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Author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Title: Of Christs testaments, viz: baptisme and the Supper. Written in two bookes. The 1. of holy Baptisme, how it is to be understood in the ground thereof, and why a Christian should be baptised. The 2. of the holy supper of the Lord Christ, what it is, with the benefit and effects of it, and how the same may be worthily participated of. And how these are to be understood, both according to the Old and New Testament. Set forth from the true theosophicall ground, through the three principles of the divine revelation, and presented to the children of God for the information of their understandings. / Written in the yeare of Christ 1624. by Jacob Behm of Old Seidenberg alias Teutonicus Philosophus. And Englished by John Sparrovv, barrister of the Inner Temple London.
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Print source: Of Christs testaments, viz: baptisme and the Supper. Written in two bookes. The 1. of holy Baptisme, how it is to be understood in the ground thereof, and why a Christian should be baptised. The 2. of the holy supper of the Lord Christ, what it is, with the benefit and effects of it, and how the same may be worthily participated of. And how these are to be understood, both according to the Old and New Testament. Set forth from the true theosophicall ground, through the three principles of the divine revelation, and presented to the children of God for the information of their understandings. / Written in the yeare of Christ 1624. by Jacob Behm of Old Seidenberg alias Teutonicus Philosophus. And Englished by John Sparrovv, barrister of the Inner Temple London.
Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624., Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?
London: Printed by M. Simmons, and are to be sold neare the signe of the Golden Lyon in Aldersgate-streete, or by H. Blunden at the Castle in Cornhill neere the Exchange, 1652.
Alternate titles: Von Christi Testamenten. English
Subject terms:
Baptism -- Early works to 1800.
Lord's Supper -- Early works to 1800.
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Table of Contents
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title page
epigraph
The Englishers Preface.
A LETTER TOCarol von Endern.
The Summary Contents of the Chapters in this first Booke, concerning the Holy Baptisme.
The Preface to the Reader. SHEWING How the Testaments of Christ must be fun∣damentally understood, rightly participa∣ted, and worthily fed upon.
A Looking Glasse for Teacher and Hearer.
Note.
chapter 1
The First Chapter Of Reasons viewing of it selfe, how it useth to run in a Creaturely Forme, when it considereth of Christ and his Testaments.
The First Chapter How Reason useth to view it selfe in a Creaturely Imagelikenesse, when it considereth of Christ and his Testaments.
chapter 2
The Second Chapter. Of the Institution of Baptisme, what it is, who it is that Baptiseth, and what is Baptised; And how theWater-Baptisme is to be understood.
The Second Chapter. Of Gods Covenant after the Fall, what the Fall of Man is, and how God hath bound and united himselfe with him againe. What the Circumcision in the old Testament and the Baptisme in the New are.
chapter 3
The Third Chapter. A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction, how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost, with Christs Suffering, Death, and Resur∣rection in Body and Soule.
The Third Chapter. A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction, how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost, with Christs Suffering, Death, and Re∣surrection, in Body and Soule.
The Fourth Chapter. Of the Outward Water-Baptisme by Mans hand: who is worthy to performe such Baptisme? and what Baptised Infant doth worthily receive this Baptisme; how it go∣eth with the unworthy hand, as also with the unworthy Baptised Infant.
title page
epigraph
An Intimation or Instruction to the READER.
The Contents of the Chapters in this Second little Booke, Concerning the Holy Supper of Jesus Christ.
The First Chapter. Of the Ground of the Old Testament; how this Testament was cleerly in the Type among the Jewes.
The Second Chapter. Of the Supper of the New Testament, how the Type is come into Substance.
The Third Chapter. How the Disciples of Christ have Eaten and Drunk Christs flesh and bloud: and how that is properly to be understood.
The Fourth Chapter. Of the difference of such Participation, what the wicked receive by this Testament: and how a Man should rightly pre∣pare himselfe for it; that he may be rightly worthy.
The Fift Chapter. Of the Contention, Disputation, and Strife of the Learned about Christs Testaments: what they Effect therewith, and what is to be held concerning it.
The Table of the Two Testaments.
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