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A88098	An after-reckoning with Mr Saltmarsh: or, An appeal to the impartiall and consciencious reader, and lover of truth and sincerity, against his last paper, called An end of one controversy, or an answer or letter to M. Leys large last book. Written by L.M. a student in divinity.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1870; Thomason E339_20; ESTC R200863	51,392	74

good reason at least to doubt of it yet is it very ancient and that in the judgement both of * Ibid. Protestant and Popish Authours r Origen in Rom 6. anno 226. Origen ſ Greg. Nazianz Orat. 40. in Sanct. Bapt. an 370. Greg. Nazianzen t Epiphan haeres 62. Sabell an 370. Epiphanius u Ambros Mediolanens de spir Sanct. l. 1. c. 4. an 374. Ambros Mediolanensis w Gaudent Brixiens Tract seu serm 14. an 390. Gaudentius Brixiensis x August l. 13. contra Maxim c. 13. an 420. Augustine y Cyril Alexand. lib de recta fide ad Theodos Imperat. c. 32. an 430. Cyrillus Alexandrinus z Gennad Massil lib. de Eccles Degmat c. 52 an 490. Gennadius Massiliensis a Fulgent lib contra objectiones Arianorum in epileg object 10. lib de Trinit ad felicene Notar c. 2. an 500. Fulgentius b Pri●sius in cap. 22. Apocalyps an 545. Primasius All these were in the first five hundred years after Christ In the sixth Century was Gregory sirnamed the Great of whom the saying is he was the last of the good Bishops of Rome the first of the bad and from him such as were held most Orthodox in all age both taught and administred Baptisme only In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost After the Fathers rose up a race of Divines called Schoolmen of whom the first and as it were the Father of the rest was c Petr. Lombard l. 4. sent dist ● p. 701. an 1145. Peter Lombard called the Master of the Sentences because he collected the sentences of the Divines of former ages and drew them into questions under severall titles in four books whereof the first is of the Unity of God-head and Trinity of persons And in the fourth book where be treats of the Sacraments he affirmeth that the Apostles Baptized both before and after the passion of our Saviour In the name of the Father Son and Holy ghost and according to him in this particular have the schoolmen that came after him resolved for the constant us of Baptisme in that form whereof to give in a Catalogue with their testimonies in a Chronologicall order for the times wherein they wrote would be a long labour and of little use since though universall consent of all sort of Authors make much for the honour and estimation of any truth yet in this case it is needles because there is no learned Reader will doubt of it and the ignorant will receive little satisfaction by a list of their names and Testimonies who are altogether unknowne unto them If we draw neerer home for time and place and conformity in religion we shall find the Doctrine and practise of the Reformed Churches concurring in this forme of Baptizing In the Name of the Father Son and Holy ghost which is a thing so well known by the Harmony and Syntagma of Confessions and by the observation of such as have lived among them that it were a superfluous paynes to produce the proofe of them in particular Unto plain and expresse Testimonies by words we may adde a reall testimony by action for baptizing In the name of the Trinity which is the practice of Baptizing by trine-immersion or thrice dinning and washing d Petr. Lomb. l. 4. Sent. Dist 3. p. 70● ex Greg. Ep. 41. Leandro Episc whereof two reasons are rendred by Gregory the one with significant relation to the Trinity of persons in the Unity of the Godhead the other to the sepulture of our Saviour for three dayes space but the principall is the former And this manner of Baptizing is very ancient for we find it the practice of the Church in e Dehinc termergitamur Tertul. de Corona milit c. 5. Ter ad singula nomina in personu singulu mergimur Idem advers Praxeam c. 26. Tortullians time so ancient that divers of the f Ambros l. 2. de Sacram c. 7. Hieron advers Luciscrum August Serm. 29. 201. de Tempore Fathers take it for an Apostolicall tradition and some have put it into an Apostolicall Canon to be observed upon a penalty in these words g Si quis episcopus aut Presbyter non trinam immersionem unius mysterij celebret sed semel mergat in baptismate quod dari videtur in Domini morte deponatur c. Can. Apost 50. If any Bishop or Prosbyter do not celebrate the mystery of Trine immersion or thrice dipping but dippe but once in baptisme which seemes to be given in the death of the Lord let him be deposed for the Lord said not Baptize ye in my death but going teach all nation baptizing them In the Name of the Father Son and holy ghost But these Canons are not Canonicall Orthodox Divines reject them as a parcell of Apocrypha and the e Vid Petr. Sete Praesat in Caranz Sum. Concil Papists themselves admit of them but in part and though if any should baptize but once out of an hereticall misapprehension of the blessed Trinity such a single immersion f Theodoret. l. 4. de haereticor fab might be condemned as it was in the Eunomians who in opposition to the Doctrine of the Trinity dipped but once yet there is no doubt but such as baptize in a sound sence and judgement of the unity of the Godhead and Trinity of persons though they do it but once doe not amisse g Petr. Lomb. l. 4. sent dist 3. p. 702. for both are lawfull and as the Schoolmen determine either of them may be used according to the various custome of orthodox Churches and for this the fourth Councell of Toledo h Concil Toletan 4. in some Edit Can. 5. Tom. 4. Concil p. 583. col 1. Edit Bin. 1636. made an expresse Canon decreeing for a single or simple dipping against another sort of hereticks who by a trine immersion professed more then a personal distinction of the Father Sonne and holy ghost as if they were of three distinct natures not three distinct persons onely and by this decree they endeavoured to take away a scandalous difference of Baptisme in Spain while some baptized with a single and some with a three fold immersion or dipping and by once dipping and thrice nameing of God by the Trinity of persons there was an Antidote provided against both sorts of heresies i Bonavent in 4. Seat dist 3. part 2. art 2. q. 1. and the manner was this At the first dipping the Father was named at the second the Sonne at the third the holy ghost The fourth Querie Whether any forme of baptisme be so necessary that it is not lawfull to vary from it The resolution of this Querie is very various For 1 Besides that we have observed before out of Bellarmine concerning Johns baptisme without any forme of words we are to observe 1 That some hold there is no set forme of Baptismeset downe in scripture which is necessary