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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	name_n	12,176	5	5.6818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10114	[A short treatise of the sacraments generally, and in speciall of baptisme, and of the Supper] [written by Iohn Prime ...]	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1582 (1582)	STC 20372; ESTC S1280	27,662	110

purest golde The gifte that is bestowed is most syncere the stone white that is deliuered And ought not then the hande to be a cleane hande or rather the heart a pure heart that receiueth such pearles GOD couenanteth to bee our God shoulde we not accept the offer reioyce in his couenant Achaz in hypocrisie pretended he woulde beleeue God without a signe Esai 7.12 Certainely so must we doe in deede many times Balaam Nom. 23.19 that saw lesse thē his asse saw so much the Gods worde is ynough Shall he speake and not doe Yet when he offereth signes withal to helpe forth our infirmities in faith according to his worde eyther naturall as the rainebow or artificiall as the brasen serpent or miraculous or Sacramental or whateuer if we then refuse them in steade of shunning the fault of tempting him we runne vpon the contempt of his heauenly wisedome Goe preach baptize all nations Mat. 28.19 This is a generall commaundement and must be obserued 1. Cor. 10.24 As often as ye eate this bread and drinke this cuppe ye shewe the Lordes death vntill his comming againe As often therefore often and vsually vntill his comming againe therefore perperually must this Sacrament be continued in a godly remembrance of the Lordes death Gen. 29.17 Deut. 34.7 The olde ceremonies were weake sighted like Leah and therefore could not last euer Moses eyes were not dimme vntill his dying day so the force of Christian Sacraments remaine in their full vse vntill the ende of the worlde Their sacraments some were speciall for place and person In Paradise the tree of life was for the place Gen. 2.9 Iudg. 6.37 Esa 28.8 the wette dryed fleece the going backe of the dial were personally to Gedeon and Ezechias And their chiefest Sacraments either extraordinary as Manna and the rocke ceased in the wildernesse or ordinary as circumcision and the Passeouer these also haue had their ende in the fulnesse of time when their wombe as Cirill speaketh was deliuered of Christ as a woman of her childe into the worlde For Christ is come and their ceremonies were of Christ to come and when he came they as shadowes yeelded place at the presence of the body The difference of their Sacraments and ours consisteth in cleerenes of knowledge and continuance of tynte They caryed the former parte of the staffe we the hinder ende Christ is borne betwixt vs both but we that come after haue the fuller viewe and see directly before our face they respectiuely and looking backe to that which they caryed and came after and therefore more obscurely then we And nowe because Christ is borne no more liueth no more dieth no more because all these thinges are plainely to the eye painted poynted to with the finger in our Sacraments ours are not henceforth to be changed any more but are constant and perpetuall and continually in all duety to be vsed and enioyed till his comming again to iudge the quicke and the dead in the last day Of Baptisme The nature of Baptisme BAptisme is the Sacrament of regeneration in water wherby our sinnes are clensed we clad with Christ endued with his spirit our names entred among the number of Christian professours in the name of the blessed Trinitie The institution Touching the institution whether it growe out of the earth or descende from aboue be of men or of God being of all confessed to be a Sacrament and a Sacrament being already proued to be alwayes a diuine institutiō it is needlesse to repeate or say further therein Yet moreouer and aboue that our Sauiours owne example and general commandement Go preach Mat. 3 15. baptize c. are euident warrants autentike and special for proofe herein that it is of God The forme of the administration The fourme of the action declareth what we receiue of God and there withall enformeth vs what we owe and ought to render him againe Through singular mercie in the name of the Father by like merit and mame of the Sonne by the vertue of the Holy Spirite name power thereof we are made partakers of all the priuiledges that may be incident to such as shall be saued in the house Church of God In whose lap we are as it were newe borne newe washed new apparelled made new creatures in Iesus Christ Such is the forme so great the force of this sacrament Wherein yf any man vpon a farther desire to be instructed in the mysteries of his profession The marueilous operation of Baptisme muse in minde breake foorth and say as Mary did to the Angel Luke 1.34 How may this be that a materiall element shoulde thus worke in spirituall things that water touching the body should clense the soule that water in the fountaine where it is cleanest hauing no such operatiō should thus change and be changed in the Church and fonte whither it is brought from his spring are these effectes naturall Exod. 11.25 Of olde the waters of Marah were made sweete water in Cana Iohn 2.8 turned into wine Exod. 7.17 the riuers of Nilus into bloode and though euery of these mutations were marueilous in the sight of the wisest eye yet in this case there is more done Meere and bitter water in comparison is made exceeding sweete sweeter then the fruite of the ripest purest grape yea yet more then this is done Cold and vsual water is really changed truely and indeede turned after the maner of Sacramēts from a common moisture into the dewe of gods spirit and into the bloode of the Lambe Reuel 7.14 wherein the soules of the Saintes are washed For although it leaue not off to be water but remaineth as before a visible signe yet by the accesse of Gods worde and the omnipotent power of his spirite the Angell as it were descending vpon the poole in the Gospel Iohn 5.4 the change is greater then mans wordes can expresse By similitudes framed and vttered to our capacities fayth conceiueth conuenient instruction sufficient comfort Where the sunne warmeth not water is a sterile and bare moysture neyther can it engender any thing without the heate and helpe of the spirite that moued vpon the waters at their first creation Gen. 1.2 For as it was then so is it still as it was and is so in the generation of things so much more is it so in the regeneration of man Water of it selfe cannot make a man much lesse a Christian man The proportion of the signe with the graces signified The spirite of God is sometymes sayde to enflame and purifie like fire and in this case to regenerate in water to clense and washe like water And as verily as cleare water clenseth and cooleth the body so and as truely the like graces by the bloode of Christ and his spirite are wrought vpon the soule by entrance into this bathe Wherin we may obserue a further