The divine right of infant-baptism asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase…The divine right of infant-baptisme asserted and proved from Scripture and antiquity. By Increase…

THE DIVINE RIGHT OF Infant-Baptism Asserted and Proved.

THE DIVINE RIGHT OF Infant-Baptisme Asserted and Proved.

IT is an Act both of Charity and Justice, to appear as an Advocate for those that being wronged are not able to speak for themselves, especially if they be deeply injured. And such is the case of the children of Gods Servants, when there are designs on foot to turn them out of the Lords and their Inheritance, as if they had no part in the Lord or in his heavenly Kingdom, but must all at once, (Quo jure quâque injuriâ) be cashiered and deprived of all the privileges thereof, and so the glory taken from them for ever. The Lord Jesus hath not been without those that have appeared on his side, in defending the Cause of his dear Lambs; In these latter Ages especially, great have been the Company of those that have published and proved their just Title before the World, and that it is no usurpation to set the Mark of the Lambs of Christ upon them. Few of those many who have written sums of Divinity, or larger Catechisms, but have handled this Argument; Yea, whole Tracts have been long since emitted by the most eminent Reformers, (such as Calvin, Bullinger, Zuinglius) tending to evince The divine Right of Infant Baptism. Nor have any done more worthily in this Cause, then some of our own Nation, such as Mr. Ainsworth, Mr. Marshal, Mr. Geree, Mr. Fuller, Dr. Hammond, Dr. Winter, Dr. Homes, Mr. Brinsley, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Sidenham, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Crag, Mr. Cook, Mr. Carter. Also of our New English Divines, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooker, Mr. Cobbet, Mr. Phillips have elaborate Treatises extant on the same subject. And within these six years last past, there are at least six Ministers in England that have appeared in the same Cause, five of them being provoked thereunto by the daring Confidence ⟨p. 2⟩of one who having harnessed himself in Mr Tombs his Armour, hath thought good to enter the List of disputation, & again to throw the gantlet to the Paedobaptists; but he is come off with small credit, they whom he hath stirred up to fall upon him, having indeed smitten him under the fifth Rib. So that the Truth we are now to stand up for, hath been so fully vindicated by others, as that hardly any thing more needs to be spoken; In which respect, I would have spared this pains, had I not been sensible that the discourses mentioned are in few hands, and not to be purchased;