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A67270	Baptismōn didachē, the doctrine of baptisms, or, A discourse of dipping and sprinkling wherein is shewed the lawfulness of other ways of baptization, besides that of a total immersion, and objections against it answered / by William Walker ...	Walker, William, 1623-1684.	1678 (1678)	Wing W417; ESTC R39415	264,191	320

as Bellarmin saith an 1240 and was Canonized by Innocent IVth it seemed that baptism ought so to be administred in some kind of vessel that the party to be baptized might be dipped into the water he tells you Tamen hoc non intelligas de necessitate baptismi scilicet ut fiat immersio sed potest fieri etiam per modum effusionis vel aspersionis Et hoc maximè est verum quando consuetudo Ecclesiae hoc patitur vel quando necessitas incumbit propter defectum aquae sive periculum pueri de cujus morte timetur vel etiam propter imbecillitatem sacerdotis non potentis sustentare infantem In his enim casibus similibus sufficit quòd caput aspergatur vel super caput aqua effundatur vel in aquam mergatur tanquam pars principalior Lynwood Constitution l. 3. c. de Baptismo ejus effectu super verbum Vas illud in Constitutione Edmundi that you are not to understand it to be of the necessity of baptism that there be dipping but that it may be dispatched by way of effusion or aspersion that is sprinkling And this saith he is especially true when the custome of the Church permits it to be done or when there is a necessity for it by reason of want of water or fear of the Childs death or weakness of the Priest not able to bear up the Infant For in these and the like cases it is sufficient if the head be sprinkled or have water poured upon it or as being the more principal part if it be dipped into water Whether then it be any circumstance in the case that leads thereto or whether it be the custom of the Church that is the Inducer unto it baptism however performed by pouring or sprinkling of water on the Party baptized though he be not totally dipped is at least in the judgment of this Learned Man sufficient § 98. A little after about An. Chr. 1370. flourished John Wickliff and taught here in England And he having first declared it an Ordination of the Church that any believer might in case of necessity be baptized adds thereto that it mattered not Et ordinavit Ecclesia quòd qualibet persona fidelis in necessit●tis articulo peterit baptizari nec refert sive immergantur semel vel ter sive aquae super capita sua effundantur sed faciendum est secundùm consuetudinem loci quem quis incolit tam in uno legitimo ritu quàm in alio Jo. Wickliff Trialog l. 4. c. 11. whether they were dipped once or thrice or whether water were poured upon their heads but that every one was to act according to the custom of the place he lived in as well in one lawful rite as in another By which it is most evident that he held pouring of water on the head a lawful rite in baptism as well as dipping the body into water or else he would never have left it so at liberty as he did to have it done either way with a non refert it matters not which way it is done And so how much soever the Anabaptists think Wickliff was for them he was not for the necessity of a total immersion in baptizing § 99. In the Fifteenth Century about An. Chr. 1452. flourished Nicolaus de Orbellis And upon the question whether a Child could be baptized whilst in the Mother's Womb he resolves that if it were wholly in it could not be baptized but that if any principal part as the head were out it might be baptized in that part Aut patet pars principalis puta caput tunc potest baptizari in illa parte in hoc simpliciter baptizari Non enim est verisimile quòd in die Pentecostes quando baptizati sunt tria millia quòd quilibet lavaretur quantum ad totum corpus suum in aquâ sed praecisè quantum ad faciem aspergendo vel quantum ad caput perfundendo Nicol. de Orbellis in 4. Sentent dist 4. q. 1. de Baptismo fol. 10. a. and that such baptizing was sufficient without any more ado But that baptizing could not be of the whole person therefore his opinion was that less than a total immersion was sufficient to speak a complete baptism But his own reason which he adds to his opinion will put all out of doubt For saith he it is not probable that when on the day of Pentecost Three Thousand were baptized every ones Body was washed all over with water i. e. was dipped but his Face only by sprinkling or his Head by pouring water upon it § 100. In this Century about An. Chr. 1480. flourished Angelus Clavasius Author of the Angelic Summe of Cases of Conscience And he having delivered the several Opinions there were as to the manner of baptizing one holding that all was to be washed another the head or face or breast declares at last what the opinion was which was most commonly held namely that the Infant T●netur tamen communis sc sententia quod qualitercunque contingatur est baptizatus quòd sufficiat aspersio quantumcunque modica in casu necessitatis Angel de Clavasio Summa Angelica fol. 25. b col 2. which way soever he be touched i. e. with the water was baptized and that a sprinkling how little soever it were was sufficient in case of necessity § 101. In this Century towards the latter end of it Sed detur quòd puer partim sit in utero pars extrà baptizetur nunquid est baptizatus V. Dicendum quòd si pars principalis est extra ut caput tunc potest baptizari nec est postmodum rebaptizandus Guil. Vorrilong in l. 4. Sent. dist 4. fol. 126. col 1. Edit Venet. An. 1503. flourished Guil. Vorrilong So I suppose because his Book was printed at Venice Anno 1502. And in case part of a Child in the Birth appeared out of the Womb whilst part was within if that part which appeared out was a principal part as the head his opinion was that then the Child might be baptized by an application of water to that part and was not after to be baptized again Which clearly shews that he held a baptizing by other than a total immersion lawful and sufficient § 102. In the Sixteenth Century to pass by the Christians of St. Thomas in India and the Habassins in Africa who baptize their Infants sooner than the time of Forty days if there be any danger of their dying before which so great care for their Souls cannot be without some care for their Bodies which would little appear if for the saving of the one they should unnecessarily destroy the other and so is like other examples of the same sort an intimation at least of a baptism by other gentler ways than that of a total immersion among those Christians We are told by Johannes Faber in an Epistle of his to Ferdinand King of the Romans dated An. 1525. Cùm puer

then held unlawful 3. That Sprinkling was especially allowed in cases of necessity weakness danger of death or want of conveniency for immerging 4. That in this case God requires mercy rather than Sacrifice 5 That the main ends of baptism are this way obtained 6. That the Mystical effects of it are as truly represented this way as by dipping though not so plainly So grave a witness was Dr. Cave against Sprinkling in Baptism § 5. Bishop Jewel is the next that Mr. Danvers makes to appear in this cause And he as Mr. D. tells us in his Apologie p. 308. brings the Council of Wormes determining the manner of Baptism thus viz. That the dipping into the water is the going down into Hell or the Grave and that the coming out of the water is the Resurrection § 6. But B. Jewel hath nothing of this in his Apology which I read all over to find it Missing it there I sought for it in Caranzas Epitome of the Councils but that hath nothing of it neither Then I searched the Councils at large in Surius and there I found what that Council said in reference to this matter as also at last in B. Jewels Defense of his Apology part 2. pag. not 308 but yet 309 And it is plain to every man that has but a drachm of brains in his Skull that the Council there doth not determine the manner of Baptism as Mr. D. would make the B. say it doth but only declareth the meaning of that way of Baptizing when persons are dipped namely that going into the water represents going down into a grave or a burial and that coming out of the water represents a coming out of the grave or a resurrection The words of the Council as they are in Surius are these Et nè fortè cuiquam sit dubium hujus simplex mysterium Sacramenti Vormatiense Concil Can. 5. de Baptismi Sacramento ap Surium Tom. 3. p. 522. videat in eo mortem resurrectionem Christi significari Nam in aquis mersio quasi in infernum descensio est rursum ab aquis emersio resurrectio est Therefore so B. Jewel reports part of them in the Council of Wormes it is written thus In aquas demersio in Infernum descensio est rursus ab aquis emersio resurrectio est The dipping into the water is the going into hell and the coming out from the water is the Resurrection So no determination here of the manner of Baptism to be by dipping but only a declaration of the meaning of that Ceremony when the person baptized is dipped § 7. Now to requite Mr. D. for his Quotation out of B. Jewel Et credimus baptismum quidem Sacramentum esse remissionis peccatorum ejus ablutionis quam habemus in Christi sanguine ab eo neminem qui velit profiteri nomen Christi ne infantes quidem Christianorum hominum quoniam nascuntur in peccato pertinent ad populum dei arcendos esse Juelli Apol. p. 38. edit Londin 1581. I will before I part give him one out of that his Author also telling him that Bishop declares the Church of Englands belief of Baptism to be a Sacrament not of immersion or dipping which is but the Secondary consideration in that Sacrament but of that which is primary and principal in it namely that ablution or washing which we have in or by the blood of Christ and also that she believeth not only that none who are willing to profess the name of Christ but no Infants of Christian Parents in regard they are born in sin and belong to the people of God are to be kept from it § 8. Next to B. Jewel succeeds Mr. Baxter And saith Mr. D. most remarkable is the Testimony Mr. Baxter himself gives to this Truth wherein he also owns the changing of the Ceremony in his third Argument against Mr. Blake in these words viz. § 9. Quoad modum To the manner saith he it is commonly confessed by us to the Anabaptists as our Commentators declare that in the Apostles time the Baptized were dipped over head in water and that this signifieth their profession both of believing the Burial and Resurrection of Christ and of their own present renouncing the world and flesh or dying to sin and living to Christ or rising again to newness of life or being buried and risen again with Christ as the Apostle expoundeth in the forecited Texts of Coloss 2. and Rom. 6. And though saith he we have thought it lawful to disuse the manner of dipping and to use less water yet we presume not to change the use and signification of it So then he that signally professeth to die and rise again in Baptism with Christ doth signally profess saving Faith and Repentance but this do all they that are baptized according to the Apostles practice § 10. I answer that I see nothing in this Testimony that merits so triumphant a Remark to be set upon it for any advantage that is given to Mr. Danvers Cause by it Mr. Baxter confesseth that in the Apostles time the baptized were dipped over head in water But he doth not confess that they were dipped over Body too Plainly that which Mr. Baxter confesseth amounts but to a partial mersation of the head and doth not necessarily imply a total immersion of the Body unless it were impossible for a man to have his head dipped in water except his whole body were dipped into it also And if that will do Mr. D. any service much good d'it him with his Testimony The like we have shewn in these Papers from St. Augustin and St. Hierom c. But that will not do the Dippers business whom nothing will serve but a total Judaical immersion of the whole Body And the change Mr. Baxter speaks of I suppose to be from this partial dipping into sprinkling which granted signifies nothing § 11. But suppose he meant what he said of a total immersion then I judge his sense was that generally the baptized were in the Apostles time dipped over head in water not universally that most were so baptized not that none were baptized otherwise And then his Confession will neither hurt himself nor us § 12. But if he meant more than so then since he hath at the same time declared himself to have thought it lawful to difuse the i. e. that manner of Dipping and to use less water it is plain he thought the Church not to be obliged by that Apostolical practice to an universal observance thereof through all successions of Ages but to have power to make alteration even in Sacramentals so they were but Circumstantial and not Essential parts of Worship And so the producing of his Testimony seems to be but a wresting of his words to signifie what was not in his mind which whether it be fair or no I leave to Mr. D. himself to consider § 13. If I have not spoken Mr. Baxter's mind or have not spoken it

not obliged to communicate with us in our Error For however erroneously we baptize our own People you are not tyed up by us to that way of baptizing Whoe're of you wants baptism for himself or for any of his may have it performed among us by Dipping And I do believe that never any who desired was denyed to be so baptized by any Minister of the Church of England § 13. Wherefore since ye were initiated into Christianity among us and were of us before ye went out from us I will say to you as Mr. Brightman Rev. 3.20 a Man sometime of great esteem among the Men of your way said to some that forsook the Communion of this Church in his time Redite ad Ecclesiam qua vos genuit aluit Return to the Church that bred and brought you up and do not obstinately continue in that pernicious way of Separation from it If ye must be separating let it be from the company of Schismatical Congregations and joyn your selves to the Society of Catholick Christians Help to heal the breach you have made in the Church by returning to Unity with that Society from whose community ye brake off and strengthen those Hands by your Conjunction which ye have weakened by your Separation § 14. 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