HiddenSorcerer, difeovered. 171 And fo many boaft of Ordinances, andWafhinzs, and Baptifme, and breaking; bread, and Church-fellowfhips, and Laying on ofHands, and obferving the rules ofChria, and fol- lowing the pattern of the Apoffies, when alaffe poor foules they quite miftake the matter : tis true, cis like Baptifine, but Cis not it : and they are like the Ordinances ofChrifi, but they are not fuch ; they wouldTeem to make and OR - DA I N EMiniflers,and they (peak ofgiving the Holy Ghoft but alaffe, I fay all thefe arebut refemblances and fhadows, they are not the true Ordinances of Chrift : and notwithftan- ding mens ufing ofthefe things with fo much appearance offiriEfnefre and exacaneffe, yet they have them not : For they are in bondage íälí, they were never yet delivered, fet free indeed, nor never Baptized with the Baptifine ofChrift, never yet fetcht offtheir own bottoms, never taken into U- nionwith Chrift : who will undertake to give the Spirit and theHoly Ghofl,and yet never had it themfelves : and there- fore all thole things that thefe men ufe are nothing butfha- (lows, Outfzdes, Shels and Carkafles of the true Ordinances of Chrift. Youknow, many came to Johns Baptifme, even of the pharifees, and yet they were but a Generation of Vipers : their confciences told them that John was a true Prophet, and they began to Jnùte them, and they thought it was a duty they were bound to, that thereby they fhould prevent the wrath to come, and they prefently take it up as having power of their own todo any thing in Religion, andhere they thought themfelves fecure, and that they had really prevented the wrath to come : But the trueBaptifme, and the true Ordinan- ces, and the true Worjhipare things ofa farre higher nature : There is a HE AVE N LY Baptifine, and a Heavenly Wor- fhip, and an Heavenly Ordinance : I (faith John) Baptize with Dater, but there is one that commeth after me, who is pre- ferred before me; He fha11 Baptizeyou with the Holy Ghofl, and with fire ; I muft decreafe, but HE mull increafe:My Baptifme is nothing, I muft handby when he comes ; I baptize but un- to repentance, but He gives repentance and the Holy Spirit : The Heavenly things are ofa far higher nature : Thereare Z 2 but Mat. 3.7 Ver.ii,I2.
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