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A78296 A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians. S. C. 1673 (1673) Wing C123A; ESTC R223563 12,960 32

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But they are conceited if not more grosly deluded as if their Baptism made them members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven And this Doctrine they prescribe for all their members to believe and profess before they come to their confirmation vizt That in that Baptism by which they were baptized with God-fathers and God-mothers they were made members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven which I have good ground to deny and they can never prove it the Scripture is clear against this their vain conceit For the Apostle Peter saith It is not the outward baptism or washing away of the filth of the flesh which saveth but the answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet 3. 21. And the way of the Gospel is to baptise such only as are the children of God and members of Christ before And the Apostle Paul saith not that they are the children of God by outward baptism but by faith in Christ Jesus And faith doth not come by baptism Gal. 3. 26. but by the word of God And their baptism which they receive afterward is no more but an outward seal administred upon them of the righteousness of the faith which they had before baptism as Circumcision was to Abraham and Rom. 4. 11 Isaac as the Scriptures testifie and none ought to be baptised but such as give sufficient testimony before of their holynesse Or that the Lord testifieth for them So he testified of St. Paul and St. Act ● 15 17 18. 10. 47 Cornelius was baptised upon this ground that he had received the Holy Ghost before And whosoever hath not the spirit of Rom. 3. 9 2 Cor. 13 5 Christ is none of his Therefore the common Protestants are in a great error in this point of Baptism also For they should know that the Infants 1 Cor. 7. 14. Rom. 11. Ezek. 18. 4 Luk. 19. 9 of holy Parents are holy as their Parents They are as blameless as their Parents in their whole Spirit Soul and body The same grace gracious promises Act. 2. 39 Deut. 29. 11 2 Cor. ●0 3 and spiritual priviledges belongeth unto them as well as to their Parents Yea The kingdome of heaven it selfe And Mat. 19. 14. if the greater then the lesser For as touching eternal Election they are beloved Rom. 11. 2● for the fathers That is peculiarly chosen of God for the love that he Deut. 4. 37. Ezek. 18. 4. 20. had to their fathers and shall not dye eternally for the sins of their fathers Rom 2. 11. 8. which they never committed for herein God is no respecteer of persons meerly as they are persons and who can lay any thing to their charge sin remitted shall not be imputed unlesse irritterated and their parents righteousness is theirs by imputation as it was with Abraham and 2 Tim. 1. 5. Heb. 7. 9. 10 his seed before they were circumcised so it is with the Christians and their seed before they are baptised Yea the children of holy Patents are perfect in their wayes before they are baptised Ezek. 28. 15. even from the day they are created untill iniquity is found in them Such a perfection have they which is oposed to iniquity And the Scripture saith Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose Spirit Psal 32. 3 5. there is no guile Their nature of Creation is sanctified by the spirit of regeneration which dwelleth in them so that they are not imputed sinners of the world but clear as the Scripture saith of the natural Jewes who were Christians For although the children Gal. 2. 15. are partakers of flesh and blood as well as their Parents Christ himselfe also in like manner took part of the same and died for them all not to free them from temporal but to save them from eternal death though they should dye before they are baptised with water And therefore the Infants are not the Children of wrath more then their Parents but the vessels of mercy as Jeremiah and John the Baptist were And so it becometh them to esteem of them all and to speak honourably of them before as well as after their outward baptism which Baptism maketh not for the Isa 22. 24. being but for the better being of a Christian Therefore I cannot find in my heart to say that they are the children of wrath and therefore ought to be baptised but because they are not under the wrath of God nor under the curse of the Law but under the promise and grace of Christ who never sinned and yet was baptized by John the Baptist Therefore they ought to be baptised though they have never committed actual sin but sinned in their Parents as Lvey paid tythes in Abraham What though David declareth his Rom. 5. Heb. 7. ● 10. Original sin or sin of inclination the ground of his actual sin or sin of apprehension as it is written In sin hath my mother conceived me yet until he committed actual sin he was no more guilty of sin then his mother nor was Isaac a child of wrath more then faithfull Abraham and Sarah Original sin taketh no more hold of the Infants to damne them eternally then of their parents And touching actual sinne they are clear as their Parents though their Parents are as righteous as Noah Daniel and Job And therefore they have as much right to Baptism as their Parents And in this blessed condition are they before they are baptised with water And are not in the state of damnation though they die in their Infancie before but shall be eternally saved And the contrary Doctrine is very unsound eronious uncomfortable and destructive But Antichrists Church professeth the contrary openly And teach their children to say that they are made members of Christ in their baptism with God-fathers and God-mothers So then it is remarkable that they are their own judges that they baptise none but such as are not members of Christ before their baptism It followeth then by their own words that they are members of Antichrist and in the state of damnation before and until outward baptism be administred upon them which to affirm of the Infants of Godly Parents is an Antichristian error destroying the foundation and hope of the faithful and how can that Church be the true Church of God who are so corrupt and whose constitution manifested by such their eronious profession is so destructive openly to baptise such as are not members of Christ To conclude by their own ground their Church members are not members of Christ before their Baptism and I have proved that they are not made members of Christ by their Baptism after Much lesse can any of them truly say as each child of theirs is taught to say that In my Baptism I was made the child of God So James Nayler said I am the Son of God This dignitie belongeth only to the holy child child Jesus Christ the Son of God To whom be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen Here followeth A New and true Christian Creed built upon the old foundation of the Holy Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone I Believe in God the Father Gen. 1. Ioh. 1. 14. Luk. 1. 35. Mat. 1. 25. Iob. 19. 33. 42. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 4 5 20. Ioh. 20. 17 Mat. 2● 26 Mar. 16. 19 Act. 1. 11. Joh. 5. 29. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52. 1 Thes 4. 15 Joh. 14. 16 17 26. 1 Cor. 12 3 Rom. 8. ● 2 Tim. 3. 16. Act. 17. 11 Rom. 15. 4. Rev. 22. 18. 19. Mat. 18. 17. 20. 1 Pet 2. 9. Phil. 1 5. Rev 8 3 4 Mat 12. 31 32 1 Cor 15 1 Thes 4 14 Joh 3 16 Almighty maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried The third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Scriptures The holy Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The Resurrection of the body And the Life everlasting Amen London Printed for the Author S. C. 1673.
opression and cruelty doth exceedingly abound and execrations of damnation and drinking healths directly and indirectly against the Kings command frequently used by Capital offenders the worst of men And yet all these call themselves christians and say they believe in the Catholick Church and have forms of Worship answerable to their profession but their worship is in vain as good never a wait as never the better and the nearer their Church the further from God For he cares neither for them nor their worship but hates such combustable stuff and so do I O Lord gather not my soul with sinners for I hate the Church of evil doers Psal 26 And if there by any as I hope there are many in their Church which hate these iniquities and enormities yet they are unclean while they partake with such sinners in their Spiritual worship publiquely or privately for the precious ought to separate from the vile and must be holy in all manner of conversation And although many of their Church members are Civil in their dealings about common affairs courteous loving kind natured free hearted true and trusty in matters of accompt betwixt man and man What of this Do not the heathens the same And cannot the Turks say as much for themselves Yet it doth not prove them to be the people of God no more are these They are of the world and therefore not of the Church But the Papists set down marks as unitie universaltity and constancy to prove that their church is the true Church but alas This their plea is not sufficient It may serve as well for Turks and Heathens who exceed them in number and are unanimous and prosperous constant and conceited in their wayes But let the Roman Catholick church have her due she saith she is the mother Church And indeed she is the mother Church of false Churches Misterie Babilon the great the Mother of harlots And the working of the man of sin in the misterie of iniquitie is after the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders So the Apostle describeth Antichrist Therefore Miracles are not the marks of a true Deut. 13 1 5. Church nor of a true Prophet And the throne of iniquitie may have outward Rev. 13. 7 Dan. 7. 21 24. prosoeritie and wear out the Saints of the most high and continue as appeareth by the Scriptures But the Papists will not prove their Church to be true by the Scriptures contemned and condemned by their general Counsells but labour to prove se Ainsworth against Ainsworth their Church by their Church The same by the same So the false Apostles measur'd themselves by themselves which practice the Apostle Paul condemned as irrational and rational men count it rediculous ● Cor. 10. 12 But they have an exceeding high estimation of their Sacrament of their Altar They say it is a Sacrifice and the bread they say is the real body of Christ after that is done which they call consecration but it is execration for they kneel down before it and worship it and then eat it up And because they hold the Mass to be a Sacrifice propitiatory for the quick and the dead they have of their own divising erected an Office of Priesthood here on earth to offer it up And the Priests of the Church of England as well as of Rome a number of sinfull mortal infirm and imperfect men neither of the Tribe of Levi● nor of Judah are Ordained Priests by office without Oath and so void utterly void by the Law and by the Gospel As appeareth in the Heb. 9. 24. 12 Epistle to the Hebrewes Heb 7. 12 16 18 21 23. 28. and 9. 10. 10 1. But the proper Office of Priesthood is in the heaven it selfe wh●●e the Lord Jesus Christ the only high Priest executeth that Office at the right hand of God not on earth for the Scripture saith if Christ were here on earth he should not be a Priest Heb 8. 4. But when Christ ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men some Apostles Eph. 4. 11 12. and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pasters and Teachers No Offices of Popes Cardinals Abotts Monks Arch-Bishops Lord Bishops Parsons Vicars Curates and such like false Priests false Christs who hold an Office of Priesthood among themselves by a succession to offer up at their Altars the supposed flesh and blood of Christ And they have made seven orders of Priesthood and the Priesthood belonging thereunto are the seven heads of their monstruous Beast having the names of blasphemie upon them and they are called seven Mountaines for bigness for they are many upon which the great whore of Rome even the great City sitteth Reigning over the Kings of the earth And one of his heads was as it Rev. 13. ● were wounded 〈◊〉 death saith the Revelation and his deadly wound was healed but their end shall be eternal destruction for that Beast and the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him shall be both together cast alive into hell And there is likewise an Image of Rev. 19. 20 that beast the particular National Prelatical convocations as Wilkinson makes it out in his learned Exposition upon the 13th chapter of the Revelations But they say they have the marks of a true Church of Christ The Word truly Preached To which I answer That Balam the the false Prophet Preached Gods Word truly in Balaks Assembly but that could never prove them to be a true Church nor did the people of God go to hear him but slew him Josh 13. ●2 And they say that they have also the Sacraments duly administred And so the Papists say for themselves But these are but their bare words at the best and its better disprove them then believe them But the common Protestants say their Church of England is true because they hold justification by faith only and seem to blame the Parents and disprove their Church for h●●●ing justification by their own works and yet they hold the like if not the same erronious opinion of saving vertue in their own works as if they conferred grace as appeareth in the second answer in their Common Catechism concerning Baptism an inferior work which they prefer above the the Lords Supper although the Apostle Paul held and hath shewed Baptism to be so inferior that he thankes God that he baptised none of the Christians but Crispas and Gayus and the houshold of Stephanus and remembred not that he baptised any more and saith Christ sent him not to baptise but to preach the Gospel But indeed the Papists have an exceeding high opinion of outward Baptism that it washeth away Original sin and saveth them from being damned They cross their children on their foreheads and have God-fathers and God-mothers So have the Prelatical Party but they do not spit in their mouths as the Popish Priests do as King James saith in his Book to all Christian Kings and Princes