An Apology for Two Treatises Concerning Infant Baptism, Table of contents
The Contents of the Apology.
PAg. 1. Sect. 1. Of the occaſion of writing this Apology.
Pag. 2. Sect. 2. Of the intention of the Author upon that occaſion.
Sect. 3. Of the neceſſity and ſeaſonableneſſe of publiſhing the two treatiſes about Infant-baptiſme.
Pag. 5. Sect. 4. Of freedome from publiſhing the two treatiſes contrary to engagement, with a Declaration of the Authors proceedings therein.
Pag. 16. Sect. 5. Of the clearing the Author of the two treatiſes from ſcornfulneſſe in writing them, of my cenſure of Mr The: Goodwins handling this point, and of all writers about Coloſſ. 2. 12.
Pag. …8. Of the expoſition I give of Coloſ. 2. 12. confeſſed to be right by Mr Marſhall himſelfe.
Pag. 30. Sect. 6. Of the clearing the Author of the Examen from either juſtifying the Anabaptiſts in Germany, or condemning the godly and grave nonconformiſts in England.
Pag. 36. Sect. 7. Of the clearing of the Author of the two treatiſes from vaunting and challenging in the compoſing and publiſhing the treatiſes.
Pag. 39. Sect. 8. Of the clearing of the Authour of the two treatiſes from ſophiſtry in them, whereby occaſion is taken to vindicate the Treatiſes in many of the chiefe things contained in them.
Pag. 40. Sect. 9. Of the meaning of M. Marſhals ſecond concluſion, the words in the Directory [the promiſe is made to beleevers and their ſeed] and the doctrine therein delivered, diſavowed by M Marſhal and M. Geree.
P. 44. Sect. 10. Of the diſtinction of inward & outward covenant, & that it can ſtand M. M. in no ſtead, but to ſhew his triflting & equivocating in his firſt argument▪ and two firſt concluſions, and of maſter Marſhals miſtake of my opinion.
Page 49. ſect. 10. Of maſter Marſhals falſe and moſt unjuſt charge that I carry a Socini… plot through my Examen and Exerutation
Pag. 53. Sect. 12. Of Mr Marſhals unjuſt charge of my itching after new opinions, and particularly about rebaptization and receiving the Lords Supper afore baptiſme.
Page 55. Sect. 13 Of alleaging authors againſt their mind, particularly maſter Daniel Rogers maſter Ball, Chamier, Ar…tiu, and Beza.
Pag. 60. Sect. 14. Of maſter Marſhals unjuſt charging Anabaptiſts with a bloody ſentence, condemning all the infants of beleevers, as having nothing to doe with the covenant of Grace, his imputing to me as if I held that they all belong actually to … kingdom of the devill, no more promiſe for them, then for children of Turks, their actuall ſtanding in the viſible kingdome of the devill.
Pag. 67. A large diſqui…ition of Rom 11. 17. &c. wherein is ſhewed that the ingraffing there is into the inviſible Church by election and giving faith, and that it proves not Infant-baptiſme.
Pag. 78. Sect. 15. Of maſter marſhals unjuſt charge againſt me as darkning his argument, and caſting filth in the face of the Aſsembly.
Pag. 80. Sect. 16. Of maſter Marſhals untrue charge againſt me, as if I reſted on Grotius in ſetting down the tenent of Antiquiry upon occaſion of which the tenent of Antiquity is again examined; my judgement of their doctrine vindicated: maſter Marſhals new allegations anſwered, and my diligence to find out their tenets manifeſted.
Pag 91. Sect. 17. Of my opinion about excommunication, Church-government, the admiſſion unto all ordinances, my former conformity alleaged to allenate mens minds from me and my writings.
Pag. 9. Sect. 18. Of the vanity of maſter Leyes vaunt concerning the deadly wound given to my cauſe, and the contrary demonſtrated by a briefe going through the principall points about this argument, as they have hitherto been diſputed. As about Acts 2. 39. Rom. 11. 16. Coloſ. 2. 12. Mat. 28. 19. Acts 16. 15. Mat. 19 14. &c.
Pag. 97. Baptiſme and the rite of eating bread and drinking wine at the paſſeover, though old rites among the Iewes, yet uſed to another end and after another rule by chriſtians.
Pag. 98. The command confeſſed to be the formall reaſon of circumciſion by mr marſhall.
Circumciſion a priviledge proper to the Jewiſh Church-ſtate.
Pag. 99. No command about the Jewes Sacraments now in force.
Pag. 100. Infants not diſciples as Mat. 28. 19 is meant.
Baptizing houſholds inferres not infant-baptiſme.
Pag. 101. We have no evidence for judgement of charity concerning infants, nor is a judgment of charity to be our rule in adminiſtring baptiſme.
Pag. 102. Sect. 19. Of maſter Huſsey his pretended ſatisfactory anſwer to my Exercitation.
Pag. 106. Sect. 20 The Epilogue of this Apology concerning the reaſon of the enlargeing of it, the Authours preſent eſtate and future intentions.
The Contents of the Poſtſcript.
PAge 109. Sect. 1. The occaſion of this Poſtſcript.
…. Sect. 2. Of M. Calamy, and Mr. V…nes. their wrong judgement of the diſpute, maſt. Blakes book and my diſcuſſing the point.
P. 111. ſect. 3. Of maſter Blakes charge of defect of charity, and ſome other imputations.
Pag. 112. ſect. 4. They that deny infant-baptiſme need not teach that infants periſh.
Pag 113. ſect 5. Of my cenſure of maſter Blakes producing Gal. 4 29. for the birth-priviledge
Pag. 114. ſect. 6. Of the neceſſity of my taking p…ins in my Examen to find out the meaning of maſter Marſhals ſecond concluſion by reaſon of the ambiguity of his expreſſions.
Pag. 120. ſect. 7. Of the Corinthians doubt, 1 Cor. 7. 12. 13. 14.
Pag. 121. ſect. 8. 1 Cor. 7. 14. is not meant of inſtrumental ſanctification, & federal holines.
P. 125. ſect. 9. Of maſt. Blakes miſallegation of Gal. 2. 15. which was the text he choſe for his birth-priviledge.
Pag. 128. ſect. 10. That 1 Pet. 2. 9. is meant of the Church inviſible.
Pag. 130. ſect. 11. Of precedents for womens receiving the Lords ſupper.
P. 131. ſect. 12. To ſay that God hath promiſed to be the God of every beleever and his naturall ſeed is a new Goſpell.
P. 132. ſect. 13. Of maſter Rutherfurds and M. Blakes opinion about holineſſe of a choſen nation, and mediate Anceſtours profeſſion intitling to infantbaptiſme, and the Independents advantage in this point.
Pag. 134. ſect. 14. Of the word [nations] matth. 2…. 19. how to be taken.
Pag. 135. ſect. 15. of maſter Rutherſfurds and maſter Blakes, and mine opinion concerning the rule to know who are baptizable.
Pag. 138. ſect. 16. About two ſuppoſitions a…criby me to maſter marſhall and maſter Blake in my Examen, page 130.
Pag. 140. ſect. 17. About arguments draw… from Analogy in poſitive rites and their invalidity, and the inſufficiency of maſter Blakes rules.
Pag. 145. ſect. 28. That Maſter Blake hath not proved that infants are diſciples from Matth. 18. 5. nor pertinently alleaged, Iſai. 49, 2….
Pag. 147. ſect. 19. Of baptizing …ouſ…olds and … cenſure of Mr Blakes ſpeech concerning it.
Pag. 149. ſect. 20. About Matth. 19 14. that by the kingdome of heaven is meant the kingdome of glory.
Pag. 151. ſect. 21. That God ſeales not to every perſon that is rightly, baptized, that his covenant of grace belongs only to the elect, that his covenant is effectuall, and leaves it not to mans liberty to include or exclude himſelfe.
Pag. 155. ſect 22. Of Mr Blakes unjuſt crimination of … as putting the children of beleevers out of the covenant of Grace, and the Epilogue of this Poſtſcript.