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IV. Not only those that do actually profefs faith in, and obedience unto Chrift', but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized".

V. Although it be a great fin to contemn cr neglect this ordinance", yet grace and falvation

and was baptized, he and all his ftraightway. Mark 7. 4. And when they come from the market, except they wath, (or be baptized) they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing (Greek baptizing) of cups and pots, and of brafen veffels, and tables. Heb. 9. 10, 19, 20, 21.

IV. 1 Mark 16. 15, 16. And he faid unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is bap. tized, fhall be faved. Acts 8. 37. And Philip faid, If thou believeft with all thine heart, thou mayeft. And he anfwered and faid, I believe that Jefus Chrift is the Son of God.

m Gen. 17, 7, 9. with Gal, 3. 9, 14. And I will eftablifh my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee and to thy feed after thee. And God faid unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy feed after thee, and their generations.So then they which be of faith, are

bleffed with faithful Abraham. That the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jefus Chrift; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Col. 2. 11, 12. and Rom. 4. II, 12. And he received the fign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteoufnefs of the faith which he bad yet being uncir. cumcifed: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteoufnefs might be imputed unto them alfo: And the father of circumcifion to them who are not of the circumcifion only, but who also walk in the feps of that faith, of our father Abraham, which be bad being yet uncircumcifed. Acts 2. 38, 39. Repent, and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jefus Chrift, for the remiffion of fins, and ye fhall receive the gift of the Holy Ghoft.

For the promife is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God fhall call. Acts 16. 15. Lydia, whofe heart the Lord touched, and her

are not fo infeparably annexed unto it, as that no perfon can be regenerated or faved without it", or that all that are baptized are, undoubtedly, regnerated".

VI. The efficacy of baptifm is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is adminiflered; yet notwithstanding, by the right ufe of this ordinance the grace promifed is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghoft, to fuch (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in his appointed time".

household were baptized. Verfe 33. The Goaler and all his were baptized. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Mat. 28. 19. Mark 10. 13, 14, 15, 16. Luke 18. 15.

V. n Luke 7. 30. But the Pharifees and lawyers rejected the counfel of God agaiuft themfelves, being not bap. tized of him. Exod. 4. 24, 25, 26. And it came to pafs by the way in the in, that the Lord met him, and fought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a fharp ftone, and cut off the foreskin of her fon, and caft at his feet, and faid, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then the faid A bloody hufband thou art, becaufe of the circumcifion.

o Rom. 4. II. And he received the fign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteoufnefs of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcifed: that he

might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteouf nefs might be imputed unto them alfo. Acts 10, 2, 4, 22, 31, 45, 47.

p Ads 8. 13, 23. Then Simon himself believed alfo: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and figns which were done.-For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitternefs, and in the bond of iniquity.

VI. q John 3. 5, 8. Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The wind bioweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but can't not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit.

VII. The facrament of baptifm is but once to be administered, to any perfon'.

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СНАР. XXIX.

Of the Lord's Supper.

UR Lord Jefus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, inftituted the facrament of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be obferved in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the facrifice of himself in his death, the fealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their fpiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe unto him, and to be a bend and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other, as members of his myftical body".

r Gal. 3. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Chrift, have put on Chrift. Eph. 5. 25, 26. Chrift alfo loved the church, and gave himself for it. That he might fanctify and cleanfe it with the washing of water by the word. Acts 2. 38, 41.

VII, s Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of righteoufnefs which we have done, but according to his mercy, he faved us, by the washing of regeneration,

and renewing of the Holy Ghoft.

N. B. There is no command, and no adequate example, for the repetition of baptizi.

I. a I Cor. 11. 23, 24, 25, 26. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed took bread.-And when he had given thanks, he brake # and faid, Take, eat; this is

II. In this facrament Chrift is not offered up to his Father, nor any real facrifice made at all for remiflion of fins of the quick or dead, but only a commemoration of that once offering up of himself, by himself, upon the crofs, once for all, and a fpiritual oblation of all poffible praise unto God for the fame; fo that the Po

my body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the fame man ner alfo he took the cup, when when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the New Teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lord's death till he come, I Cor. 10. 16, 17, 21. The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the conmunion of the body of Chrift? For we being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. I Cor. 12. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

II. b Heb, 9. 22, 25,

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without hedding of blood is no remiffion. Nor yet that he fould offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others: (For then muft he often have fuffered fince the foundation of the world) but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away fin by the facrifice of himfelf, verfe 28. So Chrift was once offered to bear the fins of many; and unto them that look for him, fhall he appear the fecond time without fin unto falvas tion,

c Mat. 26, 26, 27 And as they were eating, Jefus took bread, and bleffed it, and brake it, and gave it to the difciples, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, faying. Drink ye all of it. Luke 22. 19, 20. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, faying, This is my body which is given for you: this Co in remem

26.

pifh facrifice of the mafs, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Chrift's one only facrifice, the alone propitiation for all the fins of the elect".

III. The Lord Jefus hath, in this ordinance,

appointed his ministers to declare his word of inftitution to the people, to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to fet them apart from a common, to an holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating alfo themselves,) to give both to the communicants"; but to none who are not then present in the congregation'.

IV. Private maffes, or receiving this facra

brance of me. Likewife alfo the
cup after fupper, faying, This
cup is the New Testament in
my blood, which is fhed for you.
d Heb. 7. 23, 24, 27. And
they truly were many priefts,
because they were not fuffered
to continue by reafon of
death: But this man, becaufe
he continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.—
Who needeth not daily, as
thofe high priests, to offer up
facrifice, first for his own fins
and then for the people's; for
this he did once, when he of-
fered up himself. Heb.
11, 12, 14, 18. And every
prieft ftandeth daily minifter-
ing, and offering oftentimes
the fame facrifices, which can
never take away fins: But
this man, after he had offer-

O.

ed one facrifice for fins, for ever fat down on the right hand of God. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified. Now where remiflion of these is, there is no more offering for fin.

III. e See the inftitution. Mat. 26. 26, 27, 28. Mark 14. 22, 23, 24. Luke 22. 19, 20. & I Cor. 11. 23, to 27.

f Acts 20. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the difciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight. 1. Cor. 11. 20. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's fupper,

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