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A41822 John Baptist's decreasing and Christ's increasing witnessed being a treatise concerning baptism in the type, and baptism in the mystery / by John Gratton ... Gratton, John, 1641-1712. 1674 (1674) Wing G1585; ESTC R39439 23,175 59

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things that they did by Permission and not by Commission from Christ I say their Intents in all t●ese were never to establish them with Christ Jesus to abide as long as the World lasted n● But after they had held them in hand in order to get them on they took all Occasions they could to bring them on further further till they all come in the Unity of the Faith unto a perfect Man in Christ Jesus unto the Measure of the Stature of Christ Jesus and so these became Useless and all gave place to him who is alone by himself established a Priest forever of an Unchangeable Priesthood Glory is wholy due unto him And so now they came to speak of One Baptism One Faith and One Lord as a foresaid and that by One Spirit they were all baptized into One Body mark they were ALL he saith ALL Baptized by One Spirit into One Body and had all been made to drink into One Spirit but none can prove that All were baptized into Water for Paul was instrumental in the Lord's Hand for the concinoing and converting of many But he saith He baptized none but Crispus and Cajus and the Houshold of Stephanus beside saith he I know not whether I baptized any other but many were convinced by him doubtless very many yea Multitudes yet no man can prove that all that were convinced and converted by the Gift of God in Paul were also All baptized into Water yet saith he Ye are All baptized by One Spirit and have been ALL made to drink into One Spirit and there is One Lord One Faith One Baptism Well but say you Baptists He doth not say There is but One Baptism No nor he doth not say There is but One Lord must we therefore say There are more Lords then One God forbid for to us there is but One Lord And he doth not say There is but One Faith must we therefore say There are more Faiths then One So he also saith There is One Baptism and so say we too and that One was promised and accomplished and commanded for we believe as Christ said The Works that I do mark ye the Works that I do shall ye do and greater Works then these shall ye do But it s plainly said That Christ baptized not I say not with Water but with the Holy Ghost And do you think that he used One Baptism to them and commanded them to use Another to them that believed in him do you think that he baptized them with the Holy Ghost and then sent them out to baptize with Water I know whatever you believe you have said no less but you can never prove it For the Works that I do shall ye do but Christ baptized not into Water nor never said that they should that you or any other can prove for Peter in the 11th of Acts declares what the Lord said when the Disciples were talking with him about his going in to the Gentiles Then said he remembred I the Word of the Lord how that the Lord said mark ye Christ's words the Lord said John indeed baptized with Water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost But he no where mentions Water by way of Commanding them to use it in Baptism but said Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost and Go ye teach all Nations baptizing them into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and Lo I am with you But further I remember you Baptists have said That your Baptism into Water doth signifie Death Burial and Resurrection By which words you acknowledge it is but a Type And you further say That no man ought to be buried before he be dead Now I conclude that the Dead you mean are such as are Dead to Sin and if so how can ye that are dead to Sin live any longer therein Know ye not saith Paul in Rom. 6. 2 10 7. that so many of us as were baptized INTO mark into Iesus Christ were baptized into his Death therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in Newness of Life And in the 7th Verse For he that is dead is freed from Sin Well now let me ask you are you thus dead buried and risen with him by your Water Baptism Or can any Man conclude that Paul here speaks of Water-Baptism Is it not plainly said into Christ not into Water but into Christ into Death And in Gal. 3. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ and they that are in Christ are new Creatures behold all ye Water-baptizers all Old things pass away and all things become new a new Heaven and a new Earth in which dwells Righteousness And we say that the Sons of God inhabit in the New and Living Way that which is pure and changeth not but endures forever and in Righteousness are they established and act not by the Power of a Carnal Commandment but in the Power of an Endless Life not in Imitation of the Letter but in the Demonstration of the Spirit For although it should be so as ye would have it That Christ had commanded the Apostles to baptize into Water as he never did nor can it be ever proved yet if it had been so what is that to you Who commanded you Shew us your Commission Where did you receive your Power and Authority in this Matter that you both preach and baptize Whereas Paul saith He was not sent to Baptize but to preach And we say and know what we say to be true That we are not sent to Baptize into Water but to Preach the Gospel and our Authority came not by Man of Man nor from Man but by the Grace of God we are what we are and his Grace is sufficient for us and ever hath been since we were a People and so will be to the End And we further say we own that Iohn was sent to baptize with Water and we own him in his Day but where did Iohn baptize using those words Father Son and Holy Ghost for they that had been baptized unto Iohn's Baptism had not so much as heard of a Holy Ghost so that this Baptism ye practise cannot be Iohn's nor Christ's it cannot be for he never had Water asscribed to him But Iohn who was a true Minister in his time of Water-baptism said HE meaning Christ shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost Fire So then if not Iohn's as its clear it is not for Iohn's was a Type of the True Baptism of the Spirit and when the Types Figures Vails and Shadows were ended and HE the End and Beginning First and Last was arisen and had rent the Vail from the Top to the Bottom I say when his Sun of Righteousness did arise the Shadows fled away and gave him place over his own House to rule whose Right it
shall gather Paleness in that Day Oh therefore be intreated in tender Love I beseech you to Return Return out of Babylon unto the Gift of God the True Light that makes ye all manifest and in which ye are all seen and comprehended I say in the Name of the Lord my God and in much Love to your Souls be intreated to return unto it its near you to instruct you and to make all things manifest to you if you will come unto it Oh turn your Minds How oft have you been reproved by it and you never found Guile in his Mouth though he hath told you all that ever you have done yet you regard him not but prefer fading finite and unprofitable Things above him Oh! haste haste out of Babylon tarry not the Day of Vengeance is near and then will you come to know the True Baptism is not into Water but into the Name of the Father Son and Spirit and that Christ in the 28th of Matthew 18 19. when he sent his Apostles out to teach all Nations and that the Baptism there spoken of commanded by Christ was not into Water but into the Name of the Father Son and Spirit neither is there any such a word as Water mention'd in his words there spoken to them but into the Name of the Father Son Ho●y Ghost he bad them baptize But some may say It must needs be Water there intend●d because that none can baptize with the Holy Ghost but Christ. I Answer True None can but He and by his Power only therefore he tells them in the first place that All Power is given unto me saith he both in Heaven and in Earth and they now must not go in their own Strength or Power but in his Power and it was his Power in them and by them that did the Work he sent them to do and so he saith unto them Without me ye can do nothing but lo I am with you alwayes even to the End of the World and all Power is mine And now you Water-Baptists let me ask Now where is Iohn's Power Iohn hath now no Power nor Moses hath now no Power in a way of Administration if all be given to him and be his as I am satisfied it is And here its plain he only is here established Now it must not be admitted for any other to have a Tabernacle standing or builded with his No Though Peter would have had Three one for Moses one for Elias and one for Christ That Elias was already come mind and they have done to him whatever they would And is it not plain to you that this was Iohn the Baptist here spoken of and intended And yet mind neither Moses nor Elias must have a Tabernacle built with his but a Cloud came and took them away mark and Christ only left and a Voice from Heaven came saying This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him Oh! what would you have How clearly is it manifest unto all who walk not in Darkness that he only is by himself established to be heard in all things And saith the Apostle He that refuseth to hear this Prophet shall be cut off from off the Earth And again See ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not that refused him that spoak on Earth even Moses how shall ye escape if ye refuse him that speaks from Heaven whose Vo●ce then shook the Earth but now says he Yet once more will I not shake the Earth only but also Heaven mark that those things that cannot be shaken may remain Mind what must remain and how he alone even Christ is above all established And it s said again by Paul God saith he who at sundry Times and in divers Manners spak● in days past to the People by the Prophits hath in these last dayes spoken unto us BY HIS SON mark not by his SON and JOHN but by his SON whom He hath appointed Heir of all things mind So All Power is given unto me saith Christ Go ye therefore teach all Nations Baptizing them into the Name of the Father Son and Spirit or if you had rather have it Holy Ghost teaching them to observe whatever I command you and lo I am with you always even to the End of the World but tarry at Jerusalem till ye have received Power from an high for without me ye can do nothing So 't is not saith Peter by our Strength or Righteousness that this man is made whole Why stand ye gazing upon us as though by our Power Holiness it was done Be it known unto you that by the Name of JESUS whom ye crucified even by Faith in his Name is this Man made whole And said Paul I have laboured more abundantly then ye all yet not I but the Gift or the Grace of God that 's in me And so it was in his Strength that they were more then Conquerors and could do all things through Christ that strengthned them but before they could not before I say that they went in his Strength So there was need for them to wait at ●erusalem till they had received of his Fulness of which they all received Grace to help in Time of Need. But now mark They had not Need to have stay'd at Ierusalem for Power to have Baptized with Water for they had been doing that before and were Able enough for that Baptism but now they were to en●er upon a Greater Work and it is not they must do it but the Gift of God in and by them or the Power they received so saith Christ Lo I am with you and as many as received him to them he gave Power for all Power is given to me saith Christ ALL mark So though the Apostles as Men could not baptize into the Name of the Father Son and Spirit no more then we as men can do yet mark Christ in and by them can or us either and in and by them did and when the Apostles laid their Hands on them that believed the Holy Ghost fell upon them and sometimes when they were preaching unto them the Holy Ghost fell upon them yet it was not them that could so much as preach as they ought but Christ in and by them God speaks by his Son through his Vessels of Honour fitted for his Use so it s not them but Christ who also Raised the Dead Opened the Eyes of Blind Healed the Sick Cleansed the Lepers and many great and good Works did they yet not they but the Gift of God in them and by them and so they went in the Demonstration of the Spirit and of Power and preached Christ the Wisdom of God and the Power of God the Savour of Life unto Life IN THEM mark in them that are saved and the Savour of Death unto Death in them that perish But they never cryed out Water-Baptism is the Door for Christ Jesus said I am the Door by ME mark not Me and Water nor Me