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A93702	Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht: containing a confutation of the three degrees of popery, viz. papacy, prelacy, and presbitery; answerable to the triple crowne of the three-headed Cerberus the Pope, with his three fold hierarchies aforesaid. With a dispelling of all other dispersed clouds of errour, which doth interpose the clear sun-shine of the Gospel in our horrizon. Wherein the chiefe arguments each of them have, for the vindication of their erronious tenents are incerted, and refuted; with a description of such whem [sic] the true Church of Christ doth consist of: as also how, and by whom, they may be gathered, and governed, according to the will, and appointment of Jesus Christ, and his apostles, in the primative purity thereof. / By Iohn Spittlehouse, assistant to the Marshall Generall of the Army, under the command of his Excellency, the Lord Generall Fairfax. Imprimated by Theod. Jennings, and entred in the Stationers Hall.	Spittlehouse, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5013; Thomason E586_2; ESTC R203633	304,213	396

increase of their Churches viz. in that they admit of none as Members but such as will be dipped over the body in water viz. in a River or the like which custome cannot be made out from the Apostles as to be alwaies practised by them as also for other reasons Obj. How prove you the contrary Ans By necessary consequence where that ordinance was administred as in Act. 16. 33. where the Jaylor and his Family is said to be baptized in the night which certainely was not in a River or any other water by dipping or plunging them over the body therefore I suppose it is not of extraordinary necessity whether by dipping or sprinkling as the season and opportunity doth require SECT 4. Obj. CHrists Baptisme was a baptisme of the Holy Ghost and of fire Mat. 3. 11. Ans It is most evident in that passage of Cornelius Act. 10. Such as were formerly bap●ised wi●h the H●ly Ghost and with ●●●● af●●● a●d baptized with water baptisme that although he and his friends were formerly baptized with that baptisme you speake of ver 44 45 46. yet neverthelesse they were afterward baptized with water baptisme in the name of the Lord Iesus as in●er 47 48. according to the practise of the Apostles at other times as in Act. 19. 5. Obj. It will be a great disgrace for the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation that have been formerly baptized in their infancy to be re-baptized a● also for their delicate Ladies c Ans Our Saviour himselfe thought it no disgrace to be baptized Our Saviour thought it no disgrace to be baptized of Iohn in Iordan by Iohn in Iordan Mat. 3. 13 14 15 c. and hath also injoyned all such as would be his Disciples to be baptized Mat. 28. 19. and Mark 16. 16. before admittance into his Church Militant which the constant practise of the Apostles doth evidently declare as in severall instances in that Book titled their Acts doth clearly manifest as I have formerly made appeare at large and therefore those albeit the greatest in the Nation which are convinced of the truth of this assertion and shall refuse to admit of that ordinance which Christ hath so instituted as aforesaid for feare of the shame and disgrace which the men of the world can put upon them let them be assured that Christ will be as much ashamed of them before his Father which is in Heaven yea he hath foretold as much Mark 8. 38. Againe let such know that as great and good as themselves have not been ashamed of the Gospel of Christ King David could say that he would speake of his testimonies before Kings and would not be ashamed Psal 119. 46. And the Apostle Paul could say he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 1 16. yea Christ himselfe was not ashamed to call the poore despised ones Brethren Heb. 2. 11 12 13. yea we read of Cornelius the Centurian the Ennuch and divers other eminent persons in Pauls Epistles which were not ashamed to be baptized yea we read that many of the Pharisees and Saduces came to be baptized of Iohn in Iordan Mat. 3. 7. Obj. Most of our Rulers will prove Nicodemusses they will scarse admit of that ordinance in the day time they will come withhim in the night Ans Hope maketh not ashamed Rom. 5. 5. and he that beleeveth in Christ shall not be ashamed Rom. 6. 21. yea the Apostle exhorteth us thereunto 2 Tim. 1. 8. Be not c. SECT 5. AGain it will be no greater a shame and disgrace for those Probable some were twice baptized after Circumcision great ones you speake of to be rebaptized then it was to them who as the Apostle saith were the true Olive branches Rom. 11. 17. who were formerly Circumcised yea it is probable that some of them so circumcised were afterward twice baptized viz. with the baptisme of John in Jordan and after by the Apostles as in that number of about three thousand which we read of Act. 2. 41. We read also that the Disciples at Ephesus were first baptized unto Johns Baptisme and after were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Act. 19. 5. therefore albeit those great ones of the world be now baptized in relation to the Jewish Circumcision yet must they likewise be baptized according to the Apostles example or they cannot be admitted as members of the Church of Christ according to the Apostles institution which if they refuse they ought to be refused here and will be elsewhere yea let such great ones and all the rest of the Nation Such as refus● to be b●ptized according ●o the Apostles institution refuse Christ be well assured that so farre as they are from complying with this ordinance that so farre they are from acknowledging Christ to be their Master and so consequently their Saviour yea the contaminating of this ordinance now so fully manifested wil be as much as in them lyeth to crucifie Christ againe in the flesh and to put him to as open shame as ever did the Jewes Heb. 6. 6. and this they may be as assured of as Christ is in heaven or his truth on earth Selah Obj. You speake very strangly for the omission of this or any other ordinance is no fundamentall point of Salvation and therefore not of so great a consequence as you conceive for the Israelites omitted circumcision in the Wildernesse for the space of forty yeares at which God seemed not displeased SECT 6. I doe acknowledge that in that Churches wildernesse condition the Lord was pleased to passe by that omission by reason of their severall motions therein yet doubtlesse that was one of the tentations whereby they tempted grieved and provoked him for that forty yeares as we have it Psal 95. 9. c. unto whom h● The Lord hath with much patience borne wi●h the omission of Baptisme in our wildernes condition sware in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest which we have also verified Josh 5. 4. c. where he rendreth the neglect of Circumcision as may be gathered from that his expression as a cause why they were consumed viz. in ver 6. so in like manner whilst we have been in our wildernesse condition viz. under the slavery of Antichrist and his adherents the Lord hath with much patience forborne to be much angry with us for our neglect of Baptisme according to his owne institution and the practise of the Apostles yet being now not only freed from that spirituall Egypt of the Romish Hierarchy but also from the Cald●an and Babilonish captivity of Prelacy and Presbitery as also entred into the Verge or borders of the spirituall Canaan we are doubtlesse bound in duty according to that example of Nehemiah to seperate from the mixed multitude Neh. 13. 3. viz. from such as despise ordinances or such as would meerly dwell upon them withall the Hereticks and Sectaries of the time which may fitly

their usuall practise was to baptize in the name of the Lord Iesus the reasons of which might be these viz. 1. Because that then they knew that through faith in him alone viz. as he was the Son of God and the Redeemer of his elect we should receive remission of fins and eternall life 2. In that they were satisfied that in him was contained the other persons in the God-head viz. the Father and the Holy Ghost in whose names they formerly used to baptize 3. In that they were to preach Salvation only in his name Act. 4. 12. of which Misteries before his ascention they were almost if not altogether ignorant as may appeare by their question unto him Act. 1. 6. Lord wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome againe unto Israel Intimating that they knowing him to be of the Seed of David according to the Flesh thought he would like another Alexander the Great in a glorious manner have restored their former immunities and priviledges which they enjoyed before their Conquest by the Romans to which thing the request of the two ambitious Sutors did alude unto Mat. 20. 20. c. CHAP. IIII. Treateth of Johns and of Christs Baptisme c. SECT 1. Objection IT seemeth there was a difference betwixt the Baptisme of John and that of Christ Act. 19. 3. 4. 5. in regard that the Apostle is said to Baptize again such as were formerly baptized by Johns Baptisme Ans It was requisite that Beleevers should not only be baptized to him that was to come to which only Johns Baptisme did tend but that also they should be baptized in his The difference betwixt Christs Baptisme and that of Johns name being already come for otherwise the Baptisme of John and the Baptisme of the Apostles were all one and the same both of them Preaching and Baptizing to repentance as wil appeare by comparing Luke 3. 36. with Act. 2. 31. so that divers hands doth not make the Baptisme divers SECT 2. Obj. BVt it seemeth that the Baptisme in the name of the Lord Jesus was not altogether sufficient of it selfe without the gift of the Holy Ghost which the Apostles is said to give unto them who had been formerly baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus by the laying on of their hands as in Act. 8. 16 17. Ans The gift of the Holy Ghost was a thing which was not Christ commanded not his Apostles to give the H●ly Ghost with bapism mo●e then wi●h preaching alwaies confined to the act of Baptisme yea very seldome or never as I have shewed neither did the Apostles or any other offend in not giving it at that present time of Baptisme in regard there was no such command given by our Saviour to his Apostles as that the one should not be administred without the other or that he that had not the donation of the Holy Ghost should not administer the Sacrament of Baptisme as appeares by the Samaritans who received that Sacrament and not the Holy Ghost imediatly at the same instant as an inseperable concomitant annexed unto it as also by them whom Paul is said to lay his hands upon Act. 19. 4. 5. by all which it appeares that the gift of the Holy Ghost was chiefly given to the Apostles to testifie the dignity and excellency of their calling and Ministry and no more a concomitant to their Baptisme then to their Preaching it being as well given at the act of one as of the other instance in Peters preaching to Cornelius c. and therefore it may be as wel argued that none ought to preach but such as is of Peters ability to give the Holy Ghost with it as that none ought to baptize but such as are able yea and doth give the Holy Ghost with it But in regard that it is manifestly apparent that such have Baptized Such might Baptize that should no● or at the least did not give the Holy Ghost with it as either could not or at the least did not give the Holy Ghost with it we may safely conclude that he that is thought able by the Church to exercise the duty of a Pastor as Philip the Deacon was to the Samaritans may also administer the Sacrament of Baptism And that such Ministers or Pastors may permit such of the Brethren whom they think fit to execute the same office and that by the aforesaid example of Peter as Act. 10. 48. as also Act. 2. 41. where it is very probable that the Apostles made use of such Brethren as assistants to baptize who had formerly been baptized of them SECT 3. Obj. THere be divers who strongly affirme that the Baptisme in the name of the Lord Jesus was not a baptisme by water as was that of Johns Baptisme Ans It is manifestly apparent that the Baptisme which was Christs Baptisme a baptisme by water instituted and administred by the Apostles in the name of the Lord Jesus was a Baptisme by water as that of Johns and that by comparing of these Scripture viz. Act. 8. 16. with the 36. and 37. verses of that Chapter in which texts of Scripture we have first a description of that Baptisme by which Philip the Deacon baptized the Samaritans viz. the baptisme in the name of the Lord Jesus ver 16. and in the other texts of Scripture we have also the aforesaid Philip baptizing the aforesaid Enuch in water Now that Philip and the Enuch should goe into the water and yet Philip not to Baptize him with that water into which they entred would be a paradox 2. If that Philip so baptizing him should baptize him with any other Baptisme then that with which he had formerly baptized the Samaritans would be as strange as the other but both being confessed which with modesty cannot by any rationall man be denyed viz. that Philip baptized the Ennuch in the name of the Lord Jesus and also by water it must needs follow that the Baptisme of Jesus Christ was a water Baptisme as was that of Johns the difference being only that afore mentioned viz. that Johns baptized unto Christ as to come and the Apostles unto him being already come Again it would be as frivolous as the other to imagine that Philip should baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus with water and the rest of the Apostles and Disciples should baptize in the same name without water or that Philip did baptize and was ignorant of the manner and matter how and with what to baptize and therefore I admonish such as oppose this truth not to persist any longer in their obstinacy or give any further occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheame in that they who seeme to stand most for Christ most to villifie and nullifie his ordinances Obj. After what manner would you have Beleevers Baptized now Ans In the act of Baptisme the present Brethren are too rigged The present Brethren too rigged in the act of Baptisme which hath been some hinderance to the

subjection by incorporating your selves into Bodies Politick by that rule which Christ hath prescribed for that purpose viz. by the gate of Baptisme it being the externall meanes to inisiate you into the externall profession of Christ in his Church Militant your persons being as wel to conforme to the outward Government thereof as your Spirits to the inward Againe as in humane learning he that would be made compleat must first attaine to three degrees of knowledge viz. a good Gramarian a Rethorissian and a Logissian so is it in Spirituall knowledg to which there are also three degrees to be attained before one can be formed a compleat Christian viz. the knowledg of the old testament and the new testament and the Spiritual interpretation thereof And it is worthy of our best observation to consider the Mutuall Harmony of the Scriptures to attaine this Spirituall knowledge as aforesaid For in relation to this threefold knowledg we have a Trinity of persons in the Diety which co-opperate with them and are agreeable and proportionable to them Answerable to which there is also a threefold faith viz. A Fundamentall faith an historicall faith and a Justifying faith the first agreeing with God the Father as the Creator made knowne in the old Testament the second to the Sonne as a Redeemer in the new Testament and the third to the Holy Ghost in the Spiritualitie of the Letter in both of them The first aluding to the knowledg of God as he is in himselfe The 2. as he is in his Son and 3. as he is a Trinity in unity and an unitie in Trinity the 1. describing the Kingdom and government of God the father with his Angellicall Ministers the 2. the government of the Sonne with his Apostollicall Ministers And the 3. The Kingdome or government of the holyghost with his ministring Saints which is now approaching It is also worthy our observation what Sacraments of union and Correspondencie there we●●●●longing to those distinct Kingdomes and governments fro●●●ch as did not belong unto them As in the first under the law they had Circumcision as a badg of their profession under the Gospell or new Testament a baptisme of water in relation to Christ the 2. person as also a baptisme of the spirit in referrence to the third person the water baptisme being a badg of their outward profession as they were a Church millitant or an externall Church and the Spirituall baptisme in relation to their internall or Spirituall societie that of water baptisme being as it were a gate or inlet to the other there beiug also now as much reason why the Saints should be seperated and distinguished from the world and Antichristianisme as there was either before under or after the Law viz. in the Apostle time Againe the new Jerusalem which is now to descend is said to be adorned as a Bride adorned for her Husband which without all controversie cannot alude to any other thing then the primative purity of Gospel-ordinances yea the whole description of it doth evidence as much which to paralell in each particular would be too tedious I shall only hint some few observations of it viz. in that it is described to have walls and gates with its longitude latitude and altitude doth prefiguring a comlinesse decency and order to be admitted into it 3. In that there is said to be no Temple in it is meant that there shall not be a materiall one consisting of wood stone and gold as was in that of Jerusalem built by Solomon and the reason thereof followeth viz. because the Lord God Almighty and the Lambe are the Temple of it that is it doth consist of Saints in whom the Lambe Christ is ever present as also in that he hath opened Heaven in every place to faithful Beleevers 4. In that it is said to need no light of the Sunne or Moone to shine in it is meant of Ecclesiasticall or civill Government as now practised having its proper power and adornment in it selfe viz. from Christ and his Apostles 5. In that the Nations which are saved is said to walke in the light of it is meant that all such who are ordained to eternall life shall be conformable to the government of it in Doctrine Worship and Discipline 6. In that the Nations are said to bring their glory and honour unto it is meant that the Kings and Rulers of the earth shall hate Antichrist in each of his Hierarchies and destroy it in their dominions as also willingly lay downe their owne powers and become loyall subjects to Jesus Christ 7. In that the gates of the City are not said to be shut either by day or by night and yet none is to enter therein that is uncleane c. but such as are written in the Lambs Book of Life is meant that all manner of people may have recourse to the Churches of the Saints to heare the Word As Country-men may have leave to come into a City for Merchandise which admission into the City doth not make them Free-men in regard they are not inrolled in their Records so in like manner albeit the men of the world may have liberty to heare the Word preached amongst the Saints yet they are not thereby made members of their Society not being entred or inrolled a Saint in the Churches Records viz. not being incorporated by Baptisme into their Society or Body Politick 8. In that a cleare and pure River of water is said to proceed out of the Throne of God and of the Lambe is meant of the Spirit of Prophesie which shall be poured upon the Saints who shall be taught of God 9. In that it is said to run through the midest of the streets of the City is meant that the aforesaid Spirit shall be free for each Member of the Church to make use of as well one as other 10. In that on each side of the River is said to grow a tree of Life bearing twelve manner of fruits and yeelding her fruit every month and the leaves being for the healing of the Nations is meant that the Gospel shall flourish and spread it selfe into all Countries by vertue whereof they shall be healed of the leprosie of Antichristianisme Judisme and Heathenism Thus have I briefly discovered unto you the new or Spirituall Jerusalem hoping you will be willing in this day of Christs power to give up your selves as a free-will offering unto him by submitting unto his Kingly Government but I must tell you that at the present there is very small hopes of it in regard of your now condition which if I be not mistaken in as sure I am not may fitly be paralleld with these places of Scripture I shall first instance in that of Marke 14. 38. where our Saviour told his Disciples that their spirits was willing but their flesh was weake even so it is with you for you are awake in the Spirit but asleepe in the body you are awake in the spirituall worship of