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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43045	The ministers office, the infants inheritance By James Harwood, B.D.	Harwood, James.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1099; ESTC R221283	28,474	108

Persons sent and therein first of the Ite then the Ergo. The Persons sent by Christ are ye the cause why they must assent to be sent lieth hid in this therefore Well the Sender being Christ the Messengers being sent and these Apostolick Ministers first they receive Order and then they go but not before for not authorized Mark and minde it Without Christ bid go he is an Intruder into Christ his Harvest hat undertakes his labour to Preach Baptize None must dare to go but such is have a calling for it while Christ was on earth it was a sufficient warrant ego mitto Matth. 10.16 or Ite go ye as here As out of his cloathes so out of his mouth passed vertue to fit and furnish those he called to go But what were they to go and do Read my Text To teach and baptize Mat. 18. to binde to loose John 20. to remit and retain sins yet more saith S. Paul 2 Cor. 5.18 God hath given unto us the Ministery of Reconciliation which stands in the dispensation of the Word and Sacraments But as none have these high priviledges till called by Christ to this high Office the Ministery so it plainly appears this was not a personal Legacy onely given to the then Apostles but Church Legacy legated to the Successors of those Disciples of Christ Jesus for I must tell you there were not onely Apostles but some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors some Teachers which were to joyn in the work of the Ministery for the gathering of the Saints Ephes 4.11 12. And as Christ ordained his twelve they the seventy so we being ordained by their Successours our Bishops our Ordination is acknowledged valid while with holy Prayers holy Imposition of hands is laid upon us as was upon Timothy by Paul 2 Tim. 1.6 Again since all Nations were to be taught and baptized and the commissionated could not by themselves do what commanded many ages succeeding after their departure out of this life and since all Saints to be born in all Centuries were to be gathered by the work of the Ministery hence necessarily it follows some debitated were to make Imposition of Hands upon some adjudged by the Church sufficient for so high a calling And as some few among many thousands in the Apostles dayes were onely thought sufficient to be cull'd out by Ordination to this high calling so since the Apostles deceased their supervivers or succcessors in office have trod in their steps chusing some to be admitted-into the Holy Office not daring promiscuously to lay hands upon all as do those Hereticks the Anabaptists And to make it more manifest how it is a Catholick and Fundamental Doctrine Imposition of Hands and that not upon all but onely such approved by Power Episcopal the Christian Church a most horrid sin suffered No never but in a distracted Common-wealth or a Kingdom God meant to ruine Portenta dira these are sad presages O ye presumptuous spirits who despise all Government and Order of God in his Church remember to your everlasting horror Nadab and Abihu and Uzza and their fearful ends for the like sins You who will ire praedicare know you have gone but the Lord sent you not you have preached but the Lord spoke not by you If you will yet take upon you the Ite know my Lord hath given me command to divorce from your ite praedicate and to joyn together to your eternal terror Ite maledicti If you have not so much learning as to know my meaning how dare you lay hands on these high Mysteries the Word and Sacraments After the ite in cometh the ergo therefore as much as if Christ had said since I have all Power in Heaven and Earth you who be but earth must obey me the God of Heaven you cannot have a greater to command then I nor I finde weaker to withstand then you Ite igitur Go ye therefore There is no resistance Ion as may be shipt for Tarshish but he who bid go to Nineve will finde him out unship him and make a Whale ferry him to the place he had his first commission for ite igitur go ye therefore Note it the power God hath over us must overawe us and prick us forward to go about the work of the Lord Ite igitur Go ye therefore Again Christ hath power to inspire us with his spirit Moses is a man of a stammering tongue the Apostles ignorant what to answer remember what is said to the commissionated in the same hour it shall be given unto you for God commonly furnishes them with gifts who are lawfully ordained Here is magna potentia Gods great power made manifest in weak contemptible Instruments Since it is thus Ite igitur go ye therefore Again our God our Christ hath power to defend us Thus Elias when an Army sent to attach him and an Host of Angels sent to relieve him thus Daniel in the Den the three in the Furnace and the Preacher Noe in the Ark when the whole world except eight persons where drowned Who so have Gods Commission to go and teach and baptize I mean to be Ministers of the Gospel let them not fear the arm of man God can preserve Ite igitur go ye therefore And the rather for that our Lord and blessed Saviour hath power to reward call to minde what is said and by that Minister of the Gentiles Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of immortall glory What though we have been in perils by land in perils by water in perils amongst false Brethren yet our reward is laid up in heaven a prize so good and a place so secure so that none can deprive us of it Here for preaching the true Doctrine of Christ Jesus and severing the tares from the wheat Heresies from Gospel Truths perchance we may suffer Imprisonment confiscation of our Livings it may come ad sanguinem to loss of life But that come ye children of my Father receive the Kingdom tha● venite commands this ite fince but this world to be lost heaven to be had and ensured at our end ite igitur go ye therefore And now to give you the Collect of all since we Teachers shall have our reward in the world to come since here if God think meet he can defend us from the violence of unruly men since he can fit us for this high calling the work of the Ministery and since to resist is to resist the power of God Ite igitur praedicate Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The act licensed is to teach The extent extends to all Nations go teach all Nations What and how must be thought of teach them verbum Christum verbum Christi Teach the word Christ for so he is stiled Iohn 1.1 It was Pauls religious ambition to know nothing but Christ and him crucfied saith he I count all as dung to

Bellarmine for sayes he The seven Vertues the seven capital Sins the seven Planets the seven Defects the seven golden Candlesticks the seven Seals the seven Trumpets the seven Angels blaze there are seven Sacraments I wonder they forgat the woman in Rev. 17.3 with her seven Heads But if this plea were satisfactory I could likewise countenace the number of two with two Tables two Testaments two Trumpets two Swords two Witnesses but this is childishness That these are two Sacraments it is confessed by our adversaries that these two are all is justified by us of the Reformed Churches and proved by Gods word 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4. And we have the unity of the Fathers St. Jerome St. Ambrose St. Angustine all averring two onely and necessary to salvation The fountain out of which they did flow was Christs side when he swet water and blood These two Gospel Sacraments he left us instead of the two Sacraments under the Law the one we once recieve the other oft Baptisme presently after our birth the Lords Supper when we come to maturity or full growth and as the childe is once born but must oft eat so we are baptized but once oftentimes feed upon the body and blood of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus Having spoken upon these two Sacraments conjunction now give me leave to speak upon this Sacrament of Baptisme disjunction single by it self And since it belongs to my Office to baptize I think it very fit to let you know what is Baptisme Secondly what is covenanted at it Thirdly why the Church requires Sureties Fourthly why commonly administered at the Church door Fifthly whether absolutely needful Sixthly what good got by it Lastly whether lawful to baptize Children And of every of these a word and but a word till we come to the last so much controverted And first of the first I take Baptism to be primum novi foeder is Sacramentum in quo elect is in Dei familiam receptis externae aquae aspersione peccatorum remissio regeneratio per sanguinem Christi Spiritum sanctum obsignatur Baptism is the Seal set to the New Covenant whereby we being received into Gods Houshold by the washing of water have sealed unto us by Christ and his Holy Spirit Remission of our sins and Regeneration The Word of God is Gods hand writing which he passes to ensure us we shall be saved and this Sacrament is his Seal what would you have more then hand and seal O this Sacrament seals our pardon and ensures us heaven yea it is the general Tenet of the Catholique Church That no Christians childe baptized dying before it come ad usum rationis was ever damned but of this suo proprioloco in its properplace The next thing to be considered is what covenanted when the child is baptized know it this is the good the adulti which those of ripe years get by staying out the Administration of this Blessed Sacrament O! it puts you in minde what covenanted when you were Christened I will give you it in my Common Prayer Books Language and the rather Because I dearly love it neither care I who know it At you Baptism you covenant to forsake the Devil and all his Works the vain Pomp and Glory of the World with all covetous desires of the same the carnal desires of the flesh so that you will not follow nor be led by them in one word you promise to forsake the world Flesh and Devil to leave being at the command of those three and be obedient unto the other three Father Son Holy Ghost but why will not the Anabaptists suffer their new born children by their Sureties to make this holy League with God Is it because that as their fathers have made a league with Hell Death and the Devil freely giving themselves over to a reprobate sense to work all maner of wickedness with greediness so their children being kept from Christendom as being free from the Tripertire Bond in Baptism might more swiftly run to the devil after them the contempt of this Head of Christs Ordinance and the practice of the Church Catholick imbitters my charity towards them while they show so little love to their young ones Know this for certainty how that Gods Ordinance is a Teacher which stints us from running into gross sin which as Infants while Infants are uncapable to commit so after their mature age as oft receiving lifts up their hearts from earth to heaven so this bond past in Baptisme and their calling to minde their solemn Covenant past at Font draws them from the love of the world to love our Lord God who made the world and our Lord Jesus who died for our sins and rose for our righteousness The third thing to be enquired after is why the Church but we are grown in this age wiser then the Church why the Church appoints Sureties at the Font and three at the least 1. For that the Infant is to pass promise by the three Sureties to forsake three the World Flesh and Devil 2. To make the baptized coming to years of discretion have more care to hold promise with God 3. That if Parents were neglecting among so many some might have a care of the Bond past to God in Baptism 4. To rub up our memories and put us in minde how man is more likely to break Bond with God then man with man and therefore in common Contracts there are no more then the Principal and two Sureties but at the Christening the Principal the Baptized and three Sureties and to countenance this commendable custom the Council of Mentz in the ninth Century ordained Godfathers to be and to attend and see that their spiritual children be brought up in the true Faith 4. And now in the fourth place These Sureties of the Baptized Infant commonly stand over against the Church Door and there this Sacrament of Baptisme usually is administred O! our Mother the Church there set the Font that you may know how Baptism is the Door lets us into Gods Church by it we enter in into our Masters House the Church Militant 5. But not in the fifth place it is enquired whether Baptism be of absolute necessity To this I answer No for we have this Sacrament instead of Circumcision enjoyned by the Lord not to be administred till the eighth day and I am confident that as all the children which died before the eighth day were not damned no more those who dye unbaptized but I will end with Saint Bernard who saith Non privatio sed contemptus damnat it is not the want but contempt that damns the default being in the Parents let them fear the punishment and since the neglect is dangerous let us be sure that there be no defect in us but let us bring our young to be washed in this Jordan 6. And so I come to the sixth thing considerable viz. What good is got by Baptism ne parum quidem yet we will