Chap.45 of the Ole of Beleever.r. of filch practcice there delivered though the grounds,. real ns, ant} causes of the necessity of fùch practice be there contained, and the benefit or good that followeth it. Of this fort is the Bap - tifin of infants , Which is therefore named a tradition , 6e- caufe it is not exprefrely delivered in Scripture that the A- pofiles did baptixe'Infants, nor any expreffe precept there found that they flaould fo, yet u not this fo received by bare and naked tradition , but that We finde the Scripture to deliver unto zu the grounds of it. If Matter Pombes will fikbfcribe to that part in Do- 6tor Field, That the grounds, reasons,ana`ctu(es of the neceffity of Infant- Baptifm are contained in Scriptures, i en I will fubfcribe to the other, that thofe words, lufants otughttv be baptized are not in Scripture. Then he quotes Doctor Prideáçx, who fayes,, ' Padobaptifrnref$s on no other divine right then Epifeoopacy, but he does not tell us, whether Door Prsdeaux goes about to bring. down Infant - Baptifm to unwritten Tradition, or to bring up E- pifcopacy to divine right according to Scripture. He bath ,a fentence from Doctor Taylour, that looks not at all towards this but-metre : For his quotation out of a.difguifed. Author, ( who he is informed, is Matter Young) that we oppofe against the madneffeof the Anabaptifls, the paraliel precept of L`ircnmcifion,. and the Apoftolical praElice ; which when fometimes it is more dark, ive adde to it the continual cuMome of the Church. We have this to. oppofe indeed, and far more then this, which is. above Mr. Tombes his skill, though not above his confidence to anfwer I marvell that he should take exceptions either at our Arguments for Infant - Baptifm, drawn by confequence from Scripture-prin- ciples, Peeing in other cafes it is his own praetice, and lomewhere, (I am fure,) he juftifies again itforne of his party; orthe Argu- meiat drawn from the Churches practice, for the clearing of a point in controverfie. I never knew any go farther in an Argu- ment of that nature then Malter 7 ombes, and that fence he fell into this way of oppofition of Infant- Baptifm, I have heard him zealous for a Minifters power, folely and fingly to debarre men unworthy from the Lords Supper, urging no clear text of Scripture, or dwelling on any thing fo Much as the Churches-; practice, And I do not doubt but he is convinced,, ( I am fure others are) that the practice of Infant- Baptifm is more clear..in Antiquity, then the foie power of the ;Minifter in this point cOn -,; 423
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