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the one interior which is the cleansing of the hart, the drawing of the father the operation of the holy ghost and this baptism is in man when he believeth and trusteth that Christ is the only author of his salvation. thus be the infants examined concerning repentance and faith before they be baptised with water at the contemplation of the which faith God purgeth the soul. then is the exterior sign added ⟨image 71⟩not to purge the hart but to confirm manifest and open unto the world that this child is God's and likewise baptism with the Repetition of the words is à very sacrament and sign that the baptised creature should die from sin all his life, as Paul writeth Roma. 6. likewise no man should condemn nor neglect this exterior sign for the commandments sake: though it have no pore to purge from sin yet it confirmeth the purgation of sin and the Act of it self pleaseth god, for because the receivers thereof obey the will of his commandment. Like as the Kings majesty that now is: immediately aster the death of his father was the true and legitimate King of England, right heir unto the crown and received his coronation not to make him self there by King, but to manifest that the Kingdom appertained unto him before, ⟨image 71⟩he taketh the crown to confirm his right and title, had all england said nay and by force contrary unto God's laws and mans laws with an exterior ceremony and pomp crowned any other man he should have bin an adulterous and wrong King, with all his solemnities and coronation. Though this ceremony con firm and manifest à King in his Kingdom yet it maketh not à King• But the laws of God and of the land that giveth by succession the right of the Kingdom to the old Kings first here male in England an other Realms And the babe in the cradle hath as god right and claim and is as true à King in his cradle uncrowned as his father was though he reigned à crowned King xl. years, and this right of the babe should be defended and manifested not only by the ceremony of coronation, but with all obedience and ⟨image 72⟩true subjection.

the one interiour whiche is the clensing of the hart, the drawyng of the father the operacion of the holy goost and this baptisme is in manwhē he belyuith and trustith that Christ is the only auctor of his saluacion. thus be the infantes examinyd conserning repentanc and fayth before they be baptisyd with water at the contemplacion of the which faith God purchith tha soule. then is the extereor signe addyd