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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77748	The dippers plunged in a sea of absurdities, or An ansvver to Doctor Chamberlaine concerning sprinkling the baptized. By Thomas Bakewell.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1650 (1650)	Wing B531; Thomason E597_18; Thomason E605_4; ESTC R206299	6,014	9

THE Dippers Plunged In a Sea of ABSVRDITIES OR AN ANSVVER TO Doctor Chamberlaine CONCERNING Sprinkling the Baptized By Thomas Bakewell LONDON Printed for John Dallam and are to be sold at his shop in Black-Fryers neer Carter Lane 1650. A Resolution to a Question published in print by Doctor Chamberlain which being first sent in writing to him although something briefer desiring his Answer Whether is gave satisfaction or not and having waited longer then the time limited by promise to give me an Answer and yet none comes I thought good to publish it at the request of some friends for their satisfaction SIR PRovidence hath brought to my hand a printed Paper with your name Peter Chamberlain directed to Doctor Gouge whom you do much insult over for not answering your former Letters about this question viz. Whether that sprinkling of Infants in Baptissm is of God or man Now because the Doctor is ancient and had not need to be dayly troubled with all the vain Queries that Anabaptists may put unto him although in respect of his ministerial abilities I doubt not but that he is able to non-plus all the Sectaries in England yet in consideration of his age and in regard you put your Question in print to the view of the world I shall endeavor till some better pen shall move herein to give you satisfaction and I am confident I shall unless that apparent pride of your heart expressed in the last words of that paper do not hinder wherein you pray the Lord to subdue his Spirit to the truth and to know you as you are but this prayer of yours is like that of the Pharisee I thank God I am not as this Publican Luk. 18.11 when as the Publican was justified rather then he so you censure that grave judicious Minister to have erred from the truth and yet you say he hath not answered your Letters but for your self you take upon you the title of Tyrus Full of Wisdom and perfect in beauty Ezek. 28.12 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his neighbor cometh and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 If you were so perfect in knowledg you do but minister questions of strife rather then godly edifying which shews that you are turned aside to vain jangling 1 Tim. 1.4.6 But knowledg without charity puffeth up And such a one thinking that he knoweth any thing knoweth nothing as he ought to know 1 Cor. 8.1 2. Paul calls himself the least of Saints and the chiefest of sinners Ephes 3.8 1 Tim. 1 15. For God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble Surely it is meet to be said unto God That which I see not teach thou me and if I have sinned I will do no more Job 34.32 Who can understand his errors cleanse thou me from secret faults and keep me from presumptuous sins Psal 19.12 But I hasten to satisfie your Quere which is not rightly stated whereby to give a right Answer for sprinkling those of full age is not at all here questioned but is either waved or granted to be of God and not of man and dipping or plunging infants is also either waved or granted to be of God and not of man Now if this be the sence of the question to know Whether sprinkling the baptized be of God or man be they Infants or of full age I shall answer and prove That sprinkling of the baptized is of God and not of mans invention First Because the Lord foretold That in the times of the Gospel his people should be sprinkled with clean water Ezek. 36.25 And the water in Baptism is the sign of the blood of Christ which is called the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 Therefore it is said To sprinkle our hearts from an evil conscience and to wash our bodies with pare water Heb. 10.22 Thus Moses sprinkled the people and said Behold the blood of the Covenant Exod. 24.8 that both the Jewish and Christian Sacramental Signs may both resemble the thing signified Therefore sprinkling the baptized is of God and not of man Secondly The Sacrament of Baptism must be visible to our corporal eyes that by beholding it we may be put in mind of the thing signified The Rainbow being the token of the Covenant shall be seen in the Clouds Gen. 9.11.14 And as I said Moses bid the people behold the blood of the Covenant Exod. 24.8 But he that is plunged under water can neither behold the sign nor hear the words of Institution to put him in mind of the thing signified they cannot have their senses exercised in that Ordinance as they ought Heb. 5.14 and therefore as unfit to use that Ordinance as a man that is mad or drunk being out of their element under water Thirdly Many were baptized in their houses as Paul and Cornelius and others Acts 9.17 18. and 16.25 48. and the Jaylor and all his were baptized in the prison and at midnight But what vessel could they have in their houses and prisons sufficient to plunge them in and who should fetch all that water the same hour of the night to do it see Acts 16.33 And what vessel had Peter to plunge three thousand persons in and if not all at once how often was it emptied and who fetched all that water And did Peter stand in the vessel all that time or how many times went he in or was he in at all And so of the rest which would beget a thousand Absurdities if we should deny that sprinkling is of God and hold it to be mans invention Fourthly The Sacraments must be administred where the Word is preached The text saith Preach and baptize Mat. 28.19 And as I said many were baptized in their houses as Cornelius and others immediately after Jesus Christ was preached unto them neither is it said preach in one place and then go to another place to plunge them In this the Anabaptists do but imitate the Popish Pilgrimage for Christ hath instituted Baptism to be administred in the Assembly where plunging cannot be Fifthly If a man should stand on the bank and plunge the baptized under water in so doing he may break his neck if the water be shallow and drown him if it be deep and if one should stand in the water to save him while the other casts him in there must be two at the least to baptize one man flat against all examples in Scripture Now to avoyd all these Absurdities the baptized must be sprinkled and not plunged under water Sixthly To plunge them naked is against modesty Let all things be done decently and in order 1 Cor. 14 40. Paul rejoyceth in beholding their order Col. 2.5 The Spouse of Christ is comely as the Curtains of Solomon Cant. 1.5 And to plunge them naked were a great temptation David by seeing a naked woman was tempted to adultery 2 Sam. 11.2 4. And Christ hath taught us to say Lead us not into temptation Mat 6. Neither may they have drawers appointed