The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…

Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holy Ghost.

Here is expounded the command of Christ, which being now about to ascend into Heaven, he left unto his Apostles. It contains two principal duties. 1. The preaching and publishing of that Doctrine taught by Christ. 2. The administration of the Sacraments by him appointed. For in this place by Baptism (according to that usual borrowing of speech, called Synecdoche, that puts sometimes one sort for the whole kind, and sometimes contrarily) the other Sacrament of the Supper is understood; but here Baptism is rather named than the other: 1. Because it is the first Sacrament, and that of initiation, and receiving solemnly into the Church, on which the other for this cause doth depend. 2. Because it chiefly belonged unto the Apostles office, by themselves, or by others to see this Sacrament rightly administered, who were rather sent to plant, and gather or build Churches from their first beginnings, than to feed, govern, and further build, or advance them, after they were first planted. And Baptism belongs particularly to the first ingrafting into Christ, and to plantation; and the Supper unto feeding, and growth ⟨p. 174⟩after planting. Now Baptism is expounded in this place• 1. From its object, or parties to be baptized▪ Baptizing them: that is, such as are already trained up▪ in Christ's Doctrine, or •ade his […] or • lars, as the Greek word signifies, [Greek or Hebrew], make them my scholars, or Disciples. 2. From the orme, or manner of doing it; to wit, in the name of the Father Son, and Holy Ghost. By which form or model are designed: 1. The efficient causes, by whose authority Baptism is exercised, and made effectual; and that is by the name, or authority and power of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. . The union of the baptized, that they are to have with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the participation of all their graces of justification, sanctification, adoption, &c. that from the Father, in the Son, and by the Spirit, are derived unto all the heirs of eternal salvation; and in the profession and practice of all the outward Ordinances and means, that Christ taught them, whereby to attain to those inward graes, and to keep, and advance them, by the same Spirit in the Son and from the Father.