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A97309	The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.	Zanchi, Giralamo, 1516-1590.; Winterton, Ralph, 1600-1636.	1659 (1659)	Wing Z7; Thomason E1897_1; ESTC R209936	137,419	420

comprehend therefore much in few words our judgement is that The Sacraments are outward signes and such as fall under our senses whith are added unto the word of the Gospel according to Christ's institution by reason of our ignorance weakness and for the better stirring up and confirming of our faith whereby all men are seriously called but the elect onely and believers by the holy Ghost inwardly working in their minds and drawing them are brought unto Christ to have true and reall communion with him and with his flesh and bloud and so are made partakers of all Christs benefits which by the word and outward visible signes are signified and offered that being incorporated into Christ they may at length make up the body of the whole Church according as the Father hath preordained unto the praise and glorie of his grace and their eternall salvation DOCT. XVII In summe what communitie the Sacraments of the Old Testament have with the Sacraments of the New COncerning the Sacraments of the Old Testament we need not say much forasmuch as they are abrogated But this one thing must not be omitted to wit that the Fathers of old forasmuch as they had the same God that we have the same promises the same Mediatour the same Spirit regenerating the same faith and the same hope They had likewise the same Sacraments that we have if we have respect unto the substance thereof which is Christ although for ceremonies different from ours And this we the rather hold because theirs were delivered to them to the same end that ours are delivered unto us to wit that they might be confirmed in the faith of Christ and grow up together in communion with him To prove what we have said these places of Scripture are very pertinent he was a Revel 13.8 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world b 1 Cor. 10.4 They did all drink the same Spirituall drink for they drank of that Spirituall Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ And again c Heb. 1● 8 Iesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever DOCT. XVIII That there are onely two Sacraments of the Christian Church WE acknowledge onely two Sacraments properly so called which were alwayes common to all the Christian Church by name Baptisme and the Lords Supper whereof the one belongeth to the beginning of our communion with Christ and the other unto the increase thereof Whereupon the one is called the Laver or washing of regeneration and the other the holy Feast or the Lords Supper DOCT. XIX Errours condemned WE cannot therefore but dislike those which will have a Sacrament to be even where no word is heard but onely some visible signe seen And those likewise which make no distinction between the thing of the Sacrament and the Sacrament but will have it to be received into the mouth as well as the Sacramentall signe Whereas the thing of the Sacrament is that which the signe coming under the judgement of our sense bringeth unto our minde but letteth not fall into our hand or mouth Neither yet do we like those which in the Sacraments consider nothing else but what they see with their eyes Nor yet those which will have them to be onely badges cognizances to distinguish us from other people or else but bare signes and no instruments of the holy Ghost by which he worketh in us effectually and confirmes us in the communion of Christ But we condemne those which institute new Sacraments beside those which Christ himself hath instituted And those also which tye the grace of God and the things signified by the Sacraments unto the Sacraments in such manner as if every one that receiveth the signes might truely be said alwayes to partake also of the thing it self CHAP. XV. Concerning Baptisme BEsides what hath been said of the Sacraments in generall we further believe and confesse as followeth concerning the Sacrament of Baptisme in speciall DOCTRINE I. What Baptisme is and what the effects thereof a Matt. 21.19 BAptisme is the first Sacrament of the New Covenant by which both all they which either having made confession of their sins and profession of their faith in Christ and so likewise in God the Father the Son and the holy Ghost or such as at least we believe for the pietie of their b 1 Cor. 7.14 parents do belong unto the Covenant and they more especially which truely belong unto the Covenant are c Eph. 1 1● sealed in Christ being as it were d 1 Cor. 6.15 incorporated into him by the holy Ghost in such manner that they are e 1● no longer their own but his by whom they are said to be received unto the fellowship of the Covenant and so become one body with him and all the Saints and are made partakers of all Spirituall and celestiall benefits being by this Baptisme as the laver of regeneration a Ephes 5.26 cleansed from their sins by the bloud of Christ and b Rom. 6.4 buried with him into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glorie of the Father even so we also should walk in newnesse of life For which cause it is usually called the Sacrament or c Mark 1.4 The Baptisme of repentance for the remission of sins The seal of faith the seal of the Covenant the laver of regeneration the washing away of sins and the Sacrament or seal of newnesse of life DOCT. II. That the power and vertue of Baptisme hath onely place in the elect and that they alone are Baptised not onely with water but also with the holy Ghost BUt yet notwithstanding such excellent things are said of Baptisme and are truely attributed unto it as an instrument used by the holy Ghost and so Sacramentally all they which are Baptised are truely said to be made and to be such We believe that it is fulfilled really onely in the elect which are endued with the holy Ghost forasmuch as they onely do truely believe and truely belong unto Christ and his mysticall body And therefore that all indeed are Baptised with water but the elect onely with the holy Ghost and that all receive the signe not all the thing signified and offered by Baptisme but that the elect onely are made partakers thereof DOCT. III. What be the integrall parts of the Sacrament of Baptisme WE believe that for the making of the Sacrament of Baptisme to be entire those two things are sufficient which Christ hath instituted to wit the simple element of water with which men are Baptised whether by way of immersion or dipping in the water or aspersion sprinkling on the water and that form of words which Christ taught his Apostles to use when they Baptized Matth. 28.9 to wit In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost And we are fully perswaded that they neither used any other forme of words nor added any thing

great injurie to the Gospel of Christ Concerning the Gospel of Christ this is our faith DOCT. VIII Errours WE therefore hold that the Antinomi or the professed enemies of the Law are to be condemned and whosoever do dislike the Morall Law and banish it out of their Churches as if it were either contrarie to the Gospel or nothing pertaining unto Christians and further those which mislike and finde fault with Magistrates forgoing about to bring in Politicall Laws of Moses into their commonwealths CHAP. XIV Concerning the Sacraments of the New Testament BEcause God for the perfecting of our communion with Christ wherein the participation of salvation wholly consisteth hath been pleased to use not onely the word of the Gospel alone by it self but also enternall signes fit for that purpose and joyned together with the word which two are required to the constituting of a Sacrament Therefore in the next place after our confession concerning the Gospel we think good to adde a brief and perspicuous Sacraments and that agreeable unto the holy Scripture and the first principles of our Christian faith DOCTRINE I. What we understand by the name of Sacrament WE know that a Sacrament is properly an holy oath or promise on both parts that is made between God and his people not simply but also established by certain holy rites and ceremonies As it appeared manifestly in the Sacrament of circumcision between God and Abraham and in Baptisme which succeeded in the place of circumcision between Christ and us So a Sacrament is by the Fathers taken often for the whole Sacramentall action whether of Baptisme or of the Lords Supper in which there goes before a promise on both parts confirmed after an holy manner by externall rites signes and seals and also by the bloud of Christ But in after time by the name of Sacrament they understood by a figure called Synecdoche the rites onely or the visible signes added unto the word And this is another signification which prevailed and had place in the Church Now we according to the signification and use of the word in the Church call a Sacrament not the word onely nor the outward element onely but the element or the visible signes joyned with the word of the Gospel according to Christ's institution Whereunto agreeth that of St. Augustine a Augustine The word is added unto the element and so it becomes a Sacrament DOCT. II. Whereof the Sacraments are Sacraments NOw because every Sacrament is the Sacrament of some thing we say that this thing is that which the word of the Gospel doth signifie to wit the grace of God in Christ or rather Christ himself together with grace and salvation placed in him For Christ is the summe of the Gospel and that we may have communion with him as was the word so likewise were the Sacraments instituted and ordained to put us in mind of him and to raise up our thoughts unto him And so what is outwardly exhibited unto us we say it is a signe of that which is inwardly proposed and set before us to be received and that which is done without is a signe of that which the holy Ghost inwardly worketh in our hearts DOCT. III. What the parts are whereof a Sacrament consisteth FRom hence also we come to understand what the parts are whereof a Sacrament is properly said to consist to wit the word and the signe or outward visible element but yet with a relation unto the thing by them signified and represented and whereof they are a Sacrament For the thing whereof any thing is a Sacrament is not it self neither can it be a Sacrament or any part of a Sacrament Forasmuch as every Sacrament is a Sacrament of another thing which is different and diverse from it But yet we do not simply and absolutely separate the thing it self from the Sacrament neither do we deny but that the Fathers and many other learned and godly men do in the name of Sacrament comprehend the thing it self whereof any thing is a Sacrament As by the name of Baptisme is not onely the outward ablution or washing of water understood but also therein is contained the inward purging of the conscience from sin and likewise regeneration Therefore we embrace that saying of Ireneus concerning the Eucharist or the Sacrament of the Lords Supper that it doth consist both of an earthly and heavenly matter neither do we when we speak of the Sacraments abstain from such manner of speaking yet in this sense not that the thing signified is properly a part of the Sacrament for it is rather that unto the participation whereof the Sacraments do lead us But because the Sacrament hath a mysticall relation unto it so that by the tye of this relation the earthly matter is knit together with the heavenly And thus we reconcile the sayings of divers Fathers and many other learned men which may seem to jarre one with another whereas they were all of one and the same mind every where some calling the Sacraments simply by these and the like names Signes Figures Resemblances or Representations Types Antitypes Signets Seals Ceremonies and the Visible Word others saying that they consist of an earthly and heavenly matter which how it is to be understood we have declared already all of them oftentimes after the manner of holy writ calling them by the names of those things whereof they are Sacraments whereas yet notwithstanding they understood professed that there were three things to be considered in the Sacraments that is to say the Word the signes added unto the Word and the things whereof they are signes DOCT. IV. The reasons why the Lord would have signes also added to the Word of the Gospel and why they are called the Visible Word WE believe also and confesse ingenuously that the visible signes by Gods institution were added unto the word and that they were to be added for the better and surer confirmation of the word in our mindes it being the manner and custome almost in every nation to affix and set to their seals to their last wills and Testaments as also to divers other writings Which also is the reason why the outward signes which fall under our sense are called by St. Augustine the Visible Word to wit because they were instituted and ordained and likewise added unto the word to this end that they should do the same thing which the Word doeth that is to say that what the Word signifieth unto our eares the same also should they represent unto confirme unto us the Word and promises of God And that as by the Word faith is stirred up in our minds so also by them as outward signes and seals it might be confirmed sealed and every day more and more increased And last of all that as the Word so also the holy signes might become as instruments for the holy Ghost to use for the bringing us to have communion with Christ or for the making us to

else unto the water DOCT. IV. That infants being the children of believing parents are to be Baptized WE believe also with all the ancient Church that to the Sacrament of Baptisme are to be admitted not onely those which are of ripe years which repent and confesse their sins and make profession of their faith in Christ but also infants being the children of such parents forasmuch as we are to judge that they also belong unto the Covenant according to the Apostles saying to this purpose a 1 Cor. 7.14 That the children of believing parents are holy especially considering that Christ in no place hath changed Gods commandment made unto Abraham concerning the sealing of the children also of the faithfull and believers with the seal of the Covenant yea more considering that Christ hath said expresly a Matt. 19.14 Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the Kingdome of heaven DOCT. V. How far forth Baptisme is necessarie in the Church and how far forth necessarie for every one unto salvation WE believe that Baptisme is altogether necessarie in the Church as a Sacrament instituted by Christ and so farre forth necessarie that where it is not when it may there we cannot acknowledge the Church of Christ to be But in such manner do we think it necessary for every one unto salvation that yet if it so happen that any one for defect of a Minister and not out of contempt do depart out of this life without Baptisme we do not therefore believe that he is damned and swallowed up of eternall destruction For the children of the faithfull and believers are therefore saved because they are within the Covenant of God and so holy But they which are of ripe years are saved by true faith in Christ which certainly cannot stand together with the contempt of Christs commandments DOCT. VI. That Baptisme once rightly administred ought not again to be repeated WE believe farther that as circumcision was made in the flesh but once onely so Baptisme also which succeeded in the place of Circumcision once duely and rightly administred ought not again to be repeated Now we understand that it is duely and rightly administred when as according to Christs institution first the Doctrine of the Gospel is premised concerning the true God Christ and his office and then men are Baptised with water and that by a lawfull Minister a Matt. 28.19 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost For Christ also died but once and was buried and we are b Rom. 6.3 4. Baptised into his death and c Col. 2.12 buried with him by Baptisme Neither do we reade that the Apostles ever rebaptised any but onely Paul and these were such as before had a Act. 19.5 not rightly been Baptised DOCT. VII That the power and vertue of Baptisme lasteth for ever ALthough we come unto the Sacrament of Baptisme but once Yet we believe that the thing it self of the Sacrament and the power and vertue thereof lasteth for ever that is our ingrafting into Christ and so the participation of his benefits the washing away of sins and regeneration which every day is more and more perfected in us by the holy Ghost For the Apostle saith that b Ephes 5.26 Christ hath cleansed the Church with the washing of water by the word c 27. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle d 1 Ioh 1.7 And the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth us eyery day from all sin And therefore we think that the faithfull and believers being content with the Sacrament of Baptisme once received ought dayly to be put in mind thereof and recall it to their memorie as also into whom they are Baptized and what God hath conferred upon them by Baptisme and again what they likewise have promised unto God That we may be all every day more and more confirmed in our faith and grow up together in our communion with Christ and be made more studious and diligent in the performing of our dutyes Neither is Baptisme ordained for the remission either of Originall sinne onely or the sinnes of our life past but also for all the sinnes of our whole life As our plucking out of the water is a signe of new life not for one day onely but for all the dayes of our life according to the saying of the Apostle a Rom. c. 4. We are buried with him by Baptisme for ever into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk for ever in newnesse of life We were but once washed outwardly with water but the bloud of Christ is an everliving spring which dayly washeth and cleanseth us from all sinne DOCT. VIII By whom Baptisme ought to be administred WE believe that by whom the Gospel is preached by the same also ought holy Baptisme to be administred For to whom Christ said a Mark 16.15 Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to the same also he said b Matt. 28.19 Go and teach all nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost c 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you DOCT. IX Errours condemned WE therefore condemne all heresies as well old as new which are or have been spread abroad concerning Baptisme contrarie to sound Doctrine either by Seleucus and Hermias which Baptized with fire or the Cerdonians and Marcionites which used another form of words then that which was prescribed by Christ and that in the name of another God then in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Those which Baptised in the name of Iohn or any other The Cataphryges which Baptised even the dead together with the Donatists and Anabaptists which rebaptised all that come unto them Those likewise which deny that infants are to be Baptised and those also which deny that Baptisme to be true whereunto there is not added Exorcismes Spittle Salt and other ceremonies which are the meer inventions of men CHAP. XVI Concerning the Lords Supper BY what hath been delivered by us concerning our communion with Christ the word of the Gospel the Sacraments in generall and Baptisme in speciall it may be easily known what our faith and belief is concerning the Lords Supper DOCTRINE I. That the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is an instrument used by the holy Ghost for the furthering of our communion with Christ and his Church WE believe that the Sacrament of the Supper is not onely a testimonie of our communion with Christ and so with his flesh and bloud and also with the whole Church but also an instrument used by the holy Ghost to confirme and further the same The Apostle saith as much a 1 Co● 10.16 The bread which