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A47164	The Presbyterian and independent visible churches in New-England and else-where brought to the test, and examined according to the doctrin of Holy Scriptures ... : more particulary directed to those in New-England, and more generally to those in old England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. : with a call and warning from the Lord to the people of Boston and New-England, to repent, &c. : and two letters to the preachers in Boston, and an answer to the gross abuses, lies and slanders of Increase Mather and Nath. Morton, &c. / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1691 (1691)	Wing K191; ESTC R21261	124,580	240

Lord is a strong Tower Thy Name is as Ointment poured forth c. And whereas they object first That the Apostles could not baptize with the spiritual Baptism I answer yea they could Instrumentally and Ministerially as well as they could convert and beget Sons and Daughters unto God for they were Ministers of the Spirit and did minister of the Spirit both in Preaching and Prayer and laying on of Hands although God only was the principal worker and Author Next they object That Peter and Paul and some others baptized some with Water and that Christ was baptized with Water But none of these prove what they intend for Christ was baptized by John and also he was circumcised according to the Law and Paul circumcised Timothy and the Apostles generally in that day thought fit both to use and tolerate the use of Water-Baptism that belonged to John and divers other things of the Law which by permission for a time and not by any Gospel standing Commission otherwise Paul would never have said he was not sent to baptize but to preach the Gospel nor would he have thanked God that he had baptized so few For it were strange to think that Paul would thank God that he did not so fully obey a Gospel precept In short if these who are so zealous for Water-Baptism were cordially zealous for the inward and spiritual Baptism they might be the more born with as Men bear with Children that use Likenesses and Figures of things that sute most with the age and state of Children and Charity might be allowed them in that case to be as Children or Babes in Christ if they did hunger and thirst after Righteousness and did wait for the inward appearance and coming of Christ's Kingdom and the Revelation of it in their Hearts as some such there may be But these who altogether are for the outward Baptism and Supper and deny wholly the inward and spiritual Baptism and Supper of Christ which is only known and received by the holy Spirit 's inward Revelation no Charity can be allowed unto them to judge them true Christians in any degree not so much as Babes but altogether for the time Hypocrites and Formalists 4. Next concerning the Supper We grant that Christ had an outward Supper with his Disciples when he did eat the Pascal Lamb with them and this was a real Supper and not like that which ye now use that is neither substantial Supper nor Dinner being only a little crumb of Bread scarce so big as a Nut and a spoonful of Wine or two which hath little outward Substance and no inward and spiritual Signification unto you as ye use it while ye altogether deny that the Saints are partakers of the substance of Christ or that Christ really and substantially dwelleth in his Saints and while ye also deny all inward Revelation of him in these latter Ages Your Supper is a meer shadow and none of Christ's Supper nor of his Institution For when Christ did sup with his Disciples in the Night wherein he was betrayed he began with the Cup and blessed or gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves And next he took Bread and blessed or gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my Body this do in Remembrance of me Likewise after Supper he took the Cup saying This Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood drink ye all of it Luke 22.14 to 20. So we see he used the Cup twice and began and ended with it but so do not ye and though ye seem greatly to blame the Church of Rome for not giving the Cup to the People but only the Bread and charge them with mutilating or dismembring the Institution if so do not ye the same in part Seeing ye use the Cup but once and Christ used it twice and began with it but so do not ye And seeing ye say Ye have not that infallible Spirit that Christ had and gave to the Apostles and that we find you wholly ignorant of Christ's Body and that ye have no discerning of it nor no taste and savour of his Flesh which is Meat indeed nor of his Blood which is Drink indeed and know not the inward and spiritual supping with Christ we cannot believe nor acknowledge that ye Presbyterian and Independent Teachers have any power to bless either the Bread or the Cup as Christ did or to minister or give of his Body and Blood to any People which true Ministers of Christ have done and do at this day to my certain knowledge and joy and to the certain knowledge and joy of many thousands with me and that often in the use of outward eating and drinking being sanctified and blessed by the Word of God and Prayer as we have sat down together whether many or a few we have truly witnessed the fulfilling of that saying Luke 24.35 And they told what things were done in the way and how he was known of them in breaking of Bread And as it is Verse 30 31. And it came to pass as he sate at Meat with them he took Bread and blessed it and brake and gave to them and their Eyes were opened Note even as Jonathan's Eyes were opened or lightned when he did eat the Honey and as Isaac blessed Jacob when he did eat what he had prepared of savoury Meat for him and as the Angel blessed Abraham when he did eat of the Calf and the Cakes that were set before him and as Melchizedeck blessed Abraham when he brought him Bread and Wine and divers other the like examples and they knew him c. Even so can many say at this day to God's praise in the outward Eating and Drinking together as they have sate together and waited in true silence until God has been pleased to move some one or other of his faithful Servants and Ministers of his Word of Life and of his Flesh and Blood which is spiritual to pray unto the Lord or give Thanks their outward eating and drinking hath been so blessed unto them that at one and the same time they have eat both the outward Bread with the bodily Mouth and the inward Bread which is spiritual with the inward spiritual Mouth and they have also drunk outwardly the outward Cup and inwardly the inward and spiritual And so at the same time they have fed at a two-fold Table and have been both inwardly and outwardly refreshed nourished and strengthned and this also oftentimes in the use only of inward Prayer and Thanksgiving as well as of both inward and outward and yet we neither do nor can limit the spiritual and inward eating of Christ's Body and drinking of his Blood to any outward eating or drinking whatsoever As neither did the ancient Christians who said That all true Believers eat Christ's Flesh and drink his Blood daily and hourly and so we believe And no doubt Christ did really give his Body and Blood unto his Disciples at that

the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 1.1 And it is built upon Christ that sure Foundation and Rock of Ages whom Peter confessed unto which Flesh and Blood hath not revealed unto him but the Father in Heaven And upon this Rock so confessed and so known and understood which Flesh and Blood hath not revealed but the Father in Heaven is the true Church built And this is more than a Profession of the true Religion For it is not every one that professeth the true Religion to whom the Father in Heaven hath revealed the Lord Jesus Christ as he did unto Peter and as he doth unto every true and faithful Believer and Confessor of Christ And the true Church that is built on this Rock and every Member thereof they are not only hearers and professors of the Words and Doctrin of Christ but they are doers of them But they who do not although they both hear and say they are foolish Builders and build upon the Sand and such are all these visible Churches who have no other thing to qualifie them but to profess the true Religion Now to profess the true Religion carrieth a two-fold sense one is that the Religion which People profess they call or profess it to be the true Religion and in this sense every one that professeth any Religion at all if he be in earnest professeth the true Religion that is he esteemeth or professeth his Religion to be such The other sense is that the Religion that is professed is indeed the true Religion and is not only so called or professed And according to this sense your visible Churches whether Presbyterian or Independent are no true Churches For the Religion ye profess is not the true Religion of Christ Jesus which he and the Prophets the Evangelists and Apostles did teach as I have already proved in many weighty particulars yea in Fundamentals and in the very Foundation it self which is Christ Jesus on which the true Church is built and every Member thereof But ye who say All inward divine Revelation of Christ is ceased ye build not on Christ but on a meer Hear-say and Historical report of him For how can ye build on him when ye have no belief that Christ is nearer unto you than in some remote place beyond the Skies Can the Walls of the House be built on a Foundation that is altogether remote from it Must not the House and the Foundation be immediately joyned together And must not this Foundation be seen and felt by every Member And is not this incomparably more than the best Profession of true Religion O ye blind Leaders of the Blind How doth my Soul pity you and the poor People more especially who are led by you and whom ye are still seeking to lead until both ye and they fall into the Ditch and ye ill deserve your Wages and the many Hundreds yea Thousands of Pounds that poor People pay Yearly unto you and work sore and hard to feed you and cloath you and your Wives and Children to Luxury and Wantonness many of you while in the mean time under colour and pretence of feeding the Souls of the People ye famish and starve yea poyson and kill them with your false Doctrin as I have through God's assistance sufficiently made appear and I hope yet more to make appear as I have occasion given unto me 6. And Christ Jesus the living elect precious Corner-stone the sure Foundation is laid in Zion and that Zion is not only the heavenly Zion above but the Church and People of God on Earth and Christ Jesus is one both in Heaven without us and also within us even the Man Christ Jesus the same that took hold of the Seed of Abraham and is the Son of Abraham and David according unto that Seed and he is exalted in heavenly Glory in that same Seed and Nature in the whole and intire and perfect Nature of Man in Soul and Body having put off nothing that he had upon Earth but these Weaknesses and Infirmities which he did take on him for our sake even Jesus of Nazareth he who was crucified for our Sins and rose again for our Justification who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore and he who by true Faith is joyned to the Spirit of Christ by the same he is joyned both to Christ in him and also to Christ in Heaven and also to all the Saints in Heaven and the innumerable company of Angels and Spirits of just men made perfect and also unto the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and both God and Christ are not only in remote places and Heavens without us but also in us and in all his Saints as he hath said Jer. 23.23 24. Am I a God at Hand saith the Lord and not a God afar off Do not I fill Heaven and Earth Saith the Lord. 7. And as to the Government and Governors or Rulers of your visible Churches both Presbyterian and Independent it is of the same Nature with your visible Churches the only qualification of them being an outward profession of Christian Religion and an outward Call which ye are all at a loss where to begin it as I have already proved Cap. 4. accompanied with some natural or acquired Gifts and Abilities of Letter-learning reaching no further than the Letter of the Scripture at best and oft or for most part not that for ye preach not the Letter in the form of sound words of Scripture but have so mingled it with your Glosses and wrested Senses and Meanings and Words of men's wisdom and intentions that it is but little of the very Letter ye preach But if ye did preach the Letter and have not that infallible and unerring Spirit of Christ which was in the true Ministers of Christ in former Ages and is now in his true Ministers in this Age ye are but at best Ministers of the Letter and not Ministers of the Spirit and therefore not Ministers of the New-Testament And what is the use and end of your Government but to keep poor People in Bondage under you and your false Doctrin And if they do not believe it but witness against it then ye cast them out of your Synagogues and yet then will force Maintenance from them as many of you have done And when ye had Power with the Magistrates to instigate and stir them up to persecute honest Dissenters to Whip Stock Imprison spoil Goods cut off Ears and also to put to Death for testifying against your false Doctrins from your false and fallible Spirit I say both false and fallible For seeing ye do not profess to be taught led and guided by the infallible Spirit of Christ which was in the Prophets and Apostles and in all true Christians if ye have not this Spirit your Spirit is not only fallible but false to wit the Spirit of this World For there are but two Spirits that do teach lead and guide all men on Earth the

the sixth also seeing they believe it only to be but a Figure to wit that called the Eucharist And to say the truth they have not one whit more probability but rather less for the two Sacraments that they have reserved than for the other five that they have rejected And they have no cause to accuse the People called Quakers of Sacriledge for denying these two until they clear themselves of Sacriledge for denying five and give better grounds for reserving these two than as yet they have given 2. And as for Infants Baptism and sprinkling a Child of eight days or more or less on the Fore-head and call it Baptism it hath no footing in all the Scripture neither of Precept nor Practice as will easily appear by considering the places of Scripture they cite for it And first for Sprinkling on the Fore-head instead of Dipping they cite Heb. 9.10 to 22. But this Sprinkling was not of Water but of Blood and we do not read that it was only on the Fore-head and the Cups and Vessels that were sprinkled with Blood or Water were sprinkled all over and not in one single place And why did John baptize Christ by dipping into Water and others that he baptized if sprinkling on the Fore-head was sufficient in that day Next as to the baptizing of Infants they cite for it Gen. 17.9 Where God commanded Abraham that every Man child of his Posterity should be Circumcised and therefore every Infant of one or both the believing Parents are to be sprinkled with Water But this Consequence is meerly begged but nothing proved For the first we find an express command to Abraham For the second we find neither Command nor Practice in all the Scripture nor was the practice of baptizing Infants in use for an hundred of Years and more after the Apostles days among Professors of Christianity And let it be granted that Infants have a right to the Grace signified by Water Baptism it doth not therefore follow that the Figure or Sign belongeth unto them because they have also a right to Christ's Body and Blood and yet they confess the Supper is not to be administred unto them The next place they cite is Coloss 2.11 12. where Circumcision and Baptism are joyned together but neither the Circumcision nor the Baptism there mentioned is outward as is clear especially of Circumcision that is said to be made without Hands and therefore it is not the outward of the Flesh but the inward of the Heart and so is also the Baptism there mentioned verse 12. Buried with him in Baptism wherein also you are risen with him through the Faith of the operation of God Ye see here is nothing of outward Water Nor are all they who are baptized with outward Water either buried with Christ or risen with him but many still alive in old Adam and that too generally The next place they cite is Matth. 28.19 But this saith nothing of Water and if it were granted that Water-Baptism is understood as it neither is nor ought to be granted yet it will not prove that Infants should be any more baptized than taught seeing teaching and baptizing are joyned together Another place they cite is Luke 18.15 16. where Christ biddeth to suffer little Children to come unto him and forbid them not and that he blessed them and laid his hands upon them we read in Scripture but that he baptized them either with dipping or sprinkling we read not but on the contrary it is expresly said That Jesus himself baptized none to wit with Water see Joh. 4.2 Their last place they cite is Rom. 11.16 If the Root be holy so are the Branches but this doth not prove that Infants are more to be baptized than to have that called the Supper administred unto them And these Branches mentioned by Paul in that place Rom. 11.16 were really the unbelieving Jews that because of their Unbelief were broken off at that time yet the Root being holy to wit Abraham and the promised Seed Paul had hope of their conversion as many as did belong to God's election as he expresseth it verse 28. and these were not the immediate Children of Abraham but forty Generations after Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and therefore this Scripture saith as much for the aged unbelieving Children of unbelieving Parents if they have descended from any of their Fore-Fathers upwards of forty Generations that were Believers and if up to forty why not up to sixty and further Yea to Noah who is the common Father of all Men with whom God established his Covenant and with his Seed after him until the end of the World that all his Seed through Christ might receive the benefit of the same unless they do wilfully reject it of which I have said something already in Chap. 6. 3. And as for Water-Baptism in general we say it did only properly belong to John's Ministry and Dispensation and is expresly contradistinguished from the Baptism of Christ both by John and also by Christ himself for John did baptize with Water unto Repentance but Christ who cometh after John and was before him who is more worthy than John he baptizeth with fire and with the Holy Ghost and no doubt there was a spiritual blessing and Grace conveyed unto People by John's Baptism while it stood in force for God never ordained any outward thing but as it was rightly done in its day and season it had some spiritual blessing accompanying it as all the Sacrifices and Services of the Law And if any were raised up by the Lord as John was and could prove and instruct their being sent to baptize with Water as he was these to whom they should be sent ought gladly to receive it but to do it by bare imitation or a meer pretended Call which they cannot prove to be either mediate or immediate is great presumption yea superstition and to call that a Command of God which he hath given them no command to practise is to set up the Precepts of Men in the room of God's Commandments as the Pharisees did of old and is a taking of his Name in vain for which he will not hold them guiltless And they can never prove by all their art and skill that Water-Baptism is commanded by Christ Mat. 28.18 19. for all God's commands and precepts especially of publick institution relating to the Church are express in so many express Words and are not left to be gathered by uncertain and doubtful Consequences When God sent John to baptize with Water Water was expressed but in the Apostles Commission to baptize no mention is made of Water nor no words of Institution commanded to be used but the command is Go teach and baptize all Nations into the Name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost And the Name of either the Father or the Son or the Holy Ghost is most frequently if not always used in Scripture to signifie Power and Life as the Name of the