Chap.3. according to Sr MA r r x avv. 39 of thefilth of the fib, Bret theconfident anfrver ofagoodconfcienceto.. ward God,t P: t.3.2 I. A cicarin , chearing confcience, a heart waflht from wickedneffe in this laver of r.egencrano,h, the ba ptifine of repentance, the wathìng of the new birth, the being baptized with the holy ¿ho and with Erá, this ¡veth, faith S.Teter. N,at as the efficient caul: of falvation, for that is Chrífí alone : nor yet as a neceffary i:arui.nent, for that's faith alone: but only as a baé;ge of the fared,' and a pledge of their falvatien. As on the other lid , God will not own a viperousbrood, though baptized, that bring not forth fruits meet for repentance. To filch, baptiftnt is net the mark of Gods childe, but the brand ofa fool, that maketh a vow, and th_nbreáketh it, Ecclef. 5.3. For the font is BeerJJeba, The Well ofan Oath: and there we (wear (as Daviddid) to keep Cods righteousladgerne;ets. Now, if Zedekinh and Shimei paid to dear for their perjury, for their fail and loofe with min ; how will God revenge the quarrel/ of his Covenant ? TheSpaniíhconverts inMexico remember not any thing of the promife and pro.fßion they made in baptifine, fave only their name, which many times alto they forger. In the Kingdom of Congo in Africk, the Portugalc,artheir fit-II arrival!, Ending the people robe Heath: m, wit' -ezut God,did Induce them to a profef lion cfChriil, and to be baptized in great abundance, allowing çfthe principles of religion; till fìicM time as the Prieflsprefl them to lead their lives according to'their profeilion which the moil part of them in no cafe enduring, returned again to their Gentilifr e. .S itch renegadoes we have amengft ns,not a few; that give the+.mfAves up toChri!l vnad Sacrameofperceptionem, by externall profffion, but when it comesence ad vita fanîlifica. tionen , to holinef : cf' life, there they leave him in the open held, fòefaktng their colours , renouncing their bap:ifine, and 'running away to the enemy. NowEr fuel) there is but one law, and it is Martiall law, Hob, io; 39, If any Withdrav+; er fleai fromhis Captain (asthe military tearrn thereufed importeth) he dot'r; it toperdition; bets even a fon cif perdition, as Iudas ; who was circtimcifed indeed, as well as Peter, but better he had not. As it had beenbetter for him, never to have been born, fo, being born, neverto havebeen circnmcifed, and .thereby bound to the Law. Unregenerate Ifrael is as Ethiopia, Amos 9.7. And it had been happy- that font water had never been 1pilt on that face, that is afterwards hatch, with impudent impiety, ler. 33)4.5 D 4 Verle Pfstres.Ia6. Ifaa o. Briervoocdr en- quiries ex Ben. Archb. Abbott. Geof, p.179. ftugu,!túa, iroszfmaTxo Keta.ao.p8, Mark.:4.2 r,
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