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Conformity of the ecclesiastical discipline of the Reformed churches of France with that of the primitive Christians written by M. La Rocque ... ; render'd into English by Jos. Walker.; Conformité de la discipline ecclésiastique des Protestans de France avec celle des anciennes Chrêtiens. English
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Larroque, Matthieu de, 1619-1684.; Walker, Joseph.
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the Church-book if the Children are begotten in lawful Wedlock A Form of Baptism of those which shall be Converted to the Christian Faith as well Pagans Jews Mahometans and Anabaptists which have not been Baptised made at the National Synod of the Reformed Churches of France held at Charanton in the year 1644. the 26 of December and the following Days AFter that the Catechumeny has been sufficiently instructed and Catechis'd to give an account of his Faith and that the Church shall by good Testimonies have taken cognisance of the Integrity of the Persons Life and Learning they shall by the said Persons be presented to the whole assembly of believers to be baptised in their presence And the Minister shall say The first Demand Do you not confess that you are a Child of Wrath deserving death and everlasting damnation Answer Yes Demand Are you not displeased and grieved for all the the sins you have committed ever since you were born and don 't you promise for ever to forsake them Answer Yes Dem. Do you not with all your heart forsake the seducements and temptations of the Devil and his Angels of all the Pomps and Vanities of the World and of all the Affections and Lusts of the Flesh Answ Yes If it be a Pagan the Minister shall say to him Dem. Do you not believe there is one only God which made Heaven and Earth who supports all things by his powerful Word and in whom we live move and have our being Answ Yes Then the following demand shall be made which is common to all and which are to be offer'd to all Dem. Do you not believe this great God which has created Heaven and Earth is one in Fssence and distinguished into three Persons Equal and Coeternal the Father the Son begotten of the Father from all Eternity and the Holy Ghost proceeding Eternal from the Father and the Son Answ Yes If it be a Pagan the three following Questions shall be propos'd Dem. Do you not believe this great God never leaving himself without Witness has manifested himself to Men not only by his Works which from their first production continually publish his Praise and Glory but also by revealing his Will for the Salvation of Mankind contained in the Holy Scriptures called the Old and New Testament Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that all these Holy Scriptures are divinely inspired and continue the perfect Rule of our Faith and good Living Answ Yes Dem. Do you not protest to resist the Devil to the last minute of your Life whom you have hitherto adored serving sdols made with hands or the host of Heaven or to conclude those which by Nature are no Gods Answ Yes If it be a Jew these sive Questions shall be made omiting the four above expressed they belonging to Pagans Dem. Do you not detest the Rebellion and Obstinacy of the Jews and do not you beg pardon for having been so long time ingaged therein Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that what God has been pleas'd to reveal to us of his Will is contain'd not only in the Books of the Old but also in those of the New Testament Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that Jesus the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived in her by the ineffable Power of the Holy Ghost and after condemned to dye on the Cross through the false Accusation of the Jews by the wicked Sentence of Pontius Pilate raised from the dead the third day and now sitting in Glory is God manifest in the Flesh the Eternal Word of the Father by which he created and maintains the whole Vniverse the blessed Seed promised to Adam presently after his Fall by vertue of whom the Serpents head is broken whose coming all the Patriarchs expected with Hope and the great Prophet and true Messias foretold as well by Moses as by the other Prophets which lived after him Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that the Lord Jesus is the fulfilling of the Law in Righteousness to all which believe the truth of his Types and Figures the true Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World and that in him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that now the observation of Legal Ceremonies is not only superfluous but also wholly prejudicial to a good Conscience Answ Yes If the Catecumeny be a Mahometan the Minister shall ask these following Questions omitting the former which particularly refer to Pagans or Jews Dem. Do you not believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are inspir'd of God and conttain his whole Will for the Salvation of Mankind and the only perfect Rule of Faith and good Living Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that Jesus the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived in her by vertue of the Holy Ghost and made after the Flesh of her substance is God and Man blessed for ever perfect God and perfect Man Man made of a Woman in the fulness of time and God ingender'd of God the Father before all Eternity Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that the Lord Jesus from his first conception after the Flesh was Holy Innocent without Spot separate from Sinners and that he suffer'd not Death for his Sins but for ours¿ Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that his Death is the propitiation of our sins yea for the sins of the whole World and that this propitiation is of infinite Merit whereby Eternal Glory and Salvation has been acquir'd for us Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe Mahomet was a Deceiver and that his Alcoran is a Sacrilegious heap of Dreams full of absurdities and broached a purpose to set up a false and abominable Religion Answ Yes Dem. Do you not believe that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus is the power of God to Salvation in all them which believe That the only Christian Religion is the power of God to Salvation in all them which believe that the only Christian Religion is that alone whereby God the Father has revealed his good pleasure for the Salvation of Mankind until the end of the World that since the manifestation thereof there is no other to be expected that the Lord Jesus Christ only is the great Prophet promis'd to the Believers of the Old Testament and that God having formerly spoken in divers manners to Men before and under the Law has spoke to the Church of the New Testament by the Mouth of his only Son Jesus Answ Yes Quest Repeat the summary of your Faith Answ I believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth c. If the Catecumene be an Annabaptist the Minister shall say Quest Do you not believe that the Lord Jesus is and shall be true God and Man in both Natures Eternally that he was according to his Manhood like to us in all things sin only excepted so that he was the true Son of Abraham of David of the Blessed
Virgin proceeding from their Blood and Seed and that the substance of his Body was formed not only of the Virgin according to what the Apostle saith that he was of the Seed of David according to the Scriptures that he was made of a Woman and that he partook of Flesh and Blood like other Children Answ Yes Quest Do you not believe that the baptizing of young Infants is grounded in the Scriptures and in the continual practice of the Church Answ Yes Quest Do you not with all your heart renounce the Errors of those which deny it and are you not sorry for having hitherto slighted it Answ Yes Quest Do you not believe that the Establishing of Magistrates is an Ordnance of God to the which those which refuse to submit draw down damnation on themselves And that all manner of Obedience after the Will of God is due to them Answ Yes Quest Do you not believe that this good God which calls us all by the Preaching of his Word to Life and Salvation has instituted some Signs and Sacraments in his Church which Seal and Confirm to us the Covenant of Grace which is offer'd to us by the Preaching of the Gospel Answ Yes Quest How many Sacraments think you there are in the Christian Church Answ Two to wit Baptisme and the Lords Supper Quest Do you not desire to be instructed in the Nature and Vse of Baptisme which you desire in the Church Answ Yes Quest The Minister shall say Our Lord shews us all in what poverty and misery we were born in telling us we must be regenerated for if it be needful our Nature be renewed to have admission into the Kingdom of Heaven it is a sign 't is wholly sinful and cursed therein therefore he warns us to be humbled and cast down in our-selves and in this manner he prepares us to desire and seek his favour whereby all the perverseness and evil of our first Nature shall be abolished for we are not capable of receiving it until first we have wholly laid aside all trust in our own Strength Wisdom Righteousness even to condemning all that is in us Now when he has shewn us our misery he then comforts us by his mercy promising to regenerate us by his Holy Spirit to a Holy Life which shall be to us as the entrance into his Kingdom This Regeneration consists in two parts which is that we should deny our selves not following the way of our own reason our Pleasure and own Will but subjecting our understanding and heart to the Wisdom and Will of God mortifying all that is of us and of the Flesh afterwards we should follow the light of God to comply and submit to his Holy Will as he commands us by his Word and bads us by his Spirit The accomplishment both of the one and the other is in our Lord Jesus whose Death and Passion is of such Vertue that partaking thereof we are as it were Dead to Sin to the end that our fleshly Lusts should be mortified In like manner by vertue of his Resurrection we may be raised to a new Life which is God being Govern'd and Conducted by his Holy Spirit which worketh in us things well pleasing in his sight Nevertheless the first and principal point of our Salvation is that by his Mercy he pardon and forgives us all our sins not imputing them to us but blotting them out that they should not rise up in Judgment against us All these Graces are bestow'd on us when he is pleased to ingraff us into his Church by Baptisme for in this Sacrament he assures us of the pardon of our sins And to this end he hath appointed the Sign of Water to shew us That as by this Element Bodily filthiness is washed away he will also wash and purifie our Souls that there might be no spot in them Then he shews us our Renovation the which lyes as has been said in the Mortification of our Flesh and in a Spiritual Life which he worketh in us So shall we receive double Grace and benefit of our God in Baptisme provided we do not frustrate the vertue of this Sacrament by our ingratitude which is that we have therein certain assurance that God will be a merciful Father to us not imputing our Sins and Offences Secondly That he will assist us by his Holy Spirit to the end we may resist the Devil Sin and the Lusts of the Flesh even till we triumph over them to live in the liberty of his Kingdom which is the Kingdom of Righteousness Seeing then 't is so that these two things are accomplish'd in us by the love of Jesus Christ it follows that the vertue and substance of Baptisme is compris'd in him and indeed we have no other cleansing but his Blood nor no other renewing but in his Death and Resurrection but as he communicates to us his Riches and Blessings by his Word so also he distributes them to us by his Sacraments Now herein appears the wonderful Love of God towards us that those Graces he bestows upon us having before the coming of the Messias been restrain'd within the People of the Jews and the partition Wall which separated the Jews and Gentiles being taken away by the Death of Jesus Christ he shed abroad the Waters of his Saving Grace in such abundant manner on the Children of Men that in him there is now neither Jew nor Greek Male nor Female Circumcision nor Vncircumcision nor any other Creature else which can hinder us from this great Salvation that Jesus Christ will be preached to all Nations and the Covenant of his Love confirm'd by Baptisme according to the Commission given to his Apostles saying Go Preach to all Nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost And it is this Grace Brother which you desire to partake of by Baptisme is it not true Answ Yes Quest But because entring into the House of God every one should take care of his wayes fearing to prophane the the Sanctuary in adventuring according to the saying of the Wise Man least he should offer the Sacrifice of Fools and that he should be cleansed from the Leven and Error of Malice do you not detest all the Errors which are contrary to the Holy Doctrine taught in our Churches Answ Yes Quest Seeing you are about to receive Holy Baptisme do not you promise to live and dye in the Faith of the Lord Jesus heretofore confessed by you accompanying it with a Holy Life and Conversation and to imploy all your Thoughts Words and Actions to glorifie God and edifie your Neighbours submitting your self to the Order of the Church and to the Discipline whereby this Holy Order shall inviolably be maintain'd Answ Yes This being done the Minister shall add Let us pray to God that he would be pleased to Bless this Holy Action and shall pray after this manner Lord our God infinitely Wise and Merciful we Praise and Bless thy Holy