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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26267	An epitomy, shewing when the Protestant religion began, why so call'd, the parts thereof the three creeds, and wherefore people stand when one is said : how and when infant baptism came to be used ... : also the Presbyterians, and what they hold and what Scriptures they produce, and the Independants, and the Baptists, what Scriptures they produce, the Quakers, somewhat of their principles and what Scriptures they produce / by John Axford.	Axford, John.	1700 (1700)	Wing A4280; ESTC R11103	8,487	20

Classical where the Offender or Scandalous is first to appear where so many as are of the Classis doth appoint in some Town most for conveniency where they meet once a Month next to the Provincial Synod once a Quarter and to the National Synod once a Year so if there be not a Reformation or manifest Repentance they are cited from one to the next the last Determines or Judgeth according to the Offence It 's reported that in Geneva a strong City where they are Calvinists that is Presbyteries there is neither Drunkard Curser or Swearer known in any Parish They exercise a Church Power which they call The Power of the Keys Before the Toleration they had some private Meetings but went also to the Publick They have since great Meetings and Houses to meet in they Sprinkle Infants of those they account Members of their Church the stricter sort have no Witnesses as some have They break Bread at sometimes appointed to those accounted Members There is a great difference between the Primitive Presbytery and that which hath been since and is in this Age. They did not force nor Persecute others as they have where they have had Power nor Dip or Sprinkle their Infants They differ much from the Primitive they are more Authoritative and seek to the Magistrate Acts 14.23 15.22 29. 2 Cor. 1.24 1 Tim. 6.3 4. Matth. 20.25 26 27. Luke 22.25 26 27. John 16.13 Gal. 1.12 1 Pet. 5.3 The Independants count themselves a Church or People of God when called by the Word or Spirit into a Consent or Covenant and so Saints by Profession not to Force or Compel any to be of their Way or Opinion But they have a free Government among themselves They are made Christians at first by being Baptized or Sprinkled when Infants with Water and after by the Word and Covenant Holiness and then they may injoy or partake of the Ordinances of breaking Bread and to drink Wine They alledge these Scriptures Acts 2.41 42. 1 Cor. 1.2 9. 2 Cor. 6.16 17. Colos 1.2 1 Pet. 2.5 Eph. 1.1 Rom. 11.16 They have no such Power as the Apostles to make or gather Churches Churches did not gather them The Apostles had a Power to act the Members of their Churches were Baptized or Sprinkled under Prelacy are no right Baptized Members of true Churches that of Covenant Holiness in 1 Cor. 7.14 is to answer a scruple consequences drawn from Circumcision are of no force the Baptizing of Infants cannot have such a Church as were the Believers in the Apostles Days These Scriptures are against the Independants Acts 2.39 42. 14.21 22 23. 1 Cor. 14.22 1 Tim. 3.15 4.14 Matth. 3.6 9. 1 John 3. Rom. 4.16 Gal. 3.16 1 Cor. 10.1 Acts 2.41 42. Matth. 28.20 Anabaptism what it is and what they hold That they are a Church of Christ being a Company of Baptized Believers Assembled together in his Name to hear the Gospel or Word Preached and any one of them that is so able or gifted may Teach Preach or Baptize That none are to be Baptized but such as are Believers and are able to give a Reason of their Faith That none are to be called Brethren or Sisters but such as are Baptized Believers Those commonly called Pastors Ministers Church-Officers are such as the Baptized Believers hath no need of or may be without That none ought to Communicate or Partake of the Ordinances of Christ till they are Baptized as the Supper Bread and Wine so their Government and Discipline is amongst themselves The Scriptures which they bring for Proof are Matth. 3.6 16. 28.19 Mark 16.16 John 4.1 8 31. 15.10 Acts 2.41 9.18 10.48 Isaiah 1.16 8.16 Heb. 12.22 Rom. 6.3 4. Acts 8.38 16.33 19.4.5 20.7 Rom. 6.3 4. John 15.14 In some of these Scriptures there 's no mention the Apostles used in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost nor Water There is a Baptism of Gifts of Suffering and for the Dead Miracles and of the Spirit The People called Quakers what they hold A Freedom from Sin and a perfect state to be witnessed in this Life or on this side the Grave and that the Light within is sufficient to Save for that which reproved Adam and Eve after they had eaten the Forbidden Fruit is the same that hath reproved Sinners ever since and that which hath guided or lead Adam and Eve out of the Fall or Transgression into the happy and blessed State is the same that hath guided or lead all ever since that hath been truly convinced and repented and yielded true obedience to the Light within the holy Spirit of Truth as their Guide Leader and Conductor they have all witnessed the Restauration out of the Fall and Transgression into the happy and blessed Estate before they departed out of this Temporal Life so all the Saints mentioned in the holy Scriptures never committed the same Sin more than once as Adam and Eve witnessed so Abel Seth Enoch Noah his Wife and his Sons Shem Ham and Japhet and their Wives and Ham though his Father cursed him so all the Fathers of the Line of Christ before the Flood and after to Abram his Wife and Family Isaac and his Wife Gen. 20. Abimelech said Lord wilt thou slay a Righteous Nation Jacob his Family Moses Aaron Eleazer Joshua Caleb and the seven Thousand that did not Bow their Knees to Baal 1 Kings 18. And all the holy Prophets and righteous People Isaiah 65.1 I was found of them that sought me not and have been made manifest to them that asked not after me Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. Rom 11.26 27. Heb. 11. Where a part is put for the whole where their Faith is mentioned by which the Elders obtained a good Report Thus I have proved how the Restauration was witnessed before the Coming of Christ in the Flesh Luke 1.6 Zacharias and his Wife Elizabeth were just before God and walked in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Luke 2.25 There was a Man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon this Man was Just and feared God and waited for the Consolation of Israel and the holy Spirit was upon him and a Revelation was given him of the holy Spirit John 1.1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and that Word was God Vers 2. The same was in the beginning with God Vers 3. All things were made by it and without it was nothing made that was made Vers 4. In it was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. Vers 5. And the Light shineth in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehended it not Vers 6. There was a Man sent from God whose Name was John Vers 7. The same came for a Witness to bear Witness of the Light that all Men through him might believe Vers 8. He was not that Light but was sent to bear witness of the Light Vers 9. That was the true Light which lighteth every Man