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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38578	Anabaptism considered Wherein the chief objections of that sect against infant-baptism, and the manner of baptizing by aspersion, or sprinkling, are fairly stated and answered; and reasons given why dipping is not to be taken as the essential or necessary mode of administration. In a familiar letter of advice to a parishioner inclining that way. By William Eratt, M.A. and minister of Hatfield near Doncaster.	Eratt, William, 1655 or 6-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing E3220; ESTC R200374	28,824	40

through Christ with a thankful Remembrance of his Death and to be in charity with all men So that whether we respect the Conditions qualifying a worthy Communicant or the end of his receiving that Duty cannot be expected from babes but from those who are Proficients are grown up in the Knowledge and Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ And this I hope you will take as a sufficient Answer to this Objection and we may therefore go on Having then shewn both from matter of Fact and matter of Right that Infants ought to be baptized let us make forward to the second branch of the first Exception against the baptizing of Children namely Repentance the Scripture saying Repent and be baptized This I hope will not take us up much time so pray Neighbour let us to it Obj. Thus then object our Adversaries and argue upon it Repentance ought to precede Baptism but Infants cannot repent and therefore should not be baptized I answer There are two kinds of Sins generally speaking Original and Actual As to the first I say the Obedience of the second Adam is as extensive as the Prevarication of the first Adam and that there are no other means revealed unto us to wash off this stain in Infants but Baptism and so most reasonable and necessary that they should as you have heard before be Partakers of this Sacrament but of actual Sins they being not guilty of those they have no occasion to repent So that the Exhortation of St. Peter Repent and be baptized does not at all concern Infants but adult Persons and this will be undeniable if we observe the occasion and purport of the Discourse preceding the same So it was that the Feast of Pentecost being come and vast numbers of People residing then at Jerusalem to keep the Feast both Jews and Proselites of divers Nations as Parthians Medes Elamites c. the Apostles being met there also and assembled together in one of the upper Rooms of the Temple as their daily custom was whilst they were performing divine Service Vid. Dr. Hammond on Acts 1.13 compared with cap. 2. ver 1. it pleased Almighty God at that time to pour down upon them the miraculous Gift of the Holy Ghost hereupon they began immediately to speak unto the People in their Master's Name and upon his Business in their several Tongues and Languages The Rumour of this brought a mighty Concourse to them at the Temple Now the People finding it even so as it was told them whilst Peter and the rest of the Apostles expounded unto them the Doctrines of the Christian Faith many of them were convicted in their Consciences at what they had seen and heard and therefore cried our of a sudden Men and Brethren What shall ue do Answer was made by Peter and the rest of the Apostles Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins And this plainly shews that Repentance here required before Baptism was of adult Persons whether Jews or Profelites for in this case they are all one that they shou'd be heartily sorry for all the actual Sins they had been guilty of resolve to become new Men and to believe in the Lord Jesus that so they might be qualified for Baptism the initiating Seal of the Covenant of Faith This is therefore the Apostolical Doctrine touching the baptizing of adult Persons they ought to repent and believe to qualifie them for receiving the Seal of the said Covenant And so far our Mother the Church doth agree with the Anabaptists if this is their Doctrine as may be seen in her Office of Baptism of those of riper Years Thus the Exhortation before it runs Save your selves from this untoward Generation for that Baptism doth now save not by the putting away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience And the Rubrick expresly requires That due care be taken for the Examination of such Persons as are to be so baptiz'd and that they prepare themselves with Prayers and Fasting for this holy Sacrament I need say no more on this Head and I hope this Point will give you no occasion to leave the Church Having then agreed thus well in this matter I shall be glad if we can close so well in the next Objection and that is as touching the Manner or Mode of Baptizing Second General Objection That Dipping not Sprinkling is the essential and necessary Mode of the Sacrament of Baptism Answer In Answer to this Objection I 'll not deny any thing herein that Scripture or Antiquity seems to favour as to the custom of Immerging or Plunging under Water Persons to be baptiz'd 'T is confess'd then the Jews in their proselyting or making Disciples by Baptism used I believe generally to put the Persons to be baptized all under Water being conformable to their legal Purgations Thus Maimonides speaking of their manner of baptizing If any Person saith he washes or dips himself all over but the tip of his little finger he is yet in his Uncleanness And if any one had much Hair on his head that was also to be washed else the Person was reckoned unclean Suppose farther that in conformity to the Jewish Custom the Mode of John's Baptism was after this manner too as seems to be inferred from his baptizing in Jordan and Enon Joh. 3.23 because there was much Water there and suppose farther that this Custom continued in the Church for some time after Christ and his Apostles in the hot Countries where Dipping of Children might be safe as to Cold and if it be so in these places pray ye who 's against it What! The Church of England That she is not for in her Rubrick about the Baptizing of Infants it is thus ordered That after the Naming of the Child the Minister if they shall certifie him the Child may well endure it shall dip it warily in the Water saying I baptize thee c. So that you see Neighbour you or any other Person might have your Child dipt at its Baptism openly at the Font in the Church if the same is desired here is therefore no Plea left for your separating from our Church upon this account unless Dipping in the River * A River in the Isle of Axholm in Lincolnshire famous for Dipping Torn by a Lay-man shall be lookt upon to answer better the end of Baptism than Dipping in the Font by a lawful Minister But they 'll tell you that Dipping is Essential to Baptism and therefore those that have not been dipt have not yet been duly baptized but this I deny and let them prove it if they can and till then in all reason you ought to stand to your former Baptism And I make this fair Offer Do but continue of our Communion till the Anabaptists shall be able from Scripture Antiquiquity or Reason to make appear that Dipping is essentially necessary to baptism sine quâ non and I shall desire your Conformity no