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A06030 A helpe to true happinesse. Or A briefe and learned exposition of the maine and fundamentall points of Christian religion. By Mr. Paul Bayne Baynes, Paul, d. 1617. 1618 (1618) STC 1642; ESTC S117277 94,533 420

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mercy to be naturalized into such a body as is our Common-wealth to be vnited a member of some good corporation is a priuiledge but to bee one with Christ that body wherof hee is head who can conceiue this prerogatiue 2 That our Baptisme doth assure vs that in Christ the guilt of our sinne is taken away and the power of it mortified Though sinne be in vs yet the guilt which is a property binding to punishment may bee remooued A Bee may remaine a Bee and yet haue the sting taken away yea the power of sinne is so subdued that though it may exercise vs it shall not raigne ouer vs. Looke as through the first Adams death this naturall life is weakned much euen then when it seemeth most liuely so in Christs death into which wee are implanted through Baptisme the life of sinne receiueth such a deadly wound that in vertue it is more dead then aliue euen when it seemeth most liuely moouing to our no small disturbance Look as clothes soule and filthy when they are rinsed and dipped in water they waxe cleane and haue filth remooued so our soules defiled with sinne being by Baptisme so set into Christ that his bloud is sprinckled on them yea they dipped and bathed in it and hauing those pure waters of the Spirit which come through the merit of this bloud powred out vpon them they come to bee densed from all defilement 3 Lastly that by Baptism wee are assured of our regeneration in Christ Baptism is called d Tit. 3.5 a lauer of regeneration things throughly washed they are not onely freed from their spots and staines but are brought foorth white and new as it were thus Baptisme washing vs in the true fountaine of Israel the blood of Christ it doth not only remoue our spots but make vs new all ouer the blood of Christ obtaining the Spirit which worketh not onely mortification but which causeth also a renouation in vs. Beside Baptisme e Rom 6.4.5 griffeth vs as it were into Christ dying and rising Now a wilde sience set into a naturall stocke the stocke hath not force onely to remoue the wilde nature but to giue it a new nature fertile of good fruite so we ingraffed into Christ doe both loose our sinnefull nature and become renued throughout Obiect Obiect But how doth Baptisme or sprinkling of water regenerate Answ God himselfe Answ the bloud of Christ the Spirit the Word and the Sacraments are all said to regenerate or sanctifie vs. God as principall Authour of it Christs bloud as that which hath obtained the Spirit by which it is effected the Spirit as the immediate worker of it from Christ the word is an instrument reuealing Christ and conueighing that Spirit which doth worke it in vs Sacraments doe it as effectuall pledges securing vs that Christ is ours so that we haue vnion with him and communion with his Spirit Let vs then labour to Vse 1 know and claime the things which God hath by his seale of Baptisme assured vs of If a man should by his writing and seale warrant to vs lands monies c. we would know these things and the right and title wee had to challenge them from him but alasse our Baptisme i a dormient sleepeth by vs as if it were such a matter we could make no vse of If our Gossips as wee call them did giue vs anything for our children in token of their good wils at the Baptizing of them we know it and can teach our children to know it But what God our Father there gaue vs none inquireth Againe wee see what wee must chiefly looke vnto euen this which by Baptisme is confirmed Men esteeme their Lands and Monies more then their writings they care not for them further then they respect the other thus wee should stand chiefly on making sure that wee haue fellowshippe with Christ and his benefits not boast on Baptisme and yet neuer heede these things which are all in all For a Gal. 6.15 Circumcision is nothing so by proportion Baptisme auaileth not but a new Creature Wee see there are many Vse 2 who want the grace of Baptisme being yet outwardly baptised as the Apostle saith b Rom. ● 25 Circumcision becommeth vncircumcision where the Law is not obeyed So where there is no labour to die to sinne and liue to righteousnesse Baptisme becommeth no Baptisme Perjured couenant Breakers who thus walke how will they answere it to God when men are ashamed to shew their heads to men if they keepe not touch with them according to couenant QVEST. V. 5. Q. WHat doth the Lords Supper assure vs of A. It doth further assure vs that Christ is giuen to vs to be our spirituall nourishment to euerlasting life 1 Cor. 10.16.17 and 11.25.26 Obserue 2 things First that the bread and wine are signes and seales exhibiting Christ broken with sorrowes and shedding his bloud for vs. c Mat. 26.26 Take eate this is my body d Mat 26.28 so also of the cuppe e 1 Cor. 10 16. Is not the bread we breake the communion of Christs body For looke as when wee giue a sealed euidence or effectuall signe of any thing we say wee giue the things sealed and signified because wee who giue these doe with giuing these immediately giue the things signified and sealed by them as for example When going about to giue the possession of our house wee giue a key and say take it here is possession or when holding out an euidence sealed declaring and confirming our gift of house or land we say here take it here is my house or land it is thine Thus Christ immediately from himselfe giuing vs his body and bloud and the benefits of his Couenant by Signes saith take these they are to thee my body and bloud that is effectuall pledges together with which I giue thee my selfe as men with the forenamed signes giue earthly matters We must not therfore thinke that when Christ saith of the bread This is my body hee speaketh as wee doe when we say of a box containing in it an Electuary or Medicine here is the medicine or when holding out a purse we say here is the money For things signed and sealed are neuer thus locally conteined in their signes and seales Neither yet that Christ is in the bread wine as an effect is in the instrumentall cause of it as if I reaching out my instrument to one should say take this here is my musike For then should the Sacrament of Christs death become an instrumental cause of Christs death and Passion for this is the chiefe thing signified by this Sacrament Besides that no signes in all the old Testament were euer instrumentall causes of that they signified Obiect Obiect But our Sacraments excell theirs and must bee more then signes and therefore haue also some vertue causing that they signifie Answ Answ An absurd inference our Ministery excelleth theirs yet it hath no more vertue in it selfe
vse that m 1 Pet. 3.21 interrogatory of a good conscience and say n Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to our charge it is Christ that is dead c. To consider this more particularly Christs death doth free vs first from the guilt of sinne Secondly from the spot or power of it in vs. Thirdly from all other punishment The guilt of sinne is a propertie in it binding vs to pay condigne punishment to the iustice of God This punishment therefore borne of Christ and presented by him for vs it cannot be but that our bond to beare it should be dissolued or that iustice might require againe a thing already discharged Secondly our blot of sin that life of the old Serpent that liuing death of soules is remoued For Christs death must not be considered onely as an exemplarie cause working mortification of sin or as a morall cause by way of meditation but as hauing force obtained by it and issuing out of it which doth by litle and litle abolish sinne euen the spirit which doth mortifie the deeds of the flesh both fruits and roots of corruption Looke as Adam dying a naturall death did kill this naturall life in vs all first making it mortall so as it necessarily must die then at length causing death it selfe so doth the death of this second Adam worke the death of sinne first wounding it in vs with mortalitie such as will bring it certainely to death then vtterly dissoluing it in the end Thirdly and lastly Christs death doth free vs from all other miseries for the cause which did breed and continue these taken away they must needs likewise bee remoued Take away the cause of a sicknes you make the painfull distempers which follow vpon it cease also Discharge once the debt for him who lieth in the Counter and all with one worke you free him from prison and many other greeuances to which by reason of his debt he was held subiect But it may be here obiected Obiect If wee be thus freed from sinne and punishment why are we still in and vnder them Ans Rome was not built in one day Answ because great things are not begun and finished all at once Things are said to bee done when they are so begun that they will certainly bee accomplished in their time Wee are therefore said to be dead in the first Adam because though we liue and see nothing for a time but that we are aliue and aliue like yet that mortalitie is in vs vvhich vvill like a vvorme neuer cease to fret and corrupt vs till vvee come to death it selfe If one hath so vvounded a man that he dye vvithin a yeare and a day vvee say he hath slaine him because hee hath so vvounded him that he vvill certainely dye thus our sin is taken avvay in Christ it being so vvounded that in the end it shall certainly be quite abolished Obiect But hovv is it that vvee die are vve deliuered from that Answ Yea vve are inasmuch as that spirit is in vs vvhich shall at length quicken our mortall bodies Further there is a double deliuering one vvhich keepeth vs from prouing and tasting a thing that is euill another from being hurt and ouercome of it We are not deliuered from death in the first kind but in the second And thus Christ himselfe a Heb. 5.7 is said to haue beene heard and deliuered from that hee feared not that hee did not taste death but in that he vvas not ouercome or hurt by it Wherefore let vs hold to Vse 1 this death euen as the anchor of our soules Let vs looke to Christ lifted vp on his Crosse that vve may find deliuerance from all the stings of sinne and death and other miseries b 1 Kin. 1.50 2.28 as malefactors vnder the Lavv vsed to flie to the hornes of the Altar so let vs all flie to this blessed death c Heb. 12.14 vvhich speaketh better things then the blood of Abel vvhich cryed for reuenge Againe this should encourage vs against death that our Sauiour hath so endured it that he hath taken the sting out of it and freed vs from the feare of it If a sicke body should be afraid to drinke of any thing yet if his Physitian should begin hee would not be afraid to drinke after him Christ hath tasted death and drunke the dregs of it that nothing might remaine for vs but that which is holesome QVEST. VII 7. Q. WHat benefit comes by his righteousnesse and obedience A. The fauour of GOD and eternall happinesse are obtained for vs. A perfect Sauiour must not onely deliuer vs from euill but put vs into a secure possession of all good For blessednesse cannot stand in that good which being here to day may be lost to morrow Christ therefore hath not onely by his suffering deliuered vs from euill but by that voluntary and most gratefull obedience which in suffering he shewed hee hath obtained from the grace of God to account vs and iudge vs in him righteous to life eternall Wee must not thinke Christs sufferings like the sufferings of the damned ones to bee meerely satisfactorie to iustice and to haue no other respect in them no it is a most pleasing obedience which may challenge by couenant all good for vs such an obedience in which was shewed the greatest loue to God and to man that can be comprehended yea the knowledge of it passeth all knowledge Eph. 3.19 Now that which wee get by this obedience is first Gods grace or fauour forgiuing sinne reckoning vs righteous to life Secondly Actuall donation of life it selfe For fauour here is not to bee conceiued of Gods first loue as if hee before ha●ed vs he was indeed angry with vs but he so loued vs as that he gaue Christ for vs Ioh. 3.16 It is meant therefore of the manifestation or influence of his fauour in conferring ●eally on vs the benefits of iustification and life The sunne of Gods loue was eclipsed till Christs loue towards vs in whom the ioyfull Epiphanie of it began was declared Though God doe iustifie vs out of grace yet his sentence is according to truth and if he pronounce vs iust to the receiuing of life wee must haue some righteousnesse iustifying vs. This cannot be any imperfect righteousnesse in part sinnefull much lesse can he iustifie vs hauing no righteousnesse as a foundation to his sentence therefore it must be a perfect one such we haue none but Christs herein he is an Antitype to that first Adam euen as Iacob now clothed with his eldest brothers apparell did get the blessing so is it with vs hauing put on Christ and his obedience which in effectuall calling wee doe through faith then the Lord doth giue vs the blessing If one doe for mee any such peice of worke which by agreement hath due to it any wages or reward vpon the worke done in my name I haue title to demaund the reward