Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	conscience_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	1,225	5	10.9966	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57955	A vindication of the baptized churches from the calumnies of Mr. Michael Harrison, of Potters Pury in Northampton-shire. Being an answer to his two books, intituled, Infant baptism God's ordinance. By William Russel, M.D. A lover of primitive Christianity.	Russel, William, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing R2360A; ESTC R218555	79,105	138

and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another But it is true that it was never the intent of his Mind to pardon and save any that would not by Faith and Repentance be converted And in the next page he saith If there be any man that cannot reconcile this truth with the Doctrine of Predestination or the actual damnation of the Wicked that 's his own Ignorance he hath no pretence left to deny or question therefore the truth of the point in hand for this is confirmed by the Oath of God Ezek. 33.11 and therefore must not be distorted to reduce it to other points but doubtful points must rather be reduced to it and certain Truths must be believed to agree with it tho' our shallow Brains do hardly discern the Agreement Thus far Mr. Baxter and now let him rail at him if he pieases for we have given him no occasion but Mr. Baxter hath assigned the ignorance of Mr. Harrison to be the cause But saith Mr. H. The Fourth Error the Anabaptists hold is That a Person truly justified and sanctified and so a branch in Christ united to him may yet fall away and be eternally damned and cites part of the 18th Artitle of the fore-mentioned Confession Answ I will therefore deal impartially and recite the whole Article with the Scri●●●●●… at large and then the World will see that his peevi●hness against us is without any just cause Article 18th That such who are true Believers even Branches in Christ the Vine and that in his Account whom he exhorts to abide in him John 15.1 2 3 4 5. I am the true vine and my Father is the Husbandman every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit be purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing or such who have Charity out of a pure heart and of a good Conscience and of Faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 Now the end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure heart and of a good Conscience and of Faith unfeigned may nevertheless for want of Watchfulness swerve and turn aside from the same v. 6 7. From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling desiring to be Teachers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm and become as withered branches cast into the fire and burned John 15. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned But such who add unto their faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. Such shall never fall Ver. 8 9 10. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if ye do those things ye shall never fall 'T is impossible for all the false Christs and false Prophets that are and are to come to deceive such for they are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 I have often wished that all Creeds had been delivered only in the Words of Holy Scripture that it might have prevented those vain Janglings which the World hath been filled with about them and herein I have my Hearts desire in this Article For the Reader may observe that it is delivered in the plain positive and express words of Scripture And yet Behold the fury of this Man's unbridled passion For he hath no sooner recited the Words of the Article but he crys out Abominable Doctrine false dangerous and uncomfortable Doctrine doth this man pretend to be a Gospel-minister and yet dare thus let fly his Rage and Malice against Christ himself and his Blessed Apostles Oh! what a pass is this World come to I shall say no more to such horrid Trifling as this for all he says against us is a stone flung at the head not of the general Anabaptists as he saith but at the head of Christ and his Ambassadours I pray God give him Repentance for it that he may recover himself out of the snare of the Devil who leads him captive at his Will He proceeds in his false Accusations against us and saith that the fifth Error of the Anabaptists is They disown all Ministers Christians and Churches of Christ to be any Ministers Churches or Christians at all but only such as are gathered in their way that is by dipping And for this he quotes part of the 11th Article which is misprinted in his Book the 14th Article I must be forced to recite the whole Article because of his false Representation of it but that is a small thing in his Eyes to belye the Baptists and abuse them for his Book is full of such Railery Article 11th of our Confession of Faith That the right and only way of gathering Churches according to Christ's appointment Mat. 28. 19 23. is first to teach or preach the Gospel Mark 16.15 16. to the Sons and Daughters of Men and then to baptize that is to dip in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit or in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ such only of them as profess Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 2.38 Acts 8.12 Acts 18.8 And as for all such who preach not this Doctrine but instead thereof that Scriptureless thing of Sprinkling of Infants falsly called Baptism whereby the pure Word of God is made of noue effect and the New-Testament way of bringing in Members into the Church by Regeneration cast out when as the Bond-woman and her Son that is to say the Old Testament-way of bringing in Children into the Church by Generation is cast out as saith the Scripture Gal. 4.22 23 24 30. Mat. 3.8 9. All such we utterly deny forasmuch as we are commanded to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of Darkness but rather to reprove them Eph. 5.11 This is the Article he quarrels with and by the Grace of God we will abide by it as the true Way and Order of planting a right Gospel-Church Now pray Observe how this Man doth abuse us 1. In that here is nothing spoken of in this Article but the right way of gathering Churches according to Christ's appointment and we only deny them to

same hour of the Night or straightway Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue believed on the Lord with all his House and many of the Corinthians bearing believed and were baptized Acts 18.8 Philip in Acts 8.37 is determining the Question and giveth this in as the decision If thou believest with all thy heart thou mayest And to say that this is but De bene esse meaning that it includes not the Negative otherwise thou may'st not is to make Philip to have deluded and not decided or resolved In a word I know not of one Word in Scripture that giveth us the least Intimation that ever Man was baptized without the Profession of a saving Faith He also affirms positively That we must not baptize any without the profession of true Repentance which he thus proves Argu. 1. If John Baptist required the profession of true Repentance before he would baptize them then so must we but John did so therefore the Consequence is clear The Antecedent I prove saith he from mark 1.3 4. he preached the Baptism of Repentance unto remission of Sins and doubtless that Repentance which is to remission of Sins is true special Repentance Argu. 2. If Jesus Christ hath by Scripture Precept and Example directed us to baptize those that profess true Repentance and no other then we must baptize them and no other but the Antecedent is true so therefore is the consequent which is fully made good from Mat. 4.17 Mark 1.15 16. Acts 17.30 Luke 24.47 when Christs himself did and sent forth his Disciples also to preach Repentance to prepare them for Baptism which afterwards followed as Mat. 3.11 Mark 1.8 Luke 3.16 Acts 2.37 38 41. And in page 156. if according to the Institution the Answer of a good Conscience must be joyned with Baptism for the attaining of its end then we must admit of none that profess not the answer of a good Conscience But the former is certain from the Text for Baptism is said to save that is its appointed use yet not the external washing but the answer of a good Conscience doth it therefore this is of a necessary injunction and without it Baptism cannot attain its End But it is to be administred and received only in order to the Attainment of its end and therefore never in a way by which the End is apparently not attainable Paul calleth all the Baptized Church of Corinth justisied none that profess not justifying Faith are called justified therefore none such should be baptized I confess saith he t is sad that good Men should be so unfaithful to the Truth which is so preclous and is not their own and which they should do nothing against but all they can for it Divers other Testimonies might be added besides these already recited but these shall suffice at this time And Sir If these do not plainly prove our practice of baptizing Persons upon profession of Faith and also that Infants cannot be the Subjects of Holy Baptism as not being capable of performing the necessary pre-requisites thereto I have no Skill in Polemicks I proceed therefore to what you say Part 1. page 44. Objection The baptizing Persons before they know occasions much gross Ignorance To which you answer Christ is the Occasion of the Ruine and Damnation of thousands I reply Dear Sir Altho' you make bold to abuse the Baptists and throw very Reproachful Scandals and Calumnies upon them Methinks you might have spared their Lord and Master and not have laid the Ruine and Damnation of thousands at his Door Who came not into the World to condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved But I need not wonder at this in you when divers of your party have charged Christ with being the greatest Sinner in the World notwithstanding he did no sin neither was Guile found in his Mouth Sir These are unsavoury Expressions unbecoming the Pen of one who would fain be esteemed a Minister of Jesus Christ And now Dear Sir as a Close I have some few things to speak to your self by way of Caution and Advice which I wish may be received by you as candidly as they are imparted by me In all your Discourses about Polemical Divinity that you would observe these few short Rules which may be of use to your self and others 1. Be careful to avoid all invective Calumnies Wrath Bitterness and Reviling against the Party with whom you contend For that is so far from being a means to convince them that it rather begets a Prejudice in them against what you shall say I know every Person is naturally a Friend to what he supposeth to be a Truth and wisheth that others were of his Mind and it 's both lawful and commendable to promote it in a sober and judicious way But surely it is an Excess to propagate Truth a thing divine by the Methods of Hell as Anger Biterness Fraud Reviling Reproaches and throwing out Scandalous and Vile Invectives against your Antagonists Sir You have more Reason to believe your Adversaries are in the right than your self For that they have both Precept and Precedent for their Practice in the Holy Scripture but you have neither for your own What need was there therefore of all those bitter Revilings you have poured out against us Sir We could use the Liberty of Lex talionis if we were minded to recriminate in such instances against your Party that would blacken you with a Witness of which you could never acquit them by all the Artifices you could use But we do not think it comports with Charity to exasperate your Enemies against you and make you vile in their Eyes notwithstanding you have so unchristianly dealt by us 2. When any of your Christian Neighbours labour to convince you of some Truth you are yet ignorant of do not scorn their Advice nor trample upon the Truth for their sakes because they are but mean in the Worlds Esteem but remember that Apollo altho' he was a Man mighty in the Scriptures did not disdain that Aquila and Priscila should expound unto him the way of God more perfectly Acts 18.26 A Cardinal could once say upon the Words of a Shepherd Unlearned Men take Heaven by force whilst we with all our Learning are thrust down to Hell 3. Let me entreat you to search the Scriptures and see whether the things I have said be so or no give your self to Fasting and Prayer cry mightily to God to give you his Spirit to open your Understanding that you may understand the Scriptures Lastly Give me leave to tell you That it 's not likely your People should think you in earnest when in the Pulpit you Press them to Meekness and Charity when they find so much Railing and Reviling in your Books Truly Sir If Ministers Books of Disputation were as full of Charity as they require their People to be in their Sermons our Disputes and Writings would be Excellent Expedients of improving Knowledge and discovering Truth