Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
work_n faith_n jesus_n justify_v 17,800 5 8.9787 5 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A37493 Baptismōn didachē, or, The doctrine of baptisms reduced from its ancient and modern corruptions and restored to its primitive soundness and integrity, according to the word of truth, the substance of faith & the nature of Christ's kingdom / by William Dell ... Dell, William, d. 1664. 1697 (1697) Wing D916; ESTC R37724 22,953 73

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

with it and no other-ways I say not by being dipt into the same Water but by receiving the same Spirit do we become one Body with the Church and it is not being of one Judgment or Opinion or Form or the like that makes Men one true Church or Body of Christ but the being of one Spirit and there are no more of that Church which is the Body of Christ than they that are Baptized with that one Spirit of Christ. 7. Spirit-Baptism it truly washes and cleanses from Sin What Water-Baptism doth in the Sign this doth in the Truth even cleanses from all Carnal and Spiritual Filthiness And no man is cleansed from Sin but by the washing of the Spirit the pouring forth of the Spirit on all Flesh is the killing of Sin in all Flesh 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 11. Neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor abusers of themselves with Mankind nor Theeves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God and such were some of you but ye are WASHED but ye are Sanctified in the Name of the Lord Iesus Christ by the SPIRIT of our God So that Spirit-Baptism cleanses from all Sin whatever it is and there is no man cleansed from Sin but through this Baptism And again Eph. 5. 26 27. Christ gave himself for the Church that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of Water by the Word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish and nothing doth thus purifie the Church till it be without spot wrinkle or blemish and till it be perfectly holy but the Baptism of the Spirit And therefore tho' the Baptism of Iohn was administred but once yet the Baptism of Christ is a continued Baptism for as long as Corruption is in the Flesh the Baptism of the Spirit is in use So that the Nature Life of a Christian are under a constant and continual Baptism God every day pouring forth his Spirit upon a Believer for the purifying and sanctifying of him and making him meet for the immediate presence of God whither no unclean thing comes nor the least uncleanness in any thing 8. Spirit-Baptism saves Whatever in us is washed with the Spirit is saved as well as sanctified and how much any one hath received of the Spirit so much is he already saved Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he hath saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit which he shed on us abundantly through Iesus Christ our Saviour Where the Apostle teaches us how God saves and that is not by Iohn's Baptism or Water-washing but by the Laver of Regeneration which is the renewing of the Holy Spirit poured on us abundantly through Christ so that he calls the Baptism of the Spirit the Laver of Regeneration such a Laver as renews the old Nature yea and begets a new One so that a man through this Baptism is wholly changed not in a few good Works but in his whole Nature and from his newness of Nature flows newness of Life so that he is no more as he was but is and lives and loves and thinks and speaks and acts otherways than he was wont and this cannot be the work of Water in any measure but wholly of the Spirit for where men are destitute of the Spirit tho' washed with Water a thousand times there is no change of Nature in them but the change of Nature wrought by Spirit-Baptism is so much present Salvation even in this present World There is another Scripture witnesses the same thing and it is 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. A few that is Eight Souls were saved by Water to to which figure Baptism answering doth now also save us not that whereby the filth of the Flesh is cast away but whereby a good Conscience answers well to God by the Resurrection of Iesus Christ. Peter having said that Baptism answers to the Flood and saves the Church now as the Flood did the Church then yea saith he but I mean not the outward Baptism or the washing away of the filth of the Body but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Iesus Christ Which place is difficult but I thus conceive it The efficacy of Christ's Resurrection is the gift of the Spirit and the Spirit of Christ in a Believer rectifies his Conscience and makes it good so that it can return a sweet answer to God upon every word of his for the work of the Spirit in the heart answers every word of Faith spoken from God particularly it can say to God I was indeed filthy and unclean throughout but I am now washed and justified and sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of my God and this Spirit-Baptism is that that saves and not the Water which puts away the filth of the Flesh only but leaves the filth of the Spirit as much as ever So that in this place Peter puts an end to Baptism in the Flesh as Paul Rom. 2. 28. puts an end to Circumcision in the Flesh saying He is not a Iew which is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the Flesh but he is a Iew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the Letter whose Praise is not of Men but of God That is saith Paul in the Kingdom of Christ where all things are Spiritual Circumcision in the Spirit puts an end to Circumcision in the Flesh And in the same Kingdom of Christ saith Peter Baptism in the Spirit puts an end to Baptism in the Flesh for he is not a Christian who is one outwardly neither is that Baptism which is outward in the Flesh but he is a Christian who is one inwardly and Baptism is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the Letter whose praise also is not of Men but of God For under the Gospel which is the Ministration of the Spirit as ye have been oft minded we can find nothing among all outward things through the use and exercise whereof we may attain the cleanness and purity of Righteousness in our Natures and therefore Christ hath put an end to all outward carnal and earthly things of the first Testament by the Inward Spiritual Heavenly things of a second better Testament And by his own Death and Resurrection only not without us but within us through the power and efficacy of his Spirit all the Baptism of the New Testament is fully and perfectly performed And thus in all these particulars you see the infinite excellency and glory of the Spirit-Baptism above Water-Baptism and this only is sufficient in the Days of the Gospel as being the True and Proper Baptism of the New Testament For as Christ himself only is sufficient to the Faithful without Iohn tho' Iohn were of use in this season to point our Christ so the Baptism of Christ only is sufficient to the Faithful without the Baptism of Iohn tho' the Baptism of Iohn were of use in its season to point out the Baptism of Christ and the Baptist himself was of this Judgment who said to Christ I have need to be Baptised of thee which he means not of Water-Baptism for so Christ himself as you have heard did not Baptize but with the Baptism of the Spirit and so the Baptist himself who was never Baptized with Water neither by Christ nor the Apostles nor any Body else yet was Baptized with the Spirit and the Baptism of the Spirit was sufficient for the Baptist without any Water-Baptism and so Christ's Spirit-Baptism by the Word is sufficient for all the faithful now without Iohn's Water-Baptism for he that is truly washed from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit and hath the Holy Ghost in him to renew his nature and to conform him exactly to Christ's own Image and to work him in this present World into the true similitude of Heaven and to be in him a Fountain of Water springing up unto everlasting Life what need hath he of cold material Water to be poured on his Body under the pretence of any sign whatever either of Moses or Iohn when as he hath the Truth Substance and Heavenly thing it self Now this it may be may seem strange and dangerous to some of low and fleshly and customary Religion but let all such if it be possible consider that where the Substance comes the Shadow is at an end and the Ceremony were the Truth comes and the Creature where God comes And if they understand not this for the present I hope they may understand it afterwards for we speak not at uncertainties in this point but what we have in some measure seen and felt and handled of the Word of Life that we deliver to you that ye may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Iesus Christ through the Spirit FINIS