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A00887	The life and gate of Christianitie entreating of the sacrament of baptisme, deuided into five bookes. Contayning the effects, the mater, the forme, the baptiser, and the partie baptised: with the reasons and use of all the auntient rites and ceremonies. ... Composed, gathered, and written by O.A. ...	Almond, Oliver.	1614 (1614)	STC 11; ESTC S100511	119,637	234

THE LIFE AND GATE OF CHRISTIANITIE ENTREATING OF THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISME DEVIDED INTO FIVE BOOKES Contayning the effects the mater the forme the Baptiser and the partie Baptised with the reasons and vse of all the auntient rites and Ceremonies Wonderful necessarie duringe these times to be vnderstood and perused of all sortes of persons Composed gathered and written by O. A. Effundam super vos aquam mundam mundabini ab omnibus inquinamentis vestris Ezechi cap. 34. With permission Anno M.DC.XIIII THE PREFACE TO THE CVRTEOVS READER COnsidering with my selfe Gentle Reader what should be the principall cause and most effectuall motiues that should vrge the kings maiestie and most high Court of Parlament to enacte and make that rigorous lawe and penall Statute concerning the Baptisme of Catholikes Children First that they should not be Baptised by their owne Priests nor anie Catholike Layman or Mydwife of their Profession in Religion Secondlie that they must be forced contrar●e to their consciences vpon paine of forfeiture of an hundreth pounds to bring or cause their Children to be brought to a Minister of a contrarie Profession in Religion and that Publikely in Church or Chapell there to be Baptised vnlesse the Child were in danger of death then the Minister to be sent for home to the Catholikes house and ther to minister this Sacrament The first reason or cause may be The first reason of t● Statute for that perchaunce they thought it could not be so sufficientlie performed by anie other then of their owne ministerie profession and Religion But if they imagined any such thing surely they were mightely deceaued and some of the learned amongst them I meane the Lords Spirituall might haue informed them that this conceit or opinion inclined to the practise of the old Heretikes the Donatists against whom S. Augustine writte many bookes aboue a thousand yeares agoe Aug. lib. 1. con Donat. who were perswaded that the Children Baptised by anie other then them selues were not sufficiently Baptised but they Rebaptised againe euen Catholikes if any returned or came to be of their profession Not much vnlike by reason of this statute it is nowe practised For if any Catholike doe present his Child at Church or Chappell for auoyding the penaltie with protestation that the Child is all readie christined yet not withstanding say the most part of the vnlearned ministers I will doe my dutie and office and so rebaptise the Child although this be expresslie contrarie to the constitutions of the Canon Law De Cōsecra dist 4. can qui bis and by the same Canon Law they incurre by the acte of Rebaptization Irregularitie Some in deed of the Ciuiller and learneder sort of Ministers doe not absolutly Rebaptise but with Condition If thou arte not Baptised I Baptise thee But this will not serue their turne but rather betrayeth their ignorance For they ought not to Rebaptise vpon Condition but when there is probable doubt that the partie presented vnto them is not Baptised Here is no such matter but protestation made by the parents or others that the Child is allready Baptised For a second reason The Second reason I imagine they could not so much as thinke that the Baptisme practised in the Roman Catholike Church or by a Roman Catholike Priest was no Baptisme was not auaylable and therfore they made this statute and law For if this doctrine were true woe then to their Protestanticall congregation For first then many of them were not Christians Secondly they neuer had any head of their Church a Christian They haue had but fower heads of their Church and they of diuerse sorts An old man a man of middle age a woman and a child and these fower all different in age or sexe and all fower baptised Catholiklie by a Catholike Bishop or Priest according to the Roman vse But if Baptisme acted and done by a Catholike Bishop or Priest according to the Roman vse were not auaylable why then no Baptisme no Christianitie and consequentlie the head of their Church no Christian For K. Henrie the eight the first head of the Church of England was Catholikly Baptised before Protestancie was preached King Edward the sixth a Chid a boy he also was Baptised according to the Roman vse by Henry his Father And for the woman Queene Elizabeth she was baptised Catholiklie God saue all good tokēs as the report goeth she berayed the font And for our King Iames Premonition who now raigneth he reporteth him self that he was Baptised by a Catholike Bishop And for the Circumstances I had rather an other should examine then my self But what milke he sucked from his nurces breast I know not but sure I am his mother from whom he had his being and first entrance into this world was a Constant Roman Catholike and a worthie Queene and Martyr But to conclud the statute sure was not acted vpon conceat that Catholikes did not trulie Baptise and that by Catholike Baptisme they were not true Christians Some other reason they had and what may that be Thirdly their motiue surely might be to gette monie The third reason and begger and impouerish Catholikes This in deed hath wrought some effect For some Gentlemen haue bene brought in question by some Promoters for not bringing their Children to the Church to be Baptised W. C. R. B. and so forced to compound or else by Publike Court to haue beene censured for the whole penaltie The Composition hath cost some twentie pounds some ten pounds some more some lesse We know that God doth suffer temptations tribulations miseries wants pouertie and some tyme beggerie it self to fall vpon is seruants 1. Cor. 10. v. 13. yet we are instructed by the Apostle S. Paule Deus autem fidelis est qui non patietur vos tentari vltra id quod c. That God is faithfull and will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue that which we are able But will make also with tentation yssue that we may be able to sustaine and withall to take cheere and Comfort Tobi. 2. We read that old Tobie by reason he did obserue his Religion burie the dead releeue and comfort the afflicted who were persecuted for their Consciences and this he did contrarie to the lawes and commaundement of the King Sennacherib he grewe into miseries was stroken blind by mischaunce had wants became verie poore yet afterward the Scripture sayeth God sent his Angell restored him to his sight and he became againe verie rich In like manner God suffered Iob to be tryed in the losse of his wealth and goods Iob. 1. 2. in the death of his Children and sore punishment of his bodie yet afterward his welth was restored his Children multiplied and he recouered his former health Almightie God commaunded Abraham that he should with his own hand Gen. 22 sacrifice his owne Sonne yet presently God sent his Angell who sayd Ne extendas manum tuam

gathered that it is ordinarilie the proper office of Priests to Baptize for that the Priests are the Successours of the Disciples as the Bishops are to the Apostles Werfore I conclude that ordinarilie it belongeth Ex officio By office and Function to the Priest to Baptize although with subordination and dependencie of the Bishop and that also the Bishop may Baptize because he is a Priest for no man can be a Bishop vnlesse first he be a Priest Whervpon I leaue to your Iudgmentes what Bishops we haue now in England considering there hath bene no true ordination Consecration or imposition of hands of Bishop or Bishops amongst them since the begining of Queene Elizabeths raignie and so consequentlie neither Bishop nor Priest 2. Tim. cap. 1. for both Bishop and Priest must haue their ordination by imposition of hands from their Predecessours But no one but all the Bishops in England forsooke Queene Elizabeths new-deuised Religion so that she remained without Bishoppe CAP. 3. VVhether a Deacon may Ex officio by office minister this Sacrament I Answere that absolutlie he hath not by office and function to baptize but he may by subordination or dependencie of the Priest that is in absence of the Priest or in imminent daunger of the Child or by commission or permission of the Priest For properlie his office and function is to assist the Priest to read the Ghospell to minister at the Altar to compose set in order and prouide althinges necessarie for the administration of the Sacraments also to serue the widdowes and other such like offices Therfore Gelasius the Pope decreed Gelas ep ad Episco per Lucaniā ca. 9. 10. Act. 8. that Deacons did vsurpe the office of Priestes if the did presume to baptize in presence of priestes they not commaunding or permitting of it True it is that S. Philippe the Deacon baptized the Eunuch the Queene of Aethiopia her high-treasurer but it was not Ex officio but in absence of the Apostles Read Gratiam Dist 93 CAP. 4. VVhether a meere Layman who hath no holy Orders neither Priest nor Deacon may lawfully Baptize YOu must note and vnderstand that one thing it is to Baptize by function and office and an other thing to Baptise in necessitie that is when the Priest can not be had or in daunger of death The generall opinion of Catholike Diuines is and the practise of the Church hath euer bene A Cunabulis From the Cradle that in absence of the Priest in case of necessitie a meere Lay-man may lawfullie Baptize The reasons for proofe of this Conclusion are pregnant and many First it is not of the essence of Baptisme that the Minister that is he that Baptizeth be in holy Orders therfore in necessitie it may be lawfull for a meere Lay-man to minister this Sacrament Secōdly it standeth with the mercie of God who would haue all men saued that in those things which are of necessitie to saluatiō man may easilie find a remedie But amongst all the Sacramēts Baptisme is most of necessitie to saluation as hath bene proued therfore seing Christ our Sauiour would ordaine that cōmon water should be the matter of this Sacrament because it was commō to all in all places to be had that it might not be wanting to this Sacrament being of such necessitie to saluation there is no doubt also but the minister in case of necessitie should and might be euerie man not only of the Cleargie but also of the layety that for want of a minister the Infant or anie other in danger of death should not per●sh or be in way of damnation or destitute of the remedies of their saluation For Christ hath spoken the word That vnlesse a man be borne anewe an regenerated by water and the holy Ghost he can not enter in to the kingdome of heauen Therfore sayed Saint Ierome Iero. dial cont Lucif Baptizare si necessitas cogat scimus etiam licere laicis VVe know also if necessitie vrge or compell that it is lawfull for euerie Layman to Baptize Thirdlie Ananias in the first yeare after Christs Passion Baptized S. Paule but Ananias was none of the Apostles nor Deacon Act. 9. nor Priest therfore in absence of the Bishop Priest or Deacon a Lay-man may lawfully Baptize And although Ananias in Scripture be called a disciple yet that maketh him not a Bishop Priest or Deacon For Tabitha a widdowe woman is called also a Disciple Act. ca. 9.36 Wherfore we haue example in Scripture that Ananias a Lay-man by vision and speciall commaundement from God was sent vnto S. Paule restored him to his sight and in absence of the Apostles in case of necessitie did Baptize him We neede not then doubt but in absence of the Priest a Lay-man may lawfullie Baptize This confirmeth Saint Isodorus and giueth the reason why Lay-men may Baptize Ne quisquam sine remedio salutari de saeculo euocetur Least sayeth he any should be called out of this world ●ithout the sauing helpe and remedie of Sal●ation Not withstanding these reasons and the ne●essitie of Baptisme with the generall consent ●nd practise of the Primitiue Church and all ●ges sithence Caluin to crosse all antiquitie Cal. li. 4. Inst cap. ●eremptorilie doth denie That in anie case of ●ecessitie a Lay-man ought to Baptize Because Christ sayed onlie to the Apostles Goe yee and Bap●ize which we graunt and haue proued in the precedent Chapter that by office ordinarilie it ●elongeth and appertaineth to the Priest but extraordinarilie and in case of necessitie we allowe it lawfull for all men And our reason is because in the same place it was also sayed only to the Apostles Teach yee all Nations yet notwithstanding not only the Apostles but also the Disciples and others did theach why may not others also in case of necessitie with the Apostles Baptize Yf Caluin should meane or any other should thinke that none were trulie Baptized but those who were Baptized by true Bishops or Priests and that Lay-mens Baptisme were not auailable or of force which doth consequently follow in his opinion Or else why should they be denied in case of necessitie but that he would make the minister an essentiall poynt for the rightfull administration of this Sacrament In what case then were our poore Countrey of England which hath had no true Bishops nor Priests since the first of Queene Elizabeth as hath bene sayed For all the auncient Bishops of Queene Maries tyme standing firmlie to the Catholike fayth there was by them no impositiō of hands nor cōsecratiō vpon any Protestant Bishop but onlie letters Patents from Queene Elizabeth Confirmation afterward by Parlamēt But how auaylable or of what force the one or the other or both ioyntly are to make Bishops may easilie be discerned and discried Let vs then allow the Baptisme of Laymē to be auaylable or else we shall proue the most part of England to be Infidells and no Christians Idle then and