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<P>AN <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">PISTLE Concerning BAPTISM.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">a&s;ionally written upon the &s;ight of two Treati&s;es publi&s;hed by <HI>THOMAS JAMES,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">cher of a Presbyterian Congre|gation at <HI>A&s;hford</HI> in <HI>Kent:</HI> Who hath reflected upon the Baptized Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P><HI>WILLIAM R&V;SSEL,</HI> Medicinae Doctor, Academiae Cantabrigien&s;is, <HI>Lover of Primitive Chri&s;tianity.</HI></P>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> for the old Paths, where is the good Way, and walk therein, and ye &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;t for your Souls,</P>
<BIBL><HI>Jer. 6.16.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed in the Year 1696.</P>
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<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> tho&s;e Inhabitants of <HI>A&s;hford,</HI> and the adjacent Pari&s;hes, who attend upon the Mini&s;try of Mr. <HI>Thomas James.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Occa&s;ion of my writing this Epi&s;tle to you at this time, ari&s;eth from the Con&s;idera|tion of two Books written by <HI>T. J.</HI> The one intituled, <HI>Spira</HI>'s <HI>De&s;pair revived.</HI> The other called, <HI>A Vindication of that Part of it which is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed by the Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. which is a pretended An|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">o a Book written by <HI>J. W.</HI> in An&s;wer to his fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the latter of which he dedicates to you.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> which Book he brings you in as Parties with him, in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">deracy again&s;t that People; as making you to have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">al, if not a greater Intere&s;t than him, in that Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ar he hath rai&s;ed again&s;t them.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;eeing it hath plea&s;ed God (by his good Provi|dence) to put it into the Hearts of our King, and both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">s of Parliament, to give us the free Exerci&s;e of our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">on by Law, (which we e&s;teem as a great Mercy) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> a wonder to me to read &s;uch &s;currilous and re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ful Language, again&s;t tho&s;e of our Per&s;wa&s;ion; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ore, for that it proceeds from one who is him&s;elf a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">er from the e&s;tabli&s;hed Religion of the Land, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ther of a Presbyterian Congregation. And to find <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ubli&s;hing to the World, that the Inhabitants of <HI>A&s;h|ford</HI> and divers other Pari&s;hes, did join i&s;&s;ue with him in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ng; it &s;eems to be&s;peak but little Sen&s;e of the Good|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> God, and of our Rulers, in the Liberty you enjoy. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> whereas tho&s;e Mini&s;ters that are of the Epi&s;copal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">i&s;ion, do give us civil Treatment, and do not con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> them&s;elves to di&s;turb our Peace and Quiet, much le&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">oach and abu&s;e us: I was con&s;idering what &s;hould
<PB N="4" REF="3">move Mr. <HI>Thomas James</HI> to act as he hath done: And at la&s;t I concluded it mu&s;t certainly proceed from that very Spi|rit and Principle of the fir&s;t Founder of your Sect, Mr. <HI>John Calvin,</HI> who burnt the Books of <HI>Servetus,</HI> a Learned <HI>Bapti&s;t;</HI> and afterwards per&s;waded the Magi&s;trates of <HI>Ge|neva</HI> to burn him alive. Which Sentence was execute<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon him, as <HI>Ca&s;tellio</HI> te&s;tifies (who was a Contemporary with him) in the&s;e words; Michael Servetus <HI>was burn alive for his Opinion, at</HI> Geneva, <HI>Anno</HI> 1553, <HI>upon the 27th day of</HI> October.</P>
<P>And yet, as one well ob&s;erves, Mr. <HI>Calvin</HI> did acknow|ledg this of him, That he was a Learned and a Charita|ble Man.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this, he wrote a Book to ju&s;tify, the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> putting him to death, as a Man who&s;e Books were full <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Errors. Which Book was &s;ufficiently confuted by t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Learned <HI>Ca&s;tellio;</HI> where he al&s;o &s;hews that the Rea&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Calvin</HI> procured his Death, was this, le&s;t the excelle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Parts and Learning of <HI>Servetus</HI> &s;hould have eclip&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Glory of <HI>Calvin,</HI> and prevented him from being the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of a Party. And yet <HI>Ca&s;tellio</HI> was not a <HI>Bapti&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Now if Mr. <HI>James</HI> &s;hould have imbibed the &s;ame per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">+cuting Principles, it is no wonder to find &s;o much Ranc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Spirit appear in him again&s;t the <HI>Bapti&s;ts</HI> in our Day as he hath expre&s;&s;ed in the&s;e two Treati&s;es. I &s;peak <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> this, as if I meant to accu&s;e the whole Party; for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> know that divers of them are meliorated, and have mani|fe&s;ted them&s;elves to be Men of better and more peacea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Principles. But &s;eeing there are &s;ome young Men of ano|ther mind, I thought it not ami&s;s to give you a Cau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> again&s;t it, remembring what an hone&s;t old Presbyter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Mini&s;ter &s;aid once to &s;ome others of his Brethren, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> met to ordain three young Mini&s;ters who had decla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> them&s;elves for this per&s;ecuting Principle; &s;aith he, <Q><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> will have no hand in their Ordination, for there <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Firebrands enough in the World already; and (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> plea&s;e God) I will have no hand in &s;ending more, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uch as they are enough to &s;et the World in a Fla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> where-ever they come.</Q></P>
<P>And I fear your young Man may be of that number <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pray let me ask you a few civil Que&s;tions; which I de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> you to propound to him, and do you demand of him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ticular and di&s;tinct An&s;wers thereunto.</P>
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<ITEM>1. Whether Mr. <HI>James</HI> doth not believe the Epi&s;copal Church of <HI>England</HI> to be a true Church? and their Tea|chers to be true Mini&s;ters?</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Whether he doth not own their Bapti&s;m and Ordi|nation to be true and valid?</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Whether he doth not think it lawful for you to go to their publick Wor&s;hip, and attend upon their Mini&s;try in their Parochial A&s;&s;emblies; rather than &s;uffer Impri&s;on|ment, and the lo&s;s of your E&s;tates? And if this be &s;o,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Then, 4. what can be the Motive to excite <HI>Thomas <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">mes</HI> to keep up a Separation from the e&s;tabli&s;hed Church <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>England,</HI> now in a Time of Peace? unle&s;s it be to get <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> better livelihood for him&s;elf, than he could otherwi&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ain.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Whether the fear of lo&s;ing &s;ome of his Auditors, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ing hindred from an increa&s;e of their Number, by which his Income might be dimini&s;hed, might not be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e great Motive which excited him to &s;uch a fooli&s;h way <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;cribling again&s;t the <HI>Bapti&s;ts?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Whether it doth not therefore highly concern you, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> make a diligent Enquiry into the Word of God, and ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ne his Doctrines thereby, that you may &s;ee whether <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y agree with the Doctrine and Practice of the Apo&s;tles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d Primitive Chri&s;tians, le&s;t you &s;hould be cheated, both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> your Money and of your Souls?</ITEM>
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<P>Now, Sirs, if a prejudicate Opinion doth not interpo&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oubt not but it may be &s;aid of you as of tho&s;e in <HI>Acts</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">.48. <GAP DESC="foreign">, you are di&s;po&s;ed to eternal Life: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed then there will be &s;ome hope, you will give credit to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e Authority of God, in the Go&s;pel of his dear Son, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d be willing to learn what may be taught you.</P>
<P>Had not Mr. <HI>James</HI> oppo&s;ed us in the Point of Holy Bap|ti&s;m, I had not concerned my &s;elf with him, believing he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ufficiently confuted about his Calumnies again&s;t our friends at <HI>A&s;hford</HI> by another hand.</P>
<P>I &s;hall therefore (for the &s;ake of Truth) u&s;e my endea|vour to elucidate the Point in controver&s;y, that you may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">re a more clear and di&s;tinct knowledg of it.</P>
<P>Neither you nor your Teacher, ought to think it below <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to be in&s;tructed in any Go&s;pel-Truth, but receive it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> meekne&s;s and humility; and be thankful to them that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> take the pains to do it.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">
For <HI>Apollos,</HI> who was a great Preacher, and a Man mighty in the Holy Scriptures, did not di&s;dain that a Wo|man &s;hould in&s;truct him in the Way of God more per|fectly, <HI>Acts</HI> 18.24, 25, 26.</P>
<P>And for your better under&s;tanding the Point in Con|trover&s;y, I &s;hall do the&s;e three things.</P>
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<ITEM>I. Shew you, that Bapti&s;m is to be admini&s;tred by Dip|ping, Plunging, or overwhelming the Per&s;on in Water.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. That true penitent Believers are the right Subject of Bapti&s;m.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. That the Ordinance of Bapti&s;m is now in being and is to continue to the End of this World.</ITEM>
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<P N="1">I. I &s;hall &s;hew that Bapti&s;m mu&s;t be admini&s;tred by Dipping, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> if we con&s;ider the&s;e four things.</P>
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<ITEM>1. The Etymology, or Signification of the Word, the Holy Spirit u&s;es to expre&s;s it by.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Tho&s;e Metaphors u&s;ed in Holy Scripture, to repre|&s;ent it to our Under&s;tanding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. From the Practice of the fir&s;t Baptizers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. From the grand Commi&s;&s;ion of our Saviour, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19.</ITEM>
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<P N="1">1. From the Etymology, or Signification of the Word.</P>
<P>The word <HI>Bapti&s;m,</HI> is from the Greek <GAP DESC="foreign">, to dipt. <HI>Bapti&s;ma,</HI> a Dipping; from <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Bapto,</HI> to dip, plunge or drown. It implieth the wa&s;hing of the whole Body <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> even &s;uch a wa&s;hing as is u&s;ed in Bucks, where Linen i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> plunged and dipt. For the native and proper &s;ignification of it, is to dip into Water, or to plunge under Water, &s;ee <HI>Leigh</HI>'s <HI>Critica Sacra.</HI></P>
<P>It is a Metaphor taken from the u&s;e of the Dyers Vat <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> and is &s;uch a Dipping, by which the Cloth put into it is dyed, and not a bare wa&s;hing only; from whence cometh Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P><HI>Zepperus de Sacramentis</HI> &s;aith, <GAP DESC="foreign">, Bapti&s;m; <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> vocis notationem attendere velimus, vocabulum Bapti&s;mi mer&s;io|nem &s;ignificat in aquam,</HI> &amp;c. If we will attend to the No|tation of the word <HI>Bapti&s;m,</HI> it &s;ignifies to dip into Water <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> or the Act it &s;elf of Dipping and Wa&s;hing. From hence therefore, and from the Etymology of the Word it &s;elf, i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> doth appear what was the Cu&s;tom of admini&s;tring Bap|ti&s;m
<PB N="7" REF="4">from the beginning. Whereas now (&s;aith he) we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ther u&s;e Ranti&s;m (<HI>viz.</HI> Sprinkling) in the &s;tead of Bap|ti&s;m, which is Dipping.</P>
<P><HI>Al&s;tedius</HI> in his <HI>Lexicon Theologicum,</HI> printed <HI>Anno</HI> 1612. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> 310. &s;aith thus, <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp; <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Tingere, lavare, inficere: unde deductum aliud ver|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>intingere, immergere, maxim&egrave; quidem aqu&acirc;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>tantum &s;ignificat immergere; non lavare, ni&s;i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> un&s;equenti.</HI></P>
<P>From whence it may plainly be &s;een, that this Learned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">hor doth a&s;&s;ert, That Bapti&s;m is to dip, plunge, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> whelm the Per&s;on baptized in Water: And that its <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">per &s;ignification is to dip, or dye, and not to wa&s;h, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">y by Con&s;equence. For which he cites for his Autho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">, both <HI>Plutarch</HI> and <HI>Nazianzen;</HI> as may be &s;een at large <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Book it &s;elf.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides this is &s;o well known, that every School-boy in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Greek-Grammar can tell you, that <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>bapto,</HI> is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">re rendred <HI>mergo, immergo,</HI> to dip, to plunge or over|whelm.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l&s;o in a <HI>Greek Lexicon,</HI> publi&s;hed and recommended to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> for the encrea&s;e of Knowledg, by
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Caryll,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Cokayne,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ralph Vening,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Dell,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Matthew Barker,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Adderly,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Matthew Mead,</HI> and</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Je&s;&s;ey,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ey tell us, that the &s;ignification of <GAP DESC="foreign">, is to dip, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ge, or drown. And in the Pa&s;&s;ive Voice, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to be plunged, or overwhelmed. And that <GAP DESC="foreign">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to plunge, to overwhelm, to baptize, to dip. And in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Pa&s;&s;ive Voice, <GAP DESC="foreign">, to be plunged, to be bap|tized, or dipped.</P>
<P>In <HI>Clavis Graecae Linguae,</HI> printed at <HI>London, Anno</HI> 1640. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> is thus rendred; <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>mergo, tingo,</HI> to dip, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> dye. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Idem,</HI> the &s;ame.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp; <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>mer&s;io,</HI> to drown; and there|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="foreign">, is often rendred, to dip into, to drown. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> from thence the Latins u&s;e <HI>mer&s;us, &agrave; mergo,</HI> drowned, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ered, or over whelmed with Water. And therefore it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ed in the New Te&s;tament, for that Holy Ordinance of
<PB N="8" REF="5">Bapti&s;m; it being performed by dipping the whole Body of the Per&s;on baptized under Water.</P>
<P>The Learned <HI>Robert&s;on,</HI> (my &s;ingular good Friend) in his <HI>The&s;aurus Graecae Linguae,</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Baptizo, mergo.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Intingo, mergo,</HI> to dye, to dip, plunge, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Hence (&s;aith he) is <HI>Baptizo,</HI> which &s;ignifies the &s;ame. As al&s;o <HI>Bapti&s;|mos, Bapti&s;ma,</HI> &amp;c. But the Greek word <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Ran|tizo,</HI> (he &s;aith) is <HI>a&s;pergo,</HI> to &s;prinkle.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Ronti&s;mos, A&s;per&s;io,</HI> Sprinkling. So that you may ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> is as much difference betwint the&s;e two Greek <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Bapti&s;mos</HI> and <HI>Ranti&s;mos</HI> in Greek, as there is betwixt the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> words, Dipping and Sprink|ling in Engli&s;h; and therefore &s;urely, not to be conceived to be &s;y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">imous, &s;o as to &s;ignity the &s;ame thing.</P>
<P>I now pre&s;ume, from what hath been &s;aid, that if the word <GAP DESC="foreign">, and its Derivatives, are u&s;ed in all places in the New Te&s;tament, where this Ordinance of Bapti&s;m is &s;poken of: Then it will follow, by an unavoidable Con|&s;equence, that Dipping is the right manner of Baptizing and that Sprinkling is not Baptizing.</P>
<P>That it is &s;o, will evidently appear from an Enumeration of Particulars. I will in&s;tance in &s;ome of the principal, when I come to &s;hew you what was the Practice of the fir&s;t Baptizers. But of that in its proper place.</P>
<P>I now come to treat of the &s;econd Particular under this Head, <HI>viz.</HI> Dipping the Per&s;ons baptized into Water, ap|pears to be the right way of admini&s;tring this Ordinance if we con&s;ider the Metaphors u&s;ed in Holy Scripture <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> expre&s;s it by.</P>
<P>There are two I &s;hall chiefly in&s;i&s;t upon: 1. A Burial 2. A Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>We are to con&s;ider, that our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> burdened us under the Go&s;pel, with a multitude of Cere|monies, as it was in that Oeconomy of the Jews under the Legal Di&s;pen&s;ation: But only with &s;ome few, and tho&s;e very &s;ignificant; this being a more &s;piritual Di&s;pen&s;ation.</P>
<P>As therefore the Holy Supper of our Lord in the break|ing of the Bread, &s;ignifies the breaking of his Body; and the pouring out of the Wine, the &s;hedding of his mo&s;t pre|cious Blood; and both of the&s;e in conjunction his Death 1 Cor. 11.26. <HI>For as often as you eat this Bread, and drive this Cup, ye do &s;hew forth the Lord's Death till he come.</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="5">Even &s;o Holy Bapti&s;m doth &s;hew forth his Burial and direction; Rom. 6.4. <HI>Therefore we are buried with him bapti&s;m into Death; that like as Chri&s;t was rai&s;ed up from Dead to the Glory of the Father, even &s;o we al&s;o &s;hould walk <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e&s;s of Life.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ow con&s;ider the Metaphor: when Men are dead, we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> them by covering the whole Body under Ground, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> not by &s;cattering or &s;prinkling a little Du&s;t or Earth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> their Faces only.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">prinkling (you know) hath no re&s;emblance to Bu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">; but dipping or plunging the whole Body under Wa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> is a mo&s;t expre&s;s and lively repre&s;entation thereof.</P>
<P>But perhaps Humane Te&s;timonies will plea&s;e you and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Pa&s;tor, better than Divine. And therefore I &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> you the Opinion of &s;ome Learned Bi&s;hops to corro|borate what I &s;ay, who may be &s;uppo&s;ed to under&s;tand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Original as well as Mr. <HI>James.</HI></P>
<P>The late Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterhury,</HI> Dr. <HI>John Tillot&s;on,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">h, in his Sermon upon 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.19. <Q>Antiently tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ho were baptized, put off their Garments, which &s;ignified the putting off the Body of Sin; and were im|mer&s;ed and buried in the Water, to repre&s;ent the Death of Sin; and then did ri&s;e up again out of the Water, to &s;ignify their entrance upon a new Life; and to the&s;e Cu&s;toms the Apo&s;tle alludes <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.4.</Q></P>
<P>Al&s;o Dr. <HI>Fowler,</HI> the pre&s;ent Bi&s;hop of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> in his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ook of the <HI>Scope of the Chri&s;tian Religion,</HI> interprets this &s;aying of the great Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.4. as follows;</P>
<P><Q>Chri&s;tians being plunged into the Water in Bapti&s;m, &s;ignifieth their undertaking and obliging them&s;elves in a Spiritual Sen&s;e to die, and be buried with Je&s;us Chri&s;t, (which Death and Burial con&s;i&s;t in an utter renouncing and for&s;aking of all their Sins) that &s;o an&s;werably to his Re&s;urrection, they may live a holy and godly Life.</Q></P>
<P>Moreover, Dr. <HI>Jer. Taylor,</HI> late Bi&s;hop of <HI>Down,</HI> in his <HI>Doctor Dubitantium, lib.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 4. &s;aith thus:</P>
<P><Q>The Cu&s;tom of the Antient Church was not Sprink|ling, but Immer&s;ion, in pur&s;uance of the Sen&s;e of the word <GAP DESC="foreign">, both in the Commandment and Ex|ample of our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour.</Q></P>
<P><Q>And this (&s;aith he) agrees with the My&s;tery of the Sacrament it &s;elf; for we are <HI>buried with him in Bapti&s;m,</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="6">&s;aith the Apo&s;tle. The old Man is buried and drowned i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Immer&s;ion under Water: and when the baptized Per&s;on is lifted up from the Water, it repre&s;ents the Re|&s;urrection of the new Man to newne&s;s of Life.</Q></P>
<P>To this I &s;hall only add that other Divine Te&s;timony o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> Col. 2.12. <HI>Buried with him in Bapti&s;m wherein al&s;o ye are ri&s;en with him through the Faith of the Opera|tion of God, who hath rai&s;ed him from the Dead.</HI> And &s;hall now proceed to the third Particular, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. It doth appear that Dipping is the right way of Bap|tizing, from the Practice of the fir&s;t Baptizers.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t mention of this Ordinance of Holy Bapti&s;m, we have in <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.1. where <HI>John the Dipper</HI> is mentioned. And in <HI>ver.</HI> 6. it is written, <HI>And were baptized of him in</HI> Jordan <HI>confe&s;&s;ing their Sins.</HI> The Greek word there is <GAP DESC="foreign">; which is in Engli&s;h, They were dipped, plunged, or over|whelmed: For it is from the word <GAP DESC="foreign">, to dip, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as I have already &s;hewed.</P>
<P>In the <HI>7th</HI> Ver&s;e, the word is <GAP DESC="foreign">, which &s;ignifie the &s;ame.</P>
<P>In the <HI>11th</HI> Ver&s;e <GAP DESC="foreign">, to dip, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>In Ver&s;e the <HI>13th</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, to be dipped.</P>
<P>The Word is u&s;ed again in <HI>ver.</HI> 14.</P>
<P>And the &s;ame al&s;o in the Pa&s;&s;ive Voice, is u&s;ed in <HI>ver.</HI> 16. where it is &s;aid, <HI>And Je&s;us, when he was baptized,</HI> &amp;c. And the following words do make that Sen&s;e evident; for when he was dipped by <HI>John</HI> in the River of <HI>Jordan,</HI> it is &s;aid, <HI>He went up &s;traightway out of the Water:</HI> Which implies, beyond contradiction, That he was in the River, and o|ver whelmed with the Water, according to the proper and native &s;ignification of the word <GAP DESC="foreign">. And if you will read the <HI>5th</HI> and <HI>6th</HI> Ver&s;es of this Chapter, you will find there Multitudes thus baptized by <HI>John the Bapti&s;t,</HI> (or <HI>Dipper</HI>) for it's &s;aid, <HI>Then went out to him</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and all</HI> Judea, <HI>and all the Region round about</HI> Joran, <HI>and were baptized of him in</HI> Jordan. The &s;ame is al&s;o te&s;tified in that parallel place, <HI>Mark</HI> 1.4, 5. and the &s;ame Greek words u&s;ed there as in <HI>Mat.</HI> 3. which I have above recited. And in <HI>Mark</HI> 1.9. <HI>Je&s;us was baptized of</HI> John <HI>in</HI> Jordan. The Greek is <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>into</HI> Jordan. Now what Sen&s;e would this be? Je&s;us was &s;prinkled into <HI>Jordan.</HI> But to &s;ay, Je&s;us was dipt into the River of <HI>Jordan,</HI> is good Sen&s;e, as well as a great Truth.
<PB N="11" REF="6"><HI>Diodate,</HI> upon <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.6. &s;aith, <HI>They were plunged in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">der.</HI> And the A&s;&s;embly in their <HI>Annotations,</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Dip|ping in</HI> Jordan. But becau&s;e they are noted by Mr. <HI>Wells</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> his An&s;wer, I &s;hall forbear reciting them, and proceed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> other Authors.</P>
<P><HI>Cajetan</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;t was baptized, not by Sprinkling, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Dipping him into the Water.</HI> And <HI>Pi&s;cator,</HI> on <HI>John</HI> 3.23. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Bapti&s;m was admini&s;tred by dipping the whole Body in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">er.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> on <HI>Titus</HI> 3.5. &s;aith, <Q>There was no &s;uch thing as Sprinkling u&s;ed in Bapti&s;m in the Apo&s;tles Time, nor many Ages after them.</Q></P>
<P>It is al&s;o the Ob&s;ervation of that late Learned and Pious <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ai&s;ter of Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>John Go&s;nold,</HI> in his Book intituled, <GAP DESC="foreign">; <Q>That Mr. <HI>John Calvin,</HI> up and down in his Works, doth often (with many others in our Days) confe&s;s, That the Antient manner of Bap|ti&s;m in the Primitive Times was, by dipping the whole Body under Water. And al&s;o confe&s;&s;eth that the Church hath a&s;&s;umed this Liberty to her &s;elf, of u&s;ing Sprinkling in the room thereof.</Q></P>
<P>The &s;ame Author al&s;o ob&s;erves, <Q>That the Tran&s;lators them&s;elves never &s;o much as once in all the New Te|&s;tament renders it by Sprinkling. There is another Word for that, which they con&s;tantly tran&s;late <HI>to &s;prin|kle,</HI> to wit, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Rantizo;</HI></Q> whereby it's evident, Ranti&s;m is not Bapti&s;m, Sprinkling is not Dipping.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, in all the Places that I have met with, where nothing of the &s;tre&s;s of this Controver&s;y depends, our Tran&s;lators have every where rendred <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to dip. for in&s;tance, in <HI>Rev.</HI> 19.13. <HI>He had his Ve&s;ture dipt in Blood.</HI> and in <HI>Mat.</HI> 26.23. <HI>He that dippeth his Hand with me in the Di&s;h.</HI> Luke 16.24. <HI>That he may dip the Tip of his Finger in later.</HI> And in <HI>John</HI> 13.26. it is twice u&s;ed, <GAP DESC="foreign">, dip|ped; <GAP DESC="foreign">, and when he had dipped, <HI>Je&s;us an|&s;wered, He it is to whom I &s;hall give a Sop, when I have dip|ped it. And when he had dipped the Sop, he gave it to</HI> Judas <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eariot, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Moreover, if we will but con&s;ider the Places where this Holy Ordinance was admini&s;tred by the fir&s;t Baptizers, it will greatly elucidate this Truth.</P>
<P><PB N="12" REF="7">
For it was not practi&s;ed in the Temple, nor in their Sy|nagogues, nor yet in private Hou&s;es, in which it might have been done more commodiou&s;ly, if &s;prinkling a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Drops of Water upon their Faces would have &s;ufficed.</P>
<P>But they baptized in the River of <HI>Jordan,</HI> and other Places where there was much Water; becau&s;e plunging the whole Body under Water did require it.</P>
<P>In <HI>John</HI> 3.23. <HI>And</HI> John <HI>al&s;o</HI> (<GAP DESC="foreign">) <HI>was dipping in</HI> Enon, <HI>near to</HI> Salim, <HI>becau&s;e there was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Water there;</HI> and they came and were (<GAP DESC="foreign">) dip|ped. Now here we have the Rea&s;on given, why <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> baptized in this place, <HI>i. e. Becau&s;e there was much Water.</HI> But if he had not plunged them into the Water, but on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;prinkled them with a few Drops thereof, this Rea&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> been without Foundation. For as <HI>Cornelius &agrave; Lapide</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;erves, A very little Water would have &s;erved to have &s;prinkled Thou&s;ands. But their manner of baptizing be|ing to dip the whole Body under Water, therefore much Water was nece&s;&s;ary thereunto, without which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Act of Baptizing could not be performed.</P>
<P>Now altho <HI>T. J.</HI> hath trampled upon our Rea&s;ons of|fered in ju&s;tification of this Practice, I hope he will not make &s;o bold with the Spirit's Te&s;timony, as to contra|dict the Rea&s;on he hath given in the Text under Con&s;ide|ration.</P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee that <HI>John,</HI> who was the fir&s;t Baptizers and &s;ent of God to dip Per&s;ons in Water, as the beginning of the Go&s;pel, and to prepare Chri&s;t's Way before him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Joh.</HI> 1.33. He that &s;ent me (<GAP DESC="foreign">) to dip, plunge, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> overwhelm in Water, meaning God the Father. Where ever there is mention made of his Baptizing, the &s;ame Words are u&s;ed, either <HI>Bapto,</HI> or its derivatives.</P>
<P>If we ob&s;erve what is &s;aid of our Saviour's Baptizing (tho Je&s;us him&s;elf did not baptize (in his own Per&s;on) but by his Di&s;ciples) in every place the &s;ame Word <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> u&s;ed; as <HI>John</HI> 3.22. <GAP DESC="foreign">. Al&s;o <HI>John</HI> 4.1, 2. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp; <GAP DESC="foreign">; which all &s;ignify to dip, to be dipped, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>To proceed to the Practice of the Apo&s;tles, and chief Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, after our Lord's Re&s;urrection we &s;hall find the &s;ame Word u&s;ed (as above) in every place, where there is mention made of their Baptizing.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="7">
The fir&s;t In&s;tance is in <HI>Acts</HI> 2.41. <HI>Then they that gladly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ved his Word, were baptized,</HI> the word is <GAP DESC="foreign">.</P>
<P>In <HI>Acts</HI> 8.12. it is al&s;o from the &s;ame word <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> were dipped, both Men and Women.</HI></P>
<P>And in <HI>Acts</HI> 8.38, 39. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>And he dipped him.</HI></P>
<P>It is here to be ob&s;erved, that the Admini&s;trator <HI>Phi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> as well as the Eunuch, <HI>went both down into the Water,</HI> which had been needle&s;s, if Sprinkling would have &s;er|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rn); And when they came there, it's &s;aid, <HI>He <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">zed him,</HI> i. e. dipt him. And then it's further &s;aid, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">y came up out of the Water;</HI> not from the Side, or Surface <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> it, as Mr. <HI>James</HI> would in&s;inuate, by di&s;tingui&s;hing be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">een from and out of; for here it is &s;aid expre&s;ly, <HI>they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> up out of the Water.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o in <HI>Acts</HI> 10.48. <GAP DESC="foreign">, to be dipped, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>To be &s;hort, There is, you &s;ee, an Account that <HI>John the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">pti&s;t,</HI> Chri&s;t (by his Di&s;ciples) when upon Earth, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Apo&s;tles after his Re&s;urrection, did all of them practi&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Holy Ordinance of Bapti&s;m by dipping, or plunging <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Per&s;ons baptized into the Water.</P>
<P><Q>I will add to this the Te&s;timony of Mr. <HI>Dan. Rogers;</HI> None of old were wont to be &s;prinkled; And (&s;aith he) I confe&s;s my &s;elf unconvinced by demon&s;tration of Scrip|ture for Infants &s;prinkling.</Q> And further, in his Trea|ti&s;e of the two Sacraments, <HI>Part</HI> 1. <HI>Chap.</HI> 5. he hath the&s;e words, <Q>It ought to be the Church's Part to cleave to the In&s;titution, which is Dipping. And that he betrays the Church, who&s;e Officer he is, to a di&s;ordered Error, if he cleave not to the In&s;titution, which is to dip.</Q></P>
<P>And this leads me to the <HI>4th</HI> Particular, namely, That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> will appear that Dipping is the right way of Baptizing, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> we con&s;ider that grand Commi&s;&s;ion of our Saviour, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19. the Greek word is <GAP DESC="foreign">, from <GAP DESC="foreign"> to dip. And being given here by way of Precept, it is Dipping them. But &s;eeing I have already explained the &s;ignification of the Greek words by which Bapti&s;m is &s;ig|nified, even to tediou&s;ne&s;s, both to my &s;elf and you, I &s;hall in&s;i&s;t no longer upon it.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, becau&s;e I am of Opinion that the Go&s;pel of <HI>Mat|thew</HI> was written in Hebrew, according to <HI>Jerom</HI>'s Te&s;ti|mony, and the Opinion (I think) of mo&s;t Learned Men. I &s;hall therefore give you the words, &s;o far as they concern
<PB N="14" REF="8">our Purpo&s;e, under this Head, as they are in that Lan|guage, in which I am &s;ure it was &s;poken, if not written; It is <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>vetabelu Otam;</HI> and dip ye them. The Root is <HI>Tabal,</HI> which is the third Per&s;on Singular in the Preterperfect Ten&s;e, and &s;ignifies, <HI>he dipped:</HI> And is &s;o rendred in many places in Holy Scripture; particularly in 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 5.15. where &s;peaking of <HI>Naaman</HI> the <HI>Syrian,</HI> it is &s;aid, <HI>He dipped him&s;elf in</HI> Jordan <HI>&s;even times, and was clean.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.6. you have the &s;ame Word again in the Pa&s;&s;ive Voice, which mu&s;t be rendred in Engli&s;h, <HI>and were dipped of him in</HI> Jordan. And in <HI>Ver.</HI> 16. you have the &s;ame Root again, as it is there applied to our Saviour; <HI>And Je&s;us, when he was dipped, went up &s;traightway out of the Water.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o in <HI>John</HI> 3.22, 23. the &s;ame Word is u&s;ed. And in <HI>John</HI> 4.1, 2. it is the &s;ame in that Hebrew New Te&s;tament of Mr. <HI>Robert&s;on</HI>'s, who was certainly one of the mo&s;t Learned Hebricians our Age hath afforded.</P>
<P>I might add to this the Te&s;timony of the Dutch Tran|&s;lators, who call <HI>John the Bapti&s;t, Johannes de Dooper, John the Dipper;</HI> and in this Commi&s;&s;ion <HI>de &s;elve dopende,</HI> dip|ping them. And if our Tran&s;lators had generally (where that Word had occurred) turned it into Engli&s;h, as they have into Dutch, they had &s;aved me and others the trou|ble.</P>
<P>Now if all this will not &s;uffice, I know not what will. However I will make Mr. <HI>James</HI> one generous Offer; That if he can &s;hew me where our Tran&s;lators have in any one place rendred <HI>Baptizo</HI> to &s;prinkle; or <HI>&egrave; contra,</HI> have rendred <HI>Rantizo</HI> to dip, in the New Te&s;tament, I will grant him the Cau&s;e. And I do hope, if he cannot do it, he will own that we are in the right.</P>
<P>O, what a Tyrant Cu&s;tom is! that dares &s;tand up and contradict a thing that is &s;o evident in it &s;elf, &s;o agreeable to the Rea&s;on of the Ordinance, to the Etymology of the Word, (and that from the Pens of our Adver&s;aries) and to the u&s;e of the Phra&s;e and Expre&s;&s;ion in Holy Scripture, to the Commi&s;&s;ion of our Lord, to the Doctrine and Pra|ctice of the fir&s;t Baptizers, both before and after our Sa|viour's Re&s;urrection, and the manner of planting the Pri|mitive Churches.</P>
<P><PB N="15" REF="8">
Notwith&s;tanding all this (I &s;ay) Cu&s;tom in a wrong <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ay, makes Men bold to oppo&s;e the right Way, altho <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ey acknowledg it is the be&s;t.</P>
<P>In things civil and indifferent, I can be content that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tom &s;hould be my Guide, but not in the Matter of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">dinances, and things Sacred; the Rule of which lies in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> In&s;titution, (which we are &s;trictly to ob&s;erve) and is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Power of our Liberty or Choice, either to u&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> refu&s;e: For that Ble&s;&s;ing which attends the U&s;e there|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> is annexed unto our Conformity to the Rule and In&s;ti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ion; &s;ee <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.20.</P>
<P>But to proceed to the &s;econd General Head.</P>
<P>II. That true Penitent Believers are the right Subject of Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P>I &s;hall make it good by doing the&s;e three things.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1&s;t.</HI> By examining who <HI>John the Bapti&s;t</HI> (who was the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Baptizer) did admit to his Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2ly,</HI> Who our Saviour commanded to be baptized, in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> grand Commi&s;&s;ion <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.</P>
<P><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ly,</HI> Who it was practi&s;ed upon by the Apo&s;tles and fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">i&s;ters of Chri&s;t, pur&s;uant to that Commi&s;&s;ion. And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e in their Order.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1&s;t,</HI> Therefore let us examine who they were that <HI>John</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> admit to his Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Syllable we read of its being practi&s;ed, is in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. 3. by <HI>John the Dipper,</HI> (&s;o called by the Evangeli&s;t, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Eminentiae,</HI> as being the Beginner of that Holy Ordi|nance) where we have an Account, in <HI>Ver.</HI> 2. what Do|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ne he preached before he baptized, <HI>Repent ye, for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">dom of Heaven is at hand.</HI> And in <HI>ver.</HI> 5. <HI>Then went out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and all</HI> Judea, <HI>and all the Region round a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> Jordan. <HI>Ver.</HI> 6. <GAP DESC="foreign">; <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> were plunged (of him) into</HI> Jordan, <HI>confe&s;&s;ing their Sins.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Hebrew word al&s;o, is <HI>Vaitabelu, and were dipped,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Upon this I &s;hall ob&s;erve &s;ome things, and &s;o pa&s;s it.</P>
<P N="1">1. That tho&s;e he baptized were Adult Per&s;ons, (and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Infants) for <HI>they went out to him.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That they were penitent Per&s;ons, &s;uch that confe&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> their Sins.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="16" REF="9">
3. That no others were admitted to his Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P>For, in <HI>ver.</HI> 7. it's &s;aid, <HI>But when he &s;aw many of the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ri&s;ees and Sadduces come to his Bapti&s;m, he &s;aid unto the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Generation of Vipers, who hath warned you to flee from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Wrath to come? Bring forth therefore Fruits meet for Repent.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That no Birth-Privileges will entitle any Per&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that Holy Ordinance without Repentance.</P>
<P>For the <HI>Bapti&s;t</HI> tells them, in <HI>ver.</HI> 9. <HI>Think not to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> within your &s;elves, We have</HI> Abraham <HI>to our Father. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> (in <HI>ver.</HI> 10.) <HI>now al&s;o the Ax is laid to the Root of the Tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> therefore every Tree</HI> (<HI>i. e.</HI> every Per&s;on) <HI>which bringeth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> forth good Fruit, is hewen down and ca&s;t into the Fire.</HI></P>
<P>And to inform them more fully of the Nature of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Commi&s;&s;ion, and the Qualifications of the Subjects, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> further &s;aith, <HI>I indeed baptize you with Water</HI> (unto, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Original hath it) <HI>upon Repentance.</HI></P>
<P>Which agrees mo&s;t exactly with the De&s;ign of <HI>Jo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> Mini&s;try, he being to make ready a People prepared <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Lord; Repentance being a nece&s;&s;ary Qualification without which they could not be admitted thereunto.</P>
<P>But &s;ome may query, How I prove they were to believe as well as repent?</P>
<P>I an&s;wer, in the words of the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> Acts 19.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">. John <HI>verily did baptize with the Bapti&s;m of Repentance, &s;ay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> unto the People, That they &s;hould believe on him which &s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> come after him, that is, on Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI></P>
<P>From all which it appears, beyond di&s;pute, That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> little Infants were the Subjects of <HI>John</HI>'s Bapti&s;m. For,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. They could not come from <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> to the River<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Jordan,</HI> and de&s;ire to be baptized.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Nor could they confe&s;s their Sins.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Nor yet be able to under&s;tand his Preaching, with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Nature and De&s;ign of his Bapti&s;m.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Nor, la&s;tly, could they be expected to bring fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Fruits worthy amendment of Life.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>All which agrees only to Adult Per&s;ons; they can <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|pent, they can believe in Chri&s;t, they can confe&s;s th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;inful Deeds, and come to tender them&s;elves for Bapti&s;m (as all tho&s;e did whom <HI>John</HI> baptized) which things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|tle Infants are not capable to perform: Therefore Pe|tent Believers (and not Infants) were the right and o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> proper Subject of <HI>John</HI>'s Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="17" REF="9">
<HI>2ly,</HI> I &s;hall con&s;ider the grand Commi&s;&s;ion of our Lord, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.18, 19, 20. <HI>And Je&s;us came, and &s;pake unto them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ing, All Power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth. Go <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> therefore and teach all Nations, baptizing them in the Name of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Gho&s;t: Teaching <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to ob&s;erve all things what&s;oever I have commanded you: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">o, I am with you alway, even unto the End of the World. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">em.</HI></P>
<P>That the Go&s;pel of <HI>Matthew</HI> was written in Hebrew, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> I have touched above) I find it to be the Opinion of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ers Men, eminently Learned: And among others, <HI>Hie|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> in the Life of this Evangeli&s;t, &s;aith, <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tthaeus qui <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Levi ex publicano Apo&s;tolos, primus in Judaea propter eos qui <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Circumci&s;ione credidernt Evangelium Chri&s;ti, Hebraicis literis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">bi&s;que compo&s;uit.</HI> And further notes, <HI>In quo animadverten|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, quod ubicumque Evangeli&s;ta &s;ive ex per&s;ona &s;ua, &s;ive ex <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ona Domini Salvatoris, veteris Scripturae te&s;timoniis utitur, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;equatur Septuaginta tran&s;latorum autoritatem, &s;ed Hebrai|cis.</HI> Here you &s;ee he tells us, That the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Matthew,</HI> for the &s;ake of tho&s;e of the Circumci&s;ion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> believed, was written in Hebrew Words, and Hebrew <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ters. And that he every-where, in his Quotations out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Old Te&s;tament, followed the Hebrew, and not the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uagint Tran&s;lation.</P>
<P>In Mr. <HI>William Robert&s;on</HI>'s Hebrew New Te&s;tament, I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e words between the <HI>18th</HI> and <HI>19th</HI> Ver&s;es, which do not find in any Greek Copy.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="foreign"></P>
<P><HI>And as my Father hath &s;ent me, even &s;o al&s;o I &s;end you. Go <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> therefore,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>I pray ob&s;erve in what a &s;olemn manner our Saviour be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">s this Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. By declaring his own Authority; <HI>All Power in Heaven <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Earth is given to me.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Fulne&s;s of that Authority he gave to his Apo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">es; <HI>As the Father hath &s;ent me, even &s;o al&s;o I &s;end you.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>He then comes to give forth the Commi&s;&s;ion it &s;elf, as in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>19th</HI> and <HI>20th</HI> Ver&s;es.</P>
<P><PB N="18" REF="10">
The fir&s;t thing in this Commi&s;&s;ion is this, Chri&s;t com|mands them to make Di&s;ciples by their Mini&s;try. The Word that is tran&s;lated <HI>Teach,</HI> is in the Hebrew <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Velamedu,</HI> it &s;ignifies to make Di&s;ciples by teaching; for the Root is <HI>Lamad,</HI> he learned. And from thence is for|med the Heemantique Noun <HI>Talmid,</HI> a Scholar or Di&s;ci|ple, one that hath learned.</P>
<P>The plain meaning therefore is, That they were fir&s;t to make Di&s;ciples by their Mini&s;try, and after that to bap|tize them.</P>
<P>If we al&s;o examine the Greek Copy, we &s;hall find it to agree with the Hebrew; <GAP DESC="foreign">. That word up|on which the whole Stre&s;s of the Argument depends, is <HI>Matheteu&s;ate,</HI> which &s;ignifies, to make Di&s;ciples. The Learned render <HI>Mathetes,</HI> a Scholar, a Di&s;ciple; and <HI>Ma|theteuo,</HI> to be a Scholar, or Di&s;ciple. And upon this word in this place, the Greek <HI>Lexicon</HI> renders it, <HI>to make Di&s;ciples.</HI></P>
<P>But if Mr. <HI>James</HI> will not believe our <HI>Lexicographers,</HI> I can give him the Opinion of all the Tran&s;lators of the New Te&s;tament for it, who have rendred it &s;o in a multi|tude of Places; and &s;o far as I have found, in every place where the word is u&s;ed, except only in this Commi&s;&s;ion, and here, (for &s;ome Rea&s;on be&s;t known to them&s;elves) in&s;tead of Di&s;ciples, they have only rendred it <HI>Teach.</HI> And that which is mo&s;t remarkable, they have five times in this Chapter rendred it <HI>Di&s;ciples,</HI> till they came to the <HI>19th</HI> Ver&s;e, and there only it mu&s;t be rendred <HI>teach;</HI> as in <HI>ver.</HI> 7, 8, 9, 13, and 16. And in <HI>John</HI> 4.1, 2. <HI>Je&s;us made and baptized more Di&s;ciples than</HI> John, <HI>but his Di&s;ciples;</HI> in both which the &s;ame word is u&s;ed.</P>
<P>And I pray ob&s;erve the Order of the words, They were fir&s;t made Di&s;ciples, and afterwards baptized; as a pre|requi&s;ite to fit them for that Holy Ordinance.</P>
<P>Al&s;o in <HI>Acts</HI> 11.26. The Di&s;ciples are called <HI>Chri&s;tians.</HI> And <HI>ver.</HI> 20, 21. it's &s;aid, how the &s;ame Per&s;ons came to be Di&s;ciples, The Lord Je&s;us was fir&s;t preached to them; upon this, <HI>a great Number believed, and turned to the Lord.</HI> And thus they were made Di&s;ciples, according to Chri&s;t's Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="10">
Be&s;ides, in <HI>Mark</HI> 16.16. <HI>He that believeth, and is bap|tized, &s;hall be &s;aved.</HI> This place is parallel in Time with <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19. And whereas in <HI>Matthew</HI> is required Di&s;ci|pling, there is required in <HI>Mark</HI> Believing, and both be|fore Bapti&s;m; It's therefore plain, they mu&s;t be be|lieving Di&s;ciples. And Faith comes by hearing; and therefore the Apo&s;tles were,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. To preach to them; as in <HI>Mark</HI> 16.15. <HI>Preach the Go&s;pel to every Creature.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. By their Preaching to make them Di&s;ciples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Being &s;o made, to baptize them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>This is the genuine Sen&s;e of our Lord's Commi&s;&s;ion, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19.</P>
<P>Say &s;ome, they own they mu&s;t fir&s;t be made Di&s;ciples, and afterwards baptized. But then they ask this Que|&s;tion, How do we know that little Infants are not made Di&s;ciples, by &s;ome &s;ecret Teaching of God?</P>
<P>And &s;uppo&s;ing this to be true, of tho&s;e who are born of believing Parents, they conclude they may be bap|tized.</P>
<P>I an&s;wer; For Argument's &s;ake, I will for once appo&s;e with them; that not only the Infants of Be|levers, but all Infants, &s;o &s;oon as they are born into the World, are made Di&s;ciples by &s;ome &s;ecret Teaching of God, (but how we &s;hall prove either of our Suppo&s;itions, I know not); Neverthele&s;s I deny that they are there|fore to be baptized by virtue of this Commi&s;&s;ion. And low any mortal Man can know of this &s;ecret Work upon their Souls without Revelation. I can't imagine.</P>
<P>But pray con&s;ider a few things, and it will &s;et the Truth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e contend for in a clear Light. As,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. it was Chri&s;t the Son of God who gave this Commi&s;|&s;ion. <HI>And Je&s;us came and &s;pake.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Who did he give it unto? Not to his Father to make Di&s;ciples of little Infants, by &s;ome &s;ecret Teaching of his, but to his Apo&s;tles that were Men, to make Di&s;ciples by their Mini&s;try; <HI>He &s;pake unto them.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Conclu&s;ion is natural; which I &s;hall form into this &s;hort Syllogi&s;m.</P>
<P><PB N="20" REF="11">
If little Infants are not capable to be made Di&s;ciples by the Mini&s;try of Men;</P>
<P>Then they cannot po&s;&s;ibly be the Subjects of Bapti&s;m intended in this Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>But little Infants are not capable to be made Di&s;ciples by the Mini&s;try of Men;</P>
<P><HI>Ergo,</HI> They cannot po&s;&s;ibly be the Subjects of Bapti&s;m intended in this Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The <HI>Major</HI> is undeniable, the <HI>Minor</HI> I thus prove.</P>
<P>If little Infants have no knowledg to di&s;cern between Good and Evil, then they are not capable to be made Di&s;ciples by the Mini&s;try of Men.</P>
<P>But they have no knowledg to di&s;cern between Good and Evil;</P>
<P><HI>Ergo;</HI> They are not capable to be made Di&s;ciples by the Mini&s;try of Men.</P>
<P>The <HI>Minor</HI> only is que&s;tionable, which I prove by Di|vine Authority, <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.39. <HI>Moreover your little Ones&mdash; and your Children, which in that Day had no knowledg between Good and Evil.</HI></P>
<P>So that the fir&s;t Argument is made good, <HI>viz.</HI> That lit|tle Infants cannot po&s;&s;ibly be the Subjects of Bapti&s;m in|tended in this Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Whereas &s;ome of our Antagoni&s;ts &s;ay, the word them relates to all Nations: As they confute them&s;elves, by refu&s;ing to baptize Turks and Jews, before they own Chri&s;t; &s;o that they cannot extend it univer&s;ally: Even &s;o it appears, the word <HI>them,</HI> hath no reference unto all Nations, if they will but mind the Grammar of the Text.</P>
<P>For <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>them,</HI> is of the Ma&s;culine Gender, (but <GAP DESC="foreign">, all Nations, is of the Neuter) and a|grees with <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Di&s;ciples;</HI> and mu&s;t have refe|rence to them, as the only Per&s;ons fitted for Holy Bap|ti&s;m.</P>
<P>But to proceed,</P>
<P><HI>3ly,</HI> I &s;hall &s;hew you who it was practi&s;ed upon by the Apo&s;tles, and fir&s;t Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, pur&s;uant to the grand Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><PB N="21" REF="11">
We find all along in the Hi&s;tory of the <HI>Acts of the Apo|&s;tles,</HI> that Bapti&s;m was practi&s;ed upon grown Per&s;ons, that there Di&s;ciples of Chri&s;t, having gladly received their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eaching, repented of their Sins, and believed the Go|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">el, which Infants are not capable to perform.</P>
<P>Acts 2.38. <HI>Repent, and he baptized.</HI> Ver. 41. <HI>Then they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> gladly received his Word, were baptized.</HI> Ver. 44. <HI>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that believed were together.</HI></P>
<P>Acts 8.12. <HI>When they believed</HI> Philip, <HI>preaching the things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">urning the Kingdom of God, and the Name of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> were baptized, both Men and Women,</HI> not little Infants. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>ver.</HI> 36. After <HI>Philip</HI> had preached Je&s;us to the Eunuch, according to Chri&s;t's Commi&s;&s;ion) they came unto a cer|tain Water; and he asked <HI>Philip, What did hinder him to be baptized?</HI> Philip <HI>an&s;wers, If thou believe&s;t wirh all thine heart, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> maye&s;t. And he an&s;wered, I believe that Je&s;us Chri&s;t is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Son of God.</HI> And upon that Profe&s;&s;ion of his Faith, he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> immediately baptized. So that we may learn hence, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">at Faith is a pre-requi&s;ite of Bapti&s;m; for <HI>Philip</HI> re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es Faith of the Eunuch, before he would baptize <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">.</P>
<P>So in the Jaylor's Ca&s;e, <HI>Acts</HI> 16.31. <HI>Paul</HI> requires of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, to <HI>believe on the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> And in <HI>ver.</HI> 33, 34. is &s;aid, he was baptized, <HI>believing in God,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Acts</HI> 18.8. Cri&s;pus <HI>believed on the Lord; and many of the</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">inthians <HI>hearing, believed, and were baptized.</HI> If the&s;e te&s;timonies are not &s;ufficient, I know not what will.</P>
<P>I could in this place produce divers Te&s;timonies from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> learned (were it needful) to prove that no Infants <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ere baptized for about two hundred Years from Chri&s;t. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Dr. <HI>Barlow</HI>'s Te&s;timony: <Q>There is (&s;aith he) no ju&s;t Evidence of Infant-Bapti&s;m, till about two hundred Years after Chri&s;t.</Q></P>
<P>The Learned <HI>Curcellaeus</HI> affirms, <Q>That the Cu&s;tom of baptizing Infants, was brought in without the Com|mandment of Chri&s;t, and did not begin before the third Century.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Grotius,</HI> on <HI>Mat.</HI> 19.13. gives this Account; <Q>That according to the Rule of Scripture, and agreeing with Rea&s;on it &s;elf, the mo&s;t part of the Greeks in all
<PB N="22" REF="12">Ages, even unto this Day, retain a Cu&s;tom of delay|ing Infant-Bapti&s;m, till they them&s;elves can give a Confe&s;&s;ion of their Faith. And it is certain that <HI>Na|zianzen,</HI> though the Son of a Chri&s;tian Bi&s;hop, who li|ved about the fourth Century, and was bred up in the Chri&s;tian Religion, was not baptized till he was about thirty Years of Age.</Q></P>
<P>The &s;ame is al&s;o true of <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom, Hierom, Ambro&s;e, Augu&s;tine,</HI> and others.</P>
<P>And as the Learned Dr. <HI>Dia. Veil</HI> ob&s;erves, it does mani|fe&s;tly appear, <Q>That the wi&s;e&s;t of our Fathers in Chri&s;t, did not come to Bapti&s;m, until they were come to a &s;trong and confirmed Age and Wit. So that (it's plain) they were not baptized in their Infancy. Yea, further he &s;aith, I could never read of &s;o much as one of the Antient Fathers, for &s;ix hundred Years after Chri&s;t, that was baptized in his Infancy.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Ludovicus Vives</HI> affirms in his <HI>Treati&s;e de Civitate Dei,</HI> Lib. 1. cap. 27. <HI>Neminem olim con&s;uevi&s;&s;e baptizari ni&s;i adulta aeta|te, &amp; qui per &s;e peteret bapti&s;num, &amp; intelligeret quid &s;it baptizari.</HI> None of old Time were wont to be baptized but in a grown Age, and who de&s;ired it them&s;elves, and under&s;tood what it was to be baptized.</P>
<P><HI>Era&s;mus</HI> in his <HI>Annotations</HI> on the E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;tle to the <HI>Romans,</HI> affirms, <Q>That baptizing of Children was not in u&s;e in <HI>Paul</HI>'s Time.</Q></P>
<P>And Dr. <HI>Field,</HI> in his learned Treati&s;e of the Church, <HI>pag.</HI> 729. affirms, <Q>That many very antiently, who were born of Chri&s;tian Parents, put off their Bapti&s;m a long Time; in&s;omuch as &s;ome were elected Bi&s;hops before they were baptized. As we read (&s;aith he) of <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|bro&s;e,</HI> &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P>The Learned <HI>Bo&s;&s;uet,</HI> &s;peaking of the manner of admi|ni&s;tring Bapti&s;m, &s;aith, <Q>We never read in the Scripture, that any were baptized otherwi&s;e than by Immer&s;ion, And we are able to prove, from the Acts of Councils and antient Rituals, that every-where in the whole Church throughout the World, for the &s;pace of 1300 Years, Bapti&s;m was never admini&s;tred but by Dip|ping, except only in Ca&s;es of Nece&s;&s;ity.</Q></P>
<P><PB N="23" REF="12">
And <HI>Bellarmine</HI> &s;aith, <Q>Infant-Bapti&s;m is called an <HI>Apo|&s;tolical Tradition</HI> not written, becau&s;e it is not found written in any Apo&s;tolical Book.</Q> <HI>Tom.</HI> 1. <HI>lib.</HI> 4. <HI>cap.</HI> 2.</P>
<P>Where by the way I &s;hall note, That if a Man of his Parts and Learning could not find it there, I believe o|thers will have as little Succe&s;s in their &s;earch after it: And it had been his Intere&s;t to have proved it from Scrip|ture as much as any, becau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ay a greater &s;tre&s;s upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> than <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, and the&s;e of his Religion; for they a&s;&s;ert it to be nece&s;&s;ary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ation.</P>
<P>Let Mr. <HI>Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI> know, we do not bring the Te&s;timo|nies of Hur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> he Writers, becau&s;e we think the Holy Scriptures <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to ju&s;tify our Cau&s;e. For I may &s;ay with <HI>Tertullian, Lib. contra Hermogenem, Adoro Scripturae ple|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">itudi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, &amp;c.</HI> I adore the Fulue&s;s of the Scripture, let <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">gexes</HI> &s;hew that it is written.</P>
<P>But to &s;atisfy the World that we are not &s;ingular in our Judgments about the&s;e Matters, as al&s;o to obviate an Objection of your Pa&s;tor, who tells us in his la&s;t Trea|&s;e, <HI>Pag.</HI> 20, <Q>That at the rate &s;ome <HI>Bapti&s;ts</HI> write and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> report the Words of the Learned, they would per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> &s;wade &s;illy People, all the Learned Men were almo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> and <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;elf-condemned, being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> as they are in Opinion, though of a contrary Pra|ctice.</Q></P>
<P>I an&s;wer, That although they are of a contrary Pra|ctice, I hope that can be no Bar to us from reciting their words in favour of our Opinion; For, <HI>Firmum e&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> prohationis, quod ab ip&s;o adver&s;ario &s;umitur, ut veritas, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ip&s;is inimicis veritatis probetur.</HI> It is a forcible kind of Proof, which is taken from the Adver&s;ary him&s;elf, when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e Truth is proved from them that oppo&s;e the Truth. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd I have herein followed the Coun&s;el of <HI>Lactantius,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> 1. c. 6. <HI>Eos &s;uorum Te&s;timoui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> revincere,</HI> &amp;c. To convince <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hem by their own Te&s;timonies, which is the &s;tronge&s;t Con|viction that may be.</P>
<P>As it is truly &s;aid by <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom, Tunc illos maxime revin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">us, cum &s;uorum, in eos, dicta retorquemus.</HI> We do mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rcibly convince them, when we can retort their own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">yings again&s;t them.</P>
<P><PB N="24" REF="13">
And therefore as <HI>Lactantius, de vera &s;apientia, cap.</HI> 12. faith, <HI>Satis firmum Te&s;timonium, ad probandum veritatem, quod ab ip&s;is perhibetur inimieis.</HI> That is a &s;ound Argument for the proving of the Truth, which is &s;etched from the Enemies of the Truth.</P>
<P>Yea, &s;uppo&s;e it were but weak in it &s;elf, yet it hath great weight again&s;t him that brings it. For, as the Ro|man Orator ob&s;erves in the like Ca&s;e; <HI>Tuum Te&s;timonium, quod, in alienare, leve e&s;t; in tua, quoniam contra te e&s;t, gra|vi&s;&s;inum e&s;&s;e debet.</HI> Thy Te&s;timony, which is but light and frivolous in another Man's Cau&s;e, yet is weighty in thine own, when it is again&s;t thy &s;elf.</P>
<P>Now I fancy that the Rea&s;on why Mr. <HI>James</HI> would not have us urge the Te&s;timonies of the Learned, for fear of &s;hewing how contradictory &s;ome of their Opinions have been to their Practices, is, le&s;t in &s;o doing he al&s;o &s;hould be found to be <GAP DESC="foreign">, condemned of him&s;elf; and that in many places of his Book, parti|cularly, when he brings a Poet to prove, that Chri&s;t was not baptized by Dipping.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Pag.</HI> 20. he &s;aith, <Q>I would fain know who can prove our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t was dipped, or plunged, in his Bapti&s;m; or any of tho&s;e baptized Ones &s;poken of in the New Te&s;tament, were &s;o dipped, or plunged?</Q></P>
<P>I will give you the Opinion of &s;ome Learned Men up|on it in this very Place, altho I have &s;aid &s;ufficient to it el&s;ewhere; and then &s;hew you how Mr. <HI>James</HI> is condem|ned by his own Pen.</P>
<P><Q>Now if any one (&s;aith <HI>Maldonate</HI>) ask why the Evan|geli&s;ts u&s;e the Word of <HI>A&s;cending?</HI> &amp;c. It was becau&s;e Chri&s;t a&s;cended, or went up out of the Water, in the which he had been dipt or drowned.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Lucas Brugen&s;is,</HI> &s;aith upon the Place, <HI>Matth.</HI> 3.16 <Q>Chri&s;t de&s;cended into the River (after the manner o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> others that were baptized) as deep as his Thighs, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Navel, for the re&s;t of his Body was dipt by <HI>Joh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and not &s;prinkled only with Water.</Q></P>
<P>And the Learned <HI>Cajetan</HI> tells us upon the Place, <Q>Chri&s;t a&s;cended out of the Water; therefore Chri&s;t was bapti|zed by <HI>John,</HI> not by Sprinkling, nor by pouring Wate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon him, but by Immer&s;ion, that is, by dipping o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> plunging in the Water.</Q>
<PB N="25" REF="13">Many more Te&s;timonies might be brought from Men, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> u&s;e Ranti&s;m in&s;tead of Bapti&s;m, but that I have al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> exceeded my fir&s;t Intention. But I &s;hall now &s;hew <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that Mr. <HI>James</HI> (like the re&s;t of tho&s;e I have quo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">) hath contradicted him&s;elf: For in the &s;ame <HI>20th</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of his Book, where he vapours &s;o mightily, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">enges us to prove, that Chri&s;t, or any others, were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ized by Dipping, as you have &s;een above; yet pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y he tells us, That Bapti&s;m was oft performed by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ping, I gain&s;ay not. And in the very next Page he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, I do not produce the&s;e Te&s;timonies, as tho I would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tain that our Lord Je&s;us was not dipped. It &s;eems <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Con&s;cience began to check him whil&s;t he was writ|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">.</P>
<P>And again, in <HI>Pag.</HI> 25. Who &s;peaks again&s;t the Anti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ity of <HI>Dipping?</HI> I thought Mr. <HI>James</HI> had. But he goes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, <HI>Dipping</HI> there might be in Chri&s;t's Time, and that the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> way of Baptizing. Very well, then it &s;eems we pra|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> the mo&s;t Antient, and the be&s;t Way of Baptizing, Mr. <HI>James</HI>'s Acknowledgment: And him&s;elf doth pra|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> the contrary, and therefore mu&s;t needs be &s;elf-con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed, as practi&s;ing the wor&s;t Way; e&s;pecially if he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> con&s;ider, That there is neither Precept nor Precedent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Infant-Sprinkling in all the Word of God.</P>
<P>But to clo&s;e this Head I am upon: If this be true, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Apo&s;tles, nor fir&s;t Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ever practi&s;e the Sprinkling, of Infants; there mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ome good Rea&s;on why they did it not: And the be&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> think of is, becau&s;e Chri&s;t had not commanded them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> do. But on the contrary, had commanded them to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ize Penitent Believers, which were Per&s;ons of grown <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">s; to which Command they were obedient.</P>
<P>And we have great Rea&s;on to account them &s;aithful: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> prote&s;ts, before an A&s;&s;embly of Mi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ers, <HI>Acts</HI> 20.20. He <HI>had kept back nothing that was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">able to them.</HI> And in <HI>ver.</HI> 26. he &s;aith, <HI>I have not &s;hun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> to declare to you all the Coun&s;el of God.</HI> If there|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Sprinkling of Infants had been profitable for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, or a part of the Coun&s;el of God concerning the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ches, we had certainly heard of it in &s;ome of <HI>Paul</HI>'s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eches or Epi&s;tles: But not one Word being mentioned
<PB N="26" REF="14">about it, we may &s;afely conclude, it was wholly unknown to tho&s;e Times, (both as to Subjects and Manner) it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ing a Practice both unprofitable and vain, as being b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> upon Humane Authority only, having no Foundation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Word of God: <HI>In vain do they wor&s;hip me, teaching <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Doctrines the Commandments of Men,</HI> Mat. 15.9.</P>
<P>I will offer an Argument or two, to prove that Infan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P>Sprinkling is not of Divine Authority.</P>
<P>The Sprinkling of Infants, is either from Heaven, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of Men.</P>
<P>But it is not from Heaven: <HI>Ergo,</HI> It is of Men.</P>
<P>If it be from Heaven, the Holy Scriptures have &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> where revealed it &s;o to be.</P>
<P>But it is no where &s;o revealed in the Holy Scripture <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Ergo,</HI> It is not from Heaven.</P>
<P>If it be any where &s;o revealed in the Holy Scripture you, or &s;ome other, are able to &s;hew it.</P>
<P>But you, nor no other are able to &s;hew it: <HI>Ergo,</HI> It <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> not any where &s;o revealed in the Holy Scriptures.</P>
<P>If Mr. <HI>James</HI> &s;hould tell you he can &s;hew it &s;o to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> let him give you an In&s;tance where it is written, as al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> gician ought to do, (the <HI>Minor</HI> being an Univer&s;al Ne|gative) or let him for ever be &s;ilent upon this Subject<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> For it is written, <HI>Rev.</HI> 22.18. <HI>If any Man &s;hall add <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e things, God &s;hall add unto him the Plagues that are writ|ten in this Book.</HI></P>
<P>I cannot well go off of this Head, without taking <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|tice of a pernicious Notion which &s;ome of the Learned have e&s;pou&s;ed.</P>
<P>They will allow us that we are in the right, as to wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> we a&s;&s;ert about the practice of the Primitive Churche<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> but tell us, that their Ceremonies may be lawfully u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> al&s;o, which they ground upon this following Suppo&s;ition<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> That it is lawful for Men to bring in things indifferent into the Church, and join them with the Wor&s;hip <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> God.</P>
<P>And as this refers to the Point of Bapti&s;m, I will bri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|ly relate what pa&s;t &s;ome Years ago, betwixt Dr. <HI>Bail<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> late Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lincoln,</HI> and my &s;elf. It was upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="27" REF="14">Occa&s;ion; A Name-&s;ake of mine being taken up upon a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, and committed to <HI>Ailesbury</HI> Goal, for not having child &s;prinkled, I went to his Lord&s;hip (after <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Months confinement) to de&s;ire his Di&s;charge; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">old him, my Friend was not a Member of any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">te Congregation, but only doubted of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of Infant-Bapti&s;m, which I &s;uppo&s;ed his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">hip thought he might do, and yet be a good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ian.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> told me, <Q>Yes, for he had tumblings and to&s;&s;ings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">out it in his own Mind in his younger Days, but now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> was &s;atisfied.</Q></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;ired then to know the Grounds of his Lord&s;hip's <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;tion.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aid, <Q>The Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> in <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. and the be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ing. exhorted the Chri&s;tians to &s;ubmit to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gher Powers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And al&s;o the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aid, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> vour &s;elves to every Ordinance of Man, for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">d's &s;ake,</HI> &amp;c. Now (&s;aith he) you mu&s;t know <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Convocation met and concluded, that Infants <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ould be baptized; and the King and Parliament en|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ed it: And fora&s;much as we are required to be obe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ent to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's &s;ake. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore we ought to do it.</Q></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> an&s;wered; My Lord, If the Convocation had &s;o con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d, and the King and Parliament &s;o enacted, That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hould have been baptized in the King's Name, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">he Name of the King and Parliament as Legi&s;lators, I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ere tho&s;e People might have complied with it.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> an&s;wered, "That would have been odd.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> reply'd, As odd as it is, if they had comply'd with it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Controver&s;y had been at end.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, <Q>That is true; But why cannot they comply <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> with it now?</Q></P>
<P>My Lord, They have got a Notion in their Heads, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> not in the Power of any Man, or number of Men in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> World, to alter the Nature of In&s;titutions, &s;o as to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that Divine that is in it &s;elf Humane, or that Hu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e that is in it &s;elf Divine.</P>
<P>The Bi&s;hop reply'd; <Q>They are right in that, for none <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> alter the Nature of things but God alone.</Q></P>
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Why then, my Lord, fora&s;much as you do not baptized Infants in the Name of the King, or King and Parliament as an Humane In&s;titution, but in the Name of the Father Son, and Holy Spirit, as a Divine In&s;titution, they cannot comply with it.</P>
<P><Q>Well (&s;aith he) there is never a Word of God a|gain&s;t it: It is no where &s;aid in the Scriptures ye &s;hal not baptize Infants.</Q></P>
<P>I reply'd;</P>
<P>My Lord, I &s;hall only put your Lord&s;hip in mind of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Notes of a Learned Man upon that of <HI>Lev.</HI> 10.1, 2. con|cerning <HI>Nadab</HI> and <HI>Abihu,</HI> Sons of <HI>Aaron,</HI> Prie&s;ts of the Lord; who offered &s;trange Fire before the Lord, which the Lord commanded them not. He &s;aith, It is not &s;uffi|cient to &s;ay about in&s;tituted Wor&s;hip, It is nowhere for|bidden: For it was nowhere &s;aid before this time; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>&s;hall not offer up &s;trange Fire upon mine Altar.</HI> But becau&s;e there was a Divine Precept, what Fire they &s;hould off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> what Perfume they &s;hould mix with their Sacrifices, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the manner of its Compo&s;ition: And they not ob&s;erving that Divine Precept; but offering &s;trange Fire, which th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Lord commanded them not, they were de&s;troyed by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> from his Pre&s;ence. His Lord&s;hip only gave me this An|&s;wer; He would &s;peak to his Official, to be kind to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Friend that was in Pri&s;on, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but wholly waved <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Matter in Controver&s;y; and &s;o I took my leave, and de|parted.</P>
<P>I mention not this, as if I thought this Learned M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ingular in this Point; for it is too manife&s;t, that m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> others are of the &s;ame Sentiments, without which the could not &s;atisfy their Con&s;ciences in the Practi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Infant &s;prinkling, and other things which they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> practi&s;e without either Precept or Precedent from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Word of God.</P>
<P>There are many things very ridiculous, that have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Degrees been brought into the Church; of which it is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> where &s;aid in the Holy Scriptures, they &s;hall not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> done. And that about this very Ordinance as well as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> other Matters.</P>
<P>As for in&s;tance;</P>
<P N="1">1. Where is it forbidden to baptize Bells? This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="29" REF="15"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> practi&s;ed by the Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts, and that very lately. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. Where is it forbidden to u&s;e the Sign of the Cro&s;s Bapti&s;m? as the Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts do thrice, and the Epi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> once.</P>
<P>Where is it forbidden to u&s;e Cream and Spittle, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Papi&s;ts do, to anoint the Childrens Eyes, No&s;trils, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Ears, in their Practice of Bapti&s;m?</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Where is it forbidden to put Salt in the Child's <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">th, as they al&s;o do? and give this Rea&s;on for it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> his Words may be with Grace, &s;ea&s;oned with Salt.</P>
<P>And where is it forbidden to baptize your Cattle? <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> yet how ridiculous would it be &s;o to do? But perhaps <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>James</HI> may pretend Scripture for it, from his Inter|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tion of 1 <HI>Corinth.</HI> 10.2. For all their Cattle (of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ich they left not a Hoof behind) <HI>were under the Cloud, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> all pa&s;&s;ed through the Sea; and were all baptized unto</HI> Mo&s;es, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>the Cloud and in the Sea.</HI> The Word is <GAP DESC="foreign">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ich he leaves to Mr. <HI>Wells</HI> to interpret. And I pray ask <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> if this Word, as here u&s;ed in the pa&s;&s;ive Form, may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> be read thus; And they were all overwhelmed unto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, as they mu&s;t needs be when the Cloud covered them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Waters were a Wall to them on the Right-hand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">on the left. So that you &s;ee here is the &s;ame Ground <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">onclude, their Cattle were all baptized as well as their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Children: But if the Word had been tran&s;lated <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">whelmed,</HI> who could have dreamt of a Bapti&s;m from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Place?</P>
<P>But Mr. <HI>James</HI> will have it that there was a Multitude <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Children baptized by <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and that it was done by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">inkling al&s;o, through the dropping of the Cloud, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> da&s;hing of the Waters; and that many learned Men <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">bt not of it; but hath not quoted one of them. I am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Dutch Tran&s;lators, who were Presbyterians, read <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> thus; <HI>Ende alle in Mo&s;en Gedoopt Zin;</HI> And they were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">dipt unto <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> And all learned Men do tell us, when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;peak as Scholars, that <GAP DESC="foreign">, is <HI>mergo, immergo;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> how it comes to lo&s;e its Signification in this one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, I cannot imagine.</P>
<P>But I pray ask Mr. <HI>James</HI> the&s;e few things;</P>
<P N="1">1. Who told him there was Water in that Cloud? For the Epi&s;tle of <HI>Jude</HI> ver. 12. we read of Clouds without
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<PB N="30" REF="17">Water: and we mu&s;t remember that this Cloud <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Miracle.</P>
<P N="2">2. If it had Water, who told him that it droppe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> while&s;t they pa&s;t through <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Sea? His <HI>ip&s;e dixit</HI> will not do where the Scri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ilent.</P>
<P N="3">3. How came he to know that the Waters da&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> them? I cannot &s;uppo&s;e that he was pre&s;ent to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> And if it be nowhere written, 'tis but an impr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Gue&s;s.</P>
<P>But to leave off the&s;e tri&s;ling Fancies of Mr. <HI>James</HI> us &s;ee how it is written, Exod. 14.21. <HI>The L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d the Sea dry Land, and the Waters were divided.</HI></P>
<P>Ver. 22. <HI>And the Children of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>went into the mid&s;t Sea upon the dry Ground, and the Waters were a Wall unto on their Right-hand and on their Left.</HI></P>
<P>Ver. 29. <HI>And they walked upon dry Land in the mid&s;t Sea.</HI></P>
<P>Chap. 15.8. <HI>The Waters were gathered together Flood &s;tood upright as an Heap, and the Depths were co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> in the Heart of the Sea.</HI></P>
<P>P&s;alm 106.9. <HI>He rebuked the Red-&s;ea al&s;o, and it wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ed up; &s;o he led them through the Depths as through the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|derne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee here is not one Word of Sprinkling of da&s;hing the Water upon them. As to the Cloud was no common Cloud, but a Cloud that did con&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> attend them in their pa&s;&s;age through the Wilderne&s;s: <HI>Exod.</HI> 13.21, 22. <HI>And the Lord went before them by D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Pillar of a Cloud,</HI> &amp;c. He took not away the Pillar of Cloud by day, nor the Pillar of Fire by night, from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the People. See al&s;o <HI>Numb.</HI> 14.14. Now if the W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> were a Wall on each &s;ide, and the Cloud covered th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> then they mu&s;t need be overwhelmed. <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 105. He <HI>&s;pread a Cloud for a Covering, and Fire to give Light <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Night.</HI> But not one Word of this Cloud's having Wat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> it, nor of its dropping upon them. What Cau&s;e have to be cautious, how you admit any thing for Truth upon Credit of your Teacher; who can allow him&s;elf the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">berty to talk at this loo&s;e Rate about &s;acred thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Be&s;ides, if this he to be under&s;tood of Bapti&s;m as an O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="31" REF="17"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> according to the U&s;e of the Word in the New <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> then I affirm (according to Mr. <HI>James</HI>'s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> if their Infants were baptized, all their Cattle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">wi&s;e baptized: But I hope he will be a&s;hamed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> at &s;uch an Expo&s;ition; for be&s;ides all other Ab|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> that attend it, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is hereby made the fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">er, and not <HI>John the Bapti&s;t.</HI> But I &s;hall leave this, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to the third and la&s;t general Head.</P>
<P>That the Ordinance of Bapti&s;m is now in being, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> is to continue to the End of the World.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> 28.20. <HI>Teaching them to ob&s;erve all things what|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> have commanded you; and lo, I am with you alway, even <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> End of the World.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> this Ordinance of Bapti&s;m in Water, being one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e things he hath commanded, as in the Words <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ing; then the Apo&s;tles were to teach all the &s;uc|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> Churches to ob&s;erve it, they being to teach them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e all things he had commanded them; and to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> al&s;o the Promi&s;e of Chri&s;t's Pre&s;ence is annexed until <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>of the World:</HI> The Ordinance it &s;elf is therefore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">inue till that time.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">des, it was the Care of the Apo&s;tles, not only to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that pre&s;ent Age the Will of Chri&s;t, but al&s;o to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> it continued to &s;ucceeding Ages: &s;ee 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Charge here to <HI>Timothy</HI> is, <HI>The things which thou ha&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of me among many Witne&s;&s;es, the &s;ame commit thou to faith|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, who &s;hall be able to teach others al&s;o.</HI> And our Lord <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to tho&s;e faithful ones in <HI>Thyatyra,</HI> Rev. 2.24, 25. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>put upon you none other Burden; But that which ye have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, hold fa&s;t till I come.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;eeing we differ not about its Duration, (although <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> about the Subjects, and the right Manner of ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ring the &s;ame) I &s;hall add no more upon this Head. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> been concerned with another &s;ort of People, I &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> thought my &s;elf obliged to have in&s;i&s;ted more largely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> it.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> be&s;eech you con&s;ider what I have &s;aid; for it is in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Love to your Precious Souls; that you may no lon|ger
<PB N="32" REF="18">be deceived by fal&s;e Teachers who handle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of God deceitfully: But that you may come to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the true Doctrine of the Go&s;pel, and imbrace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> which was once delivered to the Saints; wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> fir&s;t &s;poken by the Lord him&s;elf, and confirme <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> and Wonders, and divers Miracles and Gifts o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spirit, according to his own Will.</P>
<P>For there is but one Law-giver to the Chur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> him who is able to &s;ave and to de&s;troy: He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> all things what&s;oever he hath &s;aid unto you. Foot&s;teps of the primitive and Apo&s;tolick Chur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> that is the right Path, and the good old Way; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> in, and ye &s;hall find re&s;t for your Souls. Com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Word that Chri&s;t hath &s;poken, that &s;hall the la&s;t Day. The Lord help every one of joy the Light of the Glorious Go&s;pel, to be fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> thereunto, that &s;o we may receive that ble&s;led <HI>Well done good and faithful Servant, enter thou into thy Lord.</HI></P>
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