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A22474	The badges of Christianity. Or, A treatise of the sacraments fully declared out of the word of God Wherein the truth it selfe is proued, the doctrine of the reformed churches maintained, and the errors of the churches of Rome are euidently conuinced: by pervsing wherof the discreet reader may easily perceiue, the weak and vnstable grounds of the Roman religion, and the iust causes of our lawfull separation. Diuided into three bookes: 1. Of the sacraments in generall. 2. Of Baptisme. 3. Of the Lords Supper. Hereunto is annexed a corollarie or necessary aduertisement, shewing the intention of this present worke, opening the differences among vs about the question of the supper, discouering the idolatry and diuisions of the popish clergy, ... By William Attersoll, minister of the Word of God.	Attersoll, William, d. 1640.; Attersoll, William, d. 1640. Principles of Christian religion. aut	1606 (1606)	STC 889; ESTC S115827	366,439	472

promise the partakers of the same hope the members of the same bodye and the professors of the same faith to contend and striue one against another to delight in brauling fighting quarrelling and to norish hatred malice rancour spite enuy biting and backbiting one of another If Ephraim be set against Manasses and Manasses against Ephraim if Brother be diuided against brother if we bite one at another let vs take heed least we be consumed one of another The sonnes of God are renewed into the image ofGod to resemble their heauenly father in true holines and doe all weare the same cognizance and liuery For the Sacraments are the marks of Ch. sheepe whereby they are knowne and discerned so that all our discentions diuisions railings reuilings disgracings and defacings one of another tend to the reproch and dishonour of our common father and do giue an heauy testimony against our souls with God and his elect Angels For how do we approach vnto God how do we come into his presence With what harts do we pray before him and vnto him Are we not taught to aske forgiuenes of our sins as we forgiue the trespasses done vnto vs It then we be malicious and enuious and carry the fresh remembrance of wronges in our hearts to pursue them with reuenge do we not pray against our selues Do we not beseech God to poure out vengance vpon vs Do we not open our mouths to our owne destruction For when wee vse our tongues to say Lord forgiue vs for euen we forgiue is it not asmuch as if we should pray forgiue vs not Lord for we do not we will not forgiue others Therefore after the forme of prayer giuen to the Disciples Christ addeth If ye do forgiue men their trespasses your heauenly father will also forgiue you but if ye do not forgiue men their trepasses no more will your father forgiue you your trespasses And as he exhorteth that when they stand and appeare before the Altar they must forgiue so when we appeare at the Lords table we must forgiue if we haue any thing against any man that our father also which is in heauen may forgiue vs our trespasses Now if we woulde be directed to knowe whether this loue be is vs or not wee may try our owne hearts by these holy properties and blessed effectes described by the Apostle 1 cor xiii Loue saith he suffereth long it is bountifull loue enuieth not loue doth not boast itselfe it is not puffed vp it disdaineth not it seeketh not her owne things it is not prouoked to anger it thinketh not euill it reioyceth not in iniquity but reioyceth in the truth it suffereth all things it beleeueth al thinges it hopeth al things it endureth al things Heere we may see what manner of loue ought to be in vs. Euery one of vs must indeuour that all the parts of this description may rightly agree to euery one of vs and truely be found in vs toward all men euen our enimies as we see Iesus Christ hath left vs an example of his loue when he praied for his enimies that crucified and cruelly entreated him father forgiue them for they know what they do and this did stephen to those that stoned him Lord lay not this sin to their charge This is the way let vs walke in it this was their practise let vs follow it Thus we haue shewed the necessity of examination of ourselues before we come to the Lordes supper and declared the parts wherein it standeth and the manner how it is to be performed If we come furnished with these things with sauing knoledg with iustifieng faith with vnfained repentance with a louing and longing reconciliation towarde our brethren among whom we liue hauing as much as is possible Peace with all men yea euen our enimies let vs not abstaine from the Lordes table by reason of some frailties and infirmities in vs for God couereth them and will not bring them into remembrance as we see 2. Chron 30. A multitude of people had not clensed themselues yet did eate the passeouer but not as it was writen wherfore Hezekiah praied for them saying The good God be merciful toward him that prepareth his whole hart to seeke the Lord god the god of his fathers though he be not clensed according to the purification of the sanctuarie and the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people Where we see that because their hart was vpright and sincere their wants and imperfections were not imputed vnto them For God respecteth the truth of the inward partes and pard oneth their sinnes that thus prepare their harts to seeke him So then they were greatly deceiued that thoght they honoured the Sacrament by abstaining from it it is not honoured but dishonoured not hallowed but prophaned not regarded reuerently but reproched greeuously by our wilfull abstinence as the Apostle teacheth 1 cor 11. let a man examin himself and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup. He doth not say let him proue himselfe and so let him abstaine For the Sacrament is abused as well by forbearing hauing examined our selues as by not examining our selues and receiuing vnworthily And thus much of examination and the manner to be obserued therein Chap. 20. The conclusion containing an abridgement of the whole treatise THe effect of that which hath bene deliuered hitherto in these Books may thus be gathred into a short sum and abridgement We haue declared that God in al times and ages of the church from the first being of our first parents hath to his word and promises anexed sacraments as seales of assurance for the confirmation of them therby magnifieng his owne mercy toward his people shewing our weaknes and vnworthines and condemning such as oftentimes desire to come to the Lordes table but esteeme little of the preaching of the word whereas the word and Sacraments haue one and the same author they are instruments of the same grace their whole force and effect dependeth on God they require faith to be mingled with them they profit not alway at the very moment of hearing and receiuing Notwithstanding some differences wee find betweene them as namely in the greater necessity of the worde then of the Sacramentes Infidels were neuer barred from hearing the word when they would become hearers thereof and whereas the word affecteth one only of the sences to wit the hearing the Sacraments 〈◊〉 offered to the eies as well as to the eares and so in some sort become more effectuall then the word Touching the worde Sacrament it is drawne from martiall discipline and properly signifieth the Souldiers othe whereby hee bindeth himselfe to his Captaine which worde being vsed by the olde Latine interpreter is now become ordinary and common in the Church which is not mentioned in so many sillables in the Scriptures And howsoeuer the word be often taken in a large and generall signification yet

not the forgiuenes of 〈◊〉 to the annointing with oyle but to the prayer of faith Acknoledge saith he your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed for the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much if it be feruent And again The praier of faith shal saue the sick and the lord shal raise him vp and if he haue committed sins they shal be forgiuen him Wher we see that the effect of pardon is ascribed to the force of prayer therfore extream vnction is no sacra and so this greazing houseling annointing is to be abandoned of the people of God What then wil some say do you leaue the sick without al comfort and consolation No we visit the sick among vs and although we do not housse and annoint them with material oyle wee annoint them with the precious oyle of the mercy of god we instruct them how to prepare themselues to leaue the world to depart this mortall life and to strengthen themselues in the assured hope of euerlasting life Wee say dear brother God sendeth his messenger death to summon and arrest you to come into his presence Al the children of Adam are dust and to dust they must return Man that is borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of trouble he shooteth forth like a Flower and is cut downe he vanisheth also as a shadow and continueth not Death is common to all flesh it is appointed to all men once to 〈◊〉 It is the gate throgh which we must enter into heauen If we would liue for euer we must die for the way to liue eternally is 〈◊〉 to die Though the time be vncettaine where or how we shall dy yet nothing so certain as that we must dy we know not how soone This must not seeme strange vnto you for the whole life of a Christian should be nothing but a meditation of death being the end of all flesh we should make account of euery day of our life as if it wer the instant day of our death You must consider that nothing befalleth vs by chance or fortune al things are ruled and guided by the soueraigne prouidence of almighty God all the hairs of our head are numbred not one sparrow falleth to the grounde without the wil of your heauenly father humble your selfe therfore vnder his mighty hand he conecteth euery child whom he loueth My son despise not the chastening of the Lorde neither faint when thou art rebuked of him for whom the L. loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery son whom he receiueth Heerby then God tryeth and proueth your obedience patience and faith as we see in the example of Iob who praised the name of God in all his miseries and if the Lord woulde kill him he would not cease to put his trust in him We exhort them to set their houses in order before they dy thereby to cutte off hatred and contention and to staye quarrels and suites after their departure whereby oftentimes more is spent then was left then to forget the world and the things of the world and wholly to giue themselues to the meditation of the life to come where this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shal put on imortality according to the exhortation of christ and his Apostles in many places as Mat. 6. Seeke ye first the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all thinges shall be ministred vnto you And 1 Cor 7. This I say brethren because the time is snort heereafter that both they which haue Wiues be as though they had none and they which weep as thogh they wept not they that reioyce as tho they reioysed not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that vse this world as though they vsed it not for the fashion of this world goeth away And the same Apostle Our conuersation is in heauen from whence also we looke for a sauiour euen the Lords Iesus Christ who shall change our vile 〈◊〉 that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto himselfe So 2. Cor 4. c. Therefore we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed daily For our light affiction which is but for a moment causeth vnto us a farre more excellent and an eternall weight of glorie while we looke not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not 〈◊〉 for the thinges which are seene are temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall For we know that if our earthlie house of this tabernacle be destroyed we haue a building giuen of God that is an house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens for therefore wee sigh desiring to be cloathed with our house which is from heauen because if we be cloathed we shal not be found naked And the wiseman Eccle. 1. Vanitie of vanities saith the Preacher vanitie of vanities all is vanitie I haue considered al the works that are don vnder the sun behold al is vanitie and vexation of spirit So 1. Ioh. 2. Loue not this world neither the things that are in this world If any man loue this worlde the loue of the father is not in him for al that is in this world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eies and the pride of life is not of the father but is of this world and this world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that fulfilleth the wil of God abideth euer And the same in his reue lations I heard a voice from heauen saying write the dead which die in the Lord are fully blessed euen so saith the spirit for they rest from their labors and their workes follow them They shal hunger no more neither thirst anie more 〈◊〉 shal the Sunne light on them neither anie heat for the lambe which is in the midst of the throne shal gouern them and shal lead them vnto the liuelie fountaines of Waters and God shal wipe awaie al teares from their eies Moreouer we put them in minde to examine themselues and their liues passed how they haue offended God and their brethren and admonish them to make an humble and harty confession of their sinnes to God that that they haue not liued as they ought to doe to be sorry and greeued for the same and to promise ammendement of life if they recouer Thus the faithfull haue done as we see in Dauid Psalm 51. Haue mercie vpon me O God according to thy louing kindnes according to the multitude of thy compassions putte away mine iniquities I know mine iniquities and my sinne is euer before me against thee against thee haue I sinned and done euill in thy sight that thou maiest be iust when thou speakest and pure when thou iudgest Behold I was borne in iniquity and in sinne

hath my mother conceiued mee And psal 38. There is nothing sound in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne for mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head and as a weighty burden they are too heauy for me This practise we see also in Daniell in Nehemia in Ezra in Manasses and in many others We mooue them to labour to be at one with God to be reconciled to their brethren and to remember the poore Especially we stirre them vp to prayer in regard of their present necessities and of the mercifull promises of God resting themselues on the perfect and all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ. Gratious and precious are the promises that God hath made to al that come to the throne of his mercy as p. al. 145. The Lorde is neere to all that call vpon him yea to all that call vpon him in truth he will fulfill the desire of them that feare him he will also heare their cry and wil saue them And psal 50. Call vpon me in the daye of trouble so wil I deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me And our sauiour Math 7. Aske and it shall be giuen you seeke and ye shall find knocke and it shal be opened vnto you for whosoeuer asketh receiueth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shal be opened So the Apo. Iames. The praier of faith shal saue the sicke and the Lorde shall raise him vp and if he haue committed sinnes they shall bee forgiuen him acknowledge your faults one to another that ye may be healed for the praier of a righteous man auaileth much if it be feruent Now when they are sufficiently humbled for their sinnes wee moue them to hunger and thirst after the merits of Christ who of God is made vnto vs wisedome righteousnes sanctification and redemption We alledge vnto them these and such like comfortable places of Scripture Come vnto me all ye that are wearie and heauie laden and I will ease yon This is a a true saying and by all meanes woorthy to be receiued that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners of whom I am chiefe These things write I vnto you that ye sinne not if any man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the iust whose blood clenseth vs from all sinne he is the 〈◊〉 for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world He is euermore about those that are his he maketh their bed in all their sicknesse his left hand vnder their heads and with his right hand he doth imbrace them so that whether they liue they liue vnto the Lord or whether they die they dye vnto the Lord whether they liue or dye they are the Lords This is true happines Furthermore we raise them vp with sweet comforts and consolations of the word of god against alterror and feare of death Death is swallowed vp in victory ô death where is thy sting ô graue where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law but thankes be vnto God which hath giuen vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. And Rom. 8. Ther is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels principalities powers nor things present nor things to come neither any creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Christ is to vs aduantage whether in life or in death Such as beleeue in him yea though they were dead shall liue Death is to vs as a sleepe and the graue as a bed of rest A crowne of righteousnesse is laid vp for vs which the righteous iudge shall giue vnto vs so that an euill death can neuer follow where a good life hath gone before forasmuch as he cannot possible die ill who hath liued wel Death indeede is a Scorpion or serpent but his sting is pulled out he may wel hisse but he cannot hurt he may wel threaten but he cannot destroy for Christ hath quelled and conquered him Now to put away the griefe and tediousnes of sicknes we wil and wish them to meditate on the things they haue heard and learned by the ministry of the word from time to time in their health to consider with themselues how God sometimes suffereth the wicked to prosper for a time and florish like a greene bay tree and how he punisheth them in the 〈◊〉 wrath and iudgement for them how he blesseth or correcteth his children in this life how he hath prepared eternall torments for the wicked and vnspeakeable glory for the Godly but aboue all the workes of God we teach them deepely to thinke vpon the glorious and gratious work of our redemption wherein the infinite mercy and iustice of God do meete together and kisse each other taking delight and comfort therein withall thanksgiuing Wherefore we perswade them to beare the paines and griefes of sicknes with patience constant perseuerance because all sicknes is Gods hand who being the god of the spirits of al flesh killeth maketh aliue bringeth down to the graue and raiseth vp again There by we are indeed chastened for our sins but they are nothing in comparison of that anguish and agony which Christ suffered for vs neither are they worthy of the exceeding glory which shal be shewed vnto vs. God hath predestinated vs to be like the image of his son so that the deeper we sinke downe in sorrowes the more perfectly we resemble christ it is the great mercy of God we are not vtterly consumed and that his louing kindnes is not at an end toward vs. The sicknes of the body is physick for the soule for the striking of the one is the healing of the other by the Crosse wee must enter the kingdome of heauen and learne to loath the pleasures and profits of this present life If they fall to dispaire and doubting of Gods fauour and loue toward them in Christ we labour to strengthen the weake and bind vp the broken hearted we are ready to leaue ninety and nine in the wildernes and seeke that lost one We bring them to God that hath striken them and made the wound considering that the sonne of man is come To seeke and to saue that which is lost God is mercifull and his mercy endureth for euer hee desireth not the death of a sinner but that hee turne vnto him His mercy is ouer all the workes of his hands it is like the Ocean-sea wher no bottom can be found or founded It is the expresse commaundement of God that we should beleeue in Christ who hath tryumphed gloriously against sinne against Satan against hel against death against damnation against desperation The promises of the

name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy ghost should alwaies be in our eares euen vntill the last gasp and by them we ought to be assured of the ful forgiuensse of our offences against God For the blood of Christ by which we are once washed can neuer be drawne dry but is euer fresh full of force and strength to the continuall clensing of our filthinesse and iniquities so that they neuer come into the sight of God neither are imputed vnto vs. Wherefore it is like vnto a sealed charter whereby is confirmed that all our sinnes are blotted out We are all taught by our baptisme that none of the enemies of our saluation shall be able to lay any sinne to our charge Art thou tempted to thinke that Christs blood was not shed for thee That thy transgressions are not pardoned That thou shalt be brought to iudgement for them Doth Sathan 〈◊〉 thy tender conscience with them thou maist as well doubt that thou wast not baptized and washed with Water as doubt thy sinnes are not blotted out thou maist as well surnize thou perishedst in the water as suppose thou shalt perish in thy wickednesse the floods where of howsoeuer they go ouer thy head yet shall not be able to preuaile against thee sully and ouercome thee sinally This ouer throweth the false doctrin of the false church of Rome the Mother of abhominations which teacheth that by the grace of Christ receiued in baptisme all our sins going before it are rased and blotted out and leaueth nothing in the party baptized that hath the name and nature of sinne But albeit our sinnes be freely and fully forgiuen for Christs sake pardoned and not imputed coucred and remembred no more yet the stain blot and remnants of sinne remaine though not raigne in our flesh so long as we liue in this world which in the end of our daies togither with the mortality and corruptions of our bodies shall be taken away and abolished Indeede the scripture teacheth that Christs blood clenseth washeth and taketh away sinne Ioh. 1. 29. Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sin of the world but this is not by an actuall purging of vs from all corruption but in freely acquiting and truely discharing vs from the guilt offence and punishment before God as Psal. 32 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiuen and whose sins are lightned blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne I herefore though they be forgiuen yet they remaine as appeareth If we say 〈◊〉 haue no fin we deceiue our selues and there is no truth in vs. And Solomon in his worthy prayer saith If any sinne against thee for there is no man that sinneth not So the Apostle teacheth toucheth this truth by his owne experience Rom. 7 I see another lawe in my members rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading me captiue vnto the Law of sinne which is in my members We are all as a filthy cloth the fsesh rebelleth against the spirit and in nothing we can do the things we woulde so that if God enter into iudgement with vs we 〈◊〉 stand in his sight And if Originall sinne were extinguished and vtrerly abolished in baptisme then they which are baptized shoulde sin no more but we see they sin again after their baptism To conclude baptisme is auailable not only for sins before but it is a seale for confirmation of faith touching the remission of those sinnes that are committed after baptisme as well as done before as our 〈◊〉 sauiour teacheth Mark 16 16. He that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued but he that will not beleeue shal be damnd Faith then beleeueth the forgiuenes of all sins past and to come inasmuch as the bood of Christ clenseth from al sins And the Apostle accordeth heereunto Titus 3 5 7. According to his mercie hee saued vs by the washing of the new birth and the 〈◊〉 of the holy ghost that we being iustified by his grace should be made heirs according to the hope of euerlasting life Where we see that the promise of iustification 〈◊〉 generall against all sins Thus much of the second vse Chap 14. Of the third vse of Baptisme THe third vse of baptisme is to kill and bury our naturall corruption by the power of Christs death and buriall and to raise vs againe to sanctification of our nature and newnes of life by his resurrection Hence it is that sin hath his deaths wounde and is stricken to the hatt so that it cannot liue and raigne in the children of God Hence it is that baptisme is often called the sacrament of repentance 〈◊〉 Luke 3 Iohn came into all the parts and coasts about Iordan preaching the Baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes So likewise Marke 1 4. Iohn did baptise in the Wildernes and preach the baptisme of amendment of life And the Apostle affirmeth as much col 2 xii xiii declaring that the one end of baptism is the death and burial of the old man by the almighty power of God This also was taught in those liuely types answering our baptisme to wit the flood that drownd the old world while Noah and his family were preserued in the Arke Also the red sea in which Pharaoh and his host perished but the people of God were deliuered For as God destroyed in the waters and as it were buried in the flood the world but saued a remnant of grace so doth God through christ mortifie the old man raise againe the new man and seale them both in our baptisme Likewise as GOD deliuered his people out of the hands of Pharaoh and opened them a way through the red sea and drowned their enimies that they saw them no more aliue so by baptisme he assureth our deliuerance from the thral dome and bondage of sinne which bringeth greater slauery and captiuity then any slaue is in vnder his earthly maister and the destruction of the flesh that it shall not hurt or condemn vs. We are al born in sins and trespasses we haue need of repentance and regeneration We see then what vse we are to make of our baptisme euen labor to attaine to the efficacy and fruit of it that it may not be a bare and barren signe Moses and the Prophets earnestly exhort the people of Israell to shewe forth the force and effect of their circumcision to cut away the fore-skin of their harts and harden their necks no more as we see Deut 10. 16. The Lorde did set his delight in thy fathers to loue them and did chuse their seed after them euen you aboue all people Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your hearts and harden your neckes no more And in another place The Lord thy GOD will circumcise thine heart and the hearte of thy seede that thou maiest loue the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule that thou maiest liue