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A61842	The indecency and unlawfulness of baptizing children in private, without necessity, and with the publick form seriously recommended to the consideration of both the clergy and laity of the Church of England : to which is added, a brief exhortation to the constant receiving of the Lords Supper.	Strong, Martin, b. 1663 or 4.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5995; ESTC R15237	25,798	32

and of the highest importance too 1. Consider that is the Command of Christ your Soveraign Lord who as your King and Supream Governor has an absolute right and a just Claim to your Vniversal Obedience nor can you deny it in any instance whatever without the highest Injustice 2. Consider further that 't is the dying Command of Jesus your Saviour and Redeemer your greatest Friend and your best Benefactor who stopt at no Dangers nor declined any Sufferings to do you service who freely parted with his own dearest and invaluable blood to ransom and redeem your Souls to purchase for you the pardon of your Sins the Graces of Gods Spirit and the immortal Joys of Heaven Who was contented to undergo all the Malice of Men and Devils to be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief through the whole Scene of his Life to endure the greatest Torments of Body and Agonies of Mind to sweat and groan to bleed and die to deliver you from Eternal Death 'T is this Jesus that commands you to do this in remembrance of him So that here is both the highest Authority to command and the greatest Love in the world to invite your Obedience Will you then disobey a King and a Saviour too a Soveraign Lord and a Merciful Redeemer at once Alas What unpardonable Rebellion What scandalous Ingratitude is this Blessed Jesu What return can be sufficient What thanks can be big enough for such amazing Love And yet it is no hard or difficult but a very easy requital that the Son of God expects from us 't is only that we frequently remember his dying Love in that Memorial Feast he has appointed for that purpose that we there thankfully commemorate his Mercy solemnly renew and ratify our Baptismal Vows and Engagements and enter into a sacred League of Peace and Love and Charity with all the world A poor return God knows this is for so great a Mercy and shall we yet refuse to pay this 3. Consider that you are bound in Interest as well as in duty to pay a constant Attendance on this sacred Ordinance For 't is the most likely means in the world to make all your Prayers successful at the Throne of Grace and to fetch down even temporal Blessings upon you And 't is the most probable means in the world to promote and advance your everlasting well-being to confirm and increase your Faith to heighten your Repentance to raise your Sorrow for Sin and your Hatred against it To inflame your Love your Praise and Gratitude to God and your crucified Saviour and your Charity to all your Fellow creatures 't is the best way to advance your Hope to improve all your Graces to make all your Sins give up the Ghost and yield themselves perfect Victims to a Redeemers conquering Love In short the blessed Sacrament to every devout and worthy Receiver is full of divine and heavenly Blessings 't is not only our greatest Duty but 't is our highest Priviledge too What Reasons what Pretences then can be strong enough to keep you from so sacred and advantageous a Duty You know what I have formerly said at large to remove them all There are two faults that you may be guilty of in this affair Either by a careless refusal and neglect of this blessed Sacrament or by an unworthy abuse and profanation of it by unworthily coming to it or by profanely turning your backs upon it Both these are Sins equally dangerous and I beseech you by all the Hopes of Heaven and Fears of Hell to avoid both I have formerly and often told you how this may be done But if there be any Soul amongst you that wants either farther Instruction or Satisfaction in this matter I once more earnestly desire and invite all such to come to me for my private help and direction Come freely and without scruple the Poorest the Meanest of you By the Blessing of God you shall not go away without the best Assistance and Incouragement I am able to givé you And in order to the fitting your selves for the Blessed Sacrament I must beg and entreat you to lead pious and sober just and Christian Lives Impenitence and an obstinate going on in Sin is the only thing that makes men unworthy of the Sacrament A good man a true sincere penitent who understands competently the Nature of the Sacrament and is heartily resolved to forsake all his past Sins and to lead a new Life such a one is fit to come to the Sacrament at any time And he who will not do this is not fit to die nor can he go to Heaven And to enable you to lead this pious Christian Life let me beseech you often and daily upon your bended Knees to petition Almighty God for his preventing assisting and supporting Grace Morning and Evening at least let me desire every Soul amongst you to spend some little time in that divine and heavenly that honorable and advantageous duty of Prayer You that have Families must pray with them and teach your Children and Servants to live in the Fear of God Instruct and Catechize them in the Principles of Religion as well as you are able and send them to the Church to be instructed better As they grow up you must warn them often of the baseness and danger of Sin in general of Swearing and Cursing of Drunkenness and profaning the Lords day Vices to which Youth are extreamly addicted Tell them of the Excellency of a pious sober righteous Life and of the glorious rewards that attend it teach them by your Example as well as by your Instructions You will have the Comfort of it in this Life and be rewarded for it in a better From the Prayers of the Church I would desire you never to be wilfully absent Come at the beginning and behave your selves devoutly at them And for your Private Devotion I have here composed a short Form which I desire all such of you as have not better helps at hand to say daily humbly and devoutly upon your Knees O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon me a miserable Sinner O thou God of Angels and men the Creator and Preserver of all the world I have sinned I have sinned against Heaven and against thee I have been a stubborn and a rebellious Child but do not thou O Lord cast off the bowels and compassions of a Father I have perverted all the ends of my Creation I have despised thy Authority abused thy Mercy and provoked thy Vengeance But O thou who willest not the Death of a Sinner have Mercy upon me For thy Names sake pardon mine Iniquities for they are great for thine own Mercies sake for thy dear Son and my Saviours sake have pity upon me a miserable Sinner O blessed Jesus the High-Priest the Saviour and Redeemer of Souls have Mercy upon me Let thy Stripes and Wounds thy Cross and Passion plead and intercede for me By thine Agony and bloody Sweat by all that thou didst and sufferedst for Sinners save and deliver me in the hour of Death and the day of Judgment And suffer not O holy Redeemer my Soul which is the purchase of thine own meritorious blood to perish O holy Spirit of Grace the Sanctifier of all the Elect People of God inspire I beseech thee into my Soul the Principles of an Vniversal Piety Sanctify me throughout in Body and Mind in Heart Will and Affections I am undone if thou leave me to my self follow me by thy motions and awaken my Conscience by thy blessed Suggestions or I perish for ever Quicken and excite my languishing Vertues Allure my hope by the glorious rewards of Obedience Alarm my fear by the stedfast belief of a judgment to come Affect my gratitude and love by a deep sence of the amazing mercies of my God and Saviour and by all let me be led to a speedy and vigorous Repentance to such a pious and godly sober and humble just and charitable life us becomes a Disciple of the most holy Jesus O God the Father Son and Holy Ghost three persons and one God! O holy and undivided Trinity have mercy upon me a miserable sinner Glory be to thee O God for all the mercies I have received Take me into thy Protection this day or this night and all that belong to me Bless all my Civil Spiritual and Natural Parents Relations and Governors Reward all my Friends and Benefactors Forgive and turn the hearts of my worst and greatest Enemies Let thy Gospel and Truth thy Peace and Salvation extend it self to all the World for the sake of Jesus my Saviour In whose Name and Words I further pray Our Father c. Canon 14. ALL Ministers shall observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer without either diminishing or adding any thing in the Matter or Form thereof Canon 38. If any Minister after Subscription shall omit to use the Form of Prayer or any of the Orders or Ceremonies prescribed in the Communion-Book Let him be suspended And if after a month be do not reform and submit himself Let him be Excommunicated And then if he shall not submit himself within the space of another month Let him be deposed from the Ministry Canon 81. There shall be a Font of Stone in every Church and Chapel where Baptism is to be administred In which only Font the Minister shall Baptize Publickly that is no doubt with the Form of Publick Baptism FINIS

THE Indecency and Unlawfulness OF Baptizing Children IN PRIVATE Without Necessity and with the Publick Form Seriously recommended to the Consideration of both the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England By Martin Strong M. A. and Vicar of Yeovill in Somersetshire To which is added A brief Exhortation to the constant Receiving of the Lords Supper Let all things be done decently and in Order 1 Cor. 14.40 Administrari debent Sacramenta Coelu Ecclesiae non alibi quando scilicet congregata est tota Ecclesia vel illius pars magna non Extra Coelum Ecclesiae Gul. Bucani Instit Theol. p. 607. LONDON Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard 1692. TO MY Honoured Friend and Patron Sir EDWARD PHELIPPS Of MONTACVTE Honoured Sir I need not make Apologies for devoting the ensuing Papers to your Patronage The triste I confess is too mean to be presented to so great a Name but yet not to have done it would have been both Vngrateful and Vnjust For 't was composed for the benefit of a place in which I am now happily fixed by your generous and uncorrupted Charity and in bestowing of which you made no other demands beside a promise under my hand of living on the place and taking care of the People So far were you from making Merchandise of Souls that you esteem'd your right of Patronage only as a sacred trust for which you must give account to Almighty God And may this pious Example never want its followers I desire that this Dedication may remain as a lasting Monument of my Gratitude tho I am very sensible it does not lessen but add to my obligations for the prefixing of your Name to this little Treatise will I doubt not supply the want of a Character in its Author and make it the more acceptable to the World May all the Blessings of Heaven attend your Person your Vertuous Lady and every member of your Family May your Vnwearied Assiduity in serving your Country never want encouragment May you continually enjoy the Advantages of doing good here on Earth and receive a glorious reward for all in a better World These Sir shall be the constant Prayers of Your most Obliged Humble Servant M. Strong To my Beloved Parishioners THE Inhabitants of YEOVILL My Dear Neighbours THE design of this little Book is purely to reform if possible a Bad Custom which has too long prevailed among you I mean The Baptizing of your Children in Private without Necessity and with the Publick Form You all know I have already from the Pulpit told you both of the Indecency and Unlawfulness of this Practice and solemnly protested to you that these were the only reasons that prevailed with me not to comply with it After all which I could not but hope that you would have granted the request I then made to you and not have pressed me any more to do a thing which I had so evidently proved to be against both your duty and my own But to my great concern I have found it otherwise In my own Vindication therefore as well as for your Satisfaction I have now committed what I formerly Preached to the Press with such additions and alterations as I thought necessary to make it fit for a Publick view And that I might not be wanting in any part of my duty to you I have printed these Papers to attend you at your houses hoping by this means to remove those mistakes and prejudices which some of you may have entertained in this matter and to convince you fully that the thing I here argue against is really an Errour Nor should any thing less than this unhappy necessity have ever tempted me to appear in Print In the management of this Argument I have endeavoured to be both as Brief and Plain as possible to set every thing in a clear and convincing light and to come down to the meanest Vnderstanding which I desire the Reader in general to remember and then I need not make Apologies for the Style which might easily have been of another nature but I was to consult chiefly the capacities of my own People and in a matter of Universal concern I was willing All might understand me As for other imperfectians they may justly be imputed to my multiplicity of business diversions and avocations in a large and populous Town I am conscious enough how many they are but yet I have this satisfaction that these papers had at least as was protested the Undissembled approbation of a worthy and judicious Friend a person of a considerable Character and Authority in the Church for whose particular favours I cannot but take this occasion of making a publick and grateful acknowledgment And now Neighbours I have only one thing to desire of you that in reading this discourse you would consider every thing calmly and impartially without passion humour or prejudice Read it with that simplicity and indifferency of mind that becomes humble teachable and Charitable Christians Do not Nickname or misconstrue what is by me well intended Almighty God the searcher of hearts knows that I aim at nothing but your benefit and Conviction I have worded every thing after the mildest and most inoffensive manner I was able If any thing seem closely or severely spoken 't is no more than what I thought absolutely necessary for the exposing of the weakness of those objections which are usually urged in justification of what I here oppose And after all if you find that the Arguments here insisted on are such as cannot be answered then as you love your own Souls let me beseech you not wilfully to resist the truth but be glad and thankful rather that you are freed from your mistakes I have added at the end a Brief Exhortation to the constant receiving of the Lord's Supper which is a duty too much neglected amongst you as well as in other places In return for all which I desire nothing but your Prayers as you ever have mine And God Almighty follow you all with his Blessings and give you hearts willing both to learn and obey the truth Your Sincere Friend and Servant M. Srong The Indecency and Vnlawfulness of Baptizing Children in Private without Necessity and with the Publick Form c. 'T IS a strange prevailing power that Custom has upon the minds of all mankind The very Custom and Commonness of dying seems to have taken off the thoughts of death from the World Manna itself was slighted when 't was rained down every day And that most sacred and venerable rite of Christianity the blessed Sacrament itself by being daily administred in the Primitive Church in a little time began to be despis'd And be the thing never so apparently vicious or evidently unlawful yet such is the bewitching force of an habitual Customary Practice that it hinders men from perceiving it and begets such inveterate prejudices in their minds as darken the Reason and corrupt the Judgment and bear down