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A47740	A discourse proving the divine institution of water-baptism wherein the Quaker-arguments against it are collected and confuted : with as much as is needful concerning the Lord's supper / by the author of The snake in the grass.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1697 (1697)	Wing L1128; ESTC R13375	53,245	76

of them So very wild is that Notion that there must be no Signs or Figures under the Gospel It would be much Truer if they had said That there are nothing else but Signs and Figures There is nothing else without a Figure but God! For all Creatures are Figures of Him Christ the Highest But have the Quakers no Figures G. Fox in his Saul's Errand p. 14. says That Christ's Flesh is a Figure They call the Body of Christ generally a Figure a Vail a Garment Then either they have none of it or they have Figures Richard Hubberthorn wrote Snake in the Grass 1st Part pag. 208. That Christ's coming in the Flesh was but a Figure He meant of the Inward coming of Christ or the Light in the Heart which they call the Substance and the Mystery of which Christ's Outward coming in the Flesh they say was but a Shadow or the History to use their own words G. Fox made a great Mystery or Figure of his Marriage which he said 2d Part p. 43. Was above the State of the first Adam in his Innocency in the State of the second Adam that never fell He wrote in one of his General Epistles to the Churches which were read and valu'd by the Quakers more than St. Paul's That his Marriage was a Figure of the Church coming out of the Wilderness This if deny'd I can Vouch undeniably but it will not be deny'd tho' it be not Printed with the rest of his Epistles but I have it from some that read it often But why was it not Printed That was a sad Story But take it thus He Marry'd one Margaret Fell a Widdow of about Threescore Years of Age and this Figure of the Church must not be Barren therefore tho' she was past Child-bearing it was expected that as Sarah she shou'd miraculously Conceive and bring forth an Isaac which G. Fox promis'd and boasted of and some that I know have heard him do it more than once She was call'd The Lamb's Wife And it was said amongst the Quakers That the Lamb had now taken his Wife and she wou'd bring forth an Holy Seed And Big she grew and all things were provided for the Lying in and he being perswaded of it gave notice to the Churches as above observ'd But after long waiting all prov'd Abortive and the Figure was spoil'd And now you may guess the Reason why that Epistle which mention'd this Figure was not Printed I wou'd have brought nothing into this Discourse that looks like a Jest but they have compelled me And it may be of use to them to shew them that while they throw off the Sacraments of Christ's Institution upon the Pretence that there must be no Signs or Figures under the Gospel they at the same time make Ridiculous Signs and Figures of G. Fox and his Fantastical Marriage and of several other things every thing almost among them is a Sign or Figure of something to come upon the World How many of their Lying Prophets have call'd themselves Signs to the Men of their Generation as the Holy Prophets were in their Day VII There have been Outward Signs in all the Institutions of Religion since the beginning of the World as well before as under the Law and now under the Gospel Only they have been vary'd or Ended according to what they praefigur'd Thus those Signs which had no further Tendency than to point out what Christ did or suffer'd upon Earth are fulfill'd and therefore Ended But there were some Signs which though they pointed to Christ upon Earth had yet a further Tendency For Signs may be appointed to more Ends than one Thus the Institution of the Sabbath was appointed for the Commemoration of God's Rest from the Works of the Creation Gen. ii 3. and Exod. xx 11. and likewise the rest of the Children of Israel who were the Type of the Church from their Captivity and Slavery in Egypt Deut. v. 15. which expresses the Servitude of Sin and Hell and their final Rest in Canaan the Type of Heaven after their forty Years wandering in the Wilderness which represent the Labours of this Life But this was not the Ultimate Rest or Sabbath Heb. iv 18. For if Joshua had given them Rest then wou'd he not afterward have spoken of another Day there remaineth therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the keeping of a Sabbath which signifies Rest to the People of God For he that is entred into his Rest he also hath ceased from his own Works as God did from his Thus Christ as he suffered the 6th Day of the Week the same Day that Man was created and fell so on the same Day on which God Rested from his Work of Creation viz. the 7th Day did Christ Rest in his Grave from his Work of Redemption And there is yet a farther Rest or Sabbath beyond this and that is the Eternal Rest in Heaven Heb. iv 11. Let us labour therefore to enter into that Rest Now though several Significations of the Sabbath are already past as the Deliverance out of Egypt the Entrance into Canaan and the Rest of Christ in his Grave Yet there being one behind that is the Sabbath of Heaven therefore do we still keep the Sabbath as a Type of it But there is another Reason for the Continuance of the Sabbath and that is That it was not only ordained as a Type of Things to come but as a Commemoration of what was past viz. Of God's Rest from his Works of Creation And by the Alteration of the Day of the Sabbath it serves likewise to us Christians as a Commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ and his Conquest over the Powers of Death and Hell It was the first Day in which Light was created and Christ who is our True Light of which the Visible Light is but a Shadow and was ordain'd as a Type Arose from the Dead the same Day and gave Light to those who sat in Darkness and the Shadow of Death by the Joyful Tidings of our Redemption from Hell and Eternal Bliss in Heaven Now so long as the Works of our Creation and Redemption are to be kept in Memory so long is the Sabbath to continue as a Commemoration of these Inestimable Benefits And by the same Reason so long as we ought to commemorate the Death and Passion of our Lord so long ought the Sacrament of it to continue which he Instituted in Remembrance of it and commanded it to be continu'd till his Coming again Thus you see that there are Signs under the Gospel not only the two Sacraments of the Church which flowed distinctly out of Christ's Side after his Death upon the Cross but that the Gospel does still retain the Signs of Commemoration which have descended down to us all the way from the Creation And likewise such Signs or Types as have yet a Prospect forward and are not wholly fulfill'd And 3 dly The Signs of Present Signification as the outward Acts of