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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30122	The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor shewing that the day of grace may be past with him long before his life is ended : the signs also by which such miserable mortals may be known / by John Bunyan ; to which is added his Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.; Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5485; ESTC R29145	71,178	194

with whom Unity and Peace is to be inviolably kept and maintained 2. As this Unity and Peace may consist in the ignorance of many Truths and in the holding some Errors so it must consist with and it cannot consist without the believing and practising those things which are necessary to Salvation and Church-Communion and they are First Believing that Christ the Son of God died for the Sins of Men. Secondly That whoever believed ought to be baptized The third thing essential to this Communion is a holy and a blameless Conversation First That believing that the Son of God died for the Sins of Men is necessary to Salvation I prove by these Texts which tell us that he that doth not believe shall be damned Mark 16. 16. John 3. 36. Rom. 10. 19. That it is also necessary to Church-Communion appears from Mat. 16. 16 17 18. Peter having confest that Christ was the Son of the Living God Christ thereupon assures Peter that upon this Rock viz. this Profession of Faith or this Christ which Peter had confest he would Build his Church and the Gates of Hell should not prevail against it And 1 Cor. 3. 11. The Apostle having told the Corinthians they were God's Building presently adds that they could not be built upon any Foundation but upon that which was laid which was Jesus Christ. All which proves that Christian Society is founded upon the profession of Christ and not only Scripture but the Laws of Right-reason dictate this that some Rules and Orders must be observed for the founding all Society which must be consented to by all that will be of it Hence it comes to pass that to own Christ as the Lord and Head of Christians is essential to the founding Christian Society Secondly The Scriptures have declared that this Faith gives the Professors of it a right to Baptism as in the case of the Eunuch Acts 8. when he demanded why he might not be baptized Philip answereth That if he believed with all his heart he might the Eunuch thereupon confessing Christ was baptized Now that Baptism is essential to Church-Communion I prove from 1 Cor. 12. where we shall find the Apostle labouring to prevent an evil use that might be made of Spiritual Gifts as thereby to be puft up and to think that such as wanted them were not of the Body or to be esteemed Members he thereupon resolves that whoever did confess Christ and own him for his Head did it by the Spirit ver 3. though they might not have such a visible manifestation of it as others had and therefore they ought to be owned as Members as appears ver 23. And not only because they have called him Lord by the Spirit but because they have by the guidance and direction of the same Spirit been baptized ver 13. For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body c. I need not go about to confute that Notion that some of late have had of this Text viz. That the Baptism here spoken of is the Baptism of the Spirit because you have not owned and declared that Notion as your Judgment but on the contrary All of you that I have ever conversed with have declared it to be understood of Baptism with Water by the direction of the Spirit if so then it follows that Men and Women are declared Members of Christ's Body by Baptism and cannot be by Scripture reputed and esteemed so without it which farther appears from Rom. 6. 5. where Men by Baptism are said to be planted into the likeness of his Death and Col. 2. 12. We are said to be buried with him by Baptism all which together with the consent of all Christians some few in these late times excepted do prove that Baptism is necessary to the initiating Persons into the Church of Christ. Thirdly Holiness of Life is essential to Church-Communion because it seems to be the reason why Christ founded a Church in the World viz. that Men might thereby be watched over and kept from falling and that if any be overtaken with a Fault he that is Spiritual might restore him That by this means Men and Women might be preserved without blame to the coming of Christ and the Grace of God teacheth us to deny Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live soberly and uprightly in this present evil World Tit. 2. 11 12. And let every one that names the Name of the Lord depart from Iniquity Tim. 2. 19. And James tells us speaking of the Christian Religion That pure Religion and undefiled before God is to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction and to keep our selves unspotted from the World James 1. 27. From all which together with many more Texts that might be produced it appears that an unholy and prophane Life is inconsistant with Christian Religion and Society And that Holiness is essential to Salvation and Church-Communion so that these three things Faith Baptism and a Holy Life as I said before all Churches must agree and unite in as those things which when wanting will destroy their being And let not any think that when I say believing the Son of God died for the Sins of Men is essential to Salvation and Church-Communion that I hereby would exclude all other Articles of the Christian Creed as not necessary as the belief of the Resurrection of the Dead and eternal Judgment c. which for want of time I omit to speak particularly to and the rather because I understand this great Article of believing the Son of God died for the Sins of Men is comprehensive of all others and is that from whence all other Articles may easily be inferred And here I would not be mistaken as though I held there were nothing else for Christians to practise when I say this is all that is requisite to Church-Communion for I very well know that Christ requires many other things of us after we are Members of his Body which if we knowingly or maliciously refuse may be the cause not only of Excommunication but Damnation But yet these are such things as relate to the well-being and not to the being of Churches as laying on of Hands in the Primitive Times upon Believers by which they did receive the Gifts of the Spirit this I say was for the increase and edifying of the Body and not that thereby they might become of the Body of Christ for that they were before And do not think that I believe laying on of Hands was no Apostolical Institution because I say Men are not thereby made Members of Christ's Body or because I say that it is not essential to Church-Communion Why should I be thought to be against a Fire in the Chimney because I say it must not be in the Thatch of the House Consider then how pernicious a thing it is to make every Doctrine though true the bound of Communion this is that which destroys Unity and by this Rule all Men must be perfect before they