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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29074	A vindication of the remarks on the Bishop of Derry's discourse about human inventions from what is objected against them in the admonition annext to the second edition of that discourse by the author of the remarks.	Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728.	1695 (1695)	Wing B4080; ESTC R1985	67,590	105

we thereby are invested in All these uses of 'em must be carefully and distinctly consider'd 1. These Sacred Rites are us'd in these two Ordinances as Representing Signs for Instruction The infinitely wise God condescending herein to our infirmity and weakness Thus washing with Water which is the Rite appointed in Baptism is by its resemblance instructive to us both concerning the Priviledges and Duties of the Covenant we enter into Concerning the Priviledges Thus 't is design'd to represent our Natural pollution and defilement and the necessity of the Regenerating and Purifying Vertue of the Holy Spirit And hence we are said to be born of Water and the Holy Spirit 3 John 5. i. e. formed to a new and divine Life by that sanctifying efficacy of the Holy Spirit which is compar'd to the purifying Vertue of Water And elsewhere in allusion to this Baptismal Rite we are said to be Saved by the Laver of Regeneration and the Renewing of the Holy Ghost 3 Tit. 5. Nay this Rite seems also design'd to instruct us concerning our Guilt as well as Pollution and of the necessity of our being Cleans'd from it by the Laver of our Mediatour's Blood For the most judicious Expositors understand those words of Ananias concerning the Remission of Sins when he saith to Saul upon his Conversion Arise and be Baptized and wash away thy Sins or be thou washt from thy Sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus 22 Acts 16. And accordingly such a cleansing virtue is ascrib'd to the Redeemer's blood and that Expression of his Washing us from our Sins in it seems to carry an Allusion to this Sacred Baptismal Rite See 1 John 1.7 1 Rev. 5. The same Sacred Rite is designed to represent our Duty to us viz. To renounce the Defilements of Sin and of the World and to consecrate our selves to a Life of Holiness as Christ's purified peculiar People And this use of it the Bishop omits in his Account To this Rite those Expressions seem to refer Such were some of you but ye are washed ye are sanctified 1 Cor. 6.11 And thus the Apostle supposes in our Baptism that there is a Resemblance of our Dying with Christ and our Rising with him that should instruct us in our Duty to Dye to Sin and Live to Righteousness 6 Rom. 3 4 5. 2 Col. 12. For our Dying to Sin and Walking in newness of Life is not signified in Baptism as the Benefit confer'd by God as the Bishop seems to suppose but rather as the Duty requir'd from us tho' the renewing and purifying efficacy of the Holy Spirit whereby we are enabled to do so is signify'd as a Benefit which we receive from God The same I might observe concerning that other Institution of the Lord's Supper in whose Sacred Rites there is not only a Commemorative Representation of the Death of Christ but also an Instructive Representation of our Spiritual Communion with him in his Body and Blood viz. in the precious Fruits of his Sacrifice and of those Duties or Exercises of our Faith and Devotion to him by which we are said to Eat his Flesh and Drink his Blood 6 John 53 54. I might observe the same concerning those two paralel Institutions under the Old Testament Circumcision and Religious Feasts upon Sacrifices But this use of Sacraments being so obvious I shall not insist any farther upon it but only add That tho' I suppose all Sacramental Signs to be Representing ones and to carry such an Instructive Resemblance and Allusion yet I do not suppose all barely instructive Signs to be Sacramental or Foederal ones For there seems to be more requisite to such 2. The Sacred Rites in Baptism and the Lord's Supper are intended also as obliging Signs to Confirm and Ratifie that Covenant that is then Enter'd into or Renew'd between God and us 'T is evidently so in Baptism for the Sacred Rite there us'd is both 1. An obliging Sign on God's part whereby he confirms and ratifies the Promises of his Covenant to all that are interessed therein even that grand comprehensive Promise of being the God of the Faithful and of their Seed and particularly that eminent Promise of the Remission of Sins See 17 Gen. 7 11. and compare it with 2 Acts 38 39. Repent and be Baptiz'd every one of you for the Remission of Sins and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost for the Promise is to you and your Children c. And our being Baptiz'd into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit implys his engagement to be a reconcil'd Father Redeemer and Sanctifier to all that sincerely devote themselves to him So in that other Foederal Rite of the Lord's Supper 22 Luke 20. 't is said of the Cup That 't is the New Testament in the Blood of Christ i. e. This Sacred Memorial of his Blood is like an Authentick Seal set to the New Testament wherein so many precious Legacies are convey'd to us as the Fruits of his Death and Sacrifice And the same may also be observ'd concerning Circumcision both in the place fore-quoted 17 Gen. 7 11 and in its being call'd by the Apostle Paul the Seal of the Righteousness of Faith viz. of that right to impunity and life which Abraham was as a Believer entitled to thro' the Merits of that Redeemer who was his promised Seed 4 Rom. 11. So in their Religious Feasts upon Sacrifices God's admitting the Offerers or Guests to his Table was a solemn Ratification of the League of Amity and Peace renew'd between em thro' the virtue of that future attoning Sacrifice of Christ of which the Legal ones were only Types and Figures 2. This Sacred Rite of washing with Water in Baptism is no less an obliging Sign from us to God whereby we bind our selves to the Duties of his Covenant Now this important use of a Sacrament the Bishop not only omits in his Description of it but plainly Denies that it belongs to its nature For Admon p. 180. he asserts it to me a Mistake concerning Sacraments to suppose That they are Signs from us to God whereas he affirms 'em to be wholly for only Signs from God to us I confess this seems very surpri●ing because if this be a Mistake 't is such a Mistake as he himself has run into in his Discourse For there p. 4. he gives this reason Why the Celebration of the Sacraments is a part of Outward Worship viz. because in them we not only express our dependence on God for his grace but likewise oblige and bind our selves to serve him Now how this can be true without making the Sacramental Rite a Sign from us to God of that obligation to his Service I cannot comprehend So that his Lordship seems to me in this Particular inconsistent with himself and speaks more accurately of these Matters where his Partiality to his Cause does not mislead his Judgment But since he now asserts this to be a