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kingdom_n	build_v	church_n	peter_n	2,152	5	7.8262	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88809	Of baptisme. The heads and order of such things as are especially insisted on, you will find in the table of chapters.	Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing L663; Thomason E1116_1; ESTC R210176	92,194	427

of this Sacrament that wee may know whence and how to receive it And here to omit many things which might be considered under this head more generally also not to trouble our selves with the handling of this controversy as it is stated betweene us and the Papists who putting a more simple and absolute necessity upon this ordinance then is its due expose it in case of such necessity to the administration of all sorts of people of what condition or sex soever they be wee shall onely take those two things for graunted or at least deny them not first That the errour of the Minister doth not enter the essence of Baptisme nor is of those things that can destroy it and make it null And secondly that by the opinion of antiquity and learned men there were certain necessitous extraordinary cases wherein others might be used for Baptisme then such as were the ordinary Ministers of it But now because it is one thing to be and another thing to be rightly or well in relation to our selves and the ordinary and orderly administration of Baptisme we shall consider whether Baptisme be a thing of publick or private cognisance and to what predicament it belongs and whether it pretends which will be the bounds of this discourse and shew us whence it is to be fetcht and derived That it is a thing of publicke cognisance appeares to me both by the primitive commission and primitive practise the commission lyes Matt. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost In the 18. verse Christ tells his Disciples that all povver is given to him in heaven earth these were his letters patents by which hee shewed hee did nothing without power and good warrant now he goes into heaven as into one part of his kingdome which was quiet and at peace and sitting there at the right hand of his Father gives an Apostolicall commission for all the earth so Marke 16.15 Go into the vvhole vvorld preach the Gospell to every creature here hee opposes the whole earth to the bounds and limits of Iudea by which the Prophets of old were bounded in their administrations That he had by an hereditary right hee sent therefore to them first with this caveat that they should not go into the vvay of the Gentiles nor enter into any city of the Samaritans Matth. 10.5 But now by his death resurrection having acquired a right of reigning over all men he gives a commission for all the world this is Apostolicall for hee bids them go forth into all the world which is properly the word of Apostolicall commission whose diocesse had no bounds and if not here where can any Apostolicall commission be found And he tells them their great workes which was to preach and baptize for although Paul sayes 1. Cor. 1.17 that hee vvas sent by Christ not to baptize but to preach the Gospell that must be understood with a limitation that he was not sent especially to baptize because the administration of the Sacraments which are the appendixes and seales though it need as much power yet a lesse gift then the preaching of the word And behold I am vvith you to the end of the vvorld Here is a word of great incouragemēt comfort Christ had told them before hee was Lord of heaven earth he sends them to manage a great worke but sayes hee I will be with you that is who ever is publikely deputed for such a service as they need more especially assistāce so they shall have it and here he makes a playne difference betweene the makers of Disciples Disciples to be made Hee vvill be vvith them especially as they need it most to vvhom the charge of teaching and baptizing is deputed for the Apostles were not to continue alwayes as the world was to be gone through but once and institutions to be set up but once but a publike power was still left which succeeded this Apostolicall which in the next place we come to consider of that so finding where the commission rests wee may addresse our selves thither for ordinances and expect the blessing of Christs being with it unto the end of the world for this is a state continuing to the end of the world to the change of all things Now this clearly is the Church which is the subject of Ecclesiasticall policy and power as the common-wealth is of civill power so as Ecclesiasticall and Church power is essentially and primarily in the Church as in the subject Mat. 16. ver 18.19 And I say unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I vvill build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it And I vvill give unto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heaven c. So as though the use of the keyes be divers according to the variety of callings and conditions in the Church yet the power of the keyes originally and primarily is given to the Church for Peter here beares but the person of the Church as in other places in which hee answers for others and Christ also speakes to him as adressing himself to the Church by him This is a thing so commonly avowed and defended by Protestāts against Papists as I shall not need here to proove it Also that other knowne place of Matth. 18.17 Tell the Church where both Church state and Church power are clearely spokē of Now where the power of admitting receaving and casting out is there is the power of administring and communicating all ordinances to the edification of the same body and they which have power of administring the kingly office of Christ consisting in casting out and receaving in have also power of administring his Propheticall office of which the Sacraments are a part therefore to the Christian churches as to the Iewes of old pertaineth the publike dispensations and services of God Rom. 9.4 And hence it followes that such as were deputed by the church for their Ministers and officers were called overseers made by the holy Ghost and were to be imitators of the Apostles to whom ordinarily in the executive part they succeeded Acts 20.17.18.19.28 Hence Peter calls himself a fellow Elder with the ordinary Elders 1. Pet. 5.1 The Elders vvhich are among you I exhort vvho am also an Elder c. To conclude this head a man becomes a Prophet and able to teach by vertue of a gift namely of knowledge and utterance 1. Cor. 1.5 But no gift renders a Baptizer but a call as being a thing of publike cognisance commissiō Teaching out of a gift hath its foundation in nature which ariseth from a personall gift and grace of the spirit But Baptisme censures ordination and the like depend not upon a speciall gift but are acts of power conferred authoritatively upon a speciall person And thus much for the primitive commission for Baptisme which falls under a