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…

What more uncontrovertible then that these Infants were with the rest of the congregation baptized in the Sea and under the cloud, being externally incorporated in the Commonwealth of Israel, and the seed of Abraham? What more manifest then that the Apostle holds forth to us that their baptism was materially or substantially the same with ours, both for the grace signified and sealed, and for the very element of water? So that this Infant-baptism of theirs, is (upon the matter and according to the Apostles doctrine) a good warrant for Infant-baptism among us, as well as if the new Testament had expressly told us that some Infants were baptized¹ by Christ or his Apostles. This argument hath taken deep impression in my thoughts, and while I look after the suffrage of Divines, I find some of very good note have had the same notion from this Text against the Anabaptists, showing also that their objections against Infant-baptism fall as heavy upon that baptism of the children of Israel. My Reverent Brother Mr. Baillie, hath drawn an argument from the same Text for Infant-baptism. See Anabaptism. p. 149, 150.

What more uncontravertable then that these Infants were with the rest of the congregation baptized in the Sea and under the cloud, being externally incorporated in the Commonwealth of Israel, and the seed of Abraham? What more manifest then that the Apostle holds foorth to us that their baptisme was materially or substantially the same with ours, both for the grace signified and sealed, and for the very element of water? So that this Infant-baptisme of theirs, is (upon the matter and according to the Apostles doctrine) a good warrant for Infant-baptisme among us, as well as if the new Testament had expresly told us that some Infants were baptized¹ by Christ or his Apostles. This argument hath taken deep impression in my thoughts, and while I look after the suffrage of Divines, I finde some of very good note have had the same notion from this Text against the Anabaptists, shewing also that their objections against Infant-baptisme fall as heavy upon that baptisme of the children of Israel. My Reverent Brother Mr. Baillie, hath drawn an argument from the same Text for Infant-baptisme. See Anabaptisme. p. 149, 150.

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