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A41822 John Baptist's decreasing and Christ's increasing witnessed being a treatise concerning baptism in the type, and baptism in the mystery / by John Gratton ... Gratton, John, 1641-1712. 1674 (1674) Wing G1585; ESTC R39439 23,175 59

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and Iohn but BY ME if any man enter in he shall be saved Oh he is of himself sufficient and shall go in and cut and find Pasture The Apostles never called it as you do An Initiating Ordinance and say you A Command of Christ But who say so beside you Where do you prove it Prove Friends whoever you are I challenge all the whole VVorld to prove that Christ ever mentioned such a thing to any of his Ministers as by way of Command as Water-Baptism but said as above said Ye said he shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost and Go teach all Nations baptizing them into the Name of the Father Son holy Ghost say not We cannot be not dismay'd for Lo I am with you and all Power is given unto me both in Heaven and in Earth therefore without me ye can do nothing but abide in me and then ye shall bear Fruit in me ye shall have Peace But though it were so that he had meant as you Baptists say he did Water Baptism and that that Commission belongs to you say you the World is ●ot yet ended therefore say you it is still to be observed suppose this were granted you then I ask you How missed Paul of it that he had no Share in this Commission for Paul saith in 1 Cor. 1. 13. That Christ sent me not saith he to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel mark How comes it to pass that you are greater Sharers in this Commission then Paul And how must we do to know it For if it did not reach Paul who was Converted and one not behind the Apostles how can it reach you And though you may say All are not sent to Baptize Then I ask you How must we do to know who are and who are not But say you Paul meant NOT ONLY Oh Friends have you this Hole to creep out at its a little One too little to get out at 'T is your Meaning but we must not take your Meanings when the Lord lets us see he means otherwise for Paul said not so nor dare any true Christian say that Paul meant so but said what he meant and meant what he said Well but say you Baptists He did Baptize It s true he did some Few but he thanks God they were so few But it seems though he did he did not do it by Commission For Christ sent me not to Baptize saith he but to Preach How then why by Permission as he also Circumcised Timothy by Permission because of the Iews but not because Christ had commanded it for he had not Paul himself said If ye speaking to the Galatians If ye be Circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing yet took that Liberty for a particular End because of the Iews to do that particular Act. He also observed the Law and went under Seven Dayes Purification and had an Offering bought according to the Law but not because it was commanded by Christ for Christ had not commanded it but because of the Iews Yea and had had he not another time his Head shorn and was under a Vow Much might be said that was done by the Apostles that was not commanded by Christ nor that they left No Command to after Ages to observe But it s also clear in Acts 26. 15 16 17 18. that Paul had no such word in his Commission as to baptize into Water For I said the Lord have appeared unto thee for this End or Purpose to make thee a Minister and a Witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee delivering thee from the People and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee mark What to do Not to baptize into Water he mentions no such thing no but to open their Eyes and to turn them from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto God that they may receive Forgiveness of Sins and an Inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by Faith that is in Me. This was Paul's Commission if we may so call it as he himself tells the King Agrippa but here is not one word of Water Baptism or not only to Baptize as you Baptists say But if you have no better Weapons then these the●e are too short to save your Heads But to proceed You still say The Apostles did Baptize Peter said in the second of the Acts REPENT and be BAPTIZED every one of you in the NAME mark of I●sus Christ for the Remission of Sins and y● shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost this Baptism being for the Remission of Sins upon Repentance was necessary to Salvation but so is not yours for the PROMISE mark is unto you But the Promi●e was Not WATER-BAPTISM but ye shall be Baptized with the Holy Ghost said the Lord Jesus by way of Promise And this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel 2. 28. And it shall come to pass in the last dayes saith God I will pour out of my Spir●t upon all Fl●sh mark Was not this the Promise of God to them and their Children and to all that are afar off and so on And in Vers. 21. Then they that gladly received the Word were Baptized and THE SAME DAY were added unto them Three Thousand Souls mark ye the same day It was a Great Number to be baptized into Water as you do all of one day if it was so but it is not here so said nor no mention made of Water in this Chapter so that this place will not carry your Matter you would lay on it for all these its said continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and their Doctrine I hope you will own was for Christ If any preach any other Doctrine then what is already preached or lay any other Foundation then which is already laid let him be accursed We preach Christ saith Paul to the Jews a stumbling-block to the Greeks Foolishness but unto them that belive Christ the Wisdom of God and the Power of God It was Christ they preached But say you Philip baptized the Eunuch and the Iaylor was baptized and Cornelius and those with him Peter commanded to be baptized in the Name of the Lord and say you Baptists when was that Command repealed I Answer Though it was a Command yet it was but Peter's Command and Peter had not all reveal'd to him at first but was ignorant of things that were afterwards revealed and so were the rest of the Apostles witness Peter's Vision and the Apostles blaming Peter for going to the Gentiles because they yet saw not into that fore-told Mystery nor many before them saw it not but it was revealed in the Lord's Time to them how that the Gentiles should be Fellow-Heirs and Partakers of the same Glory But you cannot prove that Peter's Command was obeyed He commanded them it is true to be baptized and if they were his Command was fulfilled but who commanded you or sent you Shew us your