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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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And if the blood of Sacrifices may be thought to have a nearer resemblance with the blood of Christ than water hath yet as the application of Christ's blood to our Souls for the cleansing of them is set forth by way of sprinkling whence his blood is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Dr. Ham. in loe the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 so the application of the blood of Sacrifices for cleansing was mostly made by sprinkling whence the Apostle Heb. 9.21 22. saith of Moses that he sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle and all the Vessels of the Ministry And that almost all things are by the Law purged with blood Thence we read of a Ram that was to be slain at the consecration of Aaron's Sons and his blood to be sprinkled round about upon the Altar Exod. 29.16 When a Bullock was to be offered for a burnt Sacrifice by any of the People in order to an atonement to be made for him the Sons of Aaron were to bring the blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the Altar Levit. 15. and so if it were of the Flocks ib. v. 11. So if it were a Peace-offering Levit. 3.8 13. So also if it were a Trespass-offering Levit. 7.2 So if it were a Sin-offering to be offered by the High-Priest for himself and for his House the blood of it was to be sprinkled seven times upon the Mercy-seat and before the Mercy-seat Levit 16.14 And the like was to be done if it were for the People ib. v. 15. and that in order to the making an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the Children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins ib. v. 16. And if the sin for which the Sacrifice was to be offered whether of the Priests or of the Peoples were a sin of ignorance the blood of it was to be sprinkled seven times before the Lord Levit. 4.6 17. Even whatsoever it was Ox Lamb or Goat that was to be sacrificed so was his blood to be disposed of Levit. 17. § 10. If then the application of that which typified the blood of Christ whether it were water or blood before the shedding of it was conveniently made and who dares question the conveniency of it since it was by God's appointing to be made by sprinkling how can then the application of water in baptism by sprinkling whereby the washing of our Souls from sins and the cleansing of our Consciences from defilements by the blood of Christ that blood of sprinkling now that it is shed is represented and signified be any other but a most agreeable action and the party to whom it is so applied be most truly said to be baptized And the remonstrating of this is the discharge of the Second part of my undertaking § 11. The Third whereto I shall now advance is the shewing of the agreeableness of baptizing by other ways than a total immersion with the Practice of the Church CHAP. X. Other ways of baptizing besides that of a total immersion used in the Church in all or most Ages and Places of it § 1. LET no Man think here that I intend to demonstrate sprinkling or any other way of baptizing less than a total immersion to have been either the only or the most general way of administring that Sacrament I am too well assured by a multitude of evidences of the contrary thereunto to undertake that But this is that which I design to evince that how general soever the way of baptizing by a total dipping may by some be imagined to be and perhaps that may in the issue appear not to have been so general as it is by them imagined yet it was not the only way but a baptism by aspersion affusion tinging or wetting with water or however by a partial mersation has been practised in the Church from the Primitive to the present times whereof I shall give either real demonstrations or probable arguments in all or most of the Ages § 2. For the first Age to begin with that there were few except the Apostles and Evangelists that writ any thing and of what they wrote little is left and of that little nothing that I know of concerns the question in hand The Reason may well be conceived to have been because it then was no question and the rather because we find the Practice we contend for in being in after Ages which is a fair inducement to believe it to have been derived from thence to them unless it could be certainly told when where and by whom it was afterward first introduced into the Church Our Intelligence then must be fetcht for this Age all from the Holy Scriptures And there also things do not appear with so bright a light as to force a conviction upon a prejudiced or prepossessed understanding but after all that can be said contrary minded persons if of stubborn temper may think themselves to have sufficient matter whereon to ground a contradiction What probabilities then and I will not pretend to more than a probability of such a practice in the Apostles Age as I have either conceived of my self or received from others I will here fairly communicate and then leave the Reader to make his judgment upon the matter Quod universa tenet Ecclesia nec Conciliis institutum sed semper retentum est non nisi Authoritate Apostolicà traditum rectissimè creditur D Aug. de Bapt. contr Donat. l. 4. c. 24. only desiring him in the mean time to have an eye on St. Augustin's judgment touching such immemorial usages as the Catholick Church holds and ever hath held and have not come into use by the institution of any Council that they are rightly believed to have been delivered down to it by no less than an Authority Apostolical § 3. And I begin with the Baptism of those first Converts that the Apostles did after the sealing of their Commission by the descent of the Spirit upon them admit into the Church by that Ceremony Upon the day of Pentecost St. Peter preach'd to a great but confused multitude By his Sermon thousands were converted and of those Converts whatever were afterward no fewer as is conceived than three thousand were the same day baptized The question here is in what way they were baptized whether by immersion or by aspersion And the improbabilities of the former have made learned persons to conceive it was by the latter It is not likely saith Zanchie that they were baptized any other way than by sprinkling Confirmatur exemplo Petri in Actis cap. 2. qui statim post concionem legitur baptizâsse 3000. Baptizati inquit Lucas nempe per Petrum ut Interpretes exponunt fucrunt Non videtur autem veri simile fuisse aliâ ratione baptizatos quàm aspersione aquae Hier. Zanch. de cultu dei externo l. 1. col 494. Et verisimile est quòd non per modum immersionis sed aspersionis