Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

They have profaned the Covenant, and taken the dreadful Name of God in vain; therefore he will not hold them guiltless. They will one day wish that they had never been baptised, Eccles. 5.5. better it is that thou shouldest not vow, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay. So it were better for thee not to be baptised, then that thou shouldest be baptised, and yet not be mindful of that baptismal vow which thy Soul is under; for thou wilt receive the greater damnation. The water of baptism will be turned into blood: Think awfully on that Scripture, Jer. •. ⟨p. 112⟩25.26. behold the days come saith the Lord, that I will punish the circumcised with the uncircumcised: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom. &c for all those Nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. Even so, God will punish not only Heathen, and Jews, and Turks, and Indians; for all these are unbaptized, but also professed Christian, yea, protestant people, for these are generally unbaptized in heart; their heart is not washed from their filthiness. It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah at the day of Judgement, then for impenitent baptised persons. Consider this you that are unbaptized in heart. Your baptism will rise up in Judgement against you at the last day. It is reported concerning a man whose name was Elpidophorus that after his baptism Apostasing from the truth & ways of God; the Minister who had administered that Ordinance to him showed him the vestment, wherein he had been baptised, saying this shall accuse thee at the last day: so I say to thee, the place where thou wast baptised, and the Minister of God, that baptised thee, will be a witness against thee at the last day, if thou dost not live and practise according to that sacred obligation which thy soul is under.

They have •rophaned the Covenant, and taken the dreadful Name of God in vain; therefore he will not hold them guiltless. They will one day wish that they had never been baptised, Eccles. 5.5. better it is that thou shouldest not vow, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay. So it were better for thee not to be baptised, then that thou shouldest be baptised, and yet not be mindful of that baptismal vow which thy Soul is under; for thou wilt receive the greater damnation. The water of baptisme will be turned into blood: Think awfully on that Scripture, Jer. .