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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	draw_v	evil_a	sprinkle_v	1,134	5	10.3564	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39051	Plain and exquisite Scripture-proof, that St. John Baptist and the blessed Apostles, and all the primitive baptizers, did baptize by sprinkling, or pouring water upon the person or persons they baptized, and not by dipping the person into water ... also some observations upon Mr. Keach's reflections upon my late treatise, intituled, Plain and express Scripture proofs, that John Baptist did as certainly baptize infants in the church of the Jews as the adult, with the confirmation of the truth reflected against by him / by Joshua Exell ...	Exell, Joshua.	1693 (1693)	Wing E3857; ESTC R15010	107,024	64

sentence about one and the same Ordinance uttered by the same Prophet at the same time to the same People or Auditory And this when by Divine Appointment one is to be a Sign Figure or Representation of the other and that to this end too that the Understandings of the Auditory to whom it was spoken might be enlightened to understand how they should be partakers of the baptism with the Holy Ghost from the Lord Jesus Christ In the first part of the verse I indeed have baptized you with Water Mark 1.8 Many do imagine that John did mean and intend by the word baptize dipping and suppose that it is all one as if he had said I indeed have dipped you into Water and so say the word doth signifie to Dip from this and the like Texts but for Scripture Proof of it I know none nor could I ever obtain one Scripture to prove this Interpretation of this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from any person that ever I requested it from In the latter part of the verse he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost There if all the men in the World would gainsay it by the plain expressions of the Holy Ghost in Scripture it does signifie to pour upon to sprinkle or to shed upon It is certain that in the Hebrew and Greek Languages one and the same Root and Theam or word may have and have various significations or acceptations in various conjugations and various moods when they respect various objects and various actions but where can any one produce out of the Holy Scripture one example that one and the same word about one and the same Ordinance at one and the same time by the same Preacher to one and the same Hearers should have or have such a directly different and contrary signification and acceptation as this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must be supposed to have in the Texts before quoted and this when the external Baptism was to be the sign and representation of the inward baptism or else it must cease in nature and be neither Sign nor Seal for all divine signs were and are seals as they signified the things represented by them and the manner of their performances To make it app●ar that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 does signifie pouring upon or sprinkling with the spirit and was so intended by John to signifie he being a Prophet when it is used in the latter part of the verse to express Christ's communication of his Spirit to them and baptizing them with the Holy Ghost may be cleared from many express Texts of Scripture where Christ's baptizing with the Holy Ghost is spoken of and that thing intended Only we may premise First that baptizing with the Holy Ghost is two fold or two things are intended thereby in the New Testament First the communication of the saving Graces of the holy spirit in a supernatural work of Grace upon the Soul of the poor sinner to whom it was or is to be communicated and this was to be and is the special thing signified by the external Baptism with Water and is to be continued in the Church to the end of the World by Christ's Presence with his Servants in his Ordinances though to whom he please or to all that the Father had given him M●tth 23.20 2. There is intended by this phrase Baptizing with the Holy Ghost the pouring out upon some especially them that were to be the first Publishers of the Gospel and the Planters of the Church the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit or the common Gifts thereof in an extraordinary manner as the speaking with divers kinds of Tongues and the power of working of miracles for the confirmation of the Truth and the publishing of it to all Nations to whom the Lord did send them And the manner of Christ's baptizing with the Holy Ghost in both these senses or with respect to both these acceptations was by pouring of it out upon them or sprinkling them with it as is witnessed by the Holy Ghost in divers places of Scripture Whereby it may and will appear that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the latter part of the verses before quoted do not signifie to dip the person into it but pouring out the Holy Ghost upon the person or sprinkling him with it First As to the manner of the communications of the saving Graces of the Spirit to the Soul in a supernatural work of special Grace upon the Soul This is done and was ever done by applying it to the soul and pouring it out upon the soul or sprinkling them wi●h it and not putting the person into the Holy Ghost And this we may see testified from Christ's own mouth in John 3.3 5 8. Except a man be born of Water and of ●he Holy Ghost he cannot see the Kingdom of God Here our Saviour asserteth the necessity of the use of the outward means when the Lord vouchsafeth it to any person or people as well as the necessity of the inward Grace and this to Nicodemus who was of the Pharisees that contemned the outward means Luke 7.30 And how this birth is performed our Lord Jesus sheweth in verse 8. not by applying the person or putting the person into the spirit but by applying the spirit to the person The wind bloweth where it listeth thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth so is every one that i● born of the sp●●it Though Nicodemus's way was for the person to enter the 〈◊〉 time into his m●thers womb So Titus 3.5 6. By the washing of Regeneration and re●●●r●●g o● the h●ly gh●st which he shed on us abundantly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or poured forth on us a●●●●● 〈◊〉 ●●t● 2.16 17 33. so Isa 44.3 I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my bles●●●g u●●n thy ●●f-sp●ing Heb. 10.22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts spri●kled f●●m an evil Conscience 1 Pet. 1.2 Through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ Ezek. 36.25 I will sprinkle clean Water upon you If that be meant of the spirit then Christ's baptizing is by sprinkling Isa 52.15 So shall he sprinkle many Nations Ezek. 37.3 4 5. Thus saith the Lord to these dry bones Behold I will cause breath to enter into you and ye s●●●l ●●●e and I will lay sinnes upon you and bring flesh upon you Eph●s 2.1 Y●u hath be q●●●●●●ed who were dead in trespasses and sins By life entring into us we have our natural q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 g at first and so also we have our spiritual quickning and not by our entring into ●●e so we are said to receive of the abundance of Grace and gift of R ghteousness P● m. 5.17 and to receive the holy Ghost Acts 10.47 And to r●●ci●e of his f●lness John 1.16 And to as many as received him John 1.10 11. And all that we are made partakers of 1 Cor. 4.7 and what

by Christ with his spirit so it is also of the outward and external and the latter word is used to express the legal purifications Acts 21.24 Whereby we have the Testimony of this blessed servant of God as to his acceptation and his signification of the word And we have another text to shew his acceptation of the word to be the same with Peters Acts 15.9 13. and Peters to be the same with Johns in Acts the 8.14 15 16. Now when the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that the Gentiles had received the word of God They sent to them Peter and John Who when they were come prayed for them that they might receive the holy Ghost For as yet he was fallen upon none of them only they were Baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Then they laid their hands on them and they received the holy Ghost Observe It was fallen upon none of them as yet Not they put into that but it fell upon them and they received it And Paul's and James his acceptation of it was the same with all the rest Acts 11.15 16. And in Acts 15.6 7 8 9. When Peter had declared how God at first did take out of the Gentiles a people for his name and put no difference between the believing Jews and them purifying their hearts by faith The Apostle James brings a text relating to the spiritual seed of David Acts 15.13 14 15.16 And confirms what Peter had said which is a sufficient proof that he understood it in the same sense that Peter did Ninthly Let us enquire how Paul the great Apostle of the Gentiles did understand this word and what he did intend by this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who we read partook of the Baptizing with water and with the holy Ghost also as Acts 9.18 And his repetition of it in Acts 22.16 And here with respect to Paul as all the servants of Christ the holy Apostles and as Christ their Lord and master did understand accept and use this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie pouring upon shedding upon and sprinkling with So did this holy and faithful servant of Christ take it and use it to signifie the same As may appear in his Epistle both to the Circumcision the Hebrews and in his discourses with them as to the spiritual Baptism by Christ with his spirit For his apprehension of the Inward Baptism with the holy Ghost see Acts 19.1 2 3 4 5 6. He came in his Journeying and Travels to Ephesus and finding certain disciples he said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed And they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost Where by the way we may see how much truth there is in that perswasion That John baptized none but true penitents and this repentance to be made forth by a confession of their sins These could do this with the witness that had not heard so much as whether there were any holy Ghost And he said unto them Unto what then were ye Baptized And they said Unto Johns Baptism Then said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of Repentance saying unto the People that they should believe in him that was to come after that is on Christ Jesus When they heard this they were Baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Where observe that there is no record of any confession required or made of the truth of the grace of faith as wrought in their hearts to give them a right to Baptism verse 6th When Paul had laid his hands on them he did not put them into his hands but laid his hands on them As the Apostles Peter and John did Acts 8.15 16 17. The holy Ghost came on them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The holy Ghost came upon THEM not they took and dipt into that The Learned tell us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is used again in abundance of places in the New Testament As John 1.7 11. Luke 2.27 Matth. 2.21 c. So in Titus the 3.5 6. Which he shed on us abundantly Through Jesus Christ our Saviour It is not put them into that but poured out or shed forth that upon them The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used again in Acts 2.16 33. So also in Hebrews 10.22 He witnesseth the same thing which is Baptizing with the holy Ghost Let us Draw near c. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience Acts 19.2 Have ye received the holy Ghost so Acts 10.47 Where observe that all that we receive does come to us not we be put or dipt into that So in Rom. 5.17 All that we have of the abundance of Grace is said to be received and all the difference that is made between us and others or between what we were in our selves is said to be received in 1 Cor. 4.7 And whatsoever is given to us is said to fall upon us or come to us Acts 10.44 47. So that with all clearness Paul does bear witness that he understood by Christs Baptizing with the holy Ghost Pouring upon shedding upon sprinkling with the holy Ghost and not our being Dipped into that And as to his apprehension and use of the word as to the external baptism with water we may have a clear discovery from Scripture also And one text we have his acceptation of it as to that discovered in is in 1. Cor. 10.2 Where he speaks only of the Outward sign and nothing of the internal Baptism by the holy Ghost and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which should be rendered and were all Baptized unto Moses by or with the Cloud in the Sea That is in the place where the Sea did use to run though now the Motion of it was Stopped by the mighty power of God And a way made for them to Pass over as upon dry land Heb. 11.29 There can be but two ways of Baptizing with water the one is by applying or putting the person into water and the other by applying the water to the Person by pouring of it out upon him or sprinkling him with it Now in the text their being baptized is asserted and affirmed by the holy Ghost And the Baptizor Named is Moses by whose conduct they were bid go on Exod 14.15 And the way whereby it was done is intimated to us by the Instrument thereof the Cloud and the place where it was done and that is in the Red Sea Which they passed through as upon dry land Heb. 11.29 Now Dipped or sprinkled they must be But Dipped in water they could not be nor were not because they passed as upon dry land Heb. 11.29 And the Red Sea stood up like a wall Therefore sprinkled they must be and were Because not Dipped They passed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendered by transeo trajicio used again Acts 16.9