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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	heart_n	pure_a	sprinkle_v	1,554	5	10.8871	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26864	Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1188; ESTC R31573	194,108	184

but ye are Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus c. And Expositors judge that the Holy-Ghost refers to the sign as well as the thing signified to the Sacrament as well as Substance when he makes washing so necessary and speaks of washing us from our sins in the blood of Christ Rev. 1.5 Though he make them not equal in necessity Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born of water c. Heb. 10.22 Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodyes washed with pure water If it be the end of Baptism to wash our hearts from an evil conscience i. e. à Conscientia mali then it is the end of Baptism to Seal the present Remission of sin But c. therefore Tit. 3.5 He saved us by the washing of Regeneration It is a saving work that Baptism is appointed to do By Regeneration I understand our new Relative state at least principally He that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new He hath a new head is a member of a new societie the old guilt of sin is done away the old enmity between God and us we have a new Father new brethren new right to farther blessings as well as a new heart Regeneration is too narrowly taken for a Renovation of the heart alone So that I think Remission and Reconciliation and Adoption are meant by Regeneration in Tit. 3.5 and Col. 2.11 12. The speaking of Baptism and the heart-circumcision therein received or professed saith they put off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ being buryed with him in Baptism c. So in 2 Pet. 1.9 The Apostle saith He that lacketh these things is blinde and cannot see far off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins that is Sacramentally and as far as the Church could go in purifying him which shews that the end of Baptism is by obsignation and solemnization to purge men from their old sins or as Paul speaks The sins that are past through the forbearance of God c. Rom. 5. So that Remission of sins at present being the end of Baptism rightly received it must needs follow that Justifying faith is prerequisite to the right receiving it and that it is not some other Faith nor is it enough to promise Justifying Faith for hereafter Argu. 9. If the Apostles use to communicate the proper Titles of the Justified to all that are Baptized till they see them prove apostates or hypocrites then they did take all the Baptized to be probably justified though they might know that there were hypocrites among them yet either they knew them not or might not denominate the body from a few that they did know But the Antecedent is true therefore I need not cite Scriptures to prove that the baptized are called by the Apostles Believers Saints Disciples Christians Mr. Blake hath done it already chap. 28. Now who knows not that salvation is made the Portion of Believers Saints Disciples But what is it another sort of them or doth Scripture use to divide Saints as the Genus into two Species Not that I know of It is but as an aequivocum in sua aequivocata The Apostles naming men according to their appearance and Profession and calling them such as they probably might be Why else should they call them such had not they seemed to be such and professed it The names therefore do not primarily agree to these as a true Species of Believers Saints Disciples Christians but secondarily as the name of a man to a Corps or as the name of a Habit to a disposition by translation or Analogie But to put the matter beyond doubt I wish Mr. Bl. to consider that it s not only these forementioned titles but even the rest which he will acknowledge proper to the Regenerate which are given by the Apostles generally to the baptized Adoption is ascribed to them Gal. 3.26 27. For yee are all the children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ 2. The same ●ext ascribeth to them Union with Christ yee have put on Christ 3. And Union with his body ye are all one in Christ Jesus 4. Yea the next verse addes And if ye be Christs ye are Abrahams seed and heirs according to the Promise What more proper to the truly sanctified So the Apostle saith to all the Churches of Colloss in general 5. That they had put off the body of sin being buryed with Christ in Baptism wherein also they were risen with him through the Faith of the operation of God Col. 2.11 12. 6. Yea in 1 Cor. 6.11 He tells the Corinthians they were washed sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus so that Justification it self is ascribed to them Col. 2.13 The Apostle tells them God had quickned them with Christ having forgiven ●hem all trespasses 7. Yea the like he saith of their salvation 1 Cor. 15.2 Eph. 2.5 6 7 8. yea he tells them verse 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and sorreiners but fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and lest any should think that Saints and Citizens and the houshold of God do here signifie but common Priviledges of the visible Church he addes And are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-Stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth to an holy Temple in the Lord in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Where most planly the Church is manifested to be but one and that one to have saving Priviledges and consequently those that have not these to be but equivocally Christians Many more texts might be produced where the most particular Priviledges of the Saints are given to whole Churches in common which 〈◊〉 that the name is by Analogy or equivocally given from the sincere to the rest because we are to judge and denominate on probabilities Argu. 10. If the profession of Justifying Faith be requisite in Baptism then the Faith so professed is requisite to the right receiving of it and not only to be performed hereafter But such profession is requisite therefore The major is as true as that God requireth no man to lye and dissemble and to profess that with his mouth which is not in his heart nor doth he make lying the condition of his Covenant let them call it an outward Covenant or what they will if it be Gods Covenant this can be none of the condition For it must first in order be a Dutie before it be made Conditional And no lye is a Dutie Professing is a Dutie to them that have the thing they profess but to others immediately and in sensu composito it is a hainous sin and