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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34049	A companion to the altar, or, An help to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper by discourses and meditations upon the whole communion office to which is added an essay upon the offices of baptism and confirmation / by Tho. Comber ...	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1675 (1675)	Wing C5450; ESTC R6280	319,234	511

super hominem August in Donat. de bap l. 3. c. 17. and St. Ambrose notes that even St. Paul himself was not so bold as to communicate the Spirit autoritatively to his new Converts but he begs it of God for them Coloss 1.9 t Impetrare optavit non imperare praesumpsit Ambros de Spir. Sanc. l. 1. c. 7. Now the party confirmed ought chearfully to hope this Prayer shall be accepted and while the Bishops hand is over our head we ought to meditate that God himself will keep us in the shadow of his hand Isai 49.2 and that by this Rite is signified that the Lord will stretch out his Hand to Defend us against all our Spiritual Enemies We have given up our selves to be his Servants and the Hand of the Lord is with us Luke 1.66 that is his Spirit is upon us and if we keep close to him none can pluck us out of his hand John 10.28 29. but we may continue his for ever Satan will assault us the World will allure us and the Flesh will entice us to break this Vow but the Holy man prays we may be defended by the Spirit of grace so that we may never fall off as too many have done It is a comfort to see so many Dedicating themselves to God but it is also a sad consideration that scarce one of twenty remember this engagement but they first forsake God and then he forsakes them for ever 1 Chron. 28.9 Oh then let us pray that neither we nor any of our Relations may prove Apostates or Backsliders but that we may remain under the divine protection and continue his to our lives end For if we keep united to this Living Root we shall not only live but flourish grow and bring forth more and more fruit John 15.2 The Grace now imparted is of that nature that if we cherish it we shall encrease daily therein and therefore the Bishop prays we may not only have the Spirit at present but that we may grow in Grace every Day even until we be fitted for glory and be partakers of Gods Heavenly Kingdom as the Council of Laodicea speaks And since so excellent a Prayer is made by so eminent a Person with so antient a Rite let every one for himself and every one for his Children Servants or Friends add thereto a most affectionate Amen §. 7. The Versicle Response and Lords Prayer The Lord be with you Answ And with thy Spirit Our Father c. We have fully discoursed of these Devotions Comp. to the Temple Part. I. and shall only note here That the Parties Confirmed having professed their Faith and vowed Obedience ought now to be saluted as Brethren and are to be reckoned among the Faithful as being sealed with the Seal of God and now belonging unto his Family u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gregor Nazianz. The Spirit hath been given to them we pray therefore it may remain with them The Bishop desires the Lord may assist them in blessing his Name for these Mercies and they mutually pray the Lord may assist the spirit of the holy Man who is praying for them And then all most fitly join in saying the Lords Prayer Which the whole Church sayeth and shall say unto the end of the World August retract lib. 1. cap. 19. §. 8. The Proper Collect. Almighty and Everlasting God who makest us both to will and to do those things that be good c. Without me saith Christ ye can do nothing John 15.2 and the better sort of Heathens confessed that the power to do good as well as the will to chuse it was from Heaven x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 · Pindar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 · Hierocles which Truth as it is expressed in St. Pauls words Philip. 2.13 is made the foundation of this address We have heard these Persons willing to chuse and ready to promise that which is good wherefore we confess God gave them the will and he can only give them Power to perform that which they have promised and since he hath made them willing already we hope he will make them able also for though the will be good yet if it produce no suitable actions it will but aggravate their Condemnation and that is the reason why we pray so oft and so earnestly for them The Bishop hath now in imitation of the Apostles as all Parties confess y Hic unus locus abundè testatur hujus ceremoniae originem fluxisse ab Apostolis Calvin in Heb 6. Exempla Apostolorum veteris Ecclesiae vellem pluris aestimari Zanchius Vide Chemnit Examen Concilii Trident. part 2. de confirm laid his hands upon these Persons and as Christ shewed his favour to little Children Math. 19.15 by laying his hands on them and expressed his love to St. John by the same sign Revel 1.17 So the Holy Man hath laid his hands on these as a token of Gods favour and therefore he is concerned to pray that it may not be an empty and insignificant sign but that the Hand of God may be over them for ever even when his hand is removed and that Gods Spirit may be always with them which Petitions are well Paraphrased by that Prayer of the Greek Church Lay thy mighty hand upon him and protect him by the power of thy goodness keep this holy Seal inviolable and vouchsafe to bring him to Eternal Life and to fulfill all thy good pleasure z 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 · Eucholog in offic ablut post S. Baptism For thus it is desired here that the Hand and Spirit of God may continue with us the one to assist us in the understanding the other to help us in the performance of the Divine Word till we come to everlasting happiness The Word of God shews us the way to Heaven The Spirit makes us to understand and obey the Directions thereof so that if God hear this Prayer we cannot miss of that blessed end And here we must observe to what end the Holy Ghost is given us in this Ordinance not to make us able to speak with Tongues but to know the Word and do the Will of God It is the saying of the famous St. Augustine The Spirit which is now given by imposition of hands is not attested by temporal and sensible miracles as it was at first for the commendation of our Faith while it was young and to enlarge the beginnings of the Church For who doth now expect that those on whom hands are laid for receiving the Holy Ghost should presently begin to speak with tongues but yet the divine Love is understood to be secretly and invisibly inspired into their hearts by the Bond of Peace which enables them to say The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which he hath given us August de Bapt. in Donat. lib. 3. cap. 16. So that we must not despise Confirmation in our Church though it be not

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The World with all its Pomps and Vanities 1 John 2.16 for who so loveth these cannot love God The sinful fashions and inticing gayeties the gaudy splendor of Riches and all the Magnificence which ministers to Pride and Vanity these a Christian must renounce He must not desire them greedily nor delight in them at all nor use them so as to make him forget God or neglect the solid glories of a better World if he be in Place and Dignity and be obliged to somewhat of Gallantry or Grandeur to distinguish him and bear Proportion with his Quality he must be humble in the midst of all and learn to despise it and to understand the Vanity thereof and must not exceed the bounds of Moderation Thirdly The Flesh that is all the desires after filthy or unlawful pleasures all thoughts that do allure to wantonness or debauchery The Christian must not strive to please his Appetite his Palate or his Concupiscence but doth here vow he will not please them but please God and in order thereto that he will confine his Carnal as well as Covetous desires within the bounds of Reason Innocence and Moderation And this is a brief Account of the first part of the Baptismal Vow which together with the Answer I renounce them all is so exactly Primitive that it is very pleasant to compare ours and the Antient forms together and thereby we shall perceive that although they somewhat differed among themselves yet we have extracted the marrow and substance of them all u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Constit Apost l. 7. c. 42. ita Dionys Areop Aquam adituri sub Antistitis manu contestamur nos renuntiare Diabolo pompae Angelis ejus Tertul. Coron Militis Repete quid interrogatus fis recognosce quid responderis Renuntiasti Diabolo operibus ejus mundo luxuriae ejus voluptatibus Ambros de init c. 2. Quando te interrogavit Sacerdos Abrenuncias Diabolo operibus ejus Quid respondisti Abrenuncio Abrenuncias seculo voluptatibus ejus Abrenuncio Ambros de Sacram. l 1. c. 2. Seculo renuntiaveramus cum baptizati sumus Cypr. ad Rogat ep 7. Primum interrogatur si Abrenuntiat Diabolo omnibus damnesis ejus operibus fallacibus pompis Raban Maur. instit cler l. 1. c. 27. The only remaining part of our Care is that we do this with a Primitive Spirit that is That we make this renuntiation with all sincerity for we are obliged to it upon our own Account and that we perform it couragiously remembring that the Powers of Hell tremble to see their designed Vassals thus pass into the Tents of Jesus their invincible Adversary and let us together with this promise unfeignedly wish in our hearts that this poor Infant may never retract this beneficial Engagement nor become a Slave to so Cruel a Master any more for his work is deceitful and his Wages Death and Jesus hath now freed it from this Bondage into which it can never return till it renounce him who hath made it free indeed Quer. II. III. After the deserting and renouncing the Old Master the next act is to embrace Jesus Christ and to declare him to be our new Master w 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Const Apost l. 7 ca. 47. For he hath made Faith to be a necessary Qualification for Baptism Mark 16.16 and before St. Philip would baptize the Eunuch he asked him if he did Believe with all his heart and received his Answer That he Believed Jesus to be the Son of God Acts 8.37 From which remarkable President the Church doth ever since demand of all those who do enter into the Christian prof●ssion if they believe all the Articles which Constitute that Profession and this was done either by way of Question and Answer x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril catech 2. Credis in Deum patrem omnipotentem dixisti Credo Ambr. de sacr l. 2. c. 7. Solenne sit in lavacro post Trinitatis confessionem interrogare Credis in S. Ecclesiam credis in Remissionem c. Hieron in Luciferian Vid. Cypr. Ep. 70. ad Januar. Ambros in Luc. or else the party baptized if of Age was made to repeat the whole Creed y Qui gratiam baptismatis aditurus est symbolum fidelium populo audiente recitat Augustin But even a Child cannot be made a Christian unless he be engaged to believe as Christians do believe which here by his Sureties he doth promise And they may very well promise that the Child shall believe these divine truths since they were all revealed from Heaven confirmed by Miracles sealed by the blood of holy Martyrs and attested by the constant consent of the Universal Church This Child is not left at random to take up its Religion by chance or interest but is here fixed in the true and unquestionable Verity which will lead it unto Everlasting Life and it hath confessed that Rule which God hath given us to unite us in one Bond of Peace But it is not only necessary that the party Baptized do believe the Christian Faith but he must desire to be joined to that Society by the solemn Rite of Initiation Wherefore it is demanded 3. Whether you will be baptized in this Faith because God will have no unwilling Servants nor ought men to be compelled by Violence unto Religion z Nemini deinceps ad credendum vim inferre liceat Concil Toletan Nec religionis cogere religionem Tertul. ad Scapul Nemo se ab invito coli volet ne homo quidem Id. Apol. c. 24. And yet the Christian Religion is so reasonable so sweet and easie so profitable both as to this World and the next that the Godfathers may presume to Answer They will for doubtless if the Child could understand the excellency of this Religion and speak its mind it would say the same Words and if it be early instructed in the Principles thereof it will soon come to know how much it owes to those who have brought it into so happy an Estate Quer. IV. Finally We are taught that we are delivered out of the Hand of our Enemies to the end that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life Luke 1.74 75. Titus 2.11 12. and that every one who is a Christian must Depart from all iniquity 2 Timoth. 2.19 so that none can be admitted into this Holy Society unless they do promise to live according to Gods Commandments a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justin Mart. Apol. because Baptism is an Engagement to live purely as Greg. Nazianzene speaks and St. Paul saith they that are Baptized ought to walk in newness of life Rom. 6.4 before any can be enrolled a Souldier of Jesus Christ he must vow in the Words of this Sacrament to observe the Commands of his General b Recordare Tyrocinii tui diem quo Christo consepultus in sacramenti verba jurasti Hieron ad Heliodor