Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	evil_a	faith_n	sprinkle_v	1,588	5	10.6623	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80622	The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithfull minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6436; Thomason E356_16; ESTC R201141	171,314	214

water but in the sprinkling or pouring the water upon the body For in dipping wee apply the body to the water In sprinkling or pouring the water the water is applied to the body which doth more lively set forth the grace of Christ in the washing away of our sinnes which is done rather by applying Christs blood to us then by applying our selves to the blood of Christ Moreover when you stand so much for dipping I demand and I pray you answer to mee or to your selfe ingenuously Whether would you have the whole body dipped or part onely If the whole body whether naked or clothed If clothed then outward baptisme is not a washing of the flesh but of the cloaths rather If naked how will it stand with civility or modesty to Baptize men and women of grown yeares for children you admit none in the face of the whole Congregation No marvell then if the Sect of the Adamites grow out of your Sect. But if you require but part of the body to bee baptized I demand what part If the face that is our usuall manner of baptizing in England but that you implead as false If the hands and feete and head also that is it inde●d which Peter offered in a like case Joh. 13.9 But Christ answereth him the washing of one part was enough and would suffice to signify the washing and purifying of the whole man every whit v. 10. And in very truth the whole virtue and efficacy of the death of Christ is as well and as fully applyed in the Act of sprinkling as of dipping When Esay prophecyed the Application of the death of Christ to the Redemption of many Nations hee foretold that Christ should sprinkle many Nations Esay 52.15 And when the Apostle exhorteth us to draw neer unto God in full assurance of faith in respect of the perfect Oblation of Christ for us once for all Heb. 10.22 hee expresseth our drawing neare as having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water The faithfull people of God are not wont to value the virtue of the gifts of Christ from the bulke of outward signes but from the lively virtue and power of the Spirit of life conveyed in them The Spirit of a Cordiall is as much conveyed in a small dôsis as in a grosse drugge It is a small morsell of Bread and a little cup of Wine which wee partake in at the Lord● Supper and yet therein wee partake of whole Christ God and Man If wee should eate the whole Naturall body of Christ and drinke all his Blood it would not profit us so much It is the Spirit that quickneth us Ioh. 6.36 Bodily exercise profiteth little 1 Tim. 4.8 But say you in your third exception against sprinkling sprinkling doth not so lively represent our fellowship with Christ n his Death Buryall and resurrection as dipping doth Answ Why not as lively seeing as fully Being sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience wee draw neare unto Christ in full assurance of Faith as you heard even now out of Heb. 10.22 and Christ in sprinkling many nations applyed to them the whole efficacy of his Death Isa 52.15 And the Apostle setteth forth the faithfull of the New-Testament to have come to the rightfruition of the riches of gratious and glorious Priviledges of the Heavenly Hierusalem in that wee are come to the bloud of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 And Peter also setteth forth the full benefit of our election in being chosen as the Originall words runne to the obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Iesus 1 Pet. 1.1 If therefore being sprinkled with the blood of Christ wee have full fellowship with Christ in his Death surely the sprinkling of the person baptized with water in Baptisme doth fully and lively resemble the sprinkling and pouring out of the blood of Christ upon him And in his lying under the water poured and sprinkled upon him thereby is plainly shewen forth his fellowship with Christ in his Buryall And in his arising from under the water is in like sor● held forth his fellowship with Christ in his Resurrection CHAP. XXII Silvester VVHat say you then to the fourth Exception against the Baptisme received in England taken from the false end for which it is Administred to wit for the Regeneration of the present Infants And it plainly seemeth no otherwise to mee by the prayers and Collects which are appointed to bee read in the booke of the Common Prayer before and after Baptisme For before Baptisme they pray that the Infants comming to this holy Baptisme might receive remission of sinnes by spirituall Regeneration And after Baptisme the Minister is appointed to give thanks upon this ground that seeing these children are Regenerate and graffed into the body of Christs Congregation c. Silvanus For Answer take these two things and either of them will avoid your acception First That the Church of England doth not administer Baptism for this end to work Regeneration Secondly That though it should aime at such an end yet that would not make the Baptisme false For the fitst The Church of England doth professedly teach the contrary Doctrine not onely in their Pulpits but in Bookes allowed by publique authority That the Sacraments doth not beget Faith nor Regeneration ex opere operato but they are signes and seales of both Neither do the publique prayers of the Church hold forth their judgement otherwise But as in judgement they doe beleeve that God by Covenant promiseth to poure clean water upon us and upon our seed Ezek. 36.25 Isa 44.3 and that he sealeth the Covenant and promise by Baptisme So before Baptisme they pray him to accomplish this Promise according to his Covenant which God is about to confirme by that seale And after Baptisme they taking Gods Word and Seale as a Pledge and assurance of the thing already done which will indeed in due time bee done according to the true intent and meaning of Gods Word and Seale that is to the elect seed absolutely to the naturall seed sufficiently to leave them without excuse in the offer of the meanes they therefore give him thankes for it as done already When Israel heard their redemption out of Egypt and saw the signes which Moses wrought for the confirmation of it they beleeved and bowed their heads and worshipped as if they had seen the worke already wrought which they saw onely in the promise and in the signe Exod. 4.30 31. When Gedeon had received the promise of deliverance from the Midianites and saw the same confirmed by a signe though it were but by a dreame hee worshipped God with praise and thanksgiving as if the deliv●rance had beene already wrought Judges 7.13 14 15. I neede not apply it For the Second Though the Church of England had such a corrupt and false end in their Baptisme which they have not as to administer the same for the working of Regeneration yet that would not make