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An appendix to the answer unto two Athenian Mercuries concerning pedo-baptism containing twenty seven syllogistical arguments proving infant-baptism a mere humane tradition : the gentlmen called the Athenian Society desiring in the last of the said Mercuries to have syllogism / by B. K.
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Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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then twelve Years ago I did recite and print these Assertions and many other Arguments of his to the same Purpose to which he gave no Answer Arg. 24. If there is but one way for all both Parents and Children to be admitted into the Gospel-Church to the End of the World and that it is upon the Profession of Faith to be baptized then both Parents and Children must upon the Profession of their Faith be baptized and so admitted c. But there is but one way for all both Parents and Children to be admitted into the Gospel-Church to the End of the World and that is upon the Profession their Faith to be baptized Ergo. Arg. 25. That cannot be Christ's true Baptism wherein there is not cannot be a lively Representation of the Death Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ together with our Death unto Sin and Vivification to a new Life But in the Rantizing or Sprinkling of an Infant there is not cannot be a lively Representation of Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection c. Ergo. Arg. 26. That pretended Baptism that tends to frustrate the glorious End and Design of Christ in his instituting of Gospe-Baptism or cannot answer it is none of Christ's Baptism But the pretended Baptism of Infants tends to frustrate the glorious end and design of Christ in instituting of Gospel-Baptism Ergo. That Major will not he denied As to the Minor all generally confes the End or Design of Christ in instituting the Ordinance of Baptism was in a lively Figure to represent his Death Burial and Resurrection with the Person 's Death unto Sin and his rising again to walk in newness of Life that is baptized as the Sacrament of the Supper was ordained to represent his Body was broke and his Blood was shed But that a lively Figure of Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection appears in sprinkling a little Water on the Face I see not and as done to an Infant there can no Death to Sin and rising again to walk in newness of Life be signified And therefore Christ's Design and End therein is frustrated Arg. 27. If Baptism be Immersion as to the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo as also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms and the spiritual Signification thereof then Sprinkling cannot be Christ's true Baptism But Immersion is the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo and also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms spoken of and the spiritual Signification thereof Ergo Sprinkling is not Christ's true Baptism 1. That the proper and genuine Signification of the word Baptizo is Immersion or to dip c. we have proved which is also confessed by the Learned in the Language 2. The Figurative Baptism was 1st That of the Red Sea wherein the ââthers were buried as it were unto Moses in the Sea and under the Cloud Pools Annotations on 1 Cor. 10. 2. Others saith he more probably think that the Apostle useth this term in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism as it was then used the Persons going down into the Waters and being dipped in them and the Israelites going down into the Sea the great Receptacle of Water though the Water at that time was gathered on Heaps on either side of them yet they seemed-buried in the Water as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized c. The 2d was that of Noah's Ark. See Sir Norton Knatchbâll The Ark of Noah and Baptism saith he were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection not the Sign of the washing away of Sin though so taken metonymically but a particular Signal of the Resurrection of Christ of this Baptism is a lively and emphatical Figure as Also was the Ark of Noah out of which he returned as from a Sepulchre to a new Life 3. Metaphorical Baptism is that of the Spirit and of Affliction the first signifies not a sprinkling of the Spirit but the great Effusion of the Spirit like that at Pentecost Acts 1. 4 5. Shall be baptized c. on which Words Casaubon speaks thus See Dr. Dâ Veil on Acts 2. The Greek Word ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã is to dip or plunge as it were to die Colours in which Sense saith he the Apostles might be truly said to have been baptized for the House in which this was done was filled with the Holy Ghost so that the Apostles might seem to have been plunged into it as in a large Fish-Pond Also ãâã on Acts 2. saith A Wind filled the whole House that it seemed like a Fish-Pond because it was promised to the Apostles that they should be baptized with the Holy Ghost And the Baptism of Afflicâââ are those great depths or overwhelming of Afflictions like that of our Saviour's ãâã i. e. no part free Matth. 20. 22. ãâã you have the same Greed Word ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã and like that of David who saith ãâ¦ã him out of grâât Waters 4. The spiritual Signification thereof ââ the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ and of our Death to Sin and Vivification ãâã a new Life This being so it follows ãâ¦ã Sprinkling cannot be Christââ true ãâ¦ã it must be Immersion and nothing else And in the last Place Finally To ãâã that Baptizo is to dip both from the literal ãâã spiritual Signification thereof as also ãâã those typical and metaphorical Baptism âââtioned in the Scripture I might add ãâ¦ã that this evidently appears from the ãâ¦ã of John Baptist and the Apostles of ãâã who baptized in Rivers and where ãâ¦ã much Water and also because the ãâ¦ã Baptized are said to go down into the Wââââ not down to the Water and came ãâã of the Water John Baptist is said to ãâã them into Jordan as the Greek Word ãâã it which shews it dipping and not ãâã Would it be proper to say He ãâ¦ã them into Jordan The Lord open ãâ¦ã those who see not to consider these ãâ¦ã FINIS