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15. Q. Have none, but such as are baptized, a right to these benefits?

A. None have a right to them but such as are baptized, or were ready to have been baptized, had they had the opportunity of receiving that holy sacrament. John, iii. 5. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Mark, xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved..

16. Q. How come those who are baptized to have a right to these benefits?

A. By the gracious promise of God, and through the merits and death of our Saviour Christ: who taking our nature first, and then the guilt of our sins upon himself, 'died in our stead; and by so doing, not only delivered us from the punishment of our sins; but moreover obtained an eternal inheritance of glory and happiness in heaven, for all those who should faithfully believe in him, and live according to his commands here upon earth.

PROOFS SUBJOINED.-John, iii. 6. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit. Rom. viii. 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things. 1 Cor. xv. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures. Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live: yet not 1, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved

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me, and gave himself for me. Eph. v. 2, 25. Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering, and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. 1 Pet. ii. 24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes we were healed. iii. 18. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit. Isaiah, liii. 5. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. Rom. v. 9. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath, through him. 2 Cor. v. 21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. 1 Thess. i. 10. To wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Pet. i. 2. Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. 1 John, i. 7. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Matt. xxv. 31, &c. When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory; and

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before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. John, xiv. 2, 3. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Rom. x. 13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 1 Cor. xv. 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Heb. ix. 15. For this cause he is the mediator of the new Testument, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressors that were under the first Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

SECT. III.

Of the Conditions of it, on our part; and the Obligations we lie under to fulfil them.

1. Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?

A. They did promise and vow three things in my name, &c.

2. Q. What is the first thing which your Godfathers and Godmothers promised in your name? A. That I should renounce the devil and all his

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works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the desh.

3. Q. What does the renouncing of all these signify?

A. It signifies an utter forsaking of them; and obliges me not only inwardly to detest them, but so to watch and govern all my outward actions, as not to follow, nor be led by them.

4. Q. Do you think that you shall be able thus to renounce the devil, the world, and your own flesh?

A. So perfectly as I could wish, I cannot hope to do it in this present life: yet I trust that, by the grace of God, I shall always from my heart detest and abhor them; and so order my life and actions, as not to be drawn into any evil courses by them; nor even into the actual commission of any very great and voluntary sins.

5. Q. What mean you by the devil?

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A. It is the common name given in scripture to those wicked spirits, who having rebelled against God, and being thereupon justly cast off from that glorious state in which they were created by him; do make it their constant business and endeavour to draw as many off as they can into the same rebellion, and thereby into the same state of misery with themselves. 1 Pet. v. 8. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

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PROOFS SUBJOINED. Matt. xiii. 39. The tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil. Luke, viii. 12. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. John, viii. 44. Ye are of

your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Neither give place to the devil.

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Eph. iv. 27.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil.

1 Tim. iii. 6, 7. Not

a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach, and the snare of the devil. Heb. ii. 14. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. James, iv. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 1 John, iii. 8, 9, 10. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot commit sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God were manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

6. Q. What are the works of the devil, which together with him, you at your baptism promised to renounce?

A. All manner of sin: but chiefly 1 comprehend under this first rank, those sins which either more immediately relate to him, or proceed from his sug

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