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sense_n	church_n	invisible_a	visible_a	2,874	5	9.2871	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39051	Plain and exquisite Scripture-proof, that St. John Baptist and the blessed Apostles, and all the primitive baptizers, did baptize by sprinkling, or pouring water upon the person or persons they baptized, and not by dipping the person into water ... also some observations upon Mr. Keach's reflections upon my late treatise, intituled, Plain and express Scripture proofs, that John Baptist did as certainly baptize infants in the church of the Jews as the adult, with the confirmation of the truth reflected against by him / by Joshua Exell ...	Exell, Joshua.	1693 (1693)	Wing E3857; ESTC R15010	107,024	64

to 12. and let all that have reproached and backbited truth and those that desire to promote it either by Ignorance errour or malice read and tremble that God should cause an enemy to present those texts in publick to confirm the truth that they have prosecuted in private and have not shewed that honesty as Mr. Keach hath to appear in publick 3. That the baptism of the Infant is as express as the adult And if the word all doth include and intend infants as adult then one is expressed in it as the other But that it doth Mr. Keach hath quoted Texts to prove and if it did not include Infants how could Mr. Keach out all the Infants down in Matth. 3.10 Or take away all their priviledges from them in Matth. 3.9 as children of Abraham 2. J●●● doth expresly declare to all that he had bap●ized them Luke 3.16 3. The sp ri of God doth expresly declare ●hat the general terms all Judea all the Region and all the mul●i●u●e doth intend and containe men women and children and Mr. Keach hath not proved one of my quotations false by any other text containing the same expressions 4. The holy Ghost doth Witness that they were Imployed in setting forth his praise Mat. 21.15 5. It is express If they are chaff or wheat Matth. 3.12 6. It is as express as the promise of baptizing them with the holy Ghost Matth. 3.11 If any reflect against the ensuing treatise There is enough in Gods word to answer them J. E. A Serious Enquiry into and a certain producing of clear and express Scripture Proof of the Way and Manner of John Baptist and the Apostles Administration of Baptism when they first administred it to the Church of the Jews AS well as the Scripture is sufficient to discover to us and give us sufficient ground and warrant who were then baptized by John the Baptist and the Apostles that we might not be left in that case to believe we know not what As having no distinct discoveries who were the Subjects of that Solemn O●dinance That were then taken in and admitted to be of the visible Church but some imagine one thing and some another some imagine Qualifications of Nature some of Grace to be the Reasons of their admission both which are inconsistent with the nature of the admission in that sense that many contend for For if Grace do not constitute us or evidence us to be in already it can never do it If the reception of the Lord Jesus and quickening by him do not constitute us of the Mistical Body of Christ whether visible or invisible when we are really partakers of i● then it can never do it And if Grace as infused and wrought by the Spirit of God and received by us cannot do it that is make us Members of the Church of God Then the confession or making a discovery of this Grace cannot do it surely For it is impossible that the discovery of that to men should do that which the thing it self cannot do before God And this when the Right or Title or Relation is to be towards God through his Son and not with men in a civil respect And if Grace cannot give the right either in the Nature or the Discoveries of it then surely Nature especially as to the number of Years or degrees of Strength or measure of Attainments whatsoever cannot do it so as to be Qualifications absolutely necessary for admission to that Ordinance except any can make Nature to be of greater necessity and excellency than supernatural Grace and so render Grace needless as it doth unite us to Christ and make Christ also needless So also is the blessed word of God sufficient to give us warrant for the way and manner of the Administration of this Solemn Ordinance of Initiation into the Church of God visible To be by application or pouring upon or sprinkling the person baptized with Water together with the pronunciation of the words or form of Administration which indeed is that which makes and constitutes the proper form of this duty and distinguisheth it from all other Baptisings whatsoever And if the blessed word of God should not yield matter for our direction and warrant herein what dreadful confusion must follow as to all For if we be at a loss for the right manner of our admission or the constitution of us Members what hesitation and doubt must there be upon every temptation afterwards about our State or Interest as to visible warrant from the word of God And especially when the subtilest Adversaries in their forest onsets and worst temptations most pretend to Scripture Warrant and Rule And if there be Direction and Warrant to be had from the Word of God in this case what shame is it that it should be no more studyed and searched that clear Scripture Proof might be produced for every thing practised in so solemn a Duty T●erefore I have and shall endeavour in the fear of God to search into and endeavour to produce clear Scripture Proof in this case relating to this Solemn Ordinance of Initiation of Members into the visible Church of God As to the Way and Manner it is to be performed in But before I come to the Texts that gives us intimation of this matter I shall premise some things that are certain Truths of Scripture that may be as general Rules for our Information in this case First It was such a way and manner that John the Baptist and the Disciples of Christ baptised in at their first administration of this Ordinance of Baptism to the Church of the Jews as would consist with the truth of the Promise and Covenant made to Abraham and to his seed which they were then sent as Instruments to bring about the Performance and Accomplishment of What John the Baptist and the Disciples then did as the Messengers sent by Christ as his forerunner and deligates was with respect to that Covenant and Promise Luke 1.55 70 to 75. Rom. 15.8 Acts 13.32 33. And the People to whom they were sent were they to whom of right the External Administrations did appertain by the good pleasure and free donation of God the Author of the Promise and to one as well as another and to one as much as another Rom. 9.4 5. Acts 13.24 25 26. Matth. 10.6 7. And they must administer it in such a way that one might partake of it as well as another being as expresly and particularly a subject of that Promise as another and if any must have been rendered uncapable of the administration the Covenant must have been broken as to that person And should John and the Disciples have administred Baptism by Dipping then all Infants and all infirm Persons must have been excluded which were the greatest number of the Subjects of the Covenant then living Acts 2.38 39 and are the greatest number always among all People and if the Covenant should have been broken or God's Truth fail to any what