A16596:165
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving…A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing…
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Delivered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, John Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing of the Lords Supper. Deliuered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, Iohn Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.
London: printed by George Purslowe, 1617
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There are two Sacraments in CHRISTS Church: the one of imitation, that is wherewith we be enrolled, as it were in the household & family of God, which Sacrament, we call Baptism: the other, wherewith we be conserved. fed, kept, and nourished, to continue in the same family, which is called the Lords Supper, or the body & blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, broken for our sins, and shed for our transgressions.
THere are two Sacraments in CHRISTS Church: the one of imitatiō, that is wherwith we be enrolled, as it were in the houshold & family of God, which Sacrament, we call Baptism: the other, wherwith we be conserued. fed, kept, and nourished, to continue in the same family, which is called the Lords Supper, or the body & bloud of our Sauior Iesus Christ, broken for our sins, and shed for our transgressions.
Of the former Sacrament, that is, of Baptism, to speak now I am not purposed, because occasion and time serve not so thereto.1 Of the second therefore, will I speak something, by Gods grace, if that first you remember this, that Baptism in Christs Church, now since Christs death, is come in place of Circumcision, which was in the same Church afore Christs coming: Whereby we may see, that Christian Parents seem to be no less bound to offer their Infants and Babes to be baptized, that they may be taken and accounted of us, as members of Christs mystical body, whereunto they are received and sealed:2 then were the Hebrews their children to be taken as pertaining to the covenant and league with God, wherewith they were enrolled, alonely the circumstance of of the eight day, not necessary to be observed, being now abrogated.
Of the former Sacrament, that is, of Baptisme, to speake now I am not purposed, because occasion and time serue not so thereto.1 Of the second therefore, will I speake something, by Gods grace, if that first you remember this, that Baptisme in Christs Church, now since Christs death, is come in place of Circumcision, which was in the same Church afore Christs comming: Whereby we may sée, that Christian Parents seeme to be no lesse bound to offer their Infants and Babes to be baptized, that they may be taken and accounted of vs, as members of Christs mysticall body, wherunto they are receiued and sealed: