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A75550 Arguments Pro and Con about the Right of baptizing; viz. Whether it ought to be by putting the whole body under water, or only Sprinkling a little water thereon. 1675 (1675) Wing A3647; ESTC R225438 8,839 6

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to this Rite viz. When persons are said to be over-whelmed in great sufferings they are said to be baptized therein Matth. 20.22 23. Luke 12.5 When said to have greet measures of the Spirit it is to be Baptized with the Spirit Acts 5.11 16. When the children of Isral were covered with a Cloud behind them and over their heads and the Sea on both sides were then said to be Baptized in the Sea and Cloud 1 Cor. 10.2 with Exod. 14.22 When Asher had the promised Blessing of great plenty he is said to have his feet dipt in oyl And when great victory over enemies 't is said that feet are dipt in their Blood Psal 68.23 IV. From the nature and ends of the Ordinance The Baptists say Fourthly It is to be by Dipping not Sprinkling from the nature and ends of the Ordinance viz. To a figure or sign in the outward Visible act of spiritual things held forth thereby that by the sign the thing signified might be exemplified viz. 1. To figure out the Covenant on mans part that he visibly declares to enter into thereby viz. To dye to sin and to live to Christ in newness of life By that figurative Death Burial and Resurrection being put under the the water and taken out thereof and therefore said to be buried with Christ in Baptism as Rom. 6.4 Col. 2.11 12 13. as so fully own'd by Piscator Tilenus Diodat Assemblies and Leigh's Annotations Dr. Cave Tillotson Goodwin Kekerman Baxter Magdiburg as Treat Bapt. B. 2. chap. 4. doth particularize 2. To be a sign of the Covenant on Gods part viz. of washing away of sins cleansing the whole man and every part and to give spiritual Life and Salvation Acts 2.32 22.16 1 Pet. 3.21 And to the end that whole and every part is be to washed that as every part is defiled and needs cleansing and purifying so must not one part be left unbaptized Therefore Ainsworth treating upon Baptizing the Lepers under the Law the Type hereof saith Lev. 15.5 That every part must be baptized and if so much as the tip of the finger was left unbaptized it was esteemed no Baptism And therefore saith the Learned (a) de Jure Nat. l. 2. c. 2. Selden That the Jews from whom this Rite is conceived to come took that Baptism wherein the whole body was not baptized to be void And to this end (b) Upon John 13.10 saith Dr. Hamond they had large Diving-places or Baptisterions containing divers Baths of water which they called Columbethro's or Diving-places 3. To figure out Regeneration being as so generally own'd a Symbol of Regeneration wrought therefore being born of spiritual water by Regeneration John 3.5 We are in the figure taken out of literal water or born out of the Bowels of it as we are really taken out of the Womb in the first birth 4. To figure out our Sanctification or newness of life for as in Baptism we are all covered over as with a garment so we are said thereby to put on Christ Gal. 3.27 viz. his white Garment of Righteousness and Holiness and therefore to expect from him to that end according to promise the being dipt or baptized into or with the Spirit Acts 11.16 2.38 The Rantists answer It is to be by Sprinkling not Dipping 1. From the Analogy it hath with sprinkling Christs blood upon the Conscience Heb. 12.24 2. Effusion of the Spirit Acts 2.17 3. Washing of Regeneration Tit. 3.5 4. Pouring water upon the Ark 1 Pet. 3.23 the figure of Baptism The Baptists Reply It is true 1. Christs blood is said to be sprinkled but that is in allusion to the sprinkling of the blood under the Law Heb. 9.12 13. 19.21 with Lev. 14.6 7 8. Numb 19.17 18 19. but not to express and point out to us the external Rite of Baptism to which it bears no proportion either in name or nature 2. That the Spirit is said to be poured out is very true which respects that great measure and quantity of the Spirit not the outward mode and Rite of Baptism though that pouring out of the Spirit as before is Metaphorically called the Baptism of the Spirit in allusion to that of water wherein was quantities of water and whereof every member of the baptized person did partake But similies do not run of all four 3. As to the pouring water upon the Ark no question when the windows of Heaven were opened in that Deluge great measures were poured down upon it but that is not the Figure of Baptism The figure wherein the Ark and Baptism are said in that place to hold Analogy is in this that as those persons that entred into the Ark in Noahs time were saved in that Deluge so they that enter into Christ the spitual Ark by Faith and the Visible Ark the Church by Baptism the visible door thereof do enter into the promised savation Therefore for any to use Srpinkling instead of Dipping saith Dr. Taylor in his Rul Con. c. 4. p. 644. is not only against Ecclesiastical Law but against the Analogy and mystical signification of the Sacrament and therefore he saith is not to be complyed with As to that of the washing of Regeneration I refer to that which is said in the Treatise of Baptism part 2. chap. 4. V. From Scripture-Practice and Command The Baptists say Fifthly Dipping not Sprinkling is the Rite of this great Ordinance if we respect the Scripture Practice or Command confirming the same 1. The Practice Mat. 3.15 When Jesus was baptized or dipt he came straightway out of the water Therefore Cajetan upon the place saith that Christ's ascending out of the water proves that he was baptized by John not by sprinkling but by Immersion or dipping And Musculus saith upon it that the baptized parties were dipt not sprinkled And John 3.13 John baptized at Enon because there was much water Upon which place saith Calvin you may gather that John and Christ administred Baptism by plunging the whole body into the water And Acts 8.38 Philip and the Eunuch went both down into the water And therefore saith Calvin upon it We see what fashion the Ancients had to administer Baptism for they plunged the whole body into water c. And the command to this was express Mat. 28.19 Go teach all Nations dipping not sprinkling them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit And Acts 10.48 't is said Peter commanded them to be dipt not sprinkled in the name of the Lord c. And therefore whether this is not as plain a Conmand for a Believer to be dipt and which he should no more shift or alter than when we are commanded Fagate to eat of the Bread c. that we are literally and plainly to do so without any changing or altering the same as sone have done in that and the like case also The Rantists answer That Sprinkling not Dipping was the usage in the Scripture because how could they baptize by dipping
Children in this Country and which hath been the practice in some places formerly but especially the known constant practice of the Baptists in Holland Germany and England both Winter and Summer without the least detriment or inconveniency A brief Corrollary containing some necessary Quaeries upon the whole Quaer 1. WHether is it not demonstrably evident by this Six-fold Argument confirmed by so great Testimony both Divine and Humane that Dipping not Sprinkling was the instituted Rite of this great Ordinance of Baptism Quaer 2. Whether this of Dipping having been Christs positive Appointment from all those holy ends and spiritual Reasons inforcing it as well as his own and all the primitive Saints express practise it will not appear to be very dangerous and savour of too much Presumption and Arrogancy upon such gross mistakes and upon nothing but Human Institution to alter and change the same to a clear other Rite inverting thereby so solemn a piece of Gods holy Worship and introducing instead thereof so groundless a Tradition and Invention of man and doth not justly fall under the Reproofs and Threatnings of the following Scriptures Matth. 15.9 In vain they do worship me teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of men Mark 7.7 For laying aside the Commandment of God ye hold the Traditions of men rejecting and frustrating the Commandments of God to keep your own Traditions Isa 24.5 They have transgressed the Law changed the Ordinances therefore c. And no less then a Violation of the First and Second Commandment intrenching upon God's Prerogative-Royal wherein he is so jealous the Presumption whereof cost Israel so dear Quaer 3. Whether sprinkling only a few drops of water upon the face instead of dipping the whole person doth not as much spoil the Symbol and vacate the instituted significant ends of the Ordinance as to eat only the Wafer and reject the Cup spoils the Ordinance of breaking of Bread and drinking of Wine in remembrance of the broken Body and Blood of our Lord Or as some of old when God commanded the foreskin to be circumcised should have satisfied themselves to circumcise their nails if they did but keep the name and ends of the Ordinance And whether one is not as provoking to the Lord as the other Quaer 4. Whether to conform hereto is not to yield obedience to the Institution and Injunction of Antichrist for though 't is granted it was in use before it was imposed by the Popes as Infant-Baptism was yet was it by them especially enjoyned as the other was as confest by so many of their own And whether in so doing there is not as great indignity offered to the Authority of Christ and contempt to his Wisdom as there is a declared subjection to and owning and honouring such a gross Usurpation Quaer 5. Whether it may not rationally be supposed that one great end of the Popes enjoyning theeeof was not with more Pomp and Solemnity to establish and confirm Infant-Baptism so much the Pillar and Foundation of his Church And whether it doth not appear he did upon as good ground change the Rite as so alter the subject And that he doth as warrantably and by as good Scripture-Authority sprinkle Bells and Church Walls and Standards and call it Baptism as the other Quaer 6. Whether for any to sprinkle an Infant and to say they Baptize it in the Name of the Father Son and Spirit is not as much to tell a lye in the Name of the Lord and to prophane a holy Ordinance of his as they do who use the same Form in Baptizing of Bells c. Quaer Whether Learned and good men may not from the consideration of their mistake in the Rite have cause to conclude they have mistaken the subject also And that being neither right in the matter or manner of the Ordinance it is a mear nullity and therefore should engage them to the right performance in both as they would approve themselves Christ's Disciples and Followers and not err in so great a foundation of the Christian Religion LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1675.