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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

them the Answer will be easie That there was no need for him to express every particular subject of Baptism seeing it was so well known before by the common practise of the Jews and by the former Covenant and therefore his chief intent in those words was to tell them in what manner and form they should now baptize viz. in the name of the Father Son and H. Ghost which had not been yet used but now was to be every where practised I have no mind to add more but beseech the Lord that all those who dispute against Infant-baptism may behave themselves like men baptized and remember that humility modesty and peaceableness of spirit are great Doctrines in the Christian school and that if so many good and learned men have erred as they think then so may they A few words concerning the third general Head of our discourse may perhaps lend a little further light to this business and manifest that there is not so much required as some imagine to qualifie and capacitate a person for Baptism For 3. It is said here that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 straight way immediatly without any further proof he was baptized If you look back you shall find that Paul and Silas being close Prisoners at Philippi there was about mid-night a great Earth-quake that made both the Prison and the Jaylor also shake and opened both the doors of the Prison and of the heart of the Keeper for this strange trembling of the earth it is very likely caused him to apprehend that these were divine persons for whom such a wonder was wrought and so to come trembling before them and inquire what he must do to be saved They told him Vers 29 3. that he must believe on the Lord Jesus and accordingly spake to him the Word of the Lord Vers 31 32. i.e. proved to him that Jesus was the Son of God and taught men the true Religion and way to life The very same hour he took them and washed their stripes and then was washed himself in the name of Christ By this it will appear that though a Profession of Faith be required yet not a distinct belief of every thing in Christs Religion for that could not in the space of an hour be comprehended He therefore having a general knowledge that Jesus was the Son of God and a Teacher sent from Heaven to do men great good and professing a readiness to be taught by him was received by Baptism into Christs school to learn of him That such a knowledge together with a repentance of their fore-past evil life did sufficiently qualifie for Baptism you may see by consulting these places Acts 2. All the Sermon of the Apostle tends to no other purpose but to prove that Jesus whom they crucified was the promised seed which he demonstrates from his resurrection and the effects of it that abundantly declared he was made Lord and Christ Verse 36. When this was cleared to them their hearts were pricked to think what they had done and he exhorts them to repent of it and receive Baptism which three thousand of them immediatly did as you read verse 41. And continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine Verse 42. i.e. learning of that Religion to which they saw so much reason to addict themselves So Acts 8.35 We find that Philip preached Jesus to the Eunuch and required only this profession of him Verse 37. That he believe with all his heart that Jesus is the Son of God and then he went down into the water with him and baptized him And again cap. 18.5 Paul was pressed in spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ and then verse 8. Crispus believed on the Lord with his whole house and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized So in all other places you will find there was so little space between their preaching and baptizing that they could not well be taught more then this that he was the Messiah or Christ that was expected and that all must be obedient to him So that this washing did admit them and ingage them to be his Disciples to be taught and instructed by him and to learn the way of God perfectly which they could not but believe he would acquaint them withall being a messenger sent by God unto them And this is most plainly intimated in the words of that commission Christ delivered unto them Mat. 28.19 20. Go and teach or disciple all Nations c. Where there are two teachings the one before the other after Baptism the first can be no more then a perswasion of them to become the Disciples of Christ and put themselves into his school because he was the Son of God and then after they were baptized follows a more accurate and full instruction of them in all the parts of their Duty which is meant by those words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Where the word for teaching is different from that in the former verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies a larger knowledge of Christs Doctrine which they had ingaged themselves to observe being assured the Son of God could teach them nothing but the Truth And this I take to be the reason why so many fell off again from this profession when the displeasing Doctrines of Christ came to be practised They had not considered what it would cost them to be Christians but only as I said were in general convinced that he was Gods Son and that they must be his Disciples and so they liked no longer to be his followers when their carnal Interests came to be touched and when they saw that he was such a Master as would not let them have their own will nor enjoy this present world nor in one word serve two Masters God and their Mammon too Though they did in gross as I said profess to forsake their sins and lead a holy life yet when they came to be informed in the particulars of self-denial and such hard lessons they returned rather with the dog to the vomit 2 Pet. 2.22 and the washed sow to the wallowing in the mire That I may put an end to this Discourse let me shew you a little how it will be usefull to you and have an Influence upon practise and if you be believing and obedient I shall be confident I have not made you mispend an hour in perusing what I have represented Vse 1. TAke notice of the great Wisdom of our Lord that though he have left us an outward Ceremony still in his Church yet it is such an one that signifies not one thing but the whole Religion and not only signifies but ingages us unto our duty You have seen that Baptism expresseth the whole Covenant of Grace between God and us and whereas the Jews had several Rites and usages to set forth and represent several duties Christ hath left us only this together with

the Bread and Wine in the other Sacrament which are such as are easie to be had and to be practised and are simple plain easie to be understood and do also shew us our whole Duty and likewise lay Ingagements upon us to perform it so that we cannot use either of them but thereby we are bound to be wholly Gods and intirely devoted to his service And therefore Vse 2. SEcondly Let me strongly plead with you in the behalf of God to take heed to your selves and your wayes according to his Word You are all baptized into Christ and thereby you have put on Christ you have solemnly ingaged your selves to live righteously soberly and godlily in this present evil world Gal. 5.3 and as the Apostle saith of Circumcision so I say to you I testifie to every man that is baptized that he is a Debtor to observe the whole Gospel What then have you to do with the Devil whom you have renounced Why are you so in love with the world which you have forsaken and from which you are divorced Why are you so tender of the interests of the flesh which you promised to mortifie and crucifie together with Christ What is the reason that you renounce Christ in your lives as if you were ashamed of his profession Is Baptism but a cold Ceremony or do you think the washing of the flesh will save you Not only the Apostle confutes you 1 Pet. 3.21 but you shall hear your selves put to silence out of the mouth of a very Jew He that believeth not as he ought saith the Author of the book Nitzachon his Circumcision doth not make him a Jew but he that doth believe aright V. Joseph de Voysin de leg Div. cap. 44. is a Jew though he be not circumcised One would not expect such language from them that glory in Circumcision but God hereby shames such outward Professors that glory in Baptism as they did in Circumcision though they be not the followers of faithfull Abraham As long as their ears and tongue Exo. 6.12 Jer. 6.10 Jer. 9.26 and heart were uncircumcised for of all those we read their fore-skin remained and as long as our thoughts and words and wayes are impure we are in effect unbaptized If then outward Baptism will not save why do you not cleanse your selves from all filthiness both of flesh spirit and perfect holiness in the fear of God Do you not at all value the Promises of God Is it no favour to be his Children to have forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those that are sanctified through faith Or is there any other way wherein these can be attained Can you find a shorter cut to heaven by some other passage Assure your selves that there is no other Covenant whereby to partake of these promises but that Covenant which is consigned by Baptism whereby we stand ingaged to the performance of such Duties as our Saviour doth require We shall miserably flatter and abuse our selves if we imagine to come to Heaven any other way then through the Covenant of Baptism wherein we promise to forsake all the enemies of God and to adhere and cleave to him faithfully and loyally against all the perswasion and temptations of the devil world and flesh and therefore unless we can shew a new Gospel and be baptized over again by the appointment of God and obtain some easier and more pleasing conditions let us arm our selves against and bid defiance unto them and resolve that no lust shall escape with its life What art thou a Christian and as fond of the pleasures of the world as a Pagan as loth to displease the flesh as if thou hadst been initiated in the impure Mysteries of the heathen as covetous as if thou wast an Idolater and didst worship a god of Gold as sensual beastly devilish in thy affections passions and conversation as if thou wast some black African and hadst never been inlightned Oh! Do not live as if thou hadst been baptized in the Devils name and hadst sworn to be his bondman and entered a Pro●●stution against God and Christ and all communion with Heaven O live not I beseech you as if it were your Religion for to sin as if you had been baptized in a ditch and washed with puddle water and had professed to be as dirtily and basely imployed as ever you were able Did your Baptism signifie that you should be drowned in drink that you should be buried vilely and covetously in the earth that you should rise and lift up your head against heaven that you should fill the air with oaths blasphemies and noysom speeches and that you should defie God and all above No the Devil himself durst not urge a Witch to make such a Covenant with him and therefore his Art and Subtilty is to make men live after this prophane sort though they make not such a profession and he labours to baptize and drench their souls in this belief that the Covenant of Grace signifies all on Gods part nnd nothing at all on theirs They are even swallowed up in these conceits that they shall enjoy pardon grace and salvation and be priviledged from wrath to come and in the mean time take care only to do as they please to live 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Heathens phrase is a moist soft and delicate life and to swim to Heaven in rivers of pleasure and carnal delights What swarms and herds of followers should a man have that went about and preached such a Baptism for the commission of sins but there is no need any one should do the Devil that service for the Baptism of Christ is made one of his mysteries and all our preaching cannot root out this belief that Christ will be the Author of eternal salvation to them that do not obey him But 't is as clear as the Light that a Covenant is between two persons and both are ingaged to some performances and that God is no otherwise bound in this baptismal Covenant then we are bound also and that he gives pardon upon no other conditions but these that we forsake the Devil the World and all the lusts of the flesh If we therefore renounce this part then we discharge him of all that he hath promised And the truth is it is very ridiculous to imagine that God should wash us there clean that ever after we might be as soul as we please As if a Muscovian Christian who spits upon the ground withindignation when he renounces the Devil in Baptism should presently fall down and lick it up again Or as if one should put on a Garment of light be clad with a white robe that he might sweep chimnies and rake in kennels or lead dung-carts about the streets If we be the Children of the Light then we must have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness nor bemire our selves in the filth and dirt of the world If we be Christs Disciples we