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A56404 Infant-baptisme justified by a nevv discovery and also, several scripture allegories adjusted upon the like account. By William Parker clerk, incumbent of Wrotham in Kent. Parker, William, fl. 1651-1658. 1668 (1668) Wing P485; ESTC R218672 58,769 81

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reference unto those evils that the Scriptures relate in the letter they did So what Abraham did in having a Child b● Hagar the Bond-woman so Jacob in his reproach for his many Wives which yet are not to be looked upon as creaturely Wives only but in higher Mysterie so Solomon as having so many Concubin●s which are not yet to be looked upon as creatural only but in a Mysterie Thirdly It will make the Scripture true in every part of it which otherwise in the bare letter cannot be made true for where did Esau the elder Brother serve Jacob his younger Brother in the letter yet in a Spiritual consideration he did Fourthly It will make the whole Scripture which was written for our learning Rom. 15.4 or concern and instruction to all which otherwise cannot in the letter of personal concerns to all at all times and all places Fifthly it would preserve the Holy Scriptures from seeming contradictions in themselves that yet were designed by Divine Providence to be most true in the sense the Holy Ghost spiritually intended them to be considered for instance Judas Iscariot was chosen by Christ knowingly as all his Apostles besides were and he did and would have verifyed his name true which way soever he had persevered in he being as chosen of Christ by way of office as other Disciples were for Iscariot signifies a death and killing and by betraying his Lord and Master he was a Judas Iscariot indeed a professed Murderer for he murdered and killed the just One James 4.6 and being himself an instrument to do it by others But if he had continued in the obedient life to his Lord he had been also a Judas Iscariot a professed Son of murdering and killing the wicked nature in him●elf and an instrument to help to do it in others So that Christ chose him by design and way of office which he might have performed the best way through grace as he did the worst way through Satans temptation and we believe most of the names of Men and others in Scripture are designed by God to have a twofold scope and end in their nomination as Cain which signifies a possession and so he was of the earthly wicked nature by killing his brother Abel that is a Divine breathing for Abel signifies the breath of God being in him but if he had preserved ●bel his Brother as the Heavenly breathing of God in himself as his Brother he had still been a Possession but then a Possession of the said Heavenly being to his growing up to eternal life and as a Divinely Spiritual Germane saith the names of the 7 Churches of Asia are to be considered by way of office have a twofold and contrary significancy intended to be in them by the Lords own design We will instance but in one for brevity sake Ephesus the first Commonalty or Church signifyes a Desirableness As the mans elicit act consents to the Grace of God so that Ephesus which signifies Desirableness to good as the takes part with his Brother Abel the Breath of God which is in all men that come into the World John 1.9 And also Ephesus signifies Desirablene●s to the evil as he takes part with his Brother Cain within him the wicked nature to be his Possession Hence the Scripture names are designed to be considered by way of office and great documents in Mysteries as aforesaid If the Holy writings were more strictly looked upon and owned to be for other Mysteries than the letter seems to express there would not have been such doubts and contesis about the sense of the Scriptures as there are among many men yea understanding and learned men rais'd as there are nor yet against Infant-Baptism any more than against Infant-Circumcision for that they are born to be done by way of office and good document to others concerns more than their own and Infant-Baptism may be administred to as good purpose upon the account aforesaid as ever Circumcision could be If Simon Peter were owned as our Saviour chose him by way of office as he did there would not have been such Volumns written as there have been about Peter's personal Supremacy pro con as being the chief and first Bishop of Rome For Peter is and must be the first Bishop or Administration by way of office of all the rest because he is in his name the Obedience of Faith which is the substratum and foundation of all things Hebr. 12.1 as the adjunct occupate that is conversant about them in reference to his office and no personal Supremacy can be derived from Peters meerly personal respect to continue always Supreme in his person for that our Saviour blames his Disciples for seeking any superiority over one another as personally relating to them in respect of their meer persons that they are to be considered by way of office both in faithfulness and order So that where ever the Obedience of Faith doth most appear by way of office performed by Spiritual men in office there Peter's Supremacy appears and is set up as well in one Christian Nation and Government as in another else how could the Lord remove the Churches Candlestick out of its place if the the abuse of a Spiritual office were not the provoking cause of it as he doth threaten Revel 2.5 God is so far in love with Obedience of Faith that every Nation as the Scripture saith that fears God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him And therefore the Spiritual Supreme Governor of every Nation that works Righteousness doth as truly exercise in and under his own Government Peter's Supremacy that is he being first in the Obedience of Faith by way of office as aforesaid as another Nation doth The great contest about Transubstantiation in the Lords Supper would soon vanish if it were known in the Mysterie and in reference to Christs Spiritual Body and Bloud as appears by John 6.53 to 63. where our Saviour tells us it 's the Spirit that quickens the Flesh profits nothing what Flesh do you think that is that profits nothing and what Flesh must that be which Christ saith ver 54 55 56. Who ever eats of it hath eternal life and he dwells in Christ and Christ in him which therefore must declare indeed a Transubstantiation of Christs Flesh and Bloud but not of bodily Flesh for that saith Christ profits nothing ver 63. And St. Peter saith 1 Pet. 18 19. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as Silver and Gold from your vain conversation but with the Bloud of Christ c. And was not Christs Body and Bloud perishable for that it was spilt on the ground in his Crucifixion Hence the Miracles pretended to be seen of Christs bodily Bloud and Flesh in the Consecrated Bread to what purpose are they published and the People perswaded to believe them if the corporal Flesh be that which Christ saith profiteth nothing There hath been great endeavours and undertaking by some to reconcile all divided and