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A23664	A doubt resolved, or, Satisfaction for the seekers wherein the case touching an administrator of gospel ordinances, in these times, is handled : wherein also some other questions are more briefly touched, viz. I. Whether water-baptism was to continue in force after the ministry of John the Baptist ceased, II. VVhether Gospel ordinances are things spirituall, or carnall, III. VVhether a power to preach by immediate revelation of the spirit, be necessary in every Gospel minister?, IIII. What is is to be baptized with the Spirit : well worthy the consideration of many who in these times are unsetled in their judgements touching these points / by William Allen.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1655 (1655)	Wing A1063; ESTC R15502	29,149	40

wrote this Bernard in his 65 Sermon on Cant. pag. 144. as Mr. Blackwood in his storming of Antichrist pag. 31. but as quoted by Mr. Tombs in his 66 Sermon hath this complaint against this people They laugh at us saith he because we baptize infants because we pray for the dead because we require the prayers of Saints c. by which it appears they held the baptizing of infants ridiculous SECT. 17. Secondly It may further appear that this people or at least many among them were called Anabaptists because when Luther and Calvin rise up in their times they bitterly inveigh against the Anabaptists as well as the Papists as their writings do abundantly declare by which it appears that they in their times found such a people in being as well as Papists And that these were of the same sort of people of which Bernard and the Frier had formerly complained may well be conceived inasmuch as the foresaid Author Du Plessis saith they were so spread abroad in Germany and France where Luther and Calvin had to do as that their prints and footsteps are to be discerned throughout the course of all Histories pag. 403. and that we see their Churches out live so many miseries and even untill these times consist and continue flourishing and largely propagated pag. 565. And History also relates how the Anabaptists in Germany spread themselves into the Netherlands and as it seems from thence into England For as Mr. Fox relates in his Acts and Monuments Vol. 2. fol. 95. in King Hen. 8. time there were two and twenty Dutchmen Anabaptists apprehended and about ten of them put to death in the year 1535. Since which time there hath remained in the Low Countries or England or both of the same race unto this every day If then this kind of people by Adversaries own confession did continue from the Apostles days and that their prints and footsteps are to be discerned throughout all Histories till Luther's time and so downwards why should any man be tender of being confident especially having those Scriptures of Mat. 16.18 Epk. 4.12 13. to back him that there hath a successive line of true Churches and true Gospel Administrators run along throughout all ages from the Apostles times to this day SECT. 18. Thirdly Though it should be granted which yet may not that the line of succession both of duly constituted Churches and of all due administrators of Gospel Ordinances had been cut off by the prevailings of Apostacy in times of Popery yet it would not hence follow that there neither is nor can be now true Churches or right Administrators of Ordinances because we have upon the matter and in substance and effect the same apostolical power now amongst us to plant and settle churches to administer Ordinances as was injoied in the Apostles days The ground upon which I build this assertion is this viz. Because we have the same instructions and directions from the Apostles in their writings about things of this nature as they had who lived in the Apostles times For though the Beleevers then were sometimes taught the use of Ordinances by word of mouth from the Apostles yet other while they were taught the same but in the same way as we also now are that is to say by their writings or however their writings were as authentique this waies as their preachings and instructions were when they were present This is plain from 2 Thes. 2.15 Therefore Brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our Epistle The word here translated traditions would surely be better translated Ordinances as it is 1 Cor. 11.2 as those that are well skild in Greek do inform and so Mr. Tindal hath translated it in this place In this Text there are two things chiefly to be observed to our purpose 1. That the Apostles instructed or taught men about the use of Ordinances as well by their Epistles as by word of mouth 2. That men were to use practice and keep those Ordinances they had been taught by the Apostles writings as well as when they had been taught the same by word of mouth their writings did as well authorise yea oblige them to hold fast to wit in use and practise the Ordinances they had been taught thereby as any other way of teaching used by the Apostles SECT. 19. Neither did the Epistles of the Apostles if any should make a doubt of this So appropriately belong to those to whom first and immediately they were directed but that they also were intended for the good of all that call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for so the 1 Cor. 1.1.2 shews being directed as well to all those which in every place cal on the name of Jesus Christ as unto them For so the words run Paul called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Softhenes our brother unto the Church of God which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints WITH ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ both theirs and ours So that if we or any others in any place of the world call upon the name of Jesus Christ this Epistle as well belongs to us as it did unto the Corinthians in like cases Besides many of the Epistles of the Apostles are called general Epistles as being intended indefinitely to all whom they might concern so the 1 and 2 Epistle of Peter 1 Epist. John and the Epist. of Jude and the 7 Epist. to the 7 Churches in Asia though immediately directed to them yet even every one that hath an ear to hear is to hearken what the spirit saith unto the Churches as you have it in the close of every Epistle Revel. 2.7.11.17.29 3.6.13.23 Seeing then that the Apostles writings do as well concern us as they did those to whose hands they first came what being written aforetime being written for our learning as the Apostle teaches to reason Rom. 15.4 and since also these writings of theirs do sufficiently direct men about and authorise them in the use of Gospel Ordinances it thence follows that we have in substance and effect the same Apostolical power among us to direct and warrant us in the use of Ordinances in Church communion as those Beleevers had who lived in the Apostles daies SECT. 20. And because the knowledge and beleef hereof is of soveraign use to cure that infirmity which troubles many and keeps them out of the way of Jesus Christ and to resolve the main doubt therefore I shall yet make this further manifest by what follows I. Then since Christ Jesus is the Prophet of the New-Testament as Moses was of the old as hath been oft-minded it will not be amisse to shew that Moses by his writings was a Minister to the Jews as well when he was dead as while he was alive John 5.45 There is one that accuses