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A85896	The generall and particular acts and articles of the late national synod of the reformed Churches of France, assembled by the permission of the King at Charenton neare Paris, beginning the 26th of December, 1644. Where by the present estate of those churches, as also their doctrine and discipline may be knowne. With divers other remarkable passages, and letters from the King and Q. Regent of France, to the said synod, and of the synod to their Majesties, and other great personages. Never before printed either in French or English, and now faithfully translated out of a written French copy. Whereunto is added a formulary of baptisme for those who from paganisme, Judaisme, and Mahumetisme, are converted to the Christian faith; as also of those Anabaptists who have not bin baptised before, composed in the nationall synod set forth at Charenton in the yeare 1645. and now faithfully Englished.	Eglises réformées de France. Synode national (1644-1645 : Charenton-le-Pont); Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666.; France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)	1646 (1646)	Wing G488; Thomason E361_5; ESTC R201205	74,805	110

your spirits with just sorrow and griefe so you may be edified and comforted by his Repentance Amen A Formulary of Baptisme OR The manner of Baptizing those who from Paganisme Iudaisme and Mahumetisme are converted to the Christian faith as also of those Anabaptists who have not been Baptised before Drawne and Composed in the Nationall Synod of the Reformed Churches of France Assembled at Charenton in the yeare of our Lord 1644. Being the 26 of December Printed first in French by Samuel Petit c. in the yeare of our Lord 1645. and now faithfully Translated into English AFter that the Catechumen or party that is to bee Baptised hath been sufficiently Instructed and Catechised so that hee is able to give an account of his faith and that the Church by irreproveable witnesses is satisfied concerning both the integrity of his life and his Instruction he shall by the said Witnesses be presented to the whole Congregation to be Baptised in their presence And the Minister shall say unto him 1 Quest Doe you not ack●owledge that by nature you are a child of wrath worthy of death and eternall malediction Answ I doe 2 Quest Are you not sorry and grieved for all the sinnes you have committed since you were borne and doe you not promise that you will forbeare henceforth for ever Answ Yes 3 Quest Doe you not from your heart renounce to the seducements and wiles of the Divell and his Angells to all the Pomps and vanities of this world and to all the Affections and concupisence of the flesh Answ I doe If hee be a Pagan or Heathen the Minister shall say 4 Quest Doe you not perceive that there is but one God who hath created Heaven and Earth who upholdeth all things by his powerfull Word and in whom wee have our being live and move Answ I doe 5 Quest. Doe you not believe that this great God who hath created heaven and earth is one Essence distinct in three Persons of the same power and eternity the Father the Sonne begot of the Father from all eternity and the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Sonne Answ I doe 6 Quest Doe you not beleeve that this great God who never left him selfe without witnesse did manifest himselfe unto men not onely by his Workes which from their first Creation doe incessantly declare his praise and glory but also by Revelation of his Counsell for the salvation of mankind contained in the holy Scripture commonly called the Old and New Testament Answer I doe 7 Quest Doe you not beleeve that all these holy Scriptures are by Inspiration of God and containe in them a perfect rule both of our beliefe and of our lives Answ I doe 8 Quest Doe you not ptotest that to the last breath of your life you will resist the Devill whom hitherto you have adored serving either Idolls made with hands or the Host of heaven or briefly those which by nature are not Gods Answ I doe 9 Quest Rehearse the summary of your faith Answ I beleeve in God the Father Almighty c. 10 Quest Doe you not beleeve that this good God who by the preaching of his Word doth call us all to life and salvation hath Instituted some Signes and Sacraments in his Church which seale and confirme the truth of the Covenant of grace which is proposed to us by the preaching of the Gospell Answ J doe 11 Quest How many Sacraments doe you beleeve there be in the Christian Church Answ Two to wit Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. 12 Quest Doe you desire to be instructed concerning the nature and use of Baptisme for which you are a suiter unto the Church Answ I doe 13 Quest Our Saviour sa●ing to us that wee must bee borne againe shewe unto us what wretchednesse and misery wee are all borne in for if our nature must be renewed to have entrance into the Kingdome of heaven it is a signe that it is altogether perverse and cursed In that therefore hee doth admonish us to humble our selves and to be displeased in our selves and by that meanes he doth prepare us to desire and crave his grace by which all the perversnesse and cursednesse of our first nature may bee abolished for wee are not capable to receive it except wee be first emptied of all confidence of our owne vertue wisdome and justice unto a perfect condemnation of all that is in us Now when hee doth put us in mind of our misery hee doth likewise comfort us by his mercy promising to regenerate us by his holy Spirit unto newnesse of life which may be to us an entrance into his Kingdome This regeneration doth consist in two parts first we must renounce to our selves not following our owne reason pleasure and will but captivating our understanding and heart to the wisdome and justice of God mortifying all that is ours and of our flesh Then we must follow the light of God to obey submit to his good pleasure which he doth shew unto us in his Word and to which hee doth lead us by his Spirit The accomplishment both of the one and of the other is in our Saviour JESUS whose death and passion hath such vertue that partaking of it we are as it were buried to sinne to the end that our carnall concupiscence may be mortified in us In like manner by the vertue of his Resurrection wee rise unto newnesse of life which is from God in that his Spirit doth lead and governe us to produce in us such workes as may bee acceptable unto him Neverthelesse the first and principall point of our salvation is that by his mercy he doth forgive us all our sinnes not imputing them to us but blotting the memory of them that they may not bee reckoned unto us when we shall appeare before him to be judged All these graces are conferred upon us when he is pleased to incorporate us into his Church by Baptisme for by this Sacrament hee doth testifie unto us the remission of our sinnes and for this cause he hath instituted the Signe of Water to figure unto us that as by this Element all corporall filthinesse is cleansed so he will wash and purifie our soules that no further spot or staine may appeare Besides it doth represent unto us our renewing which as wee said before doth consist in the mortification of our flesh and that spirituall life which he doth produce in us So wee receive a double grace and benefit from G●d in Baptisme provided that wee doe not voyd the vertue of this Sacrament by our ingratitude first we have a certaine assurance that God will bee a propitious Father unto us not imputing to us our sinnes and offences Secondly that he will assist us by his holy Spirit that wee may be able to fight against the diuell sinne and the concupiscence of our flesh unto victory that we may live in the liberty of his kingdome which is a kingdome of Justice Since then these

Son of Abraham of David and of the holy Virgin of their bloud and seed issued and that the substance of his body was formed not in the Virgin onely but of the proper substance of the Virgin also agreeable to what the Apostle saith that he was of the seed of David according to the Scriptures that hee was made of a woman and that he was partaker of flesh and bloud as other Children are Answ I doe 11 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Baptisme of Infants is founded upon the Scriptures and in the perpetuall practise of the Church Answ I doe 12 Quest Doe not you renounce with a sincere heart the errour of those who reject it and doe not you repent that you have despised it hitherto Answ I doe 13 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the establishment of Magistrates is an ordinance of God to which those that will not submit themselves bring condemnation upon themselves and that all manner of obedience according to God is due unto them Answ I doe After this shall be proposed the 10 and 11 Questions Doe you not beleeve that this good God c. The Minister having spoken to his Catecumen or party to be Baptized whether Pagan Jew Mahumitane or Anabaptist respectively shall adde Since wee are now about to conferre this holy Baptisme upon you Doe you not protest that you will live and dye in the faith of the Lord Jesus whereof you have made confession before accompanying it with a good life and holy conversation and to employ all your thoughts speeches and actions to glorifie God and to edifie your neighbour submitting your selves to the order of the Church and to the Discipline of it according to which this holy order inviolably ought to be maintained Answ J doe After this the Minister shall adde Let us pray God that hee will be pleased to blesse this holy action O Lord our God wisdome and mercy it selfe wee blesse and praise thy holy Name for that grace which thy good hand hath been pleased to shed upon this thy servant who lay in the deepest darknesse of the shadow of death whom thou hast inlightned making the saving and quickning brightnesse of thy day-spring from above to arise upon him drawing him from desperate hardnesse of heart to soften his heart and delivering him from the bonds of death to restore life unto him Lord as thou hast taken away the vaile that was upon his heart calling him to acknowledge thee the onely true God and him whom thou hast sent JESVS CHRIST and hast infused courage into him to make publick Confession this day of thy most holy faith and of the hope which thou hast dred in his soule granting to him to present himselfe before thee to receive this holy Baptisme the seale of our Covenant the pledge of the Remission of our sinnes and the badge of our entrance into thy house by a spirituall Regeneration Cast upon him good God more and more the beames of thy gracious aspect forgiving him all his sinnes and sprinkling his conscience with the pretious bloud of the Lambe without spot which takes away the sinnes of the world making him to feele the vertue of thy omnipotent propitiation that thy Spirit may sanctifie him and make him a new creature that dying to sinne hee may live to Righteousnesse and putting off the old man with his deeds hee may put on the new man which is renewed in righteousnesse and true holinesse and as wee are now ready to poure upon his head the water of thy Sacrament poure thou upon him the gifts and graces of that soveraigne Spirit receiving him into the number of thy domesticks and honouring him with the adoption of thy children giving him grace to consecrate unto thee during the course of his life that obedience and that religious service that is due unto thee and to persevere for ever in thy holy Covenant that as now wee doe receive him in thy Name to the Communion of the Church Militant thou mayest bee pleased to lift him one day to the bosome of thy triumphant Church and joyne him for ever to the Assembly of the first borne whose names are written in Heaven Heare us O Father of mercy that the Baptisme which wee doe administer according to thy ordinance may produce its fruit and its vertue such as it is declared unto us in thy holy Gospell in thy Sonne our Lord JESUS CHRIST who hath commanded us to pray and say Our Father which art in Heaven c. Then speaking to those who present the Catecumen or party to be Baptised the Minister shall say unto them As you have been charitably employed about Instruction and edification of this our Brother and are Witnesses of the Baptisme which by and by he is to receive by our Ministery Doe you not promise here before God and this holy Assembly that you will continue more and more to strengthen him in the faith and to exhort him to all manner of good workes Answ Wee doe This done speaking to the Catecumen or party to be baptised who waites on his knees to be baptised and powring water upon his head the Minister shall say N. upon these testimonies of your faith which have appeared J. Baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen FINIS Imprimatur IA. CRANFORD Entred according to Order Wardens Richard Whittaker Henry Seale A Looking-Glasse FOR ALL Proud ambitious covetous and corrupt LAVVYERS Wherein they may see Their fore-Fathers Love and Humility Dion Halicarn l. 2. Livius l. 1. Plutarch in Romulo The like was used amongst the Thessalians who called these kinde of Clients Penestae And amongst the Athenians who called them Thetae Lazius Comment Reipub. Rom. lib. 12. c. 3. De●●pster Antiquitatum Rom. lib. 1. c. 16.17 Car. Sigon de Antiquo Jure Civium Rom. WHen Rome was in her integrity the great men studied the Lawes and pleaded the cause of the poore without fee Jure Clientela Every eminent man having many ●undreds nay some thousands of poor men under their protection for whom they did respondere de jure make defen●e in Law This was a mutuall Obligation of common charity and these ●nfeed Patrons were justly stiled Sacerdotes Justitia Priests of Themis the Godd●●e of justice But afterwards Cùm abundantes divitiae desiderium im exere per luxum atque libidinem pereundi perdendique omnia When abundant wealth brought in luxurie to afflict the manners of the Common-wealth they grew into corruption with the times tooke fees and became viles rubulae Hackney Petty-fogg●rs and Hucksters of the Law Now though our Lawyers were never in that state of innocency to practice without Fee yet were they never in that height of corruption and unlimited way of gaine they are now in I have heard old men say they remembred when Lawyers at the beginning of a Terme would stand at a pillar in Pauls Temple-Bar the corner of Chancery-Lane and other Avenues

two things are in us accomplished by the Grace of JESUS Christ It will follow that the vertue and substance of Baptisme is comprised in him and in very deed we have no other washing but by his blood nor no other renewing then in his Death and Resurrection but as he doth communicate unto us his riches and his blessings by his Word so he doth distribute the same by his Sacraments Now in this doth appeare the marvellous love of God towards us in that these Graces which are conferred upon us in Baptisme having before the comming of the Redeemer been confined to the nation of the Jewes the middle wall of partition which did separate the Jewes from the Gentiles being by the death of the Lord JESUS taken away hee hath poured upon mankind these saving waters of his grace in such abundance that in him now there is neither Jew nor Greeke neither Male nor Female neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision nor any other difference of outward estate or condition which can exclude us from this great Salvation which JESUS Christ will have preached to all Nations and from the Covenant of peace ratified by Baptisme according to the charge given by him to his Apostles saying Goe ye and teach all Nations baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost And of this grace it is that you my brother desire to bee made partaker by Baptisme Is it not Answer It is 14 Quest But because entring into the house of GOD every one is bound to looke unto his wayes lest hee prophane the Sanctuary in presuming to offer there according to the saying of the wise the sacrifice of fooles and impious men and that hee ought to bee purged from all leven of errour and malice Doe you not detest all errours contrary to the holy doctrine taught in our Churches Answ I doe If the Catecumen or party to bee Baptised bee a Jew or Mahumetane after those words in the sift Question Doe you not renounce c. the Minister shall adde 4 Quest Doe you not beleeve that this great God Creator of Heaven and earth is one Essence c. as before in the fift Question Answ I doe Then hee shall as he unto the Jew 5 Quest Doe you not detest the Rebellion and hardnesse of heart of the Jewes and doe you not aske God forgivenesse that you have continued in it so long Answ I doe 6 Quest Doe not you beleeve that whatsoever God hath beene pleased to reveale unto us of his will is contained not onely in the Books of the Old Testament but also in those of the New Answ J doe 7 Quest Doe you not beleeve that JESUS the Sonne of the blessed Virgin Mary conceived in her by the ineffable power of the holy Ghost and since by the unjust sentence of Ponce Pilat upon the flanderous accusation of the Jewes condemned to the death of the Crosse risen from the dead on the third day and now raised to glory is God manifested in the flesh the eternall Word of the Father by which hee hath Created and upholdeth this Universe the blessed Seed which was promised unto Adam presently after his fall by vertue of which the head of the Serpent hath been bruised the comming of whom all the Patriarks in Faith and Hope have expected that great Prophet and true Messias both by Moses and other Prophets which have been since him foretold Answ I doe 8 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Lord Jesus is the fulfilling of the Law in righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth the truth of the Types and figures of it the true Lamb of God which takes away the sinnes of the world and that in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Answ I doe 9 Quest Doe not you beleeve that now the observation of the Ceremonies of the Law is not onely superfluous but also altogether prejudiciall to the conscience Answ I doe After this the Minister shall propose the Questions that are set downe before Rehearse the summary of your faith c. and those which follow ¶ If the Catecumen or party to be Baptized be a Mahumitane after those words before mentioned Doe not you beleeve that this great God Creator of heaven and earth is one Essence c. the Minister shall adde 5 Quest. Doe not you beleeve that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were inspired by him and c●ntaine all his Counsell for the salvation of men and are the onely and perfect Rule of faith and manners Answ I doe 6 Quest Doe not you beleeve that JESUS the Sonne of the blessed Virgin Mary conceived in her by the power of the holy Ghost and according to the flesh formed of her proper substance is God and Man blessed for ever perfect God and perfect man Man made of a Woman in the fulnesse of times and God begotten of God the Father from all Eternity Answ I doe 7 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Lord JESUS from his first Conception according to the flesh hath beene Holy Innocent without spot and separated from sinners and that hee hath not suffered death for any businesse of his owne but for ours only Answ I doe 8 Quest Doe not you beleeve that his death is the propitiation of our s●nnes yea of the sinnes of the whole world and that this propitiation i● of infinite merit by which salvation and eternall glory is acquired unto us Answ I doe 9 Quest Doe not you beleeve that Mahomet was a notorious Impostor and that his Alcaron is a sacrilegious rapsody of dreames full of absurdities and of purpose devised to establish a false and an abominable Religion Answ I doe 10 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Gospell of the Lord JESUS is the power of God to salvation to every one that beleeveth that the Christian Religion is the onely Religion by which God the Father hath manifested his good pleasure for the salvation of men unto the end of the world that since the manifestation of it there is no other to bee expected That the Lord JESUS CHRIST onely is that great Prophet promised to the faithfull of the old Testament and that God having formerly spoken in divers manners unto men before the Law and under the Law hath spoken to the Church of the New Testament by the mouth of his onely begotten Sonne JESUS Answ I doe After that the Minister shall adde Rehearse the Summary of your faith c. and the other questions which follow If the Catecumen or party to be Baptized be an Anabaptist after that the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. and ninth Questions set downe before shall have beene proposed the Minister shall goe on thus 10 Quest Doe not you beleeve that the Lord JESUS is and shall be true God and true man in both his natures eternally that according to his humanity he was like in all things unto other men sin only excepted so that he was the true