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;mortification.
Rom.4.
Deut.3o.6.
they had not the
bake
ofPenance
to
faile.home
in
when they
offended.
4. It
is
againft
Chriflian
experience.
But it
is
not to
bee wondred
at,
for when
they
are
ignorant,or
will
not
fee
the righteoufneffe which
Baptifme fealeth, nor
will
not
have
us
by beliefe, but by vertue
of
the
minifteriall
aEìion
have benefit at
the
fiat
by Baptifine,
no wonder
if
renewing faith
Both
not,
fay
they,heip
us
after
:for
in theirjudgement;
it
did
never
availe us,
becaufe they doe make
the
vertue
of
it
etc
epere
operato;
therefore without
repeating the
Ad,
they thinke the vertue
of
it
cannot be attained
:
their Scripture
is
the
fixt
to
the
Hebrews,which
hath
no
(hew
to
this
purpofe: for their reafon that
menmu
ft
not
finde
fuch
eafie
reconciliation after Baptifme
as
be
fore,
and
all
the
ancient
fay
there
is
no
other
way and cure
of
fins
after and before Baptifme.
tíl
of
v.
It
is
eafier
to recover
a fick
man, then to quicken
a
dead man,
and as
eafie
tobe
cleanfed
of
one fin,
as
of
a
multitude, and to be forgi-
ven
when we
fin
of
frailty, now friends,
as
at the
firft
when
We
were
enemies. But
fay
that
it
be more
difficult,
this maketh not
a
new way,
but the old waymutt be with more forrow
and revenge traverfed: and
the Fathers
never
thoughtthat
there
was any
other way then
faith
in
the
grace fealed
in
Baptifme. But
they therefore
call
it
another man-
ner
of
curing
:
r.
Becaufe
the
Ad
of
Baptizing could
net be repeated;
2.
Becaufe
they might not come to that
grace
of
Baptifme
with
fimple profeflion
of
faith and
repentance,
but
were further to
give te-
ftimony
of
it
in
penitentiall
exercifes; for to
wail)
away the
fraine
wherewiththey
defiled
the Church
,
and
to
fpread
a
wholefome ter-
tour that others might not dare
fo
to
offend.
A
new way, becaufe for
circum(tances it was otherwife adminiffred.
We
therefore feeingourBaptifineiseffelìuall
all
our life
long,muft
Yf,
learne
to
looke
to
it:
thefe elements
are
not
like
materiali bread
,
we
cannot
Bate
that
and have it,
but thefe
are
a
vifible
word
and
cloathed
with
a
word
ofpromife which
1a(teth
for
ever:
wee mutt
chew the
cud,
and
then thefe things will
[till give
us
nourifhment
as
frefh
as
when we fir(t believed
:
And that
none
fhould
thinke himfelfe
too
good
to
profit by Baptifme, think
of
t/1
braham,
Cornelius,
yea Chrift
himfelfe
that
tooke
it
leaving
us an
enfample.
Now
he
commeth to the
fecond effcét, our
glorifying,
where two
things
are
to
be
confidered;
.
z.
Our
prefenting, for
fo
the word fignifieth, which
is
ampli-
fied
by the perfon to whomwe
(hail
be
prefented,
to
bim-
felfe.
3.
The
manner
fet
downe,
z.
Generally,
a
glorious
Church.
2.
Expounded particularly from the removing of
that
which
is
againft
it,
and
from the
perfehion
of
holinefle in
which
it
ftandeth.
The
fumme
of
the
verfe
:
That
Chriff doth
fanótifie
us
through
the
courfe
of
our lives, helping
us
by
faith on
theword
of
promife
in
bap
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