A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson.

That baptism is not administred into the fayth of Christ simply, but into* 1.1 the fayth of Bishops, & Church of England, which you make our 3. er∣rour,* 1.2 do we not affirm, but leave it to him for justification, which not content with that in England received, hath found out since a 2. or 3. as he supposeth better then that was.

¶ Wee are to consider, baptism first, and principally in relation from GOD to vs, and as a seal of the covenant of grace into which he hath received vs: and secondarily in relation from vs to God, & as we restipulate, or promise agayn vnto him. In the first respect, it is effectuall vpon the very infants of the faith∣full, though for the present wanting fayth: & in the 2. both may be, & is vpon such as erre in many great poynts of fayth: otherwise the baptism ministred by Iohn into the fayth of Christ which came after* 1.3 him could not have been true vnto many which received it, being ignorant a long tyme after of the very kingdō, & office of Christ. To conclude then, since the essential form of institution is retey∣ned in the baptism in Engl:, & the doctrine of the Trinity sincere∣ly

held, into whose name all persons are baptized indefinitely, the particular errours in that Church touching the manner of wor∣shiping God, or touching the vses or ends of baptism (which are not of the essence) cannot make the baptism in it self cease to be indefinite.

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  Act: 19. 4.