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christian_n	baptism_n	baptize_v	infant_n	1,991	5	9.3594	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67904	The life of William now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, examined. Wherein his principall actions, or deviations in matters of doctrine and discipline (since he came to that sea of Canturbury) are traced, and set downe, as they were taken from good hands, by Mr. Robert Bayley, a learned pastor of the Kirk of Scotland, and one of the late commissioners sent from that Nation. Very fitting for all judicious men to reade, and examine, that they may be the better able to censure him for those thing [sic] wherein he hath done amisse. Reade and judge.; Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians self-conviction	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B462; ESTC R22260	178,718	164

confidence and application of Gods promises are the acts onely of hope and charity that justifying faith is the Catholicke faith a generall assent to the articles of the Apostolicke Creed that particular personall applying faith is but presumption and fantasie Againe they teach that justification is ascribed by the Apostle to faith onely by way of beginning inchoative because assent to the truth of God is that first vertue which the chaine of all other vertues whereby wee are compleatly justified for common doth follow 3. That Charity is the forme of Faith and that to it the act of Justification is much more reasonably ascribed then to faith 4. That Saint Pauls justification whereby wee stand before the barre of God is nought but our conversion and sanctification by our inherent righteousnesse 5. That the fulfilling of Gods Law to us in this life is both possible and easie that if God did command us any thing which were impossible hee should bee both unjust and a tyrant 6. That not onely manyidoelfulfill the Law without all mortall sinne but sundry also doe supererogat by doing more then is commanded by performing the counsels of perfection of chastity poverty and obedience 7. That our good workes doe truely deserve and merit eternall life 8. That our obeying the counsels of perfection doe purchase a degree of glory above the ordinary happinesse All this lately is printed by the faction neither that onely but which to us seemeth marvellous when great popular grumblings and sundry publicke challenges hath beene made against the authours of such writs These whom Canterburie hath employed to apologise for the worlds full satisfaction hath not yet beene pleased to disavow any of those writers nor to expresse the least signe of their indignation against any of their abominations but rather by sweetning all with excuses seeme to vent their desire to have all swallowed downe In the doctrine of the Sacraments from Bellarmins third tombe they tell us first that the sacraments of the old testamenr differ from the new that the one confers grace the other foresignes grace to bee conferred that the same distinction must be holden betwixt Iohns and Christs baptimse 2. They tell us that all baptised infants as well reprobat as elect are in baptisme truely regenerat sanctified justified and put in that state wherein if those who are reprobate and thereafter damned should die they would be infallibly saved And on the ot her hand they avow that all those who die in their infancy without baptisme by whatsoever misse by whosoevers fault are certainly damned so farre as men can judge For baptisme is the onely ordnary meane which God hath appointed for their salvation which failing salvation must be lost except we would dreame of extraordinary miracles of the which we have no warrant 3. That the manifold ceremonies of Papists in baptisme and all other sacraments are either to be embraced as pious ancient rites or no to be stood upon as being only ceremoniall toyes For their tenets in the sacrament of the supper wee shall speake anone of them in the head of the masse 4. They tell us that our dispute about the five bastard sacraments is a plaine logomachy 5. They tell us that not only infants after their baptisme but even men baptised in perfect age who before baptisme gave a sufficient count of their faith yet they may not bee esteemed full Christians while they have received confirmation by the imposition of hands and that alone by a Bishop About the orders they tell us that they agree with Papists in their number that the reason why they want their Acolits sub-deacons and the rest is but their Churches poverty Which can scarce well maintaine the two orders of Priests and Deacons But which in their questions is worst of all they side here with the Papists in giving to all the Protestant Churches a wound which our enemies proclame to be mortall fatall incurable They tie the conferring of ordours by a full divine right to the office of Bishops they avow that the lawfull use of all ordination and outward ecclesiasticke jurisdiction is by God put in the hands of their persons alone Other reformed Kirkes therefore wanting Bishops their Ministers must preach celebrate the Sacraments administer discipline not only without a lawfull warrand but also against the ordinance of God When they are put in minde of this great wound given by them to all other reformed Churches they either strive to cover it with the fig-tree leaves of an imagined case of necessity which never was or else plainely to passe over it as immedicable No marvaile if the Bishops of England refuse to admit without a new ordination these who has beene ordained in Holland or France and they make no scruple to admit without new orders these who has beene ordained at Rome 6. In Matrimony they will keepe not only the Popish Sacramentall words and signes the Popish times of Lent and other dismall daies except the Bishops give their dispensation but also they will have the whole matrimoniall causes ruled by the Popes 〈◊〉 yea which is more they avow that the Cannon-law by Acts of Parliament yet unrepealled stands in vigour amongst them Except in some few things which are directly opposit to some late lawes of the land and that Cannon-law they will have extendit as far downe as the very Councell of Basile And as far up as the constitutions of the first Popes Which divers of the Papists themselves acknowledge to bee supposititious yet our men will defend them all and with them the Canons of the Apostles the constitutions of Clemence and all such trash In the sacrament of pennance they 〈◊〉 first that auricular confession was evill abolished and is very expedient to be restored 2. That God hath given a judiciall power of absolution to every Priest which every one of the people is obliged to make use of especially before the communion by confessing to the Priest all their sins without the concilement of any 3. That God in the Heaven will certainly follow the sentence of the Priest absolving on earth g 4. Beside a private confessor it were very expedient to have in every congregation a publick penitentiarie who in the beginning of Lent on ashe-wednesday might in the Kirk sit in his reclinatory and sprinkling dust on the head of every parishioner enjoyn them their Lent-pennance whereby they may truly satisfie Gods judgement for their sins and in the end of lent or Shrif-thursday before Pasche give his absolution to those who have fully satisfied Extreame unction if reports may be trusted is already in practice among them but howsoever they avow in Print their satisfaction with the Papists in this point if so be the ceremony be no made absolutely necessary Anent the Monastick life consider how farre our