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A78296 A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians. S. C. 1673 (1673) Wing C123A; ESTC R223563 12,960 32

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But they are conceited if not more grosly deluded as if their Baptism made them members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven And this Doctrine they prescribe for all their members to believe and profess before they come to their confirmation vizt That in that Baptism by which they were baptized with God-fathers and God-mothers they were made members of Christ the children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven which I have good ground to deny and they can never prove it the Scripture is clear against this their vain conceit For the Apostle Peter saith It is not the outward baptism or washing away of the filth of the flesh which saveth but the answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet 3. 21. And the way of the Gospel is to baptise such only as are the children of God and members of Christ before And the Apostle Paul saith not that they are the children of God by outward baptism but by faith in Christ Jesus And faith doth not come by baptism Gal. 3. 26. but by the word of God And their baptism which they receive afterward is no more but an outward seal administred upon them of the righteousness of the faith which they had before baptism as Circumcision was to Abraham and Rom. 4. 11 Isaac as the Scriptures testifie and none ought to be baptised but such as give sufficient testimony before of their holynesse Or that the Lord testifieth for them So he testified of St. Paul and St. Act ● 15 17 18. 10. 47 Cornelius was baptised upon this ground that he had received the Holy Ghost before And whosoever hath not the spirit of Rom. 3. 9 2 Cor. 13 5 Christ is none of his Therefore the common Protestants are in a great error in this point of Baptism also For they should know that the Infants 1 Cor. 7. 14. Rom. 11. Ezek. 18. 4 Luk. 19. 9 of holy Parents are holy as their Parents They are as blameless as their Parents in their whole Spirit Soul and body The same grace gracious promises Act. 2. 39 Deut. 29. 11 2 Cor. ●0 3 and spiritual priviledges belongeth unto them as well as to their Parents Yea The kingdome of heaven it selfe And Mat. 19. 14. if the greater then the lesser For as touching eternal Election they are beloved Rom. 11. 2● for the fathers That is peculiarly chosen of God for the love that he Deut. 4. 37. Ezek. 18. 4. 20. had to their fathers and shall not dye eternally for the sins of their fathers Rom 2. 11. 8. which they never committed for herein God is no respecteer of persons meerly as they are persons and who can lay any thing to their charge sin remitted shall not be imputed unlesse irritterated and their parents righteousness is theirs by imputation as it was with Abraham and 2 Tim. 1. 5. Heb. 7. 9. 10 his seed before they were circumcised so it is with the Christians and their seed before they are baptised Yea the children of holy Patents are perfect in their wayes before they are baptised Ezek. 28. 15. even from the day they are created untill iniquity is found in them Such a perfection have they which is oposed to iniquity And the Scripture saith Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose Spirit Psal 32. 3 5. there is no guile Their nature of Creation is sanctified by the spirit of regeneration which dwelleth in them so that they are not imputed sinners of the world but clear as the Scripture saith of the natural Jewes who were Christians For although the children Gal. 2. 15. are partakers of flesh and blood as well as their Parents Christ himselfe also in like manner took part of the same and died for them all not to free them from temporal but to save them from eternal death though they should dye before they are baptised with water And therefore the Infants are not the Children of wrath more then their Parents but the vessels of mercy as Jeremiah and John the Baptist were And so it becometh them to esteem of them all and to speak honourably of them before as well as after their outward baptism which Baptism maketh not for the Isa 22. 24. being but for the better being of a Christian Therefore I cannot find in my heart to say that they are the children of wrath and therefore ought to be baptised but because they are not under the wrath of God nor under the curse of the Law but under the promise and grace of Christ who never sinned and yet was baptized by John the Baptist Therefore they ought to be baptised though they have never committed actual sin but sinned in their Parents as Lvey paid tythes in Abraham What though David declareth his Rom. 5. Heb. 7. ● 10. Original sin or sin of inclination the ground of his actual sin or sin of apprehension as it is written In sin hath my mother conceived me yet until he committed actual sin he was no more guilty of sin then his mother nor was Isaac a child of wrath more then faithfull Abraham and Sarah Original sin taketh no more hold of the Infants to damne them eternally then of their parents And touching actual sinne they are clear as their Parents though their Parents are as righteous as Noah Daniel and Job And therefore they have as much right to Baptism as their Parents And in this blessed condition are they before they are baptised with water And are not in the state of damnation though they die in their Infancie before but shall be eternally saved And the contrary Doctrine is very unsound eronious uncomfortable and destructive But Antichrists Church professeth the contrary openly And teach their children to say that they are made members of Christ in their baptism with God-fathers and God-mothers So then it is remarkable that they are their own judges that they baptise none but such as are not members of Christ before their baptism It followeth then by their own words that they are members of Antichrist and in the state of damnation before and until outward baptism be administred upon them which to affirm of the Infants of Godly Parents is an Antichristian error destroying the foundation and hope of the faithful and how can that Church be the true Church of God who are so corrupt and whose constitution manifested by such their eronious profession is so destructive openly to baptise such as are not members of Christ To conclude by their own ground their Church members are not members of Christ before their Baptism and I have proved that they are not made members of Christ by their Baptism after Much lesse can any of them truly say as each child of theirs is taught to say that In my Baptism I was made the child of God So James Nayler said I am the Son of God This dignitie belongeth only to the holy child child Jesus Christ the Son of God To whom be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen Here followeth A New and true Christian Creed built upon the old foundation of the Holy Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone I Believe in God the Father Gen. 1. Ioh. 1. 14. Luk. 1. 35. Mat. 1. 25. Iob. 19. 33. 42. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 4 5 20. Ioh. 20. 17 Mat. 2● 26 Mar. 16. 19 Act. 1. 11. Joh. 5. 29. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52. 1 Thes 4. 15 Joh. 14. 16 17 26. 1 Cor. 12 3 Rom. 8. ● 2 Tim. 3. 16. Act. 17. 11 Rom. 15. 4. Rev. 22. 18. 19. Mat. 18. 17. 20. 1 Pet 2. 9. Phil. 1 5. Rev 8 3 4 Mat 12. 31 32 1 Cor 15 1 Thes 4 14 Joh 3 16 Almighty maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried The third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Scriptures The holy Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The Resurrection of the body And the Life everlasting Amen London Printed for the Author S. C. 1673.
know God yet in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate These are not as Virgins but defiled prophane open wicked persons poluted in their lips and in their lives though Tit 1. 16. they call themselves christians they are Christs greatest enemies and make the times more evil and perilous and are worse then Heathens Jewes and Turks whose conversion they hinder by their devilish doctrines rediculous forms of worship and odious carriages hard-heartednesse and impennetencie So that now at this time in matters of Religious and spiritual worship The world in general consisteth of four parts 1 Heathens 2. Jewes 3. Turks and 4. Christians The last of which even Christians are the least part of the world but the 6th part say some writers yet these christians amongst themselves are greatly divided in matters of Religion but they all conclude against the heathens Jewes and Turks and renounce and disclaim their communion esteeming them that they be the Church of the devil the Synagogue of Sathan and Luther saith the Turk is the Body of Antichrist yet are they innumerable Rev. 9. 16. Rev. 20. 8 9. as the sand of the Sea but they are all out of the way and not so good as one mortal Saint For the Heathens worship many gods which by nature are no gods The Jews in expresse words deny that Christ is come in the flesh The Turks and almost all others do deny him in their works for although the Turks do acknowledge and worship the true God after a manner yet do they serve Mahomet And although they protest against the worshipers of Images as Prote stants against Papists yet they worship God by a divised rediculous stinted Service Book of their own invention contrary to Gods institutions Christian though divided greatly in opinion and affection yet most of them in humane traditions and divine or rather divised Services are not untyed but entangled in each others principles and practices Church ministry worship and discipline like to like Mother daughter jumping together in the seeming circumstances of times and places and many other matters O how heathenish are they in their common talke and carnal Songs Their speeches and practices shew as if they had the Heathen gods and godesses and their Temples in great esteem Where the graves tombs and Monuments of the dead be there are their Temples for their Religious Isa 65. 4. worship For their hearts remaineth there among the graves and lodge in the Monuments like the men possessed with devils who came out of the Tombs exceeding fierce their tipes for there was their dwelling being driven of the Mat. 8. ●8 Mar. 5. 3. Devil which dolesom and Idolatrous places in this land were and in other lands are places of refuge and protection for wilful murderers And these miserable sinners are strongly possessed with strange opinions that there are degrees of holinesse in those Idolatrous Temples which were built for heathenish and Popish services Yet these Christians or rather Antichristians are in continual variance amongst themselves Persecuting one another extreamly to the death as they have power and oppertunity censuring one another as Scismaticks and condemning one another as Hereticks often Writing Preaching Praying fighting against one another as mortal Enemies witnesse Spain France Germany other places in Europe living in hatred hating one another for peace is taken from the earth and the way thereof the world knoweth not therefore the Angel with his sharpe Sickle is reaping them and Rev 14. 14 Rev 14. 18 19 20. the Vine of the earth even the false Church with the clusters thereof shall be cut down and cast into the great winepresse of the wrath of God For their vine is the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorra their grapes are the grapes of gall and their clusters are Deut 32. 32 33 34 35. bittet Their wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruel venim of Aspes the day of their calamitie is at hand and the evil things that shall come upon them make haft Yet the Roman Catholicks say that they are the true Church So saith the Prelaticall Church for themselves and so say other churches for themselves But there is but one way of holyness in which all Christians ought to walk as they hope for salvation and that is the way of Separation for the Scripture saith What fellowship hath righteousness 2 Cor. 6. with unrighteousness What communion hath light with darkness what concord hath Christ with Belial what part hath the believer with the infidels what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For the Church of God is the Temple of God wherein God hath promised to dwell and walk Therefore Gods people must come out from amongst the Antichristian assemblies and be seperate and not touch the unclean thing For the Church of Christ is set forth by the Apostle Peter to consist of lively stones built up a 1 Pet 2. 5. Spiritual house they are Gods peculiar people seperated from the world in matters of Spiritual Worship But the churches of Antichrist consist of mixed swarms of sinners unrighteous persons 1 Cor. 6. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. and the Scripture saith the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor theeves nor coveteous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdome of God I know Antichrists Churches will labour to justifie themselves by the infirmities of others The incestious person say they was suffered by the Church of Corinth but they should observe that that church upon admonition did put 2 Cor. 7. 11 away from amongst them that wicked person They sorrowed after a godly sort it wrought in them carefulness clearing of themselves indignation fear vehement desire zeal revenge in all things they approved themselves to be clear of this matter Now the churches of Antichrist consist of a mixed multitude of sinners such as are before mentioned swarms of Fornicatos Lyars Sabbath breakers and and Idolaters eating and drinking and dancing about Dame Flora's pillars Swearing and cursing is common amongst them yea swearing by the Mass as Israel did by the sin of Samaria much used in the countryes yea the names of the Idol gods are frequent in their mouthes not in contempt of them but in praise they are the foretops and frontis-peeces of their Triumphals It s a common thing for them not only to revile one another in jest and in earnest but those who reprove or convict them of sin they malitiously reproach and slander as the heathens vilified the christians in the time of the ten persecutions which doth greatly aggravate these obstinate sinners sin and manifesteth them to be vessels of wrath fitted for destruction The abominable sin of Pride the deadly sin of flothfulnesse the detestible sins of drunkenesse and whoredom