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A45125 The axe laid to the root of separation, or, The churches cause against it by the author who wrote in the late Times for free admission to the Lord's Supper. Humfrey, John, 1621-1719. 1685 (1685) Wing H3670; ESTC R225063 79,856 182

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choose Life Deut. 30.15 19. One can't imagine how these People should be left to choose what they would do but that their Engagement must have this Construction As ever we expect to escape the Curse or reap the Blessing we will do it And forasmuch as that which they Could and Did was the main thing to be Done and they were called to it it was not for any to leave undone So much because More was also required Vnto Which the most of them could Engage only under God's terms leaving themselves to Mercy and Which accordingly they neither Absolutely intended nor Did. I will add So long as a Jew cleaved to God in opposition to Idols and lived in general as other Jews here was the Essentials of That Covenant and the Breach of other Precepts was failing in the Integrals But the Essence of the Covenant of Life consists in Integrity Integrity measured by Grace accepting of what is Done and forgiving what is Vndone through the Righteousness and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ which none but the Regenerate have must be confessed In the Fourth place I must say upon this It having pleased God to set up a Kingdom over this People and as a King to give them his Statutes and Judgments and they as his Subjects declaring they will obey them In the Division of the Nations He set a Ruler over them but Israel is the Lord's Portion says Ecclesiasticus I must take leave to ask How these Words All that the Lord hath said we will do can prove That no Person therefore that says not the same Words may be Baptized or that because the Israelites said so therefore the Baptized must say Abrenuncio and Spond●o Especially when they were not prescribed by God but Words of their own and if they had spoken them Examiningly and with more Caution and said but as we do in the Common-Prayer Lord have Mercy upon us and incline our Hearts to keep all these thy Laws I am perswaded it had been better It is manifest that every Jew was to Circumcise his Children and Joshua all the Congregation in the Wilderness but I find not that every Father or every One there was to make such a Profession a Profession in such large Words in the Doing I find not such a Profession neither required of any of the Baptized in the New Testament The Eunuch says He believed Christ was the Son of God and those that came to John's Baptism confessed their Sins both which I have provided against and that is all I find There Nay though Israel indeed used these Words when God gave the Law at first I find not in Deut. 29. when Moses called them to Covenant Again or to Another Covenant v. 1. about Forty Years after that v. 5. that they used the same Words This is certain Man Woman and Child enter Covenant v. 12. but what Words passed or whether they Consented by Silence or otherwise we read not Suppose then these Questions in the Churches Form to be retained and the Baptized Persons left to use what Words they Could and Would in their Responses I pray were not the Baptism good Suppose instead of saying All this I stedfastly believe a Man should say I believe it with all my Heart or I Really and in Truth believe it as the Eunuch forementioned or should be only able to say I believe it Lord help my Vnbelief with the Man in the Gospel Should such a one be turn'd away for That I am pleased to see how in the Third Question Wil t thou obediently keep God's Holy Will when the Child who Answers by his Sureties and is Innocent is made to answer I will the Adult Person who Answers for himself and must think of Performing it does say with all Tenderness and Caution I will endeavour so to do God being my Helper And when the Church her self doth vary the Response if the Baptized who is yet more Tender being fearful lest he is defective in that Endeavour should be able to say only I do acknowledge this Renunciation of Flesh World and Devil I own this Walking in God's Commandments all the Days of my Life to be my Duty Pray God give me his Grace to do it I desire I may I can say no more I would be very willing to know whether such a Man might not be Baptized For my part I should judge such a one sitter to be Received than the most of Confident Believers that make no Bones at all of the Matter I would have no Man here so high for the Church as not to consider the Foundation I do acknowledge that every Man who was Circumcised became a Debtor thereby to the whole Law and every one that is Baptized is a Debtor to the Practice of all Christianity But I am apprehensive also that the Vnregenerate Man cannot actually in Words say I Renounce the Devil World and the Elesh so as Not to be led by them when yet he may be obliged to it as well as the Regenerate by Covenant-Engagement at least in the Sign of it I am willing to have a Man's Duty pressed on him in regard to the Obligation as much as any But as for the Profession he makes in Words I cannot but be Tender of it for my Life I am Conscious how one Excellent good Man is still for to have some Law Established in case at least of any Accommodation that every Man who offers his Child to Baptism or Himself to the Eucharist should make his Profession that he Takes God for his Chief Good Christ for his Lord and Saviour the Holy Ghost for his Sanctifier and unfeignedly Repenting of all his Sins he does resolve upon a Sincere Obedience through the Course of his Life for the Time to come or the like Words Which I must confess is so grievous a thing to my Mind in regard to that Formality and Authorized Lying which the Most should be put Vpon and that Scruple and Perplexity which the Best most Serious and most Tender should be Put To thereby that I cannot in my Heart but rather be glad though simply I approve not the thing that the Church hath imposed this Profession upon the Vncapable Infant and the Sureties in their Names Neither is there any thing I know in the Scripture for such strict Injunctions unless these Words of the Israelites Words of their Own not Imposed be any thing which hath made me therefore speak thus much the more about it It is said for mollifying the Matter If a Man can say I am willing to be a Christian upon the Terms of the Covenant it is enough but this is the Thing if you understand by it the Covenant of Life that a Man doubts Neither is it less but only in Words than what is said before A Person is afraid that he is indeed Vnwilling to Submit to something or other that is in the Terms when he hath strictly examin'd his whole Life and is in Good Earnest with his