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A20412	Milke for babes The English catechisme, set downe in the Common-Prayer Booke, breifly explaned for the private vse of the younger and more vnlearned sort of his parishioners of Apleton, in the county of Berks: By W.D.	Dickinson, William, b. 1584 or 5.	1628 (1628)	STC 6822; ESTC S118600	33,759	48

from his naturall corruptions and receiuing him into the number of the faithfull and to the service of a new master in whose name he is Baptised as it were a new creature vnto a new maner of being and liuing Rom. 6.4 1. Cor. 6.11 Colos 2.12 c. Tit. 3.5 birth vnto righteousnesse for being by nature borne in sinne and the Children of wrath wee are hereby made the Ch●lderen of grace Now sinnes being thus taken away or forgiuen vnto the Baptised through faith in the bloode of Iesus Christ they also themselues by the mouth of their Sureties professing and promising to renounce and forsake the workes of the Divell the covetous desires of the world the carnall desires of the flesh are from henceforth accounted as if sinne were dead in them and they to it so that they will not follow nor be lead by it And this death of sinne or rather to sinne is the spirituall and inward grace represented and assured vnto every true Christian and beleiver by the outward washing and Baptisme Q What is required of Persons to be Baptised A Repentance wherby they forsake sinne Mat. 2 7. 8.11 4.17 Mark 1.4.5 Acts. 2.38 and faith whereby they stedfastly beleiue the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Mark 16.16 Acts. 8.37 c. Q Why then are Infants Baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot performe them A Yes They do performe them Acts. 2.39 Rom. 11.16 by their sureties who promise and vow them both in their names which when they come to age themselues are bound to performe them that is both to repent and to beleiue in Christ Iesus and that this worke is acceptable and well pleasing to God done in the behalfe of Infant-children of the faithfull examples do testify Gen. 17.7 c. Mat. 19.14 Luk. 1.59 1. Cor. 1.16 Q Why was the Sacrament of the Lords supper ordained A For the continuall a Luk. 22.19 1. Cor. 11.24 c. remembrance of the b Heb. 5.7.7.25 c. Revel 5.12 sacrifice of the death of Christ offered vp to God vpon the Altar of the Crosse and the benefits which wee receiue thereby that is by that sacrifice of his blood and life made in our behalfe clensing vs from sinne and sanctifying and renewing vs vnto righteousnesse for which cause Sacrifices were figuratiuely in vse in the old Testament Lev 4.5.6 12.14 Ephe 2.13 c. Heb. 7. 1. Ioh. 1.7 Q What is the outward part or signe of the Lords supper A a These two things most fitly represent both Christ Crucified and also the spirituall benefits and blessings which belong to those who doe beleiue in him so crucified The resemblance of Christs body broken and mangled on the Crosse and of his blood shed is in the threshing grinding baking breaking and eating of the bread and in cutting pressing or treading of the grape powring out of the wine and drinking of it For as the corne and grape are so to be vsed before they become foode to them that eate or drinke thereof euen so Christs body first bruised and broken on the Crosse and his most precious blood pressed forth becomes spirituall foode to such as by faith eate and drinke thereof Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be receiued Mat. 26.26 c. Q What is the inward part or thinge signified A The body and blood of Christ Mark 14.22 c. Luk. 22.19.20 Ioh. 6.47 c. 1. Cor. 11. 23. c. which after an heavenly spirituall manner are verily and indeed taken and receiued of the a faithfull in the Lords supper A Faith or beliefe in the passion and death of Christ is the meanes the hand as it were to take the mouth to eate the stomack to receiue and digest the body and blood of Christ that so the beleiuer Christ may thereby be incorporated and vnited and after an heauenly and spirituall manner made one and the same body as the naturall body and the foode thereof eaten and digested becomes one and the same flesh Ioh. 6.35.55.56 1. Cor. 10.16.17 2. Cor. 13.5 Ephes 5.30 Q What are the benefits whereof wee are partakers thereby A The strengthening and refreshing of our soules by the body and blood of Christ a Wee may obserue and consider these two things in Bread and Wine receiued First there is a mutuall vnion and incorporation of them and the body they become one and the same flesh and bone and body Secondly the benefit of this vnion or incorporation namely the body is strengthned refreshed and preserued thereby so is it betwixt the beleiuer and worthy receiuer of the Sacrament and Christ first they are mutually vnited communicated or incorporated one into the other and are made the same flesh bone and body Ioh. 6.56.17.21 My beloued is mine and I am his saith the Spouse in the Canticles 2.16 and more plainely speakes the Apostle St Paule Ephes 5.30 We are members of his body and of his flesh and of his bone This is a great mistery or secret saith the Apostle too deep for our shallow vnderstanding to conceiue or our tonges to expresse how Christ and his Spouse the Church that is every true beleiuer becomes one flesh Yet so far forth as secrets are revealed wee may as Christ speakes of himselfe handle them and see how or what they be The stringes by which they are knit together or the hands by which they are as it were moulded one into the other and made one lumpe and bread are plainely named vnto vs in the holy Scripture and these are the Holy Spirit or Spirit of Christ and Faith His Spirit vnites and quickneth Ioh. 6.63 1. Cor. 6.17 Gal. 2.20 1. Ioh. 4.13 For as the Nerues or Sinewes passe into all parts of the body from the braine tye all together Euen so his spirit from him the Head descending is deriued into every one of his members 1. Cor. 12. and thereby the whole body by joynt● and bands hauing nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Colos 2.9 And againe as the soule diffuseth it selfe thorough the whole and every faculty and limbe of the body and giues life and motion proportionable to the condition and being of euery part In like sort his spirit goeth into euery member and quickneth it with the life of Christ according to the effectuall working in the measure of every part Ephes 4. 16. And thus we see what meanes Christ for his part vseth to vnite and quicken yet every man is not hereby vnited into his body and made a liuing member of him but only such as are fitted and disposed by Faith which is the pipe as it were and doore thorough which Christs Spirit doth descend and comes into mens harts quickens them with his life of grace and as it were moulds them into his body and makes them one flesh Ioh. 1.22 Rom. 1.17 Gal. 2.20 ●5 5 Ephes 3. 17. Heb. 3.14 And let