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A26412 A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis. Adis, Henry. 1660 (1660) Wing A581; ESTC R28080 68,628 81

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of the bare Subjection to the Ordinances as it was under the Law but upon the account of their Faith for saith the Apostle Ye Members of the Church of Galatia are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jefus which Faith working by love hath evidenced it self to be true by working you to obedience to Gods Ordinances for so many of you as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ And as no uncircumcised person was to ●…at of the Passeover under the Law Exod. 12. 48. So of Christ our Passeover who is Sacrificed for us under this Gospel-dispensation 1 Corinth 5. 7. is no unbeliever to have Communion 2 Corinthians 6. 14. to 17. And as under the Law it was charged upon the Jews as a sin to bring the Uncircumcised into the material Temple Ezek. 44. 7 9. because Circumcision was the inducting Ordinance of Cod under that dispensation So also under a Gospel-dispensation we dare not administer that Inducting Ordinance of Baptism without Faith in God be firct begotten So that if persons shall require from us the Administration of that Ordinance we shall no more dare to do it than Philip who first would have an account of the Eunuch's faith before he Baptized him for so saith the Text Acts 8. 37. If thou Believest with all thy heart thou mayest who immediatly made a Confession of his Faith and this is according to the Commission of Christ Mark 16. vers. 15. which saith not that he that is Baptized but he that Believeth and is Baptized shall be saved So that it is a dangerous thing to make the strait Gate that leads to life wider than God hath made it Therefore know O King that thou art under that dispensation in which the Ax is laid to the root of the Tree and wherein every tree that brings not forth good fruit is to be hewen down and cast into the fire Mat. 3. 10. Under which persous are forbidden to plead their Birth-Priviledges V. 9. as that they are Children of Believing Parents or Sons and Daughters to Abraham but under that dispensation by which they are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Iesus as aforesaid who have actually manifested their faith by their obedience in their putting on of Christ by Baptism as that Church did Gal. 3. 26 27. Such as are chosen out of the world John 15. 19. John 17. 6 14. Separating themselves according to the requirements of God from false and Babylonish worship Revel. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 14 17. Being begotten to the faith Philemon 10. 1 Tim. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 2. Titus 1. 4. By the Preaching of the Word James 1. 18. 1 Cor. 4. 15. And quickned by the Spirit John 6. 63. Rom. 8. 11. Eph. 2. 1 5. Col. 2. 13. Being born again 1 John 4. 7. 1 John 5. 1. 1 John 3. 9. Not of corruptible séed but of incorrup●…ible 1 Pet. 1. 23. Not of flesh nor blood nor after the will of man but of God John 1. 13. Being born of water and the Spirit without which if we may believe our blessed Saviour himself John 3. 5. no man can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven the necessity whereof is fully laid down by the Apostle 1 Pet. 3. 20. who speaking of the preservation that Noah had by the Ark from that deluge of water Gen. 7. 17. The like figure whereunto even Baptism saith he doth now under this Gospel-dispensation save us not by washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answering a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as if the Apostle should have said it is not the washing the body in Water that is of this saving nature but it is the going into the Water in a Conscionable obedience to the Command of God to have our sins mystically washed away by Faith in the blood of Christ and so also saith the Apostle Acts 22. 16. And now why tarriest thou arise and be Baptized wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord and the same Apostle writing to Titus makes a clear discovery by what means God on their parts saved them Titus 3. 5. Who hath 〈◊〉 us saith he not by deeds of Righteousness that we have done but by the washing of Regeneration or as the old Translation renders it by the fountain of the new birth and renewing of the Holy Ghost by Water-work and Spirit-work the Spirit operating upon and working up a Soul conscionably to obey God in that holy though amongst men that much despised Ordinance of Water-baptism And thus the Apostle tels us by what means Christ hath clenfed his Church viz. with the washing of water by or according to the Word Eph. 5. 26. And thus some in the Church of the Corinthians who formerly were unrighteous even Fornicators Idolaters Adulterers Effeminate Abusers of themselves with man-kind Thieves and Robbers were by this Spirit and Water-work washed and clensed For so saith our Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are Sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God So that a Church of Christ or House of God under a Gospel-dispensation is to be built up of lively stones a spirituall House an holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual Sacrifices that will be acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Of which the building of the Material Temple was a Type for as the House which Solomon built 1 Kings 6. 7. was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither Hammer nor Ax nor any tool of Iron heard in the House when it was in building So in the gathering or building a Gospel-Church persons are to be fitted hewen and squared before they are laid into this Building they are to repent from dead works and to have Faith in God before they be Baptized that as that was a Material so this a spiritual House as those stoues were dead these lively as those stones so soon as they were laid into the building and the work finished they became a House fit to sacrifice in so these lively stones being brought together are fit presently actually to offer up spiritual Sacrifices such as God will accept they being in Jesus Christ first mystically by Faith and secondly actually by their Obedience and Faith and Obedience being Gods Twins we dare not in the least entertain so much as a thought to separate them So that O King if thou with Hezekiah wilt open the Door of the Lords House it is not a National but a Congregational Door thou art to open which is not to be compulsive but perswasive for so saith a true Gospel-Minister Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God v. 20. Whence we may