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
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
but that we should lay aside the malign and sinful use of these parts I asked him what he thought of the Turkish Alcoran now he had read the Scriptures Sir sayes he why should we go about to compare the word of God with a Comedy Having some occasion to speak of wicked men he said that God is far from them but recalling himself he said they rather were far from God secretly as I took it intimating that we rather depart from God than God from us I understanding that he was much offended at the wicked lives of Christians did much endeavour to Antidote him against that poyson telling him that the small number of true Christians was so far from giving just cause of offence that it did establish the truth of the Gospel since Christ plainly tells us that there are few that shall be saved and that many are called and few are chosen but that withall I doubted not but hereafter he should meet with and be acquainted with abundance who truly feared God and lived suitable to the doctrine of Christ whose acquaintance would as much rejoyce him as the others did scandalize him His Answer was with much gravity thus Sir I judge not of the Word of God by men but of men by the Word of God And that there was but one Lot in Sodom but that it was true that he was much offended and it yet troubled him to see the wicked lives of those that call themselves Christians I thought to try him with something a more intricate question I asked him how it came to pass that he reading of such high points as of the Trinity c. in the Bible he should not rather judge that Book not to be Gods Word that spake of things so much above reason rather than to judge these things to be true because he found them written in the Bible To this purpose he answered That he was much satisfied of the Truth of Christian Religion before he came out of his own Country and finding that all Christians did agree that their Religion was set down in that Book he had a reverend esteem of it and said the spiritual love of God in the heart prepares it to the understanding of spiritual truths I asking him what reasons moved him to embrace Christianity he used this expression As a man at a feast takes one bit here and another there till at last he is so satisfied that he can eat no more So there were several reasons that from time to time affected him that at last he could stand out no longer He told me moreover that he went several times on Pilgrimage to Mahomets Tomb and the last time was resolved to see what was in it The Priest at first was very unwilling to shew it saying that there were divers there and such a thing was not to be publickly seen Upon which he told him he would stay till they were gone and so did Then he being a man of power and authority the Priest durst not deny him but opened the Tomb where he saw nothing but a few scattered black bones which much incensed him against Mahomet insomuch saith he that had I spoke what I then thought I had not gone alive out of that place I having read in the Turkish History a Relation much conducing to the advantage of Christian Religion and knowing that it was in his remembrance enquired of him of the truth of it He told me that it was very true and related some other passages which are not set down in the printed story which he said with other things did much affect him but that the Grand Signior charged that upon pain of death none should speak of it The Story was this About the year 1620. upon the 10th of September There came Newes to Constantinople of a strange Apparition or Vision which was seen at Medina Talnabi in Arabia whereas Mahomet their great Prophet was buried to visit whose Tomb the Turks use to go in Pilgrimage but they must first go to Mecha which is some few dayes journey off and there they take a ticket from the Grand Seigniors Beglerbeg else they are not allowed to go to Medina This Vision continued three weeks together which terrified the whole Countrey for that no man could discover the truth thereof About the 20th of September there fell so great a tempest and so fearful thunder about midnight as the Heavens were darkened and those that were awake almost distracted but the vapours being dispersed and the element clear the people might read in Arabian Characters these words in the Firmament O why will ye believe in lyes Between two and three in the morning there was seen a woman in white compassed about with the Sun having a cheerful countenance and holding in her hand a Book coming from the North-west opposite against her were armies of Turks Persians Arabians and other Mahometans ranged in order of battel and ready to charge her but she kept her standing and only opened the Book at the sight whereof those Armies fled and presently all the lamps about Mahomets Tomb went out for as soon as ever the Vision vanished which was commonly an hour before Sun-rising a murmuring wind was heard whereunto they imputed the extinguishing of the lamps The ancient Pilgrims of Mahomets race who after they have visited this place never use to cut their hair were much amazed for that they could not conceive the meaning of this Vision only one of the Dervices which is a strict religious Order among the Turks like unto the Capuchins among the Papists and live in contemplation stepped up very boldly and made a Speech unto the company which incensed them much against him so as this poor Priest for his plain dealing lost his life as you shall hear The summe of his speech was this That the World had never but three true Religions every one of which had a Prophet first God chose the Jewes and did wonders for them in Egypt and brought them forth by their Prophet Moses who prescribed them a Law wherein he would have maintained them if they had not been obstinate and rebellious and fallen to Idolatry whereupon he gave them over and scattered them upon the face of the earth Then presently after he raised a new Prophet who taught the Christian Religion This good man the Jewes condemned and crucified for a Seducer of the people not moved with the piety of his life his great Miracles nor his Doctrine Yet after his death the preaching of a few fishermen did so move the hearts of men as the greatest Monarchs of the world bowed to his very Title and yielded to the command of his Ministers But it seems they grew as corrupt as the Jewes their Church being dismembred with the distinction of the East and West committing Idolatry again by setting up of Images with many other idle ceremonies besides the corruption of their lives so as God was weary of them too and not only sent divisions
consequently the old Man being crucified with him the newness of Life is to be entertained and that we are bound to present our members as servants to Righteousness as the Apostle exhorts Rom. 6. 6. till 20. 4. To own the profession of Religon the strict Rules of Conscience and all the Ordinance of the Gospel openly and freely that we may not seem ashamed of Christ before men lest he be ashamed of us before his Father in heaven Matth. 10. 32 33. Concerning the Second Question If the Question be to whom Baptism is to be administred the Answer from the Text will be this That it is to be administred to such as have received the gift of the Holy Ghost that is to such as God doth own to belong to him For the Apostles argument to prove that Cornelius and his company ought to be baptized is grounded upon this maxim whomsoever God doth own as his they ought to be set apart as his But these God hath owned as his by the visible gift of the Spirit Ergo Now the visible way of owning Cornelius and his company was peculiar to the dispensation of those times and the force of his argumeut to conclude that they ought to be baptized doth not stand in it further than as it doth evidence that God did own them to belong to himself For the Major Proposition which is an universal truth the ground of the whole inference is tacitly presupposed and included in the words received the Holy Ghost as well as we as if he had said God owns them as he did us therefore they must be baptized as we are For whomsoever he doth own to them belongeth the token of his owning of them From this ground of the Apostles Argument we inferre two things First wherefore the Infants of believing Parents ought to be baptized Secondly what the qualification of Aged people is to whom Baptism is to be administred First concerning Infants we take the Apostles Argument thus and say If God doth own the Infants of believing Parents as his then they ought to receive the token of his owning of them But God doth own these Infants as his Ergo they ought to receive the token of his owning of them which is Baptism The Minor Proposition that God doth own the Infants of believers as his is manifest from 1 Cor. 7. 14. where the Apostle declares that although but one of the Parents is a believer yet the Infants are holy that is owned by God as his by vertue of the Covenant made with Abraham which is that he would be the God of him and of his seed This is a Gospel-covenant and made with Abraham as a believer therefore with all believers as well as with him For the promise saith the Apostle is to you and to your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call The promise that God will be their God is made not only to believing Jews and their children but to all believing Gentiles also whom God doth call to the faith of Abraham Hence it is that Christ declares that the Kingdom of God belongs unto them and commands the Disciples to suffer them to come unto him and was very angry with grief {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that they did forbid them to come Matth. 19. 13 14. This is recorded not as a meer History of the time but as Christ is yesterday to day and for ever the same so this command Let little children come to me is in force still If then children should be brought unto Christ they must be brought to the Ordinance where he is to be found and which they are only capable of which is the token of the Covenant For they being owned by him by the promise of the Covenant and by the command to suffer them to come to him the Apostles Argument doth stand firm for them that they ought to be baptized that is receive the sign of his owning of them The promise is that all the families of the earth should be blessed in Abraham Gen. 12. 3. 22. 18. Children are a chief part of a family and when God made his Covenant with Abraham he received all his family him with Gen. 17 12 13. And the Apostles did baptize whole families Acts 16. 15. 1 Cor. 1. 16. For the Head of a family being owned God would have all that belonged unto it to be owned and hereupon at Philippi Paul doth promise to the Jaylor of the prison that if he believed in Christ he should be saved and his house Acts 16. 31. Now the Apostle could have no warrant to promise this unto him if he had not lookt upon the promise made to Abraham Gen. 12. 3. known Gods Counsel that he would propagate his Church not by single persons but by families But if it be as it is commonly objected why is there no command for the Baptizing of Infants as well as circumcising them under the Law Answ. 1. The general command includes children and therefore no need of any particular mentioning of them 2. The Promise is as expresse to children as to Parents Acts 2. 39. and therefore no need of an expresse command 3 It had been absurd to give a new command for children seeing they were in possession of the priviledge to be owned as belonging to the Covenant they had been owned ever since Abrahams time and were in actual possession of their right therefore to give a command concerning them again to be owned had been not only superfluous but absurd as if their title to the priviledge had been doubtful Therefore I conceive that there is no command given nor any example mentioned but in the general of a houshold because their interest was presupposed to be known by all and the practice was undoubtedly universal to Baptize whole Families And thus much concerning the right of Infants unto Baptism As for Aged persons if the Question be who amongst them should be baptized The Answer will be such as are so qualified that it doth appear that God doth own them as his Now God doth own as his not only such as received the gifts of Prophesying and speaking with strange Tongues as Cornelius and his company did but all that professed Faith and did repent were engaged by Faith and Repentance to walk answerable to their profession And upon this account the Eunuch was baptized by Philip Acts 8. For having been taught the knowledge of Christ v. 30. till 36. and then having made confession of his Faith in Christ v. 36 37 38. he was baptized although he had not received any such gift of the Holy Ghost as Cornelius and his company Nay it is so far from this that the extraordinary gift which Cornelius received was pre-requisite as a qualification for Baptism that the Apostle Peter doth promise to these who should repent and be baptized that the Holy Ghost should be bestowed upon them Acts 2. 38 39.
being fallen into sin and misery could not deliver himself nor could any Creature find or procure a way for deliverance but God found a good Remedy for man I believe that Man was restored from his fall and misery by the Mediation of Jesus Christ who hath undertaken to save Mankind from the Curse of God and to reconcile God to Men and Men to God to destroy all the works of the Devil and all the Enemies of the Salvation of mankind to unite men to God by one Spirit God was moved to appoint and accept this way of Mediation for Mankind only by his free love towards the world and by his Eternal and affectionate compassion towards his Elect in Jesus Christ to the end his grace should be manifested by us The work of Reconciliation between God and Man was effected by the Son of God the second Person of the Holy Trinity who being God from all Eternity took the nature of man in the fulness of time being born by the power of the Holy Ghost of a Virgin and under the Law and so he became Emanuel God with us in one Person I believe that God said with his own mouth I am the Lord thy God who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage Thou shalt have no other Gods before my face c. I believe that the way by which he did bring to passe that admirable work was by the Administration of his three Offices Prophet Priest and King who in the state of his humiliation and exaltation became Wisedom to all Believers and also Righteousness and Redemption to make the work of Redemption and Reconciliation effectual and profitable in us he that did undertake it Jesus Christ is offered unto us with all his benefits in the covenant of grace and to all those to whom the Gospel is Preached this Covenant is published throughout the world by the publick Administration of the Word and of all the Doctrines of Repentance from dead works and of faith towards God and they are obliged every one to take an example by the grace of God which brings Salvation to receive it and to make use of it And the Doctrine of Repentance is applyed unto them that are transgressors of the Law to shew them to renounce wicked works which are first Atheism Idolatry false and Superstitious wayes of worshipping the true God all irreverence and abuse of his Name and all profanation of the Lords Day and neglect of his Solemn Worship and secondly to teach them to renounce all worldly lusts that is to say all disobedience to Superiors Murther and Malice Adultery and Villany False witness-bearing and all Concupiscence desiring things that pertain to his Neighbour I believe that the Doctrine of Faith is to be made use of towards those that have the use of reason to teach them that God is and that he is the Saviour of those that seek him diligently that they may know him and fear him and put their confidence in God the Father who hath made all things and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son who having redeemed us is gone up into Heaven and is sitting at the right hand of God where he makes Intercession for us and from thence he shall come back in glory to give unto Believers their blessed hopes and in the Holy Ghost by whom the Church of Saints is gathered sanctified and governed in this world to be exalted in glory in the world to come I believe that God doth require good workes that thereby he may be glorified amongst men and we must do them that we may shew our love to him and to his glory and our thankfulnesse to his mercy that we may have assurance in our prayers and that we may build up our neighbour in the good way Moreover the Organ by which the Believers do good works is the life of the Spirit of Christ in them which makes the children of grace free from the dominion of sin and leads them in all truth that they may answer the Tenor of the Covenant to observe it also those that are faithful unto God in the Covenant of grace makes use of their graces towards Christ to remain in him and in his word and in his love and to follow him in their affection and actions that in all things they may be conformable to his Image I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord who was conceived of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary did suffer under Potius Pilat was crucified dead and buried and descended into Hell the third day he rose from the dead he is gone up to Heaand sits at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Universal Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the Resurrection of the Body life everlasting Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and pardon us our trespasses as we pardon them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen I believe the Ordinances of Baptism and of the supper of the Lord are Organs to such as are Disciples to increase the Communion of Saints to seal the promises and to confirm the graces of the Covenant to believers and to their of-spring and to distinguish them from the World I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ having eaten the Passeover with his Disciples in the night in which he was betrayed did institute the use of the holy Supper that it should be celebrated afterward to remember his death and to shew it forth till he come again In the institution he took bread and having given thanks he break it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in like manner after Supper he took the Cup saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood do this as oft as ye drink thereof in remembrance of me he did make use of bread and Wine to let us know that even as the Body is nourished with meat and drink so also the Soul doth receive its spiritual nourishment from him in respect of his Body and blood given to us I beleeve that Iesus Christ did institute the Baptism after his Resurrection and before his ascention into heaven as an effect and a Testimony that he hath received all power in Heaven and Earth and the Disciples are commanded to administer the same to make it appear that all the Nations of the Earth are made subject unto him as to their Saviour and that being subject to