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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80511	The Anabaptist washt and washt, and shrunk in the washing: or, A scholasticall discussion of the much-agitated controversie concerning infant-baptism; occasiond by a publike disputation, before a great assembly of ministers, and other persons of worth, in the Church of Newport-Pagnall, betwixt Mr Gibs minister there, and the author, Rich. Carpenter, Independent. Wherin also, the author occasionally, declares his judgement concerning the Papists; and afterwards, concerning Episcopacy.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1653 (1653)	Wing C618; Thomason E1484_1; ESTC R208758	176,188	502

the Lord God make Coats of skins and clothed them by the which he was advertis'd in the Garments carried alwaies about him that he should dye like the Beast as wearing the skins of dead Beasts His imployment was a daily digging in the Earth that in his daily digging he might say within himselfe daily as Job said the Graves Job 17. 1. are ready for me wheresoever I am there a Grave gapes for me or as the Vulgar Solum mihi superest Edit vulg Sepulchrum Nothing remains for me but the Grave All Men Women and Children teach this Doctrine by Example We must needs dye or as the Vulgar Iuterpreter 2 Sam. 14. 14. omnes Morimur we all Interp. vulgat die and are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again And as St Paul It is appointed Heb. 9. 27. unto Men once to dye Yea Christians are apprehended by the Wisdome of God in their best Devotions and put in mind of their dying in a wonderfull manner by the Eucharisticall Mystery For as 1 Cor. 11. 26. often as ye eat this bread and drink this Cup ye doe shew the Lord's death till he come And the Mystery mystericusly tels to us The Lord and Master of the Mystery and of the Family dyed and shall the Servant escape Death And as the Thing is most certain so the Time and Manner are most uncertain Latet ultimus Dies as St Austin reasoneth ut ●bserventur omnes S. A●g Hom●l 13 ex ●● Dies Our last Day is hidden from us that we may observe and keep every Day as we would keep and observe our last Day Yet wretched Fools as we are we looke every day upon our last Day as removed far from us My observation is No Men have been lesse injured and more esteemed these Times than Physitians because the more wicked Men grow the greater care they have of their Healths and the more willing they are to prolong their Lives O beloved Christians If the Lives of all the Creatures that have lived upon Earth that live now and that shall hereafter live were knit up into one Life this one Life considered in it selfe would be a long Life but this long Life would be a very short Life if compared with Eternity And when I shall be graved and keep my rottennesse and the stink of it about me or the reliques of it shall remain to testifie my former Being What benefit shall I reap by the preferments of the World Then ought we to be divinely carefull how we live how we shall dye what we teach what we hear what we receive what we reject For when we dye we shall be ax-hewed from all our Friends and shall depart out of this World every one by himselfe and no Man or Woman shall go hence with us to speake for us or to comfort us And when we have done all we must all dye A needfull Advertisement to the Reader Christian Reader AMongst the many grievous Excrescencies Redundancies and Ple●nasms of this Age one is That People being heated seething-hot and having the Spirit of Commotion in their Hearts quickly run over at their Mouths with most mercilesse and most unreasonable Sentences of rash Judgement As if it were a Classicall and godly Matter forsooth to be the cruell Homicides of our Brother in his good Name and reputation And my Reader Did not these unhallowed Sentences breaking into pious and judicious Ears presently discover themselves to be spuriousborn and false Alarums and had they not the fortune of the Arrow which Acestes in Virgill dispatched Virg. Aeneid l. 5. from his Bow that kindled in the Motion flew in the Air like a Meteor and was at the last self-consumed One Neighbour should not without the torture of a Perpetuall Martyrdome or his being arrested by false Report and held continually in confinio Vitae ao Mortis subsist by another I have gleaned after the Christian Masters of refined Philosophy Sicut omne Agens naturale in agendo repatitur ita omne Patiens in patiendo reagit As every naturall Agent suffers againe in it's Action so also every Patient doth re-act in it's Passion And we know that even Divinity is benign and assenting to regular and measured Re action Allow me freedome therefore benevolous Reader to Re-act according to Rule and Measure in the Agony of my sufferings and to build Obstructions and royall Forts against these following Objections which concern my selfe OBIECTION I. FIrst It is objected by some not many and those who have Opiniones alias vag as volaticas other wandring and flying Opinions That I was and am still a Jesuit I answer as in the sight of the most high God my Judg and before the glorious Courtiers of Heaven his Attendants and before Men whereof many are my witnesses That I am not a Jesuit that I never was a Jesuit and that my Heart is and ever was extremely averted from the Practises and opinions of the Pragmaticall Jesuits Concerning the Practises and opinions of whom as of such I verily beleeve that they are Doctrinae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lolium the very killing Tares of Doctrine and Practise The Devill is called malus absolutè Mat. 12. 19. Text. Graec. absolutely evill in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the wicked one First because he is superlatively evill there being no creature as bad or evill as the Devill The Reason whereof is By how much every Nature is more excellent by so much it becomes more evill and vile if it prevaricates and the Angels were as the first so the most excellent of all Creatures Secondly because the Devill is not only evill but also confirmed in evill and set beyond the possibility of being good as the good Angels are confirmed in Good Thirdly because the Devil is not only evill but also his whole Trade Occupation and Work is to make others evill This Jesuit whom I call so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by contrary Speech is not as evill as the Devill because he was not founded in the Angelicall Nature and because he is convertible and may be afterwards good but certainly he makes his Approaches towards him in the third Angle a great part of this Jesuit's Work being to make others Children of the Devill and like himselfe Wherefore I discliam and renounce all cohesion and conversation with him This Objection having a Repulse here makes forward again by another inlet or passage thus That although I am not a Jesuit yet I am a Priest I answer If there be meant by a Priest one who hath received the order of Priesthood this I confessed eighteen years agoe in a Sermon of Recantation at Pauls and assuredly I am no Lay-Levite but if we mean by a Priest one who saith Mass I am no Priest in this Sense I truly humbly and I trust with a penitent Heart declare before the Chiefe and High Priest Jesus Christ the righteous