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MAster Baxter of right to Sacraments, disp. 2. pag. 53. Argum. 1. If we must not baptize any who profess not true repentance, then must we not baptize any Infants; but the antecedent is true. Therefore, &c. The consequence of the major, is manifest, sith this proposition on which it de∣pends, Infants profess not true repentance, is manifest by sense. The antecedent is easily pro∣ved from Scripture, and I know not whether a∣ny Protestant deny it. I prove 1. that Repen∣tance, 2. and such as is proper to the effectually called is necessary to be professed by all that we may baptize; I will joyn the proof of both together. Argum. 1. If John Baptist required the profession of true repentance in men before he would baptize them, then so must we: but John did so, therefore the consequence is clear. 1. For either John•• bap∣tism and Christs were the same, as most of our Divines against the Papists do maintain (though Zanchy, and some few more follow the judgement of the ancient Doctors in this) or as Calvin Institut, saith, the difference seems to be but this, that John baptized them into the Messiah to come, and the Apostles into the name of the Messiah already come. 2. Or if the difference be greater we may argue a fortiori, from the more forcible: if Johns baptism required a profession of repentance, then much more Christs; for certainly Christ required not less then John, not did he take the impenitent into his Kingdom whom John excluded. The antecedent I prove. 1. From Mark 1. 3, 4. He preached, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the baptism of repen∣tance unto the remission of sins. And doubless that repentance which is in remissionem pecatorum, unto the remission of sins, is true special repentance. One of our Divines, and many of the Papists have sound another evasion: That is, that John did engage them to repent, but not requiring a profession of repentance as foregoing baptism; but this is against the whole current of expositors, ancient and modern, and 2. against the plain scope of the Text. The words in Matth. 3 6. are [they were baptized of him in Jordan, confes∣sing their sins] This confession was with, yea before their baptism; and this confession was the profession of repentance that John required. Maldonate on the text, having first railed at Calvin and slandered him, as turning bap∣tism into preaching, (as if he had expounded Johns baptizing, not of water bap∣tism but preaching, when he onely shews that both should go together) doth tell the Protestants that they cannot prove by this text that confession went before baptism, because it is named after; but that he might not seem utter∣ly impudent, he confesseth that the thing is true, and that is the sense of the text, and this he confesseth because he must rather be a faithful expositor, then a subtile adversary. And if any should say that it's onely confession that's