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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	blood_n	purge_v	sprinkle_v	2,278	5	11.3241	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09776	The Anabaptists meribah: or, VVaters of strife. Being a reply to a late insulting pamphlet, written by Thomas Lamb, merchant, intitulled, Truth prevailing against the fiercest opposition; or, An answer to Mr. John Goodwins Water-dipping, no firm footing for church-communion. Wherein the impertinency of M. Lamb's answer, and the validity of M. Goodwin's Water-dipping, &c. are manifested by I. Price a member of the Church of Christ, whereof the said Mr. Goodwin is pastor.	Price, J., fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3332A; ESTC R182056	87,699	107

a standing Pool or River doth It was not simply the blood of Christ but the blood of Christ shed by which we have a Redemption and Remission of sins Now though water in a Pool or River might in a dull way represent the blood of Christ yet the sprinckling or pouring of it out doth more aptly set forth the shedding of this blood We may well presume that his precious blood did trickle down from his most sacred Temples Hands Feet and Sides when he was upon the Cross all which I say is more significantly represented by Sprinckling than by Dipping 2. A little Water sprinckled and poured out upon a person doth more lively and significantly set forth the value worth and excellency of Christs blood than a great standing Pool Pond or River instructing the beholders thereof that it is not the quantity but the quality the dignity of Christs blood Though it be but as the blood of a Lamb yet the Lamb being spotless and without blemish that hath purchased redemption and remission of sins the Scriptures take no notice how much the blood was but what the dignity of that blood was that was shed Act. 20.28 God hath purchased the church with his own blood Heb. 9.14 It is the blood of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered himself without spot c. that purgeth the conscience 1 Pet. 1.19 You are redeemed not with silver and gold c. but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot It is true a great Pool Pond or River might better represent the blood of Bulls and Goats Oxen and Heifers Rams and Lambs c. altogether making a great Pool or lake of blood which is corrupted and cannot justifie but a little water sprinckled doth more aptly set forth the value worth and dignity of Christs blood which is as it were freshly running out of his veins and besprinckled upon the subject in Baptism 3. The Sprinckling of the water in baptism doth hold a conformity unto and preserves the commemoration of the legall sprincklings in the Old-Testament Exod. 24. compared with Hebrews the 9th you will finde that Moses after he had preached and spoken the Law of God unto the people he took the blood of calves and of goats c. and besprinckled the book and all the people the tabernacle the vessels of the ministry c. all things were purged by the sprinckling of blood And the Author to the Hebrews refers all to the purging and purifying of the conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 10.22 Heb. 12. ver 24. You are come c. to the blood of Sprinckling that speaketh better things than the blood of Abel the blood of sprinckling that is the blood wherewith you are sprinckled alluding to that blood of the Old-covenant mentioned Heb. 9.20 So we are sprinckled with the blood of Christ c. This is more lively represented in the sprinckling of water in baptism then in dipping or dowsing the subject of baptism so much insisted upon 4. This ceremony of sprinckling or pouring out water in baptism doth more lively represent the performance of severall promises of sanctification unto the Gentiles mentioned by the words sprinckling and pouring out of water then that of dipping doth Ezek. 36.25 I will sprinckle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all yuor filthiness and from all your Idolls will I clense you and a new heart also will I give you c. So again in Isa 52 23 24 25. it is prophesied of Christ Behold my Servant shall deale prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high c. he shall sprinckle many Nations c. So again Isa 44.3 I will poure out water upon him that is thirsty c. I will poure out my Spirit So again Joel 2.18 I will poure out my Spirit upon all Flesh c. upon all Flesh as well as upon the Jews Thus the ceremony of sprinckling or of pouring out of water in baptism doth help a mans faith in the believing and expecting the performance of these promises after a more effectuall manner than dipping doth SECT XLII 5. IN the fifth and last place Sprinckling and pouring out water upon the subject of baptism better answers the end of that Ordinance than dipping the subject of baptism or burying him under water let us compare your dipping with your notions and apprehensions thereof together with sprinckling and our apprehension thereof and then see which is most likely to be the truth and to answer the nature of a Sacrament We have usually considered three things in Sacraments the outward visible sign The thing signified thereby and the inward spirituall grace As to instance in the Supper of the Lord the Bread and Wine are the outward visible signs The Body and blood of Christ the things signified Our spirituall Union with Christ refreshment by Christ interest in Christ c. these are the spirituall graces c. So now consider in our Notions and apprehensions of baptism by sprinckling The outward visible sign is Water the thing signified by it is the Blood of Christ The inward and spirituall graces they are remission of sins sanctification spirituall washing clensing our selves from all pollutions c. the spirituall graces of any Sacrament being very many and vatious Now let us consider your Notion of Dipping intended by Christ as you say therein viz. to shew forth the death buriall and resurrection of Christ for sinners and the sinners death unto sin suffering with Christ Resurrection to all newness of life here and glory hereafter Let us then examine it First Here is water the outward visible sign What must this signifie Or what is the thing signified by it Is it to answer the Death and Buriall and Resurrection of Christ What answers Water Is it the death or blood of Christ So far we grant also that the Water signifieth Christs Blood So far I believe you are right and this doth more lively represent the Blood of Christ trickling or sprinckling down by drops and gushes viz. the sprinckling or pouring out of water than dipping into water But to make it represent the buriall of Christ how will you make the parallel Let us try how things will agree 1. Here is water whereinto the subject is dipped or dowsed this is the outward visible sign 2. What is thereby signified The Blood of Christ cannot be here the thing signified for Christ was not buryed in his own blood but in the earth Then the thing signified hereby is the earth and it can be nothing else what ever be the inward and spirituall graces Now I offer Where do we ever find water in Scripture to represent the earth It doth frequently sign fie the Spirit the blood of Christ the pure word of God whereby men are made clean when they are polluted refreshed when thirsty c. But never doth it signifie the Earth as it must here