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…

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, doth plainly hold forth, that baptism hath succeeded into the room of circumcision: which is also the common and received opinion of Divines. However, because Mr. Tombs doth rather think that the Christian baptism, succeedeth to that baptism used among the Jews in their admission of Proselytes, this hath Ministered occasion to me, to apply my thoughts, to search a little into the Original of Baptism by •ater, and whether the Original thereof, or that which God ⟨p. 211⟩had respect unto in the institution thereof, maketh any thing against, or for Infant-baptism.

I do not marvell that Mr. Tombes is so cautious, that Baptisme should not be thought to succeed into the roome of circumcision, for so he should make baptisme 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 Iudaicis, pag: 13. tels us) because their forefather Ishmael was circumcised about that age, then to the circumcision of the eight day, ordinarly used among the people of God under the old Testament. For my part, I think the Apostle, Col. 2. 11, 12, doth plainly hold forth, that baptisme hath succeeded into the roome of circumcision: which is also the common and receaved opinion of Divines. However, because Mr. Tombes doth rather think that the Christian baptisme, succeedeth to that baptisme used among the Jews in their admission of Proselytes, this hath Ministred occasion to mee, to apply my thoughts, to search a little into the Originall of Baptisme by •ater, and whether the Originall thereof, or that which God ⟨p. 211⟩