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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31664	A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbors in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Wil. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges, and some others.	Chandler, William.; Pyott, Alex. (Alexander); Hodges, Jo.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1934A; ESTC R35979	36,422	93

3.2 Act. 17.30 and the time come wherein God commanded the Jews as well as others every where to Repent 't was not sufficient for them to go on in sinning and then offer those respective Sacrifices which the Law enjoyn'd them for the same but now the Wrath of God was near to be reveal'd from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men Ro. 1.18 't was not sufficient to deck and make clean the outside of the Cup and Platter Mat. 23.25 26. but the inside was to be cleansed and then the outside would be clean also The Axe was now laid to the Root Mat. 3.10 and every Tree that brought not forth good Fruit was to be hewn down The Law of Moses took hold on exterior Acts Heb. 9.9 2 Cor. 10.5 and could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience but now that Dispensation was about to be established that comes nearer home James 1.15 and takes cognizance of the very Thoughts ●hat Sin be not so much as conceived ●y the Wills joyning thereto Wherefore John was sent to administer the Baptism of Repentance as a lively ●igure of that which was presently after to follow for John's Baptism was not capable to produce this Effect ●pon the Mind And he himself testifies That though he baptized them with Water yet he that came after him that was before him and more honourable than ●e should baptize them with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3.11 12. that his Fan was ●n his Hand and that 't was he should throughly purge his floor Which is the great Work that is to be done under his Gospel-dispensation to take away the Sins of the World 1 Joh. 3.8 and destroy the Works of the Devil to purifie Peoples Hearts and make them spiritually minded this is the proper effect of Christ's lasting Baptism not the washing away of the Filth of the Flesh 1 Pet. 3.21 but the answer of a good Conscience towards God to purge our Consciences from dead Works to serve the Living God in Newness of Life The Baptism of Christ is but one Eph. 4.5 and those who by it are Baptized into J●sus Christ Ro. 6.3.6 7 8 11. are Baptized into h●… Death and their Old Man Crucifie● with him that the Body of Sin ma● be destroyed and they no longer serv● Sin because they that are dead wit● Christ are freed from Sin and mad● alive to God to live a Holy Righteous Life These are the blessed Effects of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire 1 Cor. 12.13 Zech. 13.1 and Benefits that redound to those who are in truth washed by Christ in that holy Laver which entitles us to a part in him 't is our chiefest Concern to know this inward spiritual Baptism of Christ tha● our Hearts may be Washed Purified and Sanctified by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 and that we really put on Christ and are in him who is the Substance in whom the Types ended John knew and foretold himself that he must decrease Joh. 3.30 but Christ must encrease he doth not say I shall cease presently at once so soon as Christ's Baptism takes place but I must decrease but were Water-Baptism to continue always amongst Christians then would not John decrease Nor will it solve this Allegation That 't was abolish'd as John's and instituted a new as Christ's for then hath Christ his different Gospel-Baptisms which is erronious We grant that some of the Apostles did use Water-Baptism for a time but we believe 't was rather in compliance with the Circumstances of Time than of Necessity and in condescention to the Weakness of Believers in the very Infancy of the Church and even the same Age wherein John Baptized who was not only a true Messenger of God in his time but had gained great Credit among the People and his Memory and Message could not soon be forgotten nor was it easie to draw them from a Practice that but just before was acknowledged to be of Divine Authority For we find the Apostles tolerated the believing Jews to live in certain Rites and Ceremonies of the Mosaical Law notwithstanding the Messiah was come in the Flesh and abrogated them so difficult 't is to disengage People from those things wherein they have been educated and to which their Minds are once glewed and some of them would have had the believing Gentiles come under that Yoak and be Ci●cumcised which Paeul their great Apostle withstood seeing beyond a●… those things knowing that the Kingdom of God was not Meats and Drinks but Righteousness Ro. 14.17 Peace and Joy i● the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 4.20 and not in Word bu● Power not divers Washings and carnal Ordinances which were Shadows and to perish Col. 2.14 16 17 22 10. Heb. 9.9 10. Gal. 5.2 but the Body is o● Christ and those that are in him are in him compleat believing that if they were Circumcised Christ should profit them nothing and yet we see such was his Condescention that he himself notwithstanding Circumcised Timothy and when he was at Jerusalem shaved his Head Act. 21.20 to the 28. c. behaving himself as a Jew for the sakes of those who saw not so far as himself And notwithstanding he was such a laborious and zealous Publisher of the Gospel yet we find he Baptized but very few 1 Cor. 1.14 and thanks God that he Baptized no more surely 't was not then essential to the Gospel but saith plainly 1 Cor. 1.17 Col. 1.13 That he was not sent to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel to turn People from Darkness to Light from the Power of Satan to God who ●ad delivered them from the Power of Darkness and translated them into the Kingdom of his dear Son 't is this that is of absolute Necessity to our Salvation he did not then Baptize because some others did it which yet is as large a Commission as perhaps any pretend to now-a-days Of which we say as he did of Circumcision though we don't grant 't is the Seal of the Covenant and introduced in room of Circumcision as some will have it but without Scripture-authority neither Baptism nor no Baptism availeth any thing short of a New Creature which is the truest Sign of possessing the inward Spiritual Grace and of being in Christ and is beyond all visible Signs whatsoever The Apostles having thus indulged it 't is no wonder that 't was continued and since got footing under the Degeneracy for as Corruption entred the Church and was encreased the Spirit and Life of Christianity was more and more eclipsed and the Minds of its Professors grew darker and then adhered more to external Performances and not only continued that which had been used by their Predecessors or at least something 〈◊〉 its stead but by degrees added mo●… Rites and Ceremonies and at leng●● began to trim and deck that Rel●gion that in it self was plain simple