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How
baptifnm
isene.
rotin
3.5.
t
Pet.3.zr.
Doee,
Our
BaptiCme
is
a
band
of u-
nity
tous.
tCor.sz.tz.-
VERS.
6.
Mal,
t.F.
DoC1.
be
mutt
move
us
to concord
becaufe we
have
all
one
Father.
Ephe¡ians,
Chap.
4.
V
E R.
6.
one with
another. Diflonancy
in
circumfiances
doth
not
breed
dif-
cord
in
beleeving.
Againe look
at idolaters whofe
unity
in
error,
is
to
them
a
farre
fironger
band then confanguiniry it
felfe
;
you
fhall
fee
them
leave their
fathers houle to
live
with Catholicks, though
stran-
gers:
Let
us
that
doe hold our Principles
of
faith,
fwallow difference
of home
-bred
opinions, diverfity
of
rites,
(hall
there
be
more avaylea-
ble
to
make
feparation,then the body
of
truth
is
to make conjunction?
We
(hall
be worfe
then the
Scribes and
Pharifees,
they,
becaufe Paul
was one in
opinion with
them,
were favourable
to him,
Ac
?s
23.9.
We
fee
hence, how dangerous
a
thing
it
is
to
breed
opinions
in
the
truth
of
God, for
it
doth
cut by little and little this principali
anew of
the
Church,
the
unity
of
doétrine,
and it Both
put
a
weapon
into
the
hands
ofourenemies.
This doth ftrikethofe
dead,
who
think
that
every
good
meaning
will
carry to heaven, there
is
but onedoélrinc
of
falvation.
one
Baptifine.
]
Now
followeth the
fixth reafon.
How
can
there be
faid
but one, when the Scripture doth
diftinguifh
Bapuifme
of
the Spirit
and
of
Water; Baptilme which wafheth
away
the fpot
of
the
flefh,
and
that which
clenfeth the confcience
?
Anfwer.
The
fame thing
is
divided
into the dicerfe
parts and pro
-
perties of
it,
as
i;.
I
fay
,
a
man is
mortall
and
immortali, body
and
foule; I make not
two men,
bur oneman.
Hence learne, That
this mull
be
a band
knitting
no
altogether, that
wee
are
baptized with
one
Baptilme.
we are
all baptized
by
one
Spirit
into
one
body.
For there
arc Sacraments inflituted
of
God
,
that they
might
eye
us
fait one
with another,
and fever
us
from
them
that
are without.
Look therefore
as
it
is
in
civili
things,
this
Both
fomewhat
increafe
the unity
of
fervants,
that
they
have
all
one livery one
Cognif
nce:
So
we have
all
the fame badge
of
Chriftian
profefìi,m.
Let
us
not
un-
chritIé
men for trifles,which we
do,ifwe
let every (mall
matter
prevail
more
to
disjoyne
us,
then this badge
of
Chriffian
profeflon
to
unite
us in
affeétion.
V
E R
S
E
6. one
God
and
Father
of
all,
1,
h
above
all,
and
through all, and
in
you all.
The
feventh
and !aft
argument,
One
God
and
Father
:
who
is
firft
fer
downe,
then
defcribcd.The word
[Father]
doth
fignify fometime
the
Nature,
fometime the perfon;
of i
be
a
Father,
we
have
one
God
and
Father,&
fo
here
the word
is
common to
all
the perfons,whofè
gene-
ration we are, for the the terme
of [Father]
is
not
ufed in
regard
oftne
onely begotten Sonne
of
God.
The
defcription
in
the words following,doth
note the properties
of
every perfon:
above
all
;the
primacy
oforde::throughand
in
you
all;
the
vertue
&
power
&
thepreféce
of
the Spirit fanl
ifying.Theargutrét
is:
That this
muff
move as
tobe
one,becau(e the God
and Father
of
ur
all
is one.
r.
There
is
in
this
the example
of
God who
is
one, though
three
in
perlons, yet
one divine
nature
as
alike
in
them all; which
Tfiniry
in
filch