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A77397	Anabaptism, the true fountaine of Independency, Brownisme, [double brace] Antinomy, Familisme, and the most of the other errours, which for the time doe trouble the Church of England, unsealed. Also the questions of pædobaptisme and dipping handled from Scripture. In a second part of the Disswasive from the errors of the time. / By Robert Baillie minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.; Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662. Dissuasive from the errours of the time.	1647 (1647)	Wing B452A; Thomason E369_9; ESTC R38567	187,930	235

charitable mercies unto every creature of Angels spirits and mankinde likewise because all power is committed to the holy Ghost to manifest Christ a spirituall Christ and all-saving Jesus therefore the holy Ghost speaking to Christ as just Judge condemning damning and tormenting a part of his creation c. XXXXX Divine light p. 7. Esau's world of the curse is now almost passed away and the world of Jacobs blessednesse is now entring in Ibid. p. 14. Christ in his private kingdome sate Judge over the quick and dead to condemne and execute torments upon the rebellious whom he held as prisoners for a time but Christ in his publick kingdome by the power of the holy Ghost shall raign for ever to bring up all to life and immortality Christs publick Monarchicall kingdome is now appearing now the waters of troubles are abated and in the new heavens and new earth of Christs publick kingdome there shall be no more sea of Antichristian mysteries onely the old heavens and earth of Antichrists wickednesse must be burnt up with the fire of Gods Spirit yea all things naturall and supernaturall must bee changed at these resurrections now comming YYYYY Divine light p. 7. In the world of Jacobs blessednesse now entring in the reprobate condition of men and Angels shall be regained death and hell shall be destroyed all shall be created of new to life and immortality the damned Prisoners shall be sent forth out of the pit Ibid. p. 11. For a time millions of thousands were damned by their Antichristian works yet not damned to perish for ever for there is none can be damned totally all the generations that are deceased in the old world of Esau shall arise by glorious resurrections ZZZZZ Ibid. p. 11. This true Christian vocall faith is to beleeve the Covenant of generall redemption Ibid. Those which believe and maintain the Covenant of generall redemption are onely the true Church of whom Christ is the head AAAAAA Ibid. p. 11. All the damned that did not or doe not receive it must be saved by this faith Ibid. p. 13. Although there were but three persons beleevers in the earth with Christ yet God will have his whole Creation although not any else did beleeve but these three in and with Christ Ibid. p. 14. Such sons and daughters of God onely by beleeving are made instruments of blessing unto the whole Creation although there should be but three in the whole earth BBBBBB A description of Familism and confutation of the Familists by Benjamin Bourn to the Reader Many of them being such formerly as were to be beloved and delighted in Give me leave to speak according to men were ye not once as reall for Christ as you are now for Antichrist yea I will be one witnesse what close communion you had with God and how many times you have to the refreshing of many drooping spirits made a large acknowledgement of the manifestations of Gods love and favour toward you in Jesus Christ CCCCCC The discovery of Familism p. 10. Let not the Familists say it is not M. Randall and we only that teach this doctrine of Henry Nicholas there have been and are great Doctors of Divinity so called yea and some great Peers and persons of quality and estate in this Land DDDDDD The discovery of Familism p. 2. Whosoever shall teach and perswade the people that the perfection and resurrection spoken of by Paul 1 Cor. 15. are to be attained in the fulnesse and perfection of them in this present time before the common death of the body doth herein teach the deceitfull doctrine of Familism taught by Henry Nicholas but M. Randall does so teach as sundry persons that heard him can witnesse and so he does destroy the hope of the Saints as touching the personall comming of Christ in his glory to judge the quick and the dead and of the resurrection of the bodies of the Saints and of the glory of life everlasting of body and soule hereafter EEEEEE Ibid. p. 2. M. Randall delivered that a man baptized with the holy Ghost knew all things even as God knew all things which himself greatly admired as a great mystery Ibid. p. 7. Henry Nicholas says of himselfe God hath made me alive through Christ and anointed me with his godly beeing manned himself with me and Godded me with him FFFFFF Discovery p. 4. M. Randall turns the holy writings of Moses and the Prophets of Christ and the Apostles and the proper names persons and things mentioned and contained therein into allegories and gives them out to be the mystery and spirituall meaning of the same GGGGGG Benjamin Bourns description and confutation p. 6. Their first errour is that there is but one spirit or life in all things both in heaven and earth and that is absolutely and essentially God HHHHHH Ibid. p. 7 8. Is this a universall Christ as Antichrist cals him that is the flesh and blood of the whole world which the Godhead assuming makes out a discovery of himself to himself in and by all creatures whatsoever IIIIII Description p. 13. Whether all things are the act of God yea or no whether every creature in all its actions be acted and ruled by the Spirit of God The errour is explicated and confuted KKKKKK Gangren second Part p. 7. When the Committee of Lords and Commons was in Guildhall companies of thirties and fourties vented boldly all sorts of opinions some maintained that no mortall spirit could sin or be capable of sinne and it being objected What say you to the Devils they denied the Devils either sinned or could sin LLLLLL Gangren first Part division second p. 24. Nichols did justifie to M. Greenhils face that God was the Author of all sin that no man was sent to hell for any sins but cast thither onely because God would have it so MMMMMM Bourns description p. 24. These spirits that we call good and evill Angels they call good or evill motions of mans minde NNNNNN Ibid. Their third errour is that nothing shall remain eternally but the essence life and Spirit of God which is now in all creatures OOOOOO Ibid. Their fourth errour is this that the Scriptures are a confused allegory a meer shadow a false history and ought not to be any mans foundation no more then any other Book or the Apocrypha PPPPPP Bourns description p. 36. The comming death resurrection ascension and intercession of our Lord Jesus is absolutely denied by all the principall writings and doctrines of the Familists Ibid. p. 38. I will take here in their other errour that there is no resurrection nor last judgement for the world QQQQQQ Ibid. p. 24. They say sixthly that all ordinances are but meat for babes that a man should live above them without the use of them RRRRRR Ibid. p. 53. The first branch of their seventh Chap. shall be handled in this Chap. by way of question whether perfection in the highest degree both of grace and glory be attainable in this

the subject to those things much contrary to the credulity and bold assertion of the late Anabaptists Our second Argument The 2. Arg. the thing signified by Baptisme is oftner expressed in Scripture by sprinkling then dipping That action whereby Scripture does frequently represent the main thing signified by baptisme is lawfull and sufficient to be used in baptisme But Scripture frequently represents the main thing signified in baptisme by sprinkling or pouring out of water Ergo. The major is grounded on the nature of Sacramentall rites they are signs fitly proportioned to the spirituall blessings they signifie and seal when we finde in the signe not onely a clear representation and similitude of the thing signified but the holy Ghost in Scripture making use of that representation and relation it is to us a ground of the lawfull use of that sign This is the adversaries owne argument in their great reason for dipping that it does fitly represent our buriall with Christ and is used in Scripture as they alledge for the expressing of that representation As for the minor that pouring and sprinkling frequently in Scripture represents the main thing ●●gnified and sealed in baptisme our participation of the benefits of Christ his blood and Spirit In Scripture sprinkling is made a sign of the application of Christs blood to the soul many Scriptures doe evidence as first Heb. 10.22 Heb. 10.22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Here both the sign and the thing signified of baptisme are set down together the outward washing with water is made to signifie the sprinkling of the heart from an evill conscience That washing by outward sprinkling represents the inward sprinkling of the heart by the blood of Christ as fitly as washing by outward dipping or immersion can doe appears by 1 Pet. 1.2 1 Pet. 1 2. Through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ here the application of Christs blood unto the soul is expressed in the similitude of sprinkling And so fit is this representation that the holy Ghost styles the blood of Christ whereby we are washed and saved the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 Heb. 12.24 The other great blessing sealed up in baptisme is our communion in the Spirit of Jesus Also of Ch●ists Spiri● this blessing also the Spirit delights to expresse by the act of pouring or sprinkling of water Act. 2.16 17. Acts 2.16 17. But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel And it shall come to passe in the last days saith God I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh Isay 44.3 Is 44.3 For I will poure water upon him that is thirsty and flouds upon the dry ground I will poure my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thy off-spring Also Is 52.15 So shall I sprinkle many Nations And Ezek. 36.25 Ezek. 36 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean a new heart will I give unto you and a new spirit will I put within you As the application of the blood and Spirit of Christ to the soul of the baptized is expressed so often in the tearm of sprinkling so under the Law Sprinking under the Law a figure of the thing signified in Baptisme the action of sprinkling sometimes of blood alone sometimes of water alone sometimes of both together were used for the prefiguring of that blood and water which in the days of the Gospel by the Word and Sacrament were more abundantly to be communicate Exod. 12.7.13 Ex. 12.7.13 And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side postes and on the upper door-poste of the houses wherein they shall eat it And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are and where I see the blood I will passe over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the Land of Egypt Leviticus 16.14 Lev. 16.14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullocks and spri●kle it with his finger upon the Mercy-seat East-ward and before the Mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times here blood alone is sprinkled Numb 19.18 Num. 16.18 And a clean person shall take hyssope and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon all the persons that were there and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day here water alone for purification is sprinkled at least water without blood for this water of purification had no mixture except of the ashes of the burnt Heifer Lev. 14.5 6 7. Lev. 14.5 6 7. And the Priests shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessell of running water as for the living bird he shall take it and the Cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssope and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosie seven times and shall pronounce him clean In this place blood and water together are sprinkled upon the leper at least with the sprinkling of the blood the presence of water is injoined The chief end of applying water to any body whether by dipping of it in the water or sprinkling the water upon it is to purge it from soile Sprinkling serves as much for purging as dipping can do that the use of water in baptisme is to remove and wash away albeit not the defilement of the body yet the guilt of sin from the soul we read in the 1 Pet. 3.21 1 Pet. 3 21. The like figure whereunto even baptisme doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience toward God and Acts 22.16 Acts 22.16 Rise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord. This being the onely end why water in baptisme is used that way of using of it must be lawfull which is fit for that end now common experiences teaches that pouring and sprinkling is as meet for purifying as dipping can be a vessell often dipped if not rubbed may keep all its soile and sprinkling or pouring out of water is nothing lesse but oftentimes more effectuall for purging A third Argument If dipping be necessary and sprinkling unsufficient then in all Scripturall approved baptismes dipping was used and not sprinkling But no such thing does appear in Scripture Whether in any Sacramentall baptisme mentioned in Scripture dipping over head and ears was ever practised we shall consider in our answer to the objections but that in divers Sacramentall baptismes approved in Scripture no

Munster was taken and the chief Authors of these violent tenets were executed he took then the boldnesse openly to cry down much of the way of the Monasterians he preached for the office and power of the Magistrate and did exibilate Polygamy HHH these were the grounds of the deadly feud betwixt Hophman and Battenburg and both their followers which were many thousands of poor seduced souls These of Hophmans party did not long agree among themselves Who were the Mennonists one Menno the son of Simon a secular Priest III in West-freezland turning Anabaptist began to tax sundry things in Hophmans Doctrine he did reject all extraordinary and Apostolick calling KKK also the dreams of the Saints Kingdom upon earth LLL and all Enthusiasms MMM but in other things did follow the worst of the Anabaptists errors denying the truth of Christs humanity setting up Pelagianism in mans freewill maintaining a perfect inherent righteousnes without sin and such like conceits NNN A Synod for union did divide them amongst themselves more then ever While the pestiferous vapour of this evill spirit was sensibly evanishing by domestick divisions some of the wisest of the sect found ways to draw together the chief of all the four mentioned factions to a conference at Buckholt in Westphalie A great Synod of prime men from all Countries where the Anabaptists lived did meet there from the most places of lower Germany from Freezland from Saxony from England also some did come OOO Great debates were among them especially betwixt the Battenburgicks and the Hophmanists the one defending Polygamy and their use of the sword against the world the other oppugning both John Mathie of Middleburg a great Doctor of the Anabaptists in England was the chief Champion of of the Hophmanists PPP Here it was where David George a Citizen of Delph David Georgius labours for union did first become famous this man had been a zealous oppugner of Popery he had openly in the streets upbraided both the Priests and Magistrates of Delph in the very act of their idolatrous procession for which bold zeal he was cast in Prison and had his tongue bored through hardly escaping with his life QQQ these sufferings brought to him great respect among the Protestants at home but thereafter turning Anabaptist he became the greatest and worst Heretick to my minde that ever trod upon the earth At the Synod of Buckholt he laboured exceeding much to draw his Brethren to concord the Battenburgicks and Hophmanists had so sharp debates about the magistrate the earthly Kingdom of the Saints and Polygamy that hardly they could be kept from handy blows RRR David George did mediate betwixt them and drew it to this issue that a mutuall toleration being granted in the points controverted in all other things they should hold one another for Brethren and promote joyntly the common cause of Anabaptism SSS This Syncretism did not long stand neither did David get thanks from either side for his mediation for all did esteem him a colluder with both sides only for his own interests driving a design of his own apart differing from them all which then was scarce visible above the ground but quickly thereafter was apparent Divers sects of the Anabaptists evanished A little after that Synod all the parties did separate more then ever one from another as Antichristian false believers TTT till the most of their sects did evanish the Monasterians in a short time were drowned of the Battenburgicks none doth remain except it be a handfull in Moravia for after the imprisonment and execution of their Leader for his manifold robberies and murders his followers were altogether broken The Hophmanists by the diligence of Bucer and Calvin at Strasburg being convinced received satisfaction and recanted their errours joyning themselves again to the Protestant Churches VVV David George had a great shew of zeal and piety The Georgians for a time did flourish their Leader David was a man very pragmatick of a vehement and perswasive eloquence in the acts of devotion for shew singular ardent and frequent in prayer XXX in fastings excessive abstaining from all meat and drink somtimes four whole days and nights together YYY wonderfully confident of the absolute truth of his tenets so marvellously bold that he did write and professed his hope by his letters and Books to perswade the undeniable certainty of his dictates to the Emperour Charles the fifth and to all the Estates of the Empire ZZZ especially to the good Lantgrave of Hesse Philip Yet his absurdities were horrible also to Melancthon to Bucer to Alasco and many more yet his tenets are so horribly absurd that Mahomet in his worst abominations was far below him for he taught that in the Godhead was no Trinity of Persons but only three ways of manifestation one in Moses another in Jesus a third in himself that his person was as far above the person of Jesus as Jesus was above Moses That the writs of the Prophets and Apostles that the Doctrine of the Law and Gospel was all to be laid aside AAAA as childish and imperfect rudiments to be dispelled as the twilight by the beams of his far more perfect Doctrine One of the greatest perfections and singularities I mark in his Doctrine is that which he much insists upon the mortification of the flesh to this he leads by a singular method he looses the bands of Matrimony and all other naturall and civill relations as things old and antiquate which did oblige only during the time of Moses and of Jesus but not under the clear light which his Ministry had brought to the world Adulteries fornications incests and most unspeakable villanies were so far from being any sins to him that he did recommend them to his most perfect scholars as acts of grace and mortification he was given over to be possessed with so beastly a spirit in the justice of God for a recompence of his hypocrisie and blasphemous errours against the truth of God BBBB Notwithstanding of the unutterable absurdity of his way The extraordinary zeal of his followers yet this beast was confident that the whole world would submit to him and in a short time would put into his hands without any violence all their power and wealth and indeed at the beginning he got many families of good note to follow him with incredible zeal for all of them were willing to dispose unto him their whole estates CCCC and were glad to seal his Doctrine with their bloud In Delph when first they were put to a triall seven and thirty most chearfully did offer themselves to the Executioners hands some to be hanged some drowned some burnt DDDD Yet lest this zeal if too much tempted should at last succumb the hypocriticall Heretick did alter one of his principles and taught his scholars the lawfulnesse of dissimulation permitting them for the safety of their life to deny and abjure what ever he had taught them and