Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	baptize_v	child_n	infant_n	1,168	5	9.1746	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10958	The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. English creede.	1607 (1607)	STC 21228; ESTC S116041	208,079	284

otherside too highly as if the dignitie of their calling were cause good enough that what they doe or say ex opere operato take happy effects These things from the Scriptures are manifest which teach vs that wicked ministers euen the Scribes and Pharisies sitting in Moses chaire and preaching Christ though through enuie strife and contention are to be heard and may administer the Sacraments as did the ordinarie Priests among the Iewes whereof very many both afore and after that our Sauiour came into the world were most wicked men and the best which be are the ministers of God and Gods labourers Also the purer Churches beare witnesse hereunto Neither is hee whosoeuer that planteth any thing neither hee that watereth but God that giueth the encrease saith S Paul And a signe of a good Spirit is it to regard not so much who speaketh or ministreth as what is vttered and offered from God Errors Adversaries to this truth The due consideration of the praemises will both settle vs the more firmely in the truth and make vs the more carefully to abhorre all adversaries thereof as in old time were the donatists and the Petilians who taught that the Sacraments are holy when they be administred by holy men but not els also the Apostolikes or Henricans who had a fancie that he was no Bishop which was a wicked man Among the Fathers also Cyprian and Origen were not ●ound in this point For Cyprian published that no minister could rightly baptize who was not himselfe endued with the holy Ghost hee further deliuered that whosoeuer doe communicate with a wicked minister doe sinne Origen held that in vaine did any minister either binde or lose who was himselfe bound with the chaines of ●inne and wickednes Such adversaries in our time be the Anabaptists the Family of Loue the disciplinarians vsually tearmed Puritants the Sabbatarians the Brownists and the Papists For The Anabaptists will not haue the people to vse the ministerie of euill ministers and thinke the seruice of wicked Ministers vnprofitable and not effectuall affirming that no man who is himselfe faultie can preach the truth to others The Familie of Loue doe say that no man can minister the vpright seruice or ceremonies of Christ but the regenerate also that wicked men cannot teach the truth The disciplinarian Puritans doe bring all ministers which cannot preach and their seruices into detestation For their doctrine is that Where there is no Preacher there ought to be no minister of the Sacraments None must minister the Sacraments which doe not preach The Sacrament is not a Sacrament if it be not ioyned to the word of God preached It is sacriledge to seperate the ministration of the word preached from the Sacraments Of these mens opinions be the Sabbatarians among vs. For their doctrine is to the common people that vnlesse they leaue their vnpreaching ministers euery Sabboth day and goe to some place where the word is preached they doe prophane the Sabboth and subiect themselues vnto the curse of God So the Brownists No man is to communicate say they where there is a blinde or dumme ministerie The Papist doe crosse this truth but after another sort For Pope Hildebrand decreed and commanded that no man should heare Masse from the mouth of a preist which hath a wife The Rhemists doe publish how The Sermons of heretikes and so tearme they all Protestant ministers must not be heard though they preach the truth Their praiers and Sacraments are not acceptable to God but are the howling of wolues 2. Proposition Euill ministers are to be searched out convicted and deposed but orderly and by the discipline of the Church The wicked and euill ministers must not alwaies be endured in the Church of God For they are the euill and vnprofitable seruants the Eies which doe offend the vnsauorie salt which are carefully to be seene vnto and if admonitions will not serue deposed yet orderly and by the discipline of the Churh For that God which appointed a gouernement for the ciuill state hath also giuen authoritie vnto his Church to punish offenders according to the qualitie of their transgressions And so may we read in the word of God Tell the Church saith our Sauiour Let such a one by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ be deliuered vnto Sathan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus saith S. Paul So the neighbour Churches Adversaries vnto this truth Then deceiued and out of the way are the Brownists and Barrowists which are of minde that Priuate persons in themselues haue authoritie to depose vnmeete ministers and to punish malefactors Euery particular member of a Church in himselfe hath power to examine the manner of administring the Sacraments c. to call men vnto repentance c to reproue the faults of the church and to forsake that church which will not reforme her faults vpon any priuate admonition For want of the due execution of discipline against persons offending and malefactors both women may leaue their husbands as some haue done and husbands their wiues and goe where it is in force See more in Art 33. Prop. 1. 27. Article Of Baptisme 1 Baptisme is not only a signe of profession and marke of difference whereby christian men are discerned from other that be not Christened but 2 it is also a signe of regeneration or newe-birth whereby as by an instrument they that receiue Baptisme rightly are graffed into the Church the promises of the forgiuenes of sinne and of our adoption to be the Sonnes of God by the holy Ghost are visiblie signed and sealed Faith is confirmed and grace encreased by vertue of prayer vnto God 3 The Baptisme of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the institution of Christ. The Propositions 1. Baptisme is a signe of Profession and marke of differēce whereby Christians are discerned from other men that be no Christians 2. Baptisme is a signe or seale of the regeneration or newe birth of Christians 3. Infants and young children by the word of God are to be baptized 1. Proposition Baptisme is a signe of Profession and marke of difference whereby Christians are discerned from other men that be no Christians The proofe from Gods word HOw the Sacraments are tokens and therefore that Baptisme is a signe of the true Church which be Christians it is apparent from Gods word in the 5. proposit of the 19. article afore going and the same doe the Churches of God acknowledge Errors adversaries vnto this truth This declareth vs to be sound Christians and. Not Nazarens who were with the Iewes circumcised and baptized with Christians and so as Hierome writeth of them were neither Iewes nor Christians Mot

Manichians which baptize not any Not false christians or Marcionites which did baptise the liuing for the dead Which Marcionites also denied Baptisme vnto all married persons baptized none but persons single virgins widdowes and women diuorced from their husbands Not Originists who maintaine a Baptisme by fire as also that after the resurrectiō of our bodies wee shall haue neede of Baptisme Not of Matthewe Hamants opinion that Norfolke Heretike which stood in it to the death that Baptisme is not necessarie in the Church Not Anabaptists which number Baptisme among things indifferent and so to be vsed or refused at our discretion Not Familists which say there is no true Baptisme but onely among themselues Nor Papists who both baptise Bels Babels as afore hath bin showen art 25. prop. 10 and also make the vowe and profession of the monachall or life of a Monch as good a token of Christians as Baptisme 2. Proposition Baptisme is a signe or seale of the regeneration or newe birth of Christians The proofe from Gods word Baptisme of S. Paul is called the washing of the newe Birth of others the Sacrament of the newe birth to signifie how they which rightly as all doe not receiue they the same are ingrafted into the body of Christ as by a seale be assured frō God that their sinnes be pardoned and forgiuen and themselues adopted for the children of God confirmed in the faith and doe increase in grace by virtue of praier vnto God And this is the constant doctrine of all Churches protestant and reformed The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth But no part of the true Church thinketh as did manie old haeretickes viz. that The baptized of the orthodoxall ministers are to be rebaptized as said the Nouatians Originall sinne is not pardoned in Infants as said the Pelagians because they haue no such sinne in them at all Onely sinnes past and not sinnes future or not yet committed are by Baptisme clensed as the Messalians held Being once Baptized we can no more be tēpted as thought the Iouians which was the error also of the Pelagians The Baptsme of water is now ceased and the Baptisme of voluntary blood by whipping is come in place thereof without which none can be saued as the Flagelliferians published Wee also condemne the opinion Of the Russeis that there is such a necessitie of Baptisme as that all that die without the same are damned Also of the Bannisterians which say that the water at Baptisme is not holy in respect that it is applied to an holy vse that the ordinarie and common washings among the Turkes and Iewes is the same to them that Baptisme is to vs Likewise of the Familie of Loue which conceiue basely of this Sacrament calling it in derision Elementish water and of no better validitie or virtue then common water Also of the Anabaptists who ascribe no more vnto Baptisme then vnto any other thing ciuilly discerning one man from another and say that the Sacraments of the newe Testament are no instruments to raise or confirme faith And lastly of the Papists who maintaine that Baptisme serueth to the putting away of originall sinne onely Baptisme bringeth grace euen ex opere operato 3. Proposition Infants and young children by the word of God are to be baptized The proofe from Gods word Although by expresse tearms wee be not cōmanded to baptize young children yet wee beleeue they are to be baptised and that for these among other reasons 1. The grace of God is vniuersall and pertaineth vnto all Therefore the signe or Seale of grace is vniuersall and belongeth vnto all so well young as old 2. Baptisme is vnto vs as Circumcision was vnto the Iewes But the Infants of the Iewes were circumcised Therefore the children of Christians are to be baptized 3. Children belong vnto the kingdome of heauen and are in the couenant therefore the signe of the couenant is not to be denied them 4. Christ gaue in commandement that all should be baptized Therefore young children are not to be exempted 5. Christ hath shed his blood aswell for the washing away the sinnes of children as of the elder sort Therefore it is very necessarie that they should be partakers of the Sacrament thereof All Christian churches allowe of the Baptisme of infants Adversaries vnto this truth The premises declare that They slander vs which say That all Protestants denie the Baptisme of children to be necessarie and this is Runnagate Hills report They erre which oppugne this truth as doe many persons but not after one and the same sort For. Some vtterly denie that Infants or young children are to be baptized so did the Pelagians the Heracleons and the Henricians and so doe the Anabaptists whereof said some how baptisme is the inuention of Pope Nicholas and therefore naught others that Baptisme is of the deuill So thought Melchior Hoffeman so also doe the Swermerians a set among the said Anabaptists the Seruetians and the Familie of Loue which doth hold that none should be baptized vntill hee be thirtie yeares old Others refuse to baptise not all but some Infants So denied is Baptisme by the Barrowists vnto the seede of whores and witches by the Brownists vnto the children of open sinners by the the Disciplinarians vnto their children which subiect not themselues as Dud. Fenner saith vnto the discipline of the Church or obey not the Presbyteriall decrees Others allow the Baptisme of Infants yet thinke those Infants not lawfully baptized which are baptized either by the newe ministers of the Church of England as the Brownists doe thinke or by Protestant ministers as the Papists are of minde witnesse their rebaptizing of Infants in France and in Netherland or by vnpreaching ministers as the disciplinarian Puritanes doe hold And others are of opinion that none are to be baptized which beleeue not first Hence the Anabaptists Infants beleeue not therefore be not to be baptized Hence the Lutherans Infants doe beleeue Therefore to be baptized 28. Article Of the Supper of the Lord. The Supper of the Lord is not only 1 a signe of the loue that Christians ought to haue among themselues one to another but rather 2 it is a Sacrament of our redemption by Christs death Insomuch that to such as worthily with Faith receiue the same the Bread which we breake is a partaking of the Body of Christ and likewise the Cuppe of blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ. 3 transubstantion or the change of the substance of Bread and wine in the Supper of the Lord canot be proued by holy writ but is repugnant to the plaine words of Scripture ouerthroweth the nature of a Sacrament and hath giuen occasion to many superstitions 4 The Body of Christ

Neuserus and Siluanus beleeued by Mahomet and therefore he reuolted from Christianitie vnto Turcisme Others confesse that wee are saued by the name of Christ but either not by the right and true Christ for they said themselues and euery of themselues were Christ as in old time did Saturninus Manes Desider Burdegal and Eudo de Stella and of late yeares at Basil Dauid George and in England first one Iohn Moore and afterward William Hacket the former was whipt for the same at Bethlehem in the second of Queene Elizabeth the other hanged and quartered in Cheapside An. 1591. Or by the true Christ but either distinguish betweene Iesus and Christ saying Iesus was one man and Christ another as did the Marcionites Or say there be two Christs one reuealed alreadie in the daies of Tiberius the Emperour who came for the saluation of the Gentiles another yet to come for the redemption of the Iewes so thought the same Marcionites Nestorius held also there were two Christs whereof one was very God the other very man borne of a woman Or publish how none were saued by the true Christ til the 15. yeare of the foresaid Tiberius an heresie of Manes and his companie Others besides as the Familie of Loue vnderstand all things written of Christ allegorically and not according to the letter of Gods word For they teach that whatsoeuer is written of Christ must in vs and with us be fulfilled Others haue thought yea haue spoken blasphemously of the constant and holy Martyrs who for the name of Christ gaue their liues in England in the raigne of Queene Mary some saying They were stark fooles as did Christophet Vitel a chiefe Elder in the Familie of Loue others as Westphalus and Marbachius that they were the Diuels martyrs 19. Article Of the Church 1 The visible Church of Christ 2 is a congregation 3 of faithfull men in the which 5 the pure word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs ordinance in all those things that of necessitie are requisite to the same As 6 the Church of Ierusalem Alexandria and Antioch hath erred so also 7 the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their liuing and manner of ceremonies but also in matters of Faith The Propositions 1. There is a Church of Christ not onely inuisible but also visible 2. There is but one Church 3. The visible Church is a Catholike church 4. The word of God was and for time is before the Church 5. The markes and tokens of the visible Church are the due and true administration of the word and Sacraments 6. The visible Church may and from time to time hath erred both in doctrine and conuersation 7. The Church of Rome most shamefully hath erred in life ceremonies and matters of faith 1. Proposition There is a Church of Christ both inuisible and visible The proofe from Gods word A true saying is it the Lord and he onely knoweth who are his For to man the Church of Christ is partly inuisible and visible partly The inuisible are all the Elect who be or shall be either in heauen triumphing or on earth fighting against the flesh the world and the Deuill These as members of the Church are said to be inuisible not because the men be not seene but for that their faith and conscience to Godward is not perfectly knowne vnto vs. The members of the visible Church are some of them for God and some against God all of them notwithstanding deemed parts of the Church and accōnted faithfull so long as they make no manifest and open rebellion against the Gospell of Christ. And all this wee gather from the holy Scripture where mention is made of the Church inuisible and triumphing Rev. 2.26.28 3.5.12 7 14.55 inuisible and militant in the epistles of S. Paul Peter and booke of S. Iohns reuelations also of the Church visible and mixed with good and bad by the parable of the sower of the Marriage and of the Virgins as also by the saying of our Sauiour Christ and of S. Paul The Churches beare witnes hereunto The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth This truth hath many adversaries whereof Some renounce our Christ the Sauiour of mankind and so thinke his people are not the Church as the Iewes Turkes and heretikes haue done Some acknowledge no triumphing state of the godly in heauen but dreame of an euer glorious condition in this world as the Familie of Loue Some thinke the church Catholike to be visible as the Papists Some imagine the Church militant is not visible at all as the Libertines Some giue out that the visible church is deuoid of sinne and sinners as did the Donatists and doe the Anabaptists Familie of Loue Brownists and Barroistes 2. Proposition There is but one Church The proofe from Gods word When wee doe say that the Church is visible inuisible and that there is a Westerne East Greeke Latine English Church wee meane not that there be diuers Churches of Christ but that one and the same Church is diuersly taken and vnderstood and also hath many particular Churches as the Sea many riuers and armes branching from it For the visible Church is not many congregations but one companie of the faithfull Wee being many are one Body in Christ and euery one one anothers members Wee that are many are one Bread and one Body For as the body is one and hath many members and all the members of the body which is one though they be many yet are but one body euen so is Christ. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body c. Now ye are the body of Christ and members for your part For as wee haue many members in one body and all members haue not the same office so wee beeing many are one body in Christ and euery one one anothers members There is neither Iewe nor Grecian there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for yee are all one in Christ Iesus All Gods people agree with vs in this point The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth The adversaries vnto the 18. article be also for a great part adversaries vnto this truth Furthermore although it be acknowledged by many and they too baptized for Christians that there is but one Church yet the same persons doe erre which condemne so many as no members of Christs church which ioyne not with them in their singular and priuate opinions arrogating the stile and title vnto themselues onely and denying all other men to be either the Church or members of the body of Christ. Such are The Russeis who boast how themselues with the Grecians are the onely Church of God themselues onely are the men who shall be saued all Christians beside