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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	christian_a	faith_n	life_n	1,074	5	4.4282	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00887	The life and gate of Christianitie entreating of the sacrament of baptisme, deuided into five bookes. Contayning the effects, the mater, the forme, the baptiser, and the partie baptised: with the reasons and use of all the auntient rites and ceremonies. ... Composed, gathered, and written by O.A. ...	Almond, Oliver.	1614 (1614)	STC 11; ESTC S100511	119,637	234

alwayes honoured for Martirs and they Confessed Christ Non loquendo sed moriendo Not by tongue and mouth but by bloud and death Therfore as the mother by constant confession and death was a Martyr so also the Infant in her wombe being slaine in contempt of the mother and the cause she died for must also be a Martir by bloud and death I may put for example that worthie woman mistris Cleathrow who was put to death at Yorke in Queene Elizabeths tyme for receauing a reuerent Religious Priest into her house and for constant confessing the Chatholike faith She was a worthie martyr and true Imitatrix follower of S. Alban the Protomartyr of England If she were withe child confessing as much but the Iudges not regarding it I make no doubt but the child dieyng in her wombe dyed also a Martyr CAP. 14. VVhether the Mother may be cut and opened if other wise the Child cā not be borne so takē from her aliue that it may be Baptized Th. locis sup citatis I answere with S. Thomas and learned Siluester that the mother so long as there is life in her in no case is to be cut and opened For no man ought to kill the mother for the Baptizing of the child But if the mother die and the child be aliue in her wombe then f●●e ought to be opened the child Baptized You may obiect that tēporall death in the mother is lesse euill Obiect then the eternall death of the child which must needs follow if it die without Baptisme but of two euills the lesser is to be chosen Wherfore we should rather chuse the temporall death of the mother then the eternall damnation of the child Sol. Rō 3. To this obiection we answere with S. Paule That no man may doe euill that good may come of it Therfore we may not murther the mother that the child may liue spirituallie or corporallie If it be true as is reported of King Henrie the eight when his Queene Iane Seymer could not be brought a bed and deliuered of her Sonne Edward the sixth he yeelded and gaue consent that shee should be opened cut sayed I may haue an other wife but I doubt whether I shall haue an other child and so the mother dyed for the life of the child But what followed The child neuer liued to be a man and by reason of his noneage the whole realme was disturbed Religion contemned and heresie planted A plague no doubt for the Fathers iniquitie and sinne CAP. 15. VVhether the children of Iewes or other Infidells may lawfullie be Baptized against their Parents will IT is a hard and difficulte question especiallie were Iewes and Infidells are subiect vnto a Christian Prince as both Iewes and Indian Infidells are to the King of Spayne A man would thinke it were but Christian dutie and Charitie to take the children of these Iewes and Indian Infidells and Baptize them educate instruct and bring them vp in Christian faith and beleefe whether the Parents will or nill For if vpon malice or other displeasure the Father should endanger the corporall or temporall life of his child one might lawfullie by violence resist him Why not also may one for the eternall spirituall life of the soule against the parents will or contrarie to their consent baptize their children Notwithstanding it is the generall opinion of Diuines and practise of the Church not to Baptize Iewes Infidells children without the parents consent and freewill And the reason is as sayeth S. Thomas because it is against the law of nature Tho. 3. p. q. 68. For by the lawe of nature children are vnder the gouernment tuition and care of their parents vntill they come to the vse of reason and yeares of vnderstanding but the lawe of grace doth not destroy the law of nature therfore they cannot be Baptized without the parents consent CAP. 16. VVhether Iewes Turkes or Infidells being conuerted are presentlie to be Baptized HAuing spoken of the Baptisme of children now 〈◊〉 will entreate of those who are at mens estate adults elder sort what is required of them before they are Baptized First concerning Iewes Turkes and Infidells conuerted it was the practise of the Primitiue Church and is continued vntill this day in the Catholike Church that presentlie after their conuersion they are not Baptized but for a tyme instructed and trained vp in the beleefe and life of a Christian and therfore called Cathecumeni Men to be instructed and Cathechised True it is in deed that the Apostles in the begining did not vse this practise for in the Acts of the Apostles we read that on the first day of S. Peters preaching Act. 2. there were three thousand Baptized and afterward on an other day fiue hundred And S. Philippe the Deacon presentlie the same day after conference with the Eunuch the Queene Candaces Treasurer Act. 8. he Baptized him Also S. Peter at the first meeting Baptized Cornelius the Italiā with his kindred Friends Yet we must not thinke that the Church immediatlie after the Apostles so continueth vntill this day in making Cathecumins doth anie thing contrarie to the Apostles proceedings For we must vnderstand why the Apostles did immediatlie vpō the conuersiō of the people Baptize Because at those tymes the Holie Ghost fell vpō them and they were sufficientlie instructed by the Holy Ghost himself Yet cā we not say for the approuing of this practise of the Church but that they were also instructed and Catechised by the Apostles as partly by S. Peters preaching partlie by priuate conference as S. Philippe had with the treasurer and S. Peter with Cornelius But to conclud they were all taught to beleeue before they were Baptized The reasō of this practise of the Church that they should not presentlie after theyr Conuersion be Baptized but for a tyme instructed Catechised and made Catecumins is because Baptisme is a certaine profession of Christian faith and therfore called the Sacrament of beleefe but faith cometh by instruction Rom. c. 10. Quomodo credent c. How shall they beleeue in him whom they haue not heard And how shall they heare without a preacher Therfore in these kind of men it is necessarie Mat. 18. Mar. 16. that instruction and Catechising goe before Baptisme Wherfore Christ in his cōmission for Baptisme spake first of instruction then of Baptisme Going yee sayeth he to his Apostles teach and preach Baptizing CAP. 17. VVhether Iewes and Infidells may be compelled to Baptisme TRue it is that Sisebutius King of the Goaths when he entred into Spaine about the yeare of Christ 595. the Iewes who at that tyme dwelled in Spaine he compelled by force feare of punishement to receaue the Christian faith which facte of the Kings was not then approued but after in the Councell of Toledo decreed and commanded that none should be forced to the Christian faith For Cui vult Deus miseretar