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A46867	The friendly enquirer's doubts and objections answered concerning the light within, the word of God, the church of Christ, gospel ministers, ordinances in general and in particular, water baptism, and the Lord's supper : together with a brief testimony against oaths and swearing / first intended and written for the satisfaction of some particular acquaintance and now published for more general service by James Jackson.	Jackson, James, fl. 1674-1708.	1698 (1698)	Wing J73; ESTC R34952	26,741	110

and not in the Letter whose Praise is of God and not of Man Rom. 2.28 wherefore we affirm that he is not a Christian who is one outwardly only neither is that the Baptism which is with Water but he is a Christian who is one inwardly and the one Baptism is that of the Heart in the Spirit for saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 3.21 The Baptism which doth save us is not an outward washing or putting away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God through the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ And thus much for Water Baptism which the Scriptures call John's Baptism and belonged to that middle Ministry between the Prophets and Christ but the Baptism of the Spirit which is Christ's we own and know and with evident demonstrations of Truth declare and testify the one and only Baptism of the new Testament and by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body saith the Apostle whether we be Jews or Gentiles Bond or Free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 And this Baptism was but one in all Ages and Generations even the very same before Christ's coming in the Flesh as since Believing Jews and Gentiles both of the old and new Testament were made partakers of it though the one more fully than the other so that altho' many both before and since might not have the Baptism of Water yet not one Member of the true Church hath ever wanted the Baptism of the Spirit But the more apparent manifestation of this Spiritual Baptism followed after that of John's Baptism as appears by the promise of Christ He that believeth on me out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water this spake he of the Spirit which they who believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified John 7.38.39 wherefore the Disciples waited at Jerusalem as the Lord had commanded untill the promise was fulfiled Acts 1. Now the ground of our true Comfort lies in that we are baptized not with the same Water wherewith Christ was but with and into the same Spirit for as many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ Gal. 3.27 this therefore is the one and only Baptism For 4. This Baptism makes us partakers of the Divine Nature John 3.3 the Spirit 's Baptism gives a new Birth and therewith a new Nature and so the true Foundation of Christianity comes not from Water Baptism but is that of Faith and a new Creature 2. This Baptism giveth a new Name I will write upon him the new name of my God and the name of the City of my God which is new Jerusalem which comes down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new Name as the Lord said to Jacob thy name shall no more be called Jacob but Israel for as a Prince hast thou Power with God and hast prevailed and thus saith the Lord to all that joyn themselves to the Lord that keep his Sabbaths and that choose the things that please me and take hold of my Covenant even unto them will I give in my House and within my Walls a place and a name better than of Sons and of Daughters I will give them an everlasting Name which shall not be cut off Isa 66.4.5 and to him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a White Stone and in the Stone a new Name written which no Man knoweth saving him that receiveth it 3. This is the Baptism which makes all that partake thereof Members of the true Church of Christ For by one Spirit we are all baptised into one Body when the Sons of Zebedee desired to sit with Christ in his Kingdom the one on his right Hand and the other on his left Jesus asked if they were able to drink of the Cup that he drank of and to be baptized with the Baptism that he was baptized with And they sayd unto him we are able Jesus answered ye shall drink indeed of my Cup and be baptized with the Baptism that I am baptized with c. now tho' their request savoured to much of ambition yet shall they have part in the Kingdom through sufferings 4. It is the one Baptism only which qualifies fits and enables to the work of the Ministry all the sharpest Wits profoundest Learning and the most exquisite Accomplishments and curious Polishings of natures chiefest Perfecting cannot make a Gospel Minister it is the pouring out and work of God's Holy Spirit which makes a workman that needs not be ashamed And in those days saith the Lord I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall Prophesie Joel 2.28 which is witnessed Acts 2.4 to 17. and they were all filed with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance And Blessings Glory and everlasting Praises to our God who after a long Night of Darkness and Degeneracy hath in this our Age and Generation visited a remnant who are brought forth through the new Birth to feed upon the sincere Milk of the Word of eternal Life who find it their strength in stilness and silence to wait upon God with an intire dependance on him who act not in their own wills nor speak their own Words but as the anointing which they have received and abideth in them teacheth them all things that appertaineth to Life and Godliness so that their Ministry is of the Spirit and not of the Letter but done according to the ability which God giveth and by the movings of his Spirit and if any thing be revealed to another that sits by the first doth hold his Peace that all may speak one by one and that only as the Spirit moves and gives them utterance that all may learn and all may be comforted 1 Cor. 14.30 and amongst those there is no despising of the weak nor do the weak envy the strong but they wish with Moses that all the Lord's People were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11.29 5. This one Baptism maketh all those One with Christ who partake of it John 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and know ye not saith the Apostle that so many of you as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death that like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the glory of the Father even so also we should walk in newness of Life for if we have been planted in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection whence it appears that by and through this one Baptism all that are thereby sanctified are one with Christ in his Life 2ly in his Death and 3ly in his Resurrection Rom. 6.3.4 6. This is that one and only Baptism which

Land of Egypt from whence ye came out where thou sowedst thy Seed and didst carry Water to it as to a Garden of Herbs Verse 11. But it is a Land of Hills and Valleys and drinketh Water of the Rain of Heaven no need here of Man's Pumping Draining or Forceing Verse 12. A Land which the Lord thy God careth for the Eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it from the begining of the Year even to the end of the Year And observe what a good account Caleb and Joshua gave of the Land in the presence of these Men who had brought up the aforesaid evil report to the jeopardy of their Lives Numb 14.7 It is say they an exceeding good Land a Land that floweth with Milk and Hony and as for those Gyants and mighty Men of stature say they fear not the People of the Land they are bread for us and upon hearing of this all the Congregation bad Stone them with Stones Whereby it is very observable how readily the common People close with and embrace the evil suggestions of the Enemy and also how hard a thing it is to undeceive such as are prejudiced against the Truth tho' grounded only upon bare report and false accusations and thus the Hearts of People are perverted 2. And yet these Evil Men do not only discourage the Hearts of the People by despising and Reproaching the good Land but they also deter and hinder them by suggesting such difficulties as possibly cannot be overcome such Enemies as never on this side the Grave can be conquered Altho' the Lord had graciously promised a total subduing of all Israel's Enemies Deut. 11.22 Saying If ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the Lord your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave to him then will the Lord drive out all these Nations from before you and ye shall possess greater Nations and mightier ●han your selves and there shall no Man be able to stand before you All this and much more did the Lord promise to Israel of Old concerning a perfect dominion and victory over all their Enemies And in a more especial manner hath he promised an absolute Conquest and Deliverance from the Kingdom and Powers of Darkness to all that are Travelling to the Spiritual Canaan even unto all that receive Jesus Christ that love him believe in him and obey his Voice John 1.7.9 They who walk in the Light as he is in the Light have fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus cleanseth from all Sin and if we confess and forsake our Sins God is faithful and just to forgive us our Sins and to cleans● us from all Vnrighteousness John 12.46 I am come saith Christ a Light into the World that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in Darkness And indeed for this very end is our Lord Jesus promised sent and manifested to put an end to Sin to finish Transgression and bring in everlasting Righteousness to destroy the works of the Devil to bind the strong Man though never so well armed to cast him out and spoil his Goods not in part but to save even to the uttermost all that come to the Father by him But these Men do not only refuse and despise the Land of Promise and the only way to Life and Salvation but hinder and shut up the Kingdom that others who would enter in cannot yea they deny the only means of eternal Salvation by their confidently affirming that Revelation is ceased whereas our Lord Jesus hath declared and all the Faithful Servants of God in all Ages bear witness That none know the Father but he to whom the Son reveals him 7. And we are against all those who are and have with Judas through envy and avarice been the betrayers of the Interest and cause of Christ and People of God into the Merciless Hands of cruel Persecutors who will not yet see But saith the Lord they shall see and be ashamed for their envy against my People Of these therefore I shall only say with Jacob Simeon and Levi are Brethren Instruments of cruelty are in their Habitations O my Soul come not thou into their Secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their Anger they shed much Blood and in their self-will they digged down a Wall Gen. 49. But the Ministers of Christ whom he has sent as his Ambassadors we own and none else if you say who are they I answer they who have received their Commission and Embassie from Christ for saith he to his Father As thou sent me so have I sent them into the World and to his Disciples he said As the Father sent me into the World even so send I you into the World John 17. 1st Christ was the Son of God and a Voice from Heaven testified saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him 2ly he was immeasurably anointed with the Spirit 3d. by Vertue of his Sonship and Unction he endured and conquered all the Assaults and Temptations of Satan and 4ly he went out and preached the Gospel and 5ly that Doctrine which he had preached and witnessed to in his Life he confirmed and sealed by his Death in his Blood So are all true Ministers in their measure Children of God his anointed ones fitted through Sufferings to preach the Doctrine of the Gospel in the Life Power of the Eternal Word and thereby made ready to Seal thereto with their Blood if required Answ 2. As concerning Churches we believe that the Lord had a Church and peculier People whom he hath preserved through all Ages from the beginning to this present time in and with whom he will also abide for ever and this Church we own which is in The Communion of Saints one with another in the things of God through their Vnion with Iesus Christ which differs from the Churches of Men 1st In their constitution not gathered by Force Fear Favour or Will of Man but drawn of the Father adopted through the new Birth and so become a Spiritual Society first united to Christ by the Spirit of Faith and then knit together by the Bond of Love and Peace 2ly in their Discipline not by a Temporal Sword nor by humane Officers that act in the strength of natural or acquired parts but built beautified and governed by Christ himself Isa 54.12 Zach. 6.12 and by Instruments helped so far as the Spirit of Jesus Christ acts in them 2 Cor. 13.3 in the Church of Christ all are taught of God Isaiah 54.13 Tit. 2.11 1 John 2.27 4ly the Churches of Men are often broken to pieces scatered and confounded But the Gates which is the Power of Hell shall never prevail against the true Church Mat. 16.18 5ly in the Churches of Men are more Wicked than Righteous nay all of them being unrighteous and unclean are more or less the Synagogues of Satan the Habitation of Anti-christ

washeth and cleanseth from all Sin know ye not saith Paul that the unrighteous shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Drunkards nor Extortioners nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Abusers of themselves with mankind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Revilers shall inherit the Kingdom of God But such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are jbstified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. even as Christ loved his Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of Water by the Word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle nor any such thing but that it should be Holy and without blemish Eph. 5.25 26 27. 7. This Baptism doth not only sanctifie but save For we our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another but after that the kindness and love of God appeared toward mankind not by works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3.3 4 5. and thus saith Peter doth Baptism save us not the washing away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3.20 so that Christ's Spirit Baptism by the Word is sufficient to us without John's Water Baptism for he that is truly washed from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit and hath the Holy Ghost in him to wash cleanse renew and sanctifie his Nature to conform his judgement will and affection to the Image of Christ and to be in him as a Well of living Water springing up to everlasting Life what need hath he of Material Water under pretence of any Sign or Signification whatsoever either from Moses or John the Baptist when he is actually possessed of the real Truth and Substance of these Types and Figures in himself already And lastly touching the Lord's Supper which is a great Mystery above which all the worshipers in the Outward Courts since the Apostasie from the Spirit of Faith Power and Purity of the Primitive Church have been and are in darkness and confusion and at best resting satisfied with the external Shadow and Figure of the real Substance which is the true Spiritual Supper of the Lord not discerning the Lord's Body nay they are faln from the very outward form hereof as held forth by Christ Mat. 26.20 Luke 22.14 as he sate and the twelve Apostles with him and after his Resurrection he shewed himself to two of his Disciples in breaking of Bread as he sate with them Luke 24.30 which was practised by those Three Thousand converted by Peter's Sermon They continued stedfast in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayer Acts 2.42 daily breaking Bread from House to House did eat their Meat with gladness and singleness of Heart praising God Acts 2.46 they did thus at all seasons even as often as they eat and drank they were to do it in remembrance of Christ to shew his Death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 and blessed is that Servant saith our Saviour whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing But if the evil Servant shall say in his Heart my Lord delayeth his coming and begin to smite his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the Drunken the Lord of that Servant shall come in a day that he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and give him his portion with Hypocrites Mat. 24.46 to the end Wherefore such as live Voluptuously in Rioting and Excess in Hatred and Envy in Strife and Cruelty tho' they may be great pretenders to partake of the outward Bread and Wine and abide not stedfast in the Apostle's Doctrine who saith whether ye eat or drink or whatever ye do do all to the Glory of God 1 Cor. 10.31 but eat and drink to indulge the Flesh whose God is their belly These saith he in the 20 verse of this Chapter Sacrifice to and have fellowship with Devils and ye cannot drink the Cup of the Lord and the Cup of Devils Nor can ye partake of the Lord's Table and the Table of Devils verse 21. neither can they discern the Lord's Body nor shew his Death till he come And with such he is always to come nay when he does come and stand knocking at the door of their Heart they will not open to him nor entertain him but if any Man saith the Lord hear my voice and open the door I will come into him and Sup with him and he with me Rev. 3.20 and this is the effectual Supper of the Lord's Table which is the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Mystery John 6.56 he that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him and here the redeemed of the Lord have their Communion in the Body and Blood of Christ by his abideing in them and they as living Branches of the true Vine abiding in him and in this blessed Communion the Figure of the outward Supper is fulfiled according to Christ's own Words Luke 22.16 and 18. I will no more eat hereof nor drink of the Fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God shall come and it be fulfiled in the Kingdom of God so that they only who are partakers of the new Wine in Christ's Kingdom can take the Cap of Salvation and Praise his Name But notwithstanding all that can be said none are greater opposers of the Power of Godliness than they who have their life only in the outward profession thereof and are like those Soldiers very earnest in parting and casting Lots for Christ's Garments not at all regarding the crucified Jesus upon the Cross so near them So many Thousands Professors spend most of their precious time about Words Names Shadows vain Shows and beggarly Elements till they disputed and thrown away all inward sense of true Christianity What a noise they make about Water Bread and Wine and other bodily exercises acting in Religion as if making and blessing an Idol and employed in heartless overly and outside Performances but within full of Envy Pride and Covetousness as if they thought to clime into Heaven that way by which Lucifer was cast out Here 's enough said to satisfie the impartial and unprejudiced but to such as are wedded to the Forms Customs and Traditions of Men this Doctrine will seem New Strange and Dangerous nevertheless tho' many understand not these things at present yet I hope they may hereafter and to such as are otherwise minded God will reveal these and greater Mysteries in his due time