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A47442 A second admonition to the dissenting inhabitants of the diocess of Derry concerning Mr. J. Boyse's Vindication of his Remarks on A discourse concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God : with an appendix containing an answer to Mr. B's objections against the sign of the cross / by William, Lord Bishop of Derry. King, William, 1650-1729. 1696 (1696) Wing K534; ESTC R4453 121,715 288

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latter we do in every Act of Outward Devotion such as Bowing Kneeling Standing putting on Sackcloth c. all which represent our Duty and are professions of our Intentions to perform it Tho' therefore Mr. B. should prove by Scripture that the Sacraments represent our Duty as required by God yet it were nothing against me except he prove it to be proper and peculiar to Sacraments to represent our Duty as profest by us to the Exclusion of all other Signs However tho' I need not take Notice of the Scriptures he produces to this purpose they not being to the point in hand yet because they are all perverted from their true and genuine sense I think my self obliged to Vindicate them from his false glosses and shall with them likewise consider his other Arguments on this Head The first is John 3. 5. Except a Man be born of the Water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven This he produces Vind. 38. to prove that Washing with Water is by its Resemblance Instructive to us concerning the Priviledges and Duties of the Covenant we enter into But here is nothing concerning Instruction but the plain and litteral meaning of the place is That Baptism represents to us the Will of God to give us a New Birth by Water and the Holy Ghost The Water doth not only Instruct us in the Necessity of the Regenerating and purifying Vertue of the Holy Spirit as he seems to suggest but when duly used it carries that Vertue along with it The second place produced by him to prove the Water in Baptism to be an Instructing Sign concerning our Duty and Priviledges is Tit. 3. 5. He saved us by the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost This fully proves that it is God's Institution that we shou'd be saved by Water and the Holy Ghost in Baptism if Mr. B. thinks that we are only Instructed in that Priviledge by the Water in Baptism as he seems to do he contradicts the very Letter of the Holy Scripture which says we are saved by it and he seems to be influenced in this point with Socinian Notions The third place is Acts 22. 16. Arise be Baptised and wash away thy sins This he produces to prove that Baptism is Designed to Instruct us concerning our guilt as well as pollution and the necessity of our being cleansed from it by the laver of our Mediators Blood But sure the place proves quite another thing not only that we are Instructed by Baptism concerning the necessity of being Cleansed but that we are actually Cleansed and Washed in our Mediator's Blood by it and have our Sins then and not before forgiven us So the Scriptures frequently Teach us and so the Church has ever understood it it is not for any Merit of our Faith or Repentance that our Sins are forgiven us and therefore God may as Justly and has as positively made Baptism a condition of our Pardon when it may be had as either of them Christ may apply the Vertue of his Blood to us on what terms he Pleases and since he has made Baptism a Condition the meaness of the thing ought to be no Exception any more than the washing in Jordan was a just Exception to Naaman the Syrian We are therefore as much regenerated by Baptism Cleansed Saved and Pardoned by it as Naaman was Cured of his Leprosy by Washing in Jordan And can no more be partakers of these benefits without it when we may have it then he cou'd without the other It is therefore of very ill consequence to interpret these places of bare Instruction and I hope Mr. B. will not say he meant so to interpret them as to Exclude the real force and efficacy The fourth place is John 6. 53. 54. Who so eats my flesh and drinks my Blood hath Eternal Life For my Flesh is Meat indeed and my Blood is Drink indeed This he produces to prove that in the Lords Supper There is not only a Commemorative Representation of the Death of Christ but also an Instructive Representation of our spiritual Communion with him in his Body and Blood And of Those Duties by which we are said 〈◊〉 Eat his Flesh and Drink his Blood Vind. p. 39. But there is no colour for such a gloss The Place speaks of feeding by Faith on the Flesh and Blood of Christ either in or out of the Sacrament 'T is certain and confessed by the Church of God that there is a peculiar Feeding on the Body and Blood of Christ by worthy Receivers in the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper and that there is not only a Commemorative and Instructive Representation of them as Mr. B. alledges but a real and true Communion of them your Confession of Faith uses the Words Really and Indeed Chap. 29. and therefore i● is great perverting of those Words of St John to interpret them of such Commemorative and Instructive Representation only and a ready way to bring in the Socinian Notions of Sacraments The Fifth place Vind. p. 39. is Rom. 6. 3 4 5. So many of us as were Baptised into Christ were Baptised into his Death therefore we are Buried with him by Baptism unto Death that like as Christ was Raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also shou'd wàlk in Newness of Life He alledges Vind. p. 39. That dying unto Sin and walking in Newness of Life is not signifyed as the Benefit Conferred by God as I suppose but rather as the Duty required from us And to the same purpose he quotes Coloss 2. 12. Buried with him in Baptism wherein also you are risen with him and you being dead in your sins and the uncircomcision of your flesh hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses It is manifest from the plain Words of these places that the Apostle here shews what God has done for us and from thence infers what we owe to him He has mortified Sin in us by Baptism he has buried us with Christ he has forgiven us all Trespasses he has quickened us together with him as he raised Christ and given us a New Life by his Holy Spirit let any one judge whether these are Benefits we receive from God as I affirm or rather Duties required from us as Mr. B. alledges Every one of these as the Church of God has ever Taught and as the generality of Christians except Pelagians of old and Socinians of late have professed to believe are Acts of God's efficacion Spirit upon us and not Duties required of us tho' they infer Duties to be perform'd by us We cannot quicken our selves or kill Sin in us till the Spirit of God deliver us from the Body of Death and quicken us by a new Principle and then when he has given us a New Life it is as the Apostle infers our Duty to walk in the Newness of that Life This is plainly the Apostles Reasoning Rom. 6. for after he