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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	baptize_v	dip_v	sprinkle_v	3,693	5	10.9320	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69006	A booke which sheweth the life and manners of all true Christians and howe vnlike they are vnto Turkes and Papistes, and heathen folke. Also the pointes and partes of all diuinitie, that is of the reuealed will and worde of God are declared by their seuerall definitions and diuisions in order as followeth. Also there goeth a treatise before of reformation without tarying for anie, and of the wickednesse of those preachers, which will not refourme them selues and their charge, because they will tarie till the magistrate commanude and compell them. By me, Robert Brovvne.	Browne, Robert, ca. 1550-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 3910.3; ESTC S109446	65,269	61

our selues and our seede to be of the church is a duetifulnes in seeking holines and happines by Christe in his Churche which onely wee haue by a couenaunt to be vnder his gouernement in the Church and by obeying thereto Our profession and submission to his Iawes gouernement is the keeping of our couenant by leading a godly and Christian life 39 How must Baptisme be vsed as a seale of this couenaunt They must be duelie presented and offered to God and the church which are to be Baptised They must be duelie receiued vnto grace and fellowship 39 How do they make Baptisme a pledge and seale of gracelesnes mischiefe They are brought to bee baptised vnto Antichrist and his popish parishes Then also in stead of due receauing there is a gracelesse forceing and rauening of them vnto damnation 39 Baptisme is a Sacrament or marke of the outwarde church sealing vnto vs by the wasshing of our bodies in water and the word accordingly preached our suffering with Christ to die vnto sinne by repentance and our rising with him to liue vnto righteousnes and also sealing our calling profession and happines gotten by our faith in the victorie of the same Iesus Christ. 40 How must they be presented and offered The children of the faithfull though they be infantes are to be offered to God and the church that they may be Baptised Also those infantes or children which are of the householde of the faithfull and vnder their full power Also all of discretion which are not baptised if they holde the Christian profession and shewe forth the same 40 How are they geuen vp vnto popish parishes The children of the wicked and vnfaithfull are offered by godfathers and godmothers and brought to their parishes The parentes and gouernours haue no authoritie to present them They hould not the christian profession nor shew forth the same 40 Presenting and offering of persons to be baptised is a duetifulnes in the parentes and gouernours which offer or in the parties which offer themselues whereby they seeke their saluation by ioyning with the church in one christian communion The due receyuing vnto grace and fellowship is a duetifulnes of the Church in partaking with those in one Christian communiō which are meere for the same 41 How must they be receaued vnto grace and felloshippe The worde must be duely preached in an holie assemblie The signe or Sacrament must be applied thereto 41 What is their gracelesse forceing and rauening of them A lawe doth binde the preist and people to a popish reading or to a dead frutelesse forme of wordes The signe is made a superstitious trifting colouring of abominations 41 By preaching the worde of Baptisme we vnderstande not the blinde reading or fruitles prating thereof at randome but a due teaching bylawful messengers of our redemption mortifying and raysing with Christ 42 How must the word be preached The preacher being called and meete thereto must shewe the redemption of christians by Christ and the promises receaued by faith as before Also they must shewe the right vse of that redemption in suffering with Christ to dye vnto sinne by repētance Also the raising and quickning again vpon repentance 42 What is their dead reading or frutelesse forme of teaching A blind guide or priestlie Preacher by a shewe of reading or telling a redemption by Christ doth snare thē with the abominations of Antichrist They lead them to a desperate hardning by the wicked guiding of their parishes or charges They are vtterlye withdrawne from goodnes to sett them selues on mischeefe and wickednes 42 Our redemption is defined before Our sufferings and raysing do followe after to be handled 43 Howe must the signe be applied thereto The bodies of the parties baptised must be washed w t water or sprinckled or dipped in the name of the Father and of y e Sonne and of the holy Ghost vnto the forgeuenes of sinnes and dying thereto in one death and burial with Christ. The preacher must pronounce thē to be baptised into y e bodie and gouernement of Christ to be taught to professe his lawes that by his mediatiō victorie they might rise againe with him vnto holines happines for euer The church must geue thankes for the partie baptised and praye for his further instruction and traininge vnto ●aluation 43 How is the signe made a superstitious trifle They blasphemously abuse the name of god in baptising thē wherby they further come vnder the fierce wrath of god his bitter curse to be more desperatlie hardened in their sinnes Thei are pronounced to be baptised into their wicked fellowship and gouernment to be taught to professe with some lawes of Christ the lawes of antichrist especially to be set on mischiefe and left helplesse therein The parishe with a false worship and idoll seruice geue thankes and pray vnto God as to an idoll wherby there is a further increase of wickednes miserie to the partie baptised 43 Baptising in the name of God is a due applying of the signe of washing or sprinckling to the worde duelie preached by him which is knowne to be sent of God Baptising into the bodie and gouernement of Christ is when the parties Baptised are receyued vnto grace and fellowshippe by partaking with the church in one Christian communion Thankes giuing and Prayer doo followe after to be spoken of here they be mencioned by occasion Hitherto of the first gathering and planting of the Church 44 How must it be further builded accordinge vnto churche gouernement First by communion of the graces offices in the head of y e church which is Christ. Secondly by communion of the graces and offices in the bodie which is the church of Christ. Thirdly by vsing the Sacrament of the Lords supper as a seale of this communion Hitherto of supplanting of the true Church 44 How do they establish their false church gouernmēt in stead therof They are first vnder one chiefe Antichrist the Pope or vnder other Antichrists which resēble him or sprang vp of him and receaue their image and markes They draw corruptions and partake wickednes one with an other in one common plague They make their supper of communion a pledge seale of their wretched confusion 44 The communion of graces is a mutuall vsing of friendshippe and callings to pleasure and be pleasured in all christian charitie Christ is the Sonne of God made by his Father the Heade and Lorde of the Church because he hath anoynted and filled him with his Spirit and hath giuen him an office and charge and the fulnes of all graces to worke our saluation Antichrist is the childe of the Deuill filled with the spirit of delusion and hypocrisie who hath an vsurped office ouer false christians named the church of God and by the strength of his Lawes gouernement and superstitious ceremonies doeth ouerthrowe their redemption by Christ. 45 Howe hath