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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