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A81727	Gospel-Glory proclaimed before the sonnes of men, in the visible and invisible worship of God. Wherein the mystery of God in Christ, and his royall, spirituall government over the soules and bodies of his saints, is clearly discovered, plainly asserted, and faithfully vindicated, against the deceiver and his servants, who endeavour the cessation thereof, upon what pretence soever. / By Edward Drapes, an unworthy servant in the gospell of Christ.	Drapes, Edward.	1648 (1648)	Wing D2139; Thomason E472_27; ESTC R205811	164,938	187

dispensation of God was righteous and yet to give place to the last ministration by Christ from heaven Is not the Law a rule of life to us how then can it be done away Object Sol. If you consider what I have said you may easily be satisfied If you meane by the Law the substance commanded in the Law I say t is and alwaies was for the substantiall matter in the Law written in the heart in the Creation in Tables of stone to the Jewes and in the heart by the spirit in the Gospell which is Love God and thy Neighbour is one and the same But if you meane the Law as given to Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant to which appertained the wordly Sanctuary c. it neither is nor never was to the Gentiles How can it he said Wee be free from the Curse of the Law where we are Object yet subject to sorrow labour sicknesse and death which are Curses of the Law I answer That Saints are subject to death and sicknesse c. T is Sol. true but not upon the same account as others is as true The nature of all these things are changed the sicknesse of the body redounds to the soules health The labour of the body serves to minde us that our rest is not here Death in the flesh serves to passe us to our rest and blessednesse for Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they shall rest from all their labours and their workes follow them Hence Paul wisely Desired to be dissolved that he might be with Christ Hence he glories in tribulation which if curses to him he could not have done True it is these are curses and poyson to the world but to a Saint they are blessings and medicines well prepared by the skilfull art of our great and charitable Physitian the Lord Jesus But God punishes his people for sinne how then can they say Curses are all Object done away If by punishment you meane an execution of justice upon an offender Sol. in satisfaction of a Law which is properly only and truly punishment I say God punishes not believers at all there is no curse in their habitation no poison in their cup their portion is grace mercy pardon healing and salvation But some say God himselfe saith You of all Nations have I knowne Object therefore will I punish you for your iniquities To that I answer That is a threatning sutable to the dispensation Sol. of the Covenant of workes to that state the Jewes were trained up in but now in the Gospell the language is altered for God now appeares to be love Now if we sinne it is said We have an Advocate But God in the Gospell saith Whom I love I rebuke and chasten Object therefore he punishes his beloved for their sinnes I answer to this First Affirmatively That God doth afflict his Sol. people for sin yea his beloved But Secondly I say Afflictions are to them no curse at all but a loving correction of a loving Father not to satisfy his wrath for he hath seen the travell of his Son and is already satisfied but to manifest his mercy it being for his childrens healing safety and prosperity they rather publish his love then his wrath For whom he loveth he chasteneth and whom be receiveth he scourgeth Therefore saith the spirit to the Saints If you endure chastening you are dealt withall as Sonnes If you are not chastised you are bastards and not sonnes Affliction is for their profit as necessary for them as their meate and drink Before we be afflicted we goe astray Afflictions are a fruit of the Fathers love in Christs death therefore called the dyings or markes of Christ Jesus they are sent to crucify the sinnes in us that crucified him they are as fire to purify not destroy the gold they yeild the peaceable fruits of righteousnesse though for the present they are not joyous to them that are exercised therein If wee suffer with him wee shall also reigne with him And yet we must note that afflictions though many times they be yet are not alwaies sent as a chastisement for some particular sinne but for the shewing forth the power of God as Christ speakes in the case of the blinde man To conclude this of the Law I say we are freed from it as it was a Covenant of works which was a dispensation of God to the Creature by which he never intended life to the Creature but to advance the glory of his his Sonne in shewing them their weaknesse and sinfulnesse But as for the substance of the matter contained in the commands it is I say againe a standing rule to all generations and he or they that walke not according to it it is because they have no light in them To love God and our Neighbour the substance of the Law is our duty as well as any others Chap. XIV Sheweth some other effects of the virtue of Christs death 7. BY the death of Christ the wall of partition betweene Jewes The partition wall is broken downe by the death of Christ and Gentiles is broken downe and all the writings of Ordinances taken out of the way Before it was said In Jerusalem shall they worship but now Neither in this Mountaine nor in Jerusalem That is to say the Father makes no more difference of places there is now neither Jew nor Gentile Barbarian nor Scythian bond nor free Master nor Servant but all are one in Christ Jesus Now neither Circumcision nor Un-Circumcision availeth any thing but a new Creature 8. All types shadowes and figures are now fulfilled Here I Types and shadowes fulfilled by Christs death might be large but I shall onely name some few particulars As First Circumcision held forth Christ to come in the flesh of Abraham of the seed of Israel and obliged to the keeping of the Law now is Christ come and the Circumcision is of the heart Christ hath fulfilled the Law Secondly All sacrifices peace offerings sin offerings trespasse offerings are all ended in the body of Christ He is the Altar The propitiation The true living Temple The habitation of God and the Saints He is the true Manna The true Joshua or Jesus that conducts us into the true Land of Canaan He is the Sampson that by his death destroyes his enemies He is the true David that sits on the Throne for ever He is the true Arke of our salvation He is the true Lamb The Stape Goat The First borne The true Priest Prophet and King He is the the true Rocke out of whcih flow living waters He is the true rest He is the Deliverer of his people He is the true Joseph that was sold into a strange land to provide for us against a day of spirituall famine He is the true watchman and shepheard of his people But of these I must say with our Apostle I cannot now stand to speake particularly 9. He hath by this death purchased for us

foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the Corner stone Now the Apostles and Prophets are the foundation of the whole building as in their daies so in our daies and now what have we to doe but to build on the same foundation Againe Consider what saith the Scripture Math. 16. 18. And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it Now the Church of Christ were a company of Disciples baptized professing the doctrine of the Gospell as I shall shew more clearly afterwards Now against this Church the gates of hell should not prevaile because it was built upon a Rock Many thinke the meaning of that Rock to be Christ others judg it to be Peter but for my part I believe it to be meant of neither excluding the other but of both for Christ is the true foundation For no other foundation can any man lay then that which is already laid even the Lord Jesus Yet I say also Christ is not called a foundation but in reference to his doctrine given to Peter and the Apostles preached by them first who are also said to be the foundation they as instruments in Christs hand Christ as the fountaine and fulnesse that fils all in all so that however behold a Church built That the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it But may some say The gates of hell did prevaile against many Object Churches It is not said the gates of hell shall not prevaile against any Sol. Church in particular but against the Church that is to say the whole body of Christ in all ages And though wee cannot see a Church successively from the Apostles yet I shall prove there hath beene a Church in all ages Ephes 3. 21. Vnto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen Behold here a Church in all ages the Churches and so the Ordinances of the Churches were not to abide onely in the Apostles dayes but to the end of the world in all ages But yet to evince this more fully consider that the word preached by the Apostles is the onely word to be preached for faith and obedience in all generations therefore saith Christ Neither pray I for these onely but for them also which shall believe on me also through their word John 17. 20. The word of God preached by them and not their persons is expressed by Christ to be the ground of our faith that believe now to whom and to all that shall believe afterwards his prayer extends Againe saith Paul As we have said before so say I now againe If any man preach any other Gospell unto you then that we have preached and you have received though it be an Angell from heaven let him be accursed Galath 1. 8 9. Therefore is the Gospell called The everlasting Gospell Rev. 14. 6. Now the word that the Apostles preached is that which was given to them by Christ Goe preach the Gospell he that believeth and is baptized this is to be held forth as the word of God To the end of the world The time from Christ to the end of the world is The last daies wherein Christ himselfe hath spoken to us Heb. 1. 2. Who by this dispensation changed the old Priesthood and Law Heb. 7. 12. Now he did not destroy them as evill but changed them for the Priesthood of Aaron he established his own by death for the law of Ceremonies pointing out a Christ to come he established baptisme and breaking of bread to hold forth the establishment of his Priesthood in his death who is already come dead and risen againe Now as long as the Priesthood of Christ remaines so long must the Law remaine for there is no Priesthood without a Law The life of obedience is required till Christ coming therfore saith Christ Yee know not in what houre your Lord shall come therefore watch● But lest any should say the exhortation concernes not us Christ saith What I say unto you I say unto all Watch As Paul saith speaking of the judgments of God to Israel Now all these things hapned to them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10 11. So are they for our admonition and the Apostles doctrine our rule therefore he saith to Timothy And the things that thou hast heard of mee among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithfull men who shall be able to teach others also 2 Tim. 2. 2. Let those that thinke the commands of the Apostles onely concerne that generation consider this Scripture Yea Baptisme is so farre from being ceased that it is called One of the first principles of Religion Heb. 6. 2. Now surely if you take away that you may as well take away Religion also and how you may wave that without bringing in another Religion with other Principles I understand not But if any say yet all this satisfies not then I shall demand what ground have any to prove its removall out of the way for this is certaine no dispensation given by Christ was ever removed but by the bringing in of some other And Christ hath now given out his lawes and will give out no other but it is high time to hear what is said against it which I shall willingly doe Chap. VII Answereth severall Objections SOme say John baptized with water but Christ with the Holy Ghost and Object fire So that John saith I must decrease but he must encrease from whence they conclude that water Baptisme must decrease and He viz. Christ and his Baptisme of the spirit must encrease Iohn 3. 30. This objection is grounded upon a meere mistake conceiving Sol. the Baptisme of water to be onely Johns and not Christs So that when John saith I must decrease they can understand nothing to be meant but water Baptisme when it is not Johns intention but John shewes his glory his honour and ministry must give way to and be swallowed up in Christ and decreased in this respect that he must dye and cease but Christ encreases by his death through which he gives new institutions I have already shewed the difference and agreement of Christs and Johns Baptisme wherein I have proved the Baptisme of water to be the Baptisme of Christ But Christ saith to the woman of Samaria Woman believe me the houre cometh when you shall neither in this mountaine nor yet at Jerusalem worship Object 2 the Father But the houre cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth which is an argument that Baptism of water is no part of the worship of God for that is outward and God will be worshipped in spirit Iohn 4. 22 23. In answer to this I desire you to minde that Christ doth not at Sol. all destroy the Baptisme of water but

Scriptures and that from a two-fold demonstration 1. From the signification of the word The signification of the word proves it to be so 2. From the nature of the Ordinance First From the signification of the word Baptize it comes from the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. mergo immergo which properly signifies to dip dive duck or plunge under water to cover or overwhelme one with water Now surely Christ commanding his Disciples to baptize or dip in the water meanes not that sprinkling shall serve the turne neither is Baptisme ever expressed by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which properly signifies to sprinkle I confesse this practise to most carnall heart seemes strange and ridiculous and why but because they have gotten a Greek word into their mouths not knowing the English of the word nor the nature of the Ordinance If the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was plainly properly and truly as it signifies rendred to dip and Baptisme expressed by dipping I am perswaded men would be ashamed to deny it who now cry out against it with open mouth This was the practise in the Apostles daies and if you will give credit to Authors in the Ages succeeding them therefore saith one Olim enim qui baptizabantur in profundum aquae mergebantur that is Those who heretofore were baptized were dipped or plunged into a deep water Therefore is it said in the Scripture Philip and the Eunuch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they both went downe or descended into the water and Philip baptized or dipped or plunged him into the water and they both ascended out of the water Acts 8. 38 39. So it is said of Christ He was dipped or plunged not sprinkled by John 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into Jordan and that John and Christ ascended from out of Jordan Marke 1. 9 10. Which they could not be said to doe had they not first descended into the water But may some say T is true Dipping was used then but it was in hot Countryes Object if you should doe so now it would endanger their health and if we should doe so to infants it would endanger their lives therefore we cannot thinke this to be fit in our cold Countryes In answer to this Let me tell thee if thou shalt dip infants it is Sol. true it may endanger their lives but this is needlesse for they are not to be baptized at all but as for others that it may endanger their health it is but a fleshly carnall reasoning do thou thy duty commend thy soule and body into the hands of God But to satisfie thee let me tell thee I have knowne divers who have submitted to that Ordinance in the extremity of winter and yet have never beene the worse Surely hadst thou beene a Jew and beene commanded to circumcise thy selfe thou mightest by this kinde of reasoning have pleaded against the command of God and have said Lord why commandest thou me to endure so much paine will no easier way serve thy turne Oh man take heed of an evill heart of unbeliefe But surely this way is not civill for men to baptize women in the water Object but God will have us doe all things with civility and modesty Nay but oh poore man who tels thee t is not civill nor modest Sol. surely Satan within thee or some that never saw it what I pray you in civility is it for two men or a man with a woman to goe into the water with convenient garments about them Is it more uncivill now then it was in the daies of Christ and the Apostles It may be some of the sonnes of Belial delighting to scandalize the just ones may tell thee they goe naked together into the water Oh these are but scandals I know not of any such practise nor could ever heare any that had so much impudence as to endeavour proofe of it which without controversy had any beene knowne to have done so both their names time and place should have beene printed long before now This we affirme that it ought to be done with all modesty civility and comelinesse with fit garments which may serve to answer this objection Secondly That this was the practise of the Disciples and the command of Christ to performe it in the same manner is evident from the nature of the Ordinance which truly holds forth the death and resurrection of Christ and our being dead and risen with him therefore is it said Coloss 2. 12. We are buried with him in Baptisme Now a man that is buried is covered or hid in the grave so that the Baptisme of water that is instituted to hold forth this must be in the same manner persons are as it were to be buried under water which is the most lively representation of the death of Christ But yet some object That Christs bloud is called the bloud of sprinkling Object so that the death of Christ is as well represented by sprinkling as dipping To this I answer That Christs bloud is called the bloud of Sol. sprinkling not in reference to Baptisme but as it fulfils the type of it which we shall finde expressed Heb. 12. 24. Moses sprinkled the bloud upon the people which sprinkling sanctified to the purifying of the flesh But this typified out the bloud of Jesus sprinkled upon the Conscience Heb. 10. 22. Heb. 12. 24. This held forth the death of Christ but now Baptisme in a more speciall manner holds forth Christs death and buriall and shews him not onely dead and buried but also risen againe therefore are we said To be buried and risen with him in Baptisme Col. 2. 12. Which most directly plainly and nakedly holds forth the glory of the mystery of Christs death and resurrection from whence we may safely conclude it is to be performed by dipping 10. The tenth particular concerning Baptisme is the principle The principal leading forth of Baptisme from which a Saint ought to submit to it but because I have already in the former part of this discourse handled the true principle of divine worship which worship is to be both inward and outward I shall speake the lesse of it here therefore briefly I shall shew you First It must flow from the knowledge of the nature of the ordinance we must not doe things we understand not but must be able to behold it holding forth the nature of Christs death and resurrection Secondly We must likewise know that we are fit subjects for it wherin we must know our selves to be beleevers in that Christ whose death we represent both which are evident from Philips words to the Eunuch If thou beleevest with all thy heart thou mayest he ought to know the nature of true faith in that ordinance and that he himself did beleeve in the Lord Jesus Thirdly He that truly performes that ordinance must know it to be an ordinance of Christ he that doth any thing to Christ and hath not authority