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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

saith he did not Christ say You are clean by the Baptism wherewith you have keep washed but you are clean by the Word c. Nisi quia in Aqua verbum mundat Surely saith he because the Water of it self cannot cleanse us but 't is the Word the Word in Water Detrahe verbum take away the Word and what is Water but Water Accedit Verbum ad Elementum fit Sacramentum So that Word and Water the outward Element and the inward Spirit to enliven it must go together Titus 3.5 The Form of Baptism you have fully and in terminis delivered Matth. 28.19 In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Canus a School m●n cannot tell whether the Apostles did use those very words this very Form or not because some places in the Scripture seem to say the contrary as Acts 2.38 Acts 8.16 They are there said to Baptize only in the Name of the Lord Jesus And in Acts 10.48 Peter commands Cornelius and his Houshold and Friends to be baptized In the Name of the Lord. The e Catech. ad paroch Councel of Trent tells us That the Apostles did indeed for some time baptize In the Name of Jesus Christ only That by this means in the Infancy of the Church The Name of Jesus Christ might become more famous and renowned And that they did this Afflatu Spiritus Sancti Ambrose and Basil interpret the words In the Name of Jesus Christ to be nothing else but non in Baptismo Johannis Not in the Name or with the Baptism of John But this can no way satisfie those who take the Baptism of Christ and his Fore-runner to be all one Some tell us In the Name of Christ implies the whole Trinity The Anoynter the Anoynted and he per quem the holy Ghost Others In the Name that is By the power and authority given by Christ Calvin denies those places to be meant of the Form of Baptism Anw f Mr. Gill spye in Aarons Rod. l. 2. c. 7. p. 238. and so Mr. Rogers in Bethshemesh l. 2. c. 4. c. 9. Writer distinguishing of Words and Actions tells us That in Baptism Christ doth not command us either this In the Name of Christ or that other In Nomine Patris c. Matth. 28. But we are commanded to do the Thing Sure we are and as the Thing so the Words also I willingly here omit those strange Baptisms in Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 18. nor will I trouble you with those Opinions of Cajetan Victoria and Pope Nicolas and what miserable shifts the careful Canus is driven to that he might save and salve the Credit of his Pope Again I shall forbear to speak of those Accessories in Popish Baptism as The putting of Salt into the Mouth of the baptized The anoynting of their Ears and Nostrils with spittle The Chrism for the crown of the head A burning Wax-candle for the hand The Alb Milk and I know not what These may have I confess certain significations not unprofitable But the Burden of Ceremonies was long since buried And we may justly fear that of putting to Deut. 12.32 or that in Isai 1.12 Who required this And therefore we content our selves as with the Form so with the Formalities prescribed u● by our Master And Scriptum est must be our Guide Yet if ought conduce to Decency we are content we do embrace it But with the Law of Liberty which teacheth us to make a difference between the Necessity of Obedience and the Necessity of the Thing commanded Something here m●ght be said touching Immersion and a plunging in Effusion and a pouring on Or the Aspersio Aquae now most in fashion the but besprinkling of the water on the parties which are to be baptized So likewise touching that other Quaere De unica trina c. Whither this diving dipping pouring sprinkling call it what you will must be done Thrice or but Once How eagerly here have I heard some Men to plead against Antiquity abusing a Spanish Councel to that purpose The fourth of Toledo Our Conclusion for this time shall be that of Gregory the Great Atque ita Cyprian l. 1. Ep. 6. ad Magnum approved by Calvin in Acts 8.38 Sive una sive trina c. Whether it be done once or thrice the Baptism is good And as Josephus Angles Mos cujusvis Ecclesiae servandus est In things accessory and indifferent alterare iterare The Church may alter add any thing so it be done with Decency and for Orders sake Part 2. To whom it appertained to Baptize J. Angles q. 3. de Ministro Baptism Art 1. di 1. The Papists tell us roundly To All. To Priests to Laicks Women Hereticks Turks Jews and All. All in some Cases may baptize Quicunque cujuscunque Conditions in extream Necessity and as they call it in Articulo Mortis But I demand whose that Office is and to whom was that Authority given Doubless to those and those alone to whom 't was said Go and teach all Nations Matth. 28.19 Go and teach Go and baptize Teach and Baptize go together He whose calling is not warrantable for the one cannot doubtless without a grand Impiety presume the other What should any one object to us the Example of a Frantick Woman that of Zipporah Exod. 4. who in a rage cutteth of the Fore-skin of her Son whiles we as well might urge the Example of a fearful or forgetful man who had so long been so remiss and negligent in the performance of so great a Duty and that strict Command But doubtless neither should be urged because neither may be followed Examples without Precepts Non cogunt There is a Canon in the fourth Councel of Carthage Mulier baptizare non praesumat Let not a Woman presume to baptize And saith not the Scripture the same 1 Cor. 14.34 1 Tim. 2.12 Indeed Solis Presbyteris convenit solenniter say their Schools Angles ubi supra None but a Priest can do it solemnly And I say none should do this solemn work but solemnly much less a Woman and least of all a Turk or Jew however a Pope approve such Baptism But one Opinion begets another and whiles they shew themselves such Duri Patres Infantum as 't was said of the g August best of them such bloody Censurers of all unbaptized Children they forget the tender Mercy and Compassion of the Almighty c. That supposed absolute Necessity of Baptism which wrung so many tears from so many millions of Mothers eyes whiles their poor Babes dyed unbaptized made men invent that comfortless Comfort of baptizing by Women nay by Infidels in Case of Necessity The Scripture is plain Ite baptizate They must be sent that do this work They must have a Mission and Commission They may not run before they be sent nor go before a Call and a lawful Call least they offer strange fire with Nadab and Abihu or with Vzza perish for