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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96362	A true relation of the conversion and baptism of Isuf the Turkish chaous, named Richard Christophilus In the presence of a full congregation, Jan. 30. 1658. in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Manton is minister. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	White, Thomas, 1628-1698.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1807; Thomason E2141_1; ESTC R204020	32,885	117

being fallen into sin and misery could not deliver himself nor could any Creature find or procure a way for deliverance but God found a good Remedy for man I believe that Man was restored from his fall and misery by the Mediation of Jesus Christ who hath undertaken to save Mankind from the Curse of God and to reconcile God to Men and Men to God to destroy all the works of the Devil and all the Enemies of the Salvation of mankind to unite men to God by one Spirit God was moved to appoint and accept this way of Mediation for Mankind only by his free love towards the world and by his Eternal and affectionate compassion towards his Elect in Jesus Christ to the end his grace should be manifested by us The work of Reconciliation between God and Man was effected by the Son of God the second Person of the Holy Trinity who being God from all Eternity took the nature of man in the fulness of time being born by the power of the Holy Ghost of a Virgin and under the Law and so he became Emanuel God with us in one Person I believe that God said with his own mouth I am the Lord thy God who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage Thou shalt have no other Gods before my face c. I believe that the way by which he did bring to passe that admirable work was by the Administration of his three Offices Prophet Priest and King who in the state of his humiliation and exaltation became Wisedom to all Believers and also Righteousness and Redemption to make the work of Redemption and Reconciliation effectual and profitable in us he that did undertake it Jesus Christ is offered unto us with all his benefits in the covenant of grace and to all those to whom the Gospel is Preached this Covenant is published throughout the world by the publick Administration of the Word and of all the Doctrines of Repentance from dead works and of faith towards God and they are obliged every one to take an example by the grace of God which brings Salvation to receive it and to make use of it And the Doctrine of Repentance is applyed unto them that are transgressors of the Law to shew them to renounce wicked works which are first Atheism Idolatry false and Superstitious wayes of worshipping the true God all irreverence and abuse of his Name and all profanation of the Lords Day and neglect of his Solemn Worship and secondly to teach them to renounce all worldly lusts that is to say all disobedience to Superiors Murther and Malice Adultery and Villany False witness-bearing and all Concupiscence desiring things that pertain to his Neighbour I believe that the Doctrine of Faith is to be made use of towards those that have the use of reason to teach them that God is and that he is the Saviour of those that seek him diligently that they may know him and fear him and put their confidence in God the Father who hath made all things and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son who having redeemed us is gone up into Heaven and is sitting at the right hand of God where he makes Intercession for us and from thence he shall come back in glory to give unto Believers their blessed hopes and in the Holy Ghost by whom the Church of Saints is gathered sanctified and governed in this world to be exalted in glory in the world to come I believe that God doth require good workes that thereby he may be glorified amongst men and we must do them that we may shew our love to him and to his glory and our thankfulnesse to his mercy that we may have assurance in our prayers and that we may build up our neighbour in the good way Moreover the Organ by which the Believers do good works is the life of the Spirit of Christ in them which makes the children of grace free from the dominion of sin and leads them in all truth that they may answer the Tenor of the Covenant to observe it also those that are faithful unto God in the Covenant of grace makes use of their graces towards Christ to remain in him and in his word and in his love and to follow him in their affection and actions that in all things they may be conformable to his Image I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord who was conceived of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary did suffer under Potius Pilat was crucified dead and buried and descended into Hell the third day he rose from the dead he is gone up to Heaand sits at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Universal Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the Resurrection of the Body life everlasting Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and pardon us our trespasses as we pardon them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen I believe the Ordinances of Baptism and of the supper of the Lord are Organs to such as are Disciples to increase the Communion of Saints to seal the promises and to confirm the graces of the Covenant to believers and to their of-spring and to distinguish them from the World I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ having eaten the Passeover with his Disciples in the night in which he was betrayed did institute the use of the holy Supper that it should be celebrated afterward to remember his death and to shew it forth till he come again In the institution he took bread and having given thanks he break it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in like manner after Supper he took the Cup saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood do this as oft as ye drink thereof in remembrance of me he did make use of bread and Wine to let us know that even as the Body is nourished with meat and drink so also the Soul doth receive its spiritual nourishment from him in respect of his Body and blood given to us I beleeve that Iesus Christ did institute the Baptism after his Resurrection and before his ascention into heaven as an effect and a Testimony that he hath received all power in Heaven and Earth and the Disciples are commanded to administer the same to make it appear that all the Nations of the Earth are made subject unto him as to their Saviour and that being subject to

consequently the old Man being crucified with him the newness of Life is to be entertained and that we are bound to present our members as servants to Righteousness as the Apostle exhorts Rom. 6. 6. till 20. 4. To own the profession of Religon the strict Rules of Conscience and all the Ordinance of the Gospel openly and freely that we may not seem ashamed of Christ before men lest he be ashamed of us before his Father in heaven Matth. 10. 32 33. Concerning the Second Question If the Question be to whom Baptism is to be administred the Answer from the Text will be this That it is to be administred to such as have received the gift of the Holy Ghost that is to such as God doth own to belong to him For the Apostles argument to prove that Cornelius and his company ought to be baptized is grounded upon this maxim whomsoever God doth own as his they ought to be set apart as his But these God hath owned as his by the visible gift of the Spirit Ergo Now the visible way of owning Cornelius and his company was peculiar to the dispensation of those times and the force of his argumeut to conclude that they ought to be baptized doth not stand in it further than as it doth evidence that God did own them to belong to himself For the Major Proposition which is an universal truth the ground of the whole inference is tacitly presupposed and included in the words received the Holy Ghost as well as we as if he had said God owns them as he did us therefore they must be baptized as we are For whomsoever he doth own to them belongeth the token of his owning of them From this ground of the Apostles Argument we inferre two things First wherefore the Infants of believing Parents ought to be baptized Secondly what the qualification of Aged people is to whom Baptism is to be administred First concerning Infants we take the Apostles Argument thus and say If God doth own the Infants of believing Parents as his then they ought to receive the token of his owning of them But God doth own these Infants as his Ergo they ought to receive the token of his owning of them which is Baptism The Minor Proposition that God doth own the Infants of believers as his is manifest from 1 Cor. 7. 14. where the Apostle declares that although but one of the Parents is a believer yet the Infants are holy that is owned by God as his by vertue of the Covenant made with Abraham which is that he would be the God of him and of his seed This is a Gospel-covenant and made with Abraham as a believer therefore with all believers as well as with him For the promise saith the Apostle is to you and to your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call The promise that God will be their God is made not only to believing Jews and their children but to all believing Gentiles also whom God doth call to the faith of Abraham Hence it is that Christ declares that the Kingdom of God belongs unto them and commands the Disciples to suffer them to come unto him and was very angry with grief {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that they did forbid them to come Matth. 19. 13 14. This is recorded not as a meer History of the time but as Christ is yesterday to day and for ever the same so this command Let little children come to me is in force still If then children should be brought unto Christ they must be brought to the Ordinance where he is to be found and which they are only capable of which is the token of the Covenant For they being owned by him by the promise of the Covenant and by the command to suffer them to come to him the Apostles Argument doth stand firm for them that they ought to be baptized that is receive the sign of his owning of them The promise is that all the families of the earth should be blessed in Abraham Gen. 12. 3. 22. 18. Children are a chief part of a family and when God made his Covenant with Abraham he received all his family him with Gen. 17 12 13. And the Apostles did baptize whole families Acts 16. 15. 1 Cor. 1. 16. For the Head of a family being owned God would have all that belonged unto it to be owned and hereupon at Philippi Paul doth promise to the Jaylor of the prison that if he believed in Christ he should be saved and his house Acts 16. 31. Now the Apostle could have no warrant to promise this unto him if he had not lookt upon the promise made to Abraham Gen. 12. 3. known Gods Counsel that he would propagate his Church not by single persons but by families But if it be as it is commonly objected why is there no command for the Baptizing of Infants as well as circumcising them under the Law Answ. 1. The general command includes children and therefore no need of any particular mentioning of them 2. The Promise is as expresse to children as to Parents Acts 2. 39. and therefore no need of an expresse command 3 It had been absurd to give a new command for children seeing they were in possession of the priviledge to be owned as belonging to the Covenant they had been owned ever since Abrahams time and were in actual possession of their right therefore to give a command concerning them again to be owned had been not only superfluous but absurd as if their title to the priviledge had been doubtful Therefore I conceive that there is no command given nor any example mentioned but in the general of a houshold because their interest was presupposed to be known by all and the practice was undoubtedly universal to Baptize whole Families And thus much concerning the right of Infants unto Baptism As for Aged persons if the Question be who amongst them should be baptized The Answer will be such as are so qualified that it doth appear that God doth own them as his Now God doth own as his not only such as received the gifts of Prophesying and speaking with strange Tongues as Cornelius and his company did but all that professed Faith and did repent were engaged by Faith and Repentance to walk answerable to their profession And upon this account the Eunuch was baptized by Philip Acts 8. For having been taught the knowledge of Christ v. 30. till 36. and then having made confession of his Faith in Christ v. 36 37 38. he was baptized although he had not received any such gift of the Holy Ghost as Cornelius and his company Nay it is so far from this that the extraordinary gift which Cornelius received was pre-requisite as a qualification for Baptism that the Apostle Peter doth promise to these who should repent and be baptized that the Holy Ghost should be bestowed upon them Acts 2. 38 39.