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A77397	Anabaptism, the true fountaine of Independency, Brownisme, [double brace] Antinomy, Familisme, and the most of the other errours, which for the time doe trouble the Church of England, unsealed. Also the questions of pædobaptisme and dipping handled from Scripture. In a second part of the Disswasive from the errors of the time. / By Robert Baillie minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.; Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662. Dissuasive from the errours of the time.	1647 (1647)	Wing B452A; Thomason E369_9; ESTC R38567	187,930	235

the subject to those things much contrary to the credulity and bold assertion of the late Anabaptists Our second Argument The 2. Arg. the thing signified by Baptisme is oftner expressed in Scripture by sprinkling then dipping That action whereby Scripture does frequently represent the main thing signified by baptisme is lawfull and sufficient to be used in baptisme But Scripture frequently represents the main thing signified in baptisme by sprinkling or pouring out of water Ergo. The major is grounded on the nature of Sacramentall rites they are signs fitly proportioned to the spirituall blessings they signifie and seal when we finde in the signe not onely a clear representation and similitude of the thing signified but the holy Ghost in Scripture making use of that representation and relation it is to us a ground of the lawfull use of that sign This is the adversaries owne argument in their great reason for dipping that it does fitly represent our buriall with Christ and is used in Scripture as they alledge for the expressing of that representation As for the minor that pouring and sprinkling frequently in Scripture represents the main thing ●●gnified and sealed in baptisme our participation of the benefits of Christ his blood and Spirit In Scripture sprinkling is made a sign of the application of Christs blood to the soul many Scriptures doe evidence as first Heb. 10.22 Heb. 10.22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Here both the sign and the thing signified of baptisme are set down together the outward washing with water is made to signifie the sprinkling of the heart from an evill conscience That washing by outward sprinkling represents the inward sprinkling of the heart by the blood of Christ as fitly as washing by outward dipping or immersion can doe appears by 1 Pet. 1.2 1 Pet. 1 2. Through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ here the application of Christs blood unto the soul is expressed in the similitude of sprinkling And so fit is this representation that the holy Ghost styles the blood of Christ whereby we are washed and saved the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 Heb. 12.24 The other great blessing sealed up in baptisme is our communion in the Spirit of Jesus Also of Ch●ists Spiri● this blessing also the Spirit delights to expresse by the act of pouring or sprinkling of water Act. 2.16 17. Acts 2.16 17. But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel And it shall come to passe in the last days saith God I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh Isay 44.3 Is 44.3 For I will poure water upon him that is thirsty and flouds upon the dry ground I will poure my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thy off-spring Also Is 52.15 So shall I sprinkle many Nations And Ezek. 36.25 Ezek. 36 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean a new heart will I give unto you and a new spirit will I put within you As the application of the blood and Spirit of Christ to the soul of the baptized is expressed so often in the tearm of sprinkling so under the Law Sprinking under the Law a figure of the thing signified in Baptisme the action of sprinkling sometimes of blood alone sometimes of water alone sometimes of both together were used for the prefiguring of that blood and water which in the days of the Gospel by the Word and Sacrament were more abundantly to be communicate Exod. 12.7.13 Ex. 12.7.13 And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side postes and on the upper door-poste of the houses wherein they shall eat it And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are and where I see the blood I will passe over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the Land of Egypt Leviticus 16.14 Lev. 16.14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullocks and spri●kle it with his finger upon the Mercy-seat East-ward and before the Mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times here blood alone is sprinkled Numb 19.18 Num. 16.18 And a clean person shall take hyssope and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon all the persons that were there and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day here water alone for purification is sprinkled at least water without blood for this water of purification had no mixture except of the ashes of the burnt Heifer Lev. 14.5 6 7. Lev. 14.5 6 7. And the Priests shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessell of running water as for the living bird he shall take it and the Cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssope and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosie seven times and shall pronounce him clean In this place blood and water together are sprinkled upon the leper at least with the sprinkling of the blood the presence of water is injoined The chief end of applying water to any body whether by dipping of it in the water or sprinkling the water upon it is to purge it from soile Sprinkling serves as much for purging as dipping can do that the use of water in baptisme is to remove and wash away albeit not the defilement of the body yet the guilt of sin from the soul we read in the 1 Pet. 3.21 1 Pet. 3 21. The like figure whereunto even baptisme doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience toward God and Acts 22.16 Acts 22.16 Rise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord. This being the onely end why water in baptisme is used that way of using of it must be lawfull which is fit for that end now common experiences teaches that pouring and sprinkling is as meet for purifying as dipping can be a vessell often dipped if not rubbed may keep all its soile and sprinkling or pouring out of water is nothing lesse but oftentimes more effectuall for purging A third Argument If dipping be necessary and sprinkling unsufficient then in all Scripturall approved baptismes dipping was used and not sprinkling But no such thing does appear in Scripture Whether in any Sacramentall baptisme mentioned in Scripture dipping over head and ears was ever practised we shall consider in our answer to the objections but that in divers Sacramentall baptismes approved in Scripture no

Anabaptism THE TRVE FOVNTAINE OF Independency Brownisme Antinomy Familisme And the most of the other Errours which for the time doe trouble the Church of England VNSEALED ALSO The Questions of Paedobaptisme and Dipping Handled from Scripture IN A Second Part of The Disswasive from the Errors of the time By ROBERT BAILLIE Minister at Glasgow And it shall come to passe in that day saith the Lord of Hosts that I will cut off the names of the Idols out of the Land and they shall no more be remembred and also I will cause the Prophets and the unclean spirit to passe out of the Land Zach. 13.2 But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers amongst you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evill spoken of 2 Pet. 2.1 2. LONDON Printed by M. F. for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brazen serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1647. FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the Earl of Lauderdail Viscount Metellan Lord Thirleston and Bolton YOur Lordships kinde acceptance of this mean Treatise in its first part brings the rest of it now to your feet upon hope it may goe out with the like countenance and favour In these very miserable times when so many of all conditions are given over to beleeve lies to be inveigled with the hypocrisie of seducing spirits which the Lord in his justice has permitted to goe forth in a great multitude for the seduction of this present evill world the truth is glad of the patrociny and assistance of all who will be on its side and of none more then of such as your Lordship I mean of persons so much eminent in wisdome learning courage zeal and other noble qualities above the most of their fellows in birth and rank as these doe ordinarily account themselves elevated by their civill priviledges above the common multitude And truly it will be found no lesse prudence then piety for men of your Lordships place to put and hold themselves in these unhappy days upon the side of truth though never so much deserted disgraced and trampled upon by a world of simple or malicious ignorants For now it is when the Lord with his axe is going through his garden and hewing down not onely thousands of brambles and bushes of lower stature but many of the tallest Cedars the highest Palms the thickest Oaks and they who yet remain untouched though none doe know how soon the axe may be applyed to their branches yea their very root yet many have reason to fear that their stroak may be suddain Among the wofull spectacles of our time none use to touch a heart wherein is any humanity with more compassion then the ruine of ancient Families How many great and potent houses are blown over by these late tempests How many this day be tottering and very like to fall before the windes be calmed and of those that appear in least danger being incompassed with the thickest defences that policy can invent against all storms above ground how easily may subterraneous vapours shake their foundations and when all fear is past of the evanished and invisible storm by an unexpected Earthquake lay their wals also levell with the ground There is no security for the greatest and strongest edifices but in the rock of truth what ever is builded upon this were it never so brittle will stand out the greatest blasts And if any breach be made the God of truth will not fail to repair it till the appointed time for the change of all things under the Sun bring that Cottage of clay to its fatall period And even then the house shall fall without any prejudice to the Inhabitant whosoever hath been a true lover and patron of truth For how small is the losse of a translation from a mansion upon earth to one in the heaven not made with hands But here is a losse indeed and a fall truly lamentable which oft to our sorrow we may see and have reason to fear shall yet be more frequent amongst us when unhappy Inhabitants by the hands of their errors and vices subvert the pillars of their Ancestors habitation and bury with themselves their whole family under the rubbish of a temporall ruine without any hope of reparation either in earth or heaven In the following writ I point at the danger wherein not onely families but the whole fabrick of our Churches and Kingdomes doe for the present stand while the Episcopall and Sectarian factions are doing their utmost endeavours to have all our former sufferings to be but short prologues to new very prolix if not endless Tragedies The one so far demented with a frantick passion towards the government and service of the Church of Rome that all the miseries which they have brought upon themselves and millions of others have not in the least degree cured the disease of their corrupted mindes so far are they from untying the knots that their own hands have made or essaying to draw any of their deceived party out of the perplexities of conscience wherein their mis-informations alone have cast them that rather then to retract their errors rather then to advise the lawfulnesse of joyning with all the rest of the Reformed Churches in laying aside Episcopacy and Liturgick ceremonies they choose to give up the neck of their Countrey to the sword of bloudy and idolatrous strangers They are content to draw all again to the hazard of a new more terrible war Tell them of the too probable issue of their obstinacy that if their designs should prosper the danger would be greater then their wit or the wisdome of any mortall creature could secure us from to have a tyranny planted in our State and Popery without any more circumlocution setled in our Church But if their renued warre should again miscarry that then the hazard is evident of undoing the royal family of turning the civil State of England into a Babell of confusion and the Church thereof into a fountain of heresies for the intoxication with its streams of all the rest of the Reformed To all such very rationall discourses this generation of men is deaf as if all naturall affection to their distressed Countrey were dead and sympathy with any of the true Churches of Christ altogether extinguished in them This is one ground of our present fear O if it were all so should we if needs must goe out again with great courage against that Squadron of Malignants But when we have returned Victors from that field behold our more perillous exercises are but yet approaching The Sectaries of more names and kindes then ever were known in any Kingdome of the world tell us with open mouth we must be their slaves They must have liberty to overthrow our Parliaments all Kings all Lords and this House of Commons to set