Pr•po. 1. If any essential part of the exterior Ordinance be wanting, then it is Null: As if the party he not (more or less) washed. If he be not baptized into the Name of the Father, ⟨p. 317⟩Son, and Holy Ghost, (at least implicitly, if not by full Verbal expression) If the party use but the bare name of God, while he professeth, or openly discovereth that it is not indeed God the Father, Son or Holy Ghost that he meaneth. If he openly put in any exception against any essential part of the Christian Faith or Covenant; as to say, I will only be pardoned by Christ, but not sanctified; then, I conceive, it is no Baptism. But if there be all the exterior Essentials, there the exterior Baptism is not Null nor to be repeated. 2. The foresaid exterior Baptism is effectual to the engaging or obliging of the person so baptized: And so his own part of the Covenant is not Null. A Dissembling promise bindeth the Promiser in Law: for his dissimulation cannot hinder his own Obligation, though it may another's. Nemini debetur commodum ex proprio delicto; 3. But if there be not sincerity in the Covenanter, beyond all this, his Baptism is not available to the pardon of his sin, or to convey to him a Right from God in any of the Covenant benefits (directly as given to him) common or special. 4. Nor should the Minister or People believe this man, if by Notorious Ungodliness he give them reason to take his present Profession to be false, and himself now to dissemble. 5. But yet seeing a Natural Profession it is, though false; and the falsehood is not declared by him at that time in the Ordinance, but disclaimed, but only is declared before he comes thither, therefore it seems to me, that there is the whole external Essence of Baptism, and therefore it is not Null, nor to be Repeated: But if that person do afterward come to the sense of his own Dissimulation, and of the want of Truth in his Profession and Covenanting, he is to do then that which he did omit before, that is, to Covenant Truly; but not that which he did perform before, that is, to be externally Baptized. Such a person therefore should in the face of the Congregation, when he comes to Repentance, bewail (with the rest of the sins of his life) that falseness in the Baptismal Covenant, and there unfeignedly renew it:
Pr•po. 1. If any essential part of the exterior Ordinance be wanting, then it is Null: As if the party he not (more or less) washed. If he be not baptized into the Name of the Father, ⟨p. 317⟩Son, and Holy Ghost, (at least implicitely, if not by full Verbal expression) If the party use but the bare name of God, while he professeth, or openly discovereth that it is not indeed God the Father, Son or Holy Ghost that he meaneth. If he openly put in any exception against any essential part of the Christian Faith or Covenant; as to say, I will only be pardoned by Christ, but not sanctified; then, I conceive, it is no Baptism. But if there be all the exterior Essentials, there the exterior Baptism is not Null nor to be repeated. 2. The foresaid exterior Baptism is effectual to the engaging or obliging of the person so baptized: And so his own part of the Covenant is not Null. A Dissembling promise bindeth the Promiser in Law: for his dissimulation cannot hinder his own Obligation, though it may anothers. Nemini debetur commodum ex proprio delicto; 3. But if there be not sincerity in the Covenanter, beyond all this, his Baptism is not available to the pardon of his sin, or to convey to him a R•ght from God in any of the Covenant benefits (directly as given to him) common or special. 4. Nor should the Minister or People believe this man, if by Notorious Ungodliness he give them reason to take his present Profession to be false, and himself now to dissemble. 5. But yet seeing a Natural Profession it is, though false; and the falshood is not declared by him at that time in the Ordinance, but disclaimed, but only is declared before he comes thither, therefore it seems to me, that there is the whole external Essence of Baptism, and therefore it is not Null, nor to be Repeated: But if that person do afterward come to the sense of his own Dissimulation, and of the want of Truth in his Profession and Covenanting, he is to do then that which he did omit before, that is, to Covenant Truly; but not that which he did perform before, that is, to be externally Baptized. Such a person therefore should in the face of the Congregation, when he comes to Repentance, bewail (with the rest of the sins of his life) that falseness in the Baptismal Covenant, and there unfeignedly renew it:
