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conscience_n	blood_n	spirit_n	spot_n	1,180	5	9.7005	5	false

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A85896	The generall and particular acts and articles of the late national synod of the reformed Churches of France, assembled by the permission of the King at Charenton neare Paris, beginning the 26th of December, 1644. Where by the present estate of those churches, as also their doctrine and discipline may be knowne. With divers other remarkable passages, and letters from the King and Q. Regent of France, to the said synod, and of the synod to their Majesties, and other great personages. Never before printed either in French or English, and now faithfully translated out of a written French copy. Whereunto is added a formulary of baptisme for those who from paganisme, Judaisme, and Mahumetisme, are converted to the Christian faith; as also of those Anabaptists who have not bin baptised before, composed in the nationall synod set forth at Charenton in the yeare 1645. and now faithfully Englished.	Eglises réformées de France. Synode national (1644-1645 : Charenton-le-Pont); Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666.; France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)	1646 (1646)	Wing G488; Thomason E361_5; ESTC R201205	74,805	110

Son of Abraham of David and of the holy Virgin of their bloud and seed issued and that the substance of his body was formed not in the Virgin onely but of the proper substance of the Virgin also agreeable to what the Apostle saith that he was of the seed of David according to the Scriptures that hee was made of a woman and that he was partaker of flesh and bloud as other Children are Answ I doe 11 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Baptisme of Infants is founded upon the Scriptures and in the perpetuall practise of the Church Answ I doe 12 Quest Doe not you renounce with a sincere heart the errour of those who reject it and doe not you repent that you have despised it hitherto Answ I doe 13 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the establishment of Magistrates is an ordinance of God to which those that will not submit themselves bring condemnation upon themselves and that all manner of obedience according to God is due unto them Answ I doe After this shall be proposed the 10 and 11 Questions Doe you not beleeve that this good God c. The Minister having spoken to his Catecumen or party to be Baptized whether Pagan Jew Mahumitane or Anabaptist respectively shall adde Since wee are now about to conferre this holy Baptisme upon you Doe you not protest that you will live and dye in the faith of the Lord Jesus whereof you have made confession before accompanying it with a good life and holy conversation and to employ all your thoughts speeches and actions to glorifie God and to edifie your neighbour submitting your selves to the order of the Church and to the Discipline of it according to which this holy order inviolably ought to be maintained Answ J doe After this the Minister shall adde Let us pray God that hee will be pleased to blesse this holy action O Lord our God wisdome and mercy it selfe wee blesse and praise thy holy Name for that grace which thy good hand hath been pleased to shed upon this thy servant who lay in the deepest darknesse of the shadow of death whom thou hast inlightned making the saving and quickning brightnesse of thy day-spring from above to arise upon him drawing him from desperate hardnesse of heart to soften his heart and delivering him from the bonds of death to restore life unto him Lord as thou hast taken away the vaile that was upon his heart calling him to acknowledge thee the onely true God and him whom thou hast sent JESVS CHRIST and hast infused courage into him to make publick Confession this day of thy most holy faith and of the hope which thou hast dred in his soule granting to him to present himselfe before thee to receive this holy Baptisme the seale of our Covenant the pledge of the Remission of our sinnes and the badge of our entrance into thy house by a spirituall Regeneration Cast upon him good God more and more the beames of thy gracious aspect forgiving him all his sinnes and sprinkling his conscience with the pretious bloud of the Lambe without spot which takes away the sinnes of the world making him to feele the vertue of thy omnipotent propitiation that thy Spirit may sanctifie him and make him a new creature that dying to sinne hee may live to Righteousnesse and putting off the old man with his deeds hee may put on the new man which is renewed in righteousnesse and true holinesse and as wee are now ready to poure upon his head the water of thy Sacrament poure thou upon him the gifts and graces of that soveraigne Spirit receiving him into the number of thy domesticks and honouring him with the adoption of thy children giving him grace to consecrate unto thee during the course of his life that obedience and that religious service that is due unto thee and to persevere for ever in thy holy Covenant that as now wee doe receive him in thy Name to the Communion of the Church Militant thou mayest bee pleased to lift him one day to the bosome of thy triumphant Church and joyne him for ever to the Assembly of the first borne whose names are written in Heaven Heare us O Father of mercy that the Baptisme which wee doe administer according to thy ordinance may produce its fruit and its vertue such as it is declared unto us in thy holy Gospell in thy Sonne our Lord JESUS CHRIST who hath commanded us to pray and say Our Father which art in Heaven c. Then speaking to those who present the Catecumen or party to be Baptised the Minister shall say unto them As you have been charitably employed about Instruction and edification of this our Brother and are Witnesses of the Baptisme which by and by he is to receive by our Ministery Doe you not promise here before God and this holy Assembly that you will continue more and more to strengthen him in the faith and to exhort him to all manner of good workes Answ Wee doe This done speaking to the Catecumen or party to be baptised who waites on his knees to be baptised and powring water upon his head the Minister shall say N. upon these testimonies of your faith which have appeared J. Baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen FINIS Imprimatur IA. CRANFORD Entred according to Order Wardens Richard Whittaker Henry Seale A Looking-Glasse FOR ALL Proud ambitious covetous and corrupt LAVVYERS Wherein they may see Their fore-Fathers Love and Humility Dion Halicarn l. 2. Livius l. 1. Plutarch in Romulo The like was used amongst the Thessalians who called these kinde of Clients Penestae And amongst the Athenians who called them Thetae Lazius Comment Reipub. Rom. lib. 12. c. 3. De●●pster Antiquitatum Rom. lib. 1. c. 16.17 Car. Sigon de Antiquo Jure Civium Rom. WHen Rome was in her integrity the great men studied the Lawes and pleaded the cause of the poore without fee Jure Clientela Every eminent man having many ●undreds nay some thousands of poor men under their protection for whom they did respondere de jure make defen●e in Law This was a mutuall Obligation of common charity and these ●nfeed Patrons were justly stiled Sacerdotes Justitia Priests of Themis the Godd●●e of justice But afterwards Cùm abundantes divitiae desiderium im exere per luxum atque libidinem pereundi perdendique omnia When abundant wealth brought in luxurie to afflict the manners of the Common-wealth they grew into corruption with the times tooke fees and became viles rubulae Hackney Petty-fogg●rs and Hucksters of the Law Now though our Lawyers were never in that state of innocency to practice without Fee yet were they never in that height of corruption and unlimited way of gaine they are now in I have heard old men say they remembred when Lawyers at the beginning of a Terme would stand at a pillar in Pauls Temple-Bar the corner of Chancery-Lane and other Avenues