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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25463	Panem quotidianum, or, A short discourse tending to prove the legality, decency, and expediency of set forms of prayer in the churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of common prayer of the Church of England... / by William Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3222; ESTC R38624	47,207	64

it can as easily be replyed they wear black To conclude the Cross in baptism is a sign at that Sacrament yet not Sacramental but Historical not of our Covenant with God but of our profession towards men all that belongs to that Ceremony being spoken unto the Witnesses as is clear from the words in the Liturgy Answ. 3. It is to be hoped and desired that the Governors of our Church by their meekness and careful respect to tender consciences really such will in establishing Laws make their moderation to be known to all men As touching the use of God-fathers or witnesses at Baptisme something may be said for them if the Common Prayer should bring them in Not to insist upon those two faithful witnesses chosen by the Prophet at the naming of his son Maher-shalal-hash-baz Is●… 8. 2. from which practice some have concluded the Antiquity of witnesses he seeming to practice that as done by others in the like case in regard he gets no Commission from the Lord so to do when by Anticipation Maher-shalal-hash-baz was named Neither shall we speak of the Primitive persecutions which caused the first Christians to baptize their Infants by Witnesses undertaking or promising for the Child upon the supposition of its Parents death or banishment by the Heathenish Tyrants Witnesses may be kept up 1. For the upholding of Charity Peace and Concord among Christians it may be a means to keep three or four Families in unity 2. To make every one careful for the good of each other for besides the care that God and nature lays upon the Parent the witness hath upon him a necessity of doing good according to his power and by passing a promise for him as Guardians for their Wards become a father in God 3. We know not what persecution or affliction may befall the Parent and in that regard Witnesses may be of good use as in the Primitive times If it be objected That the promise is made but never cared for and made often but impossible to be kept if that should be enjoyned that is in the Common Prayer for who can promise that the Child shall forsake the devil and all his works c. It may be replyed 1. That if they make it and make no conscience of it they are worthily to be blamed yet some may be the more r●…miss in regard of the Parents care and it is often known that many times the Child is better for its Witnesses both outwardly and inwardly blame them that fail but blame not the thing since to many it is a cause of much good and might be to all 2. There is in this promise a limitation tacitely implyed as well as in all other promises of this nature the limitation is quoad possum i. e. as far as I am able which must and is necessarily to be understood If it be present with us admonition if it be poor and we able in some sort education if absent from us hearty supplication may be made for it and given by us upon the account of that relation that it is to us 3. I have heard and am prone to believe that the duty is incumbent on the God-father no longer than the Child comes to the years of discretion or at furthest no longer than the party is unmarried If it be a woman her husband is then to dwell with her according to knowledge and she forsakes Father and Mother If a man being educated and brought up in the Christian faith he himself is bound to keep in it and the Surety or Witness hath performed his condition Yea the natural Father hath a clear conscience if he doth this whatever falls out after so that there is not so great cause to fear the coming again of this practice as some would make and suppose And whereas it is said that the Minister may make and cause the Witness to lye at Baptism when he makes him to affirm that for himself he forsakes the devil and his works when the contrary by the Witnesses life appears We say that there is a twofold forsaking of Satan first by outward profession and by holy conversation if the latter be not performed blame him there shall be none received as a Witness that denyes not the former and in that sence it is no lye but a truth themselves that make this Objection being Witnesses As for that Ancient Ordinance of the Church called Confirmation or Imposition of hands by a Bishop upon the heads of such young Children as are trained up in the rudiments of the most Holy Faith how shall it be spoke against For as in the first times of the Gospel Christians received the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands of the Apostles which miraculous gift ceasing Christians came to the Bishops as their Successors by whom after they had given testimony of their faith and knowledge they had prayers made unto God for them with the laying on of their hands that he would more and more bless them and confirm them in that faith whereof before him as his servant they had made profession and that they might stand out against all opposition they meet withal in this life and in the end of their dayes they might obtain the end of their faith the salvation of their soul. Let me never fear that the Common Prayer will bring in this in the least since the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much Jam. 5. 16. The practice or injunction again of Holy-dayes fears some surely to set apart dayes for the Members of Gods Holy Church to meet and hear Gods holy Word and receive if so ordered his most holy Sacraments cannot be spoken against by any that knows what it is to fear God That of the Apostle Ye observe dayes and months and times and years Gal. 4. 10. makes nothing against the observing of the Feast of Simon and Iude nor the 5th of November since we lay no necessity of Salvation upon either We may be brought to keep those dayes in Commemoration of the Saints names that we may be taught the imitation of their vertues Three things we owe the Saints departed 1. A keeping a memorial of them in a godly manner 2. A giving thanks to God for them and the benefits we received by them 3. An imitation of their graces meekness patience perseverance c. with which they came to the glorious inheritance and therefore we keep their dayes as the Epistles and Gospels appointed to be read in their days do plainly show Not to speak of that Relaxation and Liberty which to Servants is Granted by Law when perhaps their Churlish Masters would Deny them Liberty without Reason And if any think that the observing of such dayes as the fifth of November be a superstitious observing of times they must blame good 〈◊〉 for instituting of Purim and the Generations after him for observing of them Esther 9. 26 27. As for the bowing at the Name of Jesus if Authority command