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A66823 The abridgment of Christian divinitie so exactly and methodically compiled that it leads us as it were by the hand to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, ordering of common-places, understanding of controversies, clearing of some cases of conscience / by John Wollebius ; faithfully translated into English ... by Alexander Ross.; Christianae theologiae compendium. English. 1660 Wolleb, Johannes, 1586-1629. 1660 (1660) Wing W3256; ESTC R29273 215,518 472

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in priva●e families IX It is not much materiall whether one aspersion or three be used so it be void of superstition and that it be not performed drop by drop or by the finger but so that the symbol may answer the sprinkling or washing X. The word by which Baptism is to be administred is to be comprehended in Christs institution especially in these words I baptise thee in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost XI The Latine tongue in Baptisme and the superstitious consecration or exorcisme of the water are repugnant to the form of Baptism XII The internal form consisteth in the analogy of aspersion and remission of sins as also of regeneration or sanctification In this Baptism answers the legal aspersions by which likewise remission of sin by the blood of Christ was shaddowed Water also as it cleanseth from filthinesse and moistneth the Plants doth adumbrate regeneration whereby we dye to sin and live to righteousness See Rom. 6. v. 1. c. XIII The end of Baptisme besides those which are common to it and the Lords Supper is the sealing of our regeneration and of our reception or ingrafting into the family of God XIV The subject of Baptisme are all that be in the Covenant even the children of those who are reckoned among the number of the Covenanters This rule is grounded 1. on Christs command Matt. 19.14 Suffer little children and forbid them not to come to me they ought not then to be kept off from Baptism whom Christ will have to be brought to him The words used in this place and Luke 18.15 Of little children and infants are emphaticall 2. On the reason alledged by Christ Mat. 19.14 For of such is the kingdome of heaven For if to them the kingdome of heaven and the Covenant of Grace belong the seale of the Covenant must needs appertain to them also but they are capable of this Covenant Gen. 17.7 I will be thy God and of thy seed Act. 2 v. 39. To you and to your children is the promise made 3 On the analogy of circumcision for with this Sacrament Infants were initiated 4. On the example of the Apostles who are sa●d to baptise whole families Act. 16.15 33. It were a foolish thing to apply that rule 2 Thess 3.10 If any will not work let him not ea● to Infants so perversly doe the Anabaptists wrest the places of Scripture to a contrary meaning in which those that are of years are commanded to be taught before they are baptised XV. Infants have both Faith and Reas●n although not in the fruit yet in the seed and root though not in the second act yet in the first though not by an outward demonstration of the work yet by the inward virtue of the holy Spirit XVI But concerning the Infants of Infidels the case is otherwise who are not born of Parents even so much as either of them a Believer for they are not to be baptized till they be of discretion and are able to testifie their Faith XVII The Baptisme of Bels is a horrible profanation of the Sacrament and joyned with abominable idolatry XVIII As naturally we are born before we eat so baptisme is before the Lords Supper XIX Baptisme is not to be iterated if the essentials thereof were used Hence it is that our Church ratifies the Baptisme of the Popish Church not as it is abused there but as it is administred in the name of the Holy Trinity XX. Baptism is necessary not absolutely but in respect of ●hrists command neither must we feign such a necessity as permits any other besides the minister to baptise or to cause us think they are excluded out of heaven if they die unbaptised XXI The Baptisme of Christ and of John are in effect the same The Pontificians deny that Iohn's baptisme was instituted by God against these plain testimonies Mat 21.25 Luke 3.2 and 7.30 Joh. 1.33 Neither matters it that Iohn distinguisheth between his baptisme and Christs Mar. 1.8 For there the opp●sition is not between baptisme and baptisme but a comparison onely between th● office of the Minister in Baptisme and Christ for the Minister giveth the Symbol but Christ the thing signified They say that such as were baptised by Iohn were rebaptised Act. 19.1 c. If they were rebaptised by the Apostle we gather that they were not rightly baptised by some who were imitators of Iohn neither yet can we find out of the text that they were rebaptised for those words v. 5. are not Lukes concerning Paul but Pau●'s concerning Iohn and his disciples therefore th●s place favoureth neither Papist nor Anabaptists CHAP. XXIV Of the Lords Supper THe Lords Supper is the other Sament of the New Testament in which Christians that are of age receive spiritually Christs body and blood sealed to them in the reception of Bread and Wine according to Christs institution The RULES I. The Lords Supper is called metonymically the Eucharist or Thanksgiving Sin●xis or a collection the Lords Table the New Testament and Synecdochically the Breaking of Bread II. It hath the same efficient causes that Baptisme hath III. The outward matter thereof or Signes are Bread and Wine IV The Supper is lame without both Sgnes and to rob the people of the Cup is Sacriledge Matth 26 27. Drink ye all of this 1 Cor. 10.16 The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of Christs blood And 11. v. 26. As ●ften as you shall eat this bread and ●rink of this Cup you declare the Lords death V. The inward matter is Christ with all his satisfaction and merit VI. As it is Iewish Superstition to use unleavened Bread so the Popish Penny Wafers are superstitious reliques VII It s outward form consists in Actions and Words VIII The Actions are the breaking of Bread and powring out of Wine the distribution of both signes and the receiving thereof with the hand and mouth IX The word is the whole institution containing the Eucharist the command and the promise but the promise cheifly X. Therefore it is impiety to think that the bread is turned into Christs body only the bare accidents remaining by the low mumbling ef these five words For this is my body and that with one breath and the Priests intention XI The internal forme consisteth in the Analogie of the sign and the thing signified in which by Bread and Wine are signified Christs body and blood as spiritual meat and drink but by the breaking of Bread and powring out of the Wine are represented the breaking of his body or crucifixion and shedding of his blood and lastly by the distributing and receiving of both the applying of Christs death XII The breaking of Bread is not a thing indifferent For Christ made use of this himself and commanded it to be used saying do this which he himself explained adding This is my body which is broken for you From this the Supper is so called by this also
spitefully wantonly and with an high hand X. Sin against man is committed either against superiours or inferiors or equals being knit by fewer or more bands of blood affinity c. XI From the adjuncts a sin is either such of it self or by accident Such are scandals in things otherwise indifferent see Rom. 14. XII No sin of its own nature is venial or so small as not to merit damnation By this maxime the Popish errour that some sins of themselves are venial is condemned the reason is manifest by the object and the effect for there is no sin which is not conjoyned with the offence of Gods Majesty XI●I Yet in resp●ct of the event to wit Christs merits and Gods fav●ur all sins are pardonable ex●ept fin●l infidelity and the sin against the Holy Ghost Not as though these sins were greater than Grace and Christs merit but because they resist grace and Christs merit and despise both XIV We are to judge of the degrees of oth●r sins by the circumstances the considera●ion of which doth aggravate or lessen them Thus the sin of a superiour is greater than of an inferiour for sin is so much the more conspicuous by how much the more eminent he is that sinneth The sin of desire is greater than the sin of thought alone A sin committed in word and deed is greater than that which is in thought and desire sin committed with affectation is greater than that which ●s done of incogita●cy the sin of commission is greater than of omission if it be in the same kinde the sin against God is greater than against man that sin is greater whi●h is committed against him to whom we are most beholding for favours than against another for example A sin aga●nst our Parents is greater if it be in the same kinde than against a brother a scandal against a we●k brother ●s greater than against a stronger CHAP. XII Of the Miseries which follow Sin HItherto of sin now of the mise●y that follows upon sin This misery is either temporal or eternal both which is either corporal or spiritual The RULES I. God comprehended all mans misery under the name of death Gen 2.17 What day thou shalt eat of it to wit of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill thou shalt dye the death II. There be four degrees of this death III. The first degree is death spiritual which is the privation of spiritual life Of this man being destitute he liveth only to sin Rev. 3.1 I know thyworks in that thou art said to live but thou art dead IV. The second degree is the death of affliction which is the privation of original happinesse and the inflicting of all sorts of calamities Exod. 10.17 Pray to the Lord that he would remove this death from me V. The third degree is death corporal which is the privation of this life and the resolution of the body into dust and the reversion of the soul to God Eccles 12.7 He shall returne to dust from whence he came and the soul to God that gave it The soul returns to God either as to a Father or as to a just Judge And although by the bounty of Christ our death is become a passage from this life to that which is eternal yet in this place we consider it as it is in it self VI. The fourth degree is death eternal or the state of the damned which in relation to death corporal is called the second death Rev. 21.8 VII We must imagine nothing of the state of the damned which is not in Scripture VIII This state consisteth in the privation of the chief good and infliction of the greatest evill IX The privation of the chief good is whereby they are for ever excluded from the fellowship of God and of the blessed Mat. 25 41. Go from me ye cursed X. But the chief evil shall be a communion for ever with the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25.41 Into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil c. XI The place appointed for the damned is Hell XII But where Hell is we are not to search or enquire XIII 'T is sufficient that in Scripture it is named Gehe●na a Fiery Furnace the place of torment a Prison bottomless pit the lake of fi●e burning with fi●e and brimstone XIV In the paines of the damned we are to consider the multitude greatness and continuance XV. Their multipli●ity is known because their torments will be spiritua● and corporal XVI The chiefest of the spiritu●l pains are the worm of conscience never dying and that which follow ●t an extream and inexpressi●l● sorrow and anguish XVII Th● corporal p●ins are under●tood by the phras● of ●●qu●n●h●●le fire for in this life th●re is no torm●nt greater than that of fire Matth. 13.42 Rev. 20.15 XVIII The greatness of the paines is understood by weeping and gnashing of teeth For these be symptomes of the greatest pain and torture Mat. 22.13 XIX But this misery is eternal whereby no deliverance is to be expected by the reprobate Luke 16.26 Between us and you there is a great gulf that they who would come to you from hence cannot nor from thence come hither Rev. 14. ver 11. The smoke of their torment shall ascend for ever and ever XX. Those fopperies of the Papists which they have borrowed out of the heathen Poets concerning the place of Infants in hell and of the Fathers and of the Purgatory are savourless and not worth the refuting CHAP. XIII Of the Moral Law HItherto of the state of Innocency and Misery now follows the state of Grace and Glory The Doctrine of the state of grace hath two parts the one is concerning a redeemer the efficient cause of this state the other concerning our calling to this state The Redeemer is known by the Law and by the Gospel By the Law we know the necessity by the Gospel the verity of our Redemption The Law is that Doctrine whereby God manifesteth what he will have performed by us under the commination of death eternal and promise of eternal life that by apprehending the inability which is in our selves of satisfying the Law we may be driven to seek help in Christ. The RULES I. The Law of God given by Moses differs not really but in some respect from the Law of nature planted in Adam the remainders of which are as yet to be found among the Gentiles Rom. 2.14.15 The Gentiles which have not the Law doe by nature the things contained in the Law these having not a Law are a Law to themselves which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts II. No man except Christ hath or can fulfill the Law perfectly III. But we are all guilty of the breach and violation of this Law Rom. 3.23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God IV. We are then doubly miserable both in that we come short of the promise of life eternal and