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A33967	The improvableness of water-baptism, or, A discourse concerning the gravity and seriousness of the action and the usefulness of the sacred institution of baptism instructing all parents how great a thing they do when they bring their children to that holy ordinance, and all persons, whether young or old, what obligations their baptism hath brought them under, what wrath it hath exposed wicked and impenitent persons to, and what use they may make of their baptism for confirmation of their faith, and quickening them to repentance and an holy life : discoursed from Rom. 6:3,4, by way of sermon / by John Collinges ...	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing C5321; ESTC R5112	38,449	47

Baptism wherein the baptized person is buried with water signifieth the burial of the sins of that soul with Christ who shall truly repent and believe and dye unto sin 3. When the Lord together with the external sign conferreth his grace signified by that sign The sins of that soul are in that moment buried with Christ so as they shall appear no more either to their Souls eternal condemnation or in their former power and dominion as our Apostle afterward speaks in this Chapter Sin shall not have dominion over your mortal bodies because you are not under the law but under grace I have now done with the Doctrinal part of my discourse and the Proposition thus explained amounts to these two things 1. That every person who hath come under the Sacrament of Baptism by vertue thereof is dedicated to God and stands obliged to believe the Doctrine of the Gospel and to make a profession of that faith and is from that day made a member of the mystical body of Christ so far forth as it is visible and hath received that holy sign upon this trust That he or she shall not be ashamed of Christ and his Gospel but shall accept of Christ and the way of salvation through him revealed to the world and commit all its spiritual concerns unto him and rest upon him and him alone for life and salvation and grow up in him avoiding the pollutions of the world through lusts And this Baptism is both a sign to the soul commemorative of what Christ hath done in dying for sinners and declarative of what he further will do in the application of his redemption to them and that every one baptized walking up to his Baptismal dedication and Covenant shall certainly enjoy the benefits of Christs death And all such as come not only under the Ordinance but who are fully and perfectly baptized with the Holy Ghost are forthwith ingrafted into Christ and entituled to a present enjoyment of all the benefits of his death 2. That all such as have come under the holy Ordinance of Baptism ought to look back upon their Baptism as the Image of Christs death and upon themselves obliged by vertue of it to dye to sin like as he dyed for sin and all such as are perfectly baptized into Christ have their sins buried with Christ and their sins can no more rise up in judgment against them than one that is buried can rise up to do his former actions in the world and the power of sin is also dead in them so as it is impossible they should any longer serve sin and therefore the plea of those against Justification of grace for the righteousness of Christ imputed to the soul must be vain for that holy Doctrine cannot possibly open a door to a licentious conversation because all such persons are baptized into Christ and buried with Christ by Baptism into death This I take to be the full sense of the text and the Proposition which I have delivered in the words of the text Let me now come to the Application of this discourse Instruct 1. This in the first place may by way of Instruction let us know That Baptism considered as to the action is a most solemn serious action and ought to be so looked upon both by the Administrator and by those who offer themselves or their children unto it and considered as an Ordinance of the Gospel is a most useful Institution I will dwell a little upon both these branches it being indeed my great design in this discourse to recover to this Ordinance the gravity and reverence that is due to it and to make my hearers a little better to understand the meaning and usefulness of it than the most of our people seem to do The truth is we are degenerated into such a careless slighty administration of this sacred Institution as if the Baptizing of a child were an action of no graver import than washing its face and an opportunity amongst the richer to call friends together for a banquet or amongst those of meaner rank to call the richer together to make them or their Midwives or Nurses some small presents Let me therefore evince to you 1. That it is a most serious Action 2. That it is a most useful Institution 1. That it is a most serious Action Two things in my former discourse will evince this 1. That in Baptism there is a solemn dedication of the person baptized unto Christ 2. That there is in it a solemn adstriction or stipulation or engagement of the party baptized unto Christ 1. I say first There is in it a solemn dedication of the person There is in Baptism a solemn dedication of the person baptized to God unto Christ If the person baptized be adult and grown up he or she dedicate themselves If they be baptized in their Infancy their Parents whose they are dedicate them unto Christ The grown person that offereth him or her self to Baptism doth in effect say Lord I am thy creature the work of thy hands I have degenerated and forgotten thee my maker other Lords have ruled over me I have been servant to Idols a servant to the Devil to the world to my own lusts But Lord I am weary of that service and from my heart renounce it I have heard that thou hast sent Jesus Christ into the world to save sinners I desire to look upon it as a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation Lord I do here accept it and of that thy way of salvation and do from my heart this day set my self apart unto thee and solemnly offer up my self unto thee I am Christs servant O Lord I am Christs servant believing that is he who hath loosed my bands Admitting a child to be baptized in its infancy then the parents dedicate it Give me leave to allude to that of Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 27 28. The good woman had been praying for a child v. 15. having obtained a child of the Lord v. 22. She names the child Samuel asked of God v. 22. She resolves when he was weaned to carry him that he might appear before the Lord and there abide for ever v. 26. she brings the child to the High-Priest Eli and saith Oh my Lord as thy soul liveth my Lord I am the woman that stood by thee praying unto the Lord For this child I prayed and the Lord hath given me my petition I asked of him therefore also I have lent him to the Lord as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord. She meant it in a particular sense that she had dedicated him to the Priestly office But there is no parent that brings a child to Baptism but says in proportion thus unto God O Lord I am the person to whom thou hast given this child for it I prayed and thou hast given me the petition I asked of thee Therefore also I here dedicate him to thee O thou eternal Father To thee O

it and rests much upon the establishment or not establishment of the Doctrine of the Gospel by the Laws of this or that place But there is another way of defending the Truths of the Gospel by our blood and that is in a way of Martyrdom patiently and chearfully suffering even death it self rather than to deny the truths of the Gospel This is every Christians duty by vertue of his Baptism The very term Sacrament originally signified an Oath that Soldiers took to their Prince or Captain General to fight or spend their blood under his Command and Conduct and the giving of this name to these two great Ritual Institutions signifies the duty of a Christian that is baptized to fight under Christs colours and to resist unto blood fighting against sin 4. Finally There is a duty incumbent upon all baptized persons to be continually mortifying of sin and keeping under their body and making no provision for the flesh to obey it in the lusts thereof For saith the Text as many of us as are baptized into Christ are baptized into his death and we are buried with Christ by baptism into death The import of both which phrases I have at large before opened to you shewing you that they signifie this ingagement laid upon us Instruct 3. We may from hence infer What dreadful perjured Apostate wretches the most baptized persons are plain Renegado's from those colours under which they were listed in the day wherein they were baptized Shall I reckon them up to you that you may see the difference betwixt Christians in name and Christians in deed 1. What do you think of those who deny the Lord that bought them that blow a Trumpet and say What portion have we in David or in the son of Jesse What will you say to them who deny that Christ is the Eternal Son of God equal with the Father that have made shipwrack of their faith in Christ as God or the only Saviour and Redeemer of the World Was this the faith into which they were baptized 2. But how many more are there who are not in this black bill of Hereticks and Apostates but yet refuse to come to Christ that they might have life to lay hold on him and make application of his redemption By their baptism they were ingaged when they should come to years of discretion to say unto Christ Thou art our Lord our Saviour and the guide of our youth and we as the Embassadors of the Lord Jesus have besought them in Christs stead to be reconciled unto God and have not ceased from day to day with all the arguments we could use and even with tears to intreat them to be reconciled unto God yet they live at enmity and in open rebellion and disobedience to the great Precept of the Gospel They in their Baptism ingaged that they would take the Lord Jesus Christ to be their spiritual husband they are now grown up to years of discretion One is married to his Lusts another is married to the World many live in a total ignorance of the Gospel many more in a desperate unbelief of it in a neglect if not a contempt of Gods way of salvation The Lord makes a wedding-feast he sends to invite men to it One hath married a wife and cannot come another hath bought five yoke of oxen and hath not tryed them c. Every impenitent sinner is maimed unto one lust or another 3. How many are there who by their Baptism are obliged to defend and maintain the interest of Christ and his Gospel whose work it is to persecute the Image of Christ wherever they see it and set themselves in a direct opposition to those Truths Institutions and persons who have any thing of the image and superscription of Christ upon them 4. Finally What shall we say to those who live in the constant practice and indulgence of those lusts which by their baptism they were ingaged to mortifie and dye unto In short not only every person that is erroneous in Doctrine and a stiff maintainer of any Propositions contrary to the fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel not only persecutors and open enemies to the Cross and Gospel of Christ but every one that abideth and goeth on in his unbelief or who indulgeth himself in any unmortified lust is before God by reason of his Baptismal Dedication and Vow a sacrilegious perjured and Apostatized person Instruct 4. And from hence in the next place will the righteousness of God appear in throwing multitudes of baptized persons into that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone The Jews of old were wont much to glory in two things 1. That they had Abraham to their Father 2. That they were of the Circumcision and looked upon others that were not circumcised as accursed Our Saviour John the Baptist the Apostle Paul Matth. 3. John 8. Rom. 2. as you will find were put to take a great deal of pains to beat them out of these vain and empty confidences I am afraid that we have too many that are apt to flatter themselves with the name of Christ and that they are called Christians and are baptized into the name of Christ Luther complained that there were many that did but crepare Christum make a vain boast of Christ Jactant fumos nomina vana Catonum What said John Baptist to the Jews Think not to say within your selves We have Abraham to our Father Mat. 39. What doth Christ say John 8. 39. If you were Abrahams seed you would do the works of Abraham But now you seek to kill me This did not Abraham What saith St. Paul to their boasting of Circumcision Rom. 2. 25. For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision v. 28 29. For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh But he is a Jew who is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit whose praise is not of men but of God and Phil. 3. 2 3. Beware saith he of the concision he means the Jews the circumcision he calls them the concision because of the russle and rent they made in the Church of God For saith he we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit Alas poor creatures here will be your judgment your condemnation will be aggravated from this That you were baptized and so under a solemn dedication to Christ under a solemn vow to be his disciples and this vow of God you have broken this Oath you have satisfied you were bound to God and you are run away and brake your bonds and cast the cords behind you Shall the Master be justified that sends his Covenant-servant that runs from him or neglect his business to Bridewell Shall the General be justified which hangs up the Soldier who runneth from his colours and shall not God be justified in condemning thousands

THE IMPROVABLENESS OF Water-Baptism OR A DISCOURSE CONCERNING The Gravity and Seriousness of the Action AND THE Vsefulness of the Sacred Institution of BAPTISM Instructing all Parents how great a thing they do when they bring their Children to that Holy Ordinance And all Persons whether young or old what Obligations their Baptism hath brought them under what Wrath it hath exposed wicked and impenitent persons to and what Vse they may make of their Baptism for Confirmation of their Faith and quickning them to Repentance and an holy Life Discoursed from Rom. 6. 3 4. by way of SERMON By JOHN COLLINGES D. D. Minister of the Gospel in NORWICH Gal. 3. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ Ambros lib. de Sacr. Venisti ad sontem ingressus es considera quid videris quid locutus sis diligenter Et alibi Non sanat Baptismus perfidiorum non mundat sed polluit c. London Printed by A. Maxwell and R. Roberts 1681. TO THE READER Christian Reader THE Age wherein we live hath been so fruitful in good books of all sorts above all the Ages that have gone before us that were it not for the former part of that Prophecy Isa 11. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in my holy mountain at which work we daily see Papists and Atheists yet very busie We should conclude this the very time there prophecied of when the earth should be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea So as were it not for some particular subjects not yet so fully handled and the vanity of humane nature rather to affect to read the same thing in a new book and a new stile than in one of ancienter date there might a supersedeas be given to the Press that the world might contain the books of men Amongst other subjects something in my opinion as yet too little discoursed of is this of Baptism It hath been discoursed by many Systimatically and by many Polemically but by few Practically The Papists who for a thousand years had held the far greater part of the Christian World in subjection to their most erroneous Doctrines and superstitious usages attributed so great a vertue to the work of Baptism done whether by a Priest or a Midwife and had laid so much of their hay and stubble on this foundation that men of sense and Religion could by no means agree to them and some on the other extreme began to think Baptism in the whole was but a needless Ceremony because the Papists had added so many idle ceremonies to it Bellarmine reckons no less than Twenty-two 1. The propounding the name 2. The scrutiny whether the persons were competent 3. The Renouncing the Devil and all his works 4. A profession of the persons faith 5. The sign of the Cross 6. Exorcisms 7. Breathing on the person baptized 8. Salt put into the mouth 9. Touching the Childs nose and ears with Spittle 10. Unction with Oyl 11. Laying the Priests hands on the child to bless it 12. Abstenence from wine and flesh These he makes Ceremonies necessary before Baptism At Baptism 13. The giving of the name to the person baptized 14. Sureties 15. The Consecration of the water 16. Dipping thrice 17. That it be at Easter or Whitsontide After Baptism he makes necessary 18. An holy kiss 19. An anointing the crown of the head with Oyl 20. Putting a lighted Wax-candle into the baptized persons hands 21. Putting upon him or her a white garment 22. Giving the person baptized Milk Honey or Wine How vain doth man become in his imaginations as to sacred things when he leaves the word of God! Our Forefathers were imployed in throwing out the Popish rubbish and restoring the Ordinance to the purity of its Administration and while they were doing that they were troubled with the Socinians whose opinions in this the Quakers now espouse making Baptism needless and with the Antipaedobaptists denying its use as to Children and multitudes of books have been wrote on these Arguments By this time another generation appeared maintaining Baptismal Regeneration or rather real and true Regeneration as well as Justification upon Baptism Some few books have been wrote on this argument And I perswade my self that one great thing which hath led some Divines of note to assert that the baptized persons are forthwith justified and regenerated is because they have thought it absurd so much as to imagine that Christ should create an Ordinance that should have no real effect or usefulness and what effect they should ascribe to it less than this worthy of so great an Institutor they could not tell Besides that this notion excelently served the design of others who without this discharge of the guilt of Adam's and Original sin would have found it an hard task to have maintained a power in mans will to what was spiritually good or Justification any other way than by the imputed Righteousness of Christ These controversies have so imployed the Pens of those great and learned men who have wrote about Baptism that scarce any hath wrote fully and practically upon it to satisfie the world of the usefulness of Baptism or to instruct it concerning the exceeding solemnity gravity and seriousness of the Action It is thirty years since I at that time a very young man endeavoured my own satisfaction in the case and then communicated my Meditations from the Pulpit to the people to whom God had at that time set me in relation Lately I fell upon my Notes and revised them adding some things from my maturer judgment Discoursing them privately I was desired by a first and a second person who heard me to give them the Copies of them they being persons whose Piety and Judgments I had reason to value I thought they might also be useful to others and resolved to give them both to them and others from the Press Two fruits of this Discourse I would hope for and shall pray for which if I obtain I shall gain my great end in the Publication of it First That those Parents into whose hands it shall come and to whom God shall hereafter give Children which they shall offer to God in Baptism would as sadly reflect upon their former perfunctory performance of their duties in this grave and most solemn action and their neglects in minding their children when they have come to years of this dedication and of the solemn Oath to God in which they engaged them and call upon them to remember it to fulfil it so that they would be more grave and serious in those actions for the time to come and not make Christnings as they call them meerly times for Compotations Collations upon friends and banquets I did not think it necessary but I bless God this Ordinance had always that awe upon me that I chuse to baptize my Children on the Lords-days in the publick Congregation and with very little company attending from

of baptized persons whole lives are but a continued apostacy God would be justified in it as Creator for your not living up to the law of your Creation but how much more when you have in Baptism dedicated your selves to him and made a solemn vow to be his servants Instruct 5. From hence you may observe That there is a great difference to be put betwixt persons baptized Some are Baptized with Water others not with water only but with the Holy Ghost also and with fire some have been baptized only with a Ministerial Baptism others have been baptized also with a true effectual spiritual Baptism some have been baptized in the name of Christ or into Christ only in a large sense others are baptized into Christ in a true spiritual and strict sense And this brings me to a second Use Vse 2. Which shall be of Enquiry Whether we be baptized into Jesus Christ yea or no Multitudes as you have heard have been baptized that in a true proper and spiritual sense have not been baptized into Christ But you will say how shall we ever satisfie our selves in this point I pray observe my text and the parallel text to it Gal. 3. 27. In that text you will find these words As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ In this text you have it As many of us as have been baptized into Christ are baptized into his death We are buried with Christ by baptism into death The phrases of the text I have fully opened but let me speak a word or two to the other phrase As many of us saith the Apostle as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ We meet with the phrase in other texts Rom. 13. 14. But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 4. 24. you read of putting on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness and Col. 3. 10. you have a phrase much like it But put you on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness and Ephes 6. 11. you read of putting on the whole armour of God Christ and his Graces in these texts seem to be set out to us under the notion of a garment Rev 6. 11. you read of white robes that were given to the Saints and chap. 7. 9. of a great multitude to whom were given white robes and palms St. John v. 13. asking what they were who were arrayed with white robes had answer That they were those who had washed their robes white in the blood of the lamb In some conformity to this God speaks Ezek. 16. 10. I girded thee about with fine linnen Now Rev. 19. 8. the fine linnen is the righteousness of the Saints not our own righteousness which is of the law but the righteousness which is of God even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Christ Phil. 3. 10. and the Church owns that her righteousness was as a menstruous cloth and as filthy rags but Jerem. 23. 6. he Christ is the Lord our righteousness So then to put on Christ is to put on the righteousness of Christ This is put on 1. For our Justification It is the Righteousness of God in the Gospel revealed from faith to faith that is spoken of Phil. 3. 10. 2. For our Sanctification not that we are to do nothing but as the Apostle speaks that we might be compleat in him and Rom. 8. 3. that the Righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit This now more generally but more particularly Doth any one ask me Sir how should I know whether I have put on Christ or no I answer 1. If thou hast put on Christ thou hast sometime before discerned thy soul to be naked It is Gods act to put us on Christ and what God doth of this nature is all in Charity He hath commanded us Luke 14. 13. When we make a feast to call the poor the maimed the lame and the blind not our rich neighbours v. 12. lest they bid us again and make us a recompence God will not be recompenced for his acts of grace he feeds the hungry and cloatheth the naked the rich he sends empty away The proud Pharisee is too well cloathed in his own opinion for the Lord to put him on Christ and his robes Again Though the putting on Christ be Gods act as to Imputation of Christs righteousness and the acceptation of us in the beloved yet it is also our Act in respect of the exercise of our faith no soul will wear the garment of another that hath a fit and decent one of his own we naturally scorn to be beholden to any God therefore first causeth the soul to see that it is naked and to complain of its nakedness then he putteth Christs robes upon it Did you ever discern that you were naked Were you ever truly sensible that you wanted a righteousness a garment of righteousness to appear in before God another day lest you at that day should walk naked and men and Angels should see your shame if you did not you may be confident that you never yet put on Christ nor were in a strict spiritual sense baptized into Christ 2. If you have put on Christ you have put on him alone The Children of God shall never stand before him another day in a parti-coloured coat Christs robes will not go over another garment nor be stitched together with our rags It is a piece of new cloth that must not cannot be sown to an old garment This is the Papists vanity they would stitch up their own works with the robes of Christs righteousness and both together shall make up a righteousness for them to appear before God The good Christian may be resembled to one of you Weavers who are hard at work all the week long but never put on a piece of your own making A good Christian is always hard at work and working the work of righteousness praying hearing fasting serving God in the works of his general calling and of his particular relation with his utmost diligence and faithfulness but when he hath done he saith Lord let not this be my clothing I dare not appear before thee in these things Lord put me on Christ help me to put on Christ Let me saith the Apostle Phil. 3. 9. be found in him not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith He that hath put on Christ saith as Esau to his Brother to all the Angels and Saints I have enough my brethren I have enough keep what you have unto your selves nay he saith to his own Soul I have been washed in Jordan I need not my own Abana and Parphar he will see a need of his own work as to salvation and the judicial discharge of him at the last day if men