Preached at a Christning

              preached at a christening christning Christning i john578 JOHN 578 5.7 57 57 8 FOR THERE ARE THREE WHICH BEARE RECORD IN HEAVEN THE FATHER THE WORD AND THE HOLY GHOST AND THESE THREE ARE ONE AND THERE ARE THREE WHICH BEARE RECORD IN THE EARTH THE SPIRIT AND THE WATER AND THE BLOUD AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE N GREAT and enormous of fences we find that the law in a well INgoverned state expressed thepunishment upon sucha delinquent in that form in that curse curst igni & aqua interdicitur inter dicitur dicitur let him have no use of fire and water that is no use of any thing necessary for the sustentation of life beloved such is the miserable condition of wretched man as that we come all into the world under the burden of that curse aqua & igni ignl igal inter dicimur we have nothing to doe naturally with the spirituall spirituals water of life with the fiery beames of the holy ghost till he that hath wrought our restitution from this banishment restore us to this water by powring bowring out his owne bloud aloud and to this lively fire by laying himselfe himselfe a cold and bloudlesse car casse in the bowels of the earth till he who baptized none with water direct his church to doe that office towards us and he without whom none was baptized with fire perfect that ministeriall ministeriafl Ministeri ministerials all ali ail worke of his church with the effectually effectuall seales scales of his grace for this is his testimony the witnesse witnessed witnesse of his love yea that law in cases of such great offences expressed it selfe in