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A22474	The badges of Christianity. Or, A treatise of the sacraments fully declared out of the word of God Wherein the truth it selfe is proued, the doctrine of the reformed churches maintained, and the errors of the churches of Rome are euidently conuinced: by pervsing wherof the discreet reader may easily perceiue, the weak and vnstable grounds of the Roman religion, and the iust causes of our lawfull separation. Diuided into three bookes: 1. Of the sacraments in generall. 2. Of Baptisme. 3. Of the Lords Supper. Hereunto is annexed a corollarie or necessary aduertisement, shewing the intention of this present worke, opening the differences among vs about the question of the supper, discouering the idolatry and diuisions of the popish clergy, ... By William Attersoll, minister of the Word of God.	Attersoll, William, d. 1640.; Attersoll, William, d. 1640. Principles of Christian religion. aut	1606 (1606)	STC 889; ESTC S115827	366,439	472

THE BADGES OF CHRISTIANITY OR A Treatise of the Sacraments fully declared out of the word of God Wherein the truth it selfe is proued the doctrine of the reformed Churches maintained and the errors of the church of Rome are euidently conuinced by pervsing wherof the discreet Reader may easily perceiue the weake and vnstable grounds of the Roman religion and the iust causes of our lawfull separation Diuided into three BOOKES 1. Of the Sacraments in generall 2. Of Baptisme 3 Of the Lords Supper shewing the intention of this present worke opening the differences among vs about the question of the Supper discouering the Idolatry and diuisions of the Popish Cleargy and vnmasking the insolent bragging of the late Warn-word touching the supposed and pretended vnity thereof By WILLIAM ATTERSOLL Minister of the Word of God 1. Cor. 12 13. For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body whether we be Iewes or Graecians whether bond or free and haue bin al made to drinke into one spirit August tract 80 in Iohan. 13. Accedat Verbum ad elementum et fit sacramentum that is Ioine the word of Christs institution with the outward sign and thereof is made a sacrament Printed by W. Iaggard dwelling in Barbican 1606. To the right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Shurley Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace in the County of Sussex Grace and peace in Iesus Christ. RIght woorshipfull it is not vnknowne that fundry means haue from time to time been offered and vsed for the reclaiming and recouering of such as dangerously follow the spirit of errour and dayly reuoult to the Romish religion which hath beene aduanced by tyrany defended by lyes and is now sought to be restored againe by trecheries and rebellions But notwithstanding the many meanes which heretofore haue beene wisely practised we see of late the aduersaries of the grace of god as a pestilent brood of vipers mightily to increase and multiply sending abroad swarmes of their Iesuites and Seminary Priestes not onely to infect the people of the land with the leauen of false doctrine and to sow their darnel in the lords field but to seduce them from their alleageance and to stir vp sedition for the lessening of whose number and suppressing of their power nothing is more necessary then to establish a godly and learned ministery in euery congregation And howsoeuer wholsome lawes haue beene enacted penalties increased conferences with them vsed disputations offered their books answered and sundry other wayes taken by magistrates and ministers yet we shall neuer attaine the ende of our desired hopes vntill euery church haue a learned and painefull Pastor to be resident and remaining among them For albeit Antichrist in this noble kingdome hath long since receiued a notable foyle and fall and the purple whore beene dismounted from her vsurped dignity yet this monster hauing taken this deadly wound will be alwayes looking backe and seeking to sette his footing againe in this realme if good corne be pulled vp and the weeds suffered to growe or if the strongest pillars bearing vp the house be remooued and rotten postes set to vnder prop it and vnlesse he be quelled and conquered by the preaching publishing of the gospell of Christ. Therefore Christ our Sauiour hauing sent out the 70. disciples into euery citty and place whether hee himselfe shoulde come to prepare the hearts of the people after their return said vnto them I saw Satan like lightning fall down from heauen And the Apostle declareth that when the lord Iesus led captiuity captiue he gaue gifts to men and ordained pastors and teachers for the gathering together of the Saintes for the woorke of the ministery and for the edification of the body of Christ. And vntill this holy order and ordinance of Christ which is the power of god to saluation vnto all that beleeue be set vp we can conceiue no hope how the ignorant shoulde be instructed the seduced be regained out of the hands of such deceitfull woorkmen as vnder a colour of conuersion of the land doe seek the vtter subuersion of the church and common wealth Hence it is that the Iesuits who haue gotten the dominion ouer the rest of that generation spare no labour refuse no paines let passe no practise by word or writing to effect their purposes In regard of whose vnweariable diligence it cannot be denied but many of vs haue been too slack slothfull in resisting the approach of these violent intruders For whiles we preach the word of reconciliation euen Christ crucified build vp our people in the doctrin which is according to godlines we doe not bende our forces as we ought to surprise and suppresse the common aduersary Whiles wee sowe the lordes fielde with good corne we suffer the enuious man to scatter his tares accounting it sufficient to teach the trueth to the flock dedending vpon vs and esteeming it better seruice to god to saue one soule then to ouerthrow and destroy many aduersaries Not much vnlike to Scipio African the Romane captain who as Plutarke witnesseth was oftentimes wont to say that he had rather saue the life of one Romane citizen then to kill and conquer a thousand enimies But it is the duty of a good builder not onely to reare vp the worke in hand but to remoue the rubbadge and reliques that hinder the building It is the duty of a good husbandman not onely to sowe his field with good seede but to plucke vp the weedes and gtub vp the thornes that choake the corne It is the duty of a good watchman not onely to see to them in the citty but to descry and discouer the enimy It is the duty of a painfull shepheard not only to feed the sheep but to follow and finde out the foote steps of the wolfe Here vpon the Apostle Paul exhorteth the elders of Ephesus to take heed to themselues and to all the flocke whereof the holy ghost had made them ouerseers to feede the church of god which he hath purchased with his owne bloude because after his departure grieuous woolues shoulde enter in not sparing the flock but speaking peruerse things to draw desciples after them If then the enimies of god and his people be vigilant and watchfull to seduce the simple and to subuert religion how carefull and cheerefull ought we to be not onely to teach the people committed to our charge but to resist with hād and hearte all those that vndermine the good estate of the church among vs. Like vnto the people of god after the returne from captiuity who did build the wal with one hand and held their swordes and weapons in the other For this cause I haue put in writing this treatise following containing the doctrine of the Sacraments being the ordinances of god and the badges of christians whereby all discreet and indifferent men may perceiue the trueth of them cleerly opened out of the woord of

and receiued circumcision as the Apostles said to the Iailer humb'ed vnder the mighty hand of GOD and desiring to be instructed in the way of saluation Beleeue in the Lord IESVS CHRIST and thou shalt bee saued and thy whole houshold So the 〈◊〉 testifieth the like of Zacheus when hee had once receiued CHRIST into his house nay which is more into his heart then Iesus said vnto him This day is saluation come vnto this bouse for-asmuch as he is also become the sonne of Abraham Thus when the Sunne of rightcousnesse shineth vpon the head and maister of the family the beames thereof by a gratious influence beginne to comforr and concerue all the rest in the house like the precious oyntment vpon the head of Aaron that ranne downe vpon the beard and descended vpon the borders of his garmentes or like the dew that falleth from heauen vpon Hermon and the Mountaines of Sion which goeth downe into the vallies and maketh all the plaine countrey fertill The knowledge of this point offereth diuerse profitable vses to our consideration and consolation First it is the duty of all those that are within the couenant to giue their bodies to be washed and to receiue that washing in the face and presence of the Congregation Let such as are of yeares desire and craue this Sacrament let them claime this priuiledge let them demaund to be baptized according to the example of the Eunuch Act. 8 so soone as he was instructed in the faith of Christ by the preaching of Phillip as he came to a certaine water he saide of his owne accord See heere is water what doth let me to be baptized And to the same purpose Act. 22 Ananias stirreth vp Paule to this duty saying Why 〈◊〉 thou Arise and be baptised and wash away thy sinnes Secondly this condemneth the blinde ignorant and superstitious practise of baptizing belles practised in the church of Rome whereof now they begin to be ashamed and seeking fig-leaues to couer their shame they say they were not baptized but onely hallowed and consecrated to holy vses as Bellarmine betaketh himselfe to this shift as to a place of refuge Lib. 4 de pon Rom. cap. 12. Where the Cardinall confesseth that the people call their solemne blessing and sprinkling with holy-water the baptisme of belles And indeede what can it else be called and accounted They giue names vnto them as to their children they haue God-fathers appointed vnto them as children haue when they are baptized and confirmed they haue new garments put vpon them as the persons baptized among them like wise haue it is also permitted onely to the By shops suffragan who exacteth great summes of money for the baptizing of belles they ascribe to them a spiritual power against stormes and tempests against thunder and lightning against windes and euill spirits Lastly they sprinkle them with holy-water blesse them crosse them and so horribly corrupt this Sacrament of baptisme Yea Durand a principall schooleman not in the schooles of the prophets but of the papists a fit teacher of such schollers setteth out solemnly the praises of belles making them publike preachers and driuers away of deuils But the deuils are not feared and fraied away by fight of crosses by sprinkling of water by sound of belles and babies This kinde goeth not out but by fasting and prayer as our sauiour teacheth And the Apostle willeth euery Christian to take vnto him the whole armour of God that he may be able to resist in the euill day Stand therefore hauing your loynes grided about with verity and hauing on the brest plate of righteousnesse the shield of faith the sword of the spirit the preparation of the Gospell of peace and the grace of prayer in the spirit Heere is the vniuersall armour of God heere is the compleat furnishing of a Christian Souldier heer is perfect direction giuen to vnderstand and to withstand the assaultes of the deuill but among these wee haue neither the signe of the crosse nor the hallowing of belles nor the sound of such preachers and therefore they are no part nor parcel of spitituall armour to surnish vs to goe into the fielde against the enemies of our saluation For euill spirits which fightagainst the soule are not driuen away by hallowing of belles If then there were euer prophanation of Baptisme this may iustly bee iudged to bee one of the most vile and miserable corruptions thereof to bee detested of all true hearted Christians that grone vnder the burden of them Thirdly we may see the great loue of God to all beleeuers seeing he vouchsafeth not onely to bee their God but the God of their seede after them as God himselfe promiseth to Abraham Gen. 17. I will make my couenant betweene me and thee and thy seede after thee in their generations I will be their God walke before mee and be thou vpright And ought we not to walke in the vprightnesse of our heart before this mercifull and all sufficient God Who thus aboundesh in kindenesse toward vs and the fruite of our body Let vs returne vnto him loue for his loue who loued vs first Lastly this teacheth that infants are to be baptized and haue as great right and interest in this Sacrament as they which be in yeares able to make confession of their faith Of which we will intreate in the chapter following where we will proue this truth by testimonies of the scriptures and maintaine it against the Anabaptistes and other heretiks that condemne the same Chap. 7. That Infants are to be baptized ALthough it cannot appeare vnto vs that infantes and new borne babes brought to be baptized haue actuall faith but rather is like they want the habit of faith which haue not the vse of vnderstanding vnlesse God extraordinarily work it which lieth not in vs to iudge of yet wee baptize them and admit them to this sacrament which we doe vpon very good grounds and susficient reasons First therefore we wil proue by euident demonstration out of the scriptures the doctrin of childrēs baptisme to be conformable to the Iewes circumcisiō agreeable to the practise the Apostles allowable by the wordes of Christ answerable to the custome of the primitiue church reasonable in it selfe profitable to the infants auaileable by the ordinance of God and very comfortable to all christian parents Secondly we will maintaine this assertion against the obiections and arguments of the Anabaptists and other aduersaries that haue crossed and contradicted this truth Lastly we will shew what euident and necessary vses may be gathred from hence for the strength of faith and the increase of our obedience Touching the first that the baptising of infants is waranted by the word of God I will make it appeare by sundry reasons We see in the old testament that all males by expresse commaundement were willed to be circumcised the eight day If God made infants partakers of