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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47744	Five discourses by the author of The snake in the grass viz. On water baptism, episcopacy, primitive heresie of the Quakers, reflections on the Quakers, a brief account of the Socinian trinity ; to which is added a preface to the whole.; Selections. 1700	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1700 (1700)	Wing L1133; ESTC R1214	55,897	120

Believeth and is Baptized shall be saved Here both the Outward and the Inward are joyn'd together and both made Necessary For by Baptism Here cannot be meant the Inward Belief that wou'd make a Tautology of the Text and mean thus He that Believeth and Believeth Thus it must be if by Baptism in this Text the Inward Baptism or Belief of the Heart be meant But this being plainly meant of the Outward Baptism the Consequence from this Text is plainly this That he who doth not Believe and is not Baptized shall not be Saved Of which I adjure the Quakers to Consider most seriously For tho' they had the Inward Baptism as much as they Pretend to yet were the Outward necessary Peter thought Water necessary to give Outward Baptism to those who had already Received the Inward Baptism of the Holy Ghost Acts x. 47. And the Doctrine of Baptism is reckon'd among the Principles and Foundations of Christianity together with Faith and Repentance c. Heb. vi 1 2. But the Quakers like Naaman flout at the Means as too easie to be effectual and call Baptism in contempt Water-Sprinkling And I will answer them with Naaman's Servants 2 Kings V. 13. If Christ had bid thee do some great thing wouldst thou not have done it How much rather then when He saith to thee Wash and be Clean And as necessary as the Waters of Jordan were to the Cleansing of Naaman so necessary are the Waters of Baptism to the Cleansing of our Souls None dare say That GOD cou'd not have Cleansed Naaman otherwise But GOD having by his Prophet appointed that Means if Naaman had neglected it he had not otherwise been Cured How much more when GOD has appointed the Means of Baptism by his Son if we Neglect it shall we be Sav'd without it He that Despis'd Moses 's Law dyed without Mercy Of how much sorer Punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Institution of the Son of GOD and counted it an unholy thing doing Despight to it Inventing Contemptible Names for it and Ridiculing the Administration of it But as the Spirit of God moved at first upon the Face of the Waters Gen. 1.2 to Impregnate them and make them Fructifie and gave a Miraculous Vertue to the Waters of Jordan of Siloam and Bethesda for Healing of the Flesh Why shou'd we Doubt that the same Spirit can and will Sanctifie the Waters of Baptism to the Mystical Washing away of Sin having the Positive Institution and Promise of Christ for it Acts II. 38. Repent and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins and ye shall Receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost This was not the Extraordinary Gift of Miracles which is here Promised and which all Baptized Persons did not Receive or Expect but the Remission of Sins And let me add That the Ordinary Saving Graces of the Spirit which work silently without Observation or Show are much Preferable and more Desirable than the Extraordinary Gifts of Miracles which for a time were Necessary at the first Propagation of the Gospel and held Men's Eyes in Great Admiration But were of Dangerous Consequence to the Possessors and a Temptation often to Vanity which had almost overset the Great Apostle 2 Cor. xii 7 8 9. and threw others into the Pit of Destruction Matth. vii 22 23. 1 Cor. xiii 2. and therefore were not to be Pray'd for or Desir'd We must be totally Passive in this Case and when sent being for the Conviction of others to Receive such an Extraordinary Gift with Fear and Trembling lest it Hurt our weak Minds not capable but by as Extraordinary an Assistance of Divine Grace to Bear such mighty Revelations and not to let in with it a secret Pride in our selves which spreads our Sails so wide that without a Proportionable Ballast of deep Humility we shall be driven from our Compass The Enemy throws in this strong Temptation with those Miraculus Gifts which vain Men do Ignorantly Covet and some falsly Pretend to to their own Destruction But much more Valuable are those Saving Graces which we are commanded Daily to Pray for and Daily to Endeavour Much more Available to us and Precious in the sight of God than all Miraculous Gifts is that Gift of The Holy Ghost the Remission of Sins which is Promis'd to the Due Reception of Baptism and enrolls our Names in Heaven Luk. x. 17 18 19 20. Behold said Christ to his Disciples who Boasted that even the Devils were subject to them through His Name I give unto you Power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and over all the Power of the Enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you notwithstanding in this Rejoyce not that the Spirits are subject unto you But rather Rejoyce because your Names are written in Heaven To be added to the End of Sect. VIII p. 49. But R. Barclay argue in his Apology That the Baptism of which the Ark was a Type cou'd not be the Outward or Water-baptism because that it self is a Type viz. Of the Inward or Spiritual Baptism And he supports this Notion by a Criticism upon the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this Text which he says is not rightly Translated in our English by The like Figure Because he says the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies the thing Typify'd and not the Type But by his leave it signifies the quite contrary Heb. ix 24. not the thing Typify'd but only the Type For there the Holy Places made with Hands are called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Figures or Types of the True And that Word is not to be found except in these two Texts in the whole New Testament And therefore if one of these Texts must explain the other the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Anti-Type 1 Pet. iii. 21. must be taken in the same Sense in which it is used Heb. ix 24. because there it cannot possibly be taken to mean the thing Typify'd or the Archi-Type therefore neither ought it to be so strain'd as Barclay does to mean the quite contrary in the present Text. And our Translation is Justify'd which renders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the like Figure as does the Vulgar Similis formae For both the Waters of the Ark and of Baptism are the outward and visible Signs but not the thing signify'd which is the Salvation of the Soul by the Regeneration and Washing of the Spirit And they are like Figures both signifying the same thing in a manner very like to one another That as Noah c. were sav'd in the Ark by Water from Corporal Death so are the True Believers sav'd by the Water of Baptism from the Death of Sin and Hell In which Sense the Ark was a Type of the outward or Water-baptism tho' both were Types but one nearer than the other And because the Baptism mention'd in this Text 1 Pet. iii.