Ch.44 of the fig of Beleevers. 40I in Huntingdon- fhire, but the horrid prophanation of an inftituted worfhip; Baptifme is (fill Gods, but the application mans and here the will is not carried to a devife of an ordinance, but alone to the application of ir. Yea, Matter Tombes making it a corrup- tion of the Ordinance of Baptifine, acquits it from will- worfhip: but in Infant- baptifine we neither devife an Ordinance, nor of our own heads make application of it : we know they belong to the family of Jefus Chrifi, we know Chrifts order to admit them to the priviledge that was proper to thofe of his family,and as faithful Rewards we follow the will of our Matter, not our own will, but the will of Chrift Jefus. Could Matter Tombes wa(h his hands of Sacriledge,as we are able to clear our wills and wits from devife of a worfhip, it were better with him ; The times were, when men looked upon things confècrate (as holy to the Lord) in a multiply - ing glaffe; we had holy places, holy Altars, in which Mr. Tombes (whatfoever he bath faid for himfelf, Sea .2r. of his Precurfor) went too farre to the grief of the godly , and farther then the times with their flreames needed to have borne him, had he beene meerely prat, and no voluntier in it. I very well know, and there is a Bi(hop yet alive in England knows, that Doctor Barges (whom he quotes as leading him) hid he confulted with him, would have dtffwaded him, His way in Dottor Barges his opinion was his fìn, though I yet beleeve he went not fo farre as I hear him frequently cenfured, and that by men that (peak out of the opinion that in thofe times they conceived of him ; I with Mager Tombes fedExtremes are - d.3 oufly to confider, how ordinary it is with men to carry on their °gerous. wayes in extremes, and out of fuperflition to runne upon Sacri- ledge. leis well known how apt the people of Ifrael were for idolatrous wayes, and ready to imbrace every fuperftition after the way of the Heathen, and in conformity to them ; yet after the Babylonifhécaptivity they were quite takenoflthat courfu;what wickednes foever they were otherwife guilty of, yet it is oblerved that they kept themfelves from Idols; that (iinne had fo confumed them, that ac fait it had even wearied them : And then (as it ap- lewes - pears from the Apoftle) they run upon this extreame,to which we vingidolatry, are here Ìpeaking; therefore when in other things they are charged run npon Sa. with the fame finne that (as men of knowledge) they condemned criledge. in others, Thou that preachefì that another ¡honld not fleale, belt thorn fleale ? thou that fayefi a man Jhould not commit adultery, Fff doeft
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