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A78120 A small treatise of baptisme, or, dipping. VVherein is cleerely shewed that the Lord Christ ordained dipping for those only that professe repentance and faith. 1. Proved by scriptures. 2. By arguments. 3. A paralell [sic] betwixt circumcision and dipping. 4. An answere to some objections by P.B. Psal.119.l30. By Edvvard Barber. Barber, Edward, d. 1674? 1642 (1642) Wing B694; Thomason E143_17; ESTC R212733 26,999 39

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But at this time which is to bee noted the Lord raised up divers Gentlemen Laymen as they call them to stand most boldly to the truth in respect of Church and Common-Wealth And as John saith Revella 12. 11. loved not their lives unto the death And Paul-like Acts 21. 13. was not only ready to bee bound but to suffer for the Name of Christ Againe others who pretend to come neerest in that way in separating yet hold the baptisme they there received though on no ground for i● they were truely baptised into that Church I conceive with submission to better judgements they ought to continue and to separate for corruptions as is clearly proved by B. Hall in his Apology against the Brownists shewing that either they must goe forward to baptisme or come backe againe to the Bishops and Church 7. Considering the great wrong done in putting out some Scripture as in the 14. Acts 23. where Election is left out by which meanes people are kept from knowing muchlesse injoying their priviledge put chased by the blood of Christ the causers thereof for so doing lying under the reproofe which the Lord speakes of in the 13. Chapter of Ezekiel Secondly some words left untranslated as in the 28. of Mat. 19. where the word may as well be Dipping as in Luke the 16. 29. And this is acknowledged by the Clergy in the booke of Common Prayer where the Minister is commanded to dip the child 8. There being now a yeare of Jubi●e such an Assembly as that most Honourable high Court of Parliament whose eares God hath opened to heare what ever by any shall be spoken for Gods glory and the good of this State Gamaliel-like Acts 5. 34. 35. weighing and considering things least otherwise they should be found fighters against God therefore with Ester 4. 16. desire to venture if I perish I perish conceiving if some should not now speake the stones of the street might cry wee having lately taken the Oath of Protestat●on against Popery and Popish innovation injoyned upon all the Kingdome ingenerall And sprinkling of children being an invention of men brought in neere three hundered yeares after Christ therefore in obedience to God and love to our native Country we desire to publish what truth the Lord betrusts us withall hoping that God will effect his pleasure by this weake meanes or make it a motive to stir up some of more ability who will as in Nehemia's time search the Regester and those that found not their Genealogy were as polluted put from the Priesthood and as Christ commands search the Scriptures John 5. 39. and so returne to his institutions 9. The great cause we have to admire the goodnesse and love of God to this Nation in King Edward the sixts daies for the great light that then broke forth and they imploying that talent they received for Gods glory yet now the light springing forth forth in such abundance according to the VVord of the Lord Isai 11. 9. we having received more talents or a greater measure of knowledge it cannot be but the Lord requires an answerable obedience according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not 2 Cor. 8. 12. for he that had one talent was not blamed because he did not imploy two but because he imployed not that hee had so likewise had hee that received five beene guilty of the same reproofe had he imployed but one Matth. 25. 15. to the 30. looking at the Camelion-like dispotion of the Ministers of late times in King Henry the Eights dayes Papists in King Edward the Six dayes Protestants in Queen Maries daies Papists in Queen Elizabeths Protestants when the Bishops were in power and authoritie submit flie their Countries or hide their heads now that by the Providence of God they are in disgrace in part down oppose them with all their might whereas the true Ministers of Christ were ever the same not variable or changing Eph. 4. 11. 12. 13. 14. which times and estate Government looking only to God for direction from that great Prophet the Lord Jesus Christ Deut. 18. 15. Acts 3. 21. 22. 23. Heb. 1. 1 2 3. Revel 5. 5. Lastly It 's not unknowne that the faithfull servants of God who have indeavored most faithfulnesse have often gone under reproaches and slanders as Eliah was counted the troubler of Israel 1 King 18. 17. and Acts 17. 6. Paul and Silas was said to turne the world upside downe And Acts 24. 5. Paul was counted a pestilent fellow a mover of Sedition amongst the Jewes and a Ring-leader of the Nazarites insomuch that they were commanded not to preach in the Name of Christ Acts 4. 18. but verse the 19 20 they answered Whether it be right in the sight of God to speake to you more then unto God judge yee For we cannot but speake the things which wee have seene and heard from whence wee may observe the ministers of Christ could never have their mouthes stopt by men no not the majestrate much lesse the Prelates In like manner lately those that professe and practise the dipping of Jesus Christ instituted in the Gospel are called and reproached with the name of Anabaptists although our practice be no other then what was instituted by Christ himself withall desiring if there be any that from the VVord of God can shew that we walke in a false way or error in denying the dipping of infants that they would doe it for wee professe our selves such as desire the glory of God and eternall life after death being confident that our desire or endeavors cannot bring us thither but only Christ Heb. 10. 14. Coll. 1. 14. in whom wee have Redemption through his blood and verse 19. 23. withall walking ●n that only way which leadeth thereunto by him prescribed in his VVord Joh. 14. 6. 10. 1. Acts 5. 32. Heb. 5. 9. And being made perfect he became the Author of of eternall salvation to all that obey him and Thesal 2. 1. 7. 8. when the Lord Jesus Christ shal be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flam●ng fire rendring vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ desiring therefore that these Scriptures may be well weighed considered of all those that feare God to the end we may be reformed if we erre in our judgements by mis-understanding the Scr●ptures and so be brought to acknowledge the Truth which wee shall willingly imbrace if not though wee walke in the way called heresie as Paul did Acts 24. 14. yet so worship wee the God of our Fathers and at the great day Every man must give account for himself Rom. 14. 10. and Matth. 15. 15. Christ saith Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up meane time all is to grow together though not in the Church yet in the world which is the field expounded by Christ himself Matth. 13. 38. Againe knowing