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A31095	A brief and plain discovery of the falseness and unscripturalness of anabaptism as the same is now practised by those of that perswasion, w[here]in are plainly proved from God's word the five particulars here handled, that God's covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17.7. is the Covenant of grace whereby all God's elect are saved ... / by Ja. Barry, an unworthy minister of the Gospel.	Barry, James, fl. 1650-1702.	1699 (1699)	Wing B968; ESTC R34200	57,378	134

Ancestors were Initiated by Water-Baptism and in maintaining of which they seemed for many years very Zealous The second thing I shall Premise is this viz. That Heterodox and Corrupt Underminers of the Gospel are then to be most of all lookt after and watcht against when they lay about them to advance the Fame and Credit of the Devil's Ministers by Ecclipsing and Darkening the Credit and deserved Fame of Christ's Worthys whom Christ hath Honoured with being the chief Combatants in the Lord's Battels against the Powers of Darkness in this World My design in this is to discover to the unwary Reader this Doctor 's Design of Blackening that Renowned and Incomparable Servant of Christ Mr. John Calvin than whom I verily believe the World hath not since the Apostles left the Earth seen a Greater Divine A Man who for his high and excellent Endowments in all manner of Learning especially his Eagle-eyedness in penetrating into the Sense of Scriptures was more like a Prophet or an Apostle than an ordinary Preacher This Doctor that he might put a Lustre on Michael Servetus his Name draws the Pencil of horrid and black Reproach across the Name and Reputation of Holy and as I said Incomparable Calvin The Devil in his Ministers being deeply sensible how the famous and elaborate Works of that one Man stand in the way to prevent and hinder the Devil growing Rampant in advancing his Kingdom of Darkness among the Sons of Men. Calvin is by the Dr. represented as an ambitious Self seeking Man and which is far worse a bloody Persecuter while his Servetus is deckt and adorned wi●h the Robes of a Glorious Martyrdom The Drs. Words will shew whether I be mistaken in what I say of him see Page 4 of the Drs. Epistle where he saith with a Spirit of virulency and at last I concluded it must certainly proceed from the very Spirit and Principle of the first founder of your Sect meaning the Presbyterians Master John Calvin who burnt the Books of Servetus a Learned Baptist and afterwards perswaded the Magistrates of Geneva to Burn him alive which Sentence was executed upon him as Castellio testifies who was a contemporary with him In these words Michael Servetus was burnt alive for his Opinion at Geneva 1553 upon the 27th ●ay of October Besides this The Dr. tells his Reader with an ungodly design to lessen and blacken the Famous Calvin and to Extol his Servetus that one well observes that Mr. Calvin did acknowledge of Servetus that he was a Learned Charitable Man notwithstanding which he wrote a Book to Justifie Servetus being put to Death When I See and Rea● these things from a better and more Impartial Testimony than Castellio was I shall then say somewhat to it But indeed I must Ingeniously assure the Dr. that I shall neither believe him nor his Castellio in the Reports they spread abroad of Calvin and others of Christ's Worthys who Detect and Decry their Heretical Doctrines Not him because sad Experience Teaches that those of his Judgement are pretty well Skilled in Misrepresenting and Belying the most Holy Orothodox and most Learned of Divines on purpose to gain Ground among the less Intelligent whom they know to be strangers to Authors and who will be easily drawn to Credit those Reports which they are not able to contradict Especially when Represented to them by the Mouth and Pen of such as they take to be good Men. Not his Castellio because I look on him every way as unfit to be a Witness against so Orthodox and great a Propugnator of Gospel Verities as Calvin is known to be And that on the Account of the Testimonies given of Castellio by good and Learned Men who better knew what Castellio was than Dr. Russel doth The Great and Learned Scaliger charges Castellio with holding many corrupt Opinions of the Anabaptists And the Learned Hoffman Accused him for being one of the first Sowers of the Seed of Arminianism Tar. Faber another Great and Learned Author Charged him with saying that the Song of Solomon was a Wicked Book And he held that Paul Taught a more Mysterious Divinity to some perfect Disciples than he left in Wri ing this is to be seen in his Book on the First Epistle to the Corinthians Now if the Impartial Reader seriously weighs the Account given of Calvin and Castellio by the Orthodox and Learned he will soon conclude with me That had the Parts and Learning of Servetus and Castellio both Concenter'd in one Head Calvin's Orthodoxy in the Faith and his Excellency in all manner of Learning had never been in danger of Suffering an Eclipse Nor yet his Books of receiving a Solid Answer much less a Confutation by such Men as Servetus and Castellio whatever Dr. Russel and his Bigotted Proselites think or believe to the Contrary That Eagle Eyed Calvin soared too High in Penetrating into the Arcana Imperii of Heaven for such Glow-worms to reach his Sense or to understand the Spirit by which he Speaks and Writes Wisdom is Justified of none but her own Legitimate Off-spring Mat. 11.19 And here I desire the wary Reader to take notice of the fraudulent design of Dr. Russel which is to I●pose on his Reader a believing that Servetus who dy'd at Geneva for his Opinion did Dye for b●ing an Anabaptist which inded is a notorious Piece of Fals●ood as the Learned and Godly who look into Antiquity well know who give that Account of Servetus that he was Executed at Geneva for his Blasphemy ag●inst the Holy Trinity he Denying the God-Head of Christ and the Personality of the Holy Ghost This the Dr. well knew would have spoiled his design had he honestly told his Reader what an Heterodox and Blasphemous Wretch his Servetus that Learned Baptist who Dy'd at Geneva for his Opinion was And truly to be plain had Servetus Dy'd for being an Anabaptist which I utterly deny he did yet I am far from thinking the better of Anabaptism therefore Or Judging Servetus or any others who on that Account loose their Lives to be true Martyrs of Jesus That saying of Cyprian will ever be true that Causa non Mors facit Martirem The Cause not Death makes a Martyr As the Blessed Jesus hath his Witnesses who Seal the Word of his Patience with their dearest Blood So the Devil hath his Witnesses yea many more than Christ hath who Seal their Infernal Heresies and Damnable Doctrines with their Hearts Blood yet I am far from Believing that such Martyrs will ever be owned by Christ at their going off the Stage Or that such Sufferings will make better the horrid Lyes and Blasphemies Men Suffer for be their Constancy seeming Zeal and Courage what it will Having Premised these things I now proceed to Examine the Four Particulars whereon his Fabrick of Anabaptism seems to be Founded The Dr. and with him all Anabaptists Hold and with great Confidence Assert that Dipping and ●lungeing the whole Body under Water is the

last days saith God I will power out my Spirit on all flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both which places are the fulfilling of those Gracious Promises in Esa 44.3 and Joel 2.28 where the Lord promised that he will pour Water on him that is thirsty c. and his Spirit on the Churches Seed The Hebrew word in Esa is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Etzek Ruchi and in Joel the word used to express the same thing by is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eshpoch Eth Ruchi in neither of which places will our Doctor 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vetabe lu Otham And Dip ye them be found The Doctor the better to help his limping Proselites over the Stile of Heresy and Error tells his Reader that the Evangelist Matthew wrote his Gospel in the Hebrew Tongue for Proof where●f he sets down his own Opinion that so it is and this Opinion of his he confirms as infallible by the Testimony of Jerom and he thinks the Opinion of the most Learned Men But the Dr. was so wary in this point that he resolved the Reader should not easily find him out in his quotations the which the Dr. knew would easily be done had he fairly directed his Reader to the Book and Page in Jerom where his judgment concerning this matter is exprest and by Naming the Learned Men who were one with him and Jerom in this Opinion His neglect herein forces me to charge him with unfairness to say no worse if that be a true rule in Logick Dolus latet in Vniversalibus that Deceit lyes hid in Universals I am sure the Dr. as well as the rest of his Fraternity who frequently walk in this Path must fall under this Lash the Drs. lothness to Name the Learned Men who were of his Opinion in this causes me to suspect that he means such as his Learned Baptist Servetus and his famous Castellio with those other Arminian and Popish Authors whose Names are in his Book It were worth while for the Reader to observe what shifts the poor Man is put to to prove and make good from Gods word his new though falsly pretended ancient Mode of Baptizing by Dipping and Plunging the whole Body into the Water He tells his Reader that Matthew wrote his Gospel in Hebrew the Drs. design being no doubt to make way for his Hebrew words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Dip ye them The root saith he is Tabal which is the third Person Singular of the Preterperfect Tense and signifies he Dipped He Instances in Naaman the Syrian 2. Kings 5.14 Then went he down and Dipped himself seven times in Jordan c. From Naaman the Syrian the Dr. comes per Saltum by a long leap to John B●ptizing in Jordan in Mat. 3.6 you have saith he the same Words again in the Passive Voice which must be rendred in English And were Dipped of him in Jordan And in Ver. 16. you have the same root again as it is applied to our Saviour And Jesus when he was Dipped went up straight way out of the Water The Dr. takes for granted that because Tabal signifies he Dipped and that because Naaman in the place above quoted Dipped himself in Jordan that therefore in Matthew it must needs be Vetabelu Otham and Dip ye them and that John did Dip all he Baptized over Head and Ears in Jordan Am I bound to believe that Matthew did write his Gospel in Hebrew because the Dr. is of the Opinion he did Or must I therefore grant it because Jerom is of his Opinion though neither Jerom nor he gives any solid reasons for that their Opinion Two things convince me that both Jerom the Dr. and his pretended Learned Men were all mistaken in this their Opinion First I find by Reading that the Gospel which Matthew is supposed to have written in Hebrew was never yet seen by any Author and therefore I must mind him of the Maxim as true and applicable in the present case De non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est Ratio of things not appearing and of things not existing there is the same Reason to be given Secondly if Matthew had written his Gospel in Hebrew he would not have translated into Greek the word Emmanuel in Mat. 1.23 and those whole Sentences Eli Eli Lamma Sabacthani in Mat. 27.46 But suppose I should for Argument sake grant which I utterly deny and challenge the Dr. to make good that Matthew had Written his Gospel in the Hebrew Tongue doth it therefore follow necessarily that the Holy Ghost who is so exact and precise in choosing the most apt and fit words whereby to express his Mind should use the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tabal which signifies to Dip and not the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rachatz which signifies to Wash or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kibbem which signifies the same I have already demonstrated from the word of God that in all the places of the New-Testament where the Holy Ghost makes mention of Baptism he doth it by the Derivative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to Wash by pouring out or sprinkling Water upon but never by the Primitive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bapto which signifies to Dip or Plunge into And when the Holy Ghost expresseth the Act of Dipping or Plunging into he doth it by the Primitive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to Dip into but never by the Derivative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to wash with by which it plainly appears to me at least that rather than the Dr. will loose his Credit and suffer his rotten Cause to be lost he will rather open door to the old Babel confusion of Tongues resolving Jesuit like to set the Pen-men of Holy Scripture together by the Ears and impose on his credulous Reader a real Belief that what the Holy Ghost hath laid down and plainly exprest in Greek he hath gainsaid and contradicted in Hebrew which Contradiction can never befall the Pen-men of the Holy Scripture nor without Blasphemy be charged on that Holy Spirit by which they were Acted and infallibly Inspired The reason which Jierom gives why Matthew writ his Gospel in Hebrew viz. for the Sake of those Jews which Believed is no reason at all for had it been the Will of God it should be so I know no reason why Peter James and Paul who all three wrote to the Jews which Believed should write in Greek not in Hebrew witness the two Epistles of Peter the Epistle of James and that of Paul to the Hebrews The Dr. pleaseth himself in telling his Reader that in Mr. William Robertson's Hebrew New-Testament he finds these words between the 18th and 19th Verses of Mat. 28 he means And as my Father hath sent me even so also I send you Go ye therefore c. These words he sets down in the Hebrew Character telling his Reader that he finds them not in any Greek Copy An Argument thinks he that Matthew wrote his