But the Baptized stand upon other terms: For 1. They are already in Covenant with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and have renounced the flesh, the world, and the Devil, and promised obedience to God, and to live according to their Covenant. And this the Church hath still required of them, as I showed out of Justin Martyr,and others before* Dionysius (or whoever else) in lib: de Hierarch Eccles.saith, Ipse autem se omnino ea quae tradentur, sequuturum esse pollicetur: And Ex eo praeterea quaerit, num ita instituat vivere, cum promisit asseverationibus, &c. upon which saithAlbaspinaeus, Quia scilicet fidem Christianam, Christianumque vivendi genus, & mores, sese complexos persequnturisque jucabant, antequam baptizarentur. (in Tertul.de Paenit. pag. 289.) & Postea. Non accedebant ⟨p. 132⟩ad Baptismum nisi de rebus fidei plane instructi, id est, de Dei magnitudine, & potestate rebusque quae in Evangeliis continentur, uno excepto Eucharistiae mysterio; neque baptizabantur, nisi post quam ea omnia se credere jurassent, quorum fides a fide poenitentiae incipiebat,&c. Et in sequ. Jucabant in Baptismo solennibus verbis, see nunquam* peccaturos; deinde renunciabant Diabolo & pompis ejus. Denique Censurâ, si peccarent post baptismum coercebantur.So that men that are engaged in covenant with God, must keep Covenant, or manifest themselves Penitent, for the violation of it, before they are admitted to further Privileges. There is a long time, in which they grow up from an Infant-state to an Adult; and how they live in that time, must be enquired after.
But the Baptized stand upon other terms: For 1. They are already in Covenant with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost; and have renounced the flesh, the world, and the Devil, and promised obedience to God, and to live according to their Covenant. And this the Church hath still required of them, as I shewed out of Justin Martyr,and others before* Dionysius (or whoever else) in lib: de Hierarch Eccles.saith, Ipse autem se omnino ea quae tradentur, sequuturum esse pollicetur: And Ex eo praeterea quaerit, num ita instituat vivere, cum promisit asseverationibus, &c. upon which saithAlbaspinaeus, Quia scilicet fidem Christianam, Christianumque vivendi genus, & mores, sese complexos persequnturisque jucabant, antequam baptizarentur. (in Tertul.de Paenit. pag. 289.) & Postea. Non accedebant ⟨p. 132⟩ad Baptismum nisi de rebus fidei plane instructi, id est, de Dei magnitudine, & potestate rebusque quae in Evangeliis continentur, uno excepto Eucharistiae mysterio; neque baptizabantur, nisi post quam ea omnia se credere jurassent, quorum fides a fide poenitentiae incipiebat,&c. Et in sequ. Jucabant in Baptismo solennibus verbis, se nunquam* peccaturos; deinde renunciabant Diabolo & pompis ejus. Denique Censurâ, si peccarent post baptismum coercebantur.So that men that are engaged in covenant with God, must keep Covenant, or manifest themselves Penitent, for the violation of it, before they are admitted to further Priviledges. There is a long time, in which they grow up from an Infant-state to an Adult; and how they live in that time, must be enquired after.
- *Read the whole order of Baptism in Dionysius ibid. c. 4.
- *That is not to turn to an ungodly life, but to endeavour and perform sincere obedience. Albaspin. in Tertul. de Paenintent. cap. 7. Sexcent•• locis, non dicam hoc capite; unam ait tantum a lavacro veniam superesse, neque ullam primis illis temporibus inter privatam aut publicam graviorum criminum discrimen invenient. Vide caetera.
