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A41822	John Baptist's decreasing and Christ's increasing witnessed being a treatise concerning baptism in the type, and baptism in the mystery / by John Gratton ...	Gratton, John, 1641-1712.	1674 (1674)	Wing G1585; ESTC R39439	23,175	59

was then was the True Baptism known then came the Holy Ghost upon them then did the True Light shine and the Darkness fled way then were they inwardly washed and their Understandings opened then was the Circumcision of the Heart known then was he entred into that within the Vail into the true Tabernacle which God pitched and not Man And so Iohn went before as a Type but willingly gave place to the Substance So that its clear the Baptism you use is not Iohn's and it it much more clear that it is not Christ's Baptism and so it must needs be your own done by you in Imitation of the Holy Men of God gone before who did what they did in Obedience to the Lord and in his Power and were sent by him but oh who ever sent you Baptists in this great and notable Day of the Lord It will one day be said Who hath required these things at your Hands Either shew us your Commission or else acknowledge your great Error Repent and come unto the true Light and walk in it prize it and obey it that ye may be saved by it For it is not a fair Outside of the Cup or Platter but the inward Washing of Regeneration by the Spirit and a living in the Spirit and the whole Worship of God say we and say the Scriptures the same That the True Worship of God is in Spirit and in Truth but that your Water-Baptism is Spiritual I deny or that it ought to be observed in the Worship of God you cannot prove but Iohn's was ordained to be used as a Type before the Spirit 's Worship or the true Worship in the Spirit was fully established and of it self a thing that I believe none of you dare say doth in any measure sanctifie and wash the Soul And if it be of so little Effect unto the Soul why what Necessity is there for the Continuance of it to the World's End since also ye cannot prove it so commanded for once more let me tell you that the Baptism commanded in the 28th of Matthew was INTO the Name of the Father Son Spirit or Holy Ghost but I say this was not Iohn's for they that had been baptiz'd unto Iohn's Baptism had not so much as heard of a Holy Ghost Acts 19. 1 2 3 4. which they must needs have done if they had been baptized with the use of these words In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost But further you acknowledge your selves that it is but a Type well I ask you then What doth it type forth unto us or what is it a Type of If it be a Type of the Baptism of Christ then I ask you What further need is there of it when the Thing signified by it is come Or do you think that the Type and Substance must remain together to the World's End Was it not always from the Foundation of the Law that when the Substance came that the Shadows fled away But although you should still say Why then did the Apostles use it after the Spirit 's Baptism was accomplisht I answer as before The Apostles had Power over it after they saw beyond it and could submit unto the Weakness of Believers Capacities in many things as above is mentioned but that they saw not beyond it till it was reveal'd unto them is clear but then they spoak of the one Baptism of the one Lord of the one Faith And so Iohn himself when he saw Jesus walking he said unto his Followers Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World and John 's Disciples LEET John mark they Left John and walked no more with him For Iohn's Baptism could not wash them from their Sins but behold the Lamb of God takes away Sin puts an End to Sins finishes Transgression brings in everlasting Righteousness he makes every whit whole and fully saves to the utmost them that come to God by him and makes clean them he washeth And if I Wash thee not saith he thou hast no Part in Me He satisfies for he is the Bridegroom himself but Iohn was not he its true was the Bridegroom's Friend and would not rob him of his Prerogative or Honour but rejoyced to hear his Voice and when it was heard said This my Ioy therefore is fulfilled So we own Iohn in his place and Time but we own the Bridegroom above Iohn although Iohn was his Friend did what he was commanded but thought not much to give him place who had commanded him And so my dearly beloved Friends it is in much Love to all but chiefly to you called Anabaptists that this is written as I can truly testifie in the Manifestation of that true Light spoaken of in the Scriptures of Truth unto which I once more beseech you to turn your Minds and believe in it and come to walk in it and obey it and then will you have Fellowship with us and truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus by whom we have also received the Attonement and in whom we live out of whom we cannot live for He is our Life To him be Glory forever Written the 7th of the 1st Moneth 1674. Iohn Gratton GReat hath been the Travail of my Soul for the Prosperity of Sion and for her Establishment above the Top of all the Mountains and blessed be the Lord my God my Eyes behold her and see her Beauty to exceed all the Glory of the Earth and her coming out of her Wilderness State is come I say the Time is come and many have lyed or lain in the Way side to have drawn her aside and would gladly have allured and inticed her from her Beloved gladly would have had her turned aside unto other Lovers and have cryed out unto her What is thy Beloved unto anothers Beloved and have spoken against her and when they could not prevail with her have evil-entreated her and per secuted her for her Beloved's sake and many have been her Troubles but the Lord hath delivered her out of all And great is her Ioy at this Day and her Glory exceeds all the Glory of the Nations Her Beauty is Perfect she is a Virgin and never was defiled but is all Glorious The King's Daughter is all Glorious within her Garments are of wrought Gold wholely pure she has no Blemish she is all fair without Spot the only beloved of the Lord Glory to his Name He hath remembred her in Love and her Sorrows has he seen and will plead her Cause and subdue Kingdoms for her sake and make her Way plain before her Oh! come unto Sion all ye that desire her Prosperity and be not so foolish as to sit down short of her her City is free her Gates are open hy Day by Night she has no need of the Sun by Day nor of the Moon by Night but the Lord God the Lamb are the Light thereof Her Light will never grow dark her Sun will never set Night shall be no more upon her for her Sun is arisen and as one to run a Race is marching on his Strength is as a Lyon his Voice is heard to Roar and great Fear is fallen and a falling upon the Beast of Prey Oh! who would not live in her Her Gates are paved with precious Pearles her Inhabitants are all Kings and Priests unto God she is altogether Comely and her Glory shall never have an End Amen Oh! who who would not dwell here Come come unto Sion all ye that are sincere to what ye know Turn ye turn at her Call and embrace her Counsel Why will ye bestow your Money for that which is not Bread and your Labour for that which satisfieth not Oh! come unto me saith the Lord my Voice is near you How often have I called and ye regarded not nor have not answered my Requirements but are imitating them whose Life and Power you are out of But now turn ye unto the Lord with all your Hearts believe in his Light and Life will you know that never can have End but if you still Refuse you will one day know that you were Warned and Invited by one that truly seeks not himself but earnestly travails for the Welfare of all men and is become Servant to all for Iesus's sake To Him be all Honour Praise and Dominion forever and for evermore J. G. THE END

John Baptist's DECREASING AND CHRIST's Increasing WITNESSED Being a Treatise concerning Baptism in the Type AND Baptism in the Mystery By John Gratton Well-Wisher of the Anabaptists c. Printed in the Year 1674. TO THE Friendly Unprejudic'd READER Friend IT is no Desire in me that because so many have appear'd in Print that therefore I would be one also that should be accounted Eminent But having been one of the greatest Sinners upon Earth and therefore have through infinite Love and free Grace much forgiven me my Love is so much to him that is Lord of all that I am not a little grieved to see his Pure and Precious Truth so strongly on all hands incountered with and fought against its Comfortable and Glorious Appearance in the Lord 's poor despised People called by the scornful World Quakers And seeing that this of Water-Baptism hath been and is a Thing they that are not only Adversaries to Truth but to their own Souls have so publickly made use of to fight us with I having both been an Eye Ear-Witness of the same have been not a little exercised in Mind about this Matter but have seriously considered and tryed all their Arguments that I have been acquainted with for this thing and I find them so far contrary to Truth and the Mind of Truth that a Necessity fell upon me to write what it pleased the Pure Eternal God to communicate unto me by his Spirit so that what is according to Truth sound Iudgment thou wilt here find written as to the Tenor and Substance of the Matter from the Spirit of God in me and so is not mine but his to him be the Glory wholely given forever But if there be any circumstantial Defect for want of Heed or Exactness which may either fall upon me or upon the Printer charge it in its right Place and lay it not upon the Spirit of God Having given thee this Caution I desire thee to observe in the next place my End in the publishing this little Treatise which is First To clear Truth of Scandals in this Point laid to our Charge 2dly To strengthen the Owners and Lovers of it 3dly To acquaint or inform them that are mistaken about it And lastly That I might so aswer that Love so greatly bestowed upon me as to be clear of all Men and stand single unto God whose Servant I am through Mercy and might bring Glory Honour and Praise unto his Holy Name forever So now before I leave thee I shall only acquaint thee of the great Differences amongst men about this thing and then take leave The Presbyterian saith Water-Baptism belongs to Children of Believing Parents and therefore they examine the Parents of their Faith Now if the Parent be an Vnbeliever then his Child is not to be accepted to this Ordinance as they call it From which I shall only now observt this That if this be so then is the Child a Sufferer for the Sin of the Father's Vnbelief which God hath said shall never be The Child shall not suffer for the Sin of the Father nor the Father for the Sin of the Child but the Soul that sins it shall Dye 2dly The Episcopal saith The Child is by this regenerated and born again sanctified and changed and made a new Creature and therefore if a Child be in Danger of Death great Haste is made to get it sprinkled And if this be true What further need of a Saviour 3dly The Baptists say Believers only have Right to Water Baptism I grant Believers are only they that are Truly Baptized but that they are injoyn'd or commanded to observe this Water Baptism they now so differently observe I find not But I hope if thou readest what follows with a single Eye thou mayst come to see all these Dippers and Sprinklers and their Shortness in this and gain some Acquaintance with the Lord's Mind as thou waitest in his pure Light which makes all things manifest to which I beseech thee to turn thy Mind and believe in it that thou mayst be a Child of Light and then thy Fellowship will be with us who are Children of it and so we may Praise the Lord together who is Light to whom be all the Honour and Glory forever and ever Written by one of the Least of all yet one of the Lord 's Chosen Ones unknown to many yet known by the Name of Iohn Gratton Monyash the 4th of the 3d Moneth 1674. A TREATISE Concerning BAPTISM THey that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ live in him and are One Spirit with or in him are all united by One Spirit into One Body and are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones and of his Fulness receive Grace for Grace and know One Lord One Faith One Baptism and are One in him and he in them and so are come into the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End the First and the Last He whose Name is called The Word of God by which all things were made in Heaven and in Earth to him be Glory forever Now the Baptism of the Spirit is One in all and all that are baptized by the One Spirit are baptized into One Body and are all made to drink into One Spirit and these have no Confidence in the Flesh but are they that worship God in the Spirit and are truly led and guided by the Spirit hear and know his Voice and are acquainted with his Operations Life Power and Vertue and can do nothing acceptable to God but what they do in it and so it rather may be said as in Truth it is That it is the Gift or Grace of God in them and by them that works both to Will and to Do of his own Good Pleasure Now all other Baptisms whatsoever that are not in the Spirit are of no Profit for the Substance of all is come I say of all those Shadows Figures and Types which had their Day and in their Day were appointed to be used according to the Appointment of the Father but were but for an appointed Time until the Seed came to whom the Promise was made who is the Heir in whom all Fulness dwells mark that that in all things he might have the Preheminence for he alone of himself is sufficient and able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him him only without the Help of any outward Washings outward Offerings Oblations or whatever may be named or hath been named either of things in Heaven or in the Earth they are all to give place for him only hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that at his Name every thing though it hath been never so highly exalted should bow and that in all things he only who is Heir of all should rule as a Son over his own House for all these were but as Servants and were not to abide forever I say All those Types and Shadows and