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work_n	faith_n	good_a	james_n	14,239	5	9.1170	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78215	The nevv birth: in which is brought forth the new creature. VVith a description of the true marks and characters thereof; which being manifested and declared, is the true and proper ground of visible communion, in which the sons or children of God are to receive and own one another as brethren, although they differ (for want of light) in some particular ordinances. Whereunto is annexed a briefe description of Antichrist, not only without men, but within them also. / By R.B. an unworthy servant of Iesus Christ, who desireth and prayeth for the unity of all saints.	Bartlet, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing B984; Thomason E1503_2; ESTC R208658	20,521	90

of Iohn 58. before Abram was I am And this is that every one that commeth to God must beleeve according to that in the 11 to the Hebrews and 6 verse He that commeth to God must beleeve that he is 2. VVhat it is to beleeve on his name is to make all Jesus Christ the only object of our faith Now I shall shew what the word beleeve doth signifie and import and then shall come to the uses that the Doctrine holds forth The word doth properly signifie when it is spoken in relatiō to Christ a faithfull beleeving of him a putting our trust and confidence in him and to commit all to him So now I have done with the doctrinall part and shall proceed by way of use And the first is this If this be so that true faith and beleeving in the Lord Jesus Christ be an infallible character and marke of the new Birth and of the sons and children of God as hath been plainly proved 1 Vse A use of information VVhy then it may informe all true beleevers that they are brethren And this doth clearly appeare from the Doctrine as it hath been opened that all true beleevers are those that are born of God and all that are born of God are the sons of God All the sons of God are brethren and all that are sons of God must needs be brethren for this is the true and proper ground of brother-hood the being children of one father and upon this account the ten sonns of Iacob did declare to Ioseph that they were brethren by being the sons of one man Gen. 42.13 Now forasmuch as true faith is a character of the new Birth and of son-ship and son-ship the true ground of brother-hood it will undeniably follow that where true faith is manifested they are sons of God and upon that account we ought that are believers to owne them to be our brethren Quest But then the question will be how is true faith manifested 1. I answer in two things Faith manifested in two particulars first by confession with the mouth as in the 10 Rom. 10. With the heart man beleeveth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation 2. Faith is declared by good works as in the 2 of James 18. I will shew thee my faith by my works But what are the good works that the Apostle doth here mind to manifest faith why they are implyed in the 15 16 verses That if a brother or sister be naked and destitute of of dayly food to feed them and to cloth them and not only to say be filled and be warmed and not to give them that which is needfull for the body And comparing this with the 27 verse of the 1 Chapter We shall find That pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widdow in their affliction and to keep himselfe unspotted from the world And thus I have shewed you how true faith is manifested namely by confession and good works and where faith is thus manifested in or by any persons it is a visible mark of their son-ship and therefore ought visibly to be owned as brethren and I shall say to every beleeving soule as Peter did in another case concerning the beleeving Gentiles in the 10 of the Acts 47. Can any forbid water that these should not be baptized that have received the Holy Ghost as well as we So say I can any forbid that those should not be owned our brethren that are the sons of God as well as we But it may be objected by some 1 Ob. that the Scripture tels us that those that beleeved were baptized and the Scripture putteth faith and baptisme together and we cannot judge persons visibly to be our brethren untill they have submitted to Christ by baptisme To this I answer An. that although baptisme be commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ for every beleever to practise after faith received and not to be neglected when the Lord giveth them light to see it to be their duty according to that in the 22 of Acts 16. Arise why tariest thou Yet I never read in Scripture that the Lord Jesus did ever declare baptisme to be the great character of the new Birth or being born of God Neither doe I find that the Lord doth limit persons that have received precious faith that because they are not enlightned in their duty to be baptized that they must not therefore practise that which they are enlightned in and perswaded of and that because some of the sons of God are babes and know but little it may be in some particular Ordinances of Christ that therefore they must not be owned to be brethren by those that know more And certeinly if the Lord doth not limit persons in this particular Men ought not to limit where God doth not men ought not But God doth rather command the contrary in the 14 Rom. 1. Him that is weake in the faith receive yee If they have faith though but weak they ought to be received and to walk so far as they have attained Phil. 3.16 But it may be further objected 2 Ob. that the persons before spoken of doe not only neglect a duty in that they submit not to Christ by baptisme but they uphold a tradition of man which is no where commanded in the word of God namely the sprinkling of Infants which is a relique of Antichrist and shall we owne such to be brethren To this I answer 1 An. that the upholding of one Antichristian point for want of light doth not disanull persons to be the sons of God and therefore not uncapable to be our brethren But we find in Scripture that there were some that did hold an Antichristian point for want of light which were commanded to be received and owned as brethren in the 14. Rom. 1. The Apostle commandeth that those that were weak in the faith should be received Now the question is wherein the weaknesse of their faith did consist why it doth appear in the following verses it was in this that they did observe dayes and meats which Ceremonies Christ had abolished and made void by his death Now to observe those things after the death of Christ which were abolished by the death of Christ such an act doth in the tendancy of it deny Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh and whosoever denyeth Christ to be come in the flesh is an Antichrist 1 Iohn 4.3 But this being for want of light the spirit of God would have the Saints to bear one with another 2. 2 An. I answer that those that beleeve in Jesus Christ and yet for want of light may hold some things which in the tendancy of them may be Antichristian This ought to be a motive to prevaile upon those that are strong to own and receive them that they may * 1 Thes 5.14 1 Cor. 15.1 1 2 3. Reader