Vs R. ><f. pberianJ,Chap.2. z73 d iffer , who have Sacraments that are not bonds of faithful] people Fans sacra- together , many of their Sacraments not agreeing to many that are °e°" `wed' w faithful( ; who take away the Cup , that we all arc commanded to drink, that we may through Communion in that blood have the Spi- rit, which coupleth every member together. The laft thing to be marked, is, the manner in which there things are let down ; To be circuoncifed in the fiefh made with hands. Whence we muff mark, That there is an outwardanion in the Sa- Doeí. erameut,upon the outward man, which muff be diftinguifhedfrom the in- a4'on ;n sa- crantents, out- ward anion which God worketh on the foul. This Circumafcon was a want and;ti- feal of the righteoufneffe of Faith ; yet what the miniftery of man ward. did in it, the firlt inftitution will teftifìe to t 4brabam. And (Exadcts 12. 48. Leviticus 12.3.) there being a further aetion tobe looked for; Mars, in Deuteranomie I o. 16. and the Scriptureof the NewTe- ffament loth diffin/tly fet down a double Circumcifion; one ofthe Ae/h, in the letter, made with bands, Romans 2.28, 29. Gircumcifonof the fefb, and Circumcifion of the heart, Coloffians a. I I. which here are expreffed, not made with hands, but of God. Thus it is in Ba- ptifine; we muff know that there is an aétion of man reaching to the flefh, the wafhing away of the filth of it, t Pet.3.21. and an actionof God, which wafheth the confciencefrom the guilt ofdead works ; a Baptifine of Water and of the Spirit, outward and inward. Not that there are two Baptifines , but there is one Baptifine, which is diftin- guifhed into the outward and inward actions, as parts ofone incite Baptifine: Even as when we conceive thus ofman asoutward and in- ward, we do not multiply men, but do confiderone and the felt- fame man in a &Able kinde. And this muff be marked, that God may not be robbed of his Yfe 1. glory, that the Papifts and Lutherans crrours may be avoided : The Papifts will have the Minifters action lifted up by God, to the taking away of the fouls fin. But then it could not be truly faid , that the removall ofcorruption from the Spirit, were not done by the hand of man : As becaufe God Both by meats maintain our life, he by his biding giving that vertue to them; it cannot be truly Paid, that our life is fuftained bymeat and drink. We muff not tye Gods working to Circumcifion, or think there vj. is no effeetuall grace with there things, if we feel not the working pre- fently: God burns with fire, fo that it s a naturall inffrument, and cannot fufpcnd the effect; God gives grace with the Sacrament, as a voluntary inftrument when it pleaferh him. The Sun fhineth, though blinde ones fee not; and the feed is feed, though it prefently fpring nor. Secondly , we mutt look that we content not our felves with the one : a. That we conceive no vertue communicated with theft exter- nal! things. 2. That we tye not God to any circumftances of time, wherein to work by them. B b 3.That
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