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A77730	The antinomians Christ confovnded, and the Lords Christ exalted. In which is contained a briefe confutation of Dr. Crispe and Mr Lancaster. Also, a combat with the Antinomians Christ in his den, his arraignment; and the fainting soule built upon the true rocke, against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile, Mat. 6.18. Imprimatur James Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B527; Thomason E17_16; ESTC R11989	75,787	71

Pet. 3.21 Suppose any question the lawfulnesse of his baptisme may he be re-baptized A. No for as in naturall generation a man is but once borne so he can be but once new borne therefore if a man be baptized be a Minister that is an heretick not yet degraded from his calling and if he observe the forme of administration In the name of the father sonne and holy Ghost it is a reall baptisme How may a man profitably use his baptisme all his life long A. First when any sinfull lust shall arise in thy soule then begin to meditate of that solemne Vow which thou did dest make to God in thy baptisme Secondly if through infirmity thou fall into any sinne still have recourse to thy baptisme for thy encouragement and comfort for although baptisme be but once administred yet that once testifieth that all thy sinnes past present and to come are washed away 1 Pet. 3.20 Eph. 5.25 26 27. it is called the sacrament of repentance Marke 1.4 lastly to make a profitable use of thy baptisme then thou must not rest till thou have a feeling of that renewing power fignified in baptisme namely the power of Christ's death mortifying thy sinne and the vertue of his resurrection renewing thy spirit soule and body in all holy obedience How is it that many feele not the fruit of their baptisme A. The fault is not in God but in themselves in that they doe not keepe the condition of the covenant to receive Christ by saith and to repent of their sinnes When shall a man see the effect of his baptisme A. When he receives Christ by faith though it be many yeers after then he shall feel the power of God to regenerate him and to work all those things which he offered him in baptisme What is done in the Lords supper A. The former covenant solemnly ratified in baptisme is renewed in the Lords supper between the Lord and the receiver What doe the elements of bread and wine signifie unto us A. They are signes and seales of the body and blood of Christ What doth the actions of the Minister about the same elements signifie unto the receiver A. They signifie unto the receiver fo●re actions of God himselfe First his taking the bread and wine into his hands doth seale unto us the action of God the father who from all eternity did separate and elect his sonne to performe the duty of a mediatour between God and man mine elect in whom my soule delighteth Isa 42.1 him hath God the Father sealed Iohn 6.27 What doth the Ministers blessing of the elements with the recitall of the promises signifie and seale unto the receiver A. The blessing of them signifies that those elements are now taken from a common to a holy use and the recitall of the promises seales unto us that action of God by which in the fulnesse of time he sent Christ to performe the office of mediatour unto which he was fore-ordained What doth the breaking of bread and powring out of the wine signifie to the receivers A. This sealeth the action of God offering Chiist unto all but ●iving him onely to the faithfull for the encrease of their faith and repentance What doth the receivers action in taking the bread and wine in his hand signifie A. This sealeth a spirituall action namely his apprehending of christ by the hand of faith as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sonnes of God even to them that beleeve on his name Ioh. 1.12 What doth his eating of the bread and drinking of the wine signifie A. This sealeth his application of Chirst by the same faith by a feeling of his true union and communion to encrease daily by faith as our bodies are strengthned by the bread and wine the cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we breake is it not the communion of the body of Christ 1 Cor. 11.16 Is not the bread in the sacrament after consecration turned into the body of Christ A. No first because this sacramentall bread was eaten before the death of Christ therefore unpossible to be a corporall eating of his flesh secondly the bread is broken and distributed after consecration but the whole body of Christ is received by every single communicant thirdly the bread is the communion of Christ therefore not his very body fourthly the body of Christ was made of the substance of the Virgin Mary therefore not of bakers bread fiftly this bread is subject to mold that is left after consecration this shewes that it is will reall bread sixtly if the signe be turned into the substance then what signe remaines this would overthrow the sacramentall union between the signe and the thing signified But is not christs body corporally present in the sacament A. No this doe in remembrance of me 1 cor 24.25 secondly the heavens must receive him till the restitution of all things act 3.2 Thirdly the body of Christ can be but in one place he is not here come s●ee the place where the Lord lay mat 28.6 When are we fitly prepared to receive the Lords supper A. First if we bring a right knowledge of mans fall and a promised restoration into the covenant by Christ he is the mediatour of a better covenant which is established upon better promises Heb. 8.6 so often as yee shall eat this bread and drinke of this cup yee shew the Lords death till he come and we must by our knowledge discerne the Lords body 1 cor 11.26 29. Secondly we must have a true faith in Christ for we receive so much as we beleeve that we receive for unto us was the Gospell preached as well as to them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it Heb. 4.2 Thirdly we must have true repentance for all our sinnes both originall and actuall being the state wherein we lay in the breach of the first covenant Fourthly we must bring renewed faith and repentance to testifie our thankfulnesse to God for his great goodnesse to receive us into a new covenant not of works but of grace wherein he promises to be mercifull to our righteousnesse and to remember our iniquities no more Heb. 12.13 and to testifie our love both to God and his people he so loved us that he gave his onely begotten sonne for us Ioh. 3.16 and Christ gave his life a ransome for us mat 20.28 therefore we should love him that first loued us 1 Ioh. 4.19 also our love must be to his people if thou bring thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave thy gift before the Altar and goe first and be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift mat 5.23 25. But what if I in part find these things in me when withall I find my heart exceeding rebellious and very corrupt A.

degrees of his sanctification the●e A. No saith Paul not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended ●n christ Iesus brethren I count not my selfe to have apprehended but this one thing I doe forgetting those things which are behind and re●ching f●rth unto th●●se things which are before I presse toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.12 13 14. What meanes hath God appointed to helpe us in our groth of grace A. The sacraments and prayer What is a sacrament A. A sacrament is an outward signe whereby Christ and his saving graces are by certaine extetnall rights signified and sealed to a christian Abraham received the signe of circumcision and it was also the seale of the righteousnesse of faith which he had when he was yet uncircumcised rons 4.21 yee shaell circumcise the foreskin of your flesh and it shall be a signe of the covenant between me and you Gen. 17.11 Hath any others power to make a sacrament besides christ A No for the signe will consirme nothing at all but by the consent of him at whose hands the benefit promised must be received then none but christ can appoint signes of grace because none but he alone hath power to bestow grace christ is the author of our salvation therefore he alone may appoint the meanes which are the word and sacraments christ is the onely Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Iam. 4.12 and he alone can make a sacrament offectuall by his spirit and he by his wisedome best knowes of what to institute the sacramentall signes neither may any presume to adde or to diminish to that he hath done rev 22.38 19. How doth christ make a sacrament A. By bringing the word of institution to the element the word is two-fold either a word of command as in baptisme goe yee into all the world baptizing them In the name of the father sonne and holy Ghost and in the Lords supper take eat drinke doe ye this the other part of institution is a promise whereby christ ordained elements that they might be instruments and seales of his grace as in baptisme I baptize thee in the name of the father of the senne and of the holy Ghost and in the Lords supper this is my body which is given for you and this is my blood of the new Testament therefore the word of institution ought to be pronounced distinctly in the administration of it May the impiety of the Minister make a nullity of the sacrament to a worthy receiver A. No no more then the piety of a good Minister can profit an unworthy receiver because all the efficacy and worthinesse thereof dependeth onely upon Gods institution What be the parts of a sacrament A. They be two the outward signe or sensible matter of the element or the action conversant about the same Is there any naturall change in the signe or element after consecration A. No it is but severed from a common to a holy use therefore there is no force or efficacy in the externall signes to make us inherently holy as there is in Bathes naturally to purifie corrupt diseases but all the efficacy is appropriate to Gods holy spirit yet so as it is an inseparable companion of true faith and repentance in such as turne to the Lord therefore by Gods ordinance a certaine signification of grace and sealing thereof agreeth to the signe What is the thing signified by the outward element A. It is Christ and his graces first of Christ and then of his graces for as no man can receive fruit of any ground till first he have a just title to it no more can we have benefit by Christ before we have a true title to him by faith What is the action of God in the sacrament A. It is either the offering of Christ or the application of Christ and his graces to the faithfull receiver What is the action of Faith in the Sacrament A. It is the consideration desire apprehension and receiving of christ in the lawfull use of the Sacrament What is the end why Sacraments were ordained A. For the better confirmation of our faith for God doth as it were by certaine pledges bind 〈◊〉 ●selfe unto us yet the sacrament doth not strengthen us by any inherent power of it selfe as a soveraigne medicine doth cure a patient but rather by a certaine reasoning upon using the signes framed by the holy Ghost thus All such as are converted rightly using the sacraments shall receive christ and his graces But I am converted and either doe now or else heretofore I have rightly used the sacraments therefore I shall receive christ and his graces What is another end why the sacrament was ordained A. That it might be a badge of that profession by which the true church of God is distinguished from all other congregations a third end is that it might be a meanes to preserve and to spread the doctrine of the Gospell a fourth end is that it might preferve and bind the faithfull to continue loyall and thankfull to their Lord God fiftly it serves as a bond of mutuall amity among the faithfull Is a sacrament necessary to salvation A. No yet the covenant of grace is absolutely necessary to salvation for it comprehendeth christ Iesus who is the substance of that covenant so that we must of necessity receive it or we perish eternally now a sacrament is but a prop or stay for faith as an help to en crease it but it cannot intitle us into the inheritance of the sonn●s of God as the covenant doth but onely as a seale to that covenant that we by faith received before But doth not the want of a sacrament condemne A. No it is the contempt of it that is damnable so then the neglect of it is a grievous sinne to be repented of and there is hope of pardon but if some be justly hindred from it either by living in some place where it cannot be had or taken away by death to such God will have mercy not sacrifice What is the difference betwixt a sacrament and a sacrifice A. In a sacrament God bestowes his graces upon us but in a sacrifice we returne unto God faith and thankfull obedience How doth our sacraments and those in the old Testament differ A. They were many and ours but few secondly they pointed at christ to come but these shew that he is already come thirdly they were to the posterity of Abraham alone but these are to the whole church called out of both Iewe and Gentiles How many sacraments is there in the church of christ A. Two the first is baptisme wherein christians are admitted into the church of God the second is the Lords supper whereby the church is nourished and preserved to eternall life What is baptisme A. It is a washing with water as they are

command 〈◊〉 Mat. 28.19 In the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost that being in the covenant and ingrafted into christ they may have perpetuall fellowship with him he that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved Marke 16.16 Acts 2.38 May we baptize in no other name nor leave out any of the three persons in Trinity A. No christ is not divided nor Paul crucified for you neither were you baptized in the name of Paul I thanke God I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius least any should say that I did baptize in my own name 1 cor 13.14 15. Who are those within the covenant that are to be baptized A. They are of two forts first such as are growne in yeers and joyne themselves to the visible church testifying their faith and repentance and hold the foundation of Religion taught in the same church they are to be baptized in the Eunuch sayd to Phillip I beleeve that Christ is the sonne of God and so they went both into the water and he baptized him Acts 8.38 they were baptized of Iohn in Iordan confessing their sinnes Mat. 3.6 repent and be baptized everyone of you acts 2.38 if a stranger dwell with thee and will observe the Passover of the Lord let him circumcise all his males and then let him come and observe it and he shall be as one borne in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof Exod. 12.48 Who else are in in the covenant and ought to be baptized A. Infants born of christian parents the unbeleeving husband is sanctefied by the wife and the unbeleeving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean● but now they are holy 1 cor 7.14 if the first fruits be holy so is the whole lumpe if the root be holy so are the branches rom 11.16 I will establish my covenant with thee and with thy seed after thee for an everlasting covenant to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee Gen. 17.7 How are children of christian parents in the covenant A. Not as they are the sinfull off-spring of the first Adam for so they beget them in their owne likenesse nor secondly as they are by grace the sonnes of God for they are not made the sonnes of God by naturall generation but by adoption yet they may beleeve for themselves and others according to the covenant of grace Gen. 17.7 as Adam did sinne both for himselfe and others and as parents in bargaines doe covenant both for themselves and their heires after them thus the parents being the first fruits sanctifies the whole lump of their posterity rom 11.16 What is it to be baptized In the name of the father sonne and holy Ghost A. It is to be made one of Gods family which is his church and to be made partaker of the priviledges thereof as Jacob sayd the Angel which hath delivered me from all evil blesse the lads and let my name be named upon them and the name of my fathers Gen. 48.16 in that day shall seven women take hold of one man saying we will eat our owne bread and weare our owne garments onely let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach Isa 4.1 What doe we learne from hence A. We learne that in this washing of baptisme is sealed a solemne contract and covenant between God and the baptized first of God the father who vouchsafeth to receive him into favour and of God the sonne to redeem him and of God the holy Ghost to purifie and regenerate him What doth the baptized bind themselves unto A. He promiseth to acknowledge invocate and worship none other God but the true Iehovah which is the father sonne and holy Ghost VVhat is the visible or externall matter of baptisme A. It is water for the Minister may not baptize with any other liquor but only with naturall water according to those examples we have in Scripture of the primitive church What is the externall forme of baptisme A. It is the ministers washing the baptized according to the prescrpt of God Suppose it was the ancient custome to dip or dive all the body of the baptized in the water must their example of necessity be followed A. No for the word baptize signifies sprinkling as well as dipping or diving and sayth the Lord I will sprinkle cleane water upon you Ezek. 36.25 againe by reason of some cold countries and the weaknesse of young Infants necessity and charity may dispence with ceremonies and mittigate the sharpnesse of them What resemblance is there between the element of water and the thing signified thereby A. As water washeth away the filth of the body so the blood of Christ Iesus cleanseth us from all sinne 1 John 1.7 What doth the ac●●● of the Minister wa●●ing the body of the baptized signifie A. This seale● and I confirmeth a double action of God first the ingrafting or incorporating the baptized into Christ as many as are baptized into Christ 〈…〉 Christ Gal. 3.27 by one spirit we are all baptized into one body 〈…〉 secondly it sealeth to us our regeneration not he the worker 〈…〉 which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the 〈◊〉 king of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost ●●tus 3.5 What doth 〈…〉 water or sprinkling it upon the baptized signifie A. It doth ra●●● the shedding of the blood of Christ for the remission of all our sinne and the imputation of his righteousnesse arise and be bapti●●d and wa●● away thy sinnes calling upon the name of the Lord Acts 22.16 and it signifies mortification of sinne by the power and death of Christ know ye not that all they which have been 〈◊〉 into Christ have been baptized into his death the 〈…〉 crucified with him that the body of sinne might be destroyed rom 〈…〉 What doth the 〈◊〉 ●anc● in or under the water signifie unto us A. It signifies the buriall of sinne or a continuall encrea●● of mortification both by the power of Christ's death and buriall we are buried with him by baptisme in o●●is death rom ● 4 What doth the comming out of the water signifie unto us A. It concernes our spirituall vivification to newnesse of life in all holinesse and righteousnesse by the power of Christs resurrection for like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father so we all should walke in newnesse of life for if we be grafted together in the likenesse of his death we shall be also in the 〈…〉 of his resurrection rom 6.4 5. What doth the action of the party baptized signifie when he offers himselfe before the M●●●ter and the congregation to be baptized A. It signifies that he doth consecrate himselfe the Lord and that he utterly renounceth the flesh the world and the devill the like figure which now saveth us even baptisme not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God 1