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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09597	The Christians A.B.C., or, A Christian alphabet contayning grounds of knowledge vnto saluation first propounded in alphabeticall forme, each proposition being seconded with some solid reasons : secondly repeated by way of question and answer, with the proofe of euery particular point of doctrine, acquainting the reader with the most select texts of scripture, whereupon our Christian faith is grounded / by I.P. B. of D.	Phillips, John, d. 1640.	1629 (1629)	STC 19877.5; ESTC S3143	76,873	278

that is partaker of the outward elements but only to the faithfull is manifest in that our Sauiour Christ Mark 16.16 doth not say simply Hee that is baptized but Hee that beleeueth and is baptized shall bee saued And Saint Peter Acts 8.21.23 said of Simon Magus notwithstanding that he was baptized That his heart was not right in the sight of God but that he was in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity And the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 11.29 That the vnworthy receiuer eateth and drinketh his owne damnation Q. What is the fourth end or vse of Sacraments A. Fourthly Sacraments are appointed to be as badges or tokens of our profession that thereby the true worshippers of God and their religion might be discerned from the false and counterfeit Thus Circumcision and the Passeouer did distinguish the Iewes from all other nations Hereupon it is that those that were not of the Iewes religion who were then the only true Church and people of God were termed in disgrace the vncircumcised see 1 Sam. 17.26.36 This vncircumcised Philistine And Isa. 52.1 The vncircumcised and vncleane And of the Passeouer it is said Exod. 12.48 No vncircumcised person shall ●at thereof As being also peculiar to the Church Q. Proue that our Sacraments are badg●s to vs Christians A. It is manifest in that whosoeuer will become a Christian is exhorted Acts 2.38 to be baptiz●d in the name of Iesus Christ as the ●●dge and token of his entrance ●o his Christian profession And therefore the Eurac● becoming a Christian and knowing the Sacrament of baptisme to be the badge of Christian religion desired to be partaker of it Acts 8.36 See here is water saith he what doth let mee to be baptized And as baptisme is the badge of our entrance so is the Lords Supper of our continuance Therefore both together are made effectuall signes of our coniunction with Christ in one body 1 Cor. 12.13 and 10.17 Hereupon the Sacraments in their right vse doe not only distinguish Christians from Heathen but also the true Christian from the counterfeit Q. Proue that there are only two Sacraments A. That the Sacraments of the new Testament are only two properly so called that is to say Baptisme and the Lords Supper may plainely appeare not only by the institution there being no mention made of any more but these two Matth. 28.19 and Luk. 22.19 but also in that our Sauiour Christ whom it behooued to fulfill all righteousnesse in performing euery good duty both legall and Euangelicall did only communicate in these two as Sacraments of the couenant of grace see Mat. 3.13.14.15 and 26.26 Q. How else may it appeare that there are only two A. It is mystically shewed by the water and blood which issued out of the side of Christ at his death Ioh. 19.34 Whereunto Saint Iohn alluding saith 1 Io. 5.6 This is that Iesus Christ that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood Againe the Apostle noting how the Fathers before the comming of Christ were vnited vnto him as well as wee Christians since his comming alludeth to these two Sacraments as the only symboles or signes of that vnion 1 Cor. 10.2.3.4 They were all saith he baptized vnto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eat the same spirituall meat and did all drinke the same spirituall drinke Q. Proue that our weake faith doth require such helps A. If we were altogether spirituall and in a state of perfection we should need no such helpes as these outward elements but the soule being compassed about with this flesh of ours and seeing nothing but as it were out of a prison in an obscure manner wee are constrained to vse these supports of our weakenesse as old and weake sights vse spectacles Thus much the Apostle intimateth 1 Cor. 13.9.12 That because we doe but know in part wee now see therefore through a glasse darkely Q. Is not the word of God sufficient without these outward signes A. We reade Heb. 6.17 That God willing more abundantly to shew vnto the heires of promise the stablenesse of his counsell bound himselfe by an oath that by two immutable things wherein it is impossible that God should lie wee might haue strong consolation In which wo●ds we may plainely see that the word and promise of God specially being confirmed by oath is in it selfe most sufficient yet seeing it hath pleased God to adde the Sacraments to the word it is an euident argument that our infirmitie doth stand in need of such helpes beside the word Q. Proue that Christ hath ordained th●se two Sacraments onely and no more A. That Christ neuer ordained any more Sacraments as signes and seales of the couenant of grace but onely Baptisme and the Lords Supper is most euident in that concerning these outward elements of water bread and wine onely and ●one other hee solemnly pro●●●●ted these words of institution M●th 28 1● Goe t●ach all Na●ions baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost And the like of the Lords Supper Math. 26.26.27 c. Againe concerning the administration of these onely did our Sauiour Christ giue order to the Apostles and in them to all the Ministers of the Gospell to the end of the world whereupon the Apostolike and primitiue Church obserued onely these two Sacraments Act. 2.38.42 Q. What then are wee to thinke of those other fiue Sacraments vsed in the Romish Church A. Those fiue commonly called Sacraments that is to say Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony and Extreme Vnction are not to be accounted for Sacraments of the Gospell in asmuch as they want those things that should giue them the true nature life and being of Sacraments that is the institution of Christ the outward and visible signes that all Sacraments haue and the end and vse of Sacraments namely to signifie seale and confirme the couenant of grace to all the faithfull vnto the comming of Christ. Q. Shew particularly why they are no Sacraments A. Confirmation is no Sacrament because it hath no outward visible signe ordained by Christ to any such end as Sacraments are appointed vnto onely thus it came in vse among Christians immediately after the time of the Apostles The extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost conferred by the laying on of the hands of the Apostles being ceased there was in imitation thereof a custome tak●n vp in the Christian Churches that they that had beene baptized and had learned the Catechisme were by the laying on of hands and prayers of the Bishops commended vnto God for the confirmation and increase of the ordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost in them Q. Why is Penance no Sacrament A. Penance is no Sacrament not only because it hath no visible signe nor institution of Christ to be such but for that it is onely