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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91895	Endoxa, or, Some probable inquiries into truth, both divine and humane: together with a stone to the altar: or, short disquisitions on a few difficult places of Scripture; as also, a calm ventilation of Pseudo-doxia epidemica. / By John Robinson, Dr. of Physick. Translated and augmented by the author.; Endoxa. English	Robinson, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1700; Thomason E1821_1; ESTC R203377	61,732	159

or Power or have the priviledge of chusing Officers or a suffrage in censures The Mayor is not to exercise any power of his Instance Office neither set the City Seal to any person or thing out of his Jurisdiction So neither c. The Argumentation is from a Similitude Answ 1. therefore not Apodictick or of evident Demonstration He may give advice yea as a Deputy be 2. helpful out of his own Corporation for some neighbour or publick good The Simile differeth in the main because every Corporation hath its several Seal But 3. all the Churches throughout the World do make use of the same which pleadeth not weakly for the question in hand and withall resolveth by a just Analogy that Controversie perplexing many Whether Baptism be an obligation to a particular Church Those in Jordan were not Baptized into an individual Society Math. 3. Neither the Goaler Act. 16. Nor the Eunuch Act. 8. I know it was the Office of Apostle-ship to continue till Churches were established but that doth not enervate altogether our Argument Neither doth it presently follow that Sacraments may be administred out of the Church either by wandring Itineraries or fixed Fathers of Families to their Houshold which controversie being handled by others I pass over Whether if a Popish Priest reforming unto Quest 2. Protestantism by vertue of his former Order remain a Minister in a Reformed Church The Negative is most likely these Reasons considered Answ He must be chosen from among the Godly yea among his own Flock Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. after the conveighing of gifts by Miracles which like the Therapeutick Chrism died with or soon after the Apostles is but the Denominatio visibilis demonstration or confirmation of his choice the word being attributed to God Himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 10. 4. This hath been proved by others * Grotiusde Imp circa sacra Lib. 10. Selden de Synod Lib. 1. Cap. 14. See Num. 8. 9. The Imposition of Names in Baptism is of the like nature without which some think that lavacre defective but unadvisedly It is not probable that John did superadde any new names to his Disciples neither was there an imposition of names in the long differred Circumcision Jos 5. Of old all Women should have been nameless Personal forgotten Patricious if married swallowed Neither did conferring of gifts accompany always the laying on of Apostolical hands Act. 6. 6. for they were full of the Holy Ghost before ver 3. Sometime this Ceremony was repeated as may be demonstrated by comparing Act. 9. 17. with Act. 13. 3. He shall have an Office of Pastorship before 2. he have a Flock whereas the nature of Relates is to live and die together nay perhaps before he be a member of a true Oeconomical Church which is difficult to imagine Concerning the difference of reteining Baptism and not Ordination I remit you to the satisfactory Treatises of our worthy Predecessours Other things might be added and doubts cleared but because I study brevity and am loath to plume my self with other birds feathers or to surfet my Reader with twicewarmed cabbadge I proceed to another controverted subject CHAP. III. Of Sacraments SAcraments are so near allyed unto Ministers that they might well have lodged under one roof but for breathing sake they are severed Sacraments are visible words differing from the audible in that the latter serveth not only for food but also for seed the former only for nourishment To tender nutriment to not yet generated is preposterous But to the Problems Whether Baptism received unworthily that is Quest 1. either on the exhibents or receivers part so it be done to a religious use the element and word alwaies concurring may be reiterated It being on Gods part a Seal of a federal Covenant Exam. Rom. 4. 11. not of a civil one as many urge except justifying faith be reckoned among civil affairs It is truth-like that once administred I afterward by faith applying the sign to my self may have fruit and benefit thereby Though in order the Covenant be before the Seal annexed yet God in mercy doth often vary that course which man may not till he have proved the Sacraments to be a seed of faith But he finding his Seal truly set to a blanck though unworthily doth of grace susuperscribe his Covenant to it though not for it God alwaies knowing and owing his vessels though in Usurpers hands which Belshazar abusing did wofully rue Dan. 5. So if at any times alas too often we sin by rumination on the foregoing signs we may draw fresh solace without reiteration of the element We have for example several of our Saviour's Disciples recollecting the words after his death which in his life time they had negligently either overflipt or overslepr The Spirit ecchoing over former either Precepts or Promises Which practically applyed might turn to the great support of those who have misspent many ordinances fruitlesse so also in the Lords supper the strength and signatum thereof may upon necessity be oftner extracted by meditation and application then it is elementally exhibited This for fear of mistake I write somewhat to inform the dissenting Christians for rebaptizing themselves What if they be baptized under the hood of hypocrisie being unmasked shall they renew their mark As also for the reforming of those who without the Lords Supper in their death-bed a viaticum in their journey cannot die quietly bread and wine denying nourishment which is next to communicating without elements Whether is the immersion of the whole body necessary Quest 2. Where an opportunity is and no danger to Exam. the party by cold I should think it fitting But in severer weather or region as it was with the Jaylor in the night here taketh place that compassionate rule Hos 6. I had rather have mercy then sacrifice And I see not but the hand or other convenient part might stand synecdochically for the whole because by its immersion and emersion is better signified the burying and resurrection of Christ as indeed it ought See Rom. 6. 4. Col. 2. 12. which in the front-aspersion is more obscure They who preferre this part in regard of religious signification before any other are at least within the confines and suburbs of superstition In the Lords Supper the elements must somewhat be regulated in quantity according unto the measure of the appetite a morsel will suffice a weaker stomack when to the stronger a more liberal draught is agreeable although spirituall nourishment dependeth not upon the proportion of the sign but of faith CHAP. IIII. Of Adam I Am not purposed to digest this Treatise into common-places but rather trace polemick and eristick discourse and that in unbeaten paths How was Adam made after God's Image Quest 1. Gen. 1. 26. Every ens in opposition to privation is an Sol. image of the Deity every living thing is an expression of