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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77748	The dippers plunged in a sea of absurdities, or An ansvver to Doctor Chamberlaine concerning sprinkling the baptized. By Thomas Bakewell.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1650 (1650)	Wing B531; Thomason E597_18; Thomason E605_4; ESTC R206299	6,014	9

for that use this were to make them the holy breeches of Aaron Exo. 28.42 43. as bad as the Prelates Surpless and for women to wear them being mans apparel it were an abomination to the Lord Deut. 22.5 and the water by that means not touching them all over they had as good be sprinkled on one p●rt for all And those in Scripture were not plunged in their clothes for Lydia and the Jaylor feasted the Apostles straightway Acts 16.15 34. neither do we find that they shifted themselves nor that they sate dung wet at meat with them Therefore to remove these Absurdities it must be granted that they were sprinkled at their Baptism and not plunged under water Seventhly John saith I baptize with water Mat. 3.11 he doth not say I baptize you in water but always the Scripture saith with water Ephes 5 26. With the washing of water and with pure water Heb. 10.22 Yea to read in water when it is said with water were as great an error as to bow at the Name of Jesus in stead of in the Name of Jesus For observe the Scripture Paul saith to Timothy When thou comest bring my cloak with thee not in thee 2 Tim. 3.16 Abraham said to the young men Abide here with the Asse Gen. 22.5 not in the Asse so baptize with water not in the water So on the other side Levi payd tythes in Abraham He was in the loyns of his father when Melchisedec met him Heb. 7.9 10. Now it were very improper to read it thus Levi paid tythes with Abraham He was with his fathers loyns when Melchisedec met him So Christ saith You believe in God believe also in me now it were absurd to read You believe with God believe also with me And to bapt●ze in the Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost to read with the Father Son and Holy Ghost Christ never gave that power to any man Iohn saith He that cometh after me baptized with the Holy Ghost Mat. 3.11 All that were bapt●zed with water were not baptized with the Holy Ghost as Simon Magus and others So where it is said Sprinkle the door posts with the blood in the bason it were absurd to read thus Take the door posts as Sampson did on his shoulder and plunge them in some river So absurd it is to take any Christian and plunge him under water when as they are only required to be baptized by sprinkling with water Eighthly The Anabaptists who plead so much for plunging condemn themselves in their own practise while they suffer the baptized to wade into the water up to the middle without their help and then they plunge in the other half Now either they must acknowledg that the party doth and may baptize half himself or else grant that the lower half was not at all baptized for they did not put that under water but our Minister holding the water over the baptized doth put the baptized under the water Thus their own practise condemns their plunging and justifies our sprinkling the baptized to be of Gods Institutions Lastly I shall shew That sprinkling one part of the baptized is sufficient First Because one drop of water is as truly water as the whole Ocean Sea 2. There is no measure of water prescribed only it must be water 3. The baptized may be under one drop as well as under a tun 4. We shall see this cleared by the Conference of Jesus Christ with Peter about washing of his feet Ioh. 13. saith Peter Thou shalt never wash my feet vers 8. but saith Christ If I wash thee not thou hast no part in me This shews that that washing was Sacramental and that it was necessary that the Command of Christ should be fulfilled and that to contemn the Ordinance is damnable without repentance although I doubt not but where it cannot be had God will have mercy and not sacrifice But then Peter who would not be washed at all before now he is in the other extream he like the Anabaptist would be plunged all over vers 9. but saith Christ That needeth not because he is clean every whit vers 10. Hence I conclude That to wash all over by plunging is needless and to wash one part is sufficient therefore to sprinkle one part of the baptized is of Gods Institution and the other extreams one is abominable and the other more then sufficient But Anabaptists will have something to say for plunging although to small purpose First That Iesus when he was baptized went out of the water And Philip and the Eunuch went both into the water Acts 8.38 therefore they were plunged under the water I answer Every pit or river in those hot Countries were not always full of water up to the brim but sometimes a man might go down into the pit or river to the water and not go in the water but suppose it were granted that they did wade into the water yet that is not plunging them under the water and to wade in till they came where it was clear and then to sprinkle them in the Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost may very well stand with the text and the contrary cannot be proved without all the former Absurdities But they will say Many came and were baptized of Iohn in Iordan Mat. 3.6 and the Greek word shews that was by plunging them into that river Answ They might wade in and yet be sprinkled as I said before and the Greek word as well signifies to sprinkle as to plunge but in regard plunging is accompanied with so many Absurdities sprinkling is to be chosen rather then planging I might add more Absurdities thus Either this Ordinance must be laid aside all the Winter when as Christ never said Baptize in Summer and cease that Ordinance in Winter which would be a great prejudice to the Church or else if observed it would endanger the lives of those that should be so plunged in the midst of Winter yea we can tell the Anabaptists that some whom they have plunged in the cold of Winter have dyed immediately and God will require their blood at their hands one day for God that would have us to perform all duties in love and charity will not put us upon duties so ridged which cannot be performed but by murthering of one another all which shews plainly that this is not the easie yoke of Christ nor the duty required of a gracious God but rather his invention who was a murtherer from the beginning who murthers the bodies in Winter of those that observe it and the souls of those that neglect it But we are said to be buried with Christ by Baptism Rom. 6.4 therefore the baptized is to be plunged under water Answ In this text is no mention made of baptizing with water which is the outward form of Baptism only we are said to be baptized into the death of Christ and after death buried with him by Baptism Now Jesus Christ along time after he was baptized of Iohn in Iordan saith I have a Baptism to be baptized with Luk. 12.50 which was his death and burial And he saith to the sons of Zebedee Ye shall drink of my cup and be baptized with my Baptism Mat. 20.23 that is they shall dye and be buried and rise again at the last day and also they shall receive the things signified that is the body of sin shall dye by the death of Christ and their sin shall be buried or covered by the bu●ial of Christ and they shall rise to newness of life by vertue of the Resurrection of Christ and these are all expressed in that text Rom. 6.2 4. This is the Doctrine of Baptism spoken of Heb. 6.2 But I say here is no mention of the form of Baptism therefore no warrant from this text to plunge the baptized under water Now if we should bring all those texts that speak of Baptism to prove the outward form we should run into such a Labyrinth that we should not be able to get out As for example Paul speaks of baptizing the body when it is dead saying If the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead 1 Cor. 15.29 Now although here be more in this Text to prove the form of Baptism then in that Rom. 6. yet we may not at all ground any form of Baptism from it First Because the party is dead and so unfit to make a Member of the Church by that solemn admittance 2. Any woman may wash the body when it is dead but none may baptize any Christian with that form of Baptism given to the Church but the Ministers of the Gospel which are sent to preach and baptize Mat. 28.19 3. This washing the dead carkass was done without any words of Institution therfore not the form of Baptism given to the Church So then from such Texts as these we have no warrant to plunge the baptized in or under the water But I shall here end with one caution which is this Our Ministers are lawfully called and authorized by Jesus Christ to preach and baptize and they do administer this Ordinance of Baptism in a right form that is in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and with the right matter being water and on the right parties being either men of years converted to the Christian Faith and Religion or else to Infants born of Christian Parents and to a right end to distinguish Christians from Turks and Infidels and as a sign of their ingrafting into Christ engaging them to obey the Gospel and make Profession of the true Christian Religion Lastly That Christ should ratifie that outward form and baptize many of us with the Holy Ghost Whosoever is thus baptized in our Church ought not to renounce his Baptism lest he both renounce the Seals and the Covenant of Grace also for many of those that have first renounced their Baptism have at length denyed that there is either God or Devil Heaven or Hell Grace or Glory and call themselves Seekers of the fore-mentioned things which for the present they have lost March 28. 1650. 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