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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61901	Of publick baptism a sermon / preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel, Sunday, Nov. 20, 1692 by Philip Stubs.	Stubs, Philip, 1665-1738.	1693 (1693)	Wing S6079; ESTC R28859	17,720	37

with me I may be washed indeed with Water But how shall I be satisfied that Christ washes me with his Holy Spirit For the satisfying of which Objection I must proceed to the Second Thing I design'd to speak of viz. II. The Persons here authoriz'd to Baptize Whom if we look back to Ver. 16. of this Chapter we shall find to be the Apostles St. Matt. 28.16 Then the Eleven Disciples for so the Apostles are there call'd went away into Galilee into a Mountain where Jesus had appointed them Who when he came amongst them spake unto them saying All Power is given unto me in Heaven V. 18. and in Earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations V. 19. baptizing them c. As if he had said My Father has left the Government of this World which I have redeemed with my Blood to me I have power to make what Covenants I please with Mankind I have told you upon what Conditions I will confer Heaven and Happiness upon Men Go ye therefore and let them all know it And I give you power and none but you to admit them into this my new Covenant by Baptism But then the Mercy of God as it was willing to extend the Benefits of his Passion beyond that Age of the World and that Generation of Men continu'd Means for the effectual Continuance of this Power of making such Covenants to the End of the World by authorizing the Apostles to delegate and depute their Power to others in this large and plenary Commission As my Father hath sent me S. Joh. 20 21. even so send I you I give you the same Authority which I have receiv'd And as I had Power of my Father to send you forth to preach the Gospel and baptize every Creature so I give you Power to send others forth with the same Commission to Ordain Bishops Priests and Deacons as you shall judge expedient for the Edifying and Welfare of my Church Which Power was accordingly delegated immediately afterwards to seven Persons at once Acts. 6.3 Chap. 13.3 as you 'll find in Acts 6. to Saul and Barnabas to their Successors until this very Period of Time wherein we of this Communion have Persons under the several Characters above-mention'd who derive their Authority from them by an uninterrupted Succession For no Man can take this Authority upon himself and unless there were Sacred Persons so continu'd in the Church there could at this Day be no Legal or Valid Administration of this Sacrament and by Consequence our Saviour's Command would have long since fell to the Ground which I tremble to think of when he bid them and in them their Successors Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. The Meaning of which Words All Nations or an Enquiry III. Into the Persons to be Baptiz'd is the Subject of my Third General which now offers it self to be spoke to Go ye therefore and teach All Nations baptizing them c. The Lord God had for a long time dwelt only in Judea Though the vast Circle of the Earth 2 Chron. 2.6 nor the larger Circumference of the Heavens cannot contain him yet as the Psalmist expresses it at Salem was his Tabernacle Psal 76.2 and his Dwelling at Sion There was his House there his peculiar Residence To the People of Israel only had he given his Laws and order'd the manner of his Worship The rest of the World seem'd over-look'd and neglected like Children dis-inherited and banish'd from their Father's Presence But when the Blessed Jesus the Word of God by whom all Men were created descended for the Redemption of them all he threw down the Partition-Wall which shut out the Gentiles from the Sight and Favour of God and contriv'd Means for the Bringing them into his Family He caus'd the Waters of Baptism to extend themselves as far as those of the Vniversal Deluge that as all Men had once perish'd by Water so they should all be saved by it Nor do we when we say All Men only upon slight Grounds exclude the Children of Believers from this extraordinary Privilege as do the Adversaries to Infant-Baptism Who should not have been mention'd in this place since their wild Opinion runs counter to the Belief and Practice of the Universal Church in all Ages did not some of them boast of an Irrefragable Argument on their Side taken from the very Words we are now about arguing from hence that because our Saviour first said Teach before he said Baptize therefore every Body must be taught before he is baptiz'd To which there need be given no other Answer but what the true Meaning of the Original Word will readily furnish us with For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek signifies not here Teach as in our Translation but rather make Disciples of Inter Judaeos Discipuli facti sunt ii non qui jam docti sunt sed ideo Discipuli facti sunt ut doceantur Lightfoot Hor. Heb. ad locum As if our Saviour alluding to a known Custom among the Jews had said Go and admit into my Church and make Disciples of all Nations and that by the Ceremony of Baptism for which is very remarkable in the very next Verse where the Word Teaching comes again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is another Word made use of in the Original which has that for its proper signification An Exposition which if it were duly attended to might be of no small Use to many unprejudic'd Anabaptists As IV. The Form of Baptism here prescribed in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost might be so to another sort of seemingly more Rational Persons who yet some of them make a Difficulty in Founding the Doctrine of the Individual and Ever Blessed Trinity upon express Words of Scripture For if the being baptiz'd into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost as the Original imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not in the Name according to our Translation which is less significant If I say V. Grot. sup loc the being baptiz'd into those Names doth not signifie the being baptiz'd into the Belief of Three Persons in one Incomprehensible Godhead which distinguishes the Christian Baptism from all others and the submitting all the Faculties of our Souls and Bodies to the Soveraign Dominion and Guidance of each of them as such then the whole Church almost has been in an Error for nigh these 1700 Years and a Handful of Men whose Business it is now-a-days to receive old condemn'd Heresies are alone in the Right Thus have I briefly gone through the Four first Particulars which relate to the Essentials of Baptism To all and singular of which every one in our Communion is so ready to subscribe against all Anabaptists Socinians and other Vnorthodox Persons whatever that few would forgive themselves should their Children by any means happen to be otherwise baptized than