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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65713	The Protestant reconciler. Part II earnestly perswading the dissenting laity to joyn in full communion with The Church of England, and answering all the objections of the non-conformists against the lawfulness of their submission unto the rites and constitutions of that church / by a well-wisher to the churches peace, and a lamenter of her sad divisions.	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1735; ESTC R39049	245,454	419

Because these kinds of Death are more uncomfortable to our surviving Friends who in these cases have no time allowed by their consideration to wean themselves from our enjoyment and do receive no benefit from our latter ends as from our dying counsels and meditations they might do 3. Because they who dye thus want their viaticum which is provided by the word of God and the compassion of the Church to fit them for their journey to the great Tribunal and doubtless it is no small comfort to the dying Christian to enjoy an opportunity to confess his sins unburthen his Soul of them to hear the Prayers and to receive the absolution of the Ambassadors of Christ and to partake of that most comfortable Sacrament which sealeth the love of God unto him and doth assure him who faithfully doth eat this Bread and drink this Blood of Christ that he will raise him up at the last day 4. No man is so prepared to appear at Gods Tribunal but he both may and ought to be prepared better and therefore may desire to have time for further preparation O spare me a little before I go hence saith the man after Gods own heart and who will not joyn with him in that Prayer we ought indeed to be always prepared for death and 't is our wisdom so to be but who is so well fitted as he ought or he desires to be and who cannot be better fitted by a more leisurely summons for his change If we observe how ardently the dying person prays how humbly he confesseth his forepast offences how heartily he doth bewail his former sins what resolutions he doth make of living more unto the glory of God if providence shall raise him up again we cannot reasonably doubt but that it is desireable to have these opportunities vouchsafed of doing good to our own souls before we go hence and be no more seen Q. 6 What is the meaning of those words in the Litany by the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation by thy Agony and bloody Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy pretious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us Do not you seem to conjure here These expressions may have two very plain and obvious meanings 1. By applying them so as to make them a request that by means of all these meritorious or beneficial acts of our Lord Jesus we may be delivered from all the aforesaid miseries Temporal Spiritual and Eternal that he who took our nature on him Heb. 2.14 18.4.15 11. that he might be in all things like us and so a more compassionate High Priest to us under our natural infirmities and that by death he might destroy him who had the power of death viz. the Devil that he who came into the world that we might live through him he who was circumcised and became obedient to the Law to save us from the curse of it that he who was baptized Gal. 3.13 Matt. 3.15 that by his own example he might teach us to fulfil all righteousness and who was tempted that he might be a merciful High Priest to succour us when tempted that he who suffered such Agonies for our iniquities as caused in him a bloody sweat and a most ignominious Death upon the Cross for our Redemption that he who was raised again for our justification Rom. 4.25 and is ascended to the right hand of God Heb. 7.25 there to intercede for ever for us and being thus ascended sent his Holy Spirit to be our comforter and sanctifyer that he would by the merit efficacy and beneficial influences of all these gracious acts deliver us 〈◊〉 all those dreadful evils mentioned in the foregoing words 2. All these considerations may be here urged as so many motives to our dear Redeemer taken from the consideration of his former goodness and loving kindness to us to work deliverance for us now and so the import of them will be this by the endearing love which thou hast shewed unto us in all these gracious dispensations we beseech thee to deliver us from all the forementioned evils both of sin and punishment Q. 7 What mean you by those words in the Communion Service viz. that our bodies may be made clean by Christs body and our souls washed by his most precious blood do you not hereby seem to ascribe a greater efficacy to the blood than to the body of Christ and to restrain the virtue of the latter only unto the cleansing of the Body Answ 1 That the words used at the delivery of the Elements the body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for to preserve thy body and soul to everlasting life and the like concerning his blood are a manifest evidence that the Church intended no such thing but that we heartily believe that the benefits both of the body and blood of Christ do redound to the Salvation and consequently to the Sanctification both of our Souls and Bodies He who desires to see more to this effect may consult Dr. Womacks Letter from p. 66. to p. 74. Q. 8 Why do you say That God by the Baptism of his Well-beloved Son in the River Jordan did sanctifie water to the Mystical washing away of sin was not this rather done by Gods own institution of that ordinance to such an end than by the Baptism of his Son who knew no Sin and therefore upon whom Baptism could have no such effect Answer I Answer this is an expression frequently used by the Antient Fathers Tertullian 1 Adv. Jud. c. 8. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 153. 3 Orat. 38 39. Epiphanius Nazianzen St. Jerom and allowed by the Assemblys Annotations * Iu. Matt. 3. where one end of Christs Baptism is assigned to be this viz. To sanctifie the flood Jordan and all other waters to the mystical washing away of sin Now for explication of the phrase consider that to sanctfie in Scripture signifies first to declare any thing to be holy to own and to acknowledge it as such Sanctificetur nomen tuum hallowed be thy name that is say Interpreters Sanctum declaretur Sancte praedicetur let it be declared and agnized as holy So when God saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will sanctifie my Great name Ezek. 36.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will be sanctified before the Heathens Ezek. 38.23.39 27. the meaning is He will declare his Holy Name to them and they shall acknowledge it And in this sense God by ordering the Baptism of his Son in the River Jordan that so he might fulfill all righteousness submit as well unto the Christians Baptism as to the Circumcision of the Jews declared that Baptism was sacred or set apart by him unto this use and Christ by his submission to it owned it as sacred and whereas if a thing be sanctified already or set