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Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether…
Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregational, or a Presbyterial way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all profane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those gross conceits that they have of their children's right to baptism; and of their own right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good counsel to bad men. Or friendly advise (in several particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.
London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653
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3. Because, the children of Parents, whereof neither can be judged, to be a Believer, ought not to be Baptized, till the child grow up to manifest his own faith, as these Scriptures (among many others that might be produced) prove, Gen. 17.7, 8, 9. Act. 2.39, 40, 41. 1 Cor. 7.14. &c.
4. 1Because, profane, ignorant, scandalous persons, &c. are visibly in covenant with Satan, and therefore to administer baptism, the seal of the Covenant to their children, upon their accounts who are visibly in Covenant with Satan, cannot but be a notorious profaning of the Ordinance, therefore I dare not do it. Now that such persons are visibly in Covenant with Satan is clear, Isai. 28.15. Because ye have said, ⟨p. 11⟩We have made a covenant with death, and with hell, are we at agreement, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid our selves, vers. 18. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. Not that they had formally made a covenant with Satan; but their ways and courses were such, as did proclaim to the world, that they had as it were formally made a covenant with hell and death. Therefore to apply this blessed Ordinance to their children, who are thus invisibly in covenant with Satan; and who are not capable thereof, through want of divine warrant, cannot (doubtless) but be esteemed a high profaning of it.