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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61901	Of publick baptism a sermon / preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel, Sunday, Nov. 20, 1692 by Philip Stubs.	Stubs, Philip, 1665-1738.	1693 (1693)	Wing S6079; ESTC R28859	17,720	37

Mr. STUBS'S SERMON OF Publick Baptism BEFORE THE LORD MAYOR c. Fleet Major Martis vj. Die Decembris 1692. Annoque Regis Reginae Willielmi Mariae Angl ' c. Quarto THis Court doth desire Mr. Stubs to Print his Sermon Preached at Guild-Hall-Chapel on Sunday the 20th Day of November last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City GOODFELLOW Imprimatur Decembr 9. 1692. Guil. Lancaster R. P. D. Henrico Episc Lond. a sacris Domesticis OF Publick Baptism A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable THE LORD MAYOR AND THE Court of Aldermen AT Guild-Hall-Chapel Sunday Nov. 20. 1692. By PHILIP STVBS A. M. Fellow of Wadham-College Oxon. And Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT Lord Bishop of CHICHESTER LONDON Printed for Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOHN FLEET Kt. LORD MAYOR Of the CITY of LONDON And to the Court of Aldermen Right Honourable THE unexpected Success this plain Discourse by the Blessing of God met with from a kind Auditory in this City for whose private Benefit 't was not long since I must confess but too hastily drawn up as it prompted me at first to offer it before the most publick Assembly therein at Guild-Hall-Chapel so the Hopes of its farther Vsefulness makes me now readily comply with Your Honour's Commands for its Publication in order thereunto That it may have it s design'd Effect in contributing though never so little to the Retrieving so Ancient so Vniversal so Religious I may say so necessary a Practice as is the subject Matter of it and by Consequence to the farther Promoting of God's Glory in the greater Good of his Church in general and the Welfare of particular Christians is the Hearty Desire of Right Honourable Your most Humble Most Obedient Servant PHIL. STVBS A SERMON Before the LORD MAYOR c. St. MATTH xxviij 19. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost THE Text is a full Commission deliver'd out by our Saviour to his Apostles when he had just finish'd the glorious work of our Redemption and was now Ascending up again unto his Father whereby he impowers them to extend the benefits of his Passion by Baptism as far as he design'd they should reach even to the utmost parts of the Earth For as he himself had spent his whole time in Judea and the Regions thereabout amongst the Jews God's peculiar People so he commands them whom he had fully instructed in every Particular of his Doctrine to communicate it to the Gentiles Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost From which Words I may take Occasion to speak of these Five Heads I. Of the Nature of Baptism in general II. Of the Persons here authoriz'd to Baptize III. Of the Persons to be Baptiz'd IV. Of the Form of Baptism And Lastly Of the Time and Place when and where this Sacrament ought to be administred Of the Four first there being no difference about them either as to Principle or Practice amongst those of our Communion I shall say little more at present than what may serve by way of Introduction as it were to the last Particular which I have design'd for the main Subject of my ensuing Discourse Wherein I shall with all the Brevity and Plainness I can endeavour to demonstrate the Unreasonableness of continuing that corrupt Custom crept in among us and which of late Years has prevail'd more especially in this City of Baptizing Children in Private Houses contrary to the earnest pious Desires and Endeavours of our Clergy the declared Sense and Usage of the Catholick Church all along the express Orders and Constitutions of that sound Part of it whereof we boast our selves Members and the very Reason and Design of the Institution it self to the no small Dishonour of God Almighty in hindring the greater Promotion of his Glory and the Edification of many Religious well-dispos'd Christians But before I enter professedly upon this Argument I am to speak a Word or two briefly on the four just mention'd Heads And I. Of the Nature of Baptism in general Now Baptism signifies properly an Immersion Dipping or Washing the whole Body in Water and was a Ceremony used among the Heathens as well as the Jews upon the Admission of any new Converts to their Religion By which Washing was signified the Cleansing of the Persons so baptized from their former Pollutions and their Resolution of continuing Pure and Unspotted for the future This Ceremony being very innocent and very significant the Holy Jesus was willing to continue it in his Church leaving out the other of Circumcision which signified but the same thing and was more injurious to Men's Health and to their Modesty I say Baptism signifies properly an Immersion Dipping or Washing the whole Body in Water And so it was practis'd in the Primitive Times after the manner of John's Baptism who chose the River Jordan and such Places where there was much Water for the Convenience of such an Immersion For so it is expresly said of him That John was baptizing in Enon S. Joh. 3.23 near to Salim because there was much Water there After this manner the Eunuch in Acts 8. was baptized by S. Philip Acts 8.38 for 't is said They went down both into the Water both Philip and the Eunuch and he baptized him And indeed this Dipping all over in Water is thought by some more significant than any other sort of Baptism for hereby is denoted the Cleansing the whole Man from Sin the being buried with Christ in Baptism which is signified by the Immersion or Dipping in Water and the Rising to a Newness of Life which is signified by the Emersion or Rising out of it again But yet it is not so necessary but it may be omitted in favour of the Weakness of the Person to be baptiz'd and the Pouring or Sprinkling of Water us'd instead of it as has been the Practice of these Northern Countries in the Baptism of Children whose tender Bodies cannot endure a total Immersion and of the first Ages of the Church in favour of Sick and Bed-rid Persons who desir'd to become Christians For as God Almighty is tender of our Souls so he takes care of our Bodies too and his Laws are so far from injuring our Healths that they highly improve them Upon which Account it is not to be imagin'd that the Ceremony of Admission into the Christian Religion should be more difficult than that into the Jewish Covenant or that Children should be oblig'd to become Martyrs as soon as they are made Proselytes But here it may be started That admitting this Washing Dipping or Sprinkling to be the Ceremony of my Admission into Covenant with Christ How doth it hence appear that Christ thereby enters into Covenant