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r in the Scripture to warrant the coniisience
 of a Chrifiian to preienthislnfants to the
-’ e-   * Sacrament of Baptif, with anextpeaaci.
on of Benefit that may accrew unto them by it *2 " i I

2 Whether it be not finfullfor a Chriflzian to receive the
Sacramentin a mixt Affembly? I [kill endeavour togive /1:2/éer
to them both for the V/Zztisfiting of your conjcience; So tl:mt3'¢m tum
not Confcience into WWI : and Iudgemenf into Aflaion. The meek
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teach his Way. The fecret of the Lord is with thetngychat; i

fear him, he will fhew them his Covenant, ‘Pfil.z5.

The Anfwtr to the Qgzeflion. -
anfwer aflirmativcly : These” is fufiicienty Groundin 
Scripture to warrant the confeience of a ChriPc'iani to prcfent his “ Infants to

the Sacrament 0fBapt4ii‘n‘I: with an expcétation of Benefit that may accrew unto
themby it : whereihl obferve two ,pa[tiCLIi3AI‘S. I .Whcthcr the Patent 16 doing
1na.y"betexcufetiFrom firming through an unwarrantablc ufe and Application of
~God$ Ordinance ? in 2.Whcther he may in the uf: thereof expeft any Benefit ia=c:-
erewing to the Infant P Thcfe two are different in their own Nature, and require

either of them litvetall Grounds of Satisfirétiotm. For tho. ifitbe {infull for the a
Parent: to bring his Infants to Baptifnn he-can expeét no good for them by it: A

In as much as no man mayexpeét good to comeifrom what is civilly  yet thb itbe
notfillf
I hold the Afhtmntive part ofBnth to be the Truth of God.
ye ~ T/acfirfl Argument.
This I build upon ‘the words of out tbiefitd S avjour 3;
little children, aérdfaréid them no; taco
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:2 I   ‘ L4 Moderate An/‘war to the Qaeflinm. » . '
here mentioned were Infants, fuch as men dohold in their :1.I.‘mS2 The text faith
we figépn,» that He took:/gem up in his ;:rm:,(§'c.Where we fee that our Saviour was
highly difpieafed with his Difciples, who had rebuked the Parents ' For bringing;

their children to Chrifl. Hence I argue Chriils juflification of what is done doth

prefuppofe the lawfulnefleof the thing,It was(therfore)lawfiill for the Paterits to
bring their children to Chrifl to rcceiv his Bleflitijt if lawfiill for‘t'hem, lo alio for
others, for all. Coniequently even for us there is afufiicieiit warrant to prefent one
Infants to Chrifi, that they may receiv his blefling. You will reply : That, tho

- it be lawfiill to preient Infants to Chriii to receiv his bleiiing, yet not C th€rf01’€ )

lawfiilito prefent them to Baptiiintl admit your reply but rejoin-t hus..Ifl:iwf‘ull
to preient them to Chrifl',f'or his blefiingz Then lawfull to preient them to him
in his Ordinances in which that blefiing is to be exipe&ed'. This I ftippollfe will
fiand good : T1l]iat’wh1§ifoevermightbe welcom to ChriPt in his peirfo-n, were he
~ ere upon ear: X ma it e admittedto his Ordinances in which he is reient b the
owei: oFhisSpirit.y For who do_ubteth but that he hath at up hig Ordindhccs
the Church ‘for this end ;* that in them he might meet   thoie of his who deiirc to
draw neer unto Him t and by thefe Ordinances as by a Mean appointed For that
end convey to them that BlCiiil]'g'_2Ll1d. Grace, which were he ptcfint with. us in
the flyfe{h,yhe would bellow upon them. This being laid down for :1 Ground :
I7 build upon it thus : but ther is none other ofChrifls Ordinances, in Which, and
by which a..fCiiI'lijti&1] can preienthis I nfants to Chrifl, with expefiation of his
Bleiling excepting this of Baptiiiii : Confequently, either by Baptiliii they may
be pirefcnted fo Chrili For his bleiling, or not at all : If not at all : Either Chrii’ts
I'€fCl1(?.€.lI’l his Ordinances is not equivalent tothis Cotporall prcfeiice, or foine
prohibition hath in a fpeciall nianer pi:it.in ay Barr to keep them off from his Or»
dinanccs which not Iteep them of: from him when here‘ upon earth .- IF any
fiich therebe,l_et it be named .: ifrtot : Then is ther a {iiflicient ground to warrant
the Parents bringing their children to Chrili in his Ordinances, and Particularly
in B~I1PE1fflhti‘l3.tti1Clf-ll‘! they may expeft the Benefit ofchriiis Benedifiion.
I know What hath been olijeéied : viz. That ther is a Barr to hinder Infailts
implyed in thei texts : 1114:/1.28.19. M4r.I6.t 6. A618. "*6. from whence this
Argument is framed : withoutFaith none may be baptifed: Infants Want Faith,
and (therfore) They may irotbe baptifed : And then, To what pm-pom fliould
they be prefented to that Sacrament. To which I anfwcr : That granting the Al?»
yiiimption go be.true,§ tho ifa imn deny it as foriie do, Vida Greg. D:ereml,lzb'. 3.
flcap:g‘,.I9ye~ A M aptofma essays: cfii.-flu, I {Ere not how it can be Frosted) : But I fay,
let it be granted that Infants have not Faith : The Propofition is utterly fall": ‘was.
 witliliout Falticli n-onfc may beflyaptifed : For neither do the texts prove it 5 and
; ‘A 1 es,_t er is-goo ‘tea on a am it. i '
 JB_g-flfhfilt-¢Xt5 Prqvgit not :g1.Not /Hrtt.28.I9. Ihis indeed-n fhcweth What the
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Tfnazcivizzg Iafahtr Eaptzfm; ’ 3
Miniliery mufldo: Not what the People : The Miniliery. ninli teach all Natie
ons 5 But defitittli nothing. whether they may not be baptifed before they have
learned, or before they do beleev : much lefs doth it fay, None but beleevers may
be baptized. 2.Nor /14.17.16. This textfheweth, what is the iflire ofBeleeving,
and being Baptiled,e:iz:. That (inch {hall be liaved : and contrarily, He that belee-
veth not {hall be damned: Bntfiaith not, That none may be baptifed who be-

I leeveth not. 0é.But the Order of the Word‘s doth inferr it.’ B-eleeving let

before Baptifing: Sal. Ireply : That Do9trines colleéied from the order of
words are not alway found: not liich Arguments acontlufive :‘ £a3f_gr. 1144:. 3,6.

the} were éaptifi.-d,confi=/fing their/2':-mr, And fa/2. 3., 5. Born again afmzrer, mad of

2/1: Spirit : Here is Bapttfid before C anfifling : and Water before Shirt’: :_y<:t
donbtlcli; they did confelis their lint; before they were baptiled : And‘ who know-
eth not, that the Spirit doth fometime prevent the Water of Baptifin. 3.Nor yet

  AEZ.8.36 . This indeed proveth the alhrmative,t2iz.. That He who belceveth may

be baptiled. But from thence to conclude the Negative, That He who beleeveth
nor, may not be baptifcd, is againfl all Rules of reafoning : which will yet more
plainly appear by this : Pk:/z'p faith: If than 6c/in/e wit/.: t/J} whole» heart, than
mczifl ;Will any man thence conclude, That wholb beleeveth not with /51‘: whole}
heart, my not be baptifed P And fo takelibeerty tobarre all fuch as prelimting
themfelves, and profefiing their faith, may yet perhaps julily be iiifpeéictl of
Fiffionand Diflimulation ?‘ You fee then, thetexts do not prove the Propofiti...
on. N ay,{uppol'e that not by inRérence,bnt in direétterms, time of’ thefe texts

lhould fay, He that belecveth not, {hall not be baptilitd : ought we not to under-

{iand it as true only in thofe perlons of whom the text fpeaketh? viz. Of them
that have been taught , and yet tlofrowardly refulit, and profefs a tlilliko
and misbeleefof what hath been taught them P And {'0 it will be too weak an
Argument, to prove that univerfall Propofition ,l and much lela to draw on the

tiefired eonclulion,Without faith none may be baptifed, None, Ergo, NotIn-

fants : ex. gr;That text of Mark faith : He that ‘be-leewtla not jaw/I be damned;

g. d. Without Faith none'{hall be faved :iWill any man nnder[ia.nd this in i that
‘A Univerfaliry as to include Infants 1‘ Vvillhe afliime Infants belleevc not, have no

faith-(tllcrfofe) They {hall not be favcd? God forbid : The Propofition hathit"s

latitude of Truth; beyond which it may not be extended. So thengithyefe texts do
{hew what is required of the Apofiles and their l:'uccefl‘ors : What of the Nations
and Beads of',theFamilies in the Nations,,perlons that are Sui «yurzig not undt-tat

the command of another :Butidetermineth nothing of infcriours, and much lei?
concludeth againfl Infants Baptilin.  

2. Good reafon againfi it. For why .9 Fit-fl, aliaprofeliion of Faith is enough to

l entitle men to Baptifm: Tho there be no ‘foundnefi and lincerity in the heart

at all: Witnefs theadmiflion of Simonfwgw. True indeecl, exccptthete be
A » i  i A 3   A‘ "l l i foundnesl

I r A fllocimrtie Anfwer ta the Qgeflzbn,

founclnts in the heart, God rnayJnPrly.deny man the Benefit which nthervvirlé he

might expefi. But. if he make profeiiiion topbeleeve in Chrifl~, who {hall dare C0“
deny him the Sacrament. 2.Thatwh1Ch is prefiippofed to atfiiert the necelsitie of
Faith (underflanding it of the grace it felfjis doubtfiil,'viz..That without Faith no

man hath wher_-with-all to rcceiv the Benefit of.Baptil'm.‘ This I fay may well

be doubted, ifnot denyed: efpecially ifwe inteiéld to ,Comprehende~InFants and
little children : They have a paflive capacity, which is enough to receive that"

Grace and Benefit which we conceiv is reached forth to them in that Sacrament:
And what is tliat? Not {Lela a Fulnefs of Grace, or the Habits ther-—of, as may be
ex peéied by them who have Formerl y been prepared by the D.iifcipliiie’and infor--
«mation of the Word: But rather initiafland /emi2mll'Gmce, that feed of God,
vvhér-of the Scripture fpeaketh, Per. 1 .23. I fa/9.3 .9. The which doth not pre-
ffuppofe Grace in the Heart, but is it {elf the feed and root of Faith, and all other
afiuallGraces wliatfoever. To men and womenconvcrted by the Word", and
then coming to Bap-ti{in,'w'z.. To Crz'_/par, Cornelius, Lfdzmdéc. we tbeleev that

,‘Baptil'm doth (as to AémlmmaCircumcifion did ) convey a ”fnp'er-addition of

further Grace, to what they hadformerly received in and by the W01‘d 3 But I0
their children, Baptifln conveyeth ( as did Circumcifionto ffaac ) the beginning
and firfl feeds of Grace; And confequently calleth For :no previous difpofitions
and preparations in the Recipient : only a paffive capacitymor crols~barrcd* with
robfiinacy and infidelity. Itis the property of prwcntzisg Grace, to ‘be ihe firlit
mover in the Heart, and to make way for it's own Reception : Is this acknow-
ledgcd to be done-in the miniliry of the Word upon the Parents" ( as iris laid of

7 ~Carm-lim and Lydia) and {ball it feena unreafbnable to grant, it to be done by

this firfl Sacrament in their children A? For why {Did we eonceiv thespirit Cvvlio
is the ch ief Agent and eflicient working in and by the tniniliry of the ‘Word and
‘Sacraments, and with-outwhofe operation and afliiiance, they are but as empty
,vefl'ols and edglelis tools )irherSpirir Iifity did we conceiv him workindg only as 2.
i ‘A  I Agent,to Rand at thedoor and knock, as only ready and?’ willing to __ en»-
gteri  edopor be opened ; to proffer Grace, if man will receiv it ; Then were it
hcafonfimeed to require Faith in Children no leli: than in their Parents : But it is
motfbzi Q the conceiv him in the Baptifing of Infants working as: a Natutall, or
iiimhe-ras fuper-tmtxmll Agent. 7222:. opening the door and entring, pnttitig

  

l:uJmlcein,;the Heart, and working it in the Will, conferring, upon them finch a'

  
  

   
 
 
  

“ asfiortlierpreient they are capable ogcvm, :im't£.1!l, and femittgrdl. as before
 “ ‘ this alfo ;: That in the Baptifing oflnfimrs, thcr is not Baptifin altogether
;  isprefuppofed the Faith of the‘Parcnt; And this fufliceth
‘lllfitflltfor Baptifm, yea,for the Grace and Benefit. of..tl1atSacra..
'_   W-hat.istheiBenTefit ofBaptifm‘? Is it not Remilizion of {in and Vpirituall
ii    V i' ‘i  "i Regeneration?

 

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Regeneration E’ To the obtaining of which, why maynot the Faith of the Parent:
{uffice P In the child» as yet corruption of Nature which he brought into the
world is not aflive :” it hath produced neither thoughtsnuords, nor deeds a gziinli:
the law : and therfore calleth for no perfcnall A5’: of Grace to remove the Guilt
ther-of. Guilty he iaand polluted, but guilty orily by inputation, and pollutec?,.
not b an con ent o is own, t b t the afi o ano- i ‘
ti1Cl's‘21'.€.. h’f'hisParents * : Is iiwanyy Wonder that the *~"l"‘{71”‘j”“355_!”0l9’7’¢l’5"30?1
im'Pl1tation ofiiinothcrs Faith, {hould Procu re for him dfbit "‘f“’”=.‘1’” :"’“7"\"”"”“

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Remifsion and removall of‘ that which cometh. by the c,md,,m Adam cmialm, M
imputation ofanothers aéi .7‘ That as he finned in ano- rm : qzti adremiflam pgmzg-
th"er,l'oi he may be {aid to belcev in another’? Here is then ¥{47?{ d€65P1V-’fld~W"70{«' W0 4*
the ‘equity of God 3 proceedings; that what Malady and 
mrflchref was con.itrac9ced”w1.thout his Will, {hall be cured M P,_.mm_ CyPrim_ E__
andremedyed without him-, andany aétofhisy: It 18 by pla. 39. i t. l
the ordinance and inliitution of God that the guilt of
Adam: tranfgreliion is imputed to the Infant, and the Corruption of N am re pron
.pag_atecl : and it (is by the fgrdinance ol'd(Z{i_od[3 that thie Elllltdogthfit {gar is rectinit--i
tedgiatrpd a eme a min. that Native i ea e provit e :* an or t eve are ” one ~
in and upon the Itiifatgit, without any concurrence of his own will. And aS"by*tl‘l'€':
aft ofthe Parents, corruption of Nature is propagated C their 24.8: it is», tho not _
voluntary in them ) So by the aét of the Parents ( in this it is a voluntary air)
by Faii:tli layingblifild uplon the Promiie of Godfih that Sacralnentrrf obtaitged FE:
the In ant; and e owe u on him the Grace 0 Rcvenerationi.- iis to e t ‘he
rob: and fpring of (Future hiilines and rightcou (hes, acithe other was the root and
Ipaun of wickednes and profanelin 06.. It is faid, Thatevery man mull live by
his own_Faith,not by anothers. Sal.By 1:3: fair/2,iudeed it is faicl that the juj} jhgzfiyy
Iioe,H.szé..2.4". It is not Eiid, Noté} mmtbcrr, this is not in the text of the Prophet
N or doththe text fpeakfimply of the ‘Benefit itfelf gained by Faith, but pf the
Pre-affurance ther-yof:*Noypreeaflhrainee of'*Salvati'on but by Faith“ : But~“r?hi::

doth not prov‘e;That”by his faith the Parent may not obtain for his¢;hiltl'Vth_is

benefit ofBaplti_,(in', the Remedy’ for that‘Maladye We read in the ‘Gofpeillflfhat
the woman of ”Cxmmm obtained mercy for her daughter : The main fo r? Inna-r»
tick fonn-,.the Centurion forhise fC'1‘V8flC>[hC'fI'iC’ndS and neighboiurs-“Fort‘he_%P:tl{ie~«.
lick man. Whicl1i11flances‘hav¢ beenal~legecl by .Divines to muriilielt this pfioint-l :1
in .hand,22t‘z. TheBenefit of Baptiim obtained for the ynwflmfidsa/m.k6‘ifiamiwj
child by the Faith of the Parents. That note ofRe-mi-i etE¢;,¢,.,,,,mi,y,m l,_-£,,;,m,’ 
 is worththe noting. She faith non!-Iclp my daugh~ "iSierm;1;i'i A 3 A i‘ "  
ter, but help mammi /mm mm} on me .- and lo flJ47'.9-' ; 7fl'm§g5M50n 3"-1 
2! -The father ofthe Lunatick faith, If time can]? do any a lc“""l”’H“’”"Wi°fl*7"; 
tétng have campaffian an m..rmdbcrlp me He puts ixnf/clpt" in as; 3; yyC¢,PmF~e 1; ‘$9,,
l i i ‘v M l l  ,1‘5«i

A 6 TA’ [Moderate Airfiveat to the gee/lion,‘

his childs milery, Say the fame here .. It ia a mercy to the Father that he can pteai

vailforhis child ; who if he do rightly underliand hitnlelffL}l’feretl'i in his child .1 a
yea,not only by the way of compallion; but as feeling the {mart and puni{h---

anent of hitnfelf: And therfore hath need to fue unto God for the Removinv of

that punifhment which lyeth upon himfelf,in his child. Yea, he hath this realon

to challenge it at the hand of God by the prayer of Faith, that fo he may obtain
thefulnes ofthe Promife made to the faithful in th-e Covenant of’ Grace. Infants
are part of their Parents ; So that the promife of G race mentioned in the Cove-»
Iiantiibetwixt God and the Faithfull, Gt-22.1 7. is not ratified to the whole Parent,
except alfoit do extend to his Infants.Sothen,it is the Faith of the'Parent laying
hold on the Proinife which qualilieth his Infant for the Grace and good effeéit of
Ba tift .— .
lilay yet more ;- This texton which the Argument was grounded, /Want 9.
cometh yet neerer to the point ; For firfi, the blelling of Chrilt whichythe Parents
fought and found for their children ,was not terminated in an externall and cor-
porall Benefit, as per-adventure it might be replycd touching thofe former In--
A flances : Doubtlefs the Blefling of Chiifi extended to the good of their fouls ; and

a yet procured by the Faith of the Parents without any concurrence of Faith in the

Infants-_ I will not per-emptorily affirm it : But probableenough it is, that thele

1 Parents having been by fab»: Baptilin direéied to Chrift, when they knew him,

brought their children to Him to receiv a further blefling from him, even that

which _7a/an told them he could not give, but tlaty mull expefl it from another,
even from Chrifl; Next it may be worth the noting : That our Saviour faith,

*'~S;tfiEr little children to came unto me. To come, not, To be brought ; The 36%” of

the Parent is reputed the aft of the child :That none may deride the faying of the
Ancient, Credit in alia flcutipeccavit in 41:29, He beleeveth and cometh to Chrifl

“ in and by his Parent; its formerly he had finnedin the loins of another.

alCoroIlary : To conclude this fitfl Argument,Sincc by that text of out Blelfcd

Saviour, we have ground to bcliev, That Infants prefznted to him are acct.-p»

ited;Since, what perfons mightbe brought to him, may be prefented to his

Ordinance; There being no barr putin by any word of if Chrifl to keep them
«of» Nay more, Since the Faith of the Parent doth lay hold upon the promife

of Grace not only for himfelf, but for hislnfants ; yea ther is ground to believ 

the imputation of the Parents faith to the Infant; I conclude ther is fufficieut
ground in Scripture to warrant Parents to prefent their Infants to this Ordi-

nancesantl, that with expeftation to obtain the Grace and Benefit of the
ifamta  ’ I t W l T « M T

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Teaching Infimnt Eapri/”m.i 
The jécand Argument. v

T T-lis“I ground upon the words ofour Saviour,/E{4t.'28.o 7.‘A’cha‘r”ge* given to C

the A poiiles to inliruéi the Nations,vvhom they {hould convert to the Faith,
to infirufi them ( I lay) in the obfcrvation of all fuch Ordinances asChrt{i hat!
commended to them. This Ohfervation enjoyned hath fpecliall reference to mate
ters o'FDifcipIine for th-e right Ordering and Government of the Churches and
Alliemblies ofchriliia-n$_.~ in which he inflrufied his Apofiles no lefli: than in
matters of F aith and Dofiritieil as it is evident out oi-“A53. b 2. where is mention

imade offomc Commandements Which Chrifi gave to his Apoiiles touching

things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And it is no leis evident by fome pai-
fages in the New Teiiament, ex-.gr.Car.1 1.2. 2 T/acffz. I 5. 8c 2 Tn'm.2.2. that

fome things were delivered to the Churches, and particularly to the Minifiers ii’

ther-of which were not then committed to writing. but delivered from Hand to
H a‘nld,called therForeTmditian:.Thefe were not matters ofDoé’crine,ei'pecia1Iy not
Articles oFFaith ( None fuch do weaclmowledge but what are delivered and lift
down infthe writings of the Holy Apofiles and ‘E vangelifis) But matters oF~Dil'-
cipline, and Rules of good order in the Church. Theii: Ordinances fett up and
prarS’rifed'by th’appointment of the Apofiles, are equivalent in Authority to what
Chriii himfelf hath immediatly ordained. Hence that of ‘ St.P»ml, Car.x4. 37..
Conf:-quentliy at Ground on w*hichConlE:ience may build, and therby may aiiitre
it {elf that ther-in it doth not {inn againii God. i OF theyvvhich wecannot doubt,’

C if reading that of Corr! 1 .1 6. we note what is the C.LueIiion, and what is the Re-»

folutiori. The Chiefiion is. Whether iciwere itidiffcrent for men and women to
be covered or not covered in the Church-ail'emblies as they liiied : on S‘t.yP-ml faith
No, it is not: but the Menm ufi do fo, and the Wotnehiyifo : Now faith he, Ifan)
man be contention: q.-de: if he will preii:tnptuoii‘fly_ contend againiiyall reafon that
the thing is iindiyff'erent5i‘and lb hemay {in this nii: his own rliliertyl What tchein ii‘
why faith he, We have no fuck Cuflamegnor Htbayclmrc/5:: of God: qzd: The Cm.

Home of the Churchwhich‘ is e{’cabli{ht mufl overs--rule mens froward fancies; y

and Hand for a law to quiet the coniizience of him thatis willing to * be" fatisfied.
‘So then the Cuflomesof the Church ordained by the * Apoiilcsr aft: ‘:1 Criroundrdf
flitisfaétiong Nor are they therfore infthemfeives lcfs authentically bteaufe they
are not mentioned in the text of Scripture,as”prefcribed by the APOfl'lC.5:lf yet‘

it may appear that from them they fetch their firfi Opriginalilt It is not the wri-" 
ting that giveth things their Authority, but the twor‘t”hi 5” Hagzééri‘a’.'»§er'cfiz{zit24&N

C and credit of}-Iiiri that delivereth thetnnhoi but by ‘Word " Pdlityfiit I i;fi-r?.g4,p4g-44*; pie

kt‘

things have by writing, but not” more Authority in l ir’y“{."iiet;‘??i‘ 

andlively voice lonely; More Certainty to bus}-ward FM’ on th¢‘C1';urCh,_tWt»
themii:1ves,~'e§r.-gr. Thatfaying ofour Saviournot mentionctiibyitihe  Evangeliiifla

 V , L4" zmderatz-tAn[w'er'ta'tlae Qgeflion; l %  
yet now l<no'Wn' to be his by the Allegation of S't.Phdt41,/153.20.; 5- That Pro-5
phecy offnacla, jade tart Thefe in themfelves were no Iefseuthenticlt truths he-
fore, than, after: thofc aleleg;ations.N So for Anepofiolicall Ctufloxncs : Thofe mentzicw
‘necl in the Stcrript.ure have a more unqtteflionedt Certailnty than Trztditiotns, but
notgreater A*u£hQI:i«,tY- Neither; is. thisto fete up Tradition C as do the Papifls )
to the prejudice of the Scripture ; Becaufe we admit none for Apofiolicalls Which
eitherethare coantratry to the Sctigture,or which may‘ not by good reafon fitom Fome
text ofscriptutre, be confirxned for Aopoflolicall. You fee whither all this tendeth,
vie. To make way for this Affurnption : That if the Baptizing of Infiints may
reafonably be judged one of thofer Apofiolicall Traditions, one of theft: Church-
Cufioms, whichr were eitablifhed in the Churches according to the commande-
mentof Chrift : Then tsther fuFficientGrouud in Scripture to warrant the. ufe
and ptaétife of it. And tho ther be no mention of it in the text of " Scripture : yet
if it may appear to have been ordained by th'Apofi‘les, ct nd ruled by the Churches
even fiom the dayes, of the Arpoflles, why {hould it not he acknowledged to he
the commandem:ent,oFlChrifl, and fo 9. Crround for Confitience to build upon.
Well’ :3-u;t ( you will fay) how=ma.y it appmrtokhavc been a cullonie of the
Chutcheeotdained by the Apofllts? Here itdznay be Worth ottt Ohfervation .2
That the pattern andpreiident fizom, whtmce moi} (ifnor all) of them was taken,
Ht efiimm, mdmm ‘AM’ was Athtetcnflotneoflfmel in the Old Ttflamcm 4' It is
g,,im,f”W,d5m,wM Te_ 4 the Qbfctvattontoffexamea And. this may be one fpcci.
gamma 3 @_r,,,d«,g-4,0,, j¢.fl.. _3‘,u'I'C1{.Q1?, why :11: tPrqviCienCe of'God did. not take fo
(ti eejmaqég Lwimgiap njmplo much Care f°orr.the writing ofevexy Cufiome and Ordi-
f“”"“’ 5”‘ Wt‘ 5l’?fi”P3 nrat“nCt=l fhr the Government ofthel Chureh.A{fi:mbl_ies in

I-Winter‘ :51)? to I. - A “ i   r-
d_;mf”§ 5ne’§’w7g;‘ .__f‘l‘,’i,’:.;:;’_‘_ the.l\lew%Tc£%a..ment;£Beeeufe asthcrwas not to much

 ephtayademgtium. V‘   V. et£1&ng€r0fC0truptionintthcm as in points of Doétrinert:

So the Ptcfid,cnt from Whencethey were take hcin g at

O  ifanyl ébcrratiolltdgidrcrceptinttite niight eafily be omcnded by reducing it to

-‘Ih¢l:P_att¢erfl? he Yeas and whor can tell, whether the wifdom of God: did not hereby
provide to uphold the credit of the-Church of Ifrael, and the Authority of the
Writings of 44%: and the Prophets agrrinfl the frowardnes of ,f5tne who were

 but I003 V 5 aifld ready to drif-O-efleem them. That the Inmtntionsd of God by /W0/3””

for thec etch; of Ifracl were the Pattern: for the Apofiolicall Traditions which
were appoltltcd £}rthc“Difciplinc and Order‘ to he obfnrved in the Chttifliml
Congregations;g1twi1Lappea;rlmore evidently if we,confider,$ that the fubfefi

‘ Nmarrer of Q1653 Orders are-‘. Times,;P1accs,ePetfg,ns,eand the like. In all whirlr
4 ‘h¢tAPD"€’1°3~bythe commandcmcm: of chtie .&£1edfi1,ehRu.1cts as were cone-

mm 5‘? Wmilkadbeen fez:.nctl.v in’ the Chureh of Ifiael. That we mighrrknow.
that no fimer Ordorsfiar the Citw-cl; cum éerdezrifida t t/Mn ffiebm in C anfirmzitys ta

  ‘#4 Cher”? °f"=tl3!4 T*JWe?’€~  .771;/“b':»4’€‘€ Wetter We mrbwwe of Tut’:

Tow/Siiigg Infamtallflnprtfvh.‘

wad Grace .E‘:fr.¢n¢eotC Andra: it were:/:ena:=xranflatca(.. Was it not for this caufe. A

that divers particulate which lliourld be in the Chriflian Chtwches are propheti-

eally defcrihed in phrafes taken from the Church of Zlfrael? See therfeteexts :E- W
f<ti.66.‘2I. é- 23. Zac/9.12.16. I faid, Without wrong to? the time of Tm:/zramf A

gmce,Becaule, as fome judiciall lawes were peculntr to that Nation; and to

that Ageolfthre Vvorld, and fo may not be now taken into the Statutes of the t

Common-wealth : So fome Ecclelialiicall Rites were peculiar to that Age of the
Church, and may not now be taken into the Canons of the Chriltian Church :
thoothers may, which are more morall, and It) more perpetuall. lEx.gr. In the

Old Teliament ther was we day in [own ‘felt a part to be a D4} of Ho!) Kefi ; z'.e.. V

a time for t-he Aflemblies and Holy Convocations meeting together for the works

ofPiety and Devotion. Intimitationwrherwof th"'Apol’cles by the Direétion tof

our Bleflcd Saviour confecrated the firliday of the week to the fame ends and
ufes, andgave it that honourable name which Iliill it beateth The Lord: Du].
T hen For ‘Place: Iiiael ‘had their Synagogues befide the Temple : And who
knoweth not that even in th'ApoPrles times ther were places fett apart for the
Affewmiblies to meet in, and even “then began to be called C laflrc/oer. So For Pcrfm
Ifracl had thofe who were fctt apart tooth: fervicc of the Altar and the fTem‘ple 7:
Accordingly the Apoflles ordained in {overall Churchestcettain Elders, men rfett
apart and leparated tothe work and office ofithe Miniflty, who by that folemny
Rite and Ceremony of their Ordinzttionl might be known and acknowledged i to
reeeiv From God a fpeciall defignatiqn to that funfiion, from which they might
not return to (ecular employment: and the cares of the world. The maintenance
ofthem, doth St.Paul aliirm to be ordained of the Lord, in conformity to the Ox-v

dinanee of the Old Teflament, Cong. I 3.14. And whether the fnbordination ofi
Some in the Miniliety to otherjn the fame Order were not likewifc an Apolliw

licnlllnltitntionaplrointed byChrilt,?and this all?) ttfetchttlrftonithe *'pm‘crtif'lof"

 tfi/[afoul difiaute ‘not. i But this I make not qneflion wilfl lief acknowledged; by

all : That the Cenfures ofthe Church : That the Direftionsgivcn to the A bunch
how to proceed itithe execution ofthofe Cenfures ; That thefc, ll fay were reeei-we
wed from Ifracl : and that not onlylilby thelApoPc1esat}lpoiri1ting them, Car. 5.?‘ 12.3.
but alfo by oursaviour himfielf, xf7»{dt.I3.Ii .. That three Liherty~.lwl1ich women;

t have to cometo the lTabIeofthelI.ord;mnfl he ‘acknowledged :1‘ Tradition  the

Apoliles taken from the Pattern of the Pafsover. Nay yet more, The 7 Cu-Rome
of the Apofiles to ba prife thewhol houfholds of them lth:ttbeIeeved,ande that int-»

w tnedilatlynpon theeConver{ioon oftheeMafler of thef'am,ily, and his fithfeription
to the FailthOf'(;,htifl*; whence they lhonld have ;it,txc;ept fromtthatélilcei pattern
and Prefident in the Old Teliam_ent*,vze.. Aémiuem cifrctuttheifilngall the Malosine

his hou fe, thattverydrtyl in which the Lord made :1 CoveIff;zt1t““wiAth him; _ and the
praciife of Ifrael whodidthe‘ like by 9cl1T5t‘l-*1¢t-rtiialct-.Chll5dI€fland infanwihwhtchi

3 he z"Lfoa’:ramt Anfwer to the  ‘
wey bwghg mefitli elicit nloriey :. Vvhence I fay thee t_,‘ul_i‘om£‘ {hot1ld~c'ome,
mccpt from this prehdent, ll lee not. That they did {'0 IS evident by the {lory oi?
rheir‘iA<9tsg,, :1nd’heing done by them we doubt not of the Iawfulncs : No Reveo

jhrtiion had they for it that is recorded : This Ground oFConFormity to the Pat-m .

tern of rheOldTePrament we find in others? and therfore conclude this alfo ::
Now then? ; The iffile of all returns to tl11s.E_&:¢'_t_,Whiy this Ruleafhonld hold in
lo many particularsmnd only fail rnthis Point of Baptxling Infants, I leav for
them to give a rgafon, who know what dlfl7€I‘CflCC"Ih<’;‘l‘ IS betwixt rest {on and db-

ihrclity. Efpecially fince it is

In Pamclius notes on t‘ypr5r171, £3’-»
pIa;f9.- you ma y. End the names of
the Ancients who refetr it to an
Apoflo1icallTr.1dit?on. So slit).

_ doth .A:.-'gwt'li7z, llb‘.4. Dc Beptéfiizo

contra Dozzczcifl.-crzp.:.z. And in
his Epl. 28. ./id I—1_yeram'mum_,
fpeakin-g ofthc 59 epiftlc ol’Cyp'ra-
a:z,tl~’1e Title whet-oi iii A51 Fiaiim
dc Infiznribzts Bpzpzifizyzdir, he faith,
Beams [_'yprz'a2ms non aligned rlz.::rtu
mmco;yde;z.m0wm1 fed Iieclcfie lie-
dem firmiflimam fl-’l"Ut172.m’<i1 c.7m5-
gcndum cosy, qwi pmrrzbam.’ zzme or.‘fcz«
-wzm dim mtiviriznlmaiz  pzrwz»
lam b:zptzf.'mdI¢m , max mzmm ‘rite
bzzptifari ctzmfiukqzzibufdam caepijl
t-rnjzir cénfizit.

plain enough by the Tellimony of the Ancients

who lived in the next Ages after the ApoPtles,That
this alfo was a C uflome eflablilht by the A pollles.

The Breviat of all this difkourf is this : Every
Commandement of Chrill is to be oblicrved,
ll{at.28. Infants-Baptilin is the Coinimandement
ofChri{’c 5 Every Apofiolicall lnllitution is the
Commandement ofChri{’r : Infants Baptilin is an
Apoflolicall Infiitution (tl1§'.‘I‘fO1'C.) The Major’ is
proved, (or. II. 2.5. and 14.37. and muli be ac»-
linowledged except we would fufpeét them of" Fall:
aridifaithltfs dealing: The Minor is acknowledged
by the Ancients ;, And ther is great reafbn-~ for iK',,:

y hecaufi: it doth ( as do the tell of the Rules for 0.r--

der and.Dil-E:ipline delivered to the Church ) ca try
in its Face and Fore-head the {lamp of Chrills Ot-
dinances,w'z.. Conformity to the Pattern of the.
Church ofIl°rael_.

Sothen;Tothem-whothinltthe ma trium hinthat Arvument rocluceds
W" Y Y P b P

ngainfl InFants Bhptilin :i That,

it being prefuppoled that the Teflament oFChriPt

is {o perfeét, and he lo fitithfhll, that nothing ought to he ptasfhfed of Chriflians,
which is not therein warranted either by Precept, or Pattern: And it beir1g.;lfu-
medgthat ther is neither Precept not Pattern for this Cull-lome ;_ Therfore it may
not be pra&ifed,iTo them I fay we feewhat Anfwer may he returned, . ‘

LTo the Major, Flourilhed with that text ofHe6i. 3.1.6. as Mafi: : So Cln‘i{l;. '
was faithfull :Nay more, /I/fqfle-x only as a fervent, but Chrill as 21 Soon ; And «

(therfore) his TePtament as perfefi , nay more perfefi than that of‘ Mafia-r. True

indeed ; But know we not, that the faithfiilnes ofa man in his office is to be mean  

fitted accordingto the intent and {cope of his:Ofi:1ce imipol‘ed 2 In which ifhc Fail
and faulter, thenris he unfaithfull ; ifnor, then is he not unfaithfull tho heilook

in t to other things, emgr. The Miniller may be faithfull, tho the meddle not with t
y.§l‘lfi‘x3VV_§>l.’.(‘l of Jyxllice  Ihc Mag_i,Pctate,. tho.heo.fight not with the {word

ofthe

Spirit; VV

_p ~ asking filnfarztx Bapti/5-2;; A _p  
Spirit. 30 then, what was the fhce of Ala her? and what oijflhrifi ? The Oflicew
Jlaftofctpwas to fettle the Com on-wealth. and the Nati.onail Church of Ifrael 2
The Oflice of Chrifi was to make Reconciliation betwixt God and man,to work»
out the Redemption of Mankind."“*~-rI.t;v_v_as fitt that ./i4'o_(Er {hoult {erred-own-parties
sularlaws for the Common-wealth, a.nd Ordinances for the Ch.urchr Neither of

I thefe did pertain to the Ofhce of'Chi' ii; yet by his Apoflles and their ruccerrars

in feverall Ages doth he provide vsihaifoever is neceiiary For the welfareand good:
order of the Church of the New Tefiatnent : But in his own perfon, and by him.-«
felf he eflablifhed the Covenant of Grace, ordained" the Seals ther-oflifett upa
Miniflet-y,gave to“ them theword of life and falvation, and pointed to them a;
pattern for good Order and Government, and {ti was . faiithfulliitt r-his houfe asa-
Sonn, and worthy of more honour than Ma/er. This flat the Major; I

.2f‘ To the Minor :.iWe grant, That neither Precept not-,. Pattern formall “ and
explicite is to be Foundtin the books of the New'TePtament For Infants haptifing,
ale. There is no Precept thatfaith, Goand baptife Infants ; no more is the: any
Precept to baptifc Women ; nor to obferv the Lords day as a Chriliian Sabbath: e
.'I"her is no text that faith» The-Children and Infants of this or.that man were *
ba tifed ; Nor is ther any text that faith, Such a woman was adrhittcd to the Ta-—  
ble of the Lord. But we fay, that both Pret':ept.antl Pattern virtual and implicit
;n;3,y  found to warrant it: The which if Found. is not to be negleéteda». . I I

,  , Precept Virtual! and implicit-. I
Here we pitch upbn the continuation of the Cuflome in Ifrael to prefent their 

Infants-to the Sacrament of‘ initiation, and we frame the Argument thus. What

was inflituted in the Old Teflament, and not repealed in the New, norfis any a
way incompatible with the Hare of the Church in the New Tibflamentg that is
underflood to be continued, and commended to the praciife of the Cliriftilian
Church But that Infants {hould [be initiated and aclmittediinto the Covenant of I"

lGrace by ab Sacramennwas commanded in the Old Téfiament, neither isiit rea-

pealed in the New, not incompatible with the Gate of the New Te{iament(ther-p-
fore.) That it is not repealed is thence confirmed» Becaufe.in the“ SubflitI1fl0n ‘Of 

that new Sacrament of Initiation, therliisno particular exception takerhagainfi:

Infants, ( as before was noted in the firfl Argument; ' That it is not in*compati'-
bit: with the flateof the Church in the New Teflarnent is thus further confirmed; . I
I .The Infants ofChriPtians are as capable of prefent incorporation’ into IChrifl;
and.of'adtnii3fi-tan into the Covenant of'Gi-ace, as, were the infants of‘ 1" the as Jews .-
And if F0_:gWh0fl1alI barr them C whom God hapthinot barred) from theSeal' of
the Covenant. 2. The Infants of C hriflians have as much need of~»thc_pComtnu-I-p
nionand Participation in the Covenant of Grace as had the Infants of the Jews : :

.And.their Parents as much ’nec_d ofa Ground of Comfort» astoucbing the Remedy   I A _, 

W31‘ ‘‘ if 

its i ii .  Moderate Qdnfwer to the Qacfliong

id‘ that which nlaltetli them Hand in need of the Covenant ofGraC€ and Elm B63

nefits therof" as the Parents of Iewilh Infants. If To P who {hall think that God
hath not provided for them fo well as For the other. If he hath not, how hath
Grace ahounded in the New Teliament, when in this particular it is much to-~
sfizteined both to Beleevets; and to their Infants : But if. he hath, Wholhall forbid
them that, which God hath providiediforl thdtn? A r

A i I . That the Infant; ofChtiflians are as capable: is ptovedby that of C ar.'7.l4 .
‘They are 190/} : And what is that P Ther be who glols upon the text and fay,Th-at
«children are Holy indeed, but how .9 As the wife not othervvife, -m‘z.. As the is

fanéiified to the ufe of her Htisband, fo the children to the ufe of their Parents: r

But they falfific the text :Fot itht text faith not of the wife, She is fanflified to
her husband’, butié} her Husband; iv 2-£3 aa'PJ‘el; Not of the children it is litid as of
‘I116 Wife-'53/54905925! /91?!-57ij‘z'e-d, but they are ail?/zoo, H09, which is more full, and
more emphaticall. Others lhiftit ofwith this : That the children are {aid to be
H oly, becaufea Notwlthflanding the difference offlcligion in the Parents, yet: the
children are legitimate. This is fiztthcriof than the f'<§r;net' ;_ Nor can it fiand, ex-
cept this be lp:efuppofed,That all the children of Heathens are illegitimate : No
more than the former can {land without this being prel'uppol'ed5 "I hat neither

i wife, nor children of Pagans are fanéiified to their ufe; Wherfore, ther is now-

thing lCf“t,i but that they are Faid to be Hal}, by the Holines of the Covenant, and
fanétlffied with a. federall fanfiification : The which is {o much the more mani-
hfeflahhjecaulé it appeareth thecontext. That the pretence of them, who did ta»-
pudiatc their ‘wives for their infidelity, was alfear, lefl the infidelity _oF the wife
lhould deprive the Husband of his intercfi in the Covenant of Grace which hue
had imbracedl: ajiid that his a conjuttftion with her fhould rend hini of  as did
the Sum of:Fornication5cap. 6.1 5.) from Communion with Chrili-. St. Paul
denyeth thisgand {heweth that rather the Faith of the Beleevers {hould {'0 far:
preponderate and prevail as to draw the other parties alfo after 3. fort within the
Covenant, So that the unbelceving wife is fiznétified and accounted i as one in--
rllterteffed in theCovcnant by the Husband: His reafon is, becaufe otherwife the

A fchildtcn of ifitch lhould be accounted Vircleazg or altogether barred from the Co-

, fvenant, where-as now they are Holy, fie. Heirs of the Covenant, and admitted '

V to the Seals thet-Cofé,’ Adanim-J, I fay, For this is worthy out o.bferVat'ion : That
’_1'utg.,* any of thl¢,oCorinths would have been lb‘ wilfiJlI to doubt ofthisll/lctliurn,

7  . thhhtfittment ofSt;Paul .~ whatis. ther to conv‘ince“the Gainliayet, but

 llra&\iI%ofiIftaelcontinfied  the Chrlflian Chutchcs,'w‘z.. That the

 

iwf'4_sVrenoflipneheleeiving Parent a"rc‘" admitted to the Seals of the Covenant.
l  r's»frviu'iflhu:oF Neceflityobeu prefuppoléd, elfe doth the Argument fall to theground
 fi%f";~syE5i§e;th,rovvit,¢{cl£, ollhy,_VTh,at it refletht upon the Authority of th'A pofiles

    
   

   

 jg ifufiici§n~t’:_in as ‘much ashe doth‘ not politivcly IE: it down ass.

i thing

» I Taxséing Infant: Baptifian

thing to be learned, C as he had done the former point, The wife is fan Stified ) bui:

brings it in ass Reafonto confirm that former point: And we know, that the:
Reaibn of a Pofition is alway prefuppoied, as a thing already yeeldcd and con-
feffed. ~ r I I

it 2. That the Infants of Cllrifiians have as much need of partaking in the Co»-
venant of Grace, as had the Jewifh Infants, is thence confirmed : Becaufe. That:
which 1}: éorn aftb: Fl:/5, zéficf/9- Natutall corruption is common“ to all. VVh)f
was Circumcifion otdained,but that ether-by the llncircumciliony of the Heart
might be taken away : thatthe Corruptionof Nature might bee cured, and the
Guilt of that firl} finn cut off from the Iftael of God : That Abraham by Faithl-
apprehending the promife of God might ther-in have a Ground of comfort to

himfelf in refpeét of his Sonn,z{iz.. That tho he had begotten him in his own like-  

nefs, and had been a mean to convey unto him the i_Guilt and Filth of Originall
finn : yet now by the mercy of God, he was provided of a Remedy for that Ma»-
lady of his child, and ufing that Sacrament in Faith,he might comfortably affore-
himfelf that the Remedy fhould prevail againfl the Malady : And is not this
Ground of comfort needfull allb for Chriliians? Surely they are deceived, who
either deny the propagation of originall (inn to Infants ; or dream of any univet--
fall Demolition of it by the Death of Chrifl without the particular Application.
of his Blood by the Sacrament of the Gofpell. If there be no {itch M slady, no
fuch Guilt in our Infants, how cometh it to pal} thatthe dy ii‘ Is tllC1:a,I§l,i_',laC¢
for Deathin Mankind, whet ther is no fmn at all P If th Beafis decay (fig
by reafon of their naturally mortality, yet we know that {inn it vt'as;”‘, iJy; yich
brought Death upon /Iddmand his Pofierity. Where ther is no Finn" inliétent,
Death can claim no llltfircilfiitl” that party : Wher Deaithlt ‘feizeth upon xnanaivwe
mull’: not deny finn, fame fin ther mufi be : Al&il1idliI;itlitcr.is none in thefe I nfamts,
Not yethave they finned after the Similimda of ddam: trMf_grcflz'an,viz.. I )1 in
flening to the Tentation of Satan ; 'and therfore it isOriginal.l Guilt andcor -v
tion which is in them  If the Difeiatle  in their Nature; Is ther not “neod__of' ya
Remedy ? A Had the Infants of the Jews a Remedy, and is their none provided for
the Infants of Chriflians? Is theta Remedy pyrovidedl or thzem," 3 «hydra gtvmmdt of‘
comfort fbr their Parents, and {ball it be denyed, and they debarr‘ed?e . I‘ I

   
 

 

if

0b_je£h'on~, The force of this Atgtzmcntflome tlhinkto ‘elude  dtenying;,Cir by

vcumeifion to be a Seal of the Covenant ofG race, and 'oonfe:qtten¢iy iihi  

A.

   

tagainfi that originall Miala:d‘y.whler~ofwe fpeak“: Wei opp@f€"lbail,i‘l=lU110u;}:b5i“f¢’.

Eiogie of i't,‘Rm.4.t1.ThetApqIEt1;e ttefimctlit it,“  Seal of t

  

Faith -‘v They anfwcr, it was a foal of A§l5PM£W~iFaith,ii «5fe~l0?vf ill? '.

    
 

Meffi-ah, and the Covenant of Grace, bntin the pvtomife all I   :
fpring. Tim laeflm-rid bathe Fatbar qf man} Noam-. Tibia? W “C 5*‘? A
at

yP‘<m~"0fCv0ds/ Cowman: with Aéfabam, which was fbal£:ic¥*',iby y

but the iBez2:firfh,th

 /‘lloaiqrélte. 44xfia_2hihT“ia ibeQntflia'h;

A‘-fle"fh'Iy“AGoVen.1ht ha”iaifleflilyAScal.AAi*‘iBint in this Anfwer we find? :1 twofoidégw e
iencmntc bcwrayedr,  he miflirterpretation of the Phrai°e’:A- The lhigbteahfnex inf _

‘I

Pair/Jo: A p jtai'epe¢.nii’arto  which is intimated not the .411‘? of Faith,
N A A «;e;F.A : The phraie ieztequivaiecnt to, and to be €XP0Uf1‘d€d by €139-E i
(if ViR0?h.9e.%3jAmsiA:A8;I  *6; ‘T/at R{glqtei2%fi'ie:‘wl'9ic/9 3?: A5} fdifb, and that alfo, Rom.‘ 3..

 

.~:{fatt.id~‘ gpfl3,: ieaufm: .ofG°od»,B_t5th which arciOincd«in' one, iRam.3'.2z€ -

 Rigitteczxdfigex; iii? i: 

imaginedRigniteeufiflwehiichGd

. .‘w

i This? benefi:.Gnch:hav:ihngAbieih)wet:lAufp_on Aénzimm, did feajl it up to‘ H‘itz1¢af§etvi

w~tv:trd byCircttrnisiifiori,ewhichA~7is7therfbrectilied, Not the Seal of his FaAith,butthe‘ A

~ 3531 055h¢‘’R.igh€€f3Uf1%$;iAji»§s“Of Jiuflification \'V\'hi__Ci1,:tZoI1lt§th by Faith and not 

Works. "*A*”7;.At}otherVopoi'nthf‘ ignorance, is in ediflioyning Athofi: things which

‘~.0Ogh.t notAAtt)_i béAArIii'-jA<:iin¢7:F3}$?J!'~z:, the:Covenant oFGraCe, and the Promife of a Nu-_-A

* mcrotis off-fpthing§.Is‘ it not evidentithat in Gen. I 7.‘ther is fpeciall mention ofthc A
" CovenantiAof(3AAriace,eziz...% I will be thc«A.Gad of thee, and tiny /(red A ztfkcr t/Jee-- and
A thei1Fol1oweth;T/ob»AA]/ml: tberfare flap rig; C7avcn.mt,tbau and:/y)(fi'ed—~ 77:13 £5 my
‘ tCawmznt--A Et;*er”7‘i:i.¢n-child among jouwfhall .6: Acircumczflrd. ‘W hy {hould Cir-A

Cutrtcifionbereflreyned IOIU Proinife of a »Nhuznerous of-fpring, when the text
doth not rcflreiniit ?_ Ifany‘repA1y, That in Gc'fl.I5'- whcr the Rightcoufiies of

it FaithA’is.mei;tiont:dsVto.whicihthe Apofllc alludcth, thcr is only mctltitm made ofa.

AANUVA @113 of~{iw;it1g promiftdg Be it To: But that ofCrzlt:in is found, who faith,

  

  ‘ t  A A    ‘- That w‘A‘hatf'oevcr promifes Goddid Hive to A5r4--
#!?1"i?§3 axibmndpfedtbrifi 7‘ A   - I" A A —  
may P~mmWn”&H1Wh¢_ /.mm,they were Appendices of that ftrfl promtfe

  dvdittitréaprinzeiizi 2 f

. 1'3?”  tmm Mum fi5ilti“arenaAm;ii=ii—.

1 ml: tanquam pamm in tam,fCaly.A in
f.33l;3~.€. A   7”

 
   

AA;f,;gf¢i}Aam,,, llfiliidfitp Him : and 12> this oft; numerous of?-—

dit§tJ1‘hhEAtgo icm 4r¥2lir!t«4iW5’+%I?1- é2>ring,was by Faith received as a‘ fruit of that

      
  
  
   

A»i?nmté«ocre  at “M   ‘ ‘ . it .   -   A
  °”°”Af fim “‘M§°fl~’m’~ Ann; Nay more, That Protntliv of 3, Numerous of?‘-

 

 A vincluqeblzz in gvdtid :4 optic;-,

~{'pt'ii1g,that he {hould bAeAthAe Father of many ‘Na-T»
it A _   A ‘A  v ‘ only, or inthe 'children of the Protnifie alibi‘ And
A‘how€came he to be the Fatherof Athofeichiid ten, but by AFa,ith in the Covenant of A
«Grace ?    A A A  A i

A  ”Conef1ude (thcr‘efore)That Circumcifion wasa Scaliof the Covenant of Grace;

Avother : And being Hal} by ‘virtue of their

A Remedy of that Dif~ea,‘fe whichAis-derivcdfrom Father to Sonn by Propagan-
tion. Vvhich beingin thcP~oQerityof BelecvingChriPcia‘ns noiefs than in the
Pofierityof Bcleeving Jewes :It-I foliowcth that thcfe have asjrnuch need as the
Parentsiintcrefl in the Covenant, the as

-capable of this Benefit as the other were. Conficquently that the implantation

 id?’/956‘/9‘ 155i?iFdiz%.-'.an'd therby is ‘fignified the Benefit of  
 bréia-’0H!cEh-' on Beleeverrs for their ]ufii”ficattior1':wei

rfl Grace  beflowccI""oh Him,vwiz.. His Adopti- A

A i tions ; ‘Was itfulfilled in the children of’. the fleih

-Aoflnfantsi intother\My.flicaIl Body oi°1CihriPc byfia Sacrament isnot incompatiblee A

-fyvith  Rate of the Church in the New Tefiatnenti §n'd if not (0.: Since itie

I103: V

‘ 9

M ‘ _ 1 , _ 4 i7’o!tZ'/Iiqg Infnzhfflaphffii. to ll be, ,  i _ _
not repealed by Chtiii and his Apolilesi: we conclude, Th:ttethet is at Precept
trittuall and implicit : And tho itbc not (aid in diteéi tctms,Ggo and batptile Be-_-j
  leavers and their Children, yet in that it is find ,Circun1cifet thetn, thflit, Baptifin

A
Ti‘ '
 ,
V 7.’
la, ‘_

is included :: {'0 much the more :Becauf'eitV§IiIl appear that thclciisialfo for the l

lfiztptifing of Infants. 1
e " v  Pattern ezirtxm/1’ and Implicit. A

This is in the Baptiling ofiwhole Faniilies upon tltcconvetfiota of the Mallets I i

ther-of, The whole I-Ioufhold; of‘if£.}dz4,' Crzfpu:,cCar::cl2Y(g, and.othe;siwcm bapu
tifed : To fay, that in thenither might be no children , becaiufe none are mentio-
ned, is to fpeak againli all fenfe and reafon. As well may it be -fetid their were no
fervants, and fo make up a Familyl of I know not how few. Whatfiy we to
thofe three thonfizrzd fatal: mentioned, A5}: 2.”;vql1lchtwere added tothe Church in
one day l: is it probable that they were all prefent at the Settnon‘ and converted
to thetFaith by th:ttSermon, itbeing in a private ‘HoufcP It it not more proba.--
b1e,that‘"the Men beingptefent and converted, they brought alfo their Families
1 tobe tl53ptil'ed,wl1ichl they might» well do, becaufc they heatd St.Pmr fay: The
Pmrmj/e is madelto you and to your oézaiaitf-eh  So that the totall fumme of men.
women and children rnight be gooo. fouls : Some fuch thing; doubtlelé is inti-

  mated in that phrztfe.3ooo;fonls:an{'werable tothat in the fiery of gen.45,tr;r.27
‘A524-.14. All that mm: down ‘into Egipt with jacoé were 7ofoxal:. Souls, zit».
W perfons, men’, women, and children. Anal here doubtlcfs the courle and ptaéiice
' of the Converts ttrasmtfwerable to that ill Gt!.lmt7.A No lbonct. is_;thelt_,Covcnant
made with Abraham, but he citcumcifeth all the Malta in his houle both tyoung,

and old: So doubtleis, No foonet is the Covenant ofG,;a.ce iratified betwixt "

V Chi-iii and thi:iBcle"eving Parehts by B: tifin, lutxttltcfiotxlluoldis nlfo accoun-—
A ted Hal) and re baptifetl. Dotxbtlefsa what St.PtI:r_i‘aidto them in 9/!5}.'2. The
j:1’rbmifa 12: magic to yen and mjazzr c/aildr-ml; The {mic  Sttftdrtwll pica ch to the

 }_l(3entiltls when they were converted, tthnttheyt mtightwknoivsi the large elbountyi of ‘I

>“H”God to them andtheirs in the Covenant oi Grncee : Attdiltdwllhouldt they con-

firmthis to them but by brltitifing theirtichildteln 2‘ Take away this, and you leav i
“"'op(’.liM;l wide gnpp to an Objeéiion ;which is not enfiily anfwetetd : For they might «

“objefi : What tell you usrofthe Graceitof God in Chri(’r,oF the l'upe'r~abt1nd.tn'ce
oFl?th:tt‘Grace : Do we not fee the contrary P This isnothing anfwetable to titan,
 offléfabqm and Ifrael Ir‘ They by their Faith receiveda Benefitfot tbeirchild reg;
“yea. their ‘fervants. Notio here: We out {elves pet-aduenture may be the 4 better
«wifor out Falith‘ll“i:*:tBut our chi1drcnt~ret~nain liill as they were litangcts itot__ittInt,e i§?bvc~l~

hlflwfitii‘  jlflulitnagixlclfihcyfigpolile to reply .:‘tN”;ty_li, lbuttht: mProm;il'eii$ to you i

 filial‘ybllifchilcirefiisfitH1311:WIJCII theytcome to bcleetr, they étlio mityi be atiA”tti.ttcd;
* HoWf1J',nfilV fiiigilfti'l6”()bjC~9C*0_1'vICj0ll1t2 vvhat great ptiviledgc i‘$itA;this? «Bot may

 vhryi-fieathcll, aile‘tl1at;fi1‘¢ afar): of: lWi1Cl'l,hL'i') ey beltev :% If this  all A Eimt we! ;

‘giants . i Q»! Mofirfler Hefner re the Qucfliav;

gain ; Our children, notwithflanding our Faith arein no better condition than,
the Heathen the:-nfelves, Nothing l fo good as theichiltdren of the jews : And {'0
the great boafl of"fuper-~abund‘a'nt Grace falls to the ground. Thus we fee good
Reafon to acknowledge thisrCufiomerofbaptifing Infants to‘ be warranted both
by Precept and Pattern, tho not formall and explicite ; yet vittuall and implicit ;
And that with {o great light and evidence from Scripture. that greater in that
kind eatinotrihe expeéted. v r at a  a i t i    c 4 A i i
Before I proceed to an other Argument : Let me improve this further 3
That C trfiome and I’ra€tii'e of the Church may well be preiumed to be Apoflo-»
Iicall, which is {o confonant to the text ofscriptu re. that it doth readilyiilluflrate
the text‘: and openeth a door of light to underfitand the fame : Such is the Cu
l’c‘omc of Infiints Baptifed therfore. That which ‘being granted giveth light : and
which being denyed doth’le1avethe text under fuch a cloud of obfCu1'ity,»that it is
not ealily underiiood how it may pafs For Truth : This mufl be Oranted to open
a door of light to underfland the text of Scripture. Now them uppofi: this A8:
of‘ the Apeol-Hes baptiiing Infants : we eafily fee how gooo. fouls may be added
to the Church in one tlay,_fno"twithflandin/g the Sermon were in a privat houfe:
We fee how St.Peter might confirm their Bcleef in this, 779: Pramifi it made to
jazz, dmiro yam children .- even the ‘Promife of a{itper-albundant Grace : Vve fee
how St.Paa_rl might urge thissjour 0/Jilaiten are Holy: But take away the 1' uppe-
fition of this Cuflome. and noneroftlicfc texts are {'0 eafie to be underflood. Con-
fequently : it is more than probabl-e, that even thiscuflome ofBaptifing Infants
was indicated and ordained in the Churches by th’Apofiles : and that according
to thecommaudement of Chrifl.
Smtnm in ‘Me 1,. 4, mm 6.0% V6 Acid:ut1C0 all their l{1_1tb beeniaydtythat ofSt.Am-
fimm-afilvmrg ydmms, N4; W.‘ rq/e .y whotttst . e e two as paralell : thelaw of
reimrm fiterit - - .. .- rm jitcrazijfimé God, touching Circumcifion , ‘T54,-flml who it not
in h‘ge_fim_'rtt _Pr‘¢‘Wft“m) W MM‘ cirmmcifeafi [ball be we off'ram_/air people : and the
 Sanétion of our Saviour: Except): man 6:: am
fM___ Ambmflapmai. Ad Dem‘? again of: water, and oft/re Spam, he cameo: enter 2»-
trindem,p.] 3 1, tube Qugdameof‘ god. That this text 18 to be un-
derflood oFtBaptii'm,as a mean and caufe o{Rcge-
neration, Not fo principall has the Spirit: yetfo infirutnentall to the Spirit, that
whet it may behad, Wee have no groundyof Faith to beleev that the Spirit will
work without it : This is I lay the conflaot and confcnricnt judgement of all the
Ancients, and moi} of ' our modern Divincs ; Some few only excepted, who to
avoid the Popifh Tenet, touching the ablblute neceflity of Baptifm; did fly to a.
‘Metaphor. n And it may be confirmed for Truth. out of the Text it {elf : if we
note well, To whom, and upon what occafion the words were fpoken : viz. To
«Nicademtffs upon occafion of his timcrouiinesi : A Difciple of Chrili, he was
~ A‘ A V  I i ' i A i ' i i  willing

A _ y W , 7'.tv!l€*1sair1g Infant: ~'E4ptij'm: y A I 7
wil ling to be, but ioth to ptofefs it openly by being baptifiedt To him is the com-
mination direétcd : and therfore the words mu{’t be underflood ofBaptifn :N ow
then confider well, whether their be any ground fuflicient to keep of Infants fiom
this Ordinance P «Any ground ( I lay) which may ficure the confcitncc of not
having finned againlt thefouls of our Infants, if byour def'aul.rthey dy without
this feal of the Covenant, and fo loof the Benefit ther-of? Have hot iinfants
need of Chrili, and the Application of his Blood for the wafhing their fouls from
finn? Is ther any Hope of Salvation without_Chrifl? Is ther any other way re-
vealed .~by whichany mayhave part in Qhrifl,  by his Ordinances i‘ Is thet
any other Ordinance by which Iinfants maybe made partaltertof Chrifl and the
Covenant of Grace except Baptifm? Is that any text of Scripture that hath pew
remptorily barred their Admittance? Orlis thét ar1y.tly'__ng‘, required of them that
mufl be baptifed, thewant whet-of may be a barr to Infants? Thou doubteft,

ybecauferher isnotextthatnnentionetheither l’receptor P;atrern,‘andy with-out a

text, thou darefl not venture: "fis well {But when ther is  a fearful] lhntencefi
that runns in {rich generallterms asdoth comprehendlnfa nts alfio : and the Dan-—
get of Omifiion is {o great 2 Why art thou not more cautelous on the fafer fide?
Why ‘doii than not as well call for a di;re€i: text to barr them P or a direft Reafon
from Scripture, which maybe equivalent? Isthet any text that faith, None may
be baptifcd, that do notBeleev~? or that faith Irrfitnts for want of Afiuall ‘faith
may not be baptifed P Doefl thou not fee Infants Circumcifed yea by command-
ment P Doefi thou not hear the text that faith, C/azldrcn are Hal]! And are ther
fo many Probabilitiies that hyth'A—poflles themfelves Infants’ were baptifed 2‘
And wilt thou rather hazard the foulrof thy child, than layhold upon the Cove-

nant for thy Feed, nayfor thy felt’? andthat only upon a fear, and a doubttofiun-or
“law Fulnes; yea fuch a doubt that hath no furer ground either in Scripture or Rea-
l ion to countenance it; than the contrary tefolution ?

H etc is then rheCaf'c : if? thefc Grounds formerly mentioned prove good at

ther is great probability : Then thou prei'cnting‘thine Infant to ’Baptifrn build«-

iug upon thefe grounds, thou halt raved thy {elf at1d~'tl1ine‘InFarnt .- but forbear-
ing and keeping him of, tho*u{innePc againflthiue own foul and his ialfo : Again,

“if thofe grounds {houldnot prove good: yet hafl thou not wronged thine In-«

 “Cod, and theiGooid~loF the Infant. ' T.hoiu'h'afi not rtranfgrreffed againfl any»

fant, nor thine own {elf : Becaufe, upon {itch probabilities as are “next door to an

EvidentDemonf’rrationa thou hafl done that which is intendedtfor theGlory.‘of

Yr rd-

tept: no not an y light of lRea‘{'onwhich might j um y with-hold thee Ifrou1l:.feek-
ting the Good of thine Infant at the Hands of~ChriPt in this Ordinance.

I conclude tlierfore, That ther is fuflicient Groundiin Scripture to warrant the



_ Confcience ofa §hriPria’n to bringhis Infants to this iS;‘ac-ra~ment of Baptif

V _ 1 L4 J/ladgrdte A}xfavéri'rb"rbe Q___m»f)’z°bm i_ 4 at
with 5 Cimfideht cicpeétatiott to receiv Benefit by thefiunc. Nay more‘: There
is Ground enough to Warrant the Accufation of Hitntthat upon fuch uncer-
tain Reafons hfha11'if‘orbear to prefent his Infant to this Sacrament of I'ni:ita..
don, [115 Accufation I fay of Him, aswone that finncth agttinfl the Ordinance
of ‘God’, artdiytr»efpaffethyagainPr the Sotdoif his Infant, yea of Hnnfclf.



‘S-o mtich for the fiirfi CLuePtion. V A
‘éi:=t»=ti«rt~r=trtteefiertrreretrti
  \ THE   SECOND QVBJSTI on
T (miéffi, Whether it be not /inful§1,for 4 MC/mflian to reach? the

_ Sztcramentina mixt./if1’em6ly.i i    

.1  Mix: Affembly is that, wherein good and badd are mingled toga-A

  ther, and make up one Congregation 5 what‘! the preview are not
_ t ;‘ _    fevercdftom the 'm'lc,. nor any difference put between the H01} and
  “'3 Prop/Mne. Now theft: good and badd, thefeprccious and vilc, are
t  ' not to be reckoned in refpcftrof their fpirituall cflatc toward God,
i.e. as they are Bled‘: or Reprob-ate, Sincere or Hypocriticall : but in rcfpt-P: of

   

theirEcc1efiafiicall\flatc ‘in the ey and judgementofMcn, as they are in their

eouri'es;.and converfations, in their Calling and Profefiiony holy or profane.

‘7}‘he£E»; bad, and vile, are again to be confidered  part: ante, or  part: pqfiviz,

Either fuch as yetprofefé not themfeives in Covenant with God, by joining
thciniélves to the Aflicmbly of his fervants: Or (itch, who having formerly had

” afianding in the Church,do afterward runout into exorbitant courfes to the

ifizandall of ReIigion,and fo defcrv to be tgpamted from thcxfiocicty ofthc Saints,

1 and by the Sentence ofEx¢oini11iunyieation cut of from the Aifcmbly- So tiizit the

miefltioll is, Whether if either of theft: be Found in the Congregation and com»-
pany of them, that draw near to the Table of the Lord to partake of theft holy
Myflcriesg either tho{Z=:,vvho as yet have not beenadmitted, or thofcthat by the

» laws o'FChrifl»ought robe {butt outakndy fequcflrcd. whether their prefcncc do
 make it unlavvfull in point of confcienccfor aye Chriflian to rcceiv the Slacmrnenc

amongthem,{'o that if he do, hcis ea atomizer, therby defiled, and become para...
Ker of their firm.

;  Whcreyatlfo forthc betrernniderflianditngof the_.Anfwer to this Qyefiion, We

r ‘arcco note. what is granted : and whetié qttcfliqncd and demanded.  t

‘Things

, Toaching Mix: Cornmunianr.‘ V i lg n

_  t y Thin.gsrgrainted are thele. A l »

y 1 , S o-me ¢¢7£77(?t to 5: admitted to 2}.7e’.7’¢I5/6' ofrb: Lord. This is evident enough.
No tmcircumcifed perfon might eat of the Palliover : Not any petion unbaptiled
be admitted to the Lords Supper, how morally righteous foever he bee. The Rea-
fon her-ofis, Becaule, Npne may be received into the Communion and fellow-»

efhip of the Church, till he haVe1.proFefl‘ed thitnlielf one of them that dcfire to lay

hold on the Hope oFEtemall life by the Mean and Mediation ofChril’t,in whom
alone is founded the Covenant of Grace. Now this Profeliion is by ‘_-fllbllllitlllg
himfelf to the Sacrament of Baptifin. Hence it is that our Bleffed Saviour hath
joined thefe two together, He that éelcwet/9 and 1254 zifisal. As none unbapti-

i led: So notall that are baptifed. Children fo loon as they be able to learn mnfi

be taught, and by teaching be fitted to dz’/tern the Lord: Bod} before they be ad-
mitted to it .- Of old, Ilrael mufi inliruft their children in the Rites of
the Pallover : In imitation whet-oFChril’tians receiv a charge touch-
ing their children, to’ bring them up in the knowledge and pracftife of

_1z:,_-atl x2. 16
6013.14.

1 their holy Profclfion. Yea, and by an Apofiolicall Ordinance C as it is probable

from that of‘, Heb.6.a.) The Pafiours ofthe Church in all ages according to the
truPr‘com"m1tted_ro them, have taken an account of what the Parents have done

“in this Education of their children, examining them in the Articles of their Be-

leefiaxid the points of the Catechifm, And ther-upon have approved thole whom
they found Proficients, and by their Benediftion have confirmed and comforted
them in thefe their happy Beginnings. This Order of folemn Confirmation is
acknowledged by the Godly learned to be of merveilous good ufi: in the Church.
And reafon giveth it {o to be : That lo, when children are come to a pcrfeéi Age,

and in fome tnealiire able to underliantl the matters of Religion, l and to give an 

account of their Faith, they may then make an open profefiion of’ their, Beleef,
and an open promife of their Obedience to the laws of God ; and fo ther-upon

in a folemn nianerybeardlnittied to the holy Communion. And till they 'flb“c‘ thus

confirmed, I {hould yeeld it altogether unfitting ("at leaf} for Ordcrgyfzrke ) that
any be admitted to the Table‘ of the Lord.i A i A  A A _   I    it I-

i 2. S 07226 are to 6e_/Ymttraut andfiqakefired. No doubt of this  Adamwaie rthrufi
out of Paradife, that he might not tafi of the Tree oflife, and feed himfelf‘ with
apvain hope of immortality. The Leprouswere to be fhutjoyut of theycampy:

it-Theythat were unclean by a dead body, Nam. 9.6. could not keep, the = Paflover

on the day. _ThcRcfi‘a&ary and Obliinate is «to be accounted as anlflcatlten.

i Mat.i8.I7. The inceliuous perf'on,mnPtbe delivered toSatan_,i and Scandalous ,

l,yChrifiians excluded From ciivi/I, much more from jarred Communion. C0225...

Such order mufl be taken alfo with Qine-ordinate walkers, zlT}2cf:, 3. and with
unrcformable Heretilts. ‘Tit. 3.10. It anv man love not the Lord Jelixs Chrili, i.e.

, if any walk in amanifeli Ptofcflion ofbiflike and Dctcfiation, of Chrifiyand A

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for" A  A ‘  Qlwlloaarate Anfwer to the Q_t1cft’g'an; i
this Gofpe1;sHle.muf’:be pronounced Anathema : This is the Dileiyline of the
s 7ChLirCh‘: and good is the Reafoh theta-of, I . In rcfpeél aft/at i‘Pcrfim: Delinquent .-
tT‘h,at’_:bytlie deliruéiion ofithe Flcih the Spirit may be faved -: This was an
rtNl1ol1?3ii1e~fevcrilty, a Church-puuilhnient, infliéied as a means appointed of
 _;G'fod‘to7réd‘utce and reclaim thofe who were not defperately given upto a repro-

'..hater‘lenie,.lt ha‘: lit rt-fizefi‘  the Congregation, that others might hear and fear:

:['Il*2,atf.ot~hsets might fl-iun familiarity wiah them For Fear of infeétion by them.
:“‘»3.l1[#*}‘¢_[,;& (f4 tiljcmtbatare without the C/aura/.a .- That the name of the Lord
n niight'no’ti be .blai'phemed by them : but that they mEght fee and know, that as the
 ‘Proi’eiiionl,'*fo=«thepra5’tifeeof ehe Church is a eonPtant care of holincs. Nor will
” itltftr C hurrah o_f7God ’it1tlt%1te?i“tsthat any oftheit Society (hall fay one thing and do
i ;:al30';i1€I‘«_,-f;lll(i-i’iOiilI’1‘(;‘SQ’:ii‘i.d’l‘lV'C profanely : If any do Forget hitnfelf. and Contbrm

to the Men oftheWoildin':e3Eotbita11tcourfcs. he {hall be {hutt out from among
}tl')ic’t1_151:1in__di cttt’ofi7‘f'ron1ltylieii.r‘.Communion : that (0 the whol Aflenibly may even
in the eyt or -thcwiorld  found in {nine meafute conf7ortnable to the Holinefs of

 ~*-'(:ii‘riii»tlfiéir»3l‘*I’c5ahi.¥i~~For‘eltéiiiketliolls fome are to be {hurt out and 1equel’tred..
A':”5Tl1€ fitlitland {eeond"Reiaii'on$iiite spetpetuall, and ptefs the Execution of this point.
_y;{oFfliDifci’plitne at :illtin:1es;:T'«li“he third was more urgent in the times of the "firfi
 ‘“"PlaI1'r;atiol1of‘thc~¥Churi2l1—: And in thatrefpeéi: it was ( aslconceivj that the

~PrimitiveiChutches weyte'[{Z>yl»ifeevere and rigidgeven to an over-great meafure of

lexttemity tilllexipetienceitanghti them the Neceliitye of fome more tnildnes and
‘moderation . But yet alwaayther isvuie of this point ooFDiicipline, to fepetate and

A ~cutoflifcandaloius pet-foiis :ltha‘t?l'o the members of the Church may be fecured

r it
v..;

~7fr£3i11iihF€t§liUl15 and the'Jwhol Body from feandal and imputation.

~ *' y.'V"7t'/.veZVc.g[e£"L‘ af:tIJ¢tliiiC79znét'b~0fliccr1 in doing their dm],.1;s‘ a /Em: that may ex-i
120; the? iftétli (‘on_graga_tio_n‘ to Me jndgament: of god .- Their Ofiiccit is to watch
 ov‘ert«he. Holy thingsof‘God. that they be not “laid open to contexnpt, either by
illadxiiiltting ihemthat are not fitted, or by not fequeflring them that ought to be
feq-ueflted : Anti-‘thieir Negligence is a provoking {inn .: was itnot upon this
_~g1'0§ll3Cl:?t,i'lalZ the Congregation doth finart in the cafe of Ache» ? The Elders and
"ioliicetsiwefre not fo cat-ef'ull aethey fhouldt l.'l:l;VC‘l)C(2I1. ~To’whicli if tlhcr» be added
Kalfti? ’NtgIe& ofinferiotiteperfons in doing ~wha‘t they ought { itis their part to

in V ’bc”eys‘ ahd en’rs'?tE> e’the»GoVCrhot1rs, informing them of whatisamife :yea,and in
I *‘*a iduityiifiill Wayto aedmoniflilthiem of their duty , and intreat their diligent circum-
lt.:;p¢a;ion, which if/theyldiofinot. much more if they do anproveof their flacknefs.
 andlilte of them the bet‘ter§;ibeeaufe they are not {o oliicious.) Vvhat wontict if
  Neglefi of the Goveniour prove the dCfl1‘ll&iOl1'Oi?Cil1CWliol Congregation :
wn_yndctfla.nd thisin te{’p1e6i;i:oifi'ytemporall judgements : God to {hew his jufl indig-
iiyiiation agaainflifin  and toteaich all and every one to have a care of others, both,
jtogteevfor thénifind ;tho;ady;i(jL1iil1'tl1Cm;i- doth for the {in of form one, 'efpcCiall);_

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ifan eminent perforr,_caule thewhol to {mart under the Rodd of Tome coymmnonv

Calamity. Thisal{‘o  not denyed.   i it ‘  A y
Thefe things being premifed,as things granted, and not at all queliioned.‘ 
i The SCl‘UPl.¢ doth Iy in this one particular. Whether the {inn of the unworthyf'v~
and wicked perlbt-1, intruding himfelf into the company of them that draw nee’:
to the Table of the Lord :and the [inn of the Church-ofiicqers who {honld ( but

do not) exclude him, whether this {inn of theirs defile the Ciotifeierice of Him

( 3 private Chriliian ) who hath no Further communion withvthem, fave only A
that he is in theircompany, and they in his, when he goeth up to the Table of"

the Lords: He neither approveth of them, my is greeved For the dif-order ; Whey-V
theris he defilcd? t . .  

t . To this I anfwtrNegatively :It is not C alway ) finfull for a private Chrilii-.
an to receivv the Sacrament in the company of them that are unworthy Cqmlllllv
nicants, nay worthy of Eitcot-nmunication. Not dlwdj, I fay, Becaufe I lili not
to plead the caufe ofthem, who For fome private relpeéis do voluntarily cliufc.

the Society of fome wicked perfons, when it is in their liberty to make at better» V

choice, But where it is not : As it is notin the choice of Parifhionersp to yrefule
their Pa-rilh Church to which by the jufl law of the Magillrate they are bound
for Order l'ake:Now thatin this cafe iris not finfull .- I prove by theft Argu,-:

laments. . W1 -
  T/9: fir]? z!rgumcnt- »

V V Hat no text of Scripture hath manilefled to be Ul1‘i‘flW‘fl.lNli1tll3t is not (in;

full : Fm-in as much as ;S‘z'm'.rt/.v: Tranfjgreflian of :19: law, fwhat is not
unlawfull, that is not {infull : And if the text of Scripture doth not manif-tit a
thing unlawfiill, who lhall dare to .do it. That no text of Scripture hath mani-
fefied it unlawfull For a private Chriliian in this cafe to come in the company of‘

the unworthy, it is evidenced by this.-. Thatcher is neither any text of Prohibiti-»

on to forbid it, not anyjtext of Reprehcnlion that hath blamed tholit that have

done it: Confequent-ly it is not byitext of Scripture manyifefled to be unlawfiill,

and therfore not linfull. A As we conclude that lavvfiill, that by text is either com-

manded or commtndcd.So that,unlawful1,that is either prohibititd orzrcprovcdo
’ iI.No text of Scripture hath Forbidden it. e A ’

Not that of Car. 5.: I. No not in that new tranflation. which lbme put in capi-sf  
tall letters, as if ther were fome great myllery in it: N 0 T T O B E MIXT 

T O lGET,H E R. Truth it is, theris :1 Prohibition dircéicd to the Churich at-‘
Carin:/1,andit pertaineth to all the membersthcr-of: The Prohibition istothem,
Not to keep company with {candalous Chriflians, no not to eat with liich a ones
But it is manifefl that this Prohibition is not touching S acred but hioill Society 
Thar.company-keeping is in the Cittymot in the Church :~Th2t eating is at their
own Table, not at the Iable of tl1C_ Lord. Th'Apoli1e had written to them a.
s r A - ‘ ‘V 7 I  "V i in A i'ormcr

i"i2i"‘i M .71/[oderdte Zlnfiveit to the ‘flit:/iiott,‘

f'orn1ierEpi,llls, Not to keep ‘company with Fornicators and othertleahdalous
perfons: Failithe would that Chriftians fhould not only.forheat fuch finfull
eourfes, but even the company of them that were therwith-all deliled : This his
yE‘pll.ll€€.1l1(lil1l'S charge in it, he doth now interpret. fhevving, That hedid not in.
tendto forbidthem allcompany or fociety with thofe of that ill~»na1ne which

_. were not of the‘Church ; This hadibeen to have {hut them up in a cloilier, to

 b’ani{h‘ed‘ thernyoutiof the"v'vor1d {to have impaled upon them an impollibi-
lity; slid St.fi'/aigfoflome you mull feel: anotherlworld to live in, feeing the

y ‘cafe ofGods people in this world; is as of Roles among thorns, they cannot but

live among thelvvieked : Butgthat, if ther were any profefled Chriflihns, that yet
ha.d11ot§t1‘€f9rIIlcd _thoCet:vil1,<:ouriE:s, but Pull lived in the ufuall praeiife of them,

. iwitli l‘Ll'.Cl‘l a oneithey {null have no f'amiliariity,t1V.ainat.ta eatwit/9 t/mix. So then,

1

The eating forbidden is {itch as is not forbidden in Relation to men of the world:

. Now with the men of theworld they never had any company at the Tableof

the Lord -' Con‘le_quent-ly, the text doth not re{'peE‘c that facred Communion,» 1101‘
their ioining with theil'&at1dalotisl'li’11 that {acted Aétion. This phrali: But not
with/9im,iis‘tihie li1meineH'e5’t with that of aj’o/1.19. Renew him not into jam"
H"”.7l’ -‘ Icvvas altogether unlawfitll For the Corinth-W0 lflVi!€ fulfill 8 l*&a!1d310U3

Brother to their houfes, or to {hew him any courtefie ; yea, I fuppole the phtafe A

doth reach further, even to refufe his invitation, q. (1. Neither invite him to eat
with «you; not accept of any invitation to eat“ with him; that To all lhew of
Familiarity betwixt him and you may be avoided,» Add this ; It cannot be un...
A derliood of that holy Society which is among Chrifiians at the Lords Table, be-
lcaule that ‘whit a‘u12ec31.'t4V, No not to Mt, intimateth the leall familiarity that may
be i; For fois the Argument, pa‘: mm.,_,,,,t.sa; wt wrntr-31'Ur, Not to keep company,
no not to eat : But in that Holy {ocicty which Chriflians have one with another
"in the H oulé of V God," this nieuzavt-31'e!r‘. To eat together is the greatefl : Whence it
is that the aggravation of the Ptlttifhntellt of ohliinate perfons doth won in a
contrary ycourfc 7 A M mmae/av , pea ar.wct.1ep.:}w'c3'nq ; they are firli llllllf out from
the Table ofthe Lord, and afterward From the Houlits and Tables of Chriliians.
lSo.then, this text of Car. 5. not rel"pcsf’cing the familiarity and company of them
that come tothc Lords Table, Cannot be alledged to prove it unlawfull, and {im-

full for a Chriliian to he found in company, and to go along with the wicked to

'theTablc of the Lord. 4 - 
N or that of 2 T/aef:.g.I4. The“words are thele-.  may man 05:2} not our word

5y that Epifllc,Note'tI'mt 7r2an.zz2:zl /9472: nazrampzmywit/J him, t/mt /ac mayée an i
‘ flmméd. Here it is forbidden tohave companywith a brother that walketh dill

orderly : So in *ocrfl6.'w'z.. He {pea Rs of them that were idle and bufiwlarxglyes,
wrfa I . The Ch riflians of 7'/oejfalonica were moi} of them Avrtifans and Labor:-

rers; and for theft to live idly, otttof aCalling was a clif-orderly walking: and

tho i e

Toirciiihg Mixt Communion.‘ V| I

thofe the Apofile would have to be punilhed : The punilhment islet down,wr,5.;p

lc'£MIo9'dJ : To Wl_[lIdra.W'thCt‘n{ClVCS from him ; and vwarapuyrfifix. To keep no com.

I ipany with him :Now this company Cannot be underliood of the holy Communi-1,

on, becaufe it is fubjoined to the verb u,uem;.3v,l Note that mmgwhich Cd,wn.pBcv’

I by divers Godly and Learned is interpreted the .A(9.' of Excommu- Bu/linger:

nication.q.d; Excommunicate him, and have no" company with W¢V’0W-

Him : Put him out of the Church : yea, out of all Civill fhmiliarity : Neither in’-we
Vite him to houfe-,nor willingly be yee Found in his company. Which is yeg
more inanif'ePc5iE we conlidet, that this a'mmJo3v,lS to fetfuch a note upon Him
as may make him afhamed : Now that could not be by forbearing to communi-I
care in his company. In very deed who fhould forbear P Is not the Precept tli-
refied to the Whol Church .7’ Should they all Forbear the Communion, and leav-

e him alone atit? Kidicnlam. No, they mufi all perform their duty, each in his

place: The Church-ofiicets muli fet anote upon him :z'.e. Denounce him as an

unworthy member of the Church, unfit to be admitted, not only to the Table of
the LOrd: but even unfit to be admitted to any familiarity and lbciety with them:
The Church-members muli do accordingly, ‘tie. Forbear all commerce and com-

munion with him ; they muPt {hunhitn as a Pei’: and a Plague-fbre. So then;
neither ofthefe two texts relating properly and direétl y to the Tableol’ the Lord

can be utiderliood, as prohibiting private Chtil’tians to communicate in the com-

pany of them thatought not to be admitted. Sliéldtnffld‘/E170‘ qmeflianix, to//tw-~
mr év azccidcntia. Much leis thofe other tcxtswhich are by fume added ex aémz-«

diivzti to fill up room rather then to confirm that eaule,er£z. A62. 2 .40. Epb. 5.1 1..

T/Jefi. 5.12. @' 2 ‘Tz’m,3.2. 5'. For why 2‘ When St.Perer faith, ‘Save your filer:

from 2192;: untoward generation. Doth he {peak of misbehaviout’d Chriliians P
‘or rather of misbeleevingjews P And is ita work of Darknefs? Is it an Apr-

pmmnce ofwill to attend on Gods ordinance? If it benot for ‘Well performed by

their: Wicked ones as it ought; yet is it not to be accounted evill. Surely it is . ra-

ther a work of light, and an Appearance ofgood, how- lbeverto the wicked and
unprepared nothing profitable,is ther no difihrence betwixt what is will in the

Sublliaiice of the Ac}, and What is lo only by Accidelntxvie. through fotne dcfcti:

  of the A<9tor~ From facéarmnaway (faiththe Apofile.) What then Pi Muli I

tiherfore turn away i‘i‘om the Communion if‘ they come to it .? No: but in the
coutfe oF my convetlation I mufl have nothing to do with them: Nay moreuthac
text doth not iieceliarily prove that I mufl turn away inch from the Holy Com-

- munion ,- much left doth it prove that I mull’: turn awaymylfeli V becaufelofthem.
I None ofthole texts do fpealt home to the point, leali of all that of} I

2 Car.6. I7. This text doth indeed call For feparation : but From whom? Col-
ieft this onto? the Coherence.‘ In 1/er.14.tBe not ( faith he ) amreqmtlly }0l{_edW5t/J
wag étlecvcm Natjohed /c. in fociety and partnc1'll1i p of the (hop and flock : in

I I D ‘ Cohabitav

'54 A )4 Moderate Anfwer to the Quefliana

Cohabitation and company of the Bed and Bord .- Thus to be joined in fociety
with Infidels he counteth a yoke, an unequal! yoke ; and wlould have them take
heeciof it. His Argument is taken from the unequall condition ofthcm :To do
this is to couple Righteoulhes with Llnrighteoufnes , Light with Datltgiefs;
Chrili with Bclial:the Temple of God with Idols : things that can have no

commerce together, not communion : And then inferreth, Wiée/(fire came amtfromt

among them, and 5: jce /épnrate (faith the Lord 3 andtom/J not the ‘nucleon thing,
éc. The Church of Carin:/9 lived in the midli of Infidel s : No wonder therfore
if the Apolile call upon them to leparate from lluch, to take heed of cotmnunion
with them, efpecially in thatwhich he had taxed under the name of Idolatry»
and here underthat phra (e, T own not the unclean tbingr; /c. their prefence at the
Idolatrous fealis, This in ipeciall would he have them fotbear 3 Now I pray,

whatt is this to the prefence of the worthy receiver in the company of unworth_y A

Communicantslat the Table of the Lord? Is not he blind that feeth not a large
difference, and that the one doth not draw on the other to be unlawfull 9 Will it
follow, that becaufe the Corinthians who were prefcnt with Idolatcrs at their
Idol-ieafls, are {aid to have communion with Idolaters, that therfore he who is
in the company of wicked men in their approaching E0‘ the Table oF the Lord,
doth partake with them in their wickednes? Iffo: Then as the Corinths by fo
doingtare (aid to tomclot/we tmclcvm thing : So alfo theiit Receivers of whom wee
fpeak, by To doing do alio touch the unclean thing. And {hall we call the Table
of the Lord an unclean thing P 13 it alfo an Idol? Ther is a text in Ht£gg.2-.rver-
I-2'-—I4'.'WhiCh had wont to be alledgcd to prove that wicked men dclilé: the
Ordinaiicesiof God. s But if fo, it is but to thctniielves not to-others :~As wholtfom;
mcatreccived intoa. corrupted fiomack turns intonoxious humours : and, the.
fame word that is to fame the favour oflifcs isito others ( in whom it. is not
mixed with Faith) the Favour oFDeath-; to tlieflnbut not to others in their compa--
ny : Ther is an errour in chef: mens undcr»Pcanding : V They conceiv, that mecrly.
to be in company with the WlCkCd9lS to communicate with them in their w.ickcd--
nels :They are deceived : To communicatein wickedncls, is to join fellowfhip
inthe pur--l“uit‘of' wicked intentions :-ex. r. When wicked men take in hand a
wicked putpofe -(~to.honour~an, Idol, toigt upiprofanefs ; to ac“?tin the works of

darkness murthet, adultery, the-every, per;ur.y,ێ'c; Then to join fociety with

them hwittingI_y,is to communicate with them in wickednes. W'1tt1'ngly, I fay :
For thofe zoo. that inthefimplicity of their heart went along ‘ with /15/'¢lam.to\
H;-éron,.did not communiicfatei with him in his treafon tho they went. in com-
pany. But now,‘WilI any man of wit or: reafon fay,7That theiic Wicked men;
and theft: fcandalous B'rethren,..iwh’o come to the Table of the Lord un-wotthily,
thatthcygo abouta wicked purpole and intuition? furely, what faultines {'3-
ever is in them, by which they hart thcmfelvcs from the Benefit of the Lords

T.:1l)lC 5 ,

y Tom:-/:»z‘ng /lfzxt ['ommunion:Q 
Table _; yet the thing that they go about, in it fclfe is good, aduty enjoined, yea
fo acknowledged by them, in which refpeft it is that they addrefs Il1Cm‘[ClVCS'lmt0*
it : And therfore they that go with them to thisgdo communicate with them in
Good 3 becaufe they do willingly join their company in the profecution oftihofc:
good intentions. So then none of thefe texts do {peak toihe point.

Oéjefi. But it will be replyed z-That tho theletter of thetext doth only look
upon civill foeiety prohibiting that as unlawfull : yet by confequence it will fol»
Iow 3t That if the one, yea that which is the lefs be unlawfiill, then the other, l yea
much more that that is the greater is unlawfull 3 If no Civi/I, much lef: any feared
Society. True: but then, you muff prefuppofe the i'ame power of Admitting and
feparating : If I may not admithirn to minehoufe, much leis may I admit him
to the Table of the Lord : fuppofing me to have the power of Admitting. I
grant, that For them that have power to keep him out,the Argument holdeth. The
Churchwoflicers of Corinth and Tbefllzlanica were bound to make that infiaretice
upon the text of St.I’aaZ ; And if they did not, I acknowledge them to have fin-.~i
ned. But the cafe is otherwife in this matter : This dothnot prove, that every
particular Chrillian in either ofthofe Churches did {inn in comming to the Ta-
ble of the Lord while thefc were not removed, if not they, then neither is it {inn
inany oFourChurch~members to ptefc-tit him {elf at theHoly T'ablC.to partake of
thofe holy Mylleries in the company of them that are unworthy. For why P The
Table isthclords : it is he that maketh the feafl, that inviteth the guelis, and
bids them welcome: Shall any that is invilted and prepared yet abliain becauliz
of anothers unpreparednes? Tell met: I pray you : Did that text of the Apoiile
C ar.5.1 Lforbid any Chriflian to eat: at another mans table, filppofing that this
other man hath alfo invited a fcandalous Chriflian ? “I crow not. By vertue of
that text I may not ( as before was laid ) invite the fcandalous brother, I may
not accept of his invitation : But if a third man invite us both, this text doth not”
bind me to refufe my friends euttetie becaufe of {nah company. If not fo : much
leis to refnfe the invitation of God calling me to feafl at his holy Table. Did any
of thofe gueiis in the Parable Ulwlataa. turn backiwhen they faw the Man who_
had not on his vteddi_ng garment, and c‘opf7cquently in the (‘rate of myanyifefi lun-
worthi-nes and unpreparednes? Did they I fay turn back? or is tiny of them

checked for coming in his company ? ‘Which brings on the fecond‘partoF the firfl 

Argutneiityoiz. That asthis cafe is not prohibited, to neither is it reprehcnded.
2.N0-text of Scripture hath teprehended it.

Not that in Car. 5'.Il.2. Thet indeed he taxeth the Church ofarintlv, th at they A

fuftered the incefluous perfon Frill toremain in “Communion with them»- He
blameth them that~they were pzzfii.-d up,i.e. they fought to hide and excutfe the

fauloglorying in theexcellencylof the mans ‘gifts  foryir. is conceivetl that her

was a Teacher among them,andthatifortheeminency of hisgifts, they were un-

D i 2 _ willing  

 A LA’ 174' admit: Anfwer ta the Q5/eflion,

A willing to feparate him from the Congregation. ) This he chargeth upon them it
and that they had not mourned : "What is meant by this mourning is noi eafilyto

determine: That is not tobe doubted which fome layit/iz. That ther is good
teafon whywe lhould mourn for the [in of others C as did tholi: in Ezcl§9.4.
who are ther-upon marked in the Forehead to be preferved from the common de-
Ptruéiion ) good reafon, I fay, both becaule hereby there groweth a fcandall upon
the Congregation; as alfo,hecaufe the {inns of others do indanger ns C except
we mourn fior them )ll-11'Cl"pC& of temporall things both goodsand lite, and all:
This I fay is not doubted, yet I rather lean to the opinifm of them who under»

“ Hand this mourning, of the indiéting a folemn dayiof Faliing and mourning

for the excommunication of that inceliuous perfon : The culiom then was to de-
nounce the fentence of Excommunication in a folemn maner, with the generall
mourning and Iamentatiou of the wholallfembly invited ther-unto by appoint-
ing a time for that Aéition, So much the learned do obfitrv out of this text, C0715 .
3. 8: 2 Cor.I 2.0 . And this is that that I conceiv the Apollle meaneth in laying,
To’: have mt mourned, that he might he put away from nmazzgym. And was this
the Duty of every particular perihn in the Congregation?The Epilile indeed is
written to the vvhol Church oFC'arz‘n:h,8t refpefteth every particular perfon in the
Congregation : But I {uppofc that St.Pa;zl doth not intend to accufe every par-
ticular member either of being puffed, or of not mourning: much leh to in join
every man to put on that folemn maner of mourning by indifiion of the day,

i and denouncing the flentence of Excommunication againfl him.

  To beleev that whatfoever is fpolten to the whol Congregation may be ext»-
euted» by every particular member thereof} is in efl"'e€t to “take away dil‘lin¢"ti-
on of Orders and oflicers in the Church and Common-wealth : When God
faith Dmtd 3. That irmji-r.t to jdolntry mafl he flayed ta deaths 5 Doth he intend to
put every man in Authority to lite the execution done immediately ; Nay, in cafe
the Magilirate negleét his office-,doth this warrantife every man to put the law
inexecution P Doth not thislaw of God rather intend that execution pals on

legally by the hand of the Officers deputecl to hear and determin of fuch mat-at

tets? Wlien St'.P.cwl writing to the Colloliians, Cal.4.1 7. putteth in this exhor-

tation, And, _/21} to Archijvpm, Tale: head to the Minéflry which thou he/E received

in the Lord,‘ that than fulfill it ; Dorh he hereby authorilé every Collollian to lay
this charge upon the Minilier? Or is it not rather to be prefented to him by the
hands of them that were in place and authority 2‘ So neither in Cans. He that
was not puffed up, was not guilty of communicaringin that (in. And liippolir

that the Church-officers had not done their du in removing the incefiuous'per--

{on (as perhaps they did not remove fome oth r flzandalous brethren from the

'(',‘hurch-fociety )‘,ther isnothing in the text to lead us to beleev that St.P:mlin--

tendsdaregtoof to themithat were not pnfl’:d,but indeed fizanrnedyprivately in
i *4 A.    [hm

Teaching Mixt Communibxx.‘ ~ p 7
their devotions to lee {itch diforder, a reproof I fay to them, fine that theydid not

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with-draw~\themfelves from the Communion of the Church in their dpproa ching y

to the Table of the Lord. a.

C or. I 0. He reprehendeththem who held Communion with Idolaters in their
Idol-fealis: and in Car. I I . them who profaned the Table of the Lord by their
utireverentcarriageand behaviour at it : uling many a Arguments to pdifwade»
them from that evill, and to perfwade them to a reformation : yet doth he not,ei--
ther mention this as a motive,.that they did bring (in upon others, or adtnonifh

others to forbear communion with them till theft: rhinos were reformed, leaflty

ther-by their confcience lhould be deliled, and the ordinazhce of God become un-

profitable to them. Yet this had been a very powerfirli Argurnexit of perfizafion

both to theione 8: to the other,and doubtlels had ther been truth in it, St.Pmdf

would not have forgotten it. The unworthy receiver ( faith the Apoflle) entezht t

and drinkgth damnation to hzmfelf: He faith not,.to hirplélf and others: I grant;
it doth not follow from the filence of the Apolile, that his fin cannot hurt"
another belide himlelf : But this doth follow ; That if to him that hath prepared»
himlelfther had been any danger at all from the prefbnce of others who are un-
vvorthy, this had been a fit placefor St.P¢wl to have mentioned it. Which line:
he hath not,we conclude, that he who hath examined himfitlf, hath done enough
to lizcure him from the dangertof eating and drinking damnation to himfelF,When
the Apolile doth fer down the caufes of that plague that was among the Cotinths

doth he mention any finch thing as their prelience with the wicked in the Duty of

Receiving P Or doth the text any whet at all imply it P

We End in E.t..cl;.7-‘.5 2.26. a complaint of the Priefis thatthey had 'U1'0l»1t6’6h_}al1(7I
offered violence to the law : that they had profimed the Holy thing: of God: that
they pm no diffhrence hetween the H01] and Profane, norfhewed diflilrcncc herniate-
the Clean and unclean, And infer; I 5.9. the Lord by lhewing the Prophet what,
he would have him to doe, intimateth :1 Reprehenlion of the Fall"-‘-prophets who

had not do11e‘theirduty,'w'«'t.. To fipnratc the pretiamfrom the vile. But if We *—

look upon the places and weigh them well, we may obferv that both texts have
reference to the Duty of'Teachers and Olheers in the Church : They mull indeed
put a difference betwixt things holy and profane, they mufileparttte the precious
from the vile, proriotznciziginetcy to the one,denouncing j ndgement to theother :
admitting the one to the Holy things,k_eeping of the other:This mufi the clo,and

if not, they deferve a  reproof. But What is this to the caufe in han P Doth ,

this countenance the courle of lhch who condemn thofe that do not put them-
R-lves fromthe Holy things of God; becaufe tholi: be admitted which ought not 2*
Is not this rather to make {ad the Heart of the righteous? That of life} 65. I1 .‘
Tee are they that farfleke the Lord that prepare an Tahlcfhr the Troupsand ftzrmfh 4-
drinlg afcring for th: m¢mher.yThis I fay hath been

alledged to tax the negligence
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I8 ‘ A A /Moderate Anfwer to the Qxflg/hon,

of them who admit the promifcuous multitude to the Table of the Lord: Asif the
Prophet had blamed Ifrael for the like careleliuefs in their» Palibver. and Peace»
offerings .7 wheras the text doth blame their Idolatry, not their profanefs: Idola-
try in 1‘;;c;jfi;ing{m japimr and /Ifermry : to the Holi of Heaven. But adi-nit i it
as a tax of negligence and lproiianclls, yet mull it not fall upon every particular
perfon: Apply it to the Church -oflicers and {pare not: but blame notthem, who
becaufe the promilcuous multitude are not turn’d away, do not turn away them-

felves from the Table ofthe Lord. And lo tnuchfot the fitii Argument, 657:.
D “D7”/2: ficand Argument. D

 Oman may .negle&,.either the Duty thathe oweth to -God; or the Bent»

fit which God reacheth forth to Him upon pretence that another man doth
not perfortn his Duty, or is not fitted to receive the Benefit with Him. Shall not
the Husband pray, or Heat and Receiv, becaufe the wife. of his Bolomc is paflio-
nate and irreconciliabler? Shall not Lot make l1{1l'l.'0l.1C0fS0tl'0m6’, becauli: his fon-
ini-laws do not prepare to go with him 2’ That it is a Duty to receiv the Sacra~
ment is plain enough by that precept, Do this in Remcmémnca of mice .- That that
is atBen~efit reached forth to us in it, is as evident by thatwotd of our Saviour,
Tbz‘: i: my $04}, T121}: it my Blood  He that mm/9  _flt-[79, and drizz/get}; my élaaafi,
lmt/.2 etzerlafling life. Nay more: This Benefitcannot be had .without this duty :

Exceptyce eat?/ac flefla cf the So): of mat», and drink; 6:’: élood,_yec have no life in‘

-yon, ]oh.6..53. You will perhaps reply: That Duties mufi be p'erFotmed in a
right manner, otlierwile we may provoke God : Ifrael muli eat the Pa{ToVcr,yet
not in their uttcleaniicfls, not with the unclean, fay the fame of Chriliians. I
grant the Propofition for found and good : The inflance of‘ I fraeldoth not reach
home to ytheypoint in hand. It»-doth not appear by any text of Scripture That if
the Mal‘rer‘of'th¢ Familiedidaineglefi to CXCllldC$_{uCl1liaS were unclea rt, that ther--
upon the children or fervants did, or might lawfiill y forbear the Paflbvcr.

Add this alfo, To bring home the A1-gtimciit more particularly to the cattle in
hand where a prepared Heart may complywith the principall end of Receiving
the Sacrament,therought he not to al:>l'ent himfelf For want of the fccondary,
Reafongivctli it, Tl13tAiW.l1Cf»t.l1CflS at Duty to bcdolles at l'3€I1£‘5ft to bc‘ Cxpcéicclt
If ther be divers Ends ofdoing that duty, tome more , fome lefs principal! : No
realbn to negtleft that by which the Principa-ll end may be obtained, l>ecau{é:
Wecannot Ol:)EClll1y[l1Cli~t’COIlCl3ryo Now then,As God hath appointed and or-
daincd this Sacrament; t.To hold tbtth the Benefit oFCltrifl's death to the _W0r'--
thy Receiver, that by partaking of .Chril.’ts flefla and blood thc~Chriflian may be
more neerly united to~ChtiPt himl'elf‘inlthei firliplace, and then to the members
OF Chri{’r.“ 2, To call For and caufe in the Society of the faithfull it publiclc
Tefiification of their mutual! love and charity one to another ‘as members of the

'    ** D it i D fame

. Toflclaiwg Mix: C ommuniom.’ ,. :29 
fame myflrcall body.  So, the prineipall end of-Receiving. is to continue the Unis
on and Communion with Chrifhatid all good Chriflians ( the living members of‘
Chrifi) which vvaslbegun in Baptifin : And the fecondary is to make prolticfliorl
of it by joining with this and that Afiembly oFChriPtians. Now then, fince the S
primary end of Receiving is our Union with Chtilt : and out union with Chri--'
flians is but the fetzondary C For we are not united to Chrifi by being “received S‘
into the Cong:-egation, but indeed received into the Congregation becaufe firfl.

united to Chrili.) Nay fince, the primary end, is Llnion: and our Profefiion orv

Tel’rificatiot'1-~thei't>f is but the fecond‘ ( or third end of Receiving. Therfore
where the Primary end may be obteined, why fhould the want of the l"econd“’

 or perhaps the third jbeaccounted any jut’: barr to keep us off; Now,how-it

foevcrt El’1CIDi'XEm'C of bad with the good, or the fcandalous courfes or overt-many

intheAlTeml)ly might feem 22 juli bar: to our Profeliion of Communi'on and‘
Fellowfhip withithis or that Congregation, yet fince it cannot hinder us in ob-
tait1ing,pt.:r defire of Union with Chrifl, and his 1nyIiiq_all»Body, why fhould
this mixture be :1 ny ban: to the Dtttyen joined P In very deed if that Profeflion

of our lelves to be of the Number of them who hold of Chrifl andhisChurch,t
if this ( I lay) were the principall end oFReceivingtthe Sacrament , Then were

there fame {hew of Reafon to forbear joining with a mixtt Afi-embly : But now»
it is otherwife. It were indeed to be wilhcd that the whole Congregation were»
{rich as that we might affeeiionatly defire to continue in Communion and Fel-

lowlhip with them : But iF_it fall out otherwife through the fault of other men :

Can that be a firliicient realon to hinder us from the Sacrament 5 The prime fruit
and Benefit whet-of l we may partake of; even in the mixt Allembly ? Add this
alfo :That it is charitably fuppofed, ther be fome Saints in the Congregation ;
and in our add rclistotlic Sacrament we do profetfs our defire ‘of71i‘inion and (Eon)-
mnnion with them :if others intrude themfelvcs, we came not thither to meet’
with them. Nowthe Q‘-llCfllOl1iS3Wl1<":tl1Ct‘~Wc tnayt1cg»let’9cthc good and godly
Cl’11‘l~l.llal‘tS,, and that Duty which we ow to God in rel'pe& of them, becaufe S of?
the bad and wictked, whom finding their, we have not power to remove.» a ; 

T175’ t/rird ‘Jrgumcntt 7

i .~ That Opinion which in the bcB:»Ages of thc«Church hath- been condetnncdt
n of errour : And that which_nece{Tarily caPte~th ChriPtians_upor1" inextricable
difiicnlty’s and: difizornforts, s in all probability erroneous and thertorertnot; to
be embraced‘: Such is thcopinioh of ’ them who hold it finfitlls for a Chrilhan
(7 tho well;~prepartd'f'or_thc holy Sacrament by felf-examination according to
the Dofirine of the Apoltle ) to draw neer to the Table of theLord in the-»com..
pany of them that are uujufilyi permitted to Come to that ho1yOrdmancc.
That it hathtbcen condemned as erroneotts in the belt agcseof the Church, 1%

evidtrt .

~ No; 72022 camztzmzicare peccatis zzliomm

ergo Cd Moderate Anfwr to the Qaejtéan, _ 7 H
.cvident'by':rthe‘Ptory of the Novatians firfl, and the Donatills afterward, who
, A ainfilawc Dmmmg dmh St uyon fuch grounds made a‘" Feparation fiontthc
ydrtzguflin diiputc, as did St.cyp,,-W’, (..hutch 0f(..'10(l, and {er up fi2lefl: Conga-egat1.ons
bet-gm him againfi the Novamns, of their own ; utterly condemning thole Char»
Notcherc,tl1at0ftC11 in his books ches and Afliemblies, who admitted of any {itch
.‘?§f€fé?/:I7.{’?t:.C(:;7’2':[2;:zz Izltindtiffaa €’:'f50;1(‘7[Z to the Communion of the Church whom they
I . » l . . . . . s
St‘AMfl;n dman Agthofiity out of accounted fit to he fufpended from the Sacra-
¢fl,.,.,-y,,,,, M, 43 MM,’ to Pro“ E1.,9.y ment, and the fociety of the faithfull. .»
conclulion that we ha“. in hand‘. That it doth neceflarily cal’t many Chriflians
‘ __ _ upon inextricable difliculties and difcomforts is
""”'l”.7fi 6”” ””'7’ 5“”“’”‘”’”"”” mm‘ evident in this :That if it be unlawfull to receiv
‘r'71/J/113726 mslflfflmllf. . . » .
the Sacrament in a mixt Allembly ; Then it may
fall out that fome Chrillians may for ever be deprived of that Ordinance, and lb
want that comfort both in life afl(.lCicL1tl1:WhlCl‘1thCy might have by it. For why P
fome have not liberty nor means of feparation, and feeking ellewl1ere,ex.yr.
Wives, children, fervants whichare under the Covert and command of their
Husbands,Parents, Mallets : Some again are {hut up in prifon ; others banilhed
or confined to fueh a place where this Doflrinc is not beleeved, not is that Sacra»
ment any where to he had, but in the Parochiall Aflemblies of that Place and
People. Now for all {itch to be deprived of the Sacrament, and of the comfort
which cometh by it, is a matter of fuch inconvenience, that it cannot iii any pro-
;bability,be allowed as an Order, and Appointment of Chrill. Confequently I
conclude 5 That the O inion vvhichdenyeth it lawfiill For a C hriPtia.n to commuv-
nicate in a mix: Aflém ly, is in all probability erroneous and not to be received.

This alfo may be cal’: in to make up Full weightand mealhre : That we find
in the Gofpel our Blelfed Saviour not excluding ladder from the Pallover, even
when he knew that he had confhired with the Priefls to betray him. Nor do any
of the Difciples, when our Saviour told them, Tee are not all elm», One of you
flmll Astra} me, not any of them do call upon Chtilt to turn out the Traitotur.-. no
not when by the Sopp given to 71144:, Chrill had manifelled him to be the man-
VVl1€1‘-in if the Apollles were to blame ( fo itmay he thcfe men may think) as
notfufilicieiutly ( at that time) carefull to have an Holy Communion by f2:pata-
tiingthve ptetiousffomi the vile : yet certainly our blelled Saviour did not at all

tranfgrefs the Rule oFHoline{§,’Nori would he have permitted fade: to {it To neery

them, if any of them might therby Fail of Receiving the Benefit that might upon
{elf-preparation be juflly ex peéted from that Sacrament. Nordo I know what:
can be excepted againfl this, unlels any would deny the N eccllity of morall
elearmefs to tliéiatepar-itig and fitting of the jews for the worthy receiving oftlte
Palfovcr, or boldly avouch that nothing more wasrequired -of them but a {dark

r r V

of

l Touching Mlxt Comritunionc . AA 31

A of7Ccremoniall purity,.'ahdlegallpurificatious of the Flefh zowhich Ifuppofc

is anopinion F5 grofi and abfurd, that none of underllanding would ownlit
and avouch it. We read Hezekiah urging the Preparation of the Heart, as an
Argument to prevail with God to. pardon the neglcft of Ceremoniall purifica-
tion :. which had been of no force at all, if Athofe Purificqtiolis had not been
required only in the way of figtiification and corntnonefat9cion to put thcmiin
mind of that fpirituall and morall duty, the Preparation of Heart, If God
took any pleafure in walhing the hands ,and fcouring the Hefh, why doth our
Saviour blame the Pharifees who were but too diligeim and oblervant of their
Ceremonies :No, no :Evident it is, that Sacrifices and Cerem‘onies, were ac-

ceptable only as Inflitutions, :111d.Admoniti011s of Morall Duties : As at other .A

times; Som their Preparation of themtelves to the Holy Sacrament ; Nor

was it enough for [radar that he was clean ( asfarr as the water could reach )
 no not enough that his feet were vvafhcd C ifwalhed they were) by Chrifl .-

Since the Heart was full of covetoufnes and divelifh intentions. Whofe un- e

clea.nl}r:l's» might itbe anihinderzmcc to the Refidue in reccivingA the Bencl'it of A l

the S-acrament, Can we with reafhn beleev, that our Saviour wciuld not have

’ {hurt him out, and {'0 have taught them ( uponfiich an occafion )A_.;he Nccefli-

ty of what theft miA:nAcall for with fo much importunity 2'?

<1 clofe up all in a word : Since neither Scrifnture not Reafon do conclude it
unlawfull. Nay fince Cthc Scribttire bclllgfillfinti in the caufeg. neither
prohibiting nor. reprehcnding  Reafon doth draw us toconclude againfi:
the opinionofrhefi: men :» I conclude, It is not jinfull for aiChrt‘[han to re-
céiv tI1:':Sacram:ntina mix: eflflembly.  r A A 1 “ t

.~ew¢e::r.Jt'€~~

% Appendix. ’  C l r c t ~ l 
  c Eqctraffed am of A Refpanflgry ‘Loner. ‘ 6 % » t A A H‘
To your two Qtiaeliiohs propouncled inthe clof: of the I.ettc1' lrcturn

l thisbreef Anfwer foryour ‘lb-Clsfiélland

A it To th?'=n; Flrligvie. Whether it be not“ 6A {inn in t/:e‘M3niflAer to deliver _t/9:, Sacra-»
 men: to /izmgtlazu t3'fi‘mgdalo:2:;' i.e.ltoLhim who eh aving been lurch, hath not as
A yet reconciled himfelfto God and the Church by publik evidences of his R e- w

_ to bringthetfit8"the'. “gggilication of their Regentance. z.Whcre it is: Cvidcmi
e   A    A   

pentance. ‘lcanuot _3,Cll11it.tl'lC Aflirmative For at Truth,m'z.._ It is (in in him eit-
ceptwith thele Alimitzttions. t ~ A ll " A

1..Whcn~therisAA power in the H and oofthe Minilicr to keep finch rnenroffg and 

   
 

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ii tothe Miiiiflcr, thatthc man g-gm;h‘notit4ctox1ci1cd h'unf:lFto% God add‘ tht Cont-

owant of a chariitabic uit: of 

T Comtiiu1‘1i_on : Not the othr:-zu

gregation; '3.Vvh¢n tiietmanfikindced fczmdaioius £,e. ,tj1pM

  

havcgivcnoffcncc. Buttthcihiéis ocherwifc;   Miniflct ‘bath

,4

E * ufly known i tqi

not power in his hand :0: whmhe is not c¢4:tgg,iaV;;i*’ii wfiifaizsi Non»-Rcpcn--y 

tanccagnd Noz1vRec<3nci1ia;tionit: Or M-d1‘y,'whh "the4iwmém is not indeed.

iEanAd;zlous. i‘Ifay,Na:ind:é‘)éflj'BccauiZ: fome men acgountV"foznc% things to be
fcandalous which indeed arcinot. Thtri.iS,;igg,fi;aintl1aItoa weak brother in the

hr~ifl~i;xh Lihctrémg Thar iisia fcandai to then} that
Iy that f?:andé1I”~that dcfcrvcth V rcpuilic" from the

  

are without : This ‘latter is A

A‘

To the iécond "m'z-,,Wbat her it éaam «fin» £2: (5: Pgagilah to communicate with
flfiyfztc/.r.:ri«:, To rccciv the: Communion in the Society of (Each :1 Minifltr,
'.1UdfilCh a frzandalous Brother. I Fay as before: I cannot aflimn itfinfull _; ex»

Ccpc with chttfe Hz'nlt£tti0I1Si.4 I.Whcr1 it is evident to the Chriflimthat fuch a.

  perfon is indeed f'c:md:ilous,a.nd hath not reconciled him{c1F.. 2.Whcn it is in

4 the liberty ofthc Com'muniCan’titoiChniE or rcfufc fuch“ company. But the cafl: .

is otherwiiltgi when it is inot evident to hing that the other hath not rccroncilcd

himi'e1f°:'or when iciiionotiini thciiberty of thcoComLnnicdiht to refufc. Now at

W it is not in the liberty cafthc Chriiflian (Ewing theD_uty that he owcth to Goad)
I to abflciin édcogcther fxomtbciisacramciit: So ncithtriis it in his liberty (fziving o  

AA his dutythathc qwcthtowthu Magiflrat) coiabflain from that Coligrcgation

whet-ofiby vcrtueioffihéioshouiéandHagbitarion he is knowrttoi be in
i ‘Mcnibcr.*? «Atth¢5rC6m’u1union of thcifick pcradvci1m~rghcma‘yi
forbcarhfromjoiningihtiniodifltywith fuch. if they fhould?  
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Impflrzmaatur,

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