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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	grace_n	heart_n	5,478	5	4.7458	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43045	The ministers office, the infants inheritance By James Harwood, B.D.	Harwood, James.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1099; ESTC R221283	28,474	108

begin at the leaft Novum Nomen a new name now christened you have two names the one is nomen naturae the other nomen gratiae commonly called Sirname Christen name But objected what am I bettered Much if thou have wit or grace thy two names put thee in minde of thy two natures and with Rebesca that there are two strugling within the womb of thy heart Nature and Grace Old Man New Man the Flesh the Spirit yea thy Sirname puts thee in minde of thy sinful Generation thy Christen Name of thy Spirituall Regenration by the Grace of our Lord Jesus thus whilest the one makes me fear the other puts me in hope whilest the one tells me I am of a sinful seed and to suffer and the other comforts me assuring me I am a Member of Christ Jesus 2. The second good got is recorded Gal. 3.27 I can assure you it is a very comfortable place and a spur to prick every Christian on to baptize their yong ones the words are these Ye who are baptized have put on Christ you are hapt with him as with a garment he is the Robe of Righteousness all over-spreading the late Biptized you are armed with his as with a coat of mail able to bear off all the fiery assualts of the devil Saith the Spouse in the Canticles I have put off how can I put on again Being baptized we put on Christ with a resolve never to put him off any more and it is this Church Cognizance whereby we are known to be of the Household of God The third good got is Admittance into Heaven and hence sayes our Saviour Except you be born again of Water and the Spirit you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven The Baptism of Water assures the Visible Church that you are made Members of Christs Congregation here the Baptisme of the Spirit when you are of ripe years asserts you shall be Members of the invisible Church hereafter our outward Baptisme ingrafts you into the Church Militant an Ordinance of Grace conducting to the Baptisme of the Spirit being an assurance you shall be admitted into the fellowship of the Church Triumphant if wilfully you sleight this 't is not probable how God will bestow upon you the other the laying hold on this Ordinance within humane reach puts me in hopes to attain that other onely conferred by the Divine Power when I scornfully neglect what proffered by Gods Church what hopes have I to attain that without which I cannot come to Gods Kingdom since you cannot enter into Gods Kingdom except you be born of Water and the Spirit let us use the water lest we deprive our selves of the hopes we have to acquire Gods Spirit The words recorded by the Evangelist are spoke to all of all Sexes Ages and since the major part are Younglings there being more children then men let not us disinherit so many Infants to humour a few Hereticks hinder not your children from Baptism for not having the perfect use of reason since we are unsure whether theelder believe but onely by professiion it were to be wished at one instant we might be baptized flumine flamine with water and the Spirit but the aged may receive the first want the latter Let us then who have prayed for the Infant that he may receive the latter not debar him from the former The Catholick Church way is a safe way to walk in and who so obstinately scorns Baptisme hath small hopes that the Spirit will land at the haven his heart nay 't is to be feared that he shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven As none in Rome could enter into the Temple of Honour but first went thorow the Temple of Vertue so none can be admitted into the Kingdom of glory but such who first have had admitttance into the Kingdom of grace And this Sacrament is the ordinary key which opens your children the door that they may enter in by and may rest assured this Water Baptisme takes away the mulct though not the guilt the blame though not the stain and that the Infant baptized who dies before it have usum rationis to sin with a free will shall certainly depart in peace to a place of immortal bliss whither God of his mercies send all of us And so I come to the sixth and last thing to be discust upon Whether it be lawful to baptize Infants in discoursing upon this controversie I shall first set down the Adversaries Arguments against Baptisme and by the help of my God the answer to every of them then give you my Reasons why Infants ought to be baptized lastly shew you the punishments have been enacted to be inflicted upon Anabaptists And because this age is desirous to read much in few lines therefore I will rather offer the courteous Reader matter then words and as much as I can match solidity and brevity both together and with the one win the ear of the more judicious and by the other prove my self not much to prejudice such as have high employments The Anabaptists the more hopefully to lay their foundation against Infants Baptisme have first cunningly gone about to prove rebaptizing lawful which Block I purpose to remove out of our way that so we may the better answer all they object against baptizing Infants To countenance their cause they labour to prove out of the Acts That those whom John baptized that had not heard of the Holy Ghost Paul again baptized To this hear what St. Augustine saith Discipulos Joannis iterum baptizatos fuisse non iterato Baptismate for as Philip Melancton saith Ioannis Baptismum The Baptisme of John was signum mortificationis Christi Baptismum signum vivificationis for to Christs was added condonatio peccatorum oportuit iterum baptizari qui Ioannis Baptismo loti erant quo certi essent se jam consecutos esse remissionem peccatorum To Christs Baptism was added remission of sin and it was most might and right for those who were washed with Iohns Baptisme to receive also Christs Baptism that so they might be ensured of remission of sin by being baptized into the Faith of our Lord Jesus The Anabaptist let him produce any so baptized by Iohn and we shall not refuse them Christs Baptism till such a one be produced this Argument must be shouldered out We have not now to do either with the Novatians who were admitted into the Church without any new Baptism or yet with the Hereticks sprung from the corrupt lungs of Samosatenus who were excluded from being members of the Church Catholick till anew baptized because they denied Fundamentalls but with Anabaptists who will allow no Infant to be baptized and yet this Heresie the very Hereticks called the Donatists and Pelagians cried down It is at least a thousand years since this execrable Tenet sprang up and the new Fomenters of it in Germany were Nicholas Stock Iohn of Leiden and Knipperdolin but now it is ferried over into England