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A32091
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A practical discourse concerning vows with a special reference to baptism and the Lord's Supper / by Edmund Calamy.
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Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.
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1697
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Wing C274; ESTC R6151
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drawing back THE Vow which they in their Baptism actually and voluntarily make and come under is of this Tenour and may be drawn up in Form thus I Believe in an Eternal Infinitely Glorious God who made Heaven and Earth and in Iesus Christ his only Son who Redeem'd Mankind from Misery and Wrath And in the Ever Blessed Spirit the Fountain of all Grace and Peace TO this God the Father Son and Spirit I willingly freely and chearfully consecrate my self For I am sensible God is my Owner and Proprietor to him therefore I make an Absolute Resignation of my self and all that is or ever shall be mine as his own engaging to use my self and all that I have as his and contentedly to rest in all his Disposals And it being my Rectitude and Happinefs to Obey and Please Him I 'll labour to bring both my Soul and Body into the most Absolute Subjection to him and to make it my Delight and Business sincerely and exactly to Obey Him I 'll Love Him with my whole Heart and Soul and Mind and Might and quiet my self in his Love and Faithfulness whatever shall befall me in the World I 'll lead a Life of Thankfulness to him for his Innumerable Benefits and endeavour to Glorify him with the estimation of my Mind the Praises of my Mouth and the Holiness of my Life and Conversation WITH Humble Thankfulness I Adore my Dearest Saviour for his Redeeming Love and on his Merits I 'll bottom all my hopes of Pardon Justification and Eternal Life I am heartily griev'd for all my Sins and sensible they would undo me without his help and interposition to him therefore I flye as my City of Refuge Him I resolve constantly to use as the means of my Souls access to God acceptance with him and help and comfort from him and I 'll entertain no thoughts of coming to the Father but by him And he being the great Prophet and Teacher of his Church I 'll humbly wait as a Scholar in his School to learn of him by his Spirit Word and Ministers the further knowledge of God and of the things that tend to my Salvation and this with an honest willing and teacheable Mind in Faith Dilligence Obedience Patience and Peace I now swear â—…ealty to him as my Lord and King and Vow sincere Obedience to all his Holy Laws and Commandments I 'll Imitate him as my Pattern and write after the Copy that he hath set me both as to my Temper and my Life I 'll use him as the Great Physician of Souls and take all his saving Medicines how unpleasing and distastful soever I 'll follow him as the Captain of my Salvation whithersoever he shall lead me and spend my days in a Vigilant Resolute and Constant War against the Flesh the World and the Devil FOR I renounce the Flesh that is Naturally pleas'd with Sin and impatient of Necessary Confinements I renounce Self as my end I also renounce the World which is so apt to administer Food and Fuel to my Lusts I renounce all that in it wherewith the Carnal part is gratifi'd as Matters of Pleasure Profit or Honour not regarding them as means to my Happiness I renounce the Devil and all subjection to him 't is Christ the Lord of Life to whom I 'll look 't is his Subject I resolve to be I 'll Humbly Earnestly Daily Implore the help and assistance of the Blessed Spirit of Grace that he may reside in me and be the Life of my Soul and by the help of God I wont Resist or Quench him but thankfully Obey him The Scriptures by him Inspir'd I take for the Rule of my Faith and Life and engage to keep close to And Christianity to the Truth whereof he so many ways hath set his Seal is the Religion I 'll profess thereto I 'll adhere and therein alone expect Salvation On the assistance of this Blessed Spirit alone shall be all my dependence in the Christian Life and his Conduct I 'll follow thro' all Difficulties and Temptations in the way of Holiness towards Everlasting Happiness FOR it shall be my constant endeavour to adorn the Doctrine of God my Saviour in all things by living Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present World I 'll do my Gracious God all the service and others all the good I can in works of Piety Justice and Charity with Prudence Fidelity Industry Zeal and Delight like one that knows 't is God that intrusts me with all my Talents of the Improvement whereof I must give a strict Account I 'll be careful to render unto all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear and Honour to whom Honour and to owe no Man any thing but Love And that is a Debt which I 'll be continually paying by all suitable expressions of Affection and Tenderness to all I have to do with especially those to whom Nature or Providence hath peculiarly link'd me I 'll Love all that have the same Nature with my self but more especially who are Children with me of the same Heavenly Father Members of the same Body and Heirs of the same Inheritance And in general I 'll make this my Rule to do to others as I would my self be done unto I 'll carefully put a way from me all Wrath Anger and Clamour and beware of all Violent Passion I 'll keep at the greatest distance from any sort of Lewdness or Wantonness I 'll hate and abhor all Lying and Slandering Backbiting and Detracting and by the Grace of God never suffer my self to envy my Neighbours Prosperity or Rejoyce in his Adversity But I will be Pittiful and Courteous Tender-hearted and Compassionate I 'll Relieve the Necessitous Feed the Hungry Cloath the Naked Entertain Strangers and visit the Sick and the Imprison'd as I have ability and oportunity which are things my Blessed Lord hath testifi'd are very acceptable and pleasing to him I 'll faithfully endeavour to fill up all my places and Relations with suitable prescribed Duty and to employ all my Trusts for God I 'll be orderly in in his Church and therein submit to all his Discipline and endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace I 'll maintain no Grudges against any but when injur'd will be ready to forgive as God I hope for Christs sake will forgive me I 'll take up my Cross whenever call'd to it and rather forsake all things than desert my God and Saviour And since my Weakness is such as that let me do my best I shall often stumble and fall whenever I do so I 'll renew my Repentance and Divine Grace enabling me return again to my Obedience AND since it hath pleas'd my Dearest Saviour to Institute a standing Memorial in his Church of his Death and Passion to be Solemnized by all who pretend to be his Followers I do therefore Solemnly Vow and Promise with an Humble Penitent and Believing Heart