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A32091
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A practical discourse concerning vows with a special reference to baptism and the Lord's Supper / by Edmund Calamy.
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Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.
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1697
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Wing C274; ESTC R6151
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all these words They having first by a Solemn Vow bound themselves to God and to Obedience to him Moses by Gods command uses the External Sign of Sprinkling Blood to show that God lookt on his Promises as binding upon him Now under the New Testament there are two Foederal Transactions between God and us Instituted as Ordinances in the Christian Church to which we commonly give the Name of Sacraments in both which we may observe the same Procedure Both are on Gods part seals of the Blessings of the Covenant of Grace and on Man's part Engagements to all the Duties of that Covenant As Gods part lies in Promises and their Ratifications and Assuring Pledges so doth Man's in Vows and their Confirming Rites God engages to be our God and to carry it to us like a God We Vow to be his People and to carry it to him like his People God engages to make good his Promises not only in the general but to those Persons in Particular who seriously enter into Covenant with him Man is thereby bound and engag'd to all Prescribed Duty not only in general and in common with others but Particularly and by Name 2. The Christian Vow in both the Sacraments of the New Testament hath a particular Relation to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost according to their distinct Agency in the great Work of our Redemption and Salvation Each Person in the Sacred Trinity hath an hand in Saving Man The work of each is distinct and therefore the Duty to each is distinct and consequently the Christian Vow must besides what is owing to the Great God in common contain an Engagement to the special Duties owing to each Person TO the Father we find in Scripture the Honour is peculiarly Ascrib'd of being the Contriver of the Method of our Salvation 'T was He whose Love to us was such as to move him to send his Son to Redeem us and his Spirit to Sanctify us 'T was He that sent his Son in our Nature to Dye a Sacrifice and make Expiation for Sin and 't is He that sends his Spirit to apply and convey the Benefits Merited by the Oblation of that Sacrifice 'T was the Father that Invested Christ the Mediator with his Authority and Power 'T is on the Father as maintaining the Rights of the whole Deity Man's Apostacy is Represented as peculiarly Reflecting And 't is He who thro' his Son offers to be Reconcil'd to a Rebellious World He is the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in and thro' him Ready to be our Father 'T is back again to him that Christ Dy'd to bring us He is therefore to be regarded as our Ultimate End ACCORDINGLY that part of the Christian Vow which relates to God the Father is this Admiring his Matehless Wisdom and Adoring his Unfathomable Love to give up our selves to him anew with hearty Sorrow that ever we should have Revolted from him To take him for our Father thro' Christ engaging to carry it like Children to him with a Child-like Love to him Reverential Fear and Worship of him Delight Trust and Confidence in him Hearty Dâ—…dence on him and Obedience to â—…im to make his Glory our utmost Aim and expect our Final Happiness in him alone AS for the Son He is represented as the Worker out of our Redemption 'T was he who Purchas'd our Pardon and paid the price of our Peace He is the Fathers Prime Messenger to this Lower World the Great Prophet of the Church sent on purpose to Reveal Gods Mind and Will to Men and instruct them in the way to Heaven He was constituted the Great High Priest to make Atonement Satisfie Offended Justice and Salve the Injur'd Rights of the Divine Government to Expiate Sin by Offering an Acceptable Sacrifice and to Interceed with the Blood of it within the Veil in the Holy of Holies in the Heavenly Tabernacle Him hath God set as his King on Zion and to him is every knee to Bow and him are all to Honour even as they do the Father For he hath put all Power in Heaven and Earth into his Hands 'T is on his Shoulders the Divine Government lies and to him it belongs to give Laws to his Church He was a walking Mirrour of Divinity in this Lower World being Emanuel God with us a compleat Pattern of the Perfection of Holyness He is the Captain of our Salvation the Skilful Physician of Souls the Light of the World the way to the Father and the Lord of Life And he will come again at last to raise us from Death and Judge the World and Justifie his Saints and bring them to Eternal Glory and cast the Wicked into utter Misery AND accordingly that part of the Christians Sacramental Vows that relates to God the Son is this Admiring his Amazing Condescention and Matchless Love in taking our Nature upon him with its many Infirmities and therein doing undergoing and Suffering so much for our sakes to Consecrate our selves to him firmly Resolving with Divine Assistance that we will not live unto our selves but to him who Dy'd for us and Rose again 'T is an hearty taking him for our Saviour closing in with all the parts of his Saving Office An engagement readily to hearken to his Voice by whom God who in times past spake to the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us To Credit all his Reports and Trust in all his Promises to depend solely on his Atonement for Pardon and Divine Acceptance Justification and Life to use him upon all occasions as our Advocate who sits in our Nature at the Right hand of the Throne of the Majesty on high It is a swearing Fealty to him as our Soveraign engaging to yield Submission to his Authority and Governing Power to stand in awe of all his Threatnings and sincerely obey all his Commands To Immitate his Example and endeavour to copy out in ours the Excellencies and Perfections of his Temper and of his Life To follow him as our Captain whither soever he shall lead us To Fight under his Banner against all his Enemies and to bear all his Discipline To use him as our Physician Trusting in his Skill following all his Prescriptions and chearfully taking all his Saving Medicines how bitter and distastful soever to Flesh and Blood To wait in expectation of his return in Glory and live in the comfortable hope of his coming to Judgment and owning us before his Father and all his Holy Angels and taking us to himself to be for ever with him beholding his Glory AS for the Holy Ghost his work is to supply our Saviours Place here on Earth to be the Guide and the Inmate the Helper and Asistant the Comforter and Support of all the Faithful To apply all the Benefits that our Lord hath Purchas'd 'T was he that Inspir'd all the Penmen of Holy Writ and 't was under his peculiar conduct that they committed the Sacred Records to