Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	act_v	baptize_v	unquestionable_a	15	3	16.2821	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81727	Gospel-Glory proclaimed before the sonnes of men, in the visible and invisible worship of God. Wherein the mystery of God in Christ, and his royall, spirituall government over the soules and bodies of his saints, is clearly discovered, plainly asserted, and faithfully vindicated, against the deceiver and his servants, who endeavour the cessation thereof, upon what pretence soever. / By Edward Drapes, an unworthy servant in the gospell of Christ.	Drapes, Edward.	1648 (1648)	Wing D2139; Thomason E472_27; ESTC R205811	164,938	187

you Which doctrine is to be preached to believers Who may be considered under a two-fold consideration Either as added to the Church walking in visible or Church-fellowship Or as not yet added to the Church To both which sorts I shall endeavour to lay open their duty that so they may be conformable to their great Law-giver the Lord Jesus I shall speake of them in order But first to such as are not in a true visible Church fellowship The commands of Christ to them are these two in an especiall manner First That they should be baptized Secondly That being baptized they should be added or joined to the Church In the first of these I shall handle severall particulars 1. That Baptisme was commanded to be preached and practised 2. That Saints were baptized 3. The severall sorts of Baptisme spoken of in the Scriptures 4. That Baptisme of water was preached by the Disciples and commanded to be practised by the Saints 5. Who was the Author and Institutor of water Baptisme 6. What the true nature use and end of Baptisme with water is 7. Who was and is a true Administrator or Dispenser of it 8. Who be the true and proper subjects of water Baptisme 9. The true manner of the administration of it 10. The principle by which a Saint ought to be moved to subjection unto it 11. The power enabling to performe it or submit to it 12. How long the Ordinance of Baptisme was and is to continue I shall presume to be more large in this point of Baptisme then in others First Because this lyeth most hid and many Christians are enquiring after it Secondly Because this being cleared up the Controversies about Ordinances and Church visible fellowship would soone bee reconciled In this Chapter I shall speake of the first foure particulars 1. That Baptisme was commanded to be preached is evident Math. 28. 19 20. Where Christ saith Goe yee therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them teaching them to observe all things which I have Baptisme was commanded to be preached and practised commanded you Now Christ taught them to baptize and then to observe it as Christs command Againe saith Christ Marke 16. 15 16. Goe preach the Gospell to every Creature he that believeth and is baptized c. This was commanded to be preached Which commission the Apostle Peter executed faithfully Acts 2. 38. Commanding every one of them to repent and be baptized So Acts 10. 48. He declared it as their duty and commanded their subjection to it The truth of this is so unquestionable that I shall passe to the second That as it was commanded so it was practised is manifest Acts The Saints were baptized 2. 41. They that gladly received the word preached by Peter were baptized And many in Samaria which believed both men and women were baptized Acts 8. 12. The Eunuch the Gaoler Lydia Crispus and many Corinthians were baptized Acts 18. 8. I thinke it altogether needlesse to insist longer on this particular well knowing no man will deny this but he that denies the Scriptures likewise 3. The Scriptures speake of severall sorts of Baptisme which There are severall sorts of Baptisme spoen of in the Scriptures I shall unfold to you with their agreement and difference Now Baptisme in the Scriptures admits of a three-fold consideration First As it is a Baptisme of water Secondly As it is a Baptisme of the Spirit Thirdly As it is a Baptisme of afflictions 1. The Baptisme of water we finde mentioned in divers e Baptisme water places as John 1. 21. Acts 8. 38. Now this Baptisme of water was with materiall water 2. The Baptisme of the Scriptures prophesied of by John called e Baptisme the Holy ●●st and 2. 28 29. The Baptisme of the Holy Ghost and fire Math. 3. 11. promised by God in Joel by Christ Acts 1. 5. Yee shall be baptized saith Christ with the Holy Ghost not many daies hence Which was fulfilled Acts 2. There appeared cloven tongues like as of fire and they sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance This Baptisme is called the Baptism of the spirit because it was the onely worke of the spirit with which they were filled called the Baptisme of fire because of the operation of the spirit which like fire was a light to them that sate in darknesse like fire because of its refining nature burning up that chaffe and drosse that was in them and making them more pure a Baptisme of fire in respect of its consuming nature destroying the man of sinne t is a fire that goeth out of the mouth of the Lord Jesus that burnes up consumes and destroyes the stubble and chaffe of Antichrist Yea of this Baptisme it is said There sate cloven tongues like fire upon the heads of the Apostles Which visibly demonstrated the power of the spirit in giving them the gift of tongues or languages whereby they could speake to all men in their severall languages wherein they were naturally borne Acts 2. 8. Now this was a visible glorious spirituall Baptisme the proper nature end and use of this was to crowne the doctrine of Jesus with a Crowne of glory to confirme spread abroad to all Nations and exalt the Gospell of Jesus and Christ in his Gospell This was that which amused the world yea to heare the Apostles speake with tongues they were confounded amazed and mervailed Acts 2. 6. 7. greatly 3. There is likewise a Baptisme of afflictions or sufferings A Baptism of affliction Therefore saith Christ I have a Baptisme to be baptized withall and how am I streigthned in my spirit till that be accomplished This was the Baptisme of his death into which death we are baptized Now this Baptisme holds forth to us our descending into misery as if wee were overwhelmed with misery and our ascending from it into glory Wee as Christ did when he was in the world must take up his Crosse and follow him in afflictions for We beare about in our bodies the dyings of the Lord Jesus I might here shew you the sweet unity consent and harmony that is in these Baptismes and wherein they differ but you will see this more fully if you consider what ensues But some may say T is true there is a Baptisme of water of the spirit and Qu. fire and of afflictions but is there not a Baptisme of the spirit besides that Baptisme of the Holy Ghost and fire which you say consists in new tongues and miraculous visible appearances of the spirit which Baptisme of the spirit is the worke of Gods spirit upon the heart in believing and the like according to that in Titus We are saved by the washing of regeneration c. Tit. 3. 4. To this I answer Yielding That we are saved by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost which hee Answ shed on

of their Authority If the Scriptures were not to be believed above their words why doe they seeke to prove their matter from them Nay which seemes a wonder to me these very bruits for I can give them no fitter name that deny the Scriptures doe often times bring Scripture to prove their deniall of them Sometimes they object to us the seeming Contradictions that are in them telling us the Word of God cannot contradict it selfe and for this they alleadge the Scriptures that say God cannot lye and the like by which doe they not set to their seales that God is true and the Scriptures his word Yet a little further let them set aside the Scriptures and bid them reason of any thing and what will they then say How will they prove what they say Will they prove their assertions from some undeniable principles From whence I pray you fetch they their principles It is either from nature or from grace If from nature that is corrupted Who can bring a cleane thing out of an uncleane thing Nature teaches not the true Worship of God If from grace Where is this grace made manifest And if it be not manifest who will believe them For the proving of doubtfull things is alwaies by things more known If it be made manifest surely then t is in the Scriptures Well To conclude this Consider that heavenly stile faithfulnesse in reproving as well great and small that sweet unity that is there that majesty and authority that is to be found there and in no writing else that almost all men that have ever seene them stand in admiration of them which are an evident demonstration of the excellency of them But there are many things in the Scripture that seeme incredible as Sampsons staying so many with the Jaw-bone of an Asse and Christs being Object borne of a Virgin and Noahs Arke and many more To whom doe these seeme incredible Dost thou believe there Sol. is a God If thou dost Why shouldest thou thinke it impossible for him to bring to passe these things And if he tels us these things are so why shall we not believe them But it may be though mayst say there are many things that seeme to contradict each other What then Are they not true because thy narrow foolish and shallow heart cannot comprehend it There are many things in nature which thou canst give no reason of Why quarrellest thou not with them also and with that God that made them If thou understandingly didst but reade them I dare say thou wouldst say there is not one thing in the whole Scriptures needlesse nor any Contradictions Some things in them are figures some histories some lawes which all hold forth the majesty soveraignty and excellency of the Lord. I shall for the present say no more of the rule of discovery but this That he that shall deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God is a bruit beast without any bounds yea he is but an Atheist that cannot chuse but deny God himselfe The fourth thing is the manner of discovery The light of God The manner of discovery reveales the mysteries of God And this is 1. Ministerially God discovers himselfe by his Ministers but Ministerially more of this hereafter 2. Plainly The Lord Jesus delights to speake after a familiar Plainly manner to the soule teaching it by wordes easy to be understood Christ spake in Parables how say you then he speakes plainly Object Sol. To that I answer It is true there was a time when Christ spake in Parables but yet it is worth our observing that he used such parables that the very Jewes that heard him knew whom and what he meant by his Parables But further I say likewise that Christ spake afterwards to his Disciples plainly not in parables which the Disciples acknowledged saying So now thou speakest plainly If you looke to the manner of Christs speaking it is most plain making use of the plainest similitudes that could be Thus did the Apostles preach not with entising words of mans wisedome but with plainesse of speech in demonstration of the spirit and power Which when I consider I cannot but wonder at the imposters deceivers and deceived of this generation who come with high swelling words and uncouth language that in truth their words are harder to be understood then their matter who speake as if they desired rather to have their persons wit eloquence and elocution advanced then the Gospell of Jesus He is not now among many wanton Christians thought worthy of hearing that hath not an art of copying some new expressions to paint and indeed adulterate and counterfeit the truth Well I am sure Paul was of another minde that said He had rather speake five words which he understood then ten thousand in an unknowne tongue These men to my understanding doe as if a man minding to shew forth the excellent proportion of a beautifull man should build a faire and beautifull Turret or Scaffold very high and sets the man upon it which indeed Eclipses the beauty of a man and fixes their eyes on the beautifull structure he stands upon They pretend to hold forth Christ but in truth t is their owne words not Christ that is so much doted or admired by these Disciples of whom through their faire words they have made merchandise for Satan Lastly Christ teaches the soule infallibly there is no guile in his mouth his words are not yea and nay but the truth of God the unquestionable truths of God he speakes not at peradventure I thinke this is true I suppose it to be true and the like doubtfull phrases but saith This is the voice of the God of the Lord of him that cannot lye Oh blessed are all that are thus taught of Jesus Christ his words are the sure words of prophecy whereto wee doe well to give heed Lastly A word or two to the subjects to whom this light reveales The subjects to whom this light is discovered the matter I have before showne to be the substance revealed and they are two fold according to the diversity of the matter revealed Now the matter revealed is either the mysteries of the Fathers love to a poore soule which is hidden from the wise men of the world and this the true light discovers onely to the children of the Kingdome Or else 2. The matter revealed is the truth of God barely and nakedly as it is in it selfe without the soules interest in it to whom it is revealed And in this sense Saul was among the Prophets and the Spirit of God was upon Balaam whereby he knew Israel to be blessed though himselfe partook not of that blessing In this sense the spirit gives gifts to the rebellious this is a receiving truth but not in the love of it from which a man may utterly fall away Though a man hath all knowledge yet if he be not a chosen vessell of the Father and have not the