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A10966	A treatise vpon sundry matters contained in the Thiry nine Articles of religion, which are professed in the Church of England long since written and published by Thomas Rogers.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. Faith, doctrine and religion professed in England.	1639 (1639)	STC 21233; ESTC S1674	207,708	274

Sacraments ordained of Christ he badges or tokens of our profession which be Christians The proofe from Gods Word THe Sacraments are badges or tokens both of Christians and of Christianity Of Christians For by them are visibly discerned the faithfull from Pagans and Christians from the Iewes Turks and all prophane Atheists Of Christianity For as Circumcision in the old Law was a token how the corrupt and carnall affections of the minde should be subdued and that the Lord required not so much an outward of the body as an inward circumcision of the heart a Deut. 18.16 39 6. Jer. 4.4 Acts 7.51 ●●●m 12.28 Phil. 3.3 Col. ● 11 so Baptisme telleth us that being once dead unto sinne wee are to live unto righteousnesse that all we that have been baptized unto Iesus Christ have been baptized unto his death c. and must walke in newnesse of life c b Rom 5.3 c. for wee have put on Christ c Gal. 3.26 by Baptisme And as the Paschall Lambe was to the Iewes a token that the flight of sinne should alwayes bee fresh in memory and that it should be celebrated not with the old Leaven neither in the Leaven of maliciousnesse but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth d 1 Cor 5.8 so the participation of one Loafe and of one Cup in the Lord his Supper doth commend unto our consideration a sweet concord a brotherly unanimity and a constant continuance in the true worship of God without favouring of Idolatry in any respect e 1 Cor 107. This doe the godly in any their Churches and throughout the world both teach and testifie f Confes Hel. 1 c. 29. 2. ar 20. Aug. ar 13. S●x ar 12. The adversaries unto this truth Vngodly therefore and in a cursed state are they which equall other things with the Sacraments to discerne Christians from Pagans So the Iacobites imprint the signe of the Crosse on their armes foreheads c. to be knowne for Christians a Magdeburg ec hist Con. 12 c. 3. which contemne the Sacraments as of none account So doe the Anabaptists b Dulling con Anab l 2. c. 4. Althamar concil Lo. pag. lo. 191. There be saith D. Saravia which hold how the Sacraments were to bee administred onely at the first planting of the Church by the Apostles and Evangelists but doe not appertaine unto us in these dayes c D. Saravia def tra de divers min grad cap. 14. It was also one of Matthew Hamants heresies that the Sacraments are not necessary in the Church of God d Holinsh chr fol. 1299. Which think the Sacraments are but onely civill and ceremoniall badges of an outward Church such generally be all Atheists and hypocrites particularly the Messalians e Theodor. lib. c. 9. c. 11. and Family of Love who thinke that for obedience sake to Magistrates the Sacraments are to be received f Patterne of the pref Tem. but are to none effect to the perfect ones in the Family g R●msels confess 2. Proposition The Sacraments be certaine sure witnesses and effectuall signes of Grace and God his good will towards us The proofe from Gods Word INfinitely doth God declare his unspeakeable and incomprehensible good will to man-ward yet in these dayes by none outward things more notably and effectually than by the Sacraments For Of Baptisme saith Christ He that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved a Mark 16.16 and Peter Amend your lives and be baptized every one c. for the remission of sins b Acts 2.38 and Paul Husbands love your wives even as Christ loved the Church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctifie it and cleanse it by the washing of water through the Word c c Eph. 5.25 And of the Lords Supper saith our Saviour Christ touching the Bread This is my body which is given d Luke 22.19 and broken for you e 1 Cor. 11.24 and of the Cup This is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes f Mark 26.28 Luke 22.20 This truth doe the purer Churches of these dayes every where acknowledge g Confes Helv. 1. ar 20. 22. 2 c. 19 20 21. Bohe. c 11. 12 13. Gal ar 34 38. Belgr ● 33. 35. August ar 9. 13. Witt. ar 10 19. Suev ar 16. 18. The adversaries unto this truth Contrary hereunto the Papists erroneously doe hold that The Sacraments of the new Law do conferre grace ex opere operato a Concil Trid sess 7 can 8. The Sacraments of the Old and New Testament in this do differ for that the Sacraments of the Old Testament did onely shadow forth salvation but the Sacraments of the new did conferre and work salvation b Concil Flo● and doe justifie not onely signifie God his good will toward us by reason of the worke done which is the outward Sacraments c Bonavent lib. 4. 〈◊〉 1 〈◊〉 5. Gab. Biel. l. 4. di●t 1 p. 3. 3. Proposition By the Sacraments God doth quicken strengthen and confirme our faith in him The proofe from Gods Word BE baptized every one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of your sinnes and yee shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost saith S. Peter a Acts 2.38 Christ gave himselfe for the Church that hee might sanctifie it and cleanse it by the washing of water through the Word b Eph. 5.25 26. The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the bloud of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the communion of the body of Christ saith Saint Paul c 1 Cor. 10.19 The same is affirmed by the reformed Churches d Conf. Helv 1. ar 21. 2. c. 10. 20 21. ar 6. Bohem. c. 17. 12. Gal. ar 34. Belg. ar 33 34. Aug. ar 13. Saxon. ar 13. Suc. c. 17. Howbeit this faith is not necessarily tyed unto the visible signes and Sacraments For Without the Sacraments many have lived and dyed who pleased God and are no doubt saved either in respect of their owne faith as we are to thinke of all the godly both men who were borne and dyed afore the institution of Circumcision in the wildernesse and in the time of grace c. yet by some extremitie could not receive the Seale of the covenant and women who afore and under the Law for many yeares were partakers for no Sacrament and never of one Sacrament or that they be heires of the promise Some have faith for they receive any of the Sacraments So had Abraham e Rom. 49. ●0 the Iewes unto whom Peter preached f Acts 2 41. the Samaritanes g Acts 8.12 the Church h Acts 8.37 Cornelius the Centurion and have the godly of discretion wheresoever not yet baptized i Acts 10.42 Some neither afore nor at the instant nor yet

desired his Majesty to take them out a new Lesson as did the 71 Brethren of Suffolke are not to be liked Neither can we extoll the goodnesse of our God sufficiently toward our King and us all for inspiring his royall heart with holy wisedome to discerne these unstayed and troublesome spirits and inabling his Highnesse with power and graces from above to decree orders and directions for the generall benefit and peace of the whole Church neither suffered he his eyes to sleepe nor his eye-lids to slumber nor the temples of his head to take any rest till he had set them downe afore all other though never so important and weightie affaires of the Crowne and Kingdome King James patronizeth the Doctrine and Religion countenanced by Queene Elizabeth 26 My selfe have read and thousand thousands with an hundred thousand of his Subjects besides have either read or heard of Proclamations after Proclamations to the number of sixe or seven at the least of bookes and open speeches of his Majesty uttered in the Parliament House and all of them made vulgar within a yeare and little more after his happy ingresse into this kingdome and taking the administration of this most famous nourishing Empire upon himself whereby the doctrine in this Land allowed publikely graced and imbraced of all sorts at his entrance into the Realme hath bin not onely acknowledged to be agreeable to Gods Word sincere and the very same which both his Highnesse and the whole Church and kingdome of Scotland yea and the Primitiue Church professed but also by his authoritie Regall and paramont as one of the maine pillers supporting his Estate ratified to continue and all hope either of allowing or tolerating in this kingdome of any other doctrine religion or faction whatsoeuer opposite or any way thwarting the Faith and confession of the Church of England in most plaine pithy and peremptory words and speeches cut off The yeere 92. was not more famous for the Vniformity of doctrin in religion then concluded then the yeere 1604. Domii incarnati An. 1604. is memorable and will be for seconding the same neither got the Clergie in those dayes more credit in composing the Articles of our Vnitie in Faith then did the last Conuocation whereat your Grace then Bishop of London was present and President in ratifying the Acts and Articles of their Antecessors neither was Q Elizabeth more honoured in establishing them at the first then is our K. Iames renowned and more and more will be for approouing vnder the great Seale of England the late and last Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall 27. Subscription the third time vrged Whereby no person shall hereafter bee receiued into the ministery nor neither by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiasticall liuing nor suffered to Preach to Catechize or to be Lecturer or Reader of Diuinitie in either Vniuersitie or any Cathedrall or Collegiat Church Citie or Market towne Parish Church Chappell or in any other place in this Realme except c. and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles c. Whereof the third is that he alloweth the booke of Articles of Religion c. Nor any licenced to Preach Reade Lecture or Catechize comming to reside in any Diocesse shall be permitted there to Preach Reade Lecture Catechize or minister the Sacraments or to execute any other Ecclesiasticall function by what authoritie soeuer he be thereunto admitted vnlesse he first consent and subscribe to the three Articles Neither shall any man teach either in publike schoole or in private house except he shall first prescribe to the first and the third Articles simply c. Neither shall any man be admitted a Chancellor Commissary or Officiall to exercise any Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction except c. and shall subscribe to the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation in the yeare 1562. c. And likewise all Chancellours Commissaries Registers and all other that doe now possesse or execute any places of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction or service shall before Christmas next in the presence of the Archbishop or Bishop or in open Court under whom or where they execute their offices take the same Oathes and subscribe as before he said or upon refusall so to doe shall be suspended from the execution of their Offices untill they shall take the said Oaths and subscribe as aforesaid 28. In which Constitutions the wisedome of his Highnesse sheweth it selfe to be excellent who indeed as exceeding necessary both for the retaine of peace in the Church and preventing of new doctrine curious speculations and offences which otherwise daily would spring up and intolerably encrease calleth for Subscription in testimony of mens cordiall consent unto the received doctrine of our Church but exacteth not their Oathes as some doe much lesse Oathes Vowes and Subscription too but onely in a particular respect and that of a very few in publike office as our neighbours have done Againe he requireth Subscription but not of civill Magistrates not of the Commons as else where some doe not of every man yea of women aswell as of men as did the persecuted Church at Franckeford in Queene Maries daies not of Noble Gentlemen and Courtiers as in Scotland was Enacted in our Kings minoritie but only of Ecclesiasticall Ministers Teachers and spirituall Officers or of those which would be such Of the Subscription called for and so doe the reformed Churches in France and Germany at this very day Last of all his Majestie calleth for Subscription unto Articles of Religion but they are not either Articles of his own lately deuised or the old newly turkened but the very Articles agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Prouinces and the whole Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London and that in the yeere of our Lord God 1562. a Cant. 2.127 and vnto none other euen the same Articles for number thirtie nine b Ibid. no moe no fewer and for words sillables and letters the very same vnaugmented vndiminished vnaltered 29. And being the same the whole world is to know that the Church of England is not in religion changed The Church of England settled and constant in her Religion or variable like the Moon nor affecteth noueltie or new lessons but holdeth stedfastly conscionably that truth which by the Martyrs and other Ministers in this last age of the world hath bin restored vnto this kingdome and is grounded vpon Gods written Word the onely foundation of our Faith And being the same all men again may see that we are still at Vnitie both among our selues at home and with the neighbour Churches abroad in all matters of chiefest importance and fundamentall points of religion though our aduersaries the Papists would faine beate the contrary into the common peoples heads And being the same there is now as also from the first restauration of the Gospell among vs there hath beene an Vniformitie likewise of doctrine by authoritie