as to the Word Is there any Scripture speaks of the Light 's being inward A. God who commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness hath shin'd in our Hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ. But we have this Treasure in earthen Vessels that the Excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. Q. But seeing it is also call'd the Seed of the Kingdom is the Kingdom of God also within A. The Kingdom of God comes not with Observation neither shall they say Lo here or Lo here for behold the Kingdom of God is within you Luke 17. 20 21. CHAP. VI. Concerning Faith Justification and VVorks Question VVHat is Faith A. Faith is the Substance of things hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen Heb. 11. 1. Q. Is Faith of absolute Necessity A. Without Faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him Heb. 11. 6. Q. Are we justified by Faith A. Wherefore the Law was our School-Master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith Gal. 3. 24. Q. What is the Nature of this Faith that availeth to Justification A. For in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but Faith which worketh by Love Gal. 5. 6. Q. Are Works then necessary to Justification as well as Faith A. But wilt thou know O Vain Man that Faith without Works is dead Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works when he had offered Isaac his Son upon the Altar Seest thou how Faith wrought with his Works and by Works was Faith made perfect And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for Righteousness He was called the Friend of God Ye see then how that by Works a man is justified not by Faith only Jam. 2. 20 21 22 23 24. Q. If then both be equally required in Justification what are these â—orks which the Apostle excludes so much A. By the Deeds of the Law there shall no Flesh be justified in his Sight Rom. 3. 20. Q. But though we be not justified by the Deeds of the Law is not thâ—s to exclude Boasting that the Grace of God may by exalted A. For by Grace are ye saved through Faith and that not of your selves it is the Gift of God not of Works left any man should boast for we are his VVork manship created in Christ Jesus unto good Works Eph. 2. 8 9 10. Q. Are even the Works which are performed by Grace excluded are we never said to be saved or justified by them A. Not by Works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he saved us by the Washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour That being justified by his Grace we should be made Heirs according to the Hope of Eternal Life Tit. 3. 5 6 7. Q. I perceive then that to be justified by Grace is to be justified or saved by Regeneration which cannot exclude the Works wrought by Grace and by the Spirit How doth the Apostle add in the next Verse for the maintaining this against these that Cavil about the Law A. This is a Faithful Saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which believed in God might be careful to maintain good VVorks these things are good and profitable unto men But avoid Foolish Questions and Genealogies and Contentions and Strivings about the Law for they are unprofitable and vain Tit. 3. 8 9. Q. Doth the Apostle Paul that is so much against justification by the Works of the Law speak any where else of being justified by the Spirit A. But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Q. But since the Law gives not Power nor Ability to obey and so falls short of Justification Is there no Power under the Gospel by which the Righteousness of the Law comes to be fulfilled inwardly A. For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh God sending his own Son in the Likeness of sinful Flesh and for Sin condemned Sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 3 4. Q. Seeing thâ—n there is Power in the Spirit is not Works through it a Condition upon which Life is proposed under the New Covenant A. For if ye live after the Flesh ye shall dye but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Body ye shall live Rom. 8. 13. Q. Do not the Apostles then frequently propose Life to People upon Condition of Repentance and other Works A. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your Sins may be blotted out Acts 3. 19 And if Children then Heirs of God and joynt Heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we also may be glorified together Rom. 8. 17. It is a faithful Saying For if we be dead with him we shall also live with him If we suffer we shall also reign with him If a man therefore purge himself from these he shall be a Vessel unto Honour sanctified and meet for the Master's Use and prepared unto every good Work 2 Tim. 2. 11 12 21. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and Repent and do the first Works or else I will come unto thee quickly and remove thy Candle stick out of his place except thou Repent Rev. 2. 5. Q. It appears clearly by these Passages that the Apostle excludes only our Righteousness which he elsewhere explains as being the Righteousness of the Law from being necessary to Justification and not such Works as the Law of the Spirit of Life leads to and are not so much ours as Christ in us are not such good Works rewarded though they require no absolute Merit as being the Fruits of free Grace yet doth not God judge according to them and may they not be said to have a Reward A. But if a man be Just and do that which is Lawful and Right and hath not eaten upon the Mountains neither hath lift up his Eyes to the Idols of the House of Israel neither has defiled his Neighbour's Wife neither hath come near to a Menstruous Woman and hath not oppressed any but has restor'd to the Debtor his Pledge hath spoiled none by Violence hath given his Bread to the Hungry and hath covered the Naked with a Garment he that hath not given forth upon Usury neither hath taken any Increase that hath with drawn his Hand from Iniquity hath executed True Judgment between man and maâ— hath walked in my Statutes and hath kept my
Judgments to Deal Truly he is just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 surely Live saith the Lord God Ezek. 18. 5 6 7 8 9. For the Son of Man shall come in the Glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall Reward every Man according to his Works Mat. 16. 27. Then Peter opened his Mouth and said Of a Truth I perceive that God is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. The Righteous Judgment of God who will render to every man according to his Deeds To them who by Patient Continuance in Well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal Life But Glory Honour and Peace to every man that worketh Good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile Rom. 2. 6 7 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5. 10. VVhich is a manifest Token of the Righteous Judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which ye also suffer 3 Thes. 1. 5. But who so looketh into the Perfect Law of Liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful Hearer but a Doer of the Work this man shall be blessed in his Deed James 1. 25. Cast not away therefore your Confidence which hath great Recompence of Reward Hebr. 10. 35. And if ye call on the Father who without Respect of Persons judgeth according to every man's Work pass the time of your sojourning here in Fear 1 Pâ—t 1. 17. And behold I come quickly and behold my Reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have a Right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the Gates into the City Rev. 22. 12 14. Q. It should seem that the Purpose of God in sending his Son the Lord Jesus Christ was not simply to save Man by an Imputative Righteousness altogether without them but also by the Washing of Regeneration or any inward Righteousness What saith the Scripture further of this A. And thou shalt call his Name Jesus for he shall save his People from their Sins Mat. 1. 21. Looking for that Blessed Hope and the Glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous of Good Works Tit. 2. 13 14. CHAP. VII Concerning Perfection or Freedom from SIN Question I Perceive then by all these Scriptures afore-mentioned that Christ as well as he hath purchased Pardon for our Sins hath also obtained Power by which we may even here be cleansed from the Filth of them may we expect then in this Life to be freed from the Dominion of Sin A. For Sin shall not have Dominion over you Rom. 6. 14. Q. For what Reason A. For ye are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6. 14. Q. How cometh the Apostle then to cry out and complain of Sin saying Who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death Doth he speak that as a Condition always permanent to him and other Saints or only that which he had passed through What saith he afterwards A. There is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ Shall Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famin or Nakedness or Peril or Sword as it is written For thy sake we are killed all the Day long we are accounted as Sheep for the Slaughter Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor Height nor Depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 1 2 35 36 37 38 39. Q. What saith that Apostle then unto such who taking Occasion from his words should plead for Continuance in Sin for term of Life and think to be saved by the Imputative Righteousness of Christ as being under Grace A. What shall we say then shall we continue in Sin that Grace may abound God forbid Rom. 6. 1 2. VVhat then shall we Sin because we are not under the Law but under Grace God forbid Q. Is not the Apostle then so far from supposing that Condition of being alwayes under Sin to be his own constant Condition or that of all the Saints that he even supposes many of the then Church of Rome to whom he wrote to be free of it How bespeaketh he them as in relation to this Matter A. How shall we that are dead to Sin live any longer therein Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in Newnes of Life For if we have been planted together in the Likeness of his Death we shall be also in the Likeness of his Resurrection knowing this that our Old Man is crucified with him that the Body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve Sin for he that is dead is freed from Sin Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto Sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not Sin therefore reign in your mortal Body that ye should obey it in the Lusts thereof Neither yield ye your Members as Instruments of Unrighteousness unto Sin but yield your selves unto God as those that are alive from the Dead and your Members as Instruments of Righteousness unto God Know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves Servants to obey his Servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of Sin unto Death or of Obedience unto Righteousness But God be thanked that ye were the Servants of Sin but ye have Obeyed from the Heart that Form of Doctrine which was delivered unto you being then made free from Sin ye became the Servants of Righteousness I speak after the manner of men because of the Infirmity of your Flesh For as ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleanness to Iniquity unto Iniquity even so now yield your Members Servants to Righteousness unto Holiness For when ye were the Servants of Sin ye were free from Righteousness What Fruit had ye then in these things whereof ye are now ashamed for the End of these things is Death But now being
and Noah walked with God Ger. 6. 9. And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my Servant Job that there is none like him in the Earth a Perfect and an Upright Man that feareth God and escheweth Evil Job 1. 8. There was in the dayes of Herod King of Judea a certain Priest named Zacharias of the Course of Abja and his Wife was of the Daughters of Aaron and her Name was Elizabeth and they were both Righteous before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 1 2. Q. That proves sufficiently as to particular Persons But what doth the Scripture intimate of this nature even of considerable Numbers A. But God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he hath loved us even when we were dead in Sins hath quickened us together with Christ and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus Ephes. 2. 4 5 6. But ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the Living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an Innumerable Company of Angels to the General Assembly Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of Just Men made perfect Hebr. 12. 22 23. And I Looked and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion and with him an Hundred Forty and Four Thousand having his Father's Name written in their Fore-heads These are they which were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins These are they which follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth These were redeemed from among men being the First Fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their Mouth was found no Guile for they are without Fault before the Throne of God Rev. 14. 1 4. CHAP. VIII Concerning Perseverance Falling from GRACE Question IS it enough for a Believer to be sure that he hath once received true Grace or is there any further Certainty requisite A. Wherefore the rather Brethren give Diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall 2 Pet. 1. 10. Q. May one that hath received true Grace have Ground to fear or suppose he can fall A. But I keep under my Body and bring it into Subjection lest that by any Means when I have preached to others I my self should become a Cast away 1 Cor. 9. 27. Q. That greatly contradicteth the Doctrine of such as say Once in â—race ever in Grace But doth the Apostle Paul express this only oâ—t of an Humble Esteem of himself or doth he judg or suppose the like of other Saints A. Take heed Brethren lest there be in any of you an Evil Heart of Unbelief in departing from the Living God But exhort one another daily while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the Deceitfulness of Sin Hebr. 4. 12 13. Let us labour therefore to enter into that Rest lest any man fall after the same Example of Unbelief Hebr. 4. 11. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made Partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the Good Word of God and the Powers of the World to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto Repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open Shame Hebr. 6. 4 5 6. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the Grace of God lest any Root of Bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled Hebr. 12. 15. Q. Doth he speak this only by Supposition or doth he assert it not only Possible but Certain A. For the time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own Lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears and they shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned unto Fables 2 Tim. 4. 3. Q. Doth the Apostle even judge it necessary to guard such a one as his beloved Son Timothy against this Hazard A. This Charge I commit unto thee Son Timothy according to the Prophecies which went before on thee that thou by them might war the good Warfare Holding Faith in a good Conscience which some having put away concerning Faith have made Shipwrack 1 Tim. 1. 18 19. For the Love of Money is the Root of all Evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the Faith and pierced themselves through with many Sorrows 2 Tim. 4. 10. And their Word will eat as doth a Canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetâ—â— who concerning the true Faith have erred saying That the Resurrection is past already and overthrown the Faith of some 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. Q. Doth the Apostle any where express his Fears of this as a thing that may happen to any number of People who once truly received the Faith of Christ A. Well because of Unbelief they were broaken off and thou standest by Faith be not High-minded but fear Rom. 11 20. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the Latter times some shall depart from the Faith c. 1 Tim. 4. 1. For this Cause when I could no longer forbear I sent to know your Faith lest by some means the Tempter have tempted you and our Labour be in vain 1 Thess. 3. 5. Q. What is the Apostle Peter's Mind does he judge that such as have known the right Way may forsake it A. Cursed Children which have forsaken the Righteous Way and are gone astray following the Way of Balaam the Son of Bezâ—r who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness but was rebuked for his Iniquity the dumb Ass speaking with Man's Voice forbad the Madness of the Prophet These are Wells without Water Clouds that are carried with a Tempest to whom the Mist of Darkness is reserved forever For when they speak great swelling Words of Vanity they allure through the Lusts of the Flesh through much Wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in Error For if after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again entangled therein and overcome the Latter-end is worse with them then the Beginning for it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness then after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them But it is happened to them according to the true Proverb The Dog is turned to his Vomit again and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the Mire 2 Pet. 2. 14 15 18 20 21 22. Q. Gives he any Cautions to them that stand as supposing they may also fall A. Ye therefore Beloved seeing ye know these Things before beware lest ye also being led away with the Error of the Wicked fall from your own Stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. Q. May a man be truly a Branch in Christ or
the Wisdom of this World For after that in the Wisdom of God the World by Wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the Foolishness of Preaching to save them that believe 1 Cor. 1. 20 21. Q. It seems then the Preachings of the true Ministers are not gathered together by Wisdom and Learning It hath been supposed that a Man must be greatly skilled in Learning to make a good Sermon what is the Apostles Judgment in the Case A. For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel not with Wisdom of Words lest the Cross of Christ should be made of none Effect 1 Cor. 1. 17. And I was with you in Weakness and in Fear and in much Trembling and my Speech my Preaching was not with enticing Words of Man's VVisdom but in Demonstration of the Spirit and of Power that your Faith should not stand in the VVisdom of Men but in the Power of God 1 Cor. 2. 3 4 5. Q. I perceive the Apostle layes far more Stress upon the Demonstration and Power of the Spirit in a Preacher then upon human Literature ought Ministers then to preach as the Spirit teacheth them A. Also we speak not in the Words which Man's Wisdom teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth 2 Cor. 2. 13. And they were all fill'd with the holy Ghost and began to speak as the Spirit gave them Utterance Acts 2. 4. Q. Is it Christ then that speaketh in and through his Ministers A. For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you Mat. 10. 20. For it is not ye that speak but the holy Ghost Mark 13. 11. For the holy Ghost shall teach you in the same Hour what ye ought to say Luke 12. 12. Since ye seek a Proof of Christ speaking in me which to you ward is not weak but is mighty in you 2 Cor. 13. 3. Q. What is the Apostle's Mind of that human Learning which some cry up so much and think so needful in a Minister A. Beware leâ—t any Man spoil you through Philosophy and vain Deceit after the Tradition of Men after the Rudiments of the World and not after Christ Col. 2. 8. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy Trust avoiding prophane and vain Babling and Oppositions of Science falsly so called 1 Tim 6. 20. Q. Though true Ministers speak not by the natural Wisdom of Man yet is their Testimony altogether void of Wisdom A. Howbeit we speak Wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the Wisdom of this World nor of the Princes of this World that come to nought but we speak the Wisdom of God in a Mystery even the hidden Wisdom which God ordained before the World to our Glory 1 Cor. 2. 6 7. Q. What is the Reason that Man by his natural Wisdom is not capable to minister in the Things of God A. For what Man knoweth the Things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man which is in him Even so the Things of God knoweth no Man but the Spirit of God But the natlural Man receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God for they are Foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 11 14. Q. These Scriptures do sufficiently hold forth that the true Call to the Ministry is from God that which maketh a true Minister is the Gift and Grace of God that the true and effectual Preaching of a faithful Minister is such as 〈◊〉 from the inward Teaching and Leading of the Spirit of God But what say the Scriptures touching the Maintenance of Ministers A. Let him that is taught in the VVord communicate unto him that teacheth in all good Things Gal. 6. 6. If we have sown unto you spiritual Things is it a great Matter if we shall â—eap your carnal Things If others be Partakers of this Power over you are not we rather Nevertheless we have not used this Power but suffer all Things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ Do ye not know that they which minister about holy Things live of the Things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are Partakers with the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 11 12 13 14. For the Scripture saith Thou shalt not muzle the Ox that treadeth out the Corn and the Labourer is worthy of his Reward 1 Tim. 5. 18. Q. I perceive by these Scriptures that there lyeth an Obligation upon the Saints to help with outward Things such as truly minister unto them spiritual but this seems to be voluntary ought not therefore true Ministers to preach whether they be sure of this or not What saith the Apostle of himself in this Case and what adviseth he others A. But I have used none of these Things neither have I written those Things that it should be so done unto me for it were better for me to dye then that any Man should make my Glorying void for though I preach the Gospel I have nothing to glory of for Necessity is laid upon me yea Wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel For if I do this Thing willingly I have a Reward but if against my Will a Dispensation of the Gospel is committed unto me what is my Reward then Verely that when I preach the Gospel I make the Gospel of Christ without Charge that I abuse not my Power in the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 15 16 17 18. I have coveted no Man's Silver or Gold or Apparel yea ye your selves know that these Hands have ministred unto my Necessities and to them that were with me I have shewed you all Things how that so Laboâ—ring ye ought to support the Weak and to remember the Words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give then to receive Acts 20. 33 34 35. Q. It s observable that the Apostle every where makes special mention among the Qualifications of Teachers that they be not given to Filthy Luchre What ought we then to think of these Teachers as will not preach without Hire yea that will by Violence take from those who receive no Spirituals from them are they like to be the Ministers of Christ or what else saith the Scripture of such A. Yea they are greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they are Shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their own Way every one for his Gain from his Quarter Isa. 56. 11. Son of Man Prophesie against the Shepherds of Israel Prophesie and say unto them Thus saith the Lord God unto the Shepherds Wo be to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves Should not the Shepherds feed the Flock Ye eat the Fat and ye cloath you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the Flock As I live saith the Lord God Surely because my Flock became a Prey and my Flock became
And this is the Confidence that we have in him that if we ask any Thing according to his VVill he heareth us 1 Joh. 5. 14. Q. After whae Manner doth the Apostle then declare he will Pray A. What is it then I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray with the Understanding also I will sing with the Spirit and I will sing with the Understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 15. Q. Must we then pray alwayes in the Spirit A. Praying alwayes with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit and VVatching thereunto with all Perseverance and Supplication for all Saints Ephes. 6. 18. Q. Since we are commanded to pray alwayes in it can we do it of our selves without the Help thereof A. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our Infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh Intercession for us with Groanings which cannot be uttered And he that searcheth the Hearts knoweth what is the Mind of the Spirit because he maketh Intercession for the Saints according to the Will of God Rom. 8. 26 27. Q. I perceive that without the Leadings and Help of the Spirit Prayers are altogether unprofitable may not a Man truly utter these Things that are Spiritual without the Spirit 's Assistance A. VVherefore I give you to understand that no Man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus Accursed and that no Man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12. 3. Q. That is strange It seems the Spirit 〈◊〉 much more necessary then many called Christistians suppose it to be some of which can scarce give a good Account whether they have it or want it But if a Man speak Things true upon the Matter are they not true as from him if spoaken without the Spirit A. And though they say The Lord liveth surely they swear falsly Jer. 5. 2. Q. It is apparent from all these Scriptures that the true Worship of God is in Spirit and as it is not limitted to a certain Place neither to any certain Time what shall we think of them that plead for the Observation of certain Dayes A. But now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Elements whereunto ye desire again to be iâ— Bondage Ye observe Dayes and Months and Times and Years I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you Labour in vain Gal. 4. 9 10 11. Let no Man therefore judge you in Meat or Drink or in respect of an Holy Day or of the New Moon or of the Sabbath Day which are a Shadow of Things to come but the Body is of Christ Col. 2. 16 17. Q. Seeing it is so may not some Christians as lawfully esteem all Dayes alike as others may esteem some Dayes above another What Rule giveth the Apostle in this Case A. One Man esteemeth one Day above another another esteemeth every Day alike let every Man be fully perswaded in his own Mind He that regardeth a Day regardeth it unto the the Lord and he that regaâ—deth not the Day unto the Lord he doth not regard it He that eateth eateth to the Lord for he giveth God Thanks and he that eateth not to the Lord he eateth not and giveth God Thanks Rom. 14. 5 6. Q. But is it not convenient and necessary that there be a Day set apart to Meet and Worship God in Did not the Apostles aâ—d Primitive Christians use to meet upon the First Day of the Week to make their Collections and to Worship A. Now concerning the Collection for the Saints as I have given Order to the Churches of Galatia even so do ye upon the First Day of the Week Let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prosper'd him that there be no Gatherings when I come 1 Cor. 16. 1. CHAP. XI Concerning Baptism and Bread and VVine Question HOw many BAPTISMS are there A. One Lord One Faith One Baptism Ephes. 4 5. Q. What is the Baptism A. The like Figure 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 who is gone into Heaven and is on the Right Hand of God Angels and Authorities and Powers being made subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 21 22. Q. What saith John the Baptist of Christ's Baptism how distinguisheth he it from his A. I indeed baptize you with Water unto Repentance but he that cometh after me is Mightier then I whose Shoes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3. 11. Q. Doth not Christ so distinguish it also A. And being assembled together with them commanded them That they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the Promise of the Father which saith he ye have heard of me For John truly baptized with Water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many dayes hence Act. 1. 4. 5. Q. Doth not the Apostle Peter also observe this A. And as I begâ—n to speak the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the Beginning Then remembred I the Word of the Lord how that he said John indeed baptized with Water but ye shall be baptiz'd with the Holy Ghost Acts 11. 15 16. Q. Then it seems John's Baptism must pass away that Christ's may take place because John must decrease that Christ may increase A. He must increase but I must decrease John 30. 30. Q. I perceive then many may be sprinkled with 〈◊〉 dipped baptized in Water yet not truly baptized with the Baptism of Christ What are the Real Effects in such as are truly baptized with the Baptism of Christ A. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his Death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in Newness of Life Rom. 6. 3 4. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ Gal. 2. 27. Buried with him in Baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the Faith of the Operation of God who hath raised him from the Dead Col. 2. 12. Q. I perceive there was a Baptism of Water which was John's Baptism and is therefore by John himself contra-distinguished from Christ's Was there not likewise something of the like Nature appointed by Christ to his Disciples of eating Bread and drinking Wine in Remembrance of him A. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same Night in which he was betrayed took Bread 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