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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	answer_v	year_n	young_a	57	3	6.0920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75613	The arraignment, tryall, conviction, and confession of Francis Deane a salter, and of Iohn Faulkner a strong-water man, (both Annabaptists, and lately received into that sect) for the murther of one Mr. Daniel a soliciter, who was cruelly murthered one night in Elbow-lane, they being apprehended were brought to New-gate on the 24th. day of January last, and for which fact were executed at Tyburne on Munday last, being the 17. of April. 1643. Also whereunto is added an Anabaptists sermon, which was preached at the re-baptizing of a brother at the new or holy Iordan, as they call it neare Bow, or Hackny River; together with the manner how they use to performe their Anabaptisticall ceremonies.	Deane, Francis, d. 1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3766; Thomason E97_13	6,835	8

friend All of t●em dyed very penitent sinners desiring God to forgive them and al good people j yn with them in prayer which they did and so they dyed and the Law and their enemies I hope were satisfied The Anabaptisticall Sermon The Text Wash and be cleane BEloved I am fil●ed with much zealous joy to behold so great an Assembly gathered together in this Chamber to heare me discover unto you new Doctrine upon the receiving of a n●w Member or Brother into our assembly who before had only the bare rags of Adam and bap●ized by the ceremony of Antichrist whose idolatrous customes which have bin used hath drawn Gods heavy judgments upon us for want of knowledge being blinded with naturall corruptions but I will cease my disc●ourse at this time concerning that point and will handle it in it's proper places come to the text The words which I will present unto your observation shall be few in number but weighty in substance namely these Wash and be cleane The first of my Text that is water for the word wash doth naturally imply water since we cannot wash without water but we may have water and yet be so slovenly that we seldome wash at all But this word wash in my text doth signifie our rebaptizing of our children wherin the action is to wash that is not to sprinkle them with a little idolatrous water out of a Font or Bason but to poure water on their heads nay to dip them in water over head and eares for such dipping will fetch the saltnesse of sinne out of their natures and then follows the consequent of this action Wash and be clean But first I will describe unto you the severall sorts of washers then speake particularly of washing and after washing I may very well conclude with and be cleane There are as many sorts of washers as there are contaminated people carelesse people and foolish people Contaminated people are ●ll the wicked and reprobate whose estates lands are ours by propriety and right being Gods children and that it properly belongs to us who because they are not so pure as we are so holy as we be they wash themselves to no purpose and are like the signe of the Lab●ur in vaine for it is uupossi●le to wash them white or cleane But wee that are brethren of the elect we may wash our selves in a R●ver from the spots of our Carnality in every River as Bow River Hackny River and other Rivers are to us a cleare Jordan wherein we may baptize one another as we meane to do this day our late lost brother Now you carelesse sort of washers are such as care not for this washing they thinke it enough to be ●e washed or rather watered with a little superfluous water at their Chrisnings as they call it and by the Priest in the presence of three Gossips to be Tom-nam'd Iohn-nam'd Dick-nam'd or rather Nick-nam'd for we hold it utterly unlawfull to baptize any untill they come to full years of understanding that they may answer for themselves and conform themselves to live according to that name and baptisme which they have receiued for litle John as long as he is in his infancy is not worthy to be named any thing but Iack and so Richard may be called Dick as a Blacke-bird that is kept in a Cage and so all children that are christned before they come to ripe yeares of understanding may be all called Nick for their names are no names but very Nick-names and By-names till the baptized can answer the Baptizer and speake his owne name as the spirit doth approve of his name for how many in their younger dayes were baptized and now growne men and ashamed of their Antichristian nam s and run after their names like new begotten and regenerated Christians Wee may reade of whole housholds that were baptized and indeed it was a great pollicy in those times not to baptized by any name untill they come to full yeares And therefore though in former times Christnings and Gossipings did cost a great deale of money to make a William or a Robert which afterward proved a wicked Will and a plundering Robert like Prince Robers let us encrease and multiply as fast as we c●n but christen or baptize none of our children untill they are ready to be married themselves then let us call our daughters Hanua Dorca Mary Lydia Ruth and Priscilla and our sonnes Nathaniel Moyses Benoms Annanias Manasses Obadiah and other such like Scripture names let us be wiser then our fore-fathers and walke out unto Rivers round about London all which shall become spirituall Jordans unto the faithfull I my selfe will lead you the way and shew you the manner of it your need not feare drowning for if you should tread amisse and fall into a Whitlepit for there are many whitle-pits in Hackney and Bow Rivers yet I can recover you againe and I will bring you out the Righteous you know many times but suppose you should fall over head and cares yet you should come out againe a good Christian in the regenerating water of either of these Rivers Now for the last part of my division which was concerning foolish people and w●shers I account that all women are foolish washers two peny-worth of Soape is a great charge to them and doth much trouble their consciencs because they wash nothing but linnen cloaths and foule raggs but let us not stick for any charge that may conduce to the clensing of our soules but as we are sanctified creatures so let us be pure and holy in our conversation and wash our hands cleane of all sin There are other foolish washers or sluttish washers so that the best Linnen put into their hands shall scape a scouring or a washing and the old dirt shall be apparent in them but we though remaine as sinfull as ever wee must under the vayle of Religion have a few failings and yet conditioned for holinesse and surely we have it at least in the opinion of the world we must be close in our actions and study onely the mysterious arts of seeing for opinion in matters of Religion cannot erre we are held to be religious men and therefore such we are indeed but yet we must not joyne hands heads or hearts with the wicked for they are reprobate people ordained onely to destruction and Tophet is prepared for such and such are those C●valliers whose inhumane cruelties the like were never heard of but we are a holy and religious people and the severest eye of Justice cannot discerne a wrinckle much lesse a spot in our actions So me loose people ig●orant and wicked rep●obates scoffe at us as if we were not halfe so holy as we would be beleeved to be they have with narrow eyes observed our actions and finding them counterfeit they call us Round-he●ds we are round indeed and sound Those sacred garments religion which shewed nothing but decency I mean● Surplices are not to be esteemed