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A49108	Apostolical communion in the Church of England, asserted and applied for the cure of divisions: in a sermon preached in the Cathedral-Church of St. Peter, Exon: and since enlarged. By Tho. Long, B.D. and one of the prebendaries.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1673 (1673)	Wing L2959; ESTC R217728	38,652	77

engage him to renounce the Devil c. to believe in Christ and serve him As soon as he comes to discretion he is catechised and instructed in the grounds of Religion and thereupon confirmed in the Faith which he was baptized into by the prayers and imposition of the hands of the Bishop according to the Apostolical practise Heb. 6.1.2 then is care taken that he frequent the publick Service of God and sanctifie the Lords day and other festivals in places consecrate for that end that he behave himself with due reverence in those Assemblies which are the most venerable in the whole world there is Gods word distinctly read deliberately expounded and he is guided in his devotions by such prayers as the Church of God in all ages as to the matter have h●ld Communion in If any doubt trouble his mind he is intreated to repair to his own or some other able Minister for resolution He is instructed how to be a fit partaker of the Communion of Christs body and blood and with great earnestness invited to come frequently if he live in any scandalous sin he is admonished shamed or censured as the offence requires to reform him and forewarn others if he be sick 't is the Ministers office to visit him to examine instruct confess comfort and pronounce his absolution and to strengthen him against the fear of Death by the administration of the Lords Supper to commend his departing Soul to God in the publick prayers of the Church and after death to see that his body be decently buried and that his last Will and Testament be duly performed This is the Bishops work And whatever it be to him it cannot be a grievous burthen to any but impious and ungovernable persons who neither love themselves nor their Neighbours nor the Worship of God Which is The third particular wherein we hold Communion with the Apostles viz. in Worship Now our publick Worship consists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Administration of the Sacraments and Prayer As for the reading and expounding of the holy Scriptures which makes up the greatest part of our Liturgy we have spoken already First therefore Of Baptism which is undoubtedly Christs own Institution and was by the Apostles administred to whole Families 1 Cor. 1.16 But whether it belong to Infants as our Church doth hold and whether it be effectual for the salvation of all such Infants as being baptized die before they come to the use of Reason be according to the Doctrine and Practice of the Apostles must be considered To both which first we apply the words of our Saviour Mar. 10.13 concerning Infants brought to him for his blessing which he freely gave them Of these saith he not only of such as these are is the Kingdom of Heaven and that he meant it of their persons Doctrina quae Infautes à Sacramento re●ene rationis prohibet veritati omnium Ecclesiarum Apostolicarum adversatur Cassander p. 700. Irenaus l. 3. c. 30. is demonstrated by his blessing of them and if they have right to the blessing of Christ which is the thing signified who can forbid them the Baptism of Water which is the outward sign And being baptized who can deny that the grace of God through the blood of Christ applied unto them in that Sacrament should be as effectual for their regeneration and salvation as the transgression of Adam for their pollution and condemnation This opinion of our Church is consonant to the Apostles Doctrine Rom. 5.15 16 c. the sense whereof Irenaeus gives That which we lost in Adam we have received in Christ This was the sense of the Fathers in the Nicene Council I believe one Baptism for the remission of sins and of the Council of Milevis Infants are therefore baptized for the remission of sins that what they contracted by generation may be cleansed by regeneration Sound Faith and Doctrine saith St. Augustine will never judg any that come to Christ by Baptism to to be excepted from the grace of remission of sins Fulgentius says the same De fide ad Petrum Opusc Quast Respons and Beza as expresly as our Rubrick doth That Baptism doth seal to them their interest in the Covenant and in the remission of that sinning-Sin as he calls Original sin dying before they have actual Faith This hath been the judgment of our Church ever since the Reformation In a Book called The Institution of a Christian man in the Chapter of Confirmation In the Homily of the Salvation of Mankind Anno 1537. 1547. 1552. Vindiciae Gratiae Sacramentalis on Mat. 19. in the Common Prayer book the 5th of Edward the 6th and so to our own days The great objection of falling from Grace is clearly answered by Bishop Davenant in his Epistle to Mr. Bedfords Book I conclude this with that of Bucer No age affords more Subjects of the Kingdom of Heaven than that of Infants doth 2. That Baptism belongs to Infants the practice of the universal Church shews what was Apostolical practice Epist. ad Fidentium l. 3. ep 8. Unto Infants Christ became an Infant saith Irenaeus that he might sanctifie Infants The Church saith Origen received this tradition from the Apostles to administer Baptism even to Infants l. 5. St. Ambrose gives this reason of it Because every age is obnoxious to sin every age is capable of the Sacrament See Rubrick of private Baptism and Canon 30. An. 1604 De obligatione Crucis c. non ect magnopere laborandum Beza Ep. 12 ad Angl. Fratres As for the Ceremony of the Cross seeing our Church declares that the Children baptized without it are lawfully and sufficiently baptized if any man be contentious about that I only say as St. Paul We have no such cu●tom neither the Churches of God And so we come to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper another part of our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Apostles who required that we should frequently assemble that did daily to commemorate the death and sufferings of our Saviour to eat and drink his body and blood in a real and spiritual manner to strengthen our Faith in Christ and our Love and Charity to one another A duty of so much sweetness and spiritual delight of such advantage to our spiritual comfort and eternal salvation such a 〈◊〉 of the joys of Heaven that our Saviour expresseth it Luk. 14.15 by eating bread in the Kingdom of God A duty so sensibly cond●cing to the peace of the Church 1 Cor. 10 17. uniting all Christians into one body by eating that Bread that it is infinitely unaccountable how any man should be so great an enemy to himself as to forsake such mercies and blessings and make that an occasion of Division which Christ hath appointed as a means of reconciliation and brotherly affection being hereby made one with Christ our Head by Faith and with our Brethren as members of the same body by