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A65885	The rector examined about his book scandalously stiled, An antidote against the venom of Quakerism, by John Meriton, who calls himself A.M. rector of Boughton in Norfolk : and his observations remarked, and the Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, re-asserted and vindicated, from his perversions and aspersions / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1953; ESTC R20277	40,584	48

that the Inward Spiritual Baptism washing of Regeneration by the Word of Life the Spirit of Life the Power of Christ is the Saving Baptism the truly Regenerating Baptism the Baptism essentially necessary to Salvation and making Christians and not the outward nor the Sign Type or Shadow thereof is no venomous Doctrine but agreeable to Holy Scripture Testimony is evident from Isa. 1. Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine Eyes saith the Lord c. this was an Inward and Spiritual Washing Jer. 4. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine Heart from thy wickedness that thou mayest be saved This was a Heart-washing an Inward and Spiritual Washing whereby they might be Saved Zech. 13. 1. The Fountain opened to the House of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for Sin and for Uncleanness was a Spiritual Fountain The Lord God was the Fountain of Living Water which when they had forsaken they committed a great Evil therein as well as in hewing to themselves broken Cisterns which could hold no Water Jer. 2. 13. And the clean Water the Lord promised to Sprinkle upon his People to make them clean from all their Filthiness and to cleanse them from all their Idols Ezek. 36. 25. was a Spiritual Sprinkling with Spiritual Water and the Lord 's doing John 3. 5. Except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God This was Spiritual Living Water Inward and Sanctifying Grace as the True Primitive Christians experienced and best of Reformed Protestants believed and not the outward Element of Water as Papists and this Rector believe and hold As in his page 28 before more fully observed yea he holds This poor Element as he calls it of Water as necessary to do away Sins and to work upon our Souls as the Waters of Jordan were to the Cleansing of Naaman 2 Kings 5. 13. so necessary quoth he are the Waters of Baptism to the Cleansing our Souls p. 31. Such Vertue he ascribes to this Element thus idolizing it even as highly as the Rhemists against the Protestants but contrary to Christ's own Testimony also If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me saith our Lord Jesus John 13. 8. who also required first to make clean the inside that the out-side might be clean also Therefore 't was the Inward Spiritual Washing of Regeneration the Washing or Cleansing of the Heart by the Word of Life the Holy Spirit and Power of Christ which was the Soul's Saving Baptism and not that of the outward Element Titus 3. 4 5. After that the Kindness of God our Saviour toward Man appeared not by Works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he Saved us by the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost And if the Baptism which doth now save us be not the Putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the Answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ according to that of 1 Pet. 3. 23. What can be more clear than that the Saving Baptism is that of the Spirit which is the One Baptism Ephes. 4. 5. whereby the Saints were all Baptized into One Body 1 Cor. 12. 13. and not that of the outward Element which can neither cleanse the Soul nor wash away the Sin or Guilt thereof The Inward and Spiritual Grace Saveth the Soul from Sin and Condemnation and ought to be preferred to all outward and visible Signs which can neither Save nor Sustain or Relieve the Soul 't is Life and Substance which is divine can do that The One Spiritual Baptism and that One Bread that Spiritual Meat and Drink which cometh down from Heaven is that which both saves and nourisheth the Soul unto Eternal Life John 6. 1 Cor. 10. That Disciples and Apostles of Christ did Baptize with Water is not denied Acts 8. 36 38. ch 10. 48. ch 19. 3 4 5. but that they did Practice or enjoin it as an act of necessity pursuant to Christ's Commission in Matth. 28. 19. is to impose upon us or beg the Question but that it was rather permissively practised in con discention than by that Commission For 1st Water is not expressed in that Text. 2dly When they Baptized with Water they did not use the terms of the Commission in it We do not read in all the Acts of the Apostles that any of them Baptized with Water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost or that they used those expressions or terms in their Baptizing with Water but in the name of the Lord or in the name of the Lord Jesus If Water had been intended in that Commission of Christ Matth. 28. 19. the Apostle Paul must be concerned in it it must be as much binding to him as any other Minister but he declares the contrary that Christ sent him not to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel 1 Cor. 1. 17. he does not say Christ sent me not only to Baptize but positively for Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel which was part of the Reason he gave why he thanked God that he had baptized no more than those he mentions 1 Cor. 1. 14 15 16. as well as Lest they should have said he had baptized in his own name for 't is not to be supposed he would thank God for not performing part of his Commission if it had been to Baptize with Water as well as to Preach the Gospel but that positive and general Reason for Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel leaves no room for him to say Christ sent me to Minister Water-Baptism in his Commission in Matth. 28. 19. for Water-Baptism was properly John's Baptism and Ministry to make way for Christ's higher Dispensation and Spiritual Ministry Matth. 3. 11. Mark 11. 8. Luke 3. 16. John 1. 16. Acts 1. 5. 10. 16. compare with Acts 19. 2 3 4. But I need not enlarge on this subject to answer the Anabaptists Argument for Plunging or dipping Believers in Water unless this Rector were in the Practice thereof and renounced his Rantism as they do as a Scriptureless Thing as they term Sprinkling Infants But referr him to a Treatise of one that was of his Coat i. e. William Dell his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The Doctrine of Baptisms To the Rector's Referring the Reader to that Excellent Piece of Water-Baptism as he terms it writ by that worthy and Ingenious Author as he applauds him of The Snake in the Grass c. printed 1697. p. 29. Thus highly has he commended the Author of that Great Defaming and Reproaching Libel i. e. The Snake in the Grass but it would be too difficult a Task for him to defend the manifold Gross and Abominable Lies and Calumnies contain'd therein against the manifest detection and discovery made of them not only in my Antidote against the Venom of

Legal Dispensation had no Faith in the Messiah or no Title to Christianity or were in no Christian State as implied page 4. seeing they had the Word of Faith in them as well as the Law without them Deut. 30. 12 14. compared with Rom. 10. 8. And all Israel drank of the same Spiritual Rock which followed them or went with them and that Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. 4. How could they drink thereof if they had no Faith therein 2. Now how this Reason describes a Christian in the Affirmative He tells us To entitle a Man to be a Christian viz. He must necessarily believe Christ to be already come nay that particular and numerical Man Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary and was of the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh to be the Christ of God that was promised to come in due time That this very Man was Crucified died and rose again from the Dead and is ascended c. citing 1 Tim. 3. 16. This Christ God-man as come and Crucified was that main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity These were new Articles founded upon a new Dispensation without the Belief of which not to name some others which may be thought by some also necessary such as Baptism by Water and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by Bread and Wine a Man cannot be called a Christian page 4 5. If this Belief of the Blessed Man Christ Jesus his Birth Death Resurrection and Ascension into Glory as the Great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. be necessary to entitle a Man to be a Christian then we the People called Quakers sincerely believe all this of Christ the true and promised Messiah we really have all this Faith of and concerning him consequently we must have a true Title and right Claim to Christianity by the same Proposition we really believe both of Christ and in him even in his Name and Power wherein we hold the main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity and the Doctrine thereof But this Rector has omitted a Living Faith in Christ unto Repentance Sanctification Regeneration the New Birth Newness of Life Purity and Holiness without which no Man shall see God or be a Christian in Nature The more uncharitable and inconsistent then is this Rector in charging us with Venom giving our Doctrine the Character of The Venom of Quakerism and the Quakers indefinitely that of Deceitful Workers Transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ cannot be looked upon any otherwise at best than good moral Heathens and many of them short of that page 5. Hence observe how uncharitable and furious this Rector is and how he had need to be corrected for his Rashness herein though our Profession taking the words thereof in their common Acceptation must be granted at least to seem Orthodox as he grants both of our Paper observed by him i. e. The Christianity c. W. P' s Key John Crook ' s Principles c. But still in his uncharitable and sower Humour he will presume to be Judge over our Sincerity from my seeing cause to construe my Friend's words and Intentions as if we were hence to be mistrusted in our Orthodox Confessions whereupon he presently passes Judgment against the Quakers viz. That they have a nauseous Pill to give you but that it may not be distastful they gild it over as the Writers of Popery in the late K. J's Reign the other day did with more such bitter envious Stuff and false Judgment to which we shall never submit nor give away our Sincerity or Holy Profession of Christ and Christianity which he cannot deny to be Orthodox in it self Nor extinguish our Sincerity therein but only strive to cloud by Reproaches groundless Jealousies and Misconstructions and Perversions which is not as he would be done by to be sure But if a Belief of Christ already come born of the Virgin Mary being of the Seed of Abraham and that he was Crucified died rose again and ascended as the Scriptures declare be sufficient to entitle a Man to be a Christian How many do believe and confess thus much of Christ and yet Unsanctified Unregenerate Impenitent Ungodly and Unchristian in Spirit and Conversation So that they are not in the true living Faith in Christ Jesus though they have an Historical and Traditional one and perhaps may be Baptized or Sprinkled with Water too But of that the Rector here writes somewhat faintly and dubiously as thought by some also necessary i. e. to make a Man a Christian page 9. But afterward he is more positive in this Point That 't is necessary as the Sacred Ordinance of Christ and Saving p. 27. Necessary to enter Men into the Kingdom of God from John 3. 5. p. 28. for Remission and doing away Sins cleansing of our Souls that the Spirit doth Sanctifie the Waters in Baptism to the mystical Washing away of Sin p. 29 31 32. But as for Infants partaking thereof he evades proof It is not his business here to prove he saith p. 27. So that he both evades defending their own Practice and leaves People at an uncertainty of the Subjects of this ignorantly supposed Saving Soul cleansing and mystical washing Ordinance making use of the Anabaptists Arguments for Baptizing Believers with Water which is no proof for Rantism or Sprinkling upon Infants Thus he attempts to shew People the way or means of Regeneration and entering into the Kingdom of God and he lays the stress thereof upon the outward Baptism by Water and not upon the inward Baptism of the Spirit he has found out an easie way to make Christians and to get to Heaven at this rate His business here being to prove Whether outward Baptism by Water is the Sacred Ordinance of Christ as necessary to be believed and Saving or Inward Baptism i. e. the Washing or Cleansing of the Heart or an Inward Conversion to God p. 27. So that by this the Saving Baptism must be the one or the other he places it upon the outward Waters of Baptism as necessary to the cleansing of our Souls mystical Washing away of Sin p. 31 32. therefore not upon the Inward Baptism of the Spirit for that was not sufficient he saith p. 29. No What was it good for then He tells us The inward Baptism was but a necessary Qualification for the Reception of the outward Baptism by Water p. 29. So that the Water is exalted above the Spirit or the Spirit 's Baptism But how many Infants who are Sprinkled can they prove are thus first qualified by the Inward Baptism of the Spirit What confused and bewildred work do we meet withal from some angry Opposers Upon the whole the Man's Definition of a Christian is summed up in this viz. That the Washing of Regeneration by the Word of Life the Inward and Spiritual Baptism is not Saving or sufficient to make a true Christian but Water-Baptism and whether that must be of