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To all ye who be called Baptists who call yourselves saints and church-members
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Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.
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ones who are griping for the earth whose hearts are even set thereon striving and endeavouring by all your wit and policy to compass riches and so to become great in the Earth ye cumber the ground ye envious bitter spirited ones ye cumber the ground ye who are at liberty to speak your own words to think your own thoughts and do your own works whose tongues be at liberty and carnal minds at liberty you are in the broad way and your Religion is vain where the tongue is not bridled Hos 4.1 2 3 Isa 2.1 9 Isa 58.2 3 Psal 66.18 Jer. 5.23 24 25 26 Gal. 6.7 1 Pet. 3.21 ye cumber the ground Oh! the Land mourns and the Earth is polluted with corruption thus saith the Lord Pride and vain-glory self-seeking earthly honor and preferment and respecting persons is found amongst you called Church-members envy and bitterness of spirit you have made a shew and profession of my Name outwardly in words but deceit and iniquity lodgeth and is regarded in your hearts and your sins have seperated between you and me saith the Lord. Oh lay things to heart and deceive not your selves with a vain hope for it is not the outward Name nor the outward washing that doth make a true Christian no more then the outward Name and the outward Circumcision did make a true Jew For as the Apostle by the spirit of the Lord said He is not a Iew which is one outwardly Rom. 2.28 29 neither is that the Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart with the Spirit Even so by the Spirit of the Lord I say unto you That he is not a Christian which is one outwardly which hath the Name onely Gal. 3.27 1 Cor. 12.13 Heb. 10.19 20 21 22. neither is that the Baptism which is outward with Water but he is a Christian who is in Christ and Baptism is that of the Spirit having the heart sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure Water For as many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ are one in Christ But all that are sprinkled or dipped and plunged in Water are not one but many differences there be amongst them about these outward things Gal. 3.27 28. which the kingdom of God doth not stand nor consist in as I know you are in some measure sensible of it outward Water can do no more then wash and cleanse the outside it cannot cleanse the heart from sin Matt. 5.20 so that outward washing is but a figure of the inward washing as other figures are which I own all in their time and place but figures and parables are to the World 2 Cor. 3.13 14 15 16. Coll. 1.26 Gal. 1.16 1 Cor. 1.30 Col. 3.11 and them that understand not the mysterie For the Vail being over the heart the mysterie is hid as it was all the time of the Law but as the Power of God doth arise it rends the Vail and the mysterie is opened and the Son of God revealed within the Emanuel God with us who is the Wisdom and the Righteousness the Life Light and Leader Bread Wine and Water and all other things he is made to the Saints And as for that Scripture Matth. 28.19 which you call the Command for Water-baptism though Water is not there mentioned I say If that had been of force and extended unto all then why was it not binding unto Paul who was called into the Ministry after that who was a true Minister of the Gospel and yet he saith plainly 1 Cor. 1.17 Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach the Gospel Eph. 4.4 5 6. and he saith There is one Body and one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptism he brings them from the many to the one and this one I own which brings people into one Acts 4 32. Rom. 8 39. one heart one mind one soul where the unity stands unseperable in the one Spirit of Love And as concerning those words which Christ said to his Disciples at the eating of the Passover Iohn 6.27 This do in remembrance of me I own Iohn 14. chap. he saith unto his Disciples I go away a little while but I come again unto you and ye shall know that I am in the Father you in me and I in you c. So in the time of his absence that was to be done in remembrance of him but when he was come he was their bread and they fed upon him and he was their Pastor Teacher 1 Iohn 5.19 20 Col 2.19 Iohn 10.14 1 Cor. 11. And whereas Paul saith to the Corinthians What I have received of the Lord that do I deliver unto you That the Lord Iesus the same Night that he was betrayed took bread take notice this was done in the night and when he had given thanks he brake it c. for as often as ye do eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Read 1 Cor. 10 16.17 Now the Apostle declares that he could not speak unto them as unto spiritual 1 Cor. 3.1 2 3. Iohn 6 53 60 63 66. but as unto carnal even as unto Babes in Christ and saith he I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are you able So that it is plainly manifest they could not bear what the Apostle had to declare like unto those who had eaten of the loaves but when Christ spoke unto them of the Mysterie saying Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood ye have no life in you they stumbled at this Saying and went back walked with him no more So Paul came down and fed them with such meat as they were able to disgest 2 Cor. 12.16 according to the Wisdom of God given him he caught them by guile coming down to their weak capacities and became all to all in the truth that he might win some but after this he tells the Corinthians 1 Cor. 12.31 that yet he shews them a more excellent way and so in his second Epistle he brings them nearer and draws them from the visibles to the invisible the Light which shined within and said We have this treasure in earthen Vessels 2 Cor. 4. chap. that the excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Iesus here is a true Remembrance that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our body for we which live are alwayes delivered unto death for Iesus sake that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh mind that which life is