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A96362	A true relation of the conversion and baptism of Isuf the Turkish chaous, named Richard Christophilus In the presence of a full congregation, Jan. 30. 1658. in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Manton is minister. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	White, Thomas, 1628-1698.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1807; Thomason E2141_1; ESTC R204020	32,885	117

the performance of that duty towards him was recommended to Mr. Durie who having consulted with Mr. Manton concerning the manner of doing it in the place where his Cong regation meets at Covent-Garden and a great Font being set up neer the Pulpit on the Lords day January the 30th in the Afternoon Mr. Durie did Preach a Sermon concerning the Nature and Institution of Baptism And having applyed the Doctrine to the Action which was intended he proceeded to Baptize him The Substance of matters delivered in the Sermon was this The Text was taken out of Acts 10. 47. Can any man forbid water that these should not be Baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we THe Entry to the matter was by shewing a Parallel between the occasion which Peter had to utter these words and the motive which did lead to chuse them for a Text at this time Cornelius was an Alien from the Church of God So was the Turk to be Baptized Cornelius was by a special Providence directed to Peter to be received into the Church and Communion of Saints So was the Turk by a special Providence directed hither without his own contrivance to be received into the Church and owned as a member of Christ Cornelius having heard the Doctrine of Christ believed So the Turk hath been taught and doth believe the Truth Cornelius having believed did receive the Graces of the Spirit which God according to the dispensation of that time did bestow So the Turk hath received the Graces of the same Spirit which answer the dispensation of these times And as Peter intending to baptize Cornelius his company did use this Preface to shew the warrantableness of his action So now this Text is chosen to shew the warrantableness of this action The words contain an Argument to prove that Cornelius and his company ought to be Baptized thus They who have received the Graces of the Holy Ghost as well as we ought to be Baptized as well as we But Cornelius his company have received these Graces as well as we Ergo they ought to be Baptized as wel as we Can any man forbid The Interrogation is a strong negation that is no man can forbid and the Negation presupposeth a duty to be performed which no man ought to forbid As if he had said Baptism is due to these and there can be no impediment alledged why it should not be conferred upon them Two things are in the words which answer the two main Questions which concern Baptism 1. How Baptism is to be administred 2. To whom it ought to be administred The first part of the text speaks of the manner how Baptism is to be administred Can any man forbid water that these should not be Baptized The Second speaks of the persons to whom Baptism ought to be administred viz. to such who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we Of the first Question If the Question be How Baptism is be administred The Answer from the Text is by making use of water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost to wash the outward man This is clear from the Text and from the Institution of Baptism and from the Reason of the use of water in the Institution The Text makes the forbidding of water and not Baptizing to be co-incidents or consequents Forbid water saith the Apostle that they should not be Baptized Therefore by the Rule of Contraries it follows the not forbidding but administring water is Baptism Hence we see that in the verse following when it is said He commanded them to be Baptized in the name of the Lord he commanded water to be administred unto them that they should be washed according to the Lords appointment For so I takehere the word name to be the authority of the Lords command So the sense is he commanded in the name of the Lord that they should be Baptized or to be Baptized by vertue of the Lords appointment which sense makes the former Interrogation Can any man forbid to be so much the stronger negation as opposed to a command given by the appointment of the Lord Thus Water-Baptism is clear in this Text and undeniably the practice in the Apostles times as is evident also by the Eunuch and Philips baptizing of him Acts 8. 36 37 38 39. The Institution of Baptism and Christs own practice shewes that he appointed water to be made use of in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Matth. 28. 19 20. Goe saith Christ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} make disciples all Nations How are they to be made disciples Baptizing them in the name c. and Teaching them c. To make a disciple is to enroll and admit of one to be under Discipline that is to be ranked amongst those who are to be taught which enrolment and admission is done by the use of water the word of the institution And it is clear that to make a disciple and to Baptize is one thing from Christs own practice Joh. 4. 1. Jesus made baptized more disciples them John Here making disciples Baptizing are concomitant or co-incident things He that is made a disciple is made by being Baptized and he that is Baptized is eo ipso made a disciple Thus Christs Institution was to have a mark put upon his disciples which should signifie and seal unto them both a relation and qualification bestowed upon them by being his disciples And from hence is to be considered the Reason of the Institution which hath two grounds First Christ would confirm and perfect that which was Typical under the Law pointing at himself Secondly he would manifest by the outward properties of water that which is inwardly wrought in a believing soul and that state wherein a believer is set by being his disciple In the Law all the Purifications whether they were by blood or water they all pointed at him therefore to confirm and fulfill the mystery of them in the Gospel-administration he did retain the substance thereof namely that wherein the Harmony and the Analogy doth appear And in the Legal washing there are two Types which did prefigure the Truth which is fulfilled in Baptism The one is of Aaron and his Sons Exod. 29. 4. who were to be washed before they were initiated into their Office the other is of the Lepers who were to be washed before they were admitted into the Camp and again washed before they were admitted into their Tent Levit. 14. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Both these washings are compleated in Baptism for by it we are initiated as Priests to serve God and by it our leprosie is cleansed and we are received both into the common Camp and then also into the peculiar Tent and station belonging to us in the Congregation of Israel and all this Initiation was typified by that washing but now it is fulfilled in true believers by

his commands they ought to render obedience of Faith unto him and to believe in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost according to the scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles upon which the Believers are built Jesus Christ being the chief Corner stone the scriptures are the word inspired by God to make men wise unto salvation by the Faith which is in Jesus Christ to make them perfectly instructed unto every good work for Doctrine Correction and instruction in Righteousness Moreover I believe that Baptism ought to be administred in the name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to shew forth that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are the only true God in whom we ought to believe and whom we should obey I believe also that all believers are baptised by the holy Ghost into one Body and that every one of them being members of this Body in his place become members one of another The washing which is instituted in Baptism doth signifie the washing of Regeneration by the renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed abroad by Jesus Christ upon believers I believe also that this washing is a sign of the new Covenant established in the blood of Jesus Christ into which we are received by the Testimony of a good Conscience towards God in giving our selves wholly over unto him according to the tenor of his Covenant to be taught and governed by him in all things as his Disciples in this washing which is common to all believers to be received all they who are joyned to Jesus Christ as to their Master or head to become his members are baptized by him into one Spirit to become one Body and to behave themselves the one towards the other as his members in the Communion of Saints I believe that the Spiritual and inward Baptism of the Souls which doth purifie the Conscience from dead works makes believers carefull to keep all the Commandements of God and gives them access to call upon the name of the Lord at the throne of grace to be helped in due time I believe that that the Commandements which ought to be observed are given by Moses and confirmed by Christ and the prayer by which we should make our requests known to the Father is taught by the Lord Matth. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. I believe that the Church of God is made use of in this world to hold forth the word of life and the Ordinances of Truth which are appointed to the things which beget and increase grace and to reform vices and scandales I believe that the Ordinances of the publick administration of the Word and Prayer for those that are Ministers or Pastors whose office is to prophesie and pray in the Church are the Organes by which God doth beget faith in men and to make them compleat in all other graces as Saints for the building up of the body of Christ I believe that the Ordinances of the Church and Government of Discipline ought to be administred by the office of Elders and are Organs to prevent and reme the spiritual adultery and evill which is incident unto the society of Saints by an equal administration of Charity for the comforting of the weak and supply of the necessities of the poor as also for order and decency to proceed in all publick concernments and for the correction of a Brother and of those that are in any disorderly way I believe that the Government of God and the Administration of his Providence in the World to come is universal towards all and particular towards the Elect By his universal Providence he will raise up the dead at the last day both great and small and shall call the quick and the dead as well Men as Angels unto Judgment this sentence shall last eternally wherein the Angels shall be judged by the Saints and by his particular Providence over the Reprobates they shall be destroyed from the presence of the Lord with everlasting torments in Hell with the Devil and his Angels but the Elect shall be received into everlasting glory with Christ being made heirs of all things in the presence of God for ever I believe that the Scriptures of the old and New Testament are the true Word of God containing evidently infallibly and perfectly his revealed Will and Truth to be a rule of our Faith and obedience a Judge of our lives a touch-stone of all Doctrines and an Organ to make all believers perfect unto Salvation My Spiritual Father This evening I have made a general confession before my Lord Jesus Christ of my Faith as his slave with a good heart as yet it seems to me that I have great need of Baptism which our Lord Jesus Christ hath ordained for those that believe in him with a good heart Sir I pray you for the love of God to sollice it that I may be baptized for you know that we are subject to die and if I should dye without Baptism I shall not dye having my heart contented I am inclined to pray my Lord Iesus Christ for all faithfull Christians who bear love unto him Isuf Chaous the Slave of my Lord Jesus Christ The Confession being read and the fulnesse of it being taken notice of the Minister went out of the Pulpit down to the Font at which he sate and standing by him asked him three Questions First whether he did not renounce before God and this Congregation the Mahometan Sect whereunto he answered yea he hid renounce it utterly Secondly whether he did not desire to make profession of the Christian Faith and to be Baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost as a disciple of Christ whereunto he answered yea it was his earnest desire Thirdly whether he was not resolved in the future course of his life to submit himself to all the Ordinances of Christ and to walk unblameably under Christian Discipline whereunto he answered yea it was his sincere Resolution These Questions his Answers were made in the Italian tongue and interpreted afterward unto the Congregation in English Then a Prayer was made for a blessing upon the Ordinance to be administed unto him desiring the Lord to be present with his Spirit to seal and exhibite the thing signified thereby that being made partaker of the Promises of the Covenant his walking may be answerable thereunto and he may be delivered from all the Temptations of the evil one henceforth to be filled with joy and comfort by the Holy Ghost and other requests to this effect Which being done the Minister dipt his head into the water of a large Font and poured water upon it saying Richard Christophilus I Baptize thee in the name of of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Then the Minister returning to the Pulpit exhorted the Congregation to observe to the Glory of God the freedom of his Grace and Election that he did out of the midst of a most damnable Sect call this soul to himself in a way more than ordinary and that we should praise God for the work of Grace bestowed on him and that we might hope that God was preparing by such meanes a way to bring in the Conversion of the Jewes and the Fulnesse of the Gentiles amongst which the Turks should be comprehended of whom this man and some others being the first fruits we might expect hereafter a full Harvest They were also exhorted to rejoyce with and for him that he was now in the bosom of the Church that they should embrace him in their hearts through the Communion of Saints and pray for him These Exhortations being ended the Action was concluded with a Prayer and the singing of a part of a Psalm And this Relation is thus made publick that all those to whose hands it may come should be edified therby and stirred up to consider Gods works to give him due praise for the mercy which he shewes to any sinners and to pray that he would dayly add such as belong to his Election unto his Church till all flesh see his glory together And that this Proselyte may be made instrumental to advance his Glory towards his own Nation in due time being delivered from the Temptations and Assaults which Satan hath made upon him in a way not ordinary wherein the Lord hath hitherto graciously supported him and whereof hereafter in due time some more particular account may be given In the mean time this is offered to the ingenuous and true-hearted Christian that various and uncertain Reports may be prevented concerning this Action which we hope will redound to the Glory of our gracious Lord Jesus Christ in whose name it hath been performed and to him with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Thanksgiving rendred from all his Creatures and in all his Congregations for evermore Amen FINIS Rom. 9. 15. The Estry 1. Of God 2. Of the Holy Trinity 3. Of the Creation of the world 4. Of Adam and his falling from God 5. Of the Restauration of man by Christ 6. Of the ten Commandements 7. Of Christs office of Mediation between God and Man 8. Of the Doctrine of Faith 9. Of good works 10. The Creed 11. The Lords Prayer 12. Of the Sacraments 13. Of the Lords Supper 15. Of Baptism 14. Of the Church Ordinances 16. Of the last Judgment 17. Of the Holy scripture