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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The same as was the benefit of Circumcision to the Jew outward, Rom. 2. 28. Rom. 3. 1, 2. there is a general grace of Baptism which all the baptized partake of as a common favour, and that is their admission into the visible body of the Church, their matriculation and outward incorporating into the number of the worshippers of God by external communion: and so as Circumcision was not only a seal of the righteousness which is by faith, but as an overplus God appointed it to be like a wall of separation between Jew and Gentile; so is Baptism a badge of an outward member of the Church, a distinction from the common rout of Heathen; and God thereby seals a right upon the party baptized to his ordinances, that he may use them as his privileges, and wait for an inward blessing by them; yet this is is but the porch, the shell, and outside; all that are outwardly received into the visible Church, are not spiritually engrafted into the mystical body of Christ. Baptism always is attended upon by that general grace, but not always with this special.
The same as was the benefit of Circumcision to the Jew outward, Rom. 2. 28. Rom. 3. 1, 2. there is a generall grace of Baptisme which all the baptized partake of as a common favour, and that is their admission into the visible body of the Church, their matriculation and outward incorporating into the number of the worshippers of God by externall communion: and so as Circumcision was not onely a seal of the righteousnesse which is by faith, but as an overplus God appointed it to be like a wall of separation between Jew and Gentile; so is Baptisme a badge of an outward member of the Church, a distinction from the common rout of Heathen; and God thereby seals a right upon the party baptized to his ordinances, that he may use them as his priviledges, and wait for an inward blessing by them; yet this is is but the porch, the shell, and outside; all that are outwardly received into the visible Church, are not spiritually ingraffed into the mysticall body of Christ. Baptisme always is attended upon by that generall grace, but not always with this speciall.