C. fiereplyed, that he would grant him 
 that it was more than a Metaphorical! 
 fpeech, ( for a Metaphor confifted but in 
 one fingle trope J but it was a cdntinuatiort 
 of feverall tropes, and therefore Allegori- 
 call 5 yet it does not follow, that nothing 
 could be gathered from it, for then nothing 
 could be gathered from any Parable in the 
 ,Cofpell 5 Nay not any part of the New tefta- 
 Da menti 
 
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 fiicht* for there is fcarce a fentencc without 
 fome Tropes in it. 
 
 T. Mr. T. /aid it was fulfilled in Heftcrs 
 time, which was a nurfing Mother to the Jews.* 
 
 C. To which was anfwered 5 Hejler was 
 a $ew, and a friend to the $ews, what is 
 this to the Gentiles bringing Children upon 
 Shoulders ? Andtho that 2\ouldbe waved, 
 and Hejler granted to be a nurfing Mother 
 in the type, yet in the Antitype it aymes 
 principally at the times of the Gofpell,elfe 
 groffe abfurdities would follow •, for what 
 Kings, or Queens in Hefters-iimc did bow 
 down to the $ews with their face towards 
 the Earth, and lick up the duft of their feet * 
 verje 2 3 . lies are fummoned in the firft verfe, 
 which muft be rr\caat of the time of the Gof- 
 pell: Chrift is pronfifed to be given for a 
 light for the Gentiles, that he maybe their 
 Salvation to the end of the earth.6. Kings 
 (hall fee 5 and arife, Princes alfo fhall wor- 
 fhips.7. And the holy Ghoft, quotes ver- 
 batim, and applyes to the time of the Gof- 
 pell the 8. verfe, and that expreffely 2 . Cori 
 6.1. There is an implyed cutting off to the 
 %ws,zq. An ingrafting in of the Gentiles, 
 
 t 
 
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 the Children of the wild olive into the ftock 
 of the natural! olive, 2 1, And a Bringing of 
 Children to vifible ordinances,2 2. All which 
 he offered to frame into Arguments, 
 
 T. But Mr. T. prevented it, faying, that 
 though it fhouldbe under flood of the times of 
 the GofpeH^ yet byfons in Armes, and daugh- 
 ters upon Shoulder s^ was meant grown men^ 
 for any thing he knew ^and men women and of a, 
 hundred years of age might he carry edvffon 
 armes, and upon fh adders. 
 
 Which indeed is the fame anjiver Mr. TJ 
 gives in his fc epic all ex er citation $ (like 
 foxes, and badgers being beat out of one hole i 
 hath another to fly unto:) Where {as Mr.' 
 Huffey quotes him) he ufes the fame words ± 
 that Mr. Abbets, and he found fault with in 
 Mr. C. Major proposition, for thefe are hti 
 words^ It is foretold that Gentiles fhould bring 
 their Children in their armes, therefore the 
 Prophet forefaw the Baptifm of Infants $ he 
 might have feen the beam in his own eye, 
 turpe eft do&ori, &c. But to return to Mr.Tl 
 anfwer. 
 
 c. Which Mr, c. took thus away* Them 
 D 3 that 
 
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 that they (hould bring in their bofomes were 
 Infants * But it was foretold that they fhould 
 bring them in their bofomesjTherefore they 
 were Infants, 
 
 T. He enquired where it did appear that 
 they fbould bring them in their bofomes. 
 
 C. Out of the text, for the word in the 
 original! (which istranflated armes} is.bo- 
 fome, and f o the Septuagints read it u &>*?, 
 imunating that they (hould bring fucking 
 Children hangmg upon their brcafts. 
 
 T. Then Mr. Tombs f aid it was an ana r 
 logie^ and performed when the Gentiles per- 
 fwaded their Children to embrace Chrift. 
 
 C. Well then, it is their Children, not thy 
 children, oportet ejfe memoremt, But not 
 that neither-, fox that Scripture which in the 
 letter fukes witfi many other. Scriptures, but 
 in the pretended analogie with no other, can 
 not be the meaning - 7 But to interpret it li- 
 terally of bringing Children to Chrift in 
 thebofome,fuites with many fcriptures, and 
 to perfwade them to come to Chrift, with 
 no fcriptures 5 Therefore it can not be the 
 meaning. 
 
 T. Mr, T .could not name one test offcrip- 
 
 ture, 
 
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 tun, where to bring in armes, or bofome,ms ii 
 prfaade to come to Chrifi. 
 
 c. So Mr- C. referred the judgment of 
 it to the people, and named another text, Bf. 
 65. 2©. There (hall he no more thence an In- 
 f mt of dayes y &c. But the child jhall die m 
 hundred year old, 
 
 T. Mr. Tombs hid him readthereftofthq 
 words, and the verfe following. 
 
 C. He faid he had read as much as he 
 intended to rayfe his Argument from. 
 
 T. Take notice (fajes he ) he will not read 
 that which makes againft him. 
 
 C. Not (o, for nothing of it makes againft 
 me, but that an Argument muft be termi- 
 nus fimplex , and homogeneal y and that 
 you know well inough, but that in place of 
 folid Satisfa&ion you muft fay fomcthing 
 to deceive the people. The Arguments I 
 raifc hence are two, the firft is this, There 
 (hall be no more an Infant of dayes, that is, 
 Infants fhall not be uncapable of the feal* 
 while their age is meafured by dayes, as the 
 $ews Infants that might notbeCircumcifed 
 till a week had palled over them 5 Therefore 
 Infants new born are capable of the fealj The 
 
 fecotuf 
 
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 fccond Argument is this, The child fhall dye 
 an hundred year old, that is, as an hundred 
 year old,or as well a Church-member as if fee 
 were a hundred year old$Therefore Children 
 maybe Baptized under the Gofpell.- 
 
 T. Mr: T. found fault with that interpre- 
 tation, fhall dye an hundred years eld, that it 
 as if an hundred years eld. 
 
 C. Hcanfwered, to take it literally would 
 imply a contradi&ion, for it was impoffible 
 to be a child, and a hundred years old, and 
 was better than his 3 and the Anabaptiftes cx- 
 pofitionof i Cor. 10.2. they were Baptized 
 under the cloud, that is (fay you) as if they 
 were Baptized under the cloud,when nothing 
 hindred, but they were really Baptized under 
 the cloud. And Rom. 11.19.the branches were 
 broken off r thztis (fay you,) as if they were 
 broken off, when it was both poffible, and 
 apparent, that they were broken off. 
 
 T. Then Mr.T. faiditrvas not meant of 
 the times oft he GofpeU. 
 
 C. To which was replyed 5 Mr. T. will 
 
 5 ftill be wifer than the Church of England 5 
 
 and read the Contents of the Chapter 5 The 
 
 oiling of the Gentiles v.i. the J>cvos re- 
 
 jetfed 
 
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 je&ed 17. the blefled ftate of the new Jeru- 
 falem to the end. 
 
 T. Mr: T. fad it was verifyed Zacha .• 8. 1 
 4. T^z/x faith the Lord of Hofls^ there fh all yet 
 old men ) and old women dwell in the ftreets of 
 Jerufalem, and every man with his ftaff in 
 . his hand for very age^ and the flreets of the ci- 
 tiefhallbe full of boy es, and girles playing in 
 the ftreets thereof. 
 
 C. To which was replycd; what is this 
 to an Infant of dayes, or a child dying a 
 hundred years old i when it is apparent both 
 from theContents 3 &Text,that this oiZacha r 
 ry is meant of the Jews return from Captivi- 
 ty, & more apparent that that of Ef is meant 
 of the ftate of Chrifts kingdome under the 
 Gofpell which I prove thus 3 That Interpre- 
 tation that brings with it 3 Abfurditie, un- 
 truth, blafphemie 3 is not to be admitted5 But 
 to interpret it of the Jews return f romCapti- 
 vitie brings with it abfurditie, untruth, bla£ 
 phemie-, Therefore it is not to be admit- 
 ted. 
 
 T. Mr. Tombs denyedthe Minor. 
 
 C. Which was proved in order 3 firft that 
 it brought with it abfurdity, To apply the 
 2 j. verfe to the return from Captivity was 
 
 aofurd. 
 
abftfrd, that the wolf and the Iamb fhould 
 feed together, and the Lion fhould eatftraw 
 with the bullock, and duft fliould be the fer- 
 pents meat 5 Therefore it brought with it 
 abfurdity. Secondly that it brought with it 
 untruth 5 But to apply the 19 -v* to there- 
 turn from Captivity brought with it an un- 
 truth, that the voice of weeping fhould be no 
 more heard in $erufdem 5 for it was twice 
 deftroyed after , once by Antiochus , then 
 by Vefpatlan, and Tttrn^ Therefore it 
 brought with it an untruth. 
 
 Thirdly that it brought with it blafphe- 
 mie ^ for to interpret the 17. verfe, ( Behold 
 I create new heavens, and new earth, and 
 the former (hall no more be remembred, 
 and come into mind ) of the fecond temple, 
 is blasphemous $ Therefore it brought with 
 it blafphemic, for it croffcth St. Peters in- 
 terpretation 2. Pet. 3. 13. Wee according to 
 his promife look for new heavens, and a new 
 Earth 5 For can any rationall man think, 
 that the new temple built at Jerufalem i$ 
 Cyrus his time, was this new heaven, and 
 new earth, that the former fhould be no more 
 remejnbred I When the antient men arc 
 ftid to weep, becaufe the glory of the lattet 
 
 temple 
 
*emple was fhort of the glory of the firft, 1 
 Ezra. 3. I*. [It was inferiour to Solomons 
 temple, firft in refpeft of the building, that 
 was lower, and meaner * fecondly,in refpeft 
 of the vcfTels, before of Gold, now of braffe; 
 thirdly, of five things that were loft, firft the 
 Ark of God,fecondly,the Urim fkThummim, 
 thirdty, fire from Heaven toconfume the Sa- 
 crifices, fourthly, the glory of God between 
 the Cherubims, fiftly,thcgiftofprophefie„ 
 for after the fecond temple there was no 
 prophet. ] 
 
 T . Mr. T. fell to his wonted courfe of im- 
 pertinent expofition^ wherein OWr. G. told 
 him he violated the rules of di/pute, and did 
 lafcivioufly wanton it out into a wildernefs 
 of words, that the truth might be obf cured or 
 loft^ and tike a lapwing carry the hearers far 
 from the matter. Then C. P. an Apothecary 
 began to inter poje> as he had dene once before, 
 till a gentleman of authorities told him y that 
 it was not fit for a man of his place^and callings 
 to fpeak •, let Mr. Tombs would not be Sa* 
 tisfyed, but went on faying that Dr. Prideaux 
 in Oxford, when a place of Scripture was ci- 
 ted} was wont to give 4 large expofition. 
 
 m 
 
C. Mr.C. Reply ed-,that Dr. Pride aux was 
 Doctor of the Chair, and Judge of the Con- 
 troverfie 3 and might do that which a Refpon- 
 dent may not do , whofe office is oncly to re- 
 peat , deny , diftinguifh, and when a Text is 
 quoted > to give a brief expofition , that the 
 Opponent may have fomething to fatten up- 
 on 5 And what Dr. Prideaux did, he knew 
 not ; but what Dr. Collins , and Dr. Ward 
 did,he could tell him * but that it was not to 
 the prefent purpofe. And that his judgment 
 in this , was but the fame with his own Uni- 
 verfity of Oxford 5 as he knew of late by a fad 
 experiment. 
 
 T. Mr. Tombcs tasked what thai 
 wast 
 
 C. He told him an exploflon, not for dif- 
 ability (for his difpute was plaufible inough} 
 but that he would neither be fatisfied with D 
 Salvage his anfwer, nor the Do&or of the 
 Chaires determination 5 but fell to repetiti- 
 ons, and extravagances,as now. 
 
 Mr. Tomhes launched into a tedious dif- 
 courfe to vindicate himfelf , till he had tyrec 
 the Auditors , who cryed out this is but tc 
 jvaftc time$ And a learned Gentleman fpafc 
 
 aloud 
 
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 aloud , this is but to fpcnd the time in parting; 
 that he may avoid the gun-fhot , for he is 
 affraid the great thunderbolt is behind.- 
 and fo with much adoc , he was brought 
 to difpute again , where Mr. C. falling up- 
 on the third branch of his Argument, That 
 God did a&ually receive Infants to be 
 Church-members under the Gofpell , began 
 thus. 
 
 C. Thofe whom Chrift commanded his 
 difciples to Baptize , they may be Baptized 5 
 But Chrift commanded his Difciples to Bap- 
 tize Infants % Therefore they may be Bapti- 
 zed. The Minor being denyed , was proved 
 thus 5 He that commanded his Difciples to 
 baptize all Nations , commanded them to 
 ; Baptize Infants 5 But Chrift commanded his 
 Difciples-, Matth. 28,19. to Baptize all Nati- 
 ons-, Therefore Chrift commanded them to 
 Baptize Infants. 
 
 T. Mr.T. denyedtheMa]$r. 
 $ C. Which was proved by this Enthyme- 
 ma 5 The whole includes every part-, Infants 
 are a part of Nations^Therfore lie that com- 
 manded to Baptize all Nations, commanded 
 to Baptize Infants. 
 
 T.tfe 
 
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 T. He tlenyed the confequent , though th 
 whole included every part, and Nations wer 
 the whole , and Infants were a fart of Nations 
 yet it did not follow that Infants were to b\ 
 Baptized. 
 
 ' C. He returned, that , that faying of o/ 
 qmnas ( pofito toto generali 5 far s ejus negar, 
 nonfoteft^z gencrall whole being granted,nt 
 part of it can be denyed ) was an axiome botf 
 in Logick, Philofophic, and Divinity, i 
 if aim 1 1 7. i. Prayfe the Lord all yee Nations. 
 is interpreted by another Pfalm 5 oldmeftjinc 
 babes, young men , and maidens, fr ay fe yee thi 
 Lord. 
 
 T. Mr. T. Said it was an Axiome thai 
 the whole includes every fart, where there is in 
 txceftion, hut here is an exceftion. 
 
 C. He rcplyed ? Saint Amhrofe upon the 
 place fayes there is no exception , Qui ] dixu 
 emnes, nulios cxclupt y neq%farvulos, drcHi 
 that faid Baptize all Nations, excepted nonc ; 
 iio not Infants. 
 
 T. Mr.?. ?ifhedatit,fleightinghmbxo\ 
 his Authority. 
 
 C. Then faid Mr. C. whether we (hall 
 bcy^mbrofeBifho^oi MiHah with Scrip- 
 ture, 
 
turc,or Mr.Tomhes Vicar of Lemfter againft 
 Scripture, judge you.But that there is no ex- 
 ception thus I prove , If Infants be excepted 
 from Baptifm , it is either becaufe they arc 
 not named in the text 5 or becaufe we find no 
 inftance that any were Baptized , or becaufe 
 they arc not capable • But for none of thefe 
 ( three-,Therefore Infants are not excepted. 
 
 T. Mr. T. Denyedthe Major, and faid that 
 a fourth reafon might he given , becaufe they 
 were not Difciples, 
 
 €. He told him that in this anfwer he 
 fliewed himfelf to be no good Logician* for it 
 is an Axiome , that in no divifion , one mem- 
 ber can be affirmed of another , becaufe they 
 are oppofite,now to be Difciples,and capable 
 of Baptifm were not oppofite but fubordi- 
 ( nate- 7 And to be Difciples,if it made them not 
 , capable , it was no exception at all, if it made 
 them capable, it was the fame with the third, 
 to which Dilemma when he could receive no 
 anfwer, he demanded where it was required 
 thatthofe that are to be Baptized , muft be 
 Pifciples ? 
 
 T. He faid out of the Text , for that which 
 is tranflatedTeach all Nations^ ^Awn^ 
 Pifcipks of all Nations. C 
 
W) 
 
 CTC. He replyed^at Rofs you found fault with 
 me for that tranflatipn , asking me , was I 
 wifer than the tranflators ? and now when it 
 feemes to make for you , you urge it. Qui 
 teneam vultta mutant em Protea nodo ? I con- 
 fefs it is «??»Wwm» , in the Aorift, ye fliall make 
 Difciples , for it muft be interpreted by the 
 future, MS** Baptizing, or by Baptizing 
 in the prefent tenfe , as if Difcipling were the 
 end , and Baptizing the means , and required 
 no qualification before (as learned men with 
 great probability prefs) but I will not infift 
 upon that now 5 But that which you denyed, 
 I prove, that Infants may be Difciples, from 
 that place Rom. 15.10. compared with the 
 S.verfe, forfo itfr.C.faid,miftakingit for 
 A5tsi<>. 10. 
 
 T. At which Mr. Tombes incited , faying 
 he was a goodtext-man. 
 
 C. He replyed, he was in haft, and did not 
 think of this before , but that his anfwer did 
 drive him to it, and he in his elaborate books 
 did oftentimes quote one place for another, 
 then how much more might he, that was ex- 
 temporall, it had been enough to have faid,as 
 our Saviour to the Tempter, to written : but 
 
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 to leave thefe catches, and come to the proof. 
 They upon whom the Pharafies would have 
 layd the yoak,were Difciples,i/^rp 10. Why 
 tempt ye God , to put a yoak upon the neck 
 of the DifcipleS} But many of them were In- 
 fants 5 Therefore Infants are Difciples. 
 
 T. He denyed the Minor^ that ?nany of the to 
 were net Infants. 
 
 C. Which was proved thus-,The yoak was 
 Circumcifion verfe 5. the Pharafies faying, 
 that it was needfull to Circumcife them-, But 
 they upon whom the yoak was to be impofed 
 by Circumcifion 5 were only Infants amongft 
 the Jews , and Infants together with Parents 
 amongft the Gentiles 5 Therefore many of 
 them were Infants. 
 
 T. He deny ed the Major , and [aid the yoak 
 was not Circumcifion, 
 
 C. He replyed it was apparent, by compa- 
 ring the 5. and 10. with the foregoing verges. 
 1. verfe Certain men came down from f ti- 
 de* y and taught the brethren 3 except ye be 
 Circumcifed 5 after the manner of Mofes , ye 
 cannot be faved-, where obferve that Cir- 
 cumcifion is the fubjed of the Qucftion, In 
 the % . verfe they determined that t**l > m& 
 E Bsrntto 
 
Barnabas, and certain others of them, fliould 
 goupioferufalem unto the Apoftles, and 
 Elders, about this Qucftion , to wit Circum- 
 cifion. In the 5 . certain of the Sed of the 
 Pharafies faid,that it was necdfull to circum- 
 cife them. In the 6. the Apoftles came toge- 
 ther to confider of the matter , that is Cir- 
 cumcifion , and when there had been much 
 difputing , Peter rofe up in the 7. and deter- 
 mined the Qneftion in the tenth verfe , why 
 tempt ye God to put a yoak upon the neck of 
 the Difciplesr* 
 
 T. Mr.T. Said, that Circumcifion could 
 not be the yoak , that neither they nor their 
 fathers could bear. 
 
 C. He returned^ that it was a bloody, and 
 a heavy yoak , therefore the Israelites had a 
 difpenfation for 40. years in the wildernefs 5 
 Mofes neglcded the Circumcifion of his child 
 probably for this caufe ^ and his wife (when 
 the Child was Circumcifed ) called him a 
 bloody husband. The Sjcbemites were flain, 
 as unable to defend themfelves , while they 
 were fore of the wound. of Circumci- 
 fion. , 
 
 T. Mr*X. S4i4i that the mttrine of Mofes 
 
 was 
 
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 was the yoak of which Infants were not c£ 
 fable. 
 
 C. He replyed * that Circumcifion was 
 principally meant 5 and the do&rine of Mojes 
 oncly as an Appendix of it 5 and children wer£ 
 as capable of the do&rine then ^as they were 
 in Abraham , and Mofes his time 5 when all in 
 the moment of Circumcifion were' tyed to 
 the obfervation of the do&rine , tho they of 
 tipe years (To ufe Voflius his diftin&ion) were 
 taught the do&rine antecedenter, before Cir- 
 cumcifion, infants of eight days conjequenter^ 
 after Circumcifion, when age made them ca- 
 pable % I know ( fayes God ) Abraham will 
 teach his Children; So it is apparent all thofe 
 #pon whom Circumcifion with the dodrine 
 of Mojes was to be impofed,were called Dif- 
 ciples •, But fome of thefe were Infants 5 for 
 oncly Infants-were Circumcifed among the 
 Jews^and Infants with theParents among the 
 Gentils^therefore fome Infants areDifciples. 
 
 Mr. T, Without any difiinct anjwer would 
 have broke through the p ales to rove abroad ^ 
 gain. 
 
 C. But he preffed him to keep within the 
 
 lifts 3 urging this Argument. They to wiiom 
 
 E a is 
 
it*'} 
 
 is the promife , they may be Baptized, its the 
 Apoftles own inference , Affs 2. 28. Be 
 Baptized, for the promife is to you 9 But to 
 Infants of believing parents is the promife > 
 the promife is to you , and your Children 5 
 therefore Infants may be Baptized. 
 
 T. He deny ed the UWinorfhat to Infants of 
 believing parents is the promife. 
 
 C. He told him , it was the words of the 
 text, The profaife is to you 3 and your Chil- 
 dren. 
 
 T. Then Mr. T. Said they were nop belie- 
 vers yet. 
 
 C. Mr.C. Replyed , they were believers 
 infieri^ tho perhaps not in facto. 
 
 T. That's Latine (f ayes Mr. T.) what do 
 you under ft and by it f 
 
 C. He faid , 1 mean this, they were belie- 
 vers by outward affent 5 and difpofition, fuf- 
 ficient to make them members vifiblc •, but 
 perhaps not believers by inward aflent , and 
 habitjto juftify them , For I know you will not 
 fay that none are to be Baptized but they that 
 have a faving faith , which none but God is 
 able to difcern. Minifters muft ad according 
 to rule 5 which in adult is , is outward profef- 
 
 fion. 
 
fion y or a willingncfs to receive the Ordi- 
 nance , and that they were thus qualified 
 (which is fufficient) it is apparent. 
 
 T. Mr.T. Denyedthat they were fufficient* 
 ly qualified. i 
 
 C. Which was proved thus; They whom 
 the Apoftlc commanded to be Baptized,werc 
 fufficiently qualified •, But the Apoftle com- 
 manded them to be Baptized^Therefore they 
 were fufficiently qualified. 
 
 T. then Mr. T. Without repeating the 
 Syllogifm , or applying any diftinilion> inqui- 
 red where the Apofile commanded them to be 
 Baptized. 
 
 C. He told him ver[e 38. &**Hi* *wm fa**, 
 be Baptized every one of your. 
 
 T. Tes{fayes UWr. T») Upon condition of 
 Repentance , repent and be Baptized.- 
 
 C. That is a condition or your own ma- 
 king , and an adding to the Word of God ,' 
 for where dos the Scripture, either exprcfly, 
 or implyedly fay,that Repentance is a condi- 
 tion of Baptifm ? if it be meant of compleat 
 repentance 5 true it is , it was their duty 
 both to repent , and to be Baptized > to re* 
 pent in relation to crucifying of Chrift,tobc 
 E 3 Baptized 
 
(54) 
 Baptized in relation to Judaifm , which they 
 were to put off, and Chriftianity which they 
 were to put on$But that they muft have com- 
 pleat repentance before Baptifm 5 it is not fo 
 much as hinted at, A nd if you mean incom- 
 pleat repentance (which is Indeed all that is 
 required ) they had that already 3 for they 
 were pricked in confeience, faying, Men^and 
 brethren what lhall we do ? 
 
 T, Mr. T. Said that was not all that was 
 required, nor was it afuffifient qualification 
 for Baptifm. 
 
 C. Againft which anfwer was concluded 
 thus * That upon which the Apoftles Bapti- 
 sed three thoufand the fame day , was a 
 fufficient qualification 5 But the Apoftles up- 
 on that Baptized 3ooo.the fame day^There- 
 fore it was a fufficient qualification. 
 
 T. He denyed the Minor , and gave his rea- 
 Jonfrvm the 40 . and 4 1 . verfes, And with ma- 
 ny -other words did he teftify^and exhort Jay ing^ 
 Save yonr fives from this untoward genera- 
 tion, then they that gladly received the word 
 were Baptized, 
 
 C. *" It was replyed, that this was but a re- 
 capitulation^ reciting of the heads of Pet erf 
 
 Sermon 
 
(if.) 
 
 Sermon that he preached to them , before 
 they were pricked in confcience, or were ex- 
 horted to be baptized, and no new a&; which 
 was a thing ufual in Scripture, as Gen.i. God 
 having exprcffed the creation of Man, and 
 Gods blcfling of him.,, and all creatures to 
 him , by a te&* *&*& recites the manner of 
 his creation in the fecond Chapter, But how- 
 foever it made nothing againft him, for whe- 
 ther it be taken thetically without any con- 
 dition , or hypothetically upon condition of 
 repentance , the Children were to be bapti- 
 zed together w ; th the Parents, the promffe is 
 to yo» and your Children, and that was all 
 that he contended for 5 from whence arifeth 
 this Argument , To whom the promKe of 
 Grace belongs , to them Baptifm belongs 
 alfo 5 But the promife of Grace belongs to 
 Believers and their Children-, Therefore Bap^ 
 tifm belongs to both. 
 
 T. Mr.T.faid, the Promife of Grace be- 
 longed to Believers, and their Children, when 
 their Children actually believed , and not be* 
 fore. 
 
 C. He replyed 3 there were two Argu- 
 ments in the text to overthrow that: The 
 
 firft 
 
(5*) 
 
 firft mi*ht be drawn from the Indicative 
 predication in the prefent tenfe, the Promifc 
 is to you, and your Children, is, for the pre- 
 fent , as well to your Children , as to you. 
 The fecond, from the oppofition betwixt 
 you and your Children, and them that are 
 afar off. They , and their Children , which 
 are, i^fgfc, near (as the Greek Scholiaft, and 
 the Syrian Interpreter faiesj areoppofedto 
 them that are *v «**,*, , afar oft. The Jews 
 were near , and in Covenant , for to them is 
 the promife in the prefent tenfe, but the Gen- 
 tiles were afar off, Rom. 2. 15. Ye who 
 fometimes were afar off , are made nigh by 
 the Blood of Chrift, therefore it is expreffed 
 in the future tenfe, as many as God fhallcall^ 
 So that to the. Jews being called, their Chil- 
 dren were in Covenant with them ; when 
 the Gentiles (hall be called, their Children 
 fliall be in Covenant with them. 
 
 T. CMr. T.faid^ he gratitedthat Children 
 rvc^ein Covenant^ and wight be baptized. 
 
 C. Weil then obferve, good People, the 
 Difpute is at an end, he grants that Children 
 are h Covenant, and may be baptized. 
 
 T. Tes^ but bythofe Children are not meant 
 Infants, but Crown Men. . C.He 
 
(?7> 
 
 C\ He rcplyed , there are many circum* 
 ftances in the text overthrows that * firii, the 
 word is ifaojc, which comes from Ti«™ 5 to 
 bring forth , given fometimes to Children in 
 the womb, for the moft part to them that are 
 newly born, or young. 
 
 T. Mr . T . [aid, it was aljo giver* to Men of 
 rife age. 
 
 C. Yes fometimes, by a figurative fpeecli, 
 fas that of Julius Cafar to .Brutus in Plu- 
 tarch ) $ <ro nt wn , and thou my Child, And 
 well might he call him his Child , for he had 
 adopted him the night before-, but properly 
 it fignifies a young Cjhild > and fo it ought to 
 be taken here, unlefs fome convincing reafon 
 can be given to the contrary , according to 
 that rule , Omne analogum per fefofitum, fiat 
 fro famofiore fignificato. Mr. T. gave no 
 •anfwer , but with a jeering Eccho repeated 
 y the laft words, fro famofiore fignificato. 
 
 The fecond circumitance in the text, is the 
 fubftantive verb '<#., is, the promife is to you, 
 and your Children , not is to you , and fball 
 be to your Children ; now what Children 
 had they at this prefent , but young Chil- 
 dren * unlefs Mr; T. will imagine that they 
 
 were 
 
were all Old Men and Women that were 
 prefent , and their Younger Men and Wo- 
 ifienwere abfent. 
 
 The third circumftance in the text is the 
 finis cui y the end to whom the promife is, to 
 you, and your Children •, the Jews Children 
 under the Law were in Covenant with their 
 Parents , the Charter is confirm'd under the 
 Gofpel to them and their Children. The 
 Jews when they crucified Chrift , called for 
 a Curfe upon themfelves y and upon their 
 Children , here the Apoftle gives them a 
 Remedy as large as the Difcafe , the promife 
 (that is , of Freedome from the curfe J is to 
 jou and j our Children. 
 
 T. Mr.*X. pill kept his Conclufion in de- 
 fpight of the Premises 5 that it was to their 
 Children when they actually believed , and not 
 before. 
 
 C. Yes, and before they a&ually believe 
 which I prove thus : The bleffing is as large; 
 as the curfe-, But the curfe extended ever 
 to children, before they could a&ually be 
 lieve ( his blood be upon w tnd upon our chil 
 4ren ) Therefore the bleffing. 
 
 T. Mr. T. anjmred to the Major thusy J { 
 
(59) 
 
 by bleffing was meant the inward and fpiritml 
 part of the Covenant , it might be true $ but 
 that was nothing to the prefent purpofe , feeing 
 it wo* not known to us : But if the outward^ 
 and vifible part , he denied that Infants were 
 capable of the bleffmg , as well of liable to the 
 curje. 
 
 C. Which diftin&ion was took away thus: - 
 They that are holy with a Covenant- holinefs 
 are capable of the outward and vifible part 5 
 But Infants of Believers are holy with a Co- 
 venant- holinefs 5 Therefore they are capable 
 of the outward and vifible part. 
 
 T. Mr. T. denied the Minor ^ and faid that 
 Covenant -holinefs was gibber idge^ which they 
 thatfpoke did not under 'ft and tbemfelves, 
 
 C. Mr. C. replyed, it was the language of 
 
 learned men of all ages 5 amongft whom 
 
 were Vojfnts , Bullinger 5 and Hugo Grotius 5 
 
 and that Children of Believing Parents were 
 
 holy before Baptifm 5 and that Baptifm did 
 
 not make, but declare them to be Chriftians. 
 
 Then cryedout a Cobler 5 [I.E.] (u*t 
 
 hath been dipped) this is Blajphemy 
 
 C. Well, you difcover of what fpirit you 
 
 are 5 and your ignorance 5 Are not thefe the 
 
 words 
 
(*>)■ 
 
 words of the learned affembly of Divines in 
 the Dire&ory confirmed by Ordinance of 
 Parliament? That Infants are Chriftians,and 
 federally holy before Baptifm,and therefore 
 are theyBaptized[P^ 1 1.] And that Infants 
 of Believing Parents are thus holy 5 with a fe- 
 derall, or Covenant-holinefs, I thus prove 
 from, i Cor. 7.J4. Els were your Children 
 Unclean, but now they are holy. 
 
 T. That Jaycs Mr. T. Is meant of Matri- 
 ntojwtthdynes , or a lawfullufe of the Marri- 
 dge-btd y that they art no Bafiards. 
 
 C. That Anfwer I thus infringe. That 
 which in Scripture is taken almoft fix hun- 
 dred times in a diftindt fenfe 5 and not fo much 
 as once for Matrimonial! holinefs , cannot 
 be (b meant here 5 But it is taken in Scripture 
 almoft fix hundred times in a diftindt fenfe , 
 and not once for Matrimonial! hoiynefsj 
 Therefore it cannot be fo meant here. 
 
 T. thai uirgument (Jaycs JlfrT.) I will re- 
 tort ufonyott) That which in Scripture is taken 
 fix hundred times in a difiinctfenfe , and ne- 
 *<ver Once for Coven ant -holinefs cannot be 
 meant here 5 But it is taken fix hundred times 
 inadifiin&fenfe, and never once for Cove- 
 
 nant- 
 
iiant bolinefs^Therfore it cannot be meant here* 
 
 C. To which was replyed,this is to invert 
 the order of the difpute , you are to anfwer , 
 andnottooppofe. 
 
 T. I may oppofe by retorting of an Argu- 
 ment^ and I will anfwer anon. 
 
 C. Well, to fatisfie you, I deny your Mi- 
 nor, for its taken oft in Scripture for Cove- 
 nant- holinefs. 
 
 T. Where ? 
 
 C. The proof lyes upon you>that it is not, 
 yet lie give give you one inftance , or two, 
 Rom. ii. 16/ if the firft fruits be holy , the 
 Lump is alfo holy, and if the root be holy, fo 
 are the branches. 
 
 T. That is not meant of a Covenant- holynefs^ 
 
 C. Yes, its as cleer as the light,and fo you 
 your felf interpreted it at Refi^ as there are 
 hundreds that will witnefs , which was upon 
 thisoccafion. I pfeffed that if the immediat 
 parents were holy , the children were holy 
 with a Covenant -holinefs 5 you denyed the 
 inference, and faid the meaning of it was,that 
 Abraham the father of the faitfcfull was the 
 firft fruits , and root that was holy , and there- 
 fore his pofterity was holy 3 and in covenant 
 
 [And 
 
(62) 
 
 [And in this expofition , as he agreed with 
 truth ? fo with Bez,a , who fayes that children 
 are holy , that is comprehended in covenant 
 from the wombe, and with Bowles who faith, 
 that they are holy with outward holinefs 5 by 
 which they are judged to be in covenant] 
 
 But to return from whence,by your retor- 
 tion 3 we have digreffed. I am to prove that 
 holynefs is never taken in Scripture for Ma- 
 trimoniall cleannefs in oppofition to Illegiti- 
 mation. Not in that place Ezra 9. 2 . the ho- 
 ly feed have mingled themfelves with the 
 feed of thofe lands ^ which is either your on- 
 ly, or principall hold , (as far as I can gather 
 out of your books) therefore in no place. 
 
 T. He denied the Antecedent. 
 
 C. Which was proved thus. If it be 
 meant of Matriraoniall cleannefs, then this 
 muft be the meaniugof the words-, The holy 
 feed,that is the lawfully begotten Jews, have: 
 mingled themfelves with the feed of thofe 
 lands, that is the baftards of thofe lands $ But 
 that cannot be the meaning, for happily there 
 were fomeJJaftards among the Jewes, and 
 in that fenfc not holy,and no Baftards among 
 the Nations, but all, or the moft Legitimate 
 
 and 
 
(« 3 r 
 
 and therefore in that fcnfe not unholy -,There- 
 | fore it is not meant of Matrimoniall holinefs. 
 
 T. He denyed the Major , affirming that 
 both fews, and Nations, were holy before their 
 mixture ^but then^both they^avd their Children 
 became unclean , because God had forbidden 
 them to marry with the Nations, 
 
 C. To which was anfwered , they that are 
 Saints are not unholy * But fome Saints have 
 been begot by this mixturc>or unlawfull bed, 
 as feptbah 3 who Hebr. 1 1 . Is faid to be ju- 
 ftified by faith , Therefore they are not un- 
 holy. 
 
 T. He denyed the Major Jayingjhey may be 
 unholy by their Naturall Generation y and firji 
 birth 5 and yet holy by Regeneration , and new 
 birth. 
 
 C. This ftrikes not home 7 Mofes had chil- 
 dren by his Ethiopian woman, but they were 
 not illegitimate^therefore thofe that were be- 
 got by mixture with the Nations were not Il- 
 legitimate. 
 
 T. Mr. T. Said , that was before the Lapp 
 was given- 
 
 C. Well, that Anfwer will do you little 
 fervicc -, after the Law was given , Salomon 
 
 had 
 
(*4) 
 
 had children by* *M,who was a Cananitifh^ 
 and Boaz by Ruth } v ho was a Moabitijh wo- 
 man • and yet they were not Illegitimate , or 
 unholy, as you would have it. 
 
 T. They became Pro/elites 3 and received 
 the Religion of the Jews. 
 
 C. Well then, while they were not of the 
 Jews Religion, tho no Baftards , they were 
 unholy , when they embraced the Jews Reli- 
 gion, (by your own confeflionj they became 
 holy, whatis this but a Covenant-holynefs 
 which you have oppofed all this while , and 
 now grant it? 
 
 I T. Mr.T. Ufedmany words to clear him- 
 felf \but with little fat is fa Bio n to the great eft 
 fart of the hearers , and ft ill [denied that chil- 
 dren were holy^ and in covenant. 
 
 C. Which was further proved thus,They 
 that Chrift took up in his arms , bkffl d,foid, 
 the Kingdom of God belonged unto than , 
 pronounced a curfe upon thofe that defpiVed, 
 and would not receive , arc holy with a Co- 
 venant-holynefs 5 But Chrift took up little 
 children into his arms, bleffcd them,iayd 5 the 
 Kingdom of God belonged unto them , pro- 
 nounced a curfe upon thofe that defphed, and 
 
 would 
 
<*5) 
 
 would not receive them j Therefore little 
 
 Children are holy with a Covenant- holi- 
 nefs. 
 
 T. Mr. Tombcs began to be netted, as if 
 Jomething in this Argument galled him , fay- 
 ingit was- a fall act e , and that he went about to 
 entrap him lyjoyhiftrie. 
 
 C What -fellacic t 
 
 T. si heaping of many things together that 
 belong to feiseratl matters. 
 
 €. I confefs they were fpoken upon fc ve- 
 ralloccafions, but they all concenter m my 
 Conciuf ion,that children are ho T y, and in co- 
 venant-J am in haft,and named them all toge- 
 ther, but if you will have patience, He profe- 
 cute them feverally. 
 
 T. 1 r am willing to centime till midnight 
 but I like not this kind of arguing. 
 
 C You like it not,becaufe it docs mrulum 
 peter e J cut the throat of your tenet. 
 
 T. No not fo much as touch the skin of it 
 fayes he. 
 
 C Well I befeech you in the fpirit of 
 meeknefstoanfwer. 
 
 T. It is afallacie of heaping many Particu* 
 lars together'. 
 
 F C. 
 
{66) 
 C. I confefs there is a fallacie they call 
 
 T. Take notice , he confejjes it ts a falla- 
 
 tie. 
 
 C. No fuch thing 5 for w>\«&w is an asking 
 of many Qucftions^ which isyourutVall fal- 
 lacie , Socratically to ask , when you fliould 
 foHdly anfwer , but in my Syllogifm thejx is 
 not fo much as one Queftion. 
 
 T. It is a Copulative prof option fayesCfrlr. 
 Tombes, and if one member of it befalfe 5 the- 
 whole k falfe. 
 
 C. It is not an explicit Copulative propo- 
 fition fiayes CMr. C.) neither is any member 
 of it falfe , (for every, branch of it is Scrip- 
 ture,,) Tnftancein any of the particulars that 
 you'think makes the leaft for me , and lie 
 * begin with that s then he mentioned 'JMatth. 
 18.2. Which words being read,from thence 
 he rayfed this Argument. They to whom be- 
 longs the Kingdom of Heaven, are holy, andi 
 in Covenant-, But to little children belongs 
 the Kingdom of Heaven h Therefore little 
 children are holy , and in Covenant. 
 
 T. Thoje little Children were not In 
 (ants. 
 
(6 7 ) 
 
 C. They arc called *fe of C** fcw, becaufe 
 they could fcarce fpeak 
 
 T. What arethefe called c ? ^» i 
 
 C. If not here , elfcwhere , and of other, 
 Evange lifts , and here they arc, called *&&*> 
 by the diminutive , which the great Matter of 
 the Greek Hippocrates interprets , to fignific 
 a Child under feven years of age ? and there- 
 fore not capable of a&uall faith 5 wfaen the A- 
 poftles tEemfelves were yet ignorant about 
 fundamental^. 
 
 T. They were converted verfe 3. Except ye. 
 be converted^ and become a* little Children* 
 &c. 
 
 C. The meaning is not that the little Chil- 
 dren are converted, but it hath relation to the 
 Difciples in the firft verfe, who muft be con- 
 verted from their aduall'fins, and become as" 
 little children which have no a&uall fin. 
 
 T. O how unhappy are the people that are 
 feduced with thefe toyes ? are you not afta- 
 med i 
 
 C. I fee you have learned of that man in 
 Lucian to cry out* *c*™=*t. 5 and to vilifie that 
 Argument you cannot anfwer > and befides 
 that, 1 fee nothing that is ftiame- worthy. , 
 
 F 2 He 
 
<*8) 
 
 He hath anfwefed nothing at all (fayes one 
 under the Pulpit) but fhifts and denyes all. 
 
 T. Thou art an impudent, br*&en- faced fel- 
 low ^whofoever thou art , / have anfwered dll , 
 cmfutedall my adverfaries Books 5 and among ft 
 them one of mj great efl AnUgonifis ^ I have 
 turned Mr. Richard Baxter the moft of his 
 Arguments againft himjelf 
 
 C. Sir , let that worthy man alone who is 
 abfent , you are now to anfwer me. 
 
 T< Here is nothing to anfwer , is it not in 
 the fixt ver[e\Whofo fball offend one of thefe 
 little ones which believe in me ? were they not 
 believers ? 
 
 C. Yes 5 the Difciples were believers 5 which 
 are here meant , and not the children - 7 which 
 the Grammatical! conftru&ion will tell you, 
 'for it is in the mafculin gender , '«« *»? /**?* W 
 w,one of thefe little ones, meaning ^'fr dif- 
 riple, not * m the Neuter Gender to anfvver 
 tow-**, little child-, fo that my Argument 
 remains unanfwered. 
 
 T / am wean of this Pedantrie.and looking 
 upon his wa ch,faid^ I promifed but one houre, 
 and its above foure houres 5 mth that he clap- 
 ped his Book together. [T. J. ~] Good Mr. 
 f Tombes 
 
(W 
 
 Tombes (fays an Anabaptijl) continue a little 
 longer for fat is faction of the people $e gave no 
 anfwer „ but put on his hat. 
 
 C. Well, Sir, I will not prefs you any 
 further now, I fhould have urged $ohn 3. 5. 
 Rom. 11. and other places , to prove Infants 
 Church-memberfhip, and have come to the 
 fecond and. third branches of mine Argu- 
 ment,that Chrift merited it for them, and In- 
 fants ftand in need of Baptifm • butthok I 
 muft leave to another opportiinitie-,Thcrefore 
 I defirc that we may have a fet day about a 
 Month hence , feeing I was hurryed to this 
 extemporall difcourfe through importuni- 
 tie. 
 
 T. No , / will have no more dealing with 
 you, unlefs it he by writing , that what both of 
 usfhall fet down y may be read in the public k 
 Congregation. 
 
 F 3 Mark 
 

 
 ' 
 
 
 ,\<^ V 
 
 ■ 
 
(70 
 
 Mark. 16.15,16. 
 15. Andhejaidtrnto tkem^ Go ye into all the 
 
 voorld^&? reach theGofpel to every Creature. 
 l6.Hethatbeleeveth, and is Baptised, [hall 
 
 be faved^but he that belecveih not, pall be 
 
 damned. 
 
 Hcfc two verfcs hold out the rich 
 Charter of the Gofpel, which 
 our Saviour delivered to the A- 
 poftles after his Refurre&ion 5 
 The parts are two, Firft a Precept in the 
 former vcrfe, Go ye into all the world, and 
 fr each the G off el to every Creature ; Second- 
 ly a Promife,with a Commination in the lat^ 
 tcv, He that beleeveth, and is Baptized, pall 
 befaved'i but he that beleeveth not y pall be 
 damned. 
 
 In the Precept, we have two particulars, 
 Firft a Miflion,he fends them, Go ye. into all 
 
 the 
 
(7*) 
 
 the worlds Secondly a Gommiffion, he au- 
 thorizes them , and Preach the Gofpel to 
 every Creature. 
 
 In the latter verfe, or promife, we have 
 Firft the thing promifed, layd down affir- 
 matively, fhall be favedt, Secondly the qua- 
 lification, and that either abfolute, he that 
 beleveth, or conditional, and is Baptized $ 
 he that beleeveth, and is Baptized, fhall be 
 favedt, Or a Commination fhall be dam- 
 ned, with a qualification negative, and ab- 
 foluteiy without any limitation, he that be- 
 leeveth not , he that beleeveth not fhall be 
 damned, 
 
 Weelonly hint at the former verfe for 
 introdudion to the latter. Andkefaid, (that 
 i$Chnft,;Obferve,that it is on!yGod,Chrift 
 God and Man , that can* give Miffion, or 
 Gommiffion to Preach, and ordain Sacra- 
 ments. Matb.iS.iS. J 11 power is given me 
 in Heaven and Earth, Go ye therefore, and 
 teach all Nations. Go ye into all the world, 
 there is the largenefs of their Gommiffion, 
 to all the world, as he,to all Nations as Mat- 
 thetv. Hence obferve, the Apoftles, and by 
 them the Evangelifts, had an extraordinary 
 
 Commiffion 
 
(73) 
 Commiflion which extended through the 
 world, but our Commiflion ordinarily is li- 
 mited to certain places -, True it is, there 
 may be itinerants upon fpecial occofions, 
 (and they alfo confined within their verges^ 
 But as Do&or Buckeridge ohferves well 
 when Chrift fpeaks to Apoftles, he fays, Go 
 ye into all the world, but. when to ordinary 
 Paftors, and Teachers saw**™** he fixed fomc 
 to be Pallors, and fome Teachers. 
 
 And Preach the Go/pel to every Crea- 
 ture, there is the Commiflion, wherein we 
 have Firft the Aft Preach, that is proclame, 
 Secondly the objecft of the Gofpel, which 
 in the Original, and other languages figfci- 
 fies good news, or a good fpeech^ from the 
 connexion between the Miflion and Com- 
 miflion comming from the fame Authour 
 Chrift, and extended to the fame perfons, 
 the Apoftles, and their fucceflburs, obferve , 
 that none may Preach 'as Church Officers, 
 but they that are fent in a Gofpel way $ our 
 adverfary in the common caufe fpoke fo 
 home to this, that we need not prefs it fur- 
 ther . The laft thing is the extent of the 
 Commiflion, and that a very large one, unto 
 
 every 
 
(74) 
 every Cruhrt ] as here, to all Nations, a$ 
 Matthew. 
 
 Now the Quare will be, what is meant 
 by every Creature/* Some limit it to every 
 rational creature, Angels, men, Devils, as 
 Origenfii his mifericordesDoctores who held 
 the Devils and reprobates (hould be faved 5 
 but that cannot be- for 2. pet. 2.4. They are 
 caft down to hell, and referred to judgement. 
 Some more ftridly reftrain it only to man, 
 and that when he is come to age, and un- 
 derstanding, excluding Children h this is too 
 ftrifib; True it is, Infants are not capable 
 to be taught of men, but they may be taught 
 of God 5 they cannot a&inlly underftand 
 the Gofpelp but they may actually receive 
 the benefit of the Gofpel 5 a noble mans 
 Child hath intereft in his Fathers Patented 
 pardon 5 a fucking Infant though he khowS 
 it not; may be joined in a leafe with the Pa- 
 rents. Some extend itj and it is conceived 
 more fitly according to the Letter, without 
 &ny Synecdoche, or figure.to every creature, 
 as if he fhould fay, Go and proclame the be- 
 nefit that comes by hnft to every Crea- 
 ture x for as by the firft Adam all creatures 
 
 were 
 
were accurfed^o by Chrift the Second AJaw* 
 all creatures (hall be bteffed, Rom.S.ii^^ a 
 *&it every creature groans, dcfiring to be 
 delivered into the glorious liberty of the! 
 Sons of God, anfwerabie to this, Preach the 
 Gofpd *»>»?. «ri<*i to every creature, telling 
 them, that they are now by Chrift to be de- 
 livered into the glorious liberty of the Sons 
 of God . 
 
 objeti. But the creature cannothear, nor 
 underftand. 
 
 Anfw. Its true not properly, no more 
 could John B dptt f in his Mothers Womb, 
 and ycticrKipv* w >&foig the Babe fprang for joy* 
 Nay the Holy Ghoft afcribes a hearing to 
 the creature, Hofeai.it. Anditfball come 
 to pajsfa that day faith the lord, I mil hear 
 the Heavens^ and they fhaU hear the Barth, 
 and the Earth fhall hear the Corn, and the 
 Wine, and the oyl, and they fia# hear JezreeL 
 Hence obferve,that every creature in a fenfe 
 is fenfiblc of the benefit they have byChriftj 
 but every one in their kind, men come to 
 years, and difcretion, are capable of a&ual 
 undemanding, aftual profeffion, a&ual 
 taith 5 Infants ohly in aStu frimo, are capa- 
 ble 
 

 
 pic of the firft feeds of underftanding, of 
 profeflion of Fairh , which will (hew it felf 
 in the fruits when they come to years \ The 
 reft of our fellow creatures as by a natural 
 inftind they groan for the curfe, fo by an 
 other inftinft, they life up their heads in ex* 
 peSation of the bleffing, and that •« v ©e/uk . 
 withaneameft expedition, or a ftretched 
 cut neck as the word in the original fignifies, 
 Rom $.9. 
 
 Thus we have piraphrafed upon the firft 
 verfe for introduction to the fecond, where- 
 in is Firft, a Confolatory promifei he that 
 beleeveth^ and is. Baptized, fljall be faved- 7 
 Secondly a Comminatorie Curfe, he that 
 bdeeveth not, pall be damned. In the for- 
 mer, we have nrft the qualification, and that 
 cither abfolute, he that beleeveth , or con- 
 ditional, and is Baptized. 
 
 Q. Now the Quaere will be, what belief 
 is here meant 1 
 
 Sol. Firft the event tells us, that belief 
 that faves us, he that believes fball be faved. 
 Secondly the oppofition, its contrary to that 
 unbelief that damns 5 Obfcrve that a faving 
 Faith is neceflary to falvation, without Faith 
 
 it 
 
(77) 
 it is impoffiblc to pleafe God, all they, and 
 only they that have a faving Faith (hall be 
 favcd$ fo that you fee that Faith is a necefla- 
 ry> and abfolute condition. 
 
 And is Baptized \ that is Upon fuppofi- 
 tion,if Baptifm conveniently may be had; 
 hence obferve, that Bdptifm is not abfolute- 
 ly neceflary by neceffity of means (as they 
 call it) as if none could be faved without it, 
 but by necelfify of Precept, if conveniently 
 it may be had. The Israelites for forty years 
 in the Wildernefs were not Circum- 
 ci fed. Bernard, that favv not all things could 
 fee this, that, non absentia ftdcontemptas $a- 
 cramenti damnat, not the want, but the con- 
 tempt of the Sacrament damns: Valentinian 
 the Emperourdycd, as he was going to be 
 Baptized in Jordan, and Ambrofe being' af- 
 keci what he thought of him, anfwered, that 
 he was Baptizatm voto, & voltmtate, eii_am- 
 fi non rev era aqu& lav aero, Baptized inward- 
 ly with wifli > and will, though not outward- 
 ly with the laver of water $ ^Aufiin is con- 
 ceived here to be miftaken , who denyed 
 falvation to Infants Un- Baptized, hence he 
 is called dm us Pater Infantum, a hard Father 
 
 of 
 
( 7 §) 
 
 of Infants % and many of the Dolors of the 
 Church oiRome, who hold that Infants that 
 dye Un-Baptized,are kept in limb$ Infantum 
 in a Purgatory of Infants, where they fliall 
 never behold the beatifical vifion. 
 
 ob]eB. But here is firft placed beleeving, 
 and then Baptized , fo that from the order 
 of placing the words, fome would gather 
 that we are firft to beleeve before we be 
 Baptized. 
 
 ^Anfa. That will not follow-* for Mark 
 1.4. There is placed firft Baptizing } and then 
 Preaching, and repentance after , whence 
 they might as well gather that we muft be 
 Baptized, before we can hear the word 
 Preached, or repent* Repentance in Scrip- 
 ture is oft placed before Faith, and yet is a 
 fruit, and effed of Faith •, fome of the Evan- 
 gelifts place Judas his receiving of the fop 
 before the Sacrament, fome after it-, it is a 
 rule in interpreting of holy Writ, that Serif- 
 tnranejcit prju*^ &pfierins, the Scripture 
 does not alwaies obierve the precife order 
 in which things were done. 
 
 £>. But I befeech you confider what Faith 
 it is that is here meant i 
 
 SoL 
 
(79) 
 SoL A faving Faith 5 Muft then a faving 
 Faith be the rule of our Bapdfm { and muft 
 we Baptize none, but of thofe we know have 
 a faving Faith § then we muft Baptize none 
 at all •, never any JVLnifter upon that ground 
 had ever Commiflion to Bapaze any, no not 
 the Apofties , for they did not infallibly 
 know that thofe they Baptized had a faving 
 Faith ^ nay they a&ually BaptizecJ many that 
 were hypocrites, as .Simon Magw, Alexan- 
 der , Hyme#eus, Philetus, and others $ hence 
 obferve, That no rule for Baptizing in gene- 
 ral can be gathered out of this Text, And to 
 fay that none are to be Baptized , but they 
 that have a faving Faith, which is the Faith 
 that is only here meant , or none but they 
 which make an outward profeflion of Faith 
 (which is not here meant; is an untruth not 
 gatherable from this Scripture, and an ad- 
 ding to the word of God, againft which he 
 hath proclamed a folemn curfe. 
 
 The Commination , or curfe follows in 
 the laft words, He that beleeveth not, (hall 
 be damned ^ he does not fay, he that is not 
 Baptized (hall be damned. 
 For though the contempt of it is dange- 
 rous 
 
( 8oJ 
 
 rous, yet a man may be faved without Bap- 
 tifm •, he does not lay that he that is not dip- 
 ped over head is damned, that is a thing in- 
 different, any wafhing in the name of the 
 Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, is B >ptifm$ 
 he does not fay, that he that is not Re bapti- 
 zed, or Baptized again , is damned, for that 
 is the invention of Man, never heard of (in 
 that fenfe) before John of Ley dens time,who 
 confefTed at his execution, that he had that, 
 and the reft of his poyfoned Do&rine from 
 Satan. Hence obferve, That ail unbelievers, 
 though Baptifed,(hall be damned',men belee- 
 ving though (through invincible neceffity) 
 Un- Baptized, (hall be faved $ thus we have 
 given you the lively meaning of the Holy 
 Ghoft in the Text. 
 
 Having layd this foundation, wee'l make 
 further inquiric into two things which are 
 in connoverfie, Firft what is meant by Bap<- 
 tifm, or Baptizing, Secondly whether In- 
 fants ought to be Baptized, or no. 
 
 Firft,' Baptifm in the Original, fignifies 
 nothing but a wafhing, as Parens upon the 
 Hebrews fays, Baptifmus. Gr&cis eft qusvis 
 ablutic, Baptifm is in Greek any wafhing, 
 
 whether 
 
whether by dipping, or fprinkling, to Bap- 
 tize is to dip, or fprinkle fays, Ravetoel h fo 
 fays the Churches old.Catechifm dipped 
 or fprinkled in the name of the Father, Son' 
 and Holy Ghoft* fothe Directory, Baptize 
 the Child, by powring, or fprinkling of the 
 water on the face of the Child, without ad- 
 ding any further Ceremony. And as many 
 TcindS there are of wafting, fo many there are 
 of Baptizing , whereof the Pillars of the 
 Greek Tongue, Hepchms, Budeus, Stepha- 
 nas, Scapula, ^AHus MonUnus* Pa/or, men- 
 tion four -, Firft tingere, to die, or tindhirc, 
 Secondly mergere, to drown , or plunge, 
 Thirdly madefacere, to wet, or moyften, 
 and MJy abluere, to wafli,or clenfe. 
 
 I confefs there are fome that diftinguifli 
 betwixt *»/>, to rantife (as they call it) or 
 fprinkle,/**. which is to plunge to the bot- 
 tom, ^*<?«} which is to fwim upon the top > 
 and ti*QBi which is, as they criticife upon itl 
 :o fwim betwixt the top, and bottom • thefe 
 :hree laft are mentioned by Cafaubon'm his 
 lotes upon the third Chapter of St. Mat hew, 
 is was quoted by our adverfary, but with 
 vhat fidelities or advantage to his caufe, I 
 G leave: 
 
(8>) 
 
 leave it to the Godly, and learned to Judge, 
 for he left out the laft words, wherein the 
 whole ftate of the queftion is determined 
 by Cafaubon againft him , for thus he con- 
 cludes, horum fententiajampridem merit o ejl 
 explofa, Seethe judgement of thofe men is 
 defervedly long fince exploded, and tramp- 
 led down, that would have Baptizing to be 
 by dipping, and he gives a reafon, quum 
 non in to pofitafit myfierii hujus vis, & i»fo«" 3 
 feeing the force, and efficacy of Baptifm, 
 thismyfterie,confiftsnotin that, that is the 
 manner of wafoing. Which is confirmed 
 by Aquinas, Immerfio non eft de neceffitatt 
 Baptifmi, dipping is not of theneceffity o! 
 Baptifm, And Dominicofotus, Ablutio ejldt 
 ejfentia, Baptifmi,wz(hmg is of the efieno 
 of Baptifm, but the manner of wafhing 
 whether by dipping, powring ,or fprinkling 
 is accidental. 
 
 Many places of Scripture confirm this 
 iC*r.io.2.there the ifraelites were Bap 
 tized in the red Sea, when their feet di 
 but touch the water, not as if they were Baf 
 tized, when they were not (as the Ana baf 
 tiftselofs upon this place) and that the I 
 
\~7 / 
 
 gypthns were really Baptized , for the £- 
 gyptians were not Baptized in their fenfc, 
 but funk to the bottom like ftones. Exod. 
 
 15.5. 
 
 Baptized under the Cloud, not that the E- 
 gyptians were Baptized, and the ijraelites 
 as if they were (as they defcant) under the 
 Cloud, for the Egyptians were never under 
 the Cloud, for the ifraetites went before the 
 Egyptians, and the Cloud,part of it was over 
 the ijraelites, part of it went before them. 
 
 There is mention made in the Gofpel of 
 Baptizing, or wafhing of themfelves when 
 they came from Market, of Cups, of Vef- 
 fels, of Tables, which cannot be meant of 
 plunging, in water, fo often, where thatE- 
 lement was fo fcarce, but rincing. 
 
 Johns Baptizing in Jordan, Philips go- 
 ing down to the River with the Eunuch 
 proves nothing at all \ for what ftrange con- 
 iequencc would this be, efpecially from 
 the Anabaptifts (that muft have exprefs 
 Scripture for all things; John Bap- £ v-f or 
 tized in Jordan, Philip went down to the wa- 
 into the water with the Eunuch, ter * 
 therefore, they were dipped, feeing it might 
 G z as 
 
(84) 
 as well be by powring, or fprinkling of wa- 
 ter upon them, for any thing that appears 
 out of the Text. 
 
 object. $ohn Baptized in Enon^ bccaufe 
 there was much water. 
 
 K^infw. This will fecm to be no wonder 
 in thofe hot Countries, where there are ma- 
 ny miles without a Spring of water, efpc- 
 cially feeing Geographers, and Travellers 
 tells us , that Enon is a little Brook that 
 one may ftride over, fcarce Knee deep, and 
 therefore not capable of dipping. 
 
 Object. But Baptifm , fay they, muft re- 
 femble the death of Chrift, Rom.6.^, We 
 are buryed with him by Baptifm, which is not 
 by fprinkling, but dipping. 
 
 Anfw. I anfwer, the fcope of the place is 
 to (hew , that one end of our Baptifm is to 
 Seal our Communion with Ghrift in his 
 death, but to prefs a neceflity of refemblance 
 by defcending into the water, and comming 
 out again, we fee no ground in Text, and if 
 our abiding under the water muft anfwer 
 Chrifts Buria! in exad reprcfentation, then 
 3S Chrift lay three days, and three nights 
 in the Grave, fo they muft lye three days, 
 
 and 
 
and three nights under the water, which if 
 it were put in execution, the difputc would 
 quickly be at an end. 
 
 But (hould we grant this refemblance, I 
 appeal to any man, whether our powring 
 on of water in Baptifm, does not more re- 
 femble our Chriftian Burial, which is by 
 powring on of Earth, or Duft, than by plun- 
 ging over head. 
 
 Thus you fee it proved, that Baptizing is 
 any kind of wafhing, In the name of the Fa- 
 ther^Son, and Holy Ghoft h wc do not deny 
 with Mafter Perkins, that if we were to Bap- 
 tize converted Turks , or Pagans of ripe 
 age, in hot Countries 5 we might Baptize 
 them by dipping, Provided that their Gar- 
 ments were not firft Baptized, or wafhed, 
 for that is conceived to be no kfs fuperfti- 
 tion : than Baptizing of Bells ; Baptifm (fays 
 Foffhs*) non eft immerfio vefiium, fed huma- 
 ni Corporis, is not a wafliing of the Gar- 
 ments, but of the Body ; we account the 
 Church of Rome Idofeters, for prefenting 
 thatworlhip, Firft to the Image, which is 
 terminated in Chrift . the Garments are* firft 
 wafhed, or dipped , and the Body but at the 
 G 3 moft 
 
r 8<5 > 
 
 inoft wet, or moyftned through them. 
 
 But to affirm that no Baptilm but that 
 which is by dipping is lawful, is a will-wor- 
 ihip 3 much more, that Baptifm otherwife is 
 a nullitie, and thofe that are Baptized fo, 
 ought to be Baptized again, or Re-Baptized, 
 which the Senate of Syrick underftood well, 
 when they made an A<3,that all that did pre- 
 fume to Re-Baptize fuch as were Baptized 
 before, fhould be drowned. 
 
 So we have refolved the former doubt, 
 that Baptizing is not dipping, and come to 
 the latter, that Infants may, nay ought to be 
 Baptized. And (Brethren) I befeech you 
 to give me leave a little to fpeak for Infants, 
 thofe poorSouls,that cannot fpeak for them- 
 felves. 
 
 And before we come to the Qucftion , 
 take with you thefe two Confiderations 5 
 Firft, that thofe truths that were not in con- 
 troverfie in the Primitive times, the Apo- 
 files were not fo punftual in prefling of 
 them, feeing there was no need-, Solon be- 
 ing asked why he made no Law againft 
 murtherers of Parent, anfwer'd, becaufe 
 he conceiv'd none [would commit that un- 
 natural 
 
(By) 
 
 natural A& $ If the Apoftles had been af- 
 ked , why they did not put down Infant- 
 Baptifm in plainer terms, I fuppofe they 
 would have anfwered/that they thought 
 none would have denyed it. 
 
 Secondly obferve, that thofe things that 
 are preffed often in the old Teftament, are 
 mentioned more fparingly in the New, as 
 the Sabbath , and Magiftracy in the old 
 Teftament, line upon line, and precept up- 
 on precept, but fcarce a Syllable for a Chri- 
 ftian Sabbath, or a Chriftian Magiftracie in 
 the new. Nothing is more clear then In- 
 fants Church-Memberfhip in the old 'Te- 
 ftament, therefore not fo clear in the New, 
 and yet clear enough to thofe that have eyes 
 to fee it, as will appear by thefe reafons fo^ 
 lowing. 
 
 i . Arg. Firft, thofe that are in Covenant 
 with God,ought to have the Seal of the Co- 
 venant, which is Baptifrn. ; 
 
 But Infants of beleeving Parents are in 
 Covenant with God. 
 
 Therefore Infants ought to have the Seal 
 of the Covenant, which is Baptifm. 
 
 The former Propofition is firm byCon*? 
 G 4 feffiqg 
 
(8s; 
 
 feffion of all Divines , even our adverfaries , 
 H*c eft fundament alls ratio padofapifmi 
 (fayes Daneus ) this is the fundamental! 
 reafon of Baptizing of Infants , that they 
 are in Covexwnt , Efje faderatum fuffi- 
 cit ad attipendnm fignnm feeder is 5 fayes 
 Davenant , to be in C ovenant is fuflicient to 
 receive the figne v and feal of the Covenant , 
 Omnes feeder at i [unt Bapiz,andi s fayes Wen- 
 ael, all that are in Covenant arc to be Bapti- 
 zed 3 Si infoedere ftwt , imp} agunt , qui eis 
 ft gnum foederis negant \ faith Ferns, if they be 
 in Covenant 3 they do wickedly that deny 
 them the figne of the Covenant^ in a Civill 
 contract ( fayes Mr Perkins j the Fatherland 
 the heir make but one perfon , and the Cove- 
 nant's for himfelf and his pofterky. 
 
 The Minor propofition that I nfants of be- 
 lieving Parents arc in Covenants grounded 
 on many Scriptures , Genef ij. 7. Where 
 God efbblilhes a Covenant , not only with 
 'Abraham y but With his feed after him in their 
 generations, for an everlating Covenant , e- 
 verlafting , and therefore to laft to the end of 
 f he World, as Cornelius a Lapidt fayes, abfo- 
 lute aternum eft in [emine fprituati ftdelihw > 
 
 It 
 
(8p) 
 
 It is abfolutely everlafting in tFie fpirituall 
 feed to the faithful). Galat. 3. 8 The Scrip- 
 ture forefeeing that God would juftifie the 
 Heathen through faith, preached before the 
 Gofpcl to Abraham 5 therefore iflfaacwzs in 
 Covenant with his Father When he was but 
 eight dayes old, and had the feal by vertue of 
 the Lamb to be (lain , much more the Chil- 
 dren of believing Parents , by vertue of the 
 Lamb that is already (lain, Dentero. 29. ti. 
 When all the people flood in Covenant be- 
 fore the Lord, their little ones are mentioned 
 amongft the reft,which is further confirmed, 
 Affsi. 38, 39. Be Baptized every one of 
 you , for the promife is to you , and your chil- 
 dren 5 to fay that they were not yet believers, 
 is but a fhift, the Text makes it cleer, as foon 
 as they were believers y their Children were 
 in Covenant with them, and to be Bxpti- 
 zed. 
 
 Arg. 2. Such as were Circumcifed under 
 the Law, may be Baptized under the Go- 
 fpell. 
 
 But Infants of belie vers were Circumcifed 
 under the Law. Therf ore they may baptized 
 under the Gofpel. 
 
 Bute 
 
(90) 
 Huic Argumento non omnts Anabaftiftdt re- 
 ft (lent ( fayes learned Whitaker) all the Ana- 
 baptifts (hall not be able to refift this Argu- 
 ment-, the Minor, that Infants under the Law 
 were Circumcifed, is confcffed. 
 
 The former propofition is onely queftio- 
 nedjthatBaptifm under theGofpel to Infants, 
 does not^neceffarily follow from Circumci- 
 fion under the Law 5 ^/^•«/?/^iscleerforit, 
 faying , Mutatis fignis manet eadem gratia fi- 
 ne ttatis dijcrimine , the outward vifible 
 fignes being changed , the fame grace re- 
 maines without any difference of age 5 and he 
 gives a reafon 3 becaufe the grace of God is not 
 finite r in the new Teftament than in the old 5 
 Therefore Chrift, Hebr. 8. 6. Is faid to be 
 Mediator of a better Covenant,but how were 
 it a better Covenant , if all poor Infants that 
 were in Covenant under theLaw,were out of 
 Covenant under the Gofpel ? TiPw.2 12. 
 The grace of God hath Reared unto ally 
 and therefore furely to Infants-, as Ireneus 
 fayes , Chriftm^ro farvulis farvvlus faffu* 
 eft, Chri'ft becam a little one 5 for little ones 
 fake, that he might redeem the little ones. 
 Little ones were the firft Martyrs that fuffe-j 
 
 red 
 
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 red for Chrift j in Rama 5 aw ** wiw heard % 
 and that Baptifm came in place of Circumci- 
 fion , the Apoftle cleares it, Coloff. 2 . 1 1 , 1 2 
 Te are circumcijed with circumcifion made 
 without hands \ How is that i Bury ed with him 
 in Baptifm. Hence arifes another Argument. 
 Arg. 3. Thofethat were once in Cove-' 
 nant,hadthe Seal of the Covenanted were 
 never disfranchized , and put out of Cove- 
 nant ( have title ta the Covenant 3 and Seal 
 
 of it '(till. 
 
 But Infants were once in Covenant , had 
 the Seal of the Covenant , and were never 
 disfranchized y and put out of Covenant. 
 Therefore Infants have title to the covenant, 
 andfealofitftill. 
 
 Let any man fliew one fyllable 5 one tittle in 
 Scripture , that ever Infants were put out , 
 and wcel yield the gantlet $ nay , the Gofpell 
 is fo far from expreffing of them that they 
 are put out,that it gives them large commen- 
 dations beyond them of riper years , making 
 them the rule of our perfe&ion , as new born 
 babes , receive the fwcere milk of the Word. 
 Unlefsyou be as little Children ^efhalltiot e*~ 
 ter into the Kingdom of God 3 which is a cafe 
 
 fo 
 
Cocker , that even Bellarmine himfelf n- 
 eludes, Nullum eft impedimentum , &c. there 
 is nothing that hinders , but that Infants may 
 as well be Baptized under the Gofpcll, as 
 they were Circumcifcd under the Law 5 for 
 neither hath God forbidden Minifters to 
 give them the Sacrament , neither are they 
 uncapable to receive it, 
 
 Arg* 4. That which CJod hath comman- 
 ded may lafully be pra&ifed by the Minifters 
 ofJcfusChrift. 
 
 But God hath commanded Infant- Bap- 
 tifm. *~*7 
 
 Therefore it may lawfully be pra&ifed 
 by the Minifters of Jcfus Chrift. That God 
 hath ommanded k> appears , Matth. 28. 19. 
 Go Baptize all Nations •, its a gencrall com- 
 mand, and (as Aquinas fayes) pojito general* 
 mandatoparse]tis negarinoupoteft , a gene- 
 rall command being given, no part of it can 
 Jbe denyed 5 Infants are a part of Nations 5 and 
 included in them. 
 
 object. But here is no mention made of In- 
 fants, • • 
 
 Anfa. No,norofthemofage-, we might 
 retort it upon our adverfaries , there is no 
 
 mention 
 
K93) 
 
 mention made of Differs , no, nor of them 
 that arc to be dipped, therefore they ought 
 not to dip , nor be dipped. Generals include 
 particulars in all Lawes $ Pfalm. 1 17. praifi 
 the Lord all ye Nations^ Nations includes old 
 men , and babes, young men , and maids , all 
 without exception , as another Pfalm inter- 
 prets it. 
 
 Now if Infants be excepted , contrary to 
 that faying of Saint Ambrofe , Qui dixit om- 
 nes , nullum excepit , m<{\ parvulos , &c. He 
 that commanded all to be Baptized , excep- 
 none , no , not little ones. If (I fayj they be 
 excepted, its either becaufe they are not na- 
 med , or becaufe we never read in Scripture 
 that any Infants were Baptized , or , becaufe 
 they are not capable • (that fourth cavill, be- 
 ing the fame with the third , He take away m 
 nonj but for none of thefe three-, therefore 
 Infants are not excepted fromBaptifm. 
 
 Not for the firft , becaufe they are not na- 
 med , for fo neither old men, nor nobles,nor 
 Minifters are named. Not becaufe we read 
 not of their Bapdfm/o we neither read of the 
 Baptifmof the Apoftles , nor of the Virgin, 
 Mary , yet we pioufly believe that they were 
 
 Baptizedj 
 
Baptized •, De negatione fadi ad jus nm va- 
 let confequentU , fuch a thing is not mentio- 
 ned,that it was done-,therfore itwas not done, 
 or was not done , therefore it ought not to 
 have been done , is no confequence 5 Chrift 
 did , and faid manyriiings that are not writ- 
 ten -, fo did his Apo'ftles. 
 
 Not for the third, becaufe they are unca- 
 pable , which is denyed 5 for if Infants be un- 
 capable, it is either becaufe they have not re- 
 pentance, and faith in ad , which cannot hin- 
 der them 5 Chrift was Baptized , had not re- 
 pentance, for he had no fin to repent of , had 
 not faith , for faith prefuppofeth one loft in 
 himfclf ,that depends upon another for falva- 
 tion , Chrift is that Rock of Salvation, 
 upon whom all mankind being loft de- 
 pends s Neither becaufe they cannot hear the 
 Word preached-,then they that are born deaf 
 fliould be excluded from Baptifm 5 Or be- 
 caufe they are not otherwife qualified •, but 
 that cannot hinder them,for God requires no 
 more of them that are in Covenanted born 
 of believing. Parents, but a pure capacity,and 
 receptability , which Divines call Potential* 
 (fyffivm 3 as Gpdin the beginnij^ created 
 
195; 
 
 the World of nothing , fo in the beginning 
 of the new creature he does rcgencrat , and 
 recreate us of nothing-, upon this account it is, 
 that we read of many whole families Bapti- 
 zed 5 not excluding , but rather including 
 Infants , Cornelius was Baptized with his 
 houftiold 5 ^<fo 10.47, 48. Lydea , and her 
 houfhold, Acts 16. 15. Crifpus 5 and all his 
 houfe,^?* 18.8. and the houftiold otSte- 
 fhaftus, 1 Corinth. 1 . 1 6. the Jayler * u .v™ «w 
 «r« all that were his, ^j- 16. 31, 32. His 
 Servants , his Children •, for can we ima- 
 gine fo many families without a child i 
 
 Arg. 5 . They that are capable of the King- 
 dom , and the blefling , which is the greater, 
 are capable of Baptifm 5 which is the leffer. 
 
 But Infants are capable of the Kingdom, 
 and the blefling,which is the greater. 
 
 Therefore they are capable of Baptifm 
 which is the Itfffcr $ for Bid not ( fay es our Sa- 
 viour ) little Children to come unto me , 
 for unto Jftch belongs the Kingdom of God 5 
 for furely , if the Kingdom of Heaven 
 receive them , the Church may not ex- 
 clude themjfor the Church muft receive fuch 
 as glory receives,^* ^7. there were dri- 
 
 b 
 
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 ly added to the Church fuch asfhould hefaved. 
 Now for proof of this Argument, take thcfe 
 places, Mark. 10. 13. to 17. Mark. 9. 14.35, 
 37. Matth. 18. 2,3,4. Matth. 19. 13, 14, 
 15. Luke9- *4, 15 -Luke 18. 15,16. Whieh 
 tho they be fpoken upon feverall occafions , 
 all prove Infants to be Church- members, 
 and capable both of grace, and glory •, weel 
 inftance in two, Jefus called a little child un- 
 to him , the word is **ijum , which (as Hippo* 
 crates in his diftin&ion of ages fayes,and Be- 
 z,a feconds him,) fignifies a child under feven 
 years , and fet him in the middeft of them., 
 and fa\d,Ferily ifay untoyou,exceptye be con- 
 *verted,and become as little children^ that is,en- 
 devour to be free from a&uall fin,as they are, 
 ye pall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven* 
 
 Trie other is that of S.Luke 18.15. where- 
 in obferve, Firft a Prccept 3 Suffer little chil- 
 dren to come unto m?* 
 
 Secondly, we have a prohibition , and for- 
 bid them not. 
 
 Thirdly, his difpleafure again ft his Dif- 
 ciples , for hindring them from coming to 
 him, he looked on this ad with indignation , 
 and was much difj&afed at it. 
 
 Fourthly^ 
 
(j>7> 
 
 Fourthly , he adds a reafon why little ones 
 ! fliould be brought to him , tecaufi to fitch be- 
 longs the Kingdom of God, that is, the King- 
 • dom of grace here, and glory hereafter^ they 
 are vifible members of his Church,and King. 
 dom , and therefore none may hinder their 
 accefs to him. 
 
 Fiftly , he confirmes this reafon , a major* , 
 from the greater to the lefs , Gods Kingdom 
 ^doth not onely belong to them, but I tell 
 you more , whofoever will come into this 
 Kingdom,muft referable Infants in Innocen- 
 cy , humility, Simplicity. 
 
 Sixtly , he adds his benedi&ion of them , 
 he took t hem up in his arms., put his hands 
 upon them, and bleffed them 5 and tells us 
 that their Angels alwayes fee the face of his 
 Father, which is in Heaven-^ and the danger 
 of them that offend one of thefe little ones $ 
 and all this recorded by three Evangelifts 3 
 UWatthew , CM ark , Lnfa 5 as if it were of 
 purpofe to check the facrilegious infolencic 
 of thefe latter times that denyes them the 
 feal. Chrift is not more pun&uall by his Spi- 
 rit, in declaring his own Birth , Paffion , Re- 
 furrc&ion 3 than he is in this precious Truth 
 H fo 
 
( 9 8) ~ 
 
 fo much trampled under foot. 
 
 And ifany objeft, thefc were not young 
 Children , the text eafily confutes them,they 
 werem»i«^/«, Children under fcven yeares of 
 agc,c f *M, Children that could fcarce fpeak, 
 they did not lead them, but *&**<**& , they car- 
 ried them unto him 5 Chrift isfaid twice in S. 
 Mark 3 s«*k*v«*>™ 5 to take them up in his 
 armes,and embrace them-,Chrift was already 
 inftru&ing the people that were able to under-^ 
 ftand,the Apoftles were offended for brigging 
 of Children which could not underftand. 
 
 Well then , doth Chrift take Children in 
 his armes,and would he have them att put out 
 of his vifible Church f would he have us re- 
 ceive them in his Name , and yet not to re- 
 ceive them into his vifible Church, nor as his 
 Difciples? How can Infants be received in 
 Chrifts Name , if they belong not vifibly to 
 him, and his Church ? Nay, doth Chrift ac- 
 count it a receiving of himfelf 5 and<hall we 
 then refufe to receive them , or acknowledge 
 them the fubjefts of his vifible Kingdom * 
 will it not follow then that whofoever refu- 
 fcththem, refufeth Chrift, and him that fent 
 him? For my part (to ufe the words of a god- 
 
mmx-99) 
 
 ly I and learned divine ) Seeing the will of 
 Chrift is that I muft walk by , and his word 
 that I muft be judged by, and he hath given 
 me fo full a difcovery of his will in this point* 
 I will boldly adventure to follow his rule , 
 and had rather anfwer him upon his own in- 
 couragement for admitting an hundred In- 
 fants into his Church, than anfwer for kee- 
 ping outof one. 
 
 Argument 6. All Difciples may be Bap- 
 tised. 
 
 But Infants of believing parents are Dif- 
 ciples. 
 
 Therefore fome Infants maybe Baptized. 
 
 The Major,or former propofition,is gran- 
 ; ted by our adverfaries , who tranflate'that 
 place, Matth, 28. 19. ^SHtiW*™ **n* « is™ ,go 
 make Difciples of all Nations,which is in our 
 laft tranflation , Go teach all Nations , confef- 
 fing , as foon as they are Difciples they may 
 be Baptized. 
 
 Now for the Minor 3 that Infants are Dif- 
 ciples, is evident from Jets 15. 10. Why, 
 tempt yee God , and put a yoak upon the 
 neck of the Difciples ? this yoak was Cir- 
 Cumcifion , and the attendants of it, as will 
 H 2 appear 
 
appear by comparing it with the fift verfe ^ 
 and the context from the beginning Qf the 
 Chapter. Now among the Jews, children 
 were only to be Circurncifcd, and amongft 
 the Gentiles , children together with parents 
 when they were converted, and became Pro- 
 fclitcs. To fay that not only Circumcifion , 
 but the Do&rine , and Obfervation of the 
 whole Law, by the yoak is meant , is but a 
 (hift ^ Circumcifion was the Seal , or Ordi- 
 nance by which the Jews were bound to ob- 
 ferve the Do&rme , and the Law, and all 
 thofe upon whom the yoak was layd by Cir- 
 cumcifion, are called Difapies 3 whereof In- 
 fants were a great part. 
 
 And if it be obje&ed, that children are not 
 capable of inftru&ion , as it is nothing to the 
 purpofe, fo it contradicts Scripture, Efay 54. 
 1 3 . And all thy Children flail be taught of the 
 Lord ^amigr eat flail be the peace of thy Chil- 
 dren. And if any one carnally interpret this 
 of the Jews return from captivity, as they do 
 other places of Efa.om Saviour checks them, 
 John 6. 4?, And It U written in the Prophets y 
 ^nd the) flail all be taught of God. 
 
 Arg. 7. AUchachavcfatfh maybe Bap- 
 tized. Bn: 
 
But fomc Infants have faith. Therefore 
 fomc Infants may be Baptized. 
 
 The propofition none will deny , the Mi- 
 nor may be proved by feverall reafons. 
 
 Firft, Chrift exprelly calls them Believers, 
 CMatth. 1 8. He attributes humility to them, 
 and faith 5 and commands Elders to imitate 
 them 5 and that you may fee they were In- 
 fants, CM ark 9. $6. tells us they were fuch 
 as Chrift took up in His armes. 
 
 Secondly , they are faid to receive the 
 Kingdom of God,Mark icthat is, the grace 
 of God , Remiffion of fins , and life eternall ; 
 now the Kingdom is not received , -but by 
 faith in Chrift. 
 
 Thirdly ,they pleafe God, therfore Chrift 
 bleffeth them •, but without faith it is impof- 
 fible to pleafe God. 
 
 Fourthly , either faith muft be allowed 
 them , or falvation denyed them-, but the lat- 
 ter is cruell , and impious ; therefore the for- 
 mer muft be godly , and pious 5 faith only 
 purifies the heart, but no unclean thing fli# 
 enter into Heaven. 
 
 Fiftly,thoInfants cannot make a&uall pro- 
 
 feffion of faith , yet they may have in- 
 
 H 5 ward 
 
(102) 
 
 ward roots of San&ification , and faith, 
 $ohn Baptift and feremie were iandified in 
 their mothers wombs 5 let carnalifts fay what 
 they will,that is the principal meaning of that 
 \>hcc,Efay 6$ .20 .There Jha/l be no more an In* 
 fant of day s^ The Jews thought they were not 
 fan&ified, unlefs a Sabbath went over them $ 
 the chtldfhaUdy an hundred year old, that is,as 
 well in Covenant with God , or a vifible 
 Church-member , as if he, were a hundred 
 years old. Therefore Parens hycs , Infantes 
 Ecclef!* etiam ante Baptifmum censentur fide- 
 les ^ Infants of the Church, even before Bap- 
 tifm, are judged faithfull. Hommius fayes,In- 
 fants have faith, infemine , in tfie feed, tho 
 not in mejfe, in the harveft •, Beza fayes, they 
 have faith «>w*A«/,in power, tho not \^yk* 
 in operation Faith ( fays Trekatius) is two- 
 fold 5 
 
 1 I. Aflive which the Elder have by hea- 
 ring the Word. 
 
 2. Paffive, and by imputation, which In- 
 fants have by vertue of the Covenant, and 
 Divine promife. Pelagws asks Aufiin where 
 he places Infants Baptized < he anfwers , in 
 diumero credwtiun? > in the number .of belie- 
 vers 
 
vers, and addes, necjudicare ullo modo aliter 
 dudebis^fi non vis ejje aperte htreticu*^ nei- 
 ther may thou pre fume to judge otherwife, 
 if thou wilt not be a plain Heretick. Weel 
 conclude this with that of Voffius, As in na- 
 turals, fo in fupernaturals we muft diftin- 
 gui(h thefe three things, power, habit, and 
 ad 5 there is the power of reafoning in In- 
 fants, the habit in men fleeping, but the a&, 
 andexcrcife,in them that are waking 5 the 
 power anfwers the feed, the habit the tree, 
 the ad, and exercife, the fruit •, the feed of 
 Faith may be in Infants, the habit in men of 
 age, but the aft, and exercife, in them that 
 work according to the habit. 
 
 S.Jrg. Thofe that are Holy, with a 
 Covenant- holinefs> may be Baptized. But 
 Infants of beleeving Parents are Holy with 
 a Covenant-Holinefs. Therefore Infants of 
 beleeving Parents may be Baptized. For 
 the former Pvo$o&uon\. fader atis competit 
 fignum fader is, (hysVofiiui) the fign of the 
 Covenant belongs to them that arc in Co- 
 venant 5 Holinefs is twofold (fays Bnllin- 
 ger) either of Faith, or of the Covenant; 
 £z>ra*9*t. T* have mingled the holy feed, 
 H 4 that 
 
( io 4 ) 
 that is them in Covenant, with the Nathns, 
 that is them that are out of Covenant. Thus 
 you fee, that Covenant-holinefs is no gib- 
 beridge, but grounded upon Scripture, and 
 avouched by learned men : as (hall more ful- 
 ly appear. 
 
 The Minor , that Children of beleeving 
 Parents are holy with a Covenant-holinefs, 
 is clear from i Cor.7.14. Elfe your Chil- 
 dren were unclean t that is, not in Covenant, 
 hut now they are holy , that is, in Covenant, 
 thus fbefides the ancientsj Sharfius, and 
 Peter Martyr interpret it , and Hugo Grotius 
 himfelf, Non loquitur Apojlolm de Sanciitate 
 naturdi,&cc. The Apoftle (fays he J fpeaks 
 not of natural holinefs, and inhering to the 
 nature of Children, hut of an holinefs ad- 
 heringto them, that is, the holinefs of the 
 Covenant, for the Children of beleevers are 
 comprehended in the Covenant of grace ,* 
 and therefore accounted holy of God. To* 
 interpret it (as the grofs Anabaptifts do) 
 that they are holy, that is, no Baftards, is a 
 new holinefs not heard of in Scripture, and 
 asfDoftor Featly faysJaBaftard expofition^ 
 and Far em gives the rcafon, if the ^ Chil- 
 dren 
 
(icy) 
 
 drcn of.beleevcrs be therefore holy, becaufe 
 they are no Baftards, the Children of Pa- 
 gans are as well holy, for they are alfo no 
 Baftards. if the firft -fruit she holy, the lump i 
 holy, and if the root he holy, fo Are dlfo the 
 tranches. Rom.n.i5. Thefirft fruits and 
 the root, that is the Parents 5 the lump, the 
 branches , that is the Children, and pofte- 
 rity. 
 
 And, Rom. 1 1 .17* if the Jews were bro- 
 ken oft, and the (Gentiles graffed into their 
 place, it will follow, that if the Jews were 
 broken off. Parents with Children, then the 
 Gentiles. fliall be graffed in, Parents with 
 Children. • 
 
 But the Jews were broken off Parents 
 with Children. Therefore the Gentiles fhall 
 be graffed in, Parents with Children. 
 
 P. Arg. If Infants iliould be out of Co- 
 venant under the Gofpel, many dangerous 
 absurdities would follow. 
 
 Firft, Infants would be lofers by the com- 
 mingof Chrift, and be put in a worfe con- 
 dition thaa the Jewifh infants were • they 
 with the Parents were admitted to the Seal 
 of the Covenant, which was Circumcifion, 
 
 and 
 
and not Children with Pa rents to Baptifra. 
 Secondly, if Infants fliouid be in Gove- 
 nant then, and not now, Grace would be^ 
 larger under the Law, than under the Gof- 
 
 Thirdly, there would be no difference 
 betwixt the Child of a Chriftian, and of a 
 Pagan , but all the Infants of Chnftians 
 would be as vile as the Children of Turks, 
 Tartars, or Cannibals.- , 
 
 Fourthly, they would' be without God, 
 without Chrift, without hope in the world ; 
 notthe Children of God, butof the Devil; 
 would all be damned, for out of Govenanr, 
 and vifible Church (ordinarily) there is no 
 
 falvation. 
 
 10 Arg. Laftly, that which hath conti- 
 nued fince the Apoftles times withbleflcd 
 fuccefs, muft needs be lawful. 
 
 But Infant-Bagtifm hath continued wit 
 blefTed fuccefs fince the Apoftles times. 
 
 Therefore Infant Baptiim is lawful. • 
 
 Wcel begin with the firft Centune , or 
 hundred years after Chrift. Dionyfias the 
 Areopagite whom the Apoftles converted 
 at J. them, fays, Holy men have received a 
 
(io 7 ) 
 tradition from the Fathers, that is the A- 
 poftles, to Baptife Infants. Clemens ( who is 
 recorded by Tome of the anticntsto fuccecd 
 Peter in his Mimftry at Rome) fays fengm >& 
 ^ »m*, Baptife your Infants. 
 
 Ireneus ( who lived in the fecond Centu- 
 ry J fays, Chrift ut fr$ parvulis parvulusfatfus 
 eft, Chrift became a little one for little ones 
 lake, that little ones might be received in- 
 f:o Covenant. 
 
 Origenthzt lived in the begining of the 
 third Century fays, The Church received a 
 tradition from the Apoftles to Baptize In- 
 fants, and gives a reafon, becaufe they are 
 born in impurity of fin 5 nay Pelagms,* great 
 Scholar, who lived in the latter end of this 
 Century , though he denyed Original fin, 
 yet confefTed Infant- Baptifm,for when they 
 prefTed him with this Argument, if Infants 
 had not Original fin what need they Bap- 
 tifm, he anfwered, that Chrift appointed , 
 and the Church pra&ifed Infant- Baptifm, 
 not to purge finby-paft, but to prevent it 
 for the time tocome. 
 
 Cyprian in the fourth Century confirms 
 itinhisEpiftleto Fidus y and gives an ac- 
 count 
 
( io8 ) 
 
 count of a Council of fixty fix Bifhops that 
 decreed that Infants (hould be Baptized. 
 Amhrofe fays, becaufc every age is lyable to 
 fin, therefore every age is fit for the Sacra- 
 ment of Baptifm. [Nazianzene fays it is 
 better to Seal Infants with Baptifm, (though 
 they know it not) then to leave them unfea- 
 led. Aujlen is conceived to go too far, who 
 denyed poflibility of falvation to them that 
 dyed un-baptized, preffing that place John 
 3.5. Except a Man be Born of water, and of 
 the Spirit > he cannot enter into the Kingdom 
 cf God. 
 
 The Millevitan Counfcl in the fifth Cen- 
 tury decreed, That whofoever (hould deny 
 that Infants, even taken from their Mothers 
 wombs, might not be Baptized, (hould be 
 accurfed. All Churches,all ages fince, agree 
 ifi this -, the Harmonies of confeffions of all 
 Reformed Churches, the Church of Eng- 
 land in the Apologie, the old Catechifm, 
 The twenty feventh Article, the Dire&ory, 
 the greater and leffer Catechifm compofed 
 by the Affembly of Divines, the late Parlia- 
 ment by a further Declaration,all confirm it; 
 The Canons of qui Church did not only in 
 
 former 
 
(109) 
 forfner times declare 5 but the Lawes of 
 our Land did punifh Anabaptijls as here- 
 ticks. Mr. Fox in his i^tfts and CMt>m- 
 mtnts approves of the Albigenfes 5 Wd- 
 denfes 5 Wkkliffifis , Lollards , Poor men 
 of Lyots jBromrifts , Barrwifts , as mem- 
 bers of the Reformed Churches , but whol- 
 ly excludes the Anahaptifis . as erring funda- 
 mentally. 
 
 Tie fay no more for confirmation of this? 
 pokmicaU -difcourfe , but wind up all with 
 a word of exhortation y I befeech you bre- 
 thren confider what a dangerous errour tfcs 
 is 5 that robbs the Scripture of its truth, Infants 
 of their right, parents of their comforts , the 
 Church of its members, Chrift of his merits, 
 God of his glory 5 That is the mother of ma- 
 ny other errours-, hence fprung the Ranter s, 
 Socinians, Antfoinitarians^ Shakers , Level* 
 lets , they that are above Ordinances , Ami* 
 fcripurians 5 An errour that God hath ex- 
 prefied many fignall judgments againft , as 
 Sleiden and Gafiius in Germany^ and fome of 
 qur worthies in England have declared. As 
 reverend iWr.Ctff** tells one of his Apofta- 
 ted flock 3 that had his houfc burned, and his 
 
 children 
 
children in it, No wonder that fire feifed 
 upon his houfe , and God denycd. \vater to 
 quench it, who denied that water fhould be 
 brought to Baptize his Infants. 
 
 Secondly , confider that much benefit re- 
 dounds both to parents, and children y by In- 
 fant- Baptifm. 
 
 Firft , much comfort comes hereby to the 
 parents, when they confider Gods free grace 
 to them, and theirs , that heisnotafhamedto 
 be called their Cod \ and the God of their 
 feed after them, tiebn 11.16. 
 
 Secondly , much benefit comes to Infants 
 by Baptifm/f which the Devill knowes well, 
 ^when he caufes witches to renounce their 
 Baptifm,when they enter into Covenant with 
 him) for they are thereby admitted into the 
 Jjofome of the Church , devoted , and confe- 
 crated unto God, his Name is put upon them, 
 they wear his Royall badge , and by it they 
 are diftinguifhed from Heathens, And this (o 
 clear from Scriptures, truly, and fpiritually 
 underftood , That the Gates of Hell fhall not 
 frevail againfl it. 
 
 Now the God of Peace and Truth, by his 
 Spirit,lead us into all truth, keep ais pure,and 4 
 
 ^nfpotted 
 
(tit) 
 
 unfpottcd in this houre of Enghnds tcmpta 
 tion, and tnall, keep us faithfull to the death 
 that fo we may receive a crown of life. 
 
 Ju£ct (*ha> toT Si»« 
 
 FINIS.