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A33967	The improvableness of water-baptism, or, A discourse concerning the gravity and seriousness of the action and the usefulness of the sacred institution of baptism instructing all parents how great a thing they do when they bring their children to that holy ordinance, and all persons, whether young or old, what obligations their baptism hath brought them under, what wrath it hath exposed wicked and impenitent persons to, and what use they may make of their baptism for confirmation of their faith, and quickening them to repentance and an holy life : discoursed from Rom. 6:3,4, by way of sermon / by John Collinges ...	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing C5321; ESTC R5112	38,449	47

a solemn adstriction and binding over of the soul to the service and obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ There is a vow and a Covenant in Baptism as Circumcision of old was the Lords Covenant the sign and symbol of his Covenant with the Jewish Children so Baptism is the Lords Covenant with Children under the Gospel The soul of the Baptized person is not only given up unto the Lord but it is bound over to Christ and entereth a Covenant with him and as the Married woman upon her Marriage covenants with her husband and loseth her own name and taketh that of her husband so the baptized person covenanteth with Christ and there takes upon it the name of a Christian Or as Soldiers upon taking their Sacramentum for that word properly signifies the Military-Oath taken by Soldiers to their Commander in chief are bound and obliged by it to the Obedience of their General so the baptized person upon receiving this Sacrament becomes obliged and engaged unto Jesus Christ and is sworn in nomen imperationi coeti Thus Bucer Dickson and Peter Martyr do expound the phrase 3. The phrase may signifie the Exterior form of Baptism as to Baptismi formam the Administration of it it must be in the name of Christ so we are baptized into Christ 1. According to the institution of Christ he hath commanded his Ministers saying Mat. 28. 19. Go preach and baptize all Nations This is mentioned by Ambrose Aquinas Pareus Justinian Chrysostome Beza and P. Martyr 2. By a solemn invocation of the name of Christ This Beza insisteth upon expounding Mat. 28. 19. Then the sense is no more than so many of us as were baptized in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost solemnly invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Aquinas thinks this the whole sense of this text but that I cannot agree I shall give you my reason for it anon 4. The phrase may import something of the significancy of this Ordinance Every Sacrament is significative a Sacrament is an outward and sensible sign Now what doth Baptism signifie saith the Apostle We are baptized into Christ 1. It is signum rei a sign of the redemption of our Souls by the blood of Christ of that clean water with which he hath promised to sprinkle the Souls of his people and which he hath poured out for their sprinkling even the blood of that lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world 2. It is signum spei A sign that our hope alone is in Christ Jesus there being no other name under heaven but his by which we can be Acts 4. 12. saved nor any salvation in any other Thus Deodate seemeth to interpret it 5. The phrase may signifie the End of our Baptism If any ask To what purpose are we and our Children baptized the answer is We are baptized into Christ to this end 1. That we should bear a testimony to the death of Christ and hold forth the great truth of the Gospel to the world that Jesus Christ is come into the world to save sinners That he was incarnate hath died and is risen again from the dead that in and through him we might have remission and forgiveness of sins through his blood 2. That we might bear witness that he is the alone object of our hopes that we rest upon him and him alone for eternal life and salvation This is the very end why we are baptized 3. That we might grow up in him so Beza and Hemingius We are by baptism as it were implanted and ingrafted into Christ and as the end of the implantation and ingrafting of a cien into a stock or of a plant in any soil is that it might grow up in that soil or in that stock So the end for which we are baptized into Christ is that we might grow up in Christ 6. The phrase may be understood to signifie the fruit of Baptism lest any should say What good is there of this Sacrament or what availeth Baptism saith the Apostle We are baptized into Christ This is the fruit of Baptism the Baptized person hath an interest and relation given him to Christ and is become a member of Christ Sacramentally so Really so All baptized persons have a real relation to the Church whose head is Christ 7. But lastly This phrase may be understood to denote the Perfection of Baptism As the Apostle distinguisheth of Circumcision Rom. 2. 26 27 29. telling us there is a Circumcision in the letter and of the flesh and there is a circumcision of the heart in the spirit So we must distinguish of Baptism there is a baptism of Water and there is a baptism with the Holy Ghost There is a baptism of the letter and upon the flesh and there is a baptism in the heart and the spirit Now this latter is the Baptism into Christ the other is in the name of Christ but this most properly into Christ it signifieth that we pass into Christ saith P. Martyr So as I think there is some difference and that a great one betwixt the phrase used here and Gal. 3. 27. Baptizing into Christ and that used in many other Scriptures of being baptized in the name of Christ I will shortly offer you my reason for my opinion as to this phrase signifying thus much 1. In the first place the Apostles phrase seems to me to restrain the subject of the Proposition He doth not say All of us were baptized into Christ and so into his death but as many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death As much as to say Many are baptized in the name of Christ but some of us have not only been baptized in the name of Christ according to the sorm he hath prescribed with solemn invocation of his name but we have upon our baptism truly believing been ingrafted into Christ and united to him Now so many of us as have been thus not only been formally but really baptized into Christ having with the sign received the thing signified are baptized into his death 2. Again Observe the Praedicate As many of us saith the Apostle as are baptized into Christ are baptized into his death I am aware that that phrase may be interpreted and is by some as I shall shew you more by and by into the sign and symbol of his death but I do not take that interpretation to be comprehensive of the full of what that phrase importeth I think it is interpreted v. 6. Knowing that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin may be destroyed which cannot be understood of all baptized persons but such only as are baptized with the Holy Ghost or according to the phrase of this text Baptized into Christ 3. This phrase is but once more found in Scripture Gal. 3. 27. where you have another predicate affixed to the subject of this Proposition There it is As many of you as have been

baptized into Christ have put on Christ Now what it is to put on Christ the Apostle telleth you Rom. 13. 14. But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Eph. 4. 24. You read of putting on the new man so Col. 3. 10. Now all that are baptized cannot be said to have put on Christ Many of them make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts there of Many of them have not put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness For these reasons I do think that to be baptized into Christ signifieth more than to be baptized in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost I conclude then my discourse in answer to this Question thus 1. There is an external imperfect Baptism whereby and wherein persons are washed with water as a Religious rite in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost with invocation on the name of Christ Those who are thus baptized are baptized into the Gospel-Doctrine and the profession of it into that one body of which Christ is the Head they are dedicated to Christ and make a covenant with him They receive their Baptism as a sign that Christ the Saviour of the World is come hath died and risen again and that their only hope for salvation is in and through him they are baptized for this very end and purpose that they might bear a testimony to the Messias his being come having died c. and that they might accept of him as their Saviour hope and rest in and upon him and him alone and growing up in him c. and their Baptism is not fruitless in case they do repent and believe in Christ but is a sign to them that doing so he will be their Saviour 2. But there is also a more perfect Baptism when persons are not only washed with water but with the blood of Christ regenerated and sanctified baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire Now saith the Apostle so many as are thus baptized into Jesus Christ are baptized into his death And that brings me to the second Question Q. 2. What is this to be baptized into the death of Christ This I shall answer in three things 1. Into the image and similitude of his death Thus Justinian and In similitudinem imaginem mortis Gorran expound the phrase And this is two ways 1. The first more particularly respected the manner of Baptism in those hot Countreys which was by dipping the whole body of the baptized person in water thus John baptized in Jordan Ezek. 36. 25. Isa 44. 3. This is doubtless lawful but we say not necessary nor amongst us expedient Not necessary for the grace of justification and remission is as well in Scripture expressed by sprinkling and pouring water And you read of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ V. Aquinat Esti Piscat Deodati ad loc 1 Pet. 2. 2. and we are said to be come to the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12. 24. signified by the blood of sprinkling under the law Heb. 11. 28. Not expedient or convenient dipping a new-born Infant in water in a probable way would endanger its life But I say that custom had a fairer similitude of the burial of Christ persons buried are covered with Earth so those baptized persons were covered with water but it is as true Earth is sprinkled and poured too upon persons buried as water is upon the Child baptized 2. But there is another similitude of far more value expressed v. 6. of this Chapter Our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed This must be understood when the Lord with his internal grace is pleased to concur with the Sacrament Even as from that day wherein Christ cursed the figtree it withered so from that day that a person is baptized where Gods inward grace concurreth with the outward sign the tree of lust and corruption decayeth and withereth 2. Into his death that may be into the faith owning and profession of his death those who are baptized into Christ do profess to believe that Jesus Christ died for sinners the water poured and sprinkled on them signifieth the blood of Jesus Christ so that Christ hath died and their submission to that rite to receive Baptism is a taking upon them the faith and profession of the death of Jesus Christ 3. Lastly They are baptized into the fruit of his death And this may be taken in a double sense 1. If they be only externally baptized and receive no more than the outward sign yet it is and shall be a sign unto them that if at any time they shall heartily repent and believe the fruit and benefit yea all the fruit and benefit of the death of Christ shall be really and truly theirs 2. If the Lord doth with the external sign confer the inward grace and give the thing signified then they are really and absolutely baptized into the death of Christ and made partakers of the benefits of his redemption being washed with the blood of the lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world And thus much may serve to have spoken to the second Question the third followeth Quest 3. What it is to be buried with Christ by baptism into death and how the baptized person may be said to be buried with Christ by Baptism into death I Answer A baptized person may be said to be buried with Christ by Baptism into death 1. Analogically there being as I said before a great Analogy betwixt burying of a dead body and baptizing a person the dead person was covered with the Earth the baptized person with Water This was according to their manner of baptizing by dipping to which also the Apostle alludeth Col. 2. 12. And of old they used a trina immersio a dipping the baptized person three times to signifie Christs lying three days in the grave but this usage was doubtless not so old as the Apostles times nor was there any rule for it Others say they dipped the person baptized thrice to signifie his being baptized in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Thus Aquinas Justinian Chrysostome Damascene Theophilact and Gregory interpret this text but I do not think that this takes up the whole of the sense 2. We are buried with Christ by Baptism into death Symbollically or Sacramentally Baptism signifieth thus much to all That if they live up to that dedication of them unto God unto that Covenant which they enter into in Baptism when they come up to years of discretion if they be baptized in their Infancy repenting and believing their sins shall come no more in Gods sight but be as much buried and out of sight as a person who is baptized by dipping in water is out of our sight during that instant Thus the Apostle Col. 2. 12. saith We are buried with him in baptism