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A78296 A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians. S. C. 1673 (1673) Wing C123A; ESTC R223563 12,960 32

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But they are conceited if not more grosly deluded as if their Baptism made them members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven And this Doctrine they prescribe for all their members to believe and profess before they come to their confirmation vizt That in that Baptism by which they were baptized with God-fathers and God-mothers they were made members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven which I have good ground to deny and they can never prove it the Scripture is clear against this their vain conceit For the Apostle Peter saith It is not the outward baptism or washing away of the filth of the flesh which saveth but the answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet 3. 21. And the way of the Gospel is to baptise such only as are the children of God and members of Christ before And the Apostle Paul saith not that they are the children of God by outward baptism but by faith in Christ Jesus And faith doth not come by baptism Gal. 3. 26. but by the word of God And their baptism which they receive afterward is no more but an outward seal administred upon them of the righteousness of the faith which they had before baptism as Circumcision was to Abraham and Rom. 4. 11 Isaac as the Scriptures testifie and none ought to be baptised but such as give sufficient testimony before of their holynesse Or that the Lord testifieth for them So he testified of St. Paul and St. Act ● 15 17 18. 10. 47 Cornelius was baptised upon this ground that he had received the Holy Ghost before And whosoever hath not the spirit of Rom. 3. 9 2 Cor. 13 5 Christ is none of his Therefore the common Protestants are in a great error in this point of Baptism also For they should know that the Infants 1 Cor. 7. 14. Rom. 11. Ezek. 18. 4 Luk. 19. 9 of holy Parents are holy as their Parents They are as blameless as their Parents in their whole Spirit Soul and body The same grace gracious promises Act. 2. 39 Deut. 29. 11 2 Cor. ●0 3 and spiritual priviledges belongeth unto them as well as to their Parents Yea The kingdome of heaven it selfe And Mat. 19. 14. if the greater then the lesser For as touching eternal Election they are beloved Rom. 11. 2● for the fathers That is peculiarly chosen of God for the love that he Deut. 4. 37. Ezek. 18. 4. 20. had to their fathers and shall not dye eternally for the sins of their fathers Rom 2. 11. 8. which they never committed for herein God is no respecteer of persons meerly as they are persons and who can lay any thing to their charge sin remitted shall not be imputed unlesse irritterated and their parents righteousness is theirs by imputation as it was with Abraham and 2 Tim. 1. 5. Heb. 7. 9. 10 his seed before they were circumcised so it is with the Christians and their seed before they are baptised Yea the children of holy Patents are perfect in their wayes before they are baptised Ezek. 28. 15. even from the day they are created untill iniquity is found in them Such a perfection have they which is oposed to iniquity And the Scripture saith Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose Spirit Psal 32. 3 5. there is no guile Their nature of Creation is sanctified by the spirit of regeneration which dwelleth in them so that they are not imputed sinners of the world but clear as the Scripture saith of the natural Jewes who were Christians For although the children Gal. 2. 15. are partakers of flesh and blood as well as their Parents Christ himselfe also in like manner took part of the same and died for them all not to free them from temporal but to save them from eternal death though they should dye before they are baptised with water And therefore the Infants are not the Children of wrath more then their Parents but the vessels of mercy as Jeremiah and John the Baptist were And so it becometh them to esteem of them all and to speak honourably of them before as well as after their outward baptism which Baptism maketh not for the Isa 22. 24. being but for the better being of a Christian Therefore I cannot find in my heart to say that they are the children of wrath and therefore ought to be baptised but because they are not under the wrath of God nor under the curse of the Law but under the promise and grace of Christ who never sinned and yet was baptized by John the Baptist Therefore they ought to be baptised though they have never committed actual sin but sinned in their Parents as Lvey paid tythes in Abraham What though David declareth his Rom. 5. Heb. 7. ● 10. Original sin or sin of inclination the ground of his actual sin or sin of apprehension as it is written In sin hath my mother conceived me yet until he committed actual sin he was no more guilty of sin then his mother nor was Isaac a child of wrath more then faithfull Abraham and Sarah Original sin taketh no more hold of the Infants to damne them eternally then of their parents And touching actual sinne they are clear as their Parents though their Parents are as righteous as Noah Daniel and Job And therefore they have as much right to Baptism as their Parents And in this blessed condition are they before they are baptised with water And are not in the state of damnation though they die in their Infancie before but shall be eternally saved And the contrary Doctrine is very unsound eronious uncomfortable and destructive But Antichrists Church professeth the contrary openly And teach their children to say that they are made members of Christ in their baptism with God-fathers and God-mothers So then it is remarkable that they are their own judges that they baptise none but such as are not members of Christ before their baptism It followeth then by their own words that they are members of Antichrist and in the state of damnation before and until outward baptism be administred upon them which to affirm of the Infants of Godly Parents is an Antichristian error destroying the foundation and hope of the faithful and how can that Church be the true Church of God who are so corrupt and whose constitution manifested by such their eronious profession is so destructive openly to baptise such as are not members of Christ To conclude by their own ground their Church members are not members of Christ before their Baptism and I have proved that they are not made members of Christ by their Baptism after Much lesse can any of them truly say as each child of theirs is taught to say that In my Baptism I was made the child of God So James Nayler said I am the Son of God This dignitie belongeth only to the holy child child Jesus Christ the Son of God To whom be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen Here followeth A New and true Christian Creed built upon the old foundation of the Holy Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone I Believe in God the Father Gen. 1. Ioh. 1. 14. Luk. 1. 35. Mat. 1. 25. Iob. 19. 33. 42. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 4 5 20. Ioh. 20. 17 Mat. 2● 26 Mar. 16. 19 Act. 1. 11. Joh. 5. 29. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52. 1 Thes 4. 15 Joh. 14. 16 17 26. 1 Cor. 12 3 Rom. 8. ● 2 Tim. 3. 16. Act. 17. 11 Rom. 15. 4. Rev. 22. 18. 19. Mat. 18. 17. 20. 1 Pet 2. 9. Phil. 1 5. Rev 8 3 4 Mat 12. 31 32 1 Cor 15 1 Thes 4 14 Joh 3 16 Almighty maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried The third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Scriptures The holy Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The Resurrection of the body And the Life everlasting Amen London Printed for the Author S. C. 1673.
his Kingdome from his son Rehoboam and made Jeroboam the son of Nebat King of Israel even over ten Tribes without warrs which King fell to Idolatry and made Golden calves for gods and builded high places for his false worship against the lawes of God and set up 1 Kin 12 24 base fellowes to be priests of those high places and made other alterations in matters of Gods worship by his evil counsel which he took which the multitude 1 Kin 12 28 31. 13 33 13 ●5 16 2 Kin 13 3 ●7 followed for which God punished them with warre and other calamities for five hundred thousand chosen men out of 800000 valliant men of King Jeroboams Armie were slain in one battail And afterwards they were greatly diminished by several judgments unto the time of Jeoahaz King of Israel in the time of whose reign God delivered them into the hand of the King of Siria who made them low as the dust by threshing so that he did not leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsmen and 2 Kin. 13 7 ten Chariots and ten thousand footmen And in the reign of Hoshea their last and best King all the remnant of Israel were carried away captive by Shalmenazar King of Assiria 2 Kin 17 2 And the Tribe of Judah also with Benjamin fell to Idolatry Therefore God diminished them by thousands and hundreds of thousands by many sore judgments as the sword famine and pestilence And so great was the Lords wrath Ier 15 2 against them that he would not hear their cry nor any prayer for them for he said to his Prophet Jeremiah when they fast I will not hear their cry and pray not for this people But appointed him to take forth the precious from the vile and said Let them return unto thee Ier. 15 19 but return not thou unto them And in the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah they also were carried away 52 captive into Babilon But in Captivitie and affliction Gods people did bethink themselves and repented and their uncircumcised hearts were humbled and they returned to the Lord their God with their whole heart Therefore God comforted them by his promises and Providence and delivered Ester them from the bloody plots of their malignant enemies and caused them to find favour in the sight of them that led them captive And when the seventy years of Judahs captivity were accomplished Ezra Gods people the Jewes were delivered out of captivity and returned again into their own Land and there they renewed their covenant with God and were setled and encreased and multiplyed under the power and protect Nehemiah chapter 9. 36 37 38 Dan. 10. 13 20 21. 8. 5 7 21. on of the King of Persia That silver Monarch until the Prince of Persia withstood them Then God fought against that persecuting Prince and raised up the King of Greece who subdued the Persian power and did bear rule over all the earth and Gods people had liberty of conscience under the Greeks that Brazen Monarch but at last the Saints suffered great persecution for conscience sake Dan. 11. 16 2 M●● 7. Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38 under that power and were cruely used and exposed to much hardship hunger cold and nakednesse in saving their lives they wandred about in Sheepskins and in Goatskins and were destitute afflicted and tormented and although they were such of whom the world was not worthy for they were the sons of God yet they wandred in deserts in Mountains in dens in caves of the earth Then the Church of God consisting of precious Sains whose conversation was in heaven was as a woman crying travelling in birth pained to be delivered and longing for the coming of Christ Jesus the Son of God to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies that they might serve him without fear in holynesse and righteousnesse before him Luk 1. 74 75 all the dayes of their lives In time before our Saviours birth God raised up the Sons of Syon against Zac. 9. 13. the sons of Greece and made them fight valliantly and do exploits and they Dan. 11. 32 were victorious at several times against their cruel bloody persecutors yet the remainder of their enemies were many and lively and oft times molested them so that the Saints could not be quiet to serve the Lord but were still in fear But God did in process of time put down the Grecian power and did set up the Romans who did bear dominion over all the world under whose Luk 2. 1 2 3 4 5. 1. power Gods people the Jewes lived and had liberty to practice their Religion publiquely in their own land but had no Authority to put any man to death but were subject to the Roman power Ioh. 18. 31 Mat. 22. 19. 21. Mat. 17. 25 Ro. 23. 6. 7. 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Dan. 9. 25 26. unto whom they paid taxes and Tribute in Christs time which Christ himself submitted unto as his parents before him and his Apostles after and in the four hundred thirty and fourth year after the building of the wall of Jerusalem by Nehemiah Christ Jesus our Lord was crucified and dyed under that Roman power But God the father raised up his son 1 Cor 15. 4 Mat. 28 18 19. Christ on the the third day after his crucifying And gave him all power both in heaven and in earth therefore Christ gave commission to his Apostles to preach the gospel to all nations for their salvation which wrought powerfully and effectually throughout the Gal ● 7. 8 Act 22. 18. Rev 6. 9 20. 13. 16. 11 13 14. 18. ● Acts world amongst Jews and Gentiles But to this day the greater part of them have and do and will stand out against it to their own destruction and although multitudes both of Jews and Gentiles have been converted to the faith yet since those primative times there hath been a great falling away and a general departure from the faith and Order of the 2 Thes 2. 3. 2 Pet 2. 2. Gospel and men have given heed and still give heed to seducing spitits and 1 Tim 4. 2. 3 doctrines of devils speaking lies in hipocrisie having their conscienses seared with an hot Iron forbiding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats against Gods commands And these dayes are the last dayes perillous times wherein men are lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good Traytors heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God and yet these miscreants 2 Tim 3. 1 5. have a form but not the very form or power of Godlinesse for they deny the same in their conversations from such saith the Apostle turn away although they professe that they