Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	baptism_n	baptize_v	holy_a	6,403	5	6.2103	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50383	Unity restor'd to the Church of England by John Mayer.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1426; ESTC R28824	26,506	53

good King when the people committed Idolatry with the brazen Serpent which had been by Moses set up and miraculous cures had been thereby wrought upon such as were stung by the fiery flying Serpents brake it down so ought every good Christian King to do by the Crosse that such an occasion of Superstition being taken away Laying on of hands the like sin may be no more committed As for Confirmation by the Bishops laying on of his hands in due time upon children that have been baptized there seemes to be a ground for it Heb. 6. where Imposition of hands is spoken of as one of the principles of the Christian Religion and that next to the Doctrine of baptism and therefore it is hereby intimated that Children which had been baptized were to come when they had attained to the knowledge of that which they were in their Baptism bound unto to have hands laid upon them by such as had power committed unto them to blesse them as the Apostles had that they might receive the Spirit of Grace and Sanctification as actual believers as being baptized and having the Apostles hands laid upon them received the Holy Ghost and spake with tongues as is to be seen specially Acts 8. where the Samaritans who believed being baptized by Philip when Peter was come and laid his hands upon them received the Holy Ghost but Philip had not commission thus to do and as was said before Bishops are the Apostles successors and therefore to them only it seemes that this power was given and that they ought to goe about in their limits to do this office and herein the Apostles had Christ for their example to whom little children were brought and he blessed them and required that it should so be done saying suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not c. as being of availe towards the attayning of the kingdome of Heaven and therefore this is to be believed touching Christs blessing of little children although they were not then intelligent enough to believe actually but the Bishops blessing is to be after some knowledge attained unto as the Apostles laying on of hands was not but upon them that had knowledge and did prosess the true faith wherefore the Ordinance of conformation is not to be disallowed but not to be extolled as it is in the Church of Rome as a Sacrament and that not inferiour to Baptism and as necessary to Salvation it must needs be granted to be very necessary because a necessity is hereby put upon parents to teach their children betimes the ten Commandements the Creed and the Lords Prayer c. and to cause them to come to Church to be examined by the Minister as is appointed that the Catechism which is so short being learned by them they may be blessed and the work begun about them in their baptism perfected whereas if this Ordinance of conformation by imposition of hands and Praying be neglected neither will parents who are ignorant themselves or were not thus brought up have any care of teaching or getting their Children taught these things as by long experience hath proved too true and so many by Baptism received in their infancy to be Christians are for ignorance of the Christian Principles like Heathens differing only from them in this that they have been baptized which when they are grown up will avail them no more to Salvation then circumcision in the flesh did the Jew that was without the circumcision of the spirit wherefore let this most ancient custom of the Church be again revived and Ministers of the Gospel in all Churches streightly injoyned to Catechize as well as to Preach at the least till the children of their Parishes are made perfect in that so short a Catechism set forth by Authority and if any ministers mind moveth him to add more questions therunto he may find above 100 more interlaced in my Catechism put out near 40 years agoe and allowed and along time by many of my brethren in the Ministry used till that unhappy confusion came into our Church and under a pretence of more Reformation much more deformity came to the face of our fair Mother the Church of England and because Parents are generally most negligent in causing their Children to come to be Catechized and much more in teaching them at home it is as necessary to lay some pecuniary mulct upon them if they cause them not as is upon them if themselves be absent from the Church if our higher powers would take this into their serious consideration and strictly injoyn all Ministers to do their parts in Catechizing and Parents in teaching and causing their Children to come to becatechized instead of a most ignorant we should have a most knowing generation and where there is any Grace a more conscionable to live and do as with their own mouthes every one shall acknowledge to be his bounden duty but Bishops diocesses being so large that they cannot in person go about to lay their hands upon all that are instructed will it not be necessary to make deputies in more remote places to do it in their stead Of Matrimony Touching the proceedings and service in Matrimony by the Book of Common Prayer appointed these words which the Husband is bidden to say with my body I thee worship sound so ill as that most men take exceptions to them because they may be taken as implying the husbands making a God of his wife seeing as Christ saith Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve To take away this exception therefore if instead of those words these might be used And I will honour thee as the weaker vessel it would not be without ground in the Holy Scripture and of the going of the Priest immediately to the Lords Table the persons Married following and kneeling there to pray and to take the Communion what reason can be yeelded yea is there not reason against it it is a shew of worshipping and praying to the host as it is called as to Christ made of the Bread standing there Secondly there is danger of their unworthy receiving for want of examining themselves before to which they are then most probably indisposed as having their hearts then taken up with other pleasures Wherefore this also would be considered and no more injoyned they that are to be married being rather required at some other time before when there is a Communion reverently to receive it being duly prepared Now remaineth nothing more to be spoken to in the Book of Common Prayer The Visitatio● of the Sick but the Visitation of the Sick the Burial of the Dead and Thanksgiving for women comming to Church after Child-bearing in all which none other but the good spirit seemeth to have been the guid of such as thus ordered it and it is pitty that the order for the visitation of the sick is not generally followed being so Godly and comfortable And for