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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	church_n	keep_v	silence_n	2,518	5	9.9816	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25966	The ministration of publick baptism of infants to be used in the church, or, A disswasive from baptising children in private by Edm. Arwaker ...	Arwaker, Edmund.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3900; ESTC R23012	18,374	39

it is not a small help to the performance of a Promise to have frequent Memorandums of it How readily not to say how willingly we forget our Vows of Obedience and new life is but too obvious in our daily violations of them and it is an act of the highest Charity in those who remind us of them So that whoever with-holds his Child from the Publick Baptism deprives the Congregation of a charitable office which might perhaps have an influence on some or other there in order to amendment and Salvation But besides these Reasons there are others of no less weight and moment hinted in the Office of Publick Baptism of Infants tho' not mention'd in the Rubrick and those are First The veneration due to the Sacrament it self as a main part of God's Holy Worship And Secondly The just regard and deference due to the Churches as places set apart and consecrated to his Service That Baptism is a great and solemn part of God's Holy Worship it is to be hoped will not need much proof to any one who has had the honor and advantage to receive it They who hold more Sacraments than Two have yet allow'd in the title of the Entrance and In-let to the rest 'T is that Sacred office wherein we solemnly dedicate our selves to God wherein we enlist our selves Souldiers under the Banner of our Saviour and receive that Military Badge that distinguishes us from his Enemies and take those Oaths that oblige us to fight his Battels manfully 'T is the solemn Celebration of God's Worship wherein we express our esteem of it to be such that we dare bid defiance to the Devil for its sake that we renounce the Pomps and Glories of the World and neglect the Pleasures and Allurements of the Flesh the gratifying our Appetites and Inclinations to embrace it 'T is that Solemnity wherein we declare our unfeigned belief of and assent to all the Articles of the Christian Faith and wherein we stipulate and vow to perform a ready and sincere obedience to all the commands of our Creator And sure an Act of such general concern and universal benefit an Act of so much piety and perfection should be performed in the solemn and religious manner And Solemnity we know is never perfect but in publick neither does Religion tend so much either to the Glory of God or the Edification of our Brethren when retir'd and private as when conspicuous and eminent Besides if we consider the Nature of this Sacrament of Baptism the only Rule according to an eminent Person in our Church whereby to determine the manner and circumstances of any Action we shall find never to be performed properly but in publick because it is of a publick nature as it concerns the whole society of Christians and therefore is as well to be done in the presende as by the Authority of the Church when the Celebration may be most publick and awful For where can it be so but in the midst of the great Congregation The publick Assemblies for Religious Worship held by the Authority of the Church in places separated by of all Sacred Offices Among which Walafridus Strabo tells us that it has a more than ordinary claim to that of Baptism which saies he is more properly celebrated there because we read that before the Tabernacle stood the Laver and before the Temple the Brazen Sea and the Ten Lavers in which both the Priests that were to offer and the Flesh of the Sacrifices were washed and it is very becoming those who enter into the profession of Christianity to be regenerated in the Temple of Christ their Saviour None being fit to enter into the Church saies another who is not first cleaned in the Water of Baptism Not without great ground and reason therefore did the Council of Ilerda in the year 524. decree that every Priest that could not procure a Font of Stone should have a convenient Vessel for the administration of Baptism only which should not be at all carried out of the Church Nor with less discreet consideration nor without great authority of Fathers and Councils is it prohibited in the Clementins to any Priests to dare to administer the Sacrament of Baptism in any Halls or Chambers or other private Houses but only in the Church in which there are Fonts particularly for the purposes Unless to the Children of Kings or upon such an emergent necessity by reason of which the persons cannot without certain danger be brought to Church to receive it And then if we weigh this seriously and take Tertullian's Maxim with us that in those things which the Scripture neither commands nor prohibits that is to be observed which Custom has confirmed as proceeding from unquestionable Tradition we shall not condemn our Church for enjoyning but our selves for slighting a Duty so primitive and practicable a Duty which 't is sure was never opposed by any Church nor by any Sect that own'd the Sacrament it self but has ever been esteem'd decent and convenient by those who would not allow it to be requisite or of moment But if it were neither an ancient a religious nor usefull practice if it were novel indifferent and insignificant yet being enjoyn'd by our Mother the Church the Holy Catholick Church in general as well as the Church of England in particular it is obligatory to us who are Members of the Whole and especially of that part To some of whom with shame we must let the Reader know it this Paper is design'd since it of late appears too usual with some of those to dispute the Commands of the Church in this particular and obstinately refuse obedience to them Wherefore it will be requisite to proceed to shew the Churches Power to make injunctions of this kind and the indispensability of our obedience to them In the Catholick Doctrine of the Church of England contain'd in the 39 Articles it is asserted that the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies not repugnant to the Word of God Now that the bringing of Children to be Baptiz'd in the Church has no such repugnancy is undeniable and will be thought so till it appears wherein and then the Churches authority to enjoyn it will be evident from the practice of the Apostles for from the beginning it was so in forbidding Men to be cover'd in the Church and obliging Women to keep silence there in rejecting Prayer in an unknown Tongue and commanding all things to be done decently and to edification and several other instances among which were those things of which St. Paul says the rest will I set in order when I come And we have an harmony of Confessions among all the Protestant Churches acknowledging the same And the learned Chamier answering the Objection of Vasquez that the Protestants did some things which had no mention or command in the Scripture as for instance their Custom of