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A61127	A treatise concerning the lawfull subject of baptisme wherein are handled these particulars : the baptizing of infants confuted, ... the covenant God made with Abraham and his seed handled & how the same agrees with the Gentiles and their seed, the baptism administered by an Antichristian power confuted ... / by me, J.S.	J. S. (John Spilsbery)	1643 (1643)	Wing S4976; ESTC R23657	75,483	50

to God and receive according to the things done in their bodyes whether they be good or bad therefore no conscience ought to be forced in the matters of Religion because no man can beare out another in his account to God if in case he should cause him to sinne Ninthly I do beleeve the King is set upon his throne by God who hath given him power and authority to reigne and rule for God over all his subjects as supreame head over all persons in his Dominions in whom is resident all power to punish any that shall offend either against his royall person crowne or dignity and that all his Subjects are to obey him out of conscience to God and all in lawfull authoritie under him and wherein they rule w●●l I am bound in conscience actually to obey and assist them to the utmost of my abiliaie both in my person and state and wherein they goe amisse that I cannot with a good conscience actually obey them as aforesaid I shall passively submit my body to suffer their pleasure according to the Word of God in what they shall inflict upon me without resistance this is my faith and the faith of all that I desire to have fellowship with And lastly I do beleeve that there is an holy and blessed communion of Saints that God of his grace calls suck as belong to life by election unto the fellowship of his Sonne by the Gospel of which matter God by his Word and Spirit joyns them together in his covenant of grace and so constitutes his Church as I have before shewed And as God hath thus built for himselfe an holy habitation of such pure matter and also after ho holy a manner even so hath he provided a way of preservation and safetie for the same as Isa 26.1 We have a strong Citie salvation will God appoint for walls and bulworks which Citie is said to have a wall both great and high and built upon twelve foundations great that none shall break through high that none shall overtop or get over and strong in the foundation that nothing shall shake it 〈…〉 5. 〈…〉 3. and God hath said that he will be a wall of fire round about and the glory in the midst of it and that he will keepe it and watch over it by night and by day that nothing shall hurt it and as God hath built himselfe a house after his own minde and is a guard to the same even so he also is said to beautifie the same with salvation 〈…〉 3. 〈…〉 and to make the place of his feet glorious and that he will lay all her stones with faire colours and her foundations with Saphires and her windows of Aga●s and her gates of Carbuncles and all her borders of pleasant stones and all her children taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of her children Which Citie and the streets thereof are said to be of pure gold like unto cleare glasse 〈…〉 11 whose light is like to a stone most precious even as a Jasper stone cleare as Crystall Of which Christ saith Thou art all faire my love and there is no spot in thee 〈…〉 and that the Kings daughter is all glorious within and her clothing is of wrought gold And as Christ doth thus signifie unto us the nature of his Church both in respect of her matter her forme her grace and comely order in him her head even so he holds forth his love to her and delight in her by these and the like sweet expressions of comfort and solace 〈…〉 The Lord hath chosen Zion be hath desired it for his habitation saying this is my rest and here will I dwell for ever And so faith the Apostle In Christ all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord 〈…〉 1 〈…〉 in whom you are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit and therefore God is said to love the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob and glorious things are spoken of thee O thou Citie of God Which Citie is said to be Jerusalem which is above bo is the mother of us all And so the mountain of the Lords house is said to be established in the top of the mountains and to be exalted above the hils 〈…〉 6. For whose sake saith the Lord I will not hold my peace nor rest untill I cause the righteousnesse thereof to break forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth And so called by Christ and holy people the redeemed of the Lord a City sought out and not forsaken The name of which Citie from that day shall be 〈…〉 12 〈…〉 8. The Lord is there And further called his vine his plant his temple his flocke his pleasant portion his first borne his bride his Queene his Spouse his wife his body his love his dove his onely joy and place of Rest Consider Some were perswaded with the things that were spoken but some beleeved not Act. 28.24 ERRATA Faults escaped Page 8 line 5. Reade as for is p. 12. l. 4. r. therefore though the first c. p. 19. l. 45. 〈…〉

Gospel And now I come to give answer to some of the chief grounds brought for the proving of the foresaid baptisme in the hand of Antichrist to be the ordinance of God And first it is said that as Circumcision administred in Israels great apostasie remained still the ordinance of God so that when any of them did repent and turned unto the Lord they were received without being circumcised again and the like is now to be considered of baptisme in the apostasie of Antichrist The answer is first it is like to be a bad cause that must be maintained from the corruptions of other persons or states Is the order and government of Christs new state and kingdom under the new Testament more weak and imperfect then that under the old as we must go still unto Circumcision for a rule how to make out our baptisme Is the light of the Moon become now more brighter then the light of the Sunne and the heart vailed to see clearer then the face open and the servant to teach the Son Again it is worth our consideration from what church Antichrist did apostinate and go away from as the ten Tribes did under Jeroboam 1 King 12. But I passe this Secondly I answer that Circumcision was not confined in the hand of the priesthood then under the old Testament as the administration of baptisme is to the ministery of Christ now under the new Testament Thirdly Circumcision was then by them administred according as God had commanded the same to be both in respect of the matter and manner 1. The same order 2. A right subject 3. The due time 4. the true place And lastly a lawfull Minister But now the baptisme administred by Antichrist is contrary in all the foresaid respects which is by a false power upon a wrong subject by a false minister in a false body The like cannot be shewed in circumcision nor yet in baptisme and God approving of the same to be his ordinance And now to oppose this Zipporah the wife of Moses is brought for an example to prove that the baptisme administred by a false Minister may be true baptisme as circumcision was being administred by a woman Exod. 4.25 The answer is first that Moses wife was in the action the hand of her husband for the preserving of his life for had not Zipporah circumcised her son it seemes that God had slaine her husband as ver 24.25 26. compared together Secondly herein God sets forth his wisdom and justice in the subjecting of his creature to bring her so farre to submit unto his will in that ordinance as for to do the thing her self for whose sake it is like the same was so long neglected because there was nothing so contrary and opposite unto her the Circumcision Thirdly I see not but that in a case of necessitie a woman might lawfully circumcise she being no where prohibited And lastly what of all this say she did it unlawfully and in so doing she was a false Minister all which is more then God saith yet this was not done in a false Church upon a wrong subject authorised by a false power as baptisme administred by Antichrist is and therefore at the worst it makes nothing at all for that which it is pretended namely to prove baptisme administred by Antichrist the ordinance of God though the same be also administred by a false Minister Again it is said that the Scriptures are the ordinance of God which he hath ever preserved and still owns for his ordinance in hand of Antichrist and so doth God of baptisme there also To which I answer and say that God indeed doth preserve the Scriptures wherein is contained all Go●● holy ordinances as they are therein comprehended and laid forth in their instituted rules and that in the hands of wicked men and so in the hands of Antichrist himself But never in their constituted order and forms out of the hand of Christ his Church and ministery And though that in many things Antichrist hath corrupted the Scriptures yet they remaine still in themselves the ordinance of God But for the false expositions glosses and doctrines they gather from the Scriptures with the Church ministery worship and government they build upon the Scriptures and so their ordinances which they seem to constitute by them now these I cannot see to be the ordinances of God any more the one then the other So that if baptisme with Antichrist as they say be Gods ordinance then why not upon the same ground the Supper Church and Ministery be Gods ordinances also seeing they have the Scriptures as well for the one as for the other And for baptisme as it is an institution of Christ and contained in the Scriptures as a rule for the Lords people to walk by in their obedience to him onely so considered it is an ordinance of God in whose hand soever the Scriptures are But now for a false Antichristian Church to constitute and administer the like out of or apart from the Scriptures Now so considered it is not the ordinance of God but mens invention composed from the Scriptures as a patern drawne forth in the likenesse or resemblance of Gods ordinance but not the same For God hath communion with none in his word but by his Spirit and faith neither of which hath Antichrist and therefore though he hath the written Letter of the Scriptures yet no communion with God in the same so as to receive his ordinance of him neither can any man constitute and so administer an ordinance of God without authoritie from Christ the Lord and King of his Church which authoritie Antichrist hath not and therefore Gods ordinance of Baptisme cannot be administred by Antichrist in his false Anchristian Church and State as some doe so affirme But it is said that there is but onely one Baptisme and having once received that though it be by Antichrist we need not to receive it any more for we can have but the same againe and that which we have is the same for substance with Christs institution which for the matter there is Water and for the forme there is the same words used as Christ instituted the same ordinance of Baptisme in The answer is first that there is but one true baptisme that is a truth and a man being once baptized by the same he needs not to be baptized againe this is also true for I doe not approve of rebaptizing But now to conclude from hence that there cannot be a resemblance of that one true baptisme and yet not the same this will not follow there is but one true Church and Ministery of Christ as the Word of God reveals But it will not follow therefore that Antichrist cannot resemble the same and set up one of his own like unto that or if that he doe the same must be a true Church and Ministery because God approves but of one But if Antichrist as you affirme may resemble the truth and set