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A49513	Principle[s] of faith & good conscience digested into a catecheticall form: together with an appendix: 1. Unfolding the termes of practicall divinity. 2. Shewing some markes of Gods children. 3. Some generall rules and principles of holy life. By W. Lyford, Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Sherborne in Dorsetshire.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1655 (1655)	Wing L3555; ESTC R216824	122,930	334

the things granted by Gods Covenant Q. Must we be in Covenant with God before we can partake of the Sacraments A. Yes for else the outward signes doe not profit Abraham was first in Covenant with God and then he received the signe of Circumcision Even as we use first to agree upon the conditions before we seale and deliver the deeds Gen. 15.6 18. with Gen. 17 7 10 11. with Rom. 4.10 11. Acts 8.13 21 37. As in Covenant and Contract of Marriage there is first a consent of the parties and then the writings are sealed so it is in this covenant of Grace both we and our Children must be in Covenant with God before the Sacraments which are the seales of the Covenant can belong to us Some are in Covenant with God only by outward profession and such people receive the signe but not the thing signified as Acts 5.3 1 Cor. 10.3 5. 1 Cor. 11.27 Rom. 2 25. others are really in Covenant with the Lord they receive both the signe and the things thereby signified as Acts 2.41 1 Pet. 3.21 Our Children are taken into Gods Covenant and so have the signe of Baptisme Howbeit when they come to age they must performe the condition of their Fathers Faith else they forfeit all Q. The Sacraments of the Old Testament were two 1. Circumcision and 2. the Passeover of the New Testament be likewise two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper How do they differ the one from the other The New from the Old A. Not in substance for Christ is the substance and end of all Sacraments but only in the manner the Old did lead unto and fet forth Christs death which was to come the New doe set forth Christ already come 1 Cor. 10.3 4. 1 Cor. 5.7 Exod. 12.13 The parts of a Sacrament Q. How many parts be there in a Sacrament A. There be two parts in every Sacrament 1. Some outward bodily signe 2. And some spiritual benefit signifi'd thereby Q. What is the spiritual thing signified in every Sacram●nt A. Christ crucified or the doing away of sinnes in for the death of Christ it is not every grace represented by an outward signe that doth make a Sacrament but the benefit of Christs passion is that grace which is set forth in every Sacrament Col. 2.11 12. Marke 1.4 Matth. 26.28 1 Cor 10.16 1 Cor. 5.7 Q. What followes hereof A. Therefore those other five Sacraments of the Papists viz Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony extreame unction are falsly called Sacraments of the New Testament as being neither ordained by Christ nor having such Sacramental signes and significations A Christian needs but two things to his being viz. a new birth and a growth in Christ both which are set forth in the other two Sacraments besides those five are not common to all Christians that be in Covenant with God nor yet peculiar to the Christian Churches Q. Who is the Author and ordainer of all Sacraments The Author A. Only the Lord God None but God can forgive sinnes bestow spiritual graces and therefore none but God can make signes and seals thereof As he alone can signe and seale a deed that hath the right to sell the land All signes and Sacraments of mans devising cannot teach or help devotion but only delude and breed superstition It is a foolish thing to make a significant signe of that which is not in our power to give Mat. 28.19 1 Cor. 11.23 Q. What is the efficacy of Sacraments Do they justifie the receiver or work in us that grace which they signify if the party him self do not hinder it by some grosse sin And Efficacy A. No Sacraments are signes of Gods grace and favour towards us but not the working causes thereof For then the signe should be before the thing whereof it is a signe which cannot be Sacraments serve as it were to put us in possession of the Covenant as a sealed deed formally delivered doth of an house or land that is sold Remission of sins and oher blessings of the Covenant are not in the Sacraments as Heat is in the fire or as a medicine in a box But as a Key given in token of possession or a deed whereby Men are enfeoft in any House or Land are in Law sure Pawn● of the things promised so are the holy signes given to the beleiver Remission of sins sanctification of our hearts is from God alone through the bloud of Jesus Christ yet for the applying thereof unto us there are diverse means established as 1. Baptisme Act 2.38 Mat 3.7 Mar 1.4 2ly The Eucharist Mat. 26.28 1 Cor. 10.16 3ly Preaching 2 Cor 5.19 4ly Prayer Act 8.22 Ja 5.15 5ly The power of the Keys Mat 18.18 Ioh 20.23 All these are Acts instituted by God Sacramēts are not physicall but moral instrumēts by which God bestoweth what they represent the use of them is in our hands the effect ' in Gods for the use we have his Commandement for the effect his Conditional promise The Sacraments are not bare resemblances and memorials of things absent nor naked signes of Grace received before but means effectual whereby God delivereth into our hands the Grace signified by them Ho●ker Pol. l. 5. S. 57. executed by us for that purpose And therefore although the dead soul that hath no inward motion of faith to receive the benefit offered nor any disposition of heart answerable to the thing that is done outwardly these means availe nothing Gal. 5 6. Yet on Gods part offering and on mans part duely receiving and imbracing them the outward signe the spiritual benefit thereby signified doe ever goe together hence it is that in the Scripture that which is proper to the thing signified is sometimes ascribed to the signe as Acts 22.16 Arise and be Baptized washing away sinnes with 1 Cor 10.16 1 Cor 11. 24 25. The which is well expressed Art 25 of the Church of Eng. Gallica Confessio fidei Art 34.37 Harm of Confessions That the Sacraments be certain sure witnesses effectual signes of grace and Gods good will towards us in such only as worthily receive the same they have a wholsome effect By the Sacraments God doth quicken strengthen Confirme our faith ibid. CAP. L. Of Baptisme Q. WHat is Baptisme A. It is a Sacrament of our engrafture into Christ out of old Adam It is unto us an entrance into the Church witnessing unto us that whereas we were before strangers from God a God doth now receive us into his family people and we again b give up our selves together with our names unto God through Jesus Christ to walk in newnesse of life a 1 Cor 12.13 Gal. 3.27 Eph. 2.11 12 13 b Mat. 3.8 11. Rom. 6.3 4. Q What 's the owtward signe in Baptisme A. The dipping or sprinkling of water in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Mat. 28.19 for dipping see Iohn 3. 23. Mat. 3 6

16. Acts 8.38 And for sprinkling read Ac● 16.33 in Houses Marke 7.4 with Heb. 9.10 19 20 21 22. Heb. 12.24 Q. What is the spiritual thing signified by this sprinkling of water A. The clensing of the soule from all sinne by the bloud of Christ sprinkled on it Acts 2.38 Rom 6.3 Col 2.12 13. Baptisme teacheth and signifieth unto us that in Christ we who were dead in sinnes are quickned washed and all our sins forgiven by the mighty operation of God Eph 5.26 Tit 3.5 In and by Baptisme God doth two things 1. He doth instruct us touching Christ crucified that our sins are washed and our souls clensed from all sinne by his bloud 1 John 1.7 Rev. 1.5 2. He doth apply the same in particular to the party Baptized Acts 22.16 For the Sacraments by reason of the word of command go and Baptize them and of the word of promise of a benefit to worthy receivers Be Baptized for remission of sinnes Acts 2.38 They do tell us that Christ is ours given to us and his bloud sprinkled on us and by this means it being a word of promise and every word of promise is a word serving to beget faith the spirit of God doth stir up faith strengthen and confirme faith in us God doth not put any such virtue into the signs as to pardon our sins and make us Holy ex opere operato neither doth God so tie his presence to the water as if where the Ministers Action is there God is also and at the same time for many have the signe that never have the thing as Simon Magus Judas c. and some have the benefit of Baptisme long after as Infants when they come to age But none have the benefit of Baptisme but such as come by Faith to behold Christ crucified in and through the outward signs so use the signs as means of applying Christ to their own souls for remission of sins See Art 27. of Ch. of Eng. Q What is it to be baptized in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 1. Goes par of the Covenant A. Two things are meant by it First thereby is testified to the party Baptized that he is received into the flock family of God God doth avouch him for his child God doth bind himselfe to us and make over his Covenant to us Gen. 17.7 Q. What secondly 2. Our part A. The party that receiveth Baptisme doth enter into an Oath and Covenant to take the Lord for his God thereby binding himelfs to believe and serve that true God who is Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost We are then enrolled and written among the Sonnes of God Gen. 17.1 Gal. 3.27 1 Cor. 1.13.15 We avouch God to be our God Deut. 26.17 18. Q. Is it thus with all that are baptized Doe all receive those benefits A. No only they that have or come to have faith to believe the promises and repentance to forsake sinne Gal. 5.6 1 Pet. 3.21 Acts 8.21 23 Marke 16 16. In Scripture they are reputed aliens and strangers from the covenants of promise who have not the sign of the Covenant 2. And they that reject the signes are reputed to reject the Covenant it self Eph. 2.11 Gen. 17.14 Luke 7.30 3. So they that receive the signe of the Covenant joyning themselves to the people of God are in Scripture reputed to be of the houshold of faith Saints confederate with the Church of God Esay 56.3 Heb. 9.13 4 But really and effectually they only receive the benefits which come to have the conditions of the Covenant viz. Faith and repentance Act. 8.21 23. 1 Cor. 10 3 5. Act. 3.26 1 Pet. 3.21 The duties of them that be Baptized The duty of all that be Baptized is reduced to three heads 1. To Renounce The divell the World the Flesh 2. To Believe in Jesus Christ and to maintaine the Faith once delivered to the Saints against all Sects and Heresies whatsoever 3. We promise to walke obediently in all Gods Commandements Q. Are the conditions of faith and repentance required in all that are to be baptized A. Yes in all that be Baptized when they be of ripe age but in little Children it is sufficient that they shew forth faith and repentance when they come to age Q. May little Children be Baptized 1. Practice A. Yes the Apostles did baptize whole housholds in which number were their Children As Abraham his houshold were circumcised that is He and his Children for Ismael was but thirteen years old whē he was circumcised Gen. 17.25 And there is reason for it because there is the same relation frō the believing parents to the children already born as to them that shall be born and therefore if the children of Stephanas and the Jaylor which were borne after their conversion ought to be baptized by vertue priviledge of the parents faith why not also the children that were already born seeing they are the children of believers moreover this practice of baptizing Infants by the Apostle is gathered frō that Phrase Heb. 6.2 laying on of hands which was a ceremony used in prayer for them that had been-Baptized in their Infancy See Calvin Inst lib. 4. c. 16. § 4. de Confirmatione when they were Catechized in the doctrines to be known and believed by grown men that were admitted to Baptisme Calv on Heb. 6.2 Acts 16 33. 1 Cor. 1.16 Gen. 17.25 Q. Why are Infants of believers to be Baptized A. Because they belong to the covenant of grace 2. Promises Commandement and be of the number of Gods people and are inheritors of the blessings which God promised to the seed of the faithfull 1 Cor. 7.14 Rom 11.16 Acts 2.39 Mark 10.13 14 15. Gen. 17.7 9 12 14. with Gal. 3.16 Rom. 4.11 12. In those Scriptures Note five things 1. That Infant-membership Admission by an outward signe is as Ancient as any visible Church recorded in Scripture 2. That the Covenant made with Abraham was the Gospel-Covenant wherein Blessednesse was promised in through Christ the Promised seed Gal. 3.8 with Gen. 12.3 and that Covenant is to endure to the end of the World Gal 3.16 17. 3. Note the persons with whom God made the Gospel-Covenant it was Abraham and his Infant-seed so with beleevers of all Nations who have as much right to that promise I wil be thy God the God of thy seed as Abraham had 4. There is a command to marke the Infant-children of the Covenant Gen. 17 10 12. The which command is no where reversed but rather established Mat. 28.19 Baptize al Infants are not excepted but rather included in that Promise Act 2 3● And though the signe of the Covenant be changed yet neither is the Covenant it self nor the commandement to Marke Infants reversed 5ly Note what Christ did and the reason why he did it 1. what Christ did He sayd forbid them not to come unto me And albeit