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A00887	The life and gate of Christianitie entreating of the sacrament of baptisme, deuided into five bookes. Contayning the effects, the mater, the forme, the baptiser, and the partie baptised: with the reasons and use of all the auntient rites and ceremonies. ... Composed, gathered, and written by O.A. ...	Almond, Oliver.	1614 (1614)	STC 11; ESTC S100511	119,637	234

Ioa. 23. who did not disdaine with his owne hands to wash their feete And surely considering Christe was to committe this office and function of Baptizing by speciall commission to his Apostles and Disciple● it is likely he would first Baptize his seruants who were to be Baptizers of others VVe must take heed sayeth S. Augustine that we doe not say Aug. ep 108. that the Apostles were not Baptized with water but only with the Holy Ghost least we giue occasion to others to contenme Baptisme and that we our selues in so saying be not found to striue against Apostolicall practise discipline and order For Cornelius and those who were with S Peter although they receaued the Holy Ghost yet notwithstanding they were Baptized with water So that the receauing of the holy Ghost did nor take away the Baptisme of water Ibid. And further sayeth this holy doctour VVe ought in no case to doubt although there be no exprese mention in Scripture made therof but that the Apostles were Baptised with water in respect of that generall sentence which Christ hath pronounced Ioa. 3. Nisi quis renatus c. Vnlesse a man be borne againe of water and the Holy Ghost he s●all not enter into the kingdome of heauen And in particular he proueth S. Peter to haue bene Baptised out of those words of Christ Qui lotus est non indiget nisi vt pedes lauet c. He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feete but is cleane whollie As if he should haue sayed you haue bene washed Baptised by me alreadie and therfore you are whollie cleane now you need no more Or my will is no further but to wash your feete only When. S. Peter vpon humilitie thought himself vnworthie that Christ should wash his feete Christ sayed If I doe not washe thy feete thou shalt haue no parte withe me S. Peter hearing this made this petition Non tantum pedes sed caput manus Then o Lord not only my feet but my head and handes Christ answered He that is washed needeth not but to washe his feete So that I may conclude that Christ with his owne handes did Baptise his Apostles or some of them it remaineth only to accord those two places of Scripture in S. Iohn which seeme contrarie Christus Baptizabat Christus non Baptizabat Io. 3. 4. sed Discipuli eius Christ did Baptize and Christ did not Baptize but his Disciples I answere they are not contrarie but both true Christ did Baptize at the first institution and begining of his Baptisme and then afterwarde Christ did not Baptise himself but committed this office and function to his Disciples as proper vnto them and he himself tooke a higher charge and care vpon him which was to preach and teach and confirme by miracles So did also the Apostles after Christs ascension in the begining Baptize them selues but afterwards that their preaching might not be hindered they committed this office and function as proper to the Priest and betooke them selues To Euangelize 1. Cor. 1. and not Baptise as S. Paule sayeth So that we may vnderstand S. Iohn when he sayeth That Christ did not Baptize but his Disciples that is he did not ordinarilie by himself with his owne hands Baptize all sorts of people but only some of his Apostles and Disciples And when he had done thus he gaue commission to them as his Ministers to Baptize all others Wherfore when Christ sayed vpon the day of his ascension that his Apostles should be baptized with the Holy Ghost vpon the day of Pentecoste we must not so vnderstand as though they had not bene Baptized before with water but that they should be cleansed Baptized and inflamed with a speciall internall infusion of the grace of the holy Ghost vnder the visible forme of fierie tongues as hauing therby no ordinarie baptisme but an extraordinarie gift of the Holy Ghost to speake with tongues and by an especiall grace of his heauenly spirit that they might Euangelize with courage Christ crucified which was then Scandalum Iudaeis stultitia Gentibus A Scandall to the Iewes and foolishnes to the Gētiles therfore stood in neede of extraordinarie gift grace and fortitude CAP. 2. VVhether it doth belong to the Priest only Ex officio by Office and frunction to Beptize IT is the generall opinion of Catholike Diuines that ordinarilie by office and function it appertaineth onlie to Priests to Baptize This word only must not exclude Bishops for that they are also Priests and doe Baptize as Priests Yea in the opinion of some although the Priest by office and function in his ordination in that he is made Prieste hath this power to Baptize yet because it is a matter of Iurisdiction he doeth exercise it with a subordination and dependencie of the Bishoppe As also the Priest hath by ordination in that he is made Priest power to absolue from sinne Yet because the acte of Absolution is an acte of Iurisdiction and Iurisdiction is proper to a Bishoppe he can not vse and exercise this power except in case of necessitie but within such limites as the Bishops shall appoynt So then ordinarilie by office and function it appertayneth to the Priest only to Baptize and not to the Bishop as Bishop Werfore altough the Bishop may doe it yet we can not say he doth it Ex officio as Bishop but as Priest And this appeareth and may be proued out of S. Paule of whom there is no doubt but he was a Bishop yet he sayeth that Christ sent him 1. Cor. 1. To Euangelize not to Baptize for that it is not by Christs Commission and institution the office of a Bishop to Baptize by himself as in his owne person but ordinarilie it is committed by office and function as belonging to the Priest Yet in the same place S. Paule recordeth that he Baptized some fewe as Crispus and Caius and the house of Stephanus but not as belonging to the office of a Bishop but as he was a Priest Obiect True it is and may well be obiected that that Christ gaue this commission to his Apostles not only to teach but also to Baptize saying Going teach yee all nations Baptizing them Mat. 28. but the Bishophs are successours to the Apostles Therfore the Bishops haue by office and function also to Baptize To this obiection I answere with that worthie Doctour S. Thomas Tho. 3. p. q. 67. art 2. that Christ gaue in charge to his Apostles and so consequently to Bishops both functions that is to teach and to Baptize The first as principall to be exercised and performed by themselues in their own persons The second that is to Baptize to be committed by them to the Priests as proper to their office To manifest and make this plaine S. Iohn in his Ghospell sayeth That Iesus himself did not Baptize Io● 4. but his Disciples were they that did Baptize Wherby it is