Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	believer_n	church_n	visible_a	1,349	5	9.2573	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36061	A directory for the publique worship of God, throughout the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland together with an ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of common-prayer, ... die Jovis, 13. Martii, 1644 / ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance and directory bee forthwith printed and published.	England and Wales. Parliament. Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of common prayer.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1644 (1644)	Wing D1545; ESTC R210506	26,872	96

and liberty To turne the chiefe and most usefull heads of the Sermon into some few Petitions and to pray that it may abide in the heart and bring forth fruit To pray for preparation for Death and Judgement and a watching for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ To intreat of God the forgivenesse of the iniquities of our holy things and the acceptation of our spirituall sacrifice through the merit and mediation of our great High-Priest and Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ And because the Prayer which Christ taught his Disciples is not only a Pattern of Prayer but it selfe a most comprehensive Prayer we recommend it also to be used in the Prayers of the Church And whereas at the Administration of the Sacraments the holding Publique Fasts and dayes of Thanksgiving and other speciall occasions which may afford matter of speciall Petitions and Thanksgivings It is requisite to expresse somewhat in our publike Prayers as at this time it is our duty to pray for a blessing upon the Assembly of Divines the Armies by Sea and Land for the defence of the King Parliament and Kingdome Every Minister is herein to apply himselfe in his Prayer before or after his Sermon to those occasions but for the manner he is left to his liberty as God shall direct and inable him in piety and wisdome to discharge his duty The Prayer ended let a Psalme be sung if with conveniency it may be done After which unlesse some other Ordinance of Christ that concerneth the Congregation at that time be to follow let the Minister dismisse the Congregation with a solemne Blessing THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS And first Of BAPTISME BAPTISME As it is not unnecessarily to be delayed so is it not to be administred in any case by any private person but by a Minister of Christ called to be the Steward of the Mysteries of God Nor is it to be administred in private places or privately but in the place of Publique Worship and in the face of the Congregation where the people may most conveniently see and heare and not in the places where Fonts in the time of Popery were unfitly and superstitiously placed The Child to be Baptized after notice given to the Minister the day before is to be presented by the Father or in case of his necessary absence by some Christian friend in his place professing his earnest desire that the Child may be Baptised Before Baptisme the Minister is to use some words of Instruction touching the Institution Nature Use and ends of this Sacrament shewing That it is Instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ That it is a Seale of the Covenant of Grace of our Ingrafting into Christ and of our Vnion with him of Remission of Sins Regeneration Adoption and Life eternall That the Water in Baptisme representeth and signifieth both the bloud of Christ which taketh away all Guilt of Sinne Originall and Actuall and the sanctifying virtue of the Spirit of Christ against the Dominion of Sin and the Corruption of our sinfull Nature That Baptizing or sprinckling washing with water signifieth the cleansing from sin by the Bloud and for the Merit of Christ together with the Mortification of sin and rising from sin to Newnesse of life by virtue of the Death and Resurrection of Christ That the Promise is made to Beleevers and their seed and that the seed and posterity of the faithfull born within the Church have by their birth interest in the Covenant and right to the Seale of it and to the outward Priviledges of the Church under the Gospell no lesse then the Children of Abraham in the time of the Old Testament the Covenant of Grace for substance being the same and the Grace of God and the consolation of Beleevers more plentifull then before That the Sonne of God admitted litle children into his presence imbracing and blessing them saying For of such is the Kingdome of God That children by Baptisme are solemnly received into the bosome of the visible Church distinguished from the world and them that are without and united with Beleevers and that all who are baptized in the Name of Christ doe renounce and by their Baptisme are bound to fight against the Devill the World and the Flesh That they are Christians and foederally holy before Baptisme and therefore are they Baptized That the inward Grace and virtue of Baptisme is not tyed to that very moment of time wherein it is administred and that the fruit and power thereof reacheth to the whole course of our life and that outward Baptisme is not so necessary that through the want thereof the Infant is in danger of Damnation or the Parents guilty if they doe not contemne or neglect the Ordinance of Christ when and where it may be had In these or the like Instructions the Minister is to use his own liberty and godly wisdome as the Ignorance or Errours in the Doctrine of Baptisme and the Edification of the people shall require He is also to admonish all that are present To looke back to their Baptisme to repent of their sins against their Covenant with God to stirre up their faith to improove and make the rigbt use of their Baptisme and of the Covenant sealed thereby betwixt God and their soules He is to exhort the Parent To consider the great mercy of God to him and his child To bring up the child in the knowledge of the grounds of the Christian Religion and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and to let him know the danger of Gods wrath to himselfe and child if he be negligent Requiring his solemne promise for the performance of his duty This being done Prayer is also to be joyned with the word of Institution for sanctifying the water to this spirituall use and the Minister is to pray to this or the like effect That the Lord who hath not left us as strangers without the Covenant of Promise but called us to the priviledges of his Ordinances would graciously vouchsafe to sanctifie and blesse his owne Ordinance of Baptisme at this time That he would joyne the inward Baptisme of his Spirit with the outward Baptisme of water make this Baptisme to the Infant a Seale of Adoption Remission of Sin Regeneration and Eternall Life and of all other Promises of the Covenant of Grace That the Child may be planted into the likenesse of the Death and Resurrection of Christ and that the body of sin being destroyed in him he may serve God in newnesse of life all his dayes Then the Minister is to demand the Name of the Child which being told him he is to say calling the Child by his Name I Baptise thee in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost As he pronounceth these words he is to Baptize the Child with water which for the manner of doing it is not only lawfull but sufficient and most expedient to be by powring or sprinckling of the water on the face of