A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Of Infant Baptism.

Of Infant Baptisme.

Master Tombs in his Apology for the two Treatises, and appendix concerning Infant Baptism, inserts a letter to Mr. Selden, pag. 90. in which he intimateth his opinion, that Paedobaptism did not succeed into the room of circumcision, wherein he saith, he was the more confirmed, having read of Baptism, used among the Jews before the time of John Baptist, in their admitting of Proselytes, and that therefore John was not accused for Baptizing, as if that had been a Novation or new rite introduced, but for Baptizing without authority.

MAster Tombes in his Apology for the two Treatises, and appendix concerning Infant Baptisme, inserts a letter to Mr. Selden, pag. 90. in which he intimateth his opinion, that Paedobaptisme did not succeed into the roome of circumcision, wherein he saith, hee was the more confirmed, having read of Baptisme, used among the Jews before the time of Iohn Baptist, in their admitting of Proselytes, and that therefore Iohn was not accused for Baptizing, as if that had been a Novation or new rite introduced, but for Baptizing without authority.

I do not marvel that Mr. Tombs is so cautious, that Baptism should not be thought to succeed into the room of circumcision, for so he should make baptism more like to the circumcision of the Arabians, who are not circumcised, till they be 13. years old (as Zonaras Annal. tom. 1. de rebus Judaicis, pag: 13. tells us) because their forefather Ishmael was circumcised about that age, then to the circumcision of the eight day, ordinarily used among the people of God under the old Testament. For my part, I think the Apostle, Col. 2. 11, 12