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A41067	A touch-stone, or, A perfect tryal by the Scriptures, of all the priests, bishops, and ministers, who have called themselves, the ministers of the Gospel whose time and day hath been in the last ages past, or rather in the night of apostacy : they are tried and weighed by the Scriptures of truth, and are found out of the life and power of the scriptures, and out of the spirit and doctrine of them that gave them forth, and quite contrary to their principle and practice, both Papists and Protestants : unto which is annexed, Womens speaking justified, &c.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1667 (1667)	Wing F639; ESTC R7178	82,431	96

little Children were nearer the Kingdom of God and readier for the Kingdom of God than any others for Christ saith several times Whosoever will enter into the Kingdom of God must be as a little Child So by all these Scriptures we may see that he ownes little Children above all others Now how it cometh that they throw water upon them to give an addition to that Innocent state while they are Infants this is certainly an Invention and an Imagination of their own for there is nothing in Scripture for it Indeed John the Baptist who was sent before Christ to preach the Baptisme of repentance he baptized those that received his Doctrine with water in Jordan but we do not find that he put Infants in that was not according to his Doctrine which was Repentance for Infants were not capable to repent And when the Jewes sent the Priests and Levites to enquire of John what he was they asked Why he baptized if he was not the Christ neither Elias nor that Prophet John answered them saying I indeed baptize with water unto repentance but there standeth one among you whom ye know not he it is who cometh after me and is preferred before me whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to unloose This was beyond Jordan where John was baptizing Saith he and I knew him not but he that sent me to baptize with water the same said unto me Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him the same is he that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost John 1. And Matthew saith In those dayes came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and said Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand c. I indeed baptize you with water unto Repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier than I whose shooes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire Mat. 3. It is said in John 3. After that Christ had been preaching and speaking to Nichodemus and had been preaching the Light to him that he and his Disciples came to Judea and there he tarried with them and baptized and the disciples of John and some of the Jewes were at difference about Purifying and they came to John and said He that thou bore witness of baptizeth John answered and said Ye your selves bear me witness that I said I am not the Christ but I am sent before him he must increase but I must decrease When Jesus therefore knew that the Pharisees heard that he baptized and made Disciples more then John though Jesus himself baptized not but his Disciples he left Judca and departed John 4. Also when John was preaching and baptizing and preaching repentance and remission of sins then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him but John forbad him saying I have more need to be baptized of thee and comest thou to me and Jesus answering said Suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness And Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighted upon him and a voice came from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Mat. 3. This is the main Scripture that the Baptists build upon for their Water-Baptism and here is a secret in this which they never came to see For John saith I knew him not but that he should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with water And John bare record saying I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a Dove and it abode upon him and I knew him not Now how do the Baptists know him And the end wherefore he went into the water since that John did not know it nor would not have had him to have done so who was a man sent of God to Baptize with water till he said it was to fulfill all Righteousness which word was hid from John as he afterwards saith but that he should be made manifest to Israel therefore he came baptizing with water And so afterwards when Christ was teaching Nichodemus when he told him That those that were to enter into the Kingdom of God must be born of the water of the Spirit These things were strange unto him but Jesus said We speak what we know and testify what we have seen and ye believe not our testimoony If I have told you earthly things and ye believe them not how shall ●e believe if I tell you of heavenly things To the same purpose the Apostle saith There are three that bear record in the Earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood and these three agree in one 1 John 5. It were good for the Baptists to know this Water and this Baptism and this Spirit by which they might he born again and to know the washing of the Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost For this was the Washing and Water that the Saints were washed with They were made clean through the Word by the washing of the water of the Word Ephes 5. Now for the Baptists to stand washing with outward Water which John baptized with who was before Christ which was a Figure of the inward washing and cleansing and purging as the Apostle Peter saith the same when he is speaking of Noah's preaching while he made the Ark wherein few that is eight persons were lived by Water The like figure saith he whereunto even Baptism doth now save us not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3. 21. Whose Blood and the Water and Spirit which he Baptizeth with is the true and only Baptism For John himself saith He must decrease and Christ must increase and for them to stand washing here with outward water and their hearts and Consciences defiled and polluted this will be of little value to them for John who was a man sent of God and bore a true witness of Christ Jesus yet after he was cast into Prison he sent his disciples to ask Art thou he or do we look for another He was ●●r beyond the Anabaptists So it concerneth them to question their state and condition For they that look at the outward element of Water to be the Baptism they are far from the real and true washing and from that Baptism that baptizeth into the body When Paul came to Ephesus and finding certain Disciples he said unto them Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed they said We have not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost he said unto them Unto what then were ye baptized they said Unto John's Baptism Paul said John Baptized with the Baptism of Repentance and that they should believe on him that was to come after him that is in Christ Jesus Then

hath Sworn concerning Christ it is already proved and fulfilled in Christ but it is said in Isa 45. where the Lord by his Prophet was speaking that Israel should be saved and he saith Look unto me and be saved all ye Ends of the Earth for I am God and there is none else I have Sworn by my self the Word is gone out of my Mouth in Righteousness that to me every Knee shall bow every Tongue shall swear Now the Apostle Paul rehearseth these words again when he writ unto the Philippians where he saith If there be any Consolation in Christ if any Comfort of Love if any Fellowship of the Spirit if any Bowels and Mercies fulfil ye my Joy and let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the Form of God c. Where he rehearseth the Humility of Christ even to Death upon his Cross in which he became a Saviour as the Lord by his Prophet said Even to the Ends of the Earth Wherefore saith the Apostle God hath highly exalted him and given him a Name above every name That at the Name of Jesus that signifieth a Saviour every Knee shall bow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth and that every Tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of the Father Philip. 2. So here the Apostle hath omitted those words Every Tongue shall Swear and saith Every Tongue shall Confess as a Faithfull Witness and an Obedient Servant of Christ Jesus whom he saith is the Lord who hath said Swear not at all Now since that the Apostle as a Witness of Christianity and an Obeyer of Christs Commands hath left out the word Swear and hath put in Confess according to Christs own Words who said He that confesseth me before men him will I confess before my Father which is in Heaven Now since that Christ and his Apostles have left us this Example who saith not Swear before men but Confess before men who are they that dare Oppose and Gainsay Christ Jesus and his Apostles under a colour of what the Law saith and what the Prophet saith and that the Angel Swore But as the Apostle saith unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son Who said Swear not at all When he bringeth his First-begotten into the World he saith And let all the Angels worship him and of the Angels he saith Who maketh his Angels Spirits and his Ministers a Flame of Fire the Angels are his Messengers and Servants as may be read in the Revelations And what hath any one to do to bring that where the Angel Swore by him that liveth for ever and ever that Time should be no longer when he was upon his Message and Service which the Lord sent him about What is this to men that have the Command of the Son of God upon them who hath said Swear not at all Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool But unto the Son he saith Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever a Scepter of Righteousness is the Scepter of thy Kingdom Let all such as contend with the Almighty in this matter read Hebr. 1. and see how they can answer him there And as for that where the Apostle saith An Oath is for an end of Strife this he saith when he speaketh of the Assurance of the Oath of God he bringeth a Comparison of them that Swore when Swearing was lawful under the Law For men saith he Swear by the greater and an Oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife Now there is none have the reason of a man but they may see the Apostle speaketh of such as did use Swearing because he said An Oath for confirmation was to them an end of all strife and so it was under the Law but Oaths for ending of strife were never used among the Christians for Christ had commanded to the contrary and the Apostle manifested the contrary when he wrote to the Philippians as is proved before Moreover the Apostle James who wrote to the twelve Tribes scattered up and down who were they that had the Law that enjoyned Swearing and under which they practised swearing for a confirmation and an end of strife as the Apostle saith before even to them the Apostle James when he writes to them of the suffering of affliction that they should be as examples to endure he saith Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that he is very pittiful and tender of mercy but above all things saith he my Brethren Swear not neither by Heaven neither by Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation Jam. 5. And into this state of condemnation are the Teachers and Leaders of our Age fallen who are not only Swearers but Teachers Upholders and Forcers to Sware and preach it up for Doctrine to Swear and in this oppose and gain-say Christ Jesus and all his Apostles and all that bear testimony to his Name and Truth and Word and obey his Command such suffer by them and under them and if they bring them into their Courts for any thing because they cannot pay them Tythes or because they cannot pay them Steeple-house Dues and Easter Reckonings when they have sued them except they will Swear they cannot put in their Answers and then they get out Writs and cast them into Prison And thus they that profess themselves to be Ministers of Christ and the Gospel make havock of his Flock But surely he will come and seek his Sheep and search them out And thus much for the third Particular of their practice which is their causing People to Swear The fourth Particular that they practise without ground from Scripture is Sprinkling Infants with water upon their heads and faces and some plunge them all over which we do not find Christ or his Apostles did the like with Infants It is true there was brought unto Christ Little Children that he should put his hands on them and pray and he laid his hands on them but his Disciples rebuked them but Jesus said Suffer little Children and forbid them not to come to me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 19. Now Mark saith That he took them up in his Armes and put his hands upon them and blessed them Mark 10. And Luke saith They brought unto him Infants that he might touch them but when his Disciples saw they rebuked them but Jesus was displeased with them and said Suffer little Children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of God Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little Child shall in no wise enter therein Luke 18. Now by all these Scriptures it doth appear that

they were Baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus And when Paul had laid his hands upon them the Holy Ghost came upon them and they spake with Tongues and Prophesied Acts 19. So here is the true and only Baptism the Power and Spirit of Christ Jesus which as John said shall increase who is that Living Fountain that if any man be athirst they may come unto him and drink And this was spoken of the pourings forth of his Spirit and with this Spirit were they Baptized while Peter was speaking unto them when the Holy Ghost fell upon them and they spake with Tongues And they of the Circumcision which believed were astonied and came to Peter because the Holy Ghost fell upon the Gentiles But Peter answered Can any man forbid Water that they should not be baptized who have received the Holy Ghost So he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus and so they were united into the Body and into the Christian Faith and into the Unity as well as the Jewes And by this Spirit did Christ send forth his Disciples to go teach and Baptize all Nations Acts 2. 38 41. And this is not an outward Element of Water neither is this poured only upon Infants but upon all that are athirst And this is that one Baptism which the Apostle mentioneth in Ephes 4. where he saith There is one Body and one Spirit one Lord and one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all So as there is but one Lord and one God and one Faith and one Spirit and one Body so there is but one Baptism if we believe the Apostle who saith By one Spirit we are all Baptized into one Body 1 Cor. 12. Then we cannot believe that it is outward Water So this one Baptism and one Spirit is not outward Water So the Baptizing of Infants with outward Water which both Papists and Protestants use is contrary and without any ground from Scripture for if there be but one Baptism surely outward Water is not it And whereas they say They do it as a Sign or Signification and call it a Sacrament this is nothing but their own Invention and Imagination to keep People in ignorance and darkness for they have no Scripture for it So much for that Particular of Baptism There is no Scripture that mentioneth a Sacrament this word hath been invented at Rome by the Pope who was the first that set up the Sacrament and the Altar and the Eucharist which they call the Real-Presence which after their Priests have consecrated Bread they call it The Real Body of Christ and many have lost their Lives by them because they could not believe this Something of kin to this is that which our Protestants use though it 's not altogether so gross for they call Bread and Wine after they have blest it A Sacrament as though the nature and property of it were changed from what it was before but this is not the fruit of that Vine which Christ said he would drink with his Disciples new in the Kingdom of God When Christ was speaking to his Disciples that the Son of Man must be betrayed he said unto them I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you I will not any more eat thereof untill it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God And he took the Cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves For I say unto you I will not drink of the fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God come And he took Bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave it unto them saying This is my Body 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 Luke 22. Mat. 26. Mark 14. Now if the Bread and the Wine had been the Real Body and Blood of Christ which was given and shed for them he needed not to have said as he saith in the next words Behold the hand of him that betrayeth me for he ate of the bread that betrayed him which words make a distinction betwen him and the Bread and Wine But he said This do in remembrance of me And with this the Apostle agreeth in what he writeth to the Corinthians for he saith I received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me In the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supt saying This Cup is the New Testament of my Blood this do ye as often as ye drink in remembrance of me For saith the Apostle to these Corinthians As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11. So that the eating of this Bread and drinking of this Cup is but the remembrance of his death how Judas betrayed him and the Jewes Crucified him until he come saith the Apostle But where is the drinking in his Resurrection New in his Kingdom It is manifested these Corinthians were not come to that by what the Apostle was speaking to them of in all the foregoing part of this Chapter he is speaking to them of the state and condition of the Man and of the Woman and of their Praying and Prophesying with their heads covered and uncovered and of their long hair and of their heads being shaven and of Nature it self teaching them but more especially in this particular he saith When ye come together into one place this is not to eat the Lords Supper but in eating every one taketh before other and one is hungry and another drunken So any that read this Chapter may see that these Corinthians were not come to the Power of his Resurrection they might well eat in remembrance of his Death for they were one with them in sinning that Crucified him and so Crucified him by their sins afresh as the Apostle saith And so are our eaters and givers of Bread and Wine for they eat it in remembrance of his Death and sin again as soon as they have done and this they call A Communion but it is a Communion in sin and transgression which was the cause of Christ's Death in the eating of this Bread and drinking of this Cup Yet in the foregoing Chapter he saith Wherefore my dearly beloved fly from Idolatry I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say The Cup of Blessing which we bless here he taketh in himself Is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ the Bread which we break Is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ This is not the Communion in sin and transgression For we being many are one Bread and one Body for