A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…

2. The Synod doth sufficiently provide for the purity of Churches, inasmuch as they exclude the persons in Question from the Lords Table, and that Privilege of voting in Church affairs, till they be further Qualified: Now it is not Baptism which will Corrupt particular Churches, but the admission of persons unduly qualified to the management of the affairs of Christs Kingdom, and to the Supper of the Lord, which is an Ordinance peculiarly belonging to those in, (and never regularly Administered to any out of) particular Churches. And as for a faithful Care concerning Admissions to the Lords Table. I know no men that have been more regularly strict and exact about that matter, then those that have been strenuous Assertors of Baptism according to the Synodical Latitude.

2. The Synod doth sufficiently provide for the purity of Churches, inasmuch as they exclude the persons in Question from the Lords Table, and that Priviledge of vering in Church affairs, till they be further Qualifyed: Now it is not Baptisme which will Corrupt particular Churches, but the admission of persons unduely qual•fyed to the management of the affairs of Christs Kingdome, and to the Supper of the Lord, which is an Ordinance peculiarly belonging to those in, (and never regularly Administred to any out of) particular Churches. And as for a faithful Care concerning Admissions to the Lords Table. I know no men that have been more regularly strict and exact about that matter, then those that have been strenuous Assertors of Baptisme according to the Synodical Latitude.

3. It is a zealous and diligent Attendance to discipline according to the Rules of Christ and not Curtailing the Covenant that will keep Churches pure. There are two ways practised by men in order to keeping Churches pure, the one is humane, the other is divine. The humane way is to straiten the grace of the Lords Covenant, that is the way of the Anabaptist. The divine way is faithfully to attend discipline. Now it will be found in the Issue, that the divine way only is that which will attain the End, experience doth testify that Churches have been pure or impure, according as discipline hath flourished or been evanid amongst them. Look abroad the world upon the Corrupted Collapsed Churches that are in many places, and we shall see that they have little more then a Carcass of discipline amongst them, without the life and power of it, which is the true and great Reason of their Corruption.