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A31641 Master Bakewells sea of absurdities concerning sprinkling calmely driven back / by Peter Chamberlen, 12 April, 1650. Chamberlen, Peter, 1601-1683. 1650 (1650) Wing C1898; ESTC R38996 10,275 16

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distinct from the SPRINKLING OF BLOOD Exod. 12.22 and 29.21 and both distinct from their BATHES AND WASHINGS Levit. 15.5.6.7.8.10.11.13.18.21.22.27 And 16.26.28 and 17.15.16 and Numb 19.7.8.19 and Exod. 19.10 and 29.4 and 30.18.19 and 40.12.31 Levit. 6.27.28 Deut. 21 6. and divers other places And we have under the Gospel BAPTISME distinct from the SUPPER OF THE LORD And the Holy Ghost is punctuall John 19.34 that there came out of the side of Jesus both Water Blood Now should they have confounded the sprinkling of water with that of blood or either with their washings or one with the other under the Law they could not but have neglected a great part of those Rights and Ceremonies wherein they were to be so exact And if we also should confound those few Commands which our Saviour lest us under the Gospel we should soone arrive to that spirituall Babel which is so rife in these dayes amongst many who suppose themselves spiritual Forbeare therefore so boldly to affirme or inferre that the water in Baptisme is called in Heb. 12.24 The blood of sprinkling But if you will needes finde Baptisme in that Text find it in our coming to Jesus the Mediatour of the new Covenant from the which the Blood of sprinkling is distinguished by a conjunction Copulative AND That also of the 10. of Heb. 22. must be kept from confusion and then it comprehends the 2 compleat parts of Baptisme 1. The work and promise of God in these words Our hearts sprinckled from an evill Conscience and the work and obedience of men in these words Our Bodies washed with pure water For IT IS NOT THE WORK OF MAN TO SPRINKLE THE HEART NOR IS IT THE WORK OF GOD TO WASH THE BODY 2. GODS SPRINKLING IS EQUIVALENT TO MANS WASHING In which sense the phrase is used of GODS FINGER Exod. 8.19.31.18 And these two parts are distinctly held forth in many places Mat. 3. Mar. 1. Luke 3. I baptize with water but he shall baptize with the Holy Ghost And Act 1.5 John baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost So Act 2.38 Repent and be baptized and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost If either of these be wanting Baptisme is not compleat For Christ himself who had not the spirit by measure must be baptized to fulfill all righteousnesse Mat 3. Peter by Cornelius his Companies receiving the HOLY GHOST judgeth them thereby fit to be baptized with water Act 10. Who can forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we And he commvnded them to be baptized And on the other side without fruits worthy of Repentance the Pharisees shall not be admitted to the BAPTISME OF WATER Mat. 3.7.8 Nor probably the Eunuch unlesse he had BELIEVED WITH ALL HIS HEART Act 8.37 For it is not the outward washing away the filth of the flesh but the inward answer of a good Conscience towards God through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3.21 2. Your second Argument or Article with the latter end of the first layes down a Rule of Similitude between the signe or Sacrament in your phrase and the thing signified Consider your own Rule with SPRINKLING OF A CHILDES FACE which is a Ceremony but lately allowed by the late Directory and was not allowed though practised by the Book of Common Prayer Consider I pray you whether by your Rule you do not make a Face-Christian yea a specled face-Christian your SPRINKLING being onely on the FACE and that but here and there in DROPS but if you allow BAPTISME to signifie the WASHING AWAY OF SIN as all Catechismes imply would you onely wash away the FACE and OUTWARD APPEARANCES OF SIN to make an Outside-Pharisee-Christian or would you have ALL SIN even the whole body of Sin washed away Therefore the washing of the whole Body as was appointed by the Book of Common-Prayer and was the COMMAND and PRACTISE of CHRIST and his APOSTIES and of those learned men whom they commonly call FATHERS is the right way of administring the Sacrament and not a new-invented way of SPRINKLING which though practised was NEVER COMMANDED TILL OF LATE Compare it also with those other REPRESENTATIONS IN BAPTISME would you have the Baptisme of the HOLY GHOST to be but in DROPS and that but in APPEARANCE on the FACE or but one PART Or would you be FILLED so as to have Rivers of living water flow out of your Belly John 7.39 Would you have your FACE onely BURIED WITH CHRIST IN BAPTISME or have your FACE onely BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH and have onely your FACE to RISE WITH HIM or have onely an Outside-shew of Death to Sin and Resurrection to life in Christ Col. 2.12 Rom. 6.34 c. Or would you make CHRIST only a VISARD FOR YOUR FACE to PUT HIM only ON UPON YOUR FACE Gal. 3.27 Lay your hand upon your heart and consider seriously these things Then you insist upon the VISIBILITY OF THE SIGNE OF THE BAPTIZED c. First consider your own Practice Do INFANTS SEE THE WATER wherewith they are sprinkled Are their EYES commonly OPEN or SHUT Do any pluck them open yea if they were open would not nature teach them to shut them when they felt the drops of water upon them Or if they open their eyes know they what water is or what it meanes Secondly Whether is a Bason of Water or a River most visible Is not this like the old Woman that could see the needle but not the Barne Thirdly whereas you say that he who is plunged doth not see the Signe if you mean WATER He doth not onely see it but feele it and if you mean the Washing and Clensing of his Body surely they are more likely to see their Bodies clensed that go into a RIVER and afterwards drie themselves and wipe away the filth then they that onely have their Face Sprinkled which they cannot see without a Looking-glasse a thing of no use to New borne Infants And whereas you say that they cannot heare what is said no more do Infants nor do they understand if they hear the words but the baptized according to the Scriptures do both heare the words and know them before they are plunged although pronouncing the WORDS do not the work but the Obedience of being Baptized into the Name of the Lord. 3. Your third Article saith that many were Baptized in their houses and you instance in Paul Cornelius and the Jaylor for whom you quote Act 9.17.18 16.25.48 You do ill Mr. Bakewell to father so many untruths in print upon the Scriptures The Scriptures say NOT that PAUL was BAPTIZED in the HOUSE but that Ananias entred into the House and afterwards when the scales were fallen from his eyes he arose and was Baptized without saying he was Baptized either in a Tub or Pond according to your roving language or in a River or that he was Baptized without Water as the Drie-washing Book of the Doctrine of