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A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

Christian helps much profitable to your soules and as he hath abundantly blessed you withoutward honors and dignities externall he would also euen fill your heares and spirits with the inestimable riches of his al-sufficient grace that hauing granted this two-fold blessing to you in this life you may haue the more assured hope of a third in the life to come which is his blessing of glory for all which forenamed blessings your Worships shall haue my best and most deuout prayers continued to the Lord to whose sweetest protection I betake you both with your hopefull sonne this present day and euermore From Hempsted in Essex Ianuary 10. 1620. Your Worships alwaies ready to be commanded in the LORD Henry Greenwood To the CHRISTIAN Reader A Religious and right vertuous Gentlewoman curteous and I. M. Christian Reader much importuning mee for a written Copie of this extant worke vpon good consideration proues the onely occasion of this printed Tractate for things written as they are more tedious so are they lesse profitable but printed Tractates lesse tedious and more profitable I am not borne alone to my selfe my particular friends I loue to satisfie but the generall good still shall be my ayme And that my penne thus happily should turned bee to Presse I am no whit vnwilling both because few haue written vpon this worthy subiect as also for that I see this heauenly Sacrament seldome made right vse of the most contenting themselues with the bare signe very few acquainting themselues with the blessed power of the signified That therefore our profession may not be as in many Antichristian parts of the world in superficiall signe and shew alone but in substance life and power I commend vnto thy view for the better information of thine head and reformation of thine heart this short yet I trust profitable Treatise of that blessed Baptisme of our blessed Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Here Christian friend mayst thou learne a double lesson to liue to dye to dye to that which otherwise must bee thy death to liue that Christian and happy life wherewith who-euer is not acquainted euerlastingly must dye The Lord God from my very soule I heartily desire blesse these my poore paines to the best good of thine owne Soule and worke in thine heart a death to all that is euill and a life to all grace and godlinesse that his glory more and more by thee may be aduanced and thine owne soule more more by him refreshed and that for his owne mercy sake to whose most happy protection I commend thee both in body and Soule in his deare Sonne Christ Iesus and rest Thine euer-louing in the Lord Henry Greenwood CHRISTS BAPTISME Math. 3. 16 17. And Iesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And loe the heauens were opened vnto him and Iohn saw the Spirit of God descending like a Doue and lighting vpon him Verse 17. And loe a voyce came from heauen saying This is my beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased AS by the disobedience of one man sinne entred Rom. 5. 12 into the World and by sinne death Rom. 5. 12. So by the obedience of one man righteousnesse entred into the world and by righteousnesse life Rom. 5. 18. Rom. 5. 18. For as Adams sinne hath bound vs all to a double misery guilt and punishment So Iesus Christ being made of God to vs Wisedome Righteousnesse 1. Cor. 1. 30. Sanctification and Redemption 1. Cor. 1. 30. hath deliuered vs both from guilt and punishment of all our transgressions The truth of which thrice-blessed report is not onely mentioned in the Gospell of God and therefore called EVAGGELION but confirmed also by sacramentall signes and seales in the first and last Testament In the first against sinnes guilt by circumcision against sinnes punishment by occasion the one a Sacrament cutting the other a Sacrament killing In the last against sinnes guilt the Sacrament of Baptisme against sinnes punishment the Sacrament of his Supper And as Adam sinned in his owne person So the second Adam for his recouery hath performed both the Sacraments and substance of the same in his owne person for hee was circumcised sacrificed baptized to take away the sinnes of the world Circumcised Luke 2. 21. Sacrificed Luk. 2. 21. Heb. 7. 27. Baptized in the words of my Text And when Iesus was baptized c. In which words for methode sake I note in generall thrée First Christs baptisme And when Iesus was baptized Secondly Christs immediate action after baptisme He streight came out of the water Thirdly Gods of Christs miraculous approbation Testified by two By Vision By Voyce By Vision two wayes 1. By the heauens apertion And loe the Heauens were opened vnto him 2. By the Spirits descension And Iohn saw the Spirit of God descending c. By Voice Behold a voyce came from heauen saying c. In which voyce I note also two 1. A double circumstance 2. A singular substance A double circumstance 1. Of the Person God the Father Behold a voyce 2. Of the place supercelestiall Came from Heauen A singular substance This is my beloued Son in whom I am well pleased In Christs Baptisme ● obserue thrée First the Baptist Secondly the Baptized Thirdly the element First the Baptist and that was Iohn as it appeareth in the precedent verses Not Iohn the Euangelist but Iohn the Sonne of Zachary the Priest A worthy instrument nomene numine a gracious name and a gracious person A gracious name whereof Saint Augustine in his second Tractate vpon Iohn sayth Magnum aliquidiste Iohannes ingens meritum magna gratia magna celsitudo A great name is this name of Iohn a name of great grace a name of great valuation Magnus exim erat Iohannes virtute magnus sanctitate magnus officio Great was Iohn in power great was Iohn in sanctity great was Iohns office A gracious person sanctified in his Luk. 1. 15. mothers wombe Luke 1. 15. that which was spoken of Ieremy the Prophet is verified of Iohn the Baptist Priusquam te formarem in vtero nouite antequam illin● exires sanctifica●i te Ieremy 1. 5. Before I formed thee in the wombe I knew thee and before thou camest out of the wombe I sanctified thee At one and the selfe-same time there was in Iohn the Baptist Spiritus vitae Spiritus gratiae the Spirit of Life and the Spirit of Grace as sayth Origen Whose sanctity you may reade at large commended by Iosephus lib. 18. Antiquitatum Yea Christ himselfe sayth thus much in commendation of him that inter natos mulierum mator Iohanne non surrexit Math. 11. 11. Among those that Mat. 11. 11. are borne of women a greater then Iohn arose there not Though Enoch was translated Gen. Gen. 5. 24. 5. 24. yet was hee not greater than Iohn Though Eliah was taken vp to Heauen 2. King 2. 11. yet was hee not greater than Iohn Moses a

circumcised surely to Heauen for he saith he should goe to it And what became of all that dyed before the eight day the day of Circumcision though they had not the signe yet were they borne in the Church and were within the compasse of that generall couenant I will be thy God and the God of thy seede Indeede if we contemne baptisme then it is another matter As he that was not circumcised should be cut off Gen. 17. from the people Gen. 17. this is spoken of Adulti that contemned circumcision Alas children if they be not brought to baptisme and dye vnbaptized it is not their fault shall they bee damned for their fathers offence God forbid No the child shall not beare the fathers Ezek. 18. sinne Ezek. 18. Againe water is but a signe of the inward washing water it selfe doth not worke regeneration Though it bee sayd Except a man be borne of water and the Spirit Ioh. 3. 5. it is the Spirit that doth regenerate not the water and therefore a man may be regenerate without outward baptisme It is the speech of the Apostle Peter Baptisme saueth vs not that baptisme that putteth away the filth of the flesh viz. water but in that a good conscience maketh request to God 1. Pet. 3. 21. Indeed water is sayd to 1. Pet. 3. 21 wash vs from our sinnes sacramentally but not really nor substantially that the Spirit doth Nay in the effectuall and complete baptisme tollitur peccatum non quod non sit sed quod non obsit non quod ad actum sed reatum that is sinne is taken away not that sinne is not but that sinne is not to condemnation not in regard of the act but in regard of the guilt Seeing then that Iohn could but baptize with water and the Minister can giue but outward baptisme it is Christ Iesus that baptizeth with fire O let Parents bee instant with the Lord in prayer that as the Minister powreth on water so the Lord Iesus would powre on his grace that as they are instruments of their childrens first birth which is damnable through sinne so they may bee instruments of their second birth without which neither they nor their children shall euer sée the saluation of God And thus much for the Baptisme of our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST Secondly Christs immediate action after baptisme Hee straight came The second text out of the water In this a mystery is obserued to shew that all that are effectually baptized doe presently come out of their sinnes making no delay to serue the Lord in holinesse O that this were verified of all that are baptized Wée sée then what God requireth at our hands that when wee are little ones euen in our infancy for then wee are baptized wee sacrifice our soules and bodies to the seruice of our God for the Lord looketh for the Alpha of our liues as well as the O meg● for praise euen out of the mouth of Babes and sucklings All therefore that are baptized and yet deserre their repentance here are iustly reprehended It was Saint Augustines fault before his conuersion Ignosce pater ignosce pardon me O Lord pardon At noli modo but not now let mee sinne in my youth and pardon mee in mine age But let such persons beware of a double danger Suddaine death Hardnesse of heart Life is vncertaine who knowes it not Let vs therefore with the wise Virgins bee alwayes surnisht with the candle of faith and the oyle of loue in the Lampes of our soules that so we be not excluded the bride-chamber of glory Againe let all such desperate wretches know that custome in sinne hardens the heart of a sinner Qui non est bodie c●as n●nus aptus e●●t He that is not sit for repen●ance to day will be lesse to 〈…〉 euen as a ruinous house the longer it is let runne the more it will aske to repayre and as a nayle the more blowes a man gines it the harder will it be to pull out Let vs therefore while it is said to day resolue perfect obedience to our God while the Lord speaketh make him speedy answere Let there bee an eccho resounding in the thickets of our hearts as was in the heart of Dauid Psal 27. 8. Seeke ye my face thy Psal 2●● face Lord will I seeke that hauing regarded the Lord and his seruice in time the Lord may reward vs with his blessed fauour not for a time but for euer Thus much for Christs immediate action after Baptisme Thirdly Gods of Christs miraculous approbation testified by two by Vision by Voyce By Vision two wayes by the heauens appertion by the Spirits descension First by the heauens appertion And behold the heauens were opened Text. to him Behold Ecce loe This word is vsed in holy Writ 600. times a word euer placed before matters of great waight and moment whervpon Bernard calls it notam stelliferam a starry note pointing out extraordinary matters reuealed as the Star pointed out Christ to the Wisemen and stood ouer the house where he lay Sometimes placed before Gods inexpressible merctes as Esay 7. 14 Behold a Virgin shall conceine and Esay 7. beare a Sonne and his name shall bee called IMMANVEL Sometimes before his invtterable iudgements as Amos 8. Behold I will bring a famine vpon you not a famine of bread or of wine which of outward deaths I know none worse then staruing to death but a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord and ye shall goe from sea to sea and coast to coast as little account as you make of Sermons now and shall not finde it The exposition of this word you may finde by comparing Math. the 6. Math. 6. Luke 12 with Luke 12. for S. Mathew speaking of GODS prouidence for the Fowles of the ayre vseth the word Behold Behold the Fowles of the ayre Saint Luke speaking of the selfesame subiect vseth the word Consider Consider the Rauens c So that Behold is as much as Consider or seriously perpend what it is that shal be spoken The vse of this word is to stirre vp auditories diligently to attend to those things that make for Gods glory and the euerlasting peace of their owne soules The heauens were opened to him Text. The heauens haue béene opened to many as you may reade in the Scriptures of God 1. To Steuen martyred Act. 7. 56. Act. 7. 56. 2. To Peter in prayer deuoted Acts. 10. 3. To Christ transfigured Math. 17. 5. 4. To Christ ascended Acts 1. 9. 5. To Christ here baptized And when Iesus was baptized behold the heauens were opened to him By the heauens apertion many times is vnderstood the manifestation of the glory of God but héere it doth signifie visibilis coeli scissura● ita vt Iohannes perspicere potuit aliquid planetis austris superius the diuision of the visible heauens whereby Iohn saw somthing higher than the Planets and Starres and therfore

thus would vouchsafe to pay our debt like a good Cyrenite that thus would stoope to carry our crosse and fulfill euery part of the Law for our sakes to saue our poore soules euerlastingly aliue Thirdly The element water It is Iohns owne confession I baptize with water Wee reade of many baptismes in the holy Scriptures First Baptisma typicum A typicall baptisme wherewith Paul sayth that the Israelites were baptized of Moses in the sea 1. Cor. 10. 2. That was a 1. Cor. 10. 2. type of baptisme for as baptisme to vs is a passage by death to life so was that passage through the sea to the shore a passage through death to life Secondly Baptisma Iudaicum A Iewish Baptisme wherewith Iudith is Iudith 12. ● Heb. 9. 10. said to haue baptized her selfe before prayer in a fountaine of water Iudith 12. 7. de quo Heb. 9. 10. Thirdly Baptisma Pharisaicum A Pharisaicall Baptisme Baptisma calicum vrceorum A Baptisme of cups and pots and hands before they ate Marke Fourthly Baptisma sanguinis A baptisme Luk. 12. 50 of bloud Luke 12. 50. I must bee baptized with a Baptisme and how am I grieued till it bee ended called baptisma Martyrij A baptisme of Martyrdome Fiftly Baptisma aquae called baptisma fluminis A baptisme of water wherewith Iohn baptized Sixtly Baptisma Spiritus A Baptisme of the Spirit called Baptisma flaminis the baptisme of fire wherewith Acts 2. the Apostles were baptized Acts 2. wherewith Christ baptizeth he shall Mat. 3. baptize with the Spirit and fire Mat. 3. The Spirit is compared to fire in a triple respect for as fire doth Illuminare inlighten Calefacere make warme Comburere burne vp So the Holy Ghost doth inlighten the vnderstanding make warme with zeale the affection and burne vp the drosse and corruption that is in the Soule But Iohn baptizeth with water A ●it element for this Sacrament For as Augustine saith Si Sacramenta similitudinem quandam earum rerum quarum sunt Sacramenta non haberent vtique non essent Sacramenta If Sacraments had not a liuely representation of those things whereof they are Sacraments they should bee no Sacraments Now water doth notably resemble Christs Spirit and bloud and that in many respects First as the water washeth a way filth from the body so doth the Spirit sinne from the soule Secondly as euery generation is ex humida or aquosa materia of a wa●ry matter where vpon some of the Philosophers as Thales said that water was the beginning of all things So regeneration by the Spirit of grace is resembled here in the Sacrament by water Thirdly as water maketh the earth fruitfull sertill full of increase So that Spirit that moued vpon the waters Gen. 1. 2. makes vs fruitfull in all good workes Fourthly as water doth very much refresh a man in his extremitie of heate So the Spirit of grace refresheth vs in the fiercest fire and greatest heat of tribulations Fiftly as water doth quenth the thirst of man and beast So doth the Spirit of grace quench our thirst after temporall things Ioh. 7. 37. He that is Ioh. 7. 37. a-thirst let him come to mee and hee shall neuer thirst more This sacramentall water is figured per aquam expiationis by the water of Num. 19. Expiation Numb 19. This sacramentall water is figured per aquam illam by that water which Ezekiel saw goe out of the right side of the Temple Ezek. 47. This sacramentall water is figured per fontem illum by that fountaine which the Lord promised by his Prophet Zach. 13. But this sacramentall water is especially figured per aquas dilu●ij by the water of the floud Gen. 7. for as that Gen. 7. water drowned the old world so water in Baptisme as it hath reference to the Spirit of grace drowneth the old man and washeth away all corruption and sinne in which respect baptisme is called Lauacrum regenerationis mentanominic● The Lauer of regeneration T it 3. 5. Tit. 3. 5. So that water yee sée is the element that Iohn vseth in baptisme aqua pura simplex vulgaris pure simple and common water not mixt not made not stilled not oyle not blood not fire nor any other element not salt in the mouth not spittle in the eares and nostrils with a pronunciation of the word Ephata be thou open not milke not honey to signifie the right they haue to the heauenly Chanaan not Chrysine or holy oyle for the anointing of brest and forehead to signifie the anointing of the Spirit not burning lights to signifie their deliuery from darknesse to light A couple of notable heretikes Seleucus and Hermias baptized their children aqua igne in water and fire also Musculus saith that it is reported that certaine Christians of India baptize their children aqua igne in water and fire also signaculo crucis per ignitum ferrum fronti impresso branding them on the forehead with the signe of the crosse with a hot burning yron but this is horrible and hard Horrible because cursed is he that addeth or diminisheth from the Word of the Lord Deut. 12. 32. An horrible thing that wee should make our selues wiser then Christ what Christ hath commanded to bee vsed in this Sacrament that in the feare of God let vs do adding nothing to the same for that is abomination An hard thing to bee burned in the Sacrament therefore wee are much bound to Christ for those Sacraments we haue for they are very easie the old were hard and bloudy in Circumcision bloud lost in the Passeouer life lost The Sacraments of the New Testament are virtute maiora vtilitate meliora actu faciliora numero pauciora id est for vertue greater for profit better for act easier for number fewer And as this Baptist here baptized with water so wee must know that it passed his power to baptize with the Spirit and fire Cyprian giueth to Iohn onely outward baptisme Longobard sayth that Iohannis operatio visibilis tantum exterius Lauantis muisibilis gratia Dei Interius operantis Iohns baptisme washed without but it is Gods grace that washeth within Iohns baptisme was not called the baptisme of repentance as though all that were baptized were regenerate but because it was a signe and token of repentance Augustine dares not altogether derogate remission of sinnes from Iohns baptism neither dares he simply giue remission of sinnes to the same It is not beloued it is not in the Ministers power to regenerate neither is there such a sacramentall vnion twirt the signe and the signified as he that takes the one must of necessity take the other then Simon Magus should haue had the Holy Ghost for he was baptized Neither are they cast away that cannot come to bee baptized with water then whither went the Thiefe that beléeued hee was not baptized yet in Paradise And whither went the child of Dauid It was not

with the sheep on his right hand and singing this blessed haruest song vnto you Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most blessed place of glory the Lord bring euery Soule of vs at the day of our death and dissolution and that for IESVS CHRIST his sake to whom with God the Father and God the blessed Spirit thrée glorious persons but one immortall God be ascribed all honour and glory both in Heauen and Earth this day and euer Amen * ⁎ * FINIS An Earnest and zealous Pray er to be saued from the damnation of TOPHET O Most glorious euerliuing and euerlouing Lord God the fountaine and well-spring of all our happinesse wee thy poore seruants vnworthy in regard of our manifold transgressions of the least of thy blessings doe most humbly fall downe before the throne of thy dreadfull Maiesty confessing in the bitternesse of our soules the basenesse and vilenesse of our estates by sinne O Lord ashamed wee are to come before thee that are nothing but sinfull corruption and abomination but thou a Maiesty most pure in comparison of whom the Angels themselues are counted impure we dare not therfore being thus lothsome and abominable presume to present our selues before thee as in our selues but in thy manifold mercies and thy Son Iesus Christ his merits in whom thou art delightfully pleased with all that faithfully call vpon thy name Lord in thy Son behold vs we humbly beseech thee accept vs in his worthinesse clense vs in his blood iustifie vs in his righteousnes sanctifie vs with his spirit and in his most precious death frée vs from the damnation of hell O till these comfortable tidings be sealed vp to our soules how perplexed are we O how do our harts quake and tremble till we haue found the saluation of thee our God! Reiect vs not O heauenly Father that faine would as be saued of thee so vprightly serue thee we plead now and euer for pardon so for grace whereby wee may in plentifull manner bring forth fruits worthy of amendement Lord kéepe vs in body and soule to thy euerlasting Kingdom and saluation Lord preserue vs from the terrible torments of Tophet O what shall become of vs if we for our sins when we dye be thrown into that Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone so bitterly as forceth screeching and screaming continually Lord deale not with vs according to our sinnes and thy iustice but in the multitude of thy mercies saue our soules aliue O consider the terrors of our troubled Soules Let not the grones of our hearts be despised but suffer them to pierce the heauens for a blessing O thou that art the God of endlesse compassion cast vs not away from thy presence we are the workmanship of thine hands O Lord confound vs not O Lord that delightest not in the death and damnation of a sinner bee moued to shewe pity vpon vs O Christ our blessed Sauior make intercession to God the Father for vs speake by thy gracious Spirit peace to our disquieted Soules bind vp our broken hearts giue vs that wée may cléerely sée our names written in the Booke of Life and our soules released from the fearefull damnation of Tophet To this end gracious God remoue all sinne from our soules and plant in the garden of our hearts all those spirituall and heauenly graces that are proper peculiar to thine Elect that we may be alwayes a swéet smelling sauor before thée giue vs faith in thy promises loue to thy Maiesty zeale to thy glory obedience to thy lawes and guide vs daily by thy blessed Spirit into all truth and godlinesse Lord giue vs to bee out of loue with the vanities of this life to hate euery worke of darknes the little sin as well as the great quicken vs O Lord by thy quickning Spirit O giue vs hearts to bee inflamed with the loue of thy truth O that wée could hunger and thirst after grace as the chased Hart doth the running Brooke O that wee could experimentally say with thy seruant DAVID that all our delight is in thy Commandements Thus O Lord we receiuing grace from thy Maiesty to repell the fiery darts of the diuell to flye euen from euery apparition of euill so doing we may reap much comfort to our soules in this world of trouble and at the fearefull day of Iudgement wee may be freed from the lamentable tortures of Tophet where howling and yelling shall be for euermore and that for Iesus Christs sake thy Sonne our Sauiour to whom with thée and thy most glorious Spirit we desire euen from the bottome of our hearts to haue offered vp all thanksgiuing and praise both in heauen and earth this day and euermore Amen FINIS A IOYEFVLL TRACTATE OF The most blessed Baptisme that euer was solemniz'd VIZ. Of the Baptism of our Lord IESVS by IOHN in Iordan The fourth Edition corrected and amended IOHN 3. 5. Except a man be borne of water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God LONDON Printed by George Purslowe and are to be sold by John Clarke 1620. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull M. ROBERT MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norsolke Esquire and Mistris AMY MORDAVNT his mostlouing Bedfellow All increase of Grace in this life and of glory in the life to come SEldome or neuer Right Worshipfull doe we finde Tractates either Humane or Diuine passe without their particular Dedications that being shrowded vnder the safe-garding gourds of honorable and right godly dispositions they might the better bee preserued from the parching detractions of malignant Cynicks I make bolde therefore discarding all selfe-humour and irregular singularity to commend this poore Present vostrum ad patrocinium to the worthy patronage of your well-affected Worships two especiall reasons mouing me hereunto First that mine vnfained gratitude entire affection and most humble duty for all your fauors inexpressible might heereby bee made apparent Secondly it being deliuered at that solemne baptisme of Charles your first born and hopefull heyre none I know more worthy of this Dication than your worthy and right Christian persons I present it to your religious considerations as a louing and friendly New-yeeres gift for it aymes at that blessed New birth and happy New life liuely in baptisme represented without which it is not possible for either of you to possesse the Kingdome of God Accept therefore I humbly beseech you and take in good worth this short Treatise short both in line and learning respect not as is that Prouerbe the measure of the gift but the minde of the giuer what is wanting in the one I dare boldly promise is made vp in the other At your best leisures vouchsafe I pray now and then to peruse it and I trust that your Christian paines herein shall bee well reguerden'd with heauenly pleasures herefrom The Lord God make this with all other like

great Law-giuer and the Prophets great men yet were they not greater than Iohn Non enim ego Prophetas Prophetis andeo comparare I dare not compare Prophets with Prophets yet the Lord of him the Lord of them the Lord Iesus of vs all hath pronounced of him that inter natos mulierum among them that are born of women a greater than Iohn the Baptist arose there not hee doth not say inter natos virginum among them that are borne of Virgins for Christ Iesus himselfe was borne of a Virgin whose shooes latchet Iohn Mat. 3. 11 was not worthy to vnloose Math. 3. 11. great was Iohn but what to his Lord and Master Christ a rare preacher but what to that great Lawgiuer a baptizer with water but what to him that came to baptize with the Spirit and Fire This is he that héere baptized Christ yea he was the first that euer baptized with water to repentance yea his office was to baptize in remissionem peccatorum before Christ Luke 3. 3. to lead the people by water to him that baptized with the Spirit and fire As one saith of him that hée did praeire nasciturum nascendo praedicaturum praedicando baptizaturum bapti zando moriturum moriendo that in birth baptisme doctrine and death hee preceded IESVS the Reconciler of the world The place where hee baptized Christ was in the Riuer Iordane Fluuius eximiae dulcedinis qui in lacum Genezareth Gen. 13. deinde in mare mortuum funditur A delicate Riuer so called because it was composed of two Fountaines the one called Ior the other called Dan and therfore the Riuer hath this name Iordan In which Riuer Naaman was 2 King 5. 14. washed and cleansed from his Leprosie 2 King 5. 14. which Riuer Eliah and Elisha diuided with their Cloake 2. King 2. 8 13. In this Iordan did Iohn baptize our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Secondly The Baptized Iesus And when Iesus was baptized Iesus this word signifieth a Sauiour A name worthily giuen him from the Lord because hee came to saue his Mat. 1. 21. people from their sinnes Math. 1. 21. from the guilt of sinne by his imputatiue righteousnesse from the punishment of sin by his imputatiue death and passions the one properly resembled in Baptisme the other in his last Supper But whether did Christ purchase this great saluation for vs iure pacti or rigore iustit●e a great question in diuinity by a Couenant made twixt God the Father and him or in regard of worth for worth that is whether his merits did equalize the saluation of so many Saints Ans To satisfie this question giue mee leaue to vse a familiar comparison Suppose I should say to a Porter or some such fellow If thou wilt bring mee a burthen of an hundred weight a mile vpon thy backe I will giu● thee a thousand pound for thy paines the Porter doth it hee hath purchaset this summe ture pacti in regard of the couenant but not rigore iustitiae hi● paines were not answerable to th● gift for I could haue had it done so a crowne but suppose I should mak● bold with a great man of worth in the like case he hath deseru'd this rewar● iure pacti rigore iustitiae O the dignity of Christs person makes his merit precious and thus became Chris● our Iesus Obiect But it may be demanded why CHRIST should here by Iohn b● baptized that was sinlesse baptism being a remedy against originall sin For BAPTISMA of BAPTEIN sigri 〈…〉 a washing away resembling the washing away of sinne Ans It is true Christ in regard of himselfe had no néede of Baptisme wherefore Iohn forbade him saying I haue neede to be baptized of thee and commest thou to mee yet notwithstanding Christ vouchsafed to be baptized for eight especiall causes First because he was bound to fulfill the righteousnesse both of Law and Gospell in the behalfe of man as hee told Iohn Thus it becommeth vs to Mat ● fulfill all righteousnesse Math. 3. The Law inioined Circumcision therfore Christ must be circumcised the Gospel inioyned baptisme therefore Christ must be baptized for Christ came not to breake the Law but to fulfill it Secondly that hee might confirme the baptisme of Iohn to bee both reuerend and profitable l●st any should holde baptisme a vaine or friuolous thing Thirdly that hee might sanctifie the water to his mysticall end viz. to the washing away of sinne Hesych Christus ad sacrandas aquas baptismatis in Iordane baptizatus est that is Christ was baptized in Iordan to sanctifie the water of baptisme to the mysticall washing away of sinne Fourthly that hee might hereby shew his wonderfull humilitie for Phil. ● 6. though he were equall with God Phil. 2. 6. yet he makes himselfe of no reputation but comes euen among sinners to baptisme who notwithstanding knew no sinne Fiftly to teach vs that as he was baptized being the head so should wée his members to shew that baptisme is not lightly to be respected nor of any to be neglected therefore they that bring not their children to baptisme as much as lyes in them shut them out of the Kingdome of Heauen For Baptisme is necessary ad tollendam maledictionem as saith Pareus non vt pharmacum aut opus expiatorium sed vt sacramentum foederis obsignatorium non necessitate medi● sed mandati● not as though outward baptisme either simply saued vs or without it no saluation could bee but because it is commanded It is therefore necessary ●ATAT● propter mandatum Dei for the streight command of God but not praecise simpliciter absolute that as those that want it should bee damned for whom the blockish Papists haue deuised a Lymbus infantum Sixtly to testifie the blessed communion and fellowship that hee our head hath with vs his members to our vnspeakable consolation Seuenthly to signifie to all the world that hee came to bee baptized with the baptisme of death For baptisme doth reprensent dying to sinne so Christ dyed for sinne Luke 12. 50. Luk. 12. 50 I must be baptized with a baptisme and how am I grieued till it be ended Eightthly vt veritas typo responde●et that the truth may answere in euery respect the type and figure for as the high Priest when hee was inaugurated they first washed his whole body with water Afterwards hauing put vpon him his priest-like garments and brought him to the open view of the people they sounded trumpets and powred oyle vpon his head Exod. 29. Exod. 29. 4 5. Num. 10. 3 4 5. Num. 10. 3. So Christ our Priest was washed by Iohn in Iordan in the open assembly of much people a voyce thundred from Heauen and with the spirit of grace hee was anointed with Psal 45. 7. the oyle of holinesse aboue his fellows Psal 45. 7. And thus yee see the reasons why our Sauiour would be baptized Oh how are wee bound to his maiesty that