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A89268 A brief discourse about baptisme. By Thomas Moore, for his friends. Moore, Thomas, Senior. 1649 (1649) Wing M2591; Thomason E579_5; ESTC R206159 44,120 47

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A Brief DISCOURSE ABOUT BAPTISME By THOMAS MOORE For his Friends LONDON Printed by Gar Dawson for Tho Brewster and G Moule at the Signe of the three Bibles under Mildreds Church in the Poultry 1649. TO THE READER CHristian Reader whoever thou art that takest so much pains as to peruse these ensuing lines I pray thee take not any thing in it as leading to contention it being writ to avoid it and with a desire to move all to union in minding that one Baptisme which is Baptisme indeed and so to a right understanding estimate and use of all the mediums or meanes of it by which it is effected and whereas three of them are of continuall and frequent exercise in the acting receit and usefulnesse and one of them but once done or acted and the use after in minding of it And that being it about which so much difference is fallen out among Brethren I having before writ a Treatise something large about it which hath been in the hands of many friends In which also I discoursed of the New Testament whose in-comming made the first old and decayed The unacquaintednesse wherewith as also of the extent and vertue of the Death and Ransome of Christ I conceive to be the cheif cause of manies miscarriage in conception of the right use of the Ordinance of baptizing with water and there also I gave ground of answer for all the Objections I had met with in books and for that cause and because divers have learnedly answered their Arguments I have forborn in this all such reasoning and have only applyed my self to the Scripture the Tennor of the Gospel and Commission given by Jesus Christ and touched upon the answer or faulting of nothing but what mine eares have heard from divers and in divers places yea even from such as I love and reverence or else of that I have in manuscripts sent to my self by some others of the same outward practice And in this I have avoided to go in a contentious way and as in love and with desire to prevent evill I have writ so I leave it to be tryed by the Scripture Consider it so and the Lord give us understanding in all things So prayeth thy Well willer in Jesus Christ THO. MOORE Wisbich Sept. 5. Anno 1649. Octob. 15. 1649. Imprimatur IOHN DOWNAME Of Baptisme commended since the Resurrection of Iesus Christ in the Evangelical and Apostolical Writings as that which hath great priviledges in it and promises to it TWo things are meet to be considered 1. What this Baptisme is 2. What the medium or by which effected 1. What this Baptisme is It is a Baptizing into Jesus Christ and so into his Death that one patrake of his resurrection through the faith of the operation of God Rom. 6.3 4. Gal. 3.27 Col. 2.12 And for the clearing of this to be Baptisme indeed and that it may more fully appeare what it is to be baptized into Jesus Christ foure things are considerable viz. 1. What Baptizing into Jesus Christ signifieth in Scripture language 2. What this Baptisme comprehendeth in it according to Scripture 3. Why or upon what occasion this name Baptisme is put upon this work of God and how long it hath been so called 4. That this gracious work of God in and upon a man is the Baptisme indeed and that which hath the special priviledges in and promises of life to it 1. For the first It apeareth by the Scripture that Baptizing into Jesus Christ signifieth A bringing into the knowledge belief and acknowledgement of Jesus Christ according to that great name of him set forth in the Gospel That one may in that belief and acknowledgement of Jesus to be the Christ and of that great name of his be humbled in himself and comforted in and renew'd by Christ and so washed or cleansed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God and so made one in Christ and conformed to him and when this is done a man is baptized indeed and though God in sending Gospel and Spirit enlightning convincing and bringing to an acknowledgment of Jesus to be the Christ and make profession of him may be truely said to have baptized men unto Christ yet if they have not yeilded to the operations of his grace so as that it come for be not effected They may also be truly said not to be baptized into Jesus Christ as of old when God gave his Word Oracle and statutes with such presence of his Spirit as he made the scum to come aloft he is said to have purged them yet they not yeelding up to his will and operations so as to have the scum cast off they are said not to be purged Ezek. 24.13 And this the Apostle would not have us ignorant of but gives us to learn thus much from our types that were and are recorded for our instruction namely That 1 Cor. 10.1.2 All our Fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the Sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the Sea Moses was the man that God had appointed to be their Deliverer Leader Ruler Prophet And he by whom he would deliver the Law or first Testament to them and he also to be the Mediator of that Testament But the people did not at first understand and acknowledge Moses to be such a one When God first put it in Moses heart to visit his Brethren and that he slew the Aegyptian that wronged an Israelite Moses supposed They would have understood this but they did not understand but refused him yet God did afterward send him to them to be a Ruler and Deliverer Acts 7.23 25-35 And when he did come with the Lords Message to them and shewed some signe among them They beleeved and bowed their heads and worshipped Exod. 3. 4.31 But when they came under some triall by sore affliction they altered their minds and chod Moses and Aaron as having done them great wrong Exod 5.20.21 And though by the mighty works of God they were overcome to keep the Passeover and follow Moses out of Aegypt and had the cloud going before them yet it appeares they were not brought to a right understanding and acknowledgment of Moses and that appears not onely by their fears when Pharaoh and the Aegyptians pursued them but by their words faulting Moses and declaring what had been their own saying to him in Aegypt Exo. 14.10.11.12 But when Moses from God quieted them and that God divided the Sea for them and put his cloud betwixt them and the Egyptians and had his people safely through the Sea to the shore and gave them to see the Egyptians drowned in the same sea Then they feared the Lord and beleeved the Lord and his servant Moses Exod. 14.31 And so from that time forward Moses was acknowledged a man of God though only such as yeelded up to the minde of God made known by him were the