the 10th and then argues very pertly but very inconclusively from it And this is the fate of the First Arguments he advances for a thing in which he is so confident as to say they are irrefragable and as clear as any Proposition in Euclid Fr. Ep. p. 5. a Book I have good reason to believe he never saw since he so scurvily disgraces it by comparing his proofs with the Theorems of that celebrated Mathematician But Mr. Malleus is sick of this question Ibid. p. 6. and I dare say his Reader is as sick of his Proofs and therefore he proceeds with great solemnity to advance Three New Paradoxes He tells you Mr. Keith with great assurance that John the Baptist and St. Peter too Declare they Plunged not when they Baptiz'd Not in express Terms sure No no but by good consequence Pray let 's see it good Mr. Malleus Why St. Luke in his 3d Chap. and 16th Verse introduces John the Baptist saying I Baptize you with Water and not in the Water for the Preposition is omitted p. 4. O miserable Grecian don 't you know what every School-boy knows that an Ellipsis of the Preposition does not alter the sense of the Phrase Mat. 3.6 Mat. 3.11 Mark 1.5 8. Joh. 1.26 31 33 Joh. 3.23 And don't you see it express'd in the Parrallel and other places cited in the Margin But Mr. Malleus says 't is not English to say I Plunge you with Water Agreed but who translates it so besides himself 't is a bad Translation and 't is his own But what then shall determine the sense of the Word Baptize Why let Mr. Malleus for once consult his Greek Testament for the three Texts in the Margin Mat. 3.6 and 16. Joh. 3.23 where John is said to Baptize in Jordan and in Enon because there was much Water or many Waters and Christ who was Baptized by John in Jordan is said expresly to have went up out of the Water so that the manner of John's Baptism is plainly specified in these passages And if You Mr. Keith should ask your Worthy Informer Mr. Malleus in what manner did John the Baptist Baptise Christ and others who came to him Or how were they Baptiz'd Mr. Malleus must answer if he 'll answer with the Text That Christ and the Disciples of John were Baptiz'd in Jordan unless he chooses to use his beloved Translation and say they were Baptiz'd with Jordan But Mr. Malleus urges p. 8. That John so Baptiz'd with Water as Christ on the Day of Pentecost did with the Holy Ghost and with Fire and he makes a great Pother with this Argument and lays about him as fiercely as Don Quixote did at the Windmill Well admit it be so then it must follow that John the Baptist's Disciples were totally immers'd and cover'd with the Water in Jordan for the Apostles were totally immerc'd or cover'd with the Miraculous effusion of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost the Fire appear'd only in the form of Tongues but all the Room was fill'd with a mighty rushing Wind Acts 2. and all the Persons present therein were as intirely Baptiz'd with or in this mighty rushing Wind as they had been in in case all the Room had been fill'd with Water and thus John as our Authors Words are so Baptiz'd with Water as Christ did with the Holy Ghost and with Fire that is by Immersion But the Text do's neither say nor imply that Christ's Baptism with the Holy Ghost must be like John's Baptism with Water 't is only said I Baptize you with Water and he shall c. The Word Baptize in this Second Clause has left its Native Sense and if the Metaphorical and Borrow'd Sense be somewhat Catachrestical 't is no new thing but an ordinary Scheme of Speech used in every Leaf of the Bible This Word is used in another Allusive Sense in Matth. 20.22 and Mark 10.38 and is thus Paraphraz'd by the Assemblies shall you be able to endure the over-flowings of Afflictions which like deep Water-floods must compass me about Which Paraphraze by the way in the Assemblies Annotations is not only true but a further Proof that the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even when us'd Metaphorically has all its Allusive Sense from the very Notion of Immersion But Mr. Malleus insists upon it pag. 9. That the Holy Ghost was pour'd out upon the Apostles and that they were not immers'd or plung'd into or under that Divine Effusion and as he expresses it the Water in John's Baptism was applied to the Person and not the Person to the Water So then all the force of his Argument amounts to this that John's Baptism with Water was like the Baptism of the Holy Ghost but that was by the Effusion or pouring of it out upon the Apostles and therefore John's Baptism must be by the Effusion or pouring out of Water on his Disciples Now to this you may give Mr. Malleus this plain Answer First That there is no necessity for an entire resemblance of a Real and Metaphorical Baptism in all Circumstances as has been hinted before and he will not be able to prove his Major that the one must in all respects be like the other 'T is sufficient if there were any likeness to justifie such a Form of Speech as Baptizing with the Holy Ghost whether the Parties were first put into the rushing Wind or the mighty rushing Wind was miraculously brought upon 'em on every side in either case the Parties were totally cover'd and surrounded with the Element But still Mr. Malleus will reply That the pouring out the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles was Baptizing the Apostles with the Holy Ghost and by consequence that pouring Water upon the Party Baptiz'd is a proper manner of Baptism Now suppose this should be granted Mr. Malleus That the Real and Metaphorical Baptism are in all respects Analogous then it must follow according to his own Judgment That as the Holy Ghost was pour'd out upon the Parties Baptiz'd at Pentecost in so plentiful a manner so as the Symbol of the Divine Presence viz. the mighty rushing Wind intirely surrounded 'em and touch'd 'em in all parts and on every side So the Party 's to be Baptiz'd with Water ought to have it pour'd out upon 'em with equal plenty that the Element may touch every part of the Body and not only so but it must be so pour'd upon the Parties Baptiz'd as to touch all parts at the same time as the rushing Wind which fill'd the Room where the Apostles met was at the same time present and Contiguous to every part of their Bodies It cannot be deny'd I say if he will have the manner of Baptism by Water to be specifi'd and determin'd by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost but that the Water must be pour'd on the Party Baptiz'd with a kind of Inundation so as the Water may stay and abide upon the whole Body in every part at
the same time And if this will necessarily follow What will become of his Mode of Baptism by applying or sprinkling the Water on certain Parts only That certainly will not be Analogous to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which he contends it ought to be So that for the Strength of his Arguments Mr. Malleus might well have forborn his insulting but the weakness of his Understanding would not give him leave to practice the least piece of Discretion In the 11. Pag. he tells you That it being admitted by many Paedobaptists that St. John plung'd his Disciples this is accounted the strongest effort for the Baptists Pray Mr. Keith ask him who told him so Not one Baptist of common sense can be of that Opinion for the strongest Effort or Proof for plunging if there be any must be found in the Words of the Institution Vide Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity pt 1. Chap. 10. and the History of the Corresponding Practice of the Apostolick Age and not in the Concessions of some Learned Ingenuous Men which Concessions at best are but Argumentum ad bominem or a probable Topick whereas an Argument from the Institution and Primitive Practice recited in the Gospels or the Acts has that certainty and undoubted Evidence which oblig'd those Learned Men to make the very Concessions he mentions In Page 13. He puts a Question in very Bungling Burlesque What were John's and Peter's Arms and Legs made of We may with good reason and more modesty then he uses in treating those Venerable Apostolick Men ask him what were the coarse and uncouth Materials of his Vnderstanding But why do you ask that Mr. Malleus Why because so many were Baptiz'd Friendly Epist p. 13. All Jerusalem all Judea all the Regions round about Jordan Three Thousand by St. Peter in one Day and they were Baptiz'd in their Cloaths which is not likely or Naked which is not Modest for what Provision had they made to change their Cloaths And this is the Substance of Mr. Malleus his Remarks in that Page abating the childish and silly Wittisms But pray Mr. Malleus why such adinn with the universal All do you design to make Mr. Keith believe that the whole City of Jerusalem and the whole Country of Judea and all the People living round about Jordan were Baptiz'd by St. John in Person I dare say you cannot impose such a sense upon the Text nor Mr. Keith and the Text does not say what you make it say Mat. 3.5 in the place you referr to There 's not All * 'T is observable that Cardinal Bellarmine was in the same mistake as appears Tom. 2. de Bapt. Lib. 1. Cap. 22. Jerusalem to be found But admit it had been said all Jerusalem as it is said all Judea and all the Nighbourhood of Jordan has Mr. Malleus ever seen any Interpreter that afferts we must by the universal All understand every Body that liv'd in those places And has he forgotten the noted distinctiof an Vniversal in genera singulorum and in singula generum which his Authors so often abuse in their Comments on that famous Text God would have all men be saved They will immediately tell him that All must signifie in very many passages some of all Ranks and Orders and not every individual Person as it is plain it does in the case before us for St. Mathew uses a term of abatement in the 7th Verse saying that John observ'd many of the Pharisees and Saducees coming to his Baptism 't is neither said all of 'em nor most of 'em but many or diverse of 'em and they that came Joh. 1.19 29. were sent by such of the Jews who did not come to his Baptism to enquire what John was doing and with what design and many of the many that came for ought appears to the contrary or can be prov'd by Mr. Malleus or any of his Learned London Divines were never Baptiz'd by John So that at last his all Jerusalem and all Judea c. must with the consent of the Context Mr. Malleus his Learned Friends and Annotators and with the Approbation to of his London Divines In his Title Page signifie some Persons or if he will diverse Persons dwelling in Jerusalem and in all parts of Judea and in the Neighbourhood of Jordan came to St. John Mat. 3.6 and were as St. Mathew says expresly Baptiz'd by John in Jordan Mark 1.5 and St. Mark more expresly in the River Jordan and that John who staid some time in the Wilderness of Judea should during his stay Baptize either in Person or by his substitutes diverse of the Jews is no such Instance of his wonderful strength nor so unlikely as Mr. Malleus endeavours to represent it But Mr. Malleus thinks it very improbable Friendly Epist p. 13. That St. Peter should Baptize 3000 Converts in one day especially confidering as his Learned Phrase is his antecedent and consequent work This observation is a fresh instance of Mr. Malleus's negligent and inconsiderate humour and demonstrates very evidently that he cannot read hardly a single Text with any tolerable attention to the sense of it For in the 2d of the Acts at the 41st Verse 't is said that about Three Thousand Souls were added to the Church that day i. e. on the day St. Peter Preached and 't is said That they who gladly received the Word were Baptiz'd and some of them might nay all of 'em might be Baptiz'd that day but 't is not said that all or any of 'em were Baptiz'd on that very day nor is it said that one single Convert of the 3000 was Baptiz'd by St. Peter in Person With how little Reason then or rather with how great contrariety to Reason must Mr. Malleus assert that the 3000 were all Baptiz'd and not only so but all Baptiz'd by St. Peter and all in one day Another Instance of Mr. Malleus his great care to be in the wrong for he crowds three untruths into one single Proposition However to gratifie him we will suppose it had been expresly said in the terms of Mr. Malleus that 3000 were Baptiz'd by St. Peter in one day Does he not rememSt John's distinction between Christ Baptizing in Person and Christ Baptizing by his Disciples Joh. 3.22 compar'd with 4.1 2. for St. John had expresly said ch 3. v. 22. and ch 4. v. 1. that Our Saviour Baptiz'd Disciples and yet in the very next Verse he assures us that Christ himself i. e. Christ in Person did not but his Disciples Baptiz'd ' em And if the Disciples were so ready to execute their Masters Orders in Baptizing Converts we may with good reason conclude that had it been necessary to Baptize St. Peter's numerous Conversion all in one day St. Peter could not have wanted the assistance of the whole Apostolick College and many other Christian Fathers who were all then at Jerusalem Well then upon the whole I
the 6th of the Romans in a sense that plainly supposes baptizing by Immersion to be the allow'd and general Practice of the Church Ep. Leonis primi in Tomo Tertio Edit Paris Sepulturam triduanam imitatur trina demersio ab aquis elevatio resurgentis est ad instar de Sepulchro ibid. for says he the trine Immersion represents our Saviour's abiding three days in the grave and the rising of the party Baptiz'd out of the water resembles his rising out of the grave Now where had the sense of this comparison been if there had been no such thing in being as Baptizing by Immersion And to add but one Authority more of this sort Catechis ad Paroch parte 2. de Baptismo cùm aliquis aquâ mergitur quod diu à primis temperibus in Ecclesuâ— Observalum the Council of Trent it self As modern and heterodox as it is in most other matters has very modestly declar'd her opinion in this in a Catechism made by her order viz. that Baptising by Immersion or Dipping was for a long time from the very beginning observ'd in the Christian Church But it may be Mr. Malleus has no regard to the sense and opinion of Popes and Popish Councils and I suppose for that Reason he will not much valâ—â— the Opinion of an Eminent Writer in the â— Church who died in Rome and thought it necessary to Baptize not barely by immersion but by â—â—ine immersion Epist Gregorii Protosyncelli 30. ni fallor Tomo Concil Edit Paris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and appeals for his justification to the usage of former times However I hope Mr. Malleus has some esteem for the Judgment of Protestant Divines tho' the living have no Reason to value it if he had not And the Sense of those Divines is full on our side in the Matter in Debate and point blank against Mr. Malleus For instance The Divines who compil'd the * Cont. Magdeb. Cent. 2. ministros in aquam Baptizandos immersisse probat verbum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod immersionem in Aquam significat quod Paulus immersiorem illam allegorice exponit 6 Rom. 2 Colos 5 Ephes 3 Tit. 10 Heb. alibi Centuriae Magdeb. expresly say That the Ministers Baptiz'd by Immersion in the Second Century that the Greek Word signified to Plunge or Dip and that St. Paul in divers Passages expresly alludes to the practice of Baptizing by Immersion and a great deal more to the same purpose in the 1st 2d and 3d. Volumes And the Learned and Judicious * Calv. Inst l. 4. C. 15. S. 19. Quanquam ipsum Baptizandi verbum mergere significat mergendi ritum veteri Ecclesiae observatum fuisse constat Mr. Calvin is as express in this Matter as Words can make him for he frankly owns that the Word Baptize signifies to Plunge or Dip And further assures us for a certain Truth that Baptizing in that manner was the usage of the Ancient Church And the Learned Casanbon his Countryman Casaub Notae ad 3 Mat. commate 6tâ— Hic enim fuit baptizandi ritus ut in aquas immergerentur quod vel ipsa vex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 declarat satis non esse abs quod se nonnulli disputarunt de toto corpore immergendo ibid. was of the very same Opinion which he freely declares in his brief Notes upon the Greek Testament saying That the manner of John 's Baptism was by Immersion and that it was not without Reason that some Persons argued for plunging the whole Body under Water in Baptism since the very Word has that signification This was the Judgment of those two renowned Divines and Crities the most considerable perhaps that France ever bred Let us see now of what opinions our English Divines are in this point Bishop Daevenant in his Exposition on these words in the 2d of the Colos Buried with him in Baptism Observes that the Persons Baptized in the ancient Church were not Sprinkled only but Plung'd into the Water Nay Dr. Holdsworth says more In bis 22 Lecture that Baptism by Immersion is still in use in some Churches and in others that the Baptized are Plunged thrice which is agreeable to the Ancient usage Dr. Sparrow late Bishop of Norwich p. 260. and p. 262 in his Rationale assures us that Baptism in the first times was perform'd in Fountains and Rivers and the Apostles Baptiz'd in such places And perhaps there 's not one Divine of the Church of England to be nam'd so illiterate and rash as Mr. Malleus Vide Bp. Salisb Expol. of the 28th Art but one and all of them who have occasion to give their opinion in this Subject admit Baptizing by Immersion to have been the primitive practice And the Church of England itself directs her Ministers to observe it in some cases as appears by the Rubrick in the Form of Baptizing Infants So that every one of her Divines when he declares his Assent and Consent to the truth and use of her Liturgy Rub. in the form of pub Bapt. it they shall certity him the Priest that the 〈◊〉 may well endâ—re â— he shall dip â—â— in the Water discreetly at the same time professes thus much at least that Baptism by Immersion is practicable and valid in certain cases and is by no means to be rejected as unlawful and as a notorious breach of the 6th and 7th Commandments F. Ep. p. 19. I will name but one Authority more and have reserv'd that for the last because Mr. Malleus 't is probable will rather be concluded by it than by all I have already refer'd him to And the Person I mean is the Learned Mr. Pool the Author of the Sâ—â—â—psis Criticorum who with the candour of a Gentleman and sincerity of a Divine freely declares himself in favour of the Antiquity of Baptizing by Immersion or Dipping P. 21. of this Discourse in the passage I referred Mr. Malleus to before viz. in his Collection upon the 3d Verse of the 6th Chapter of St. Matthew But he confirms his Opinion by citations from other Learned Men and proceeds further to give his Reader the sense of Maldonate a considerable Annotator Syn. Crit. in 3 Mat. Erat Ablutio 〈◊〉 qui in Ecclesiam Judaeâ—rum admittebartur viz. totius corporis in 〈◊〉 et it a fuit admissus Jetbie and adds that the Proselytes admitted into the Jewish Church were baptiz'd or as he words it had their whole Bodies Immers'd or Dip'd The Talmud it seems under the Title de Repudio declares that the Jews were initiated or entred into Covenant with God the same way according to the sense of two very Learned Men Mr. Selden and Dr. Lightfoot in the places I refer my Reader to in the Margin Selden de Syn. l. 1. c. 3. Horae Heb. in 3 Mat. 6. But Mr. Pool do's not barely acknowledge the Antiquity of Baptizing by Dipping or Immersion but
thought fit to declare ex abundanti that the custom of pouring water on the party baptiz'd or sprinkling with Water did but lately prevail in the Christian Church Pool in 1000 supra citato Serius â—liquanto in valuisse mos perfundendisive aspergendi I think it may with good reason be suppos'd if not fully prov'd that whilst Baptisteries or places built and set apart for Baptism were made so large as to receive not only the whole Body immers'd or dip'd but several Persons and both Sexes in distinct apartments at the same time Durantus de ritibus Eccl. l. 1. c. 19. as 't is certain they were for Durandus mentions some the Ruins whereof were shown in his time at Pisa Florence Bononia and Parma I say whilst these Baptisteries were in use Immersion without doubt continued to be the ordinary mode of Baptizing Nay these Baptisteries were so capacious that some us'd to bury their dead within their Walls 14. Can. Concil Autisiodoren which was expresly forbid by a Council held in the Year 578. It began indeed to be a Question about the middle of the third Century whether Baptism by Aspersion might not be lawful and sufficient without a strict observance of the former practice of Baptizing by Immersion And St. Cyprian S. Cypr. Op. 76. Ep. ad Magnum who flourish'd about that time has this very point under debate By which enquiry 't is as evident as any thing can be that Baptizing by aspersion or sprinkling was then not an ordinary but an uncommon and rare practice and the Novelty of it was the reason for which some did scruple to admit it and not only so but made it a Question Cent. Magd. in 3. Cent. de Bapt. whether the parties who were so baptiz'd were truly and properly Christians How different then the Sentiments and practice of the best and purest Ages were from the Opinion of Trepidantium Mallens I think does in some measure appear by this brief account I have given What was it then could tempt this daring Epistle-Writer to repeat the Insolent Challenge of of his Anonimous Author Viz. to produce one place in Scripture where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to Plunge Of whatever Party the Gentleman be who first made the Challenge he may upon Publick Notice given who he is have all his own Dictionaries Historians and Commentators ready to answer his Challenge And since Mr. Mallens pertly appears for the Gentleman 's Second Friendly Ep. p. 20. but wisely resolves not to be concluded by his Authors for he cares not what they say Having arm'd himself with so much Sufficiency and Obstinacy as to reject the most convincing Arguments from all other Persons but St. John himself he may set his heart at rest St. John will have nothing to do with him that Excellent Person was well enough understood by all his Followers and so was St. Peter too and their Followers took care to Propagate the Doctrine they taught 'em and the usages they left 'em but particularly the mode of Baptizing by Immersion insomuch that it continued upon the matter an Invariable and Vniversal Practice for two or three Centuries succesively as those very Learned Men acknowledge who for better Reasons than Mr. Malleus ever thought on justifie and practise a different Mode in Baptism I have now Sir consider'd the arguing part of Mr. Malleus his Epistle to you and am ready to blame my self for attempting to confute a Pamphlet which in every Page confutes it self and has I make no question been slighted by you upon the first reading It may be expected I should take some notice of his Scandalous Reflections defaming Stories and pitiful Witticisms which he makes sport with in every Page but that 's a Task sit for no body but one of his own Kidney and Complexion He himself is the fittest Person to answer that part of his Epistle to write a Satyr or Panegyrick upon his own Writings and if he does it I am sure either of 'em will amount to the very same Lampoon You find scatter'd up and down in every Page the Flowers of his Rhetorick and his Complements such as for instance Purblind Brethren Paper-headed Men read their Scrible and learn their Chatt a considerable Phrase borrow'd from Old Mother Clito You 'll find him in the 2d Page very Comically and much like a Pedant Schooling his Masters the Reverend Assembly of Divines with an Objection which he says is Ignorantly Vnlearnedly and Foolishly urg'd and immediately he runs riot into his beloved Moods and Tenses And in the very next Page he comes to his good nature again and then the very same Persons are Vnanswerable Vrgers Great Worthies and Eagle-eyd-Men at Controversie that knock a Dispute in the head while you say what 's this In the 7th and 8th Pages You have his most Learned Observations with which his affected skill in the Greek has furnish'd him And here you must take him if you can be so kind for a considerable Critick or else you 'll very much disappoint him in his expectation In the 10th Page You are all of a suddain alarum'd with his Discourse of the Canon mounted up and beginning to roar P. 10. and I know not what which would put one in expectation of some News from Livonia But he immediately disappoints you by telling you a Tale of a Tub and himself P. 11. 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