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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91515	Aqua genitalis a discourse concerning baptism. First delivered in a sermon at Alhallows Lumbardstreet, Octob. 4. 1658. and now a little inlarged. Into which is since inserted, a brief discourse to perswade to a confirmation of the baptismal-vovv. / By Symon Patrick, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Battersea.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing P747; Thomason E2142_2; ESTC R210125	49,818	131

Repentance Mat. 3.6 8. Mar. 1.4 and likewise accompanied with an Exhortation to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance and in refusing of which the Pharisees are said to have rejected the counsel of God against themselves Luk. 7.30 but also by the exhortation of the Apostle to the new Converts Act. 2.38 Repent and be baptized every one of you c. i. e. make profession of your Repentance by Baptism to the remission of your sins the sense of which had pricked them in their hearts And it is further manifest from all the circumstances of Baptism For they put off their old cloaths and stript themselves of their Garments then they were immersed all over and buried in the water which notably signified the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh as the Apostle speaks Col. 2.11 and their entring into a state of death or mortification after the similitude of Christ according to the same Apostles language elsewhere We art baptized into his death Rom. 6.3 4 6. we are buried with him in Baptism knowing that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we might not serve sin All which was rendred still more significant by the Antients who baptized only on the last day of the week at night i.e. on the even of two Lords dayes in the year called therefore by Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because Christ then say in the grave and was about to rise again In conformity to whom they by this Rite did profess themselves to be dead and coming out of the water there to leave all their sins drowned and buried in that grave never to revive again There is one thing more not to be forgotten which makes it more clear that it was intended for a profession of Repentance that is the Renunciation which they made to the Devil the world and the flesh or the open declaration upon the question propounded which they made against all Gods enemies the form of which so many antient Authors do record that it is vain to cite any but the sense of it was this Do you renounce or do you forsake the world and all the vanities follies and wickedness thereof I do forsake them said the person to be baptized Do you forsake the Devil will you have never any thing to do with his works I do forsake him and abhor them all c. unto which the Apostle is thought to have reference 1 Pet. 3.21 when he speaks of the answer of a good conscience as the Baptism which saves us and not the outward washing or putting away of the filth of the flesh This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this question What shall I do to be saved and consequently the hearty answer to all that is proposed as requisite to salvation is that which makes Baptism to be valid and of force unto us The Jews say in their tradition that Adam stood a whole week up to the neck in water begging of God to accept of his Repentance for what he had committed Whatsoever he did I am sure this Washing with water doth most fitly represent both our acknowledgements that we are worthy to die and be swallowed up in the water and our profession that we will forsake all our filthiness if we may but be accepted unto life Thirdly It is a Profession of faith in the Father Son and Holy Ghost For we are baptized into their name and so it signifies either first that we heartily accept of the Father for our God and happiness to love him above all and of the Son for our Lord and Saviour as the way unto the Father and of the Holy Ghost for our Sanctifier Guide and Conductor to the Son or secondly which comes to the same that we embrace that Doctrine for our Rule which is delivered unto us from the Father through the hands of his Son by the Power of the Holy Spirit to fear all his threatnings to relye upon all his Promises and to yield obedience to all his Commands as long as we live That this profession of Faith was made in Baptism is plain not only from Acts 8.37 where Philip saith to the Eunuch If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayst be baptized and he answers I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God but likewise from this that the word Baptism is put for the whole Doctrine which he preached who did baptize as you may see Acts 18.25 knowing only the Baptism of John Acts 19.3 Into what were you baptized and they said into Johns Baptism By which it appears that being baptized into such a name though one should speak nothing expresses a consent to embrace that word which he preaches and declares to be the Will of God Yea Baptism is an open profession and Declaration to all that we are of such a faith for it is not enough that we are perswaded of the Truth of Christs Religion but we ought also publiquely to own it and manifest to the world our belief of it which seems to me to be the meaning of that place Mark 16.16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved i. e. He that owns the faith of Christ in Truth and makes a profession of his belief by receiving this mark of the Christian Religion he shall be accepted of God to life For that was required by our Saviour of his Disciples that they should not be ashamed of him before men nor be afraid to let the world know that they were his disciples by using all those things whereby they were distinguished from the rest of men 4. It is a profession of holiness and obedience and an engagement we thereby lay upon our selves to maintain all purity in body and soul which is the immediate consequent of the two former and seems to be alluded unto by the Apostle when he saith 1 Cor. 6.11 Such were some of you but you are washed but you are sanctified c. i. e. you have betaken your selves by receiving of Baptism to a holy and pure Conversation And it is more plainly expressed by him Gal. 3.27 As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ In token of which and that they intended all Purity like those in the Reavelation who are said to follow the Lamb in white they were presently cloathed with white Garments when they came out of the water From whence that day was called White Sunday which was one of the principle times when the Antients did admit persons to Baptism and they all professed hereby that they hated the grament spotted with the flesh and would never return again to the dirty pleasures of the world wherein they had wallowed An antient Christian Poet doth excellently express it Fulgentes animas vestis quoque candita signat Lactantius Firm. El groge de niveo gaudia pastor habet A bright garment was cast over shining and glistering souls and the Great

is now sealed by Baptism to this particular person which receives it Therefore Sixthly The sum of all is that hereby we are regenerated and born again It is the Sacrament of the new birth by which we are put into a new state and change all our relations so that whereas before we were only the Children of Adam we are now taken to be the Children of God such of whom he will have a fatherly care and be indulgent and mercifull unto We have now a relation likewise to Christ as our Head and to the holy Ghost as the Giver of life and grace Yea herein he grants remission of sin and we are sanctified and set apart to his uses We being hereby given to him and he accepting of us do become his possession and proper goods and cannot without being guilty of the foulest Robbery sin against God We are made hereby the Temples of the Holy Ghost the place where he and nothing else is to inhabite and being by this consecrated to him ●●e likewise then enters upon his possession and we are said thereby to receive the holy Ghost so that if we run into sin we defile his house and commit the greatest profaness and impiety and may be said very truly to do despite to the Spirit of God whereby we were sanctified Socrates in Plato well saith that every man is by his birth In Phaedon● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One of Gods freeholds and therefore concludes it is as unlawfull for a man to kill himself as a servant to run away from his Master seeing he is not his own goods nor can dispose of his life according to his pleasure In this second birth God is seized again of us he owns us in a special manner for his Children and we may not without committing a double murder sin against him and may be called twice dead if we do because in Baptism are the beginnings of a new life and the Spirit of life takes hold of us and as far as is agreeable to our age and condition we are renewed by the Holy Ghost For Baptism being a beginning of our performance of our duty God doth likewise in it begin proportionably to make good his promise We may call it therefore with Cyprian Genetalis unda aqua salutaris c. the Laver of Regeneration seeing as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 12.13 By one spirit we are all baptized into one body c. whereby he intimates that the Spirit of God doth accompany this water and therefore we must be in a sort made other Creatures I see no cause to leave this antient language which may have a very good sense and none I suppose will deny but that at least a Relative change is herein made and so much Grace and Favour is conferred Apolog. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we stand upon better terms then meer nature did instate us in Justin Martyr relating the manner how Christians were made that the Heathens might not he offended so much at their Religion speaks of this matter When men are perswaded of the thing that we teach and promise to live accordingly they fast and pray and beg of God remission of sin and then we bring them to the water and so they are born again after the same manner that we were regenerated to this he applyes that place Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born again c. All things seem to grow out of water and it was not unfitly made by one of the antient wise men the first Principle of all so that it may well signifie another birth a new plantation in a better soil which is watered by daily dews and showers of Gods heavenly Grace and in it we may be said to have changed our Patents and all our relations so as after a manner to become new Creatures Li. paedag cap. 7. If Clemens Alex. his reading of that place Mat. 3.17 be right one would think that Christ was by Baptism admitted to his office and had a kind of a new birth in it Thou art my beloved Son this day have I begotten thee i.e. now have I appointed thee to thy office now of the Son of Joseph as thou art esteemed I declare thee the Son of God and make thee my Vicegerent That which was perfectly done at the Resurrection to which those words This day have I begotten thee are applyed Act. 13.33 was begun and done in sign at Baptism when the Holy Ghost likewise descended upon him and anointed him unto his office And so in after times they used to anoint the baptized person with oyl to represent I suppose that God took him to be his Son and did bestow upon him the Holy Spirit But because Clemens must be thought to have expressed rather the sense then the very words that were spoken let us consider only what succeeded our Saviours Baptism and it will tell us thus much that at that time it was that God first owned him openly for his Son and it may well teach us that in Baptism God takes us to be his Children 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are received under his shadow are and shall be indued with this Holy Spirit according as it follows in him Christ was our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exemplar or Pattern and being baptized are illuminated and being illuminated we are made sons and being made sons we are compleated and being compleated we are made immortal There is nothing wanting after we are baptized to the injoying the whole of this but that we be faithfull in Gods Covenant and follow the conduct of Gods illuminating and holy Spirit till we be made Possessors of that Immortality unto which in Baptism we have a Title given us The antient Christians speak of high Illuminations wherewithall God pleased then to grace Baptism I make no question but they speak as they felt and that they talk not of a strange change then wrought which never was but if any say that those great Communications of the Holy Ghost were proper to that time when Christ did most notably attest to the Truth of his own Institutions for the conviction of Unbelievers I think so also for young plantations needed larger effusions of the heavenly dews to water and cherish them But yet we may conceive that there may be still some operations of that spirit in mens hearts at Baptism though secret insensible unto us and I profess my self one of those that labour to believe very highly of Christs presence with all his own ordinances though if any cannot savour this I will not contend nor fight in the dark but desire the other things may be entertained which are certain and then there will be sufficient ground to think that it is not indifferent whether we be baptized or no and that it is not a naked Ceremony that neither doth good not harm as some men seem to speak against the constant sense of the people of God And thus much may suffice concerning