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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	abound_v	godliness_n	temperance_n	1,050	5	11.3029	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80854	The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing C7003B; ESTC R174314	79,234	315

of their incorporation with whom you must live in communion in Gods Ordinances 3. Direction Argue your Baptisme to your engagement to and encouragement in drawing nigh to God Your bodies are washed with pure water provoke your spirits to draw nigh in the assurance of faith Consider that by your baptisme you are singled out of the world and set in a capacity of Salvation You are placed in the Ark will you perish in the common deluge of mankinde You are sanctified unto God by the washing of water will you stand at a distance from God as strangers to him You are in the order of his own appointment suited for divine society will you live as without God without hope in the world You are the sealed sonnes and subjects of the covenant and will you pass away your time as Bankrupts that possess nothing You have put on Jesus Christ his livery will you not doe him homage with all cheerfull loyalty You are entred into the houshold of Faith and Church of God shall not their communion be to you comfortable Is not Baptisme a ground of faith and encouragement why are you then so dispondent in appearing before God Is it not your solemn Bond unto divine service why are you then so dull and backward unto duty Was your baptisme a meer complement that you doe not minde it or make use of it now it is past Is it not a moral instrument to be improved by meditation affording matter of counsel and comfort Nay is it not Gods Ordinance a ground of faith pledge of love badge of relation to be argued into the awe and encouragem●nt of our access to God Is not Baptisme an initiating seal assuring us of i●●tiating graces hath it not planted us into the Olive that we might extract ●p and juyce to the bringing forth fruits of Righteousness In a word Baptisme is greatly advantagious to hope and holyness if but duly improved by acts of Faith We find no profit in it because we look for none from it If right assured be never claimed how shall it be possessed If sin-mortifying engines be never used sin must needs have dominion over the soul I would to God I cou●d but perswade Ch●istians to sit down and seriously contemplate their Baptisme in order to their holyness and thus reflect it I am baptized Surely then I am under some more than ordinary engagement Thereby I was washed from my old sins shall I then live in them or so far forget my self as not to let vertue knowledge temperance brotherly kindness patience godliness all the graces of God to abound in me Is not Baptisme the dew of Heaven that waters the Garden of God Hath it been distilled on me and shall I be found idle and unfruitfull 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8 9. I have been baptized into the death of Christ buried with him in Baptisme planted into the similitude of his death that my old man might be crucified and the body of sin destroyed that I should not serve sinne but as he was raised up from the dead I should walk in newness of life and shall sin reign in my mortal body that I should obey the lusts thereof or shall I give my members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sinne Rom. 6. I have by Baptisme been consecrated unto God and shall I not come nigh him in duty I am incorporated into the Church ought I not then to be conversant in the assembly of the first born I have stricken Covenant with God will not my neglect of duty and course of impiety be charged on me as the breach of the oath of God All the promises of grace are to me sealed shall not I then cleanse my self from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and perfect holiness In a word Baptisme is the seal of the Covenant set in my flesh and the causing me to see the evil of my wayes and doings and to be ashamed and forsake them the taking away the stony heart and giving an heart of flesh the putting Gods spirit within me that I may walk in his wayes are the promises of the Covenant why then doe not graceless I claim them and by prayer plead my Baptisme for the obtainment of them For he is faithfull that hath promised but will not perform until they be asked in faith And as our Baptisme is thus a moral argument of holiness to our selves it is the more helpfull hereunto because it answers all temptations unto sin When we are saluted with the pollutions that are in the world through lust we may answer we are washed in pure water and may not be again defiled The cogencie of custome must give place to the Covenant we have made in Baptisme The violent temptations of Satan recoile upon the returns of B●ptisme I am bapt●z●d silenceth all suggestions to sinne I am baptized into the Name of Fath●r Sonne and holy Gh●st is the only Spel to speak with reverence that charms the Devil For it imports thus much Shall the children of God co●verse with his enemies the confederates of God break his commands the separated out of the world be subject to the Prince of the world O● doth malicious Satan think the sealed of the Lord shall be so much sleighted by their Lord as to be taken captive at his will Oh! play the man in a rational m●nagement of your Baptisme it will much advance your Christianity all your dayes As Baptisme is an help to holinesse so also to hope to be improved by due acts of Faith as it is an Ordinance of God for our encouragement in accesse to him many soules stand at a distance from divine Ordinances or draw nigh with much trembling which would be dispelled by due apprehensions of Baptisme Let such therefore consider that under the want of speciall they ought to rejoyce in generall expressions of Gods love and arguments of hope and immediate assurances of divine favour are not to bee expected whilest we have mediate Ordinances on which to act our Faith Our Hope must come into the Soule in the same way with holynesse by a morall improvement of Gods Grace in his Ordinances to us extended let therefore the desponding Christian that trembles to converse with Gods people to come nigh Gods table or claim any of Gods promises sit down and seriously discourse his Baptisme I am Baptized Was this an emptie Ordinance Shall my unbeleeving heart imagine any divine Institution to be emptie and in vain imposed No All the wayes of God are Truth hee never subjected Soules to any falacie nor can doe Why then art thou so sad Oh my Soule Trust still in God in him will I hope for he hath established a Covenant of peace extended to my Parents and through them to mee and set the Seale thereof Baptisme in my flesh and is not Baptism a pledg of his affection to mee a badge of my relation to him Why then doe I say he knowes mee not or I belong not to him Doe all