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A91515	Aqua genitalis a discourse concerning baptism. First delivered in a sermon at Alhallows Lumbardstreet, Octob. 4. 1658. and now a little inlarged. Into which is since inserted, a brief discourse to perswade to a confirmation of the baptismal-vovv. / By Symon Patrick, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Battersea.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing P747; Thomason E2142_2; ESTC R210125	49,818	131

territories above What joy would it cause in Heaven and Earth to see men coming to desire communion on these conditions to behold men crowding into the Kingdom of Heaven as they do into a Church and longing after the food of the faithfull as they do for meat and drink Rejoyce I beseech you the heart of God refresh the souls of his servants and add to the sweetness of the table of the Lord by letting us have more good company at so joyfull a Feast But if all Intreaties cannot prevail I think the Higher Powers had best enact a Law That none shall be married till they be instructed and confirmed and that will do it For those that care not whether they receive the Sacrament of Christs body and blood or no will not live without this Sacrament as in a large sense it may be called though they understand the ends and duties of it no more then of the other And this must be acknowledged to have been a great cause of our Disorders that men enter into these relations before they know the duties of them and beget and bring forth Children before they cease to be children themselves or know how to bring them up as they should Therefore our Reformers it is plain intended men should not marry before they were well catechized and had taken their Baptismal vow upon themselves knowing that those were unfit to make a Covenant with each other who knew not the Covenant of their God For they prescribe in the last Rubrick of the office of Matrimony that the persons new married must that day receive the Communion and in the last Rubrick about Confirmation say in express words That none shall be admitted to the holy Communion untill such time as they can say the Catechism and be confirmed Let me speak to the very senses of vulgar people Do you not remember the font stood at the lower end of the Church and the Communion-table at the higher Could you come from the one to the other but by the Pulpit which stands in the middle between both This teaches you if you will learn that you are only entred into the Church and are but in the beginnings of Religion by Baptism and that you must advance higher by being instructed and taught in the faith of Christ and can no otherwise be admitted from the lower to the highest forms of Christians Come therefore and be instructed and then profess you like this Doctrine and will be obedient to it so shall you come to be men in Christ and tast of all his dainties and be satisfied with the fat things of his house Quod totū sciri non potest ne omittatur totum siquidem scientia partis melior est ignorantiâ totius If all will not be granted that is here requested yet do not deny all but at lest profess to the Minister your hearty Repentance and your belief in Christ and the willingness to submit unto him and to be saved by him that he may declare it to all others And really shew that you are come to an adult estate by putting away childish things and living the life of men A Child as one saith looketh only to things present a man looketh to things to come A child attends only to pastime and pleasure a man hath also profit in his consideration A child is ready to sell his Inheritance for a trifle or bable of which a man maketh a greater account His carriage and behaviour likewise distinguisheth him and so doth his confidence against vulgar bug-bears and affrightments If therefore after you are confirmed you find your selves to think less of things present and more of things to come less of this world and more of the eternal rewards of Godliness and the everlasting punishments of sin if you scorn to sell your heavenly inheritance for the trifles of this world that present themselves unto you if you be more attentive to your spiritual profit in knowledge and mortification and not only taken with the sweetnesses and ravishments of Religion if your conversation towards God and the world be more serious grave and discreet and you are not so easily amazed with the fears of sufferings and difficulties in your Christian course it is a sign that you have not received the Grace of God in vain and the Lord will deliver you from every evil work and preserve you to his everlasting Kingdom Faithfull is he that calleth you who also will do it 5. Lastly Let me beseech all the people of God to live in love and peace together Let us nor quarrel about every little thing nor make every petty difference a cause of trouble and contention For as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 12.13 By one spirit we are all baptized into one body We are all by this made of the same corporation and taken by Baptism into the same Brother-hood and therefore should not make them the waters of strife and so provoke the Lord to anger against us We are not baptized into this or that particular Opinion nor received into a particular Church but into the belief of the Gospel and into the Church of God in general and therefore should love all the Disciples and followers of our Lord and imbrace all of every perswasion that live godlily in Christ Jesus You were not baptized saith the Apostle into the name of Paul therefore do not say I am of Paul I adhere to this man or that for whosoever did baptize you it was not into the particular love of him and his opinions but into the Communion of the whole Church of Christ who hold the Catholique Faith Though an Heretick in antient times had baptized any man yet did not the Christians therefore baptize him over again when he left those mens company because being baptized into the name of Father Son and Holy Ghost he was not received into the profession of their particular opinions but of the Truth of Christ universally believed by all good Christians And therefore let us live with them all as our Confederates as those that are tied together in the same bonds and united in the same Covenant and ingaged in the same cause against the common enemies the Devil the World and the Flesh and let us never give these enemies so much cause to rejoyce as an unhandsome word against any sincere Christian might administer But let us endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace for as the Apostle speaks Eph. 4.3 4 5. There is one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of All who is above all and through all and in you all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 APPENDIX THE late King Charls was confirmed on EASTER munday In the Chappel at White-Hall 1613. which was the thirteenth year of his age after a long and strict Examination by the A.B. of Canterbury and the B. of Bath and Wells as Dr. George Hackwell ear-witness of the satisfaction he gave assures us who

is now sealed by Baptism to this particular person which receives it Therefore Sixthly The sum of all is that hereby we are regenerated and born again It is the Sacrament of the new birth by which we are put into a new state and change all our relations so that whereas before we were only the Children of Adam we are now taken to be the Children of God such of whom he will have a fatherly care and be indulgent and mercifull unto We have now a relation likewise to Christ as our Head and to the holy Ghost as the Giver of life and grace Yea herein he grants remission of sin and we are sanctified and set apart to his uses We being hereby given to him and he accepting of us do become his possession and proper goods and cannot without being guilty of the foulest Robbery sin against God We are made hereby the Temples of the Holy Ghost the place where he and nothing else is to inhabite and being by this consecrated to him ●●e likewise then enters upon his possession and we are said thereby to receive the holy Ghost so that if we run into sin we defile his house and commit the greatest profaness and impiety and may be said very truly to do despite to the Spirit of God whereby we were sanctified Socrates in Plato well saith that every man is by his birth In Phaedon● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One of Gods freeholds and therefore concludes it is as unlawfull for a man to kill himself as a servant to run away from his Master seeing he is not his own goods nor can dispose of his life according to his pleasure In this second birth God is seized again of us he owns us in a special manner for his Children and we may not without committing a double murder sin against him and may be called twice dead if we do because in Baptism are the beginnings of a new life and the Spirit of life takes hold of us and as far as is agreeable to our age and condition we are renewed by the Holy Ghost For Baptism being a beginning of our performance of our duty God doth likewise in it begin proportionably to make good his promise We may call it therefore with Cyprian Genetalis unda aqua salutaris c. the Laver of Regeneration seeing as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 12.13 By one spirit we are all baptized into one body c. whereby he intimates that the Spirit of God doth accompany this water and therefore we must be in a sort made other Creatures I see no cause to leave this antient language which may have a very good sense and none I suppose will deny but that at least a Relative change is herein made and so much Grace and Favour is conferred Apolog. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we stand upon better terms then meer nature did instate us in Justin Martyr relating the manner how Christians were made that the Heathens might not he offended so much at their Religion speaks of this matter When men are perswaded of the thing that we teach and promise to live accordingly they fast and pray and beg of God remission of sin and then we bring them to the water and so they are born again after the same manner that we were regenerated to this he applyes that place Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born again c. All things seem to grow out of water and it was not unfitly made by one of the antient wise men the first Principle of all so that it may well signifie another birth a new plantation in a better soil which is watered by daily dews and showers of Gods heavenly Grace and in it we may be said to have changed our Patents and all our relations so as after a manner to become new Creatures Li. paedag cap. 7. If Clemens Alex. his reading of that place Mat. 3.17 be right one would think that Christ was by Baptism admitted to his office and had a kind of a new birth in it Thou art my beloved Son this day have I begotten thee i.e. now have I appointed thee to thy office now of the Son of Joseph as thou art esteemed I declare thee the Son of God and make thee my Vicegerent That which was perfectly done at the Resurrection to which those words This day have I begotten thee are applyed Act. 13.33 was begun and done in sign at Baptism when the Holy Ghost likewise descended upon him and anointed him unto his office And so in after times they used to anoint the baptized person with oyl to represent I suppose that God took him to be his Son and did bestow upon him the Holy Spirit But because Clemens must be thought to have expressed rather the sense then the very words that were spoken let us consider only what succeeded our Saviours Baptism and it will tell us thus much that at that time it was that God first owned him openly for his Son and it may well teach us that in Baptism God takes us to be his Children 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are received under his shadow are and shall be indued with this Holy Spirit according as it follows in him Christ was our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exemplar or Pattern and being baptized are illuminated and being illuminated we are made sons and being made sons we are compleated and being compleated we are made immortal There is nothing wanting after we are baptized to the injoying the whole of this but that we be faithfull in Gods Covenant and follow the conduct of Gods illuminating and holy Spirit till we be made Possessors of that Immortality unto which in Baptism we have a Title given us The antient Christians speak of high Illuminations wherewithall God pleased then to grace Baptism I make no question but they speak as they felt and that they talk not of a strange change then wrought which never was but if any say that those great Communications of the Holy Ghost were proper to that time when Christ did most notably attest to the Truth of his own Institutions for the conviction of Unbelievers I think so also for young plantations needed larger effusions of the heavenly dews to water and cherish them But yet we may conceive that there may be still some operations of that spirit in mens hearts at Baptism though secret insensible unto us and I profess my self one of those that labour to believe very highly of Christs presence with all his own ordinances though if any cannot savour this I will not contend nor fight in the dark but desire the other things may be entertained which are certain and then there will be sufficient ground to think that it is not indifferent whether we be baptized or no and that it is not a naked Ceremony that neither doth good not harm as some men seem to speak against the constant sense of the people of God And thus much may suffice concerning