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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68467	A treatise of the sacraments according to the doctrin of the Church of England touching that argument Collected out of the articles of religion, the publique catechism, the liturgie, and the book of homilies. With a sermon preached in the publique lecture, appointed for Saint Pauls Crosse, on the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist, Iune 24. 1638. / By T.B. Pr. Pl.	Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653.	1638 (1638)	STC 1789; ESTC S113179	66,854	266

is that we are conformable to him in mortification Now to be baptised into the Communion of Christs death what is it else but by Baptism to be partaker of his death and consequently discharged from the Dominion of sin So the Doctrin Doct. Christians howsoever before their Baptism they be servants of sin yet by Baptism they are freed from the service and dominion therof The uses of this Doctrin are three-fold First for instruction shewing the efficacy of Baptism touching which two cautions 1. That the efficacy of the Sacrament is but instrumentall 2. That it pre-supposeth a right Qualification in the Receiver Secondly For consolation to Parents in respect of their children dying in infancy Quest. Whether all infants be regenerate in Baptism An Answer set down in two conclusions An objection taken from the usuall phrase of Preachers in pressing the duty of attendance upon the means of grace The answer to it Thirdly for exhortation And this directed First to Parents To watch carefully over their children that they be not re-enslaved To acquaint them with this benefit to call upon them c. Secondly To all Christians In generall to walk as Free-men In speciall to hinder the reign of sinn in themselves Object I fain would do so but am not able Sol. Christians have helps to subdue the power of sinn sc. An interest First In the blood of Christ streaming in the Sacraments Secondly In the Communion of Saints the Churches Prayers A Caveat That if Christians desire this benefit they must not forfeit their interest by running into tentation Hitherto the copy of the Sermon These two little books not much unlike to the poore widows two mites have I cast into the Treasury of the Church I pray God they may be no less accepted with God and all good men that so the succesfulness of these my poore endevours may encourage me to go on cheerfully in the work of my Ministery and to bestow some bigger volumn upon the Library of this Church and Nation I know we are not born for our selvs alone not for this present age alone I should choose rather to be too busie in this kind and to over-do rather than to be wanting to my place and people I cannot hope to live at least not here wher I am til I see the harvest of my seeds time the fruits of my labour here bestowed We of the Ministery commonly our greatest comfort is in the happy growth of grace in those whom at our first entrance we find to be of tender years Nor do I doubt but that amongst these there will be found some that hereafter will rejoyce in the remembrance of those holy truths which they have heard received and gathered up in their attendance upon my poore labours and they will say this and this did I then heare and learn and tho for the present I felt no great sweetness in it yet do I now taste it and know it to the holy truth of God In particular this Doctrin of the Sacraments and their efficacy which seemed so strange and uncouth in the ears of divers of the elder Audience will by the younger sort be received now and hereafter remembred with happy congratulation Now then for their sakes that they may keep fresh in memory what they have heard that they may recall to mind what perhaps hath slipt and is forgotten have I sent abroad these and if God say amen I shall send abroad some other of my notes For their sakes I say that they may have wherwithall to perswade others what themselvs do know viz. That those things to use the phrase of the Disciples to Saint Paul in a case not much unlike that those things wherof divers have been informed concerning me are nothing but that I also walk orderly and keep the Law The law I mean of holy teaching and edification not wasting the time in curious and needless speculations but endevouring pro posse meo both plainly to explicate and profitably to apply what the text of Holy Writ hath led me to In the prosecuting of which if I have proceeded otherwise as some say than others have done before me let the indifferent Reader do that which those Hearers should have done sc. try and examine which of us doth most neerly follow the steps of the holy Scripture and tread in the path of our Mother-Church To me I confess it is a scruple to depart from the pattern of wholsome Doctrin to the which I have subscribed if it be not so to others it is not my fault if I dare not follow them But there is a generation of men who have learned to pretend the authority of such Worthies and such grave Divines meerly to countenance what themselvs have pitcht upon in prejudice and opposition of the present Ministery This was say they the Doctrin this the opinion of such and such when upon due examination their judgment was nothing so but clean contrary That this may not hereafter befall me this Treatise shall be a witness to the world what I beleev what I have taught as touching this Argument The scope wherof in brief is to shew That the effect of the Sacraments is ou● union with Christ The fruit is communion in his Merits and Graces in his merits for Remission in his Graces for Regeneration both which are begun in Baptism and perfectly consummate in the Lords Supper This is all Farewell dear Christian Reader pray for him who hath devoted himself and the strength of his labours to the advancement of thy spirituall welfare Let thy prayers commend me and my labours to the blessing of our heavenly Father In whom I rest Thine The Lords unworthy servant in the work of the Ministry T. B. A TREATISE OF THE SACRAMENTS The Preface GReat was the love of our blessed Saviour to the sinful race of the sons of men Greatly did it appeare by that Redemption which by his death is purchased This hath recovered to us the favour of God which is to us the deep and inexhaustible fountain of all goodnesse yet hath not the love of Christ our Saviour stayed here hee thought not this sufficient but hath added the Revelation of this benefit for our Comfort Yea hee hath also wisely invented the way by which this benefit might be conveyed to us and we put in full possession of the same Nor is the later a lesse demonstration of his singular love than the former Without the Redemption purchased what are wee but a masse of misery borne to endlesse woe and irrecoverable destruction Without the Revelation of this Redemption and the means by which it may become ours what is this life of ours but a perpetuall disconsolation Wherefore so often as wee blesse God for the benefit of our Redemption purchased by the blood of Christ so often let us remember to praise him for the Revelation of it made unto us by his spirit The way and meanes by which the spirit of Christ doth