4 1 8 _------ Antiquity is for !nfant- Baptifin. -----------.._...- The Birth=Privileclge and Covenant-holgnefe Ch.45 fettle their faith on them, Luke 24.25, 26. O fools and flow of heart to beleeve all that the Prophets hale fpolçen, ougrt not Chrift to have j f uff -r cd the' fe things; and to have entred into hse glory ? Thofe were fools and dullards that did not believe from the Scriptures of the Prophets, that thrift muff fuffer and enter unto glory. But thofe words are no where in expreffe words written :It is alone by confequence from the Prophets words that we know them. Somewhat I have fpoken to thofe that reafon in this fort, leaft they fhould be wife in their own conceit, I will have no More to deal with them , leaft I be thought to be like them, Fourtlìly,There is a great flourifh made by fome,as though An tiquity were againft Infant-Baptifm and famous flourifhing Churches never 'received it In which Matter I em6eshath taken much pains, but n ever man travelled in a bufinef e to leffe pur- pofe, as all may fee that will take the pains to read w-hat he bath wrote, and bring it home to that which lies upon his hand, and he takes upon himfelf to prove,which is, that Infant- Baptifin is not ancient,as is pretended, and would bear the world in hand . that there were fome ages of the Church in which it was not in ufe. In all of which fearch of his, and help that he bath found, from far greater-Antiquaries then himfelf of the Socinian party, (no friends to the Baptifm of infants)he cannot finde.one Wri- ter of any kinde whatfoever, or wherefoever, from the day that john baptized in 7ordan, and in ran near Salem to this very year, that bath Paid, and left on record, 7 hat there was no fuch cufiom as Infant- Tapti fen in his days; and when fo many have expreffely affimed that the original! was' from the Apoftles,and that ho beginning ofit in the Church can be found, till fome one appear in contradi &ion to affert the non -ufage of it in his time, let any indifferent. Redder judge to . what,purpofe all ferves that can be Paid. The Primitive times had not mufical Inftrçiments in their Congregations, they had not Altars, Images , they eret- ed not Temples to Saints, this we hear from Writers in their fe- verall Ages, and in;cafe they had not In ant- Baptifm( when the Church of the Jewes had,Infant &Circumcifion, and the ancient, as Mailer Tcrrbes path heard,rnade Baptifm to Succeed Cir- cumcifion ) and never any one mention their non -ufage of it , or give any reafon concerning it is above ;a .wonder. Mafter Tomber
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