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A letter or word of advice to the saints known or unknown. By Thomas Hickes, the elder.
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Hicks, Thomas, 17th cent.
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1653
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A LETTER OR WORD OF ADVICE TO THE SAINTS Known or unknown By Thomas Hickes the elder ALTIMUS SAPERE NOLI London Printed Anno Domini 1653. A word of advice to the Saints known or unknown I Thought it good my loving brethren whom I love in sincerity of heart in and for Christ Jesus sake and all the Saints universal and militant hete upon earth and therefore I thought it good to speak a word of advice to the Saints out of the Word of God which the true Saints will be willing to hear about Baptizing of Children and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper of the Baptism of Children First in the last Chapter of Saint Matthew the nineteenth Verse our Saviour commands his Apostles to go teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost a general command to all Nations teaching them to observe all things that Christ Jesus commanded them now Christ Jesus had taught them that they should not keep little children from him he was displeased when they did and he commanded them to be brought unto him and he laid his hands on them and blest them and said of such is the kingdom of heaven let us obey Christ Jesus command and be charitable to the souls of our little children and bring them to Christ's Congregations to be baptized and prayed for The words of our Saviour Christ Jesus in the third of Saint John the fifth Verse Christ Jesus saith Verily verily I say unto you Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God This verily verily of our Saviour should make the upright hearted Saints to be careful of the souls of their children and to have them baptized and prayed for Was the Lord about to kill Moses for not Circumcizing his son which was the Jewish covenant and will not God be angry with you for neglecting the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth Chapter of Genesis the second Verse And God said unto Abraham thou shalt keep my Covenant therefore and thy seed after thee in their generations the tenth Verse This is my Covenant which you shall keep between me and you every male childe among you shall be circumcized and you shall circumcize the flesh of your fore-skins and it shall be a token of the Covenant between me and you and he that is eight dayes old shall be circumcized every man-childe in your generations he that is born in thy house or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed he that is born in thy house and he that is bought with money must needs be circumcized and my Covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting Covenant fourteen Verse And the uncircumcized man childe whose flesh of his fore-skin is not circumcized that soul shall be cut off from his people he hath broken my Covenant Now you see this heavie burthen which was laid on the people of God before Christ but now taken away by the Covenant of grace the fifteenth of the Acts and the eleventh Verse But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we shall be saved as well as they now God forbid but that our Children should be within the Covenant of grace as well as we Corinthians the seventh Chapter and the fourteenth Verse Saint Paul faith The children of Believers are holy the second Commandement God will shew mercy unto thousands of them that love him and keep his Commandements The hundred and second Psalme the last Verse the children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established for ever The hundred and third Psalm the seventeenth Verse But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto childrens children The Lord sanctified the Prophet Jeremiah from his mothers wombe and the Lord loved King Solomon when he was a childe in the 14 Chapter of the first Book of Kings And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him For he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him is some good things toward the Lord God of Israel But again observe the new covenant Hebrews the eighth Chapter and the eighth Verse Behold the day is come saith the Lord When I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah the tenth Verse For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lord I will put my laws into their minde and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people Why then let us have a care to have our children baptized Gods promise is to us and to our children Our Saviour Christ Jesus shed both water and bloud for our sins upon the cross let us then bring our children to be baptized and let the parents and the Congregation pray that their sins of original guiltiness be washed away and nothing doubting of the mercy of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus he called them unto him and whosoever received the Kingdom of Heaven must receive it as a little childe and so I leave of writing of this first Sacrament desiring God to bless his good Word unto us And now I come to write something of the Sacrament of the Lord Supper of which I am confident there are many thousands about this City of London that have not received it this seven or eight yeers this forceth me in love to write to the Churches of Christ Jesus to remember them of these two Sacraments which Christ Jesus hath left for our good to remember his death until he come to judge the quick and the dead It is a soul devouring sin to despise and undervalue the Sacrament of the Lords Supper All the Families of Gods people the Jews were by God commanded to eat the Paschal Lambe the twelfth Chapter of Exodus the third verse This Paschal Lambe was but a type and figure of Christ Jesus the Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the World Christ is the living bread which came down from heaven If any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the World The sixth of Saint John the 52 53. Then Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his bloud you have no life in you For my flesh is meat indeed and my bloud is drink indeed Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day 63 verse It is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life in the 26 Chapter of S. Matthew and the 26 27 verses and when they were
eating Jesus took bread and blessed it brake it and gave it to his Disciples and said Take eat This is my body and he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it unto them saying Drink ye all of it For this is my bloud of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins in Saint Luke the 22 Chapter 19 and 20 verses and he took bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave it unto them saying This is my body which is given for you This do in remembrance of me likewise also the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you The 14 Chapter of Saint Mark the 22 and 23 verses and as he did eat Jesus took bread and blessed it and brake it and gave to them and said Take eat This is my body and he took the Cup and when he had given thanks he gave to them and they all drank of it and he said This is my bloud of the New Testament which is shed for many Christ Jesus hath shed his bloud for many then come dear brethren to the table of the Lord Jesus with faith and repentance Come to the Word of God preached by his Ministers their lips will increase thy knowledge Read the Word of God and try your faith pray with humility often Use all Gods Ordinances as well as one Let the weak in faith come to the Sacrament as well as the strong the Sacrament is a soul strengthening Ordinance it is a growing Ordinance it is an Ordinance if it be quickened with the spirit of faith it seals and assures us of the forgivenesse of all our sins then let not hous-keepers neglect it seven or eighe yeers together but prepare themselves and let not young men and maids stay till they are five and twenty yeers old and never prepare themselves to receive the Sacrament and so become sottish and foolish in spiritual things therefore I humbly desire and request the Ministers and Over-seers of Parishes and Churches to have a care of the souls of these people some hath more then othets the Lord reward them in S. Matthew the 20 Chapter and the ninth verse Christ saith to his Ministers Go yee therefore into the high-wayes and as many as you finde bring them to the Marriage so those servants went out into high-wayes and gathered all as many as they found both bad and good and the Wedding was furnished with guests and when the King came to see the guests he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment Christ knows best the wicked and ungodly men let not us judge our brother where we have no witness and do not know nothing our selves If sinful Zacheus or sinful Mary Magdalen will come to their Father with faith love and repentance let us not be like the elder brother of the Prodigal son to grudge at it Luke 15.28 verse Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the water of life and he that hath no money come ye buy and eat come buy wine and milk without money and without price Esay 50.1 Our Saviour Christ came to seek save them that were lost and there is joy in heaven of on sinner that repenteth then let us forsake our sins and seek out the communion of Saints and minde heavenly rest and joy more then we have God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son for it that whosoever believed in him might not perish but have everlasting life and happiness to the which everlasting life the Lord God of his infinite mercy bring us through Jesus Christ Amen FINIS