BUt these two peculiar Sacraments of Baptisme, and the Lords* 1.1 Supper, Christ hath only ordained in his Church, to nourish his Children in one faith, for men cannot be perfectly joyned to∣gether into one frame of Religion, either true, or false, unlesse they be knit together, in some fellowship of visible Sacraments, which have been divers, in regard of the divers respects of the times, for Circumcision was granted to Abraham, Gen. 17. 20. whereunto Purification, and Sacrifices were added, as these also left unto us by Christ, viz. Baptisme, and the Supper of our Lord, as these Scriptures witnesse, Mat. 28. 19. Mark 16. 16. Mat. 27. 27, 28. Mark 14. 22, 23, 24. Luk. 22. 19, 20. therefore until these two Sacraments be joyned together (as at the first institution thereof, in their perfect purity) which hath been so long divi∣ded by the power of Antichrist (who as it were gave these holy* 1.2 things to Doggs) permitting all sorts of people to make use of these holy vessels of the Sanctuary, to presse in at this sacred gate of Baptisme into that glorious Temple of Christ, yea even
Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Spittlehouse, John.
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of such as would teare Christ and his Church in peeces, which this Nation hath had woefull experience of, for these many yeares; I say untill these Sacraments be administred according to the first intent of them) it is impossible that religion should flourish in its primative purity. And as for the defining of this particular Sacrament of Baptisme, I terme it a gate or entrance, whereby those who have a hungering and thirsting desire to be admitted into the society of the spirituall Jerusalem, or the City of the great King, Rev. 22. 24. may have accesse, through which gate ought in no wise to enter any thing that defileth, or maketh uncleane, nei∣ther* 1.3 what worketh abomination, or maketh a lye, Rev. 22. 15. And this Sacrament of Baptism is given by Christ for a double use, as first, for the manifestation of our faith in Christ. 2. For the satisfaction of the Church, viz. that we have a desire to be incorpo∣rated into the society of the faithfull.
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* 1.1
Sacraments kn•••• men to∣gether.
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* 1.2
How the Sa∣craments have been abused.
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* 1.3
Sacraments given for a double use.