Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	begin_v	life_n	live_v	4,413	5	5.6341	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74998	Some baptismal abuses briefly discovered. Or A cordial endeavour to reduce the administration and use of baptism, to its primitive purity; in two parts. The first part, tending to disprove the lawfulness of infant baptism. The second part, tending to prove it necessary for persons to be baptized after they believe, their infant baptism, or any pre-profession of the Gospel notwithstanding. As also, discovering the disorder and irregularity that is in mixt communion of persons baptized, with such as are unbaptized, in church-fellowship. By William Allen.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1653 (1653)	Wing A1075; Thomason E702_12; ESTC R10531	105,249	135

respects it was like unto the Feast that was in Iuda to wit of Gods own appointing yet because he took liberty to vary the time of its celebration from the fourteenth day of the first month the time of Gods own chusing unto the fifteenth day of the eighth Month which is therefore called the month which he had devised of his own heart therefore was this Feast worthily esteemed none of Gods Feast but Ieroboams Feast 1 King 12.32 33. And is there not the same proportion of reason to adjudg Infant-Baptism to have none other Authour but man and to be a thing devised of mans own heart Though it should be granted that in respect of the outward Element and actions thereto belonging it were like unto the Baptism which is from God yet in as much as man take liberty to vary the season of its administration from the time of mens regeneration or new birth the time of Gods own appointment unto the time of their natural Birth which is none of Gods it therefore worthily deserves to be called the device of mans own heart And if it be none of Gods Baptism then certainly its no-wise safe to adhere thereto in as much as Christ hath declared That every plant which his Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up and that every such worship is vain which is ordered and taught by the precepts of men Matth. 15.9 13. Isai 29.13 3. Because if Infant-Baptism be sinful sinful in parents to desire it for their children and sinful in those that administer it to them as it hath been proved to be then may none when they come to maturity rest satisfied in that Baptism or in the least own it without danger of partaking with them in their sin because that which de facto is sinfully done by another becomes my sin when I come to own and approve it 1 Tim. 5.22 Luke 11.48.49 50.51 which yet is the case of those which satisfie themselves with that Baptism they have received in their infancy 4. It s not safe for any to rest contented with that Baptism which they received when they were Infants because that Baptism which is so called is a meer Nuility in respect of that thing for which it is taken i. e. it is not worthy to be esteemed any such thing as is Baptism indeed or to pass under that denomination And the reason hereof is because there is that wanting in it which is essential to true Baptism For 1. There is the right subject of Baptism wanting in that Baptism which is applyed to Infants that Infants are not the subject of Baptism is that the proof and demonstration whereof hath taken up the former part of this Treatise and therefore shall take it for granted here 2. As the right Subject matter so the true external form of baptismal administration is wanting in Infant-Baptism as it is practised among us For the external form of Baptism is not a sprinkling of the party baptized with water which yet is that which is used in the Baptism of infants but a dipping or plunging him under water 1. This appears at least in the judgment of very many who so render that which we have translated baptizing or to baptize in so much as Master Daniel Rogers in his Treatise on the two Sacraments saith that dipping is that which Antiquity constantly and without exception of Countries hot or cold witnesseth unto And as it is to the same import frequently translated in the Dutch Bible so it is acknowledged indeed asserted to be the manner of baptizing in the primitive time to dip or bury the body under water by Calvin himself on Acts 8.38 and by our late Annotators on Rom. 6.4 Matth. 3.6 Besides Master Mead on Tit. 3.5 in his Diatribe and Master Thomas Goodwin in his Treatise of Christ set forth in his death c. with very many others 2. It further appears by that which Baptism represents and that is the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ and likewise the party baptized his death burial and resurrection with Christ For the water in which men are baptized or dipped is no more an Element for them to live in then the earth is Nay we know the Sea is frequently made the place of burial for the dead as well as the earth and therefore a being put under the water is upon the matter as lively a resemblance of ones death and burial as it would be if one were so long put under the earth and so consequently a mans coming or rising from under the water is upon the matter as clear and lively a resemblance of a resurrection from the dead as if he did come out of the grave and from under the earth upon like terms Now then those that are dipt in their baptism do if they answer the nature of that Ordinance thereby actually profess 1. That they do believe that Christ Jesus into whose Name they are baptized was as truly and really dead buried and raised again in order to the salvation of men as they are then figuratively dead buried and raised again in their Baptism 2. That they do thereby engage themselves to be conformable to the death and resurrection of Christ in their being thence forth dead to those sins in which they formerly lived and from which their lives were then denominated as likewise as concerning their living a new spiritual life unto God in righteousness and true holiness For as Christ when he was crucified then ceased to live any longer such a life in the flesh as thither-unto he had done and when he rose again begun that new and spiritual life which before he had not lived even so all those that answer their engagement and profession entred into by baptism do from the time of this figurative death and burial of theirs really cease to live their former sinful life and from the time of their figurative resurrection or new-birth begin to live a new life of obedience and subjection unto Christ their Lord These things lie fair in those Scriptures wherein such are said to be baptized into Christs death to be buried with him in Baptism wherein also they are said to be risen with him and to be planted together into the likeness of his death and the likeness of his resurrection that thenceforth they should not serve sin but walk in newness of life Rom. 6.3 4 5 6. Col. 2.13 These things then being so the sprinkling of the party baptized or the pouring of a handful of water upon his face is no more a figurative buriall of him or a true representation of Christs death and burial then the casting of a handful of dust upon the face of Christ when he was dead could have been a burying of him And therefore who sees not hereby that aspersion or sprinkling used in infant-baptism is far from the true external form of Gospel-baptism and that which was anciently used by the Apostles and other servants of Jesus Christ in