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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	baptize_v	dip_v	sprinkle_v	3,693	5	10.9320	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30859	Baptism, infant-baptism, and Quakerism briefly, but impartially considered, in a letter to a friend with a short disswasive from the impiety, atheism, and popery of our age, in another letter : with an appendix.		1674 (1674)	Wing B675; ESTC R22609	22,764	60

for by that reason Women should not receive the Lords Supper nor Merchants or Mercers be Baptized because we never read in Scripture any such Commands or Examples nay more Men and Women should not be Baptized because we fin● not expresly that Men and Women in Contradistinction to Children were Baptized 〈◊〉 for the word Men and Women where ever used to that purpose signifies in the Original Men kind and Women-kind but Infants are so therefore they may as well as others be Baptized 2. That Christ's Commanding Teachin● or Repentance and Baptizing to go together compared with Infants inability to t●● former is not a good conclusion against infant-baptism 1. Because that would equall have ●●●cluded Infnats from Circumcision under 〈◊〉 Old Testament because God says to A●●ham when he commanded Circumcision Walk before me and be perfect Gen. 17. 〈◊〉 as a Condition of the Covenant on his p●● therefore Infants who could not do the●● thing should not be Circumcised and y●● we find they were therefore 2. When Christ says Teach all Nati●● Baptizing them he means Teach them t●● are capable of being taught and Bapti●● them that are capable of Baptism and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 valid reason to prove that none were ●aptized but they that were first taught and ●●●pented because Teaching and Repentant is set before Baptizing in Scripture then it 's as valid a reason that some were Baptised before they were Taught or Repented because Baptizing is set before Repenting and Teaching let said John Baptized in the Wilderness and Preached the Baptism of Repentance first Baptized then Preach●● Mark 1.4 but 3. Infants are capable of Repenting i.e. 〈◊〉 Original sin and believing or else none 〈◊〉 them are saved for without Faith and repentance there is no Salvation but surely 〈◊〉 that have a spark either of Grace 〈◊〉 or Charity will venture to think 〈◊〉 all infants are damn'd 4. The often mention of Mens being baptized and of their Repentance concludes not 〈◊〉 Baptism unlawful because when the 〈◊〉 and Christianity were Preached and 〈◊〉 command of Baptism first given it found ●any nay all Unbelievers most Heathens 〈◊〉 they were Men now Heathens were 〈◊〉 to be baptized because there was no 〈◊〉 to believe them in Covenant therefore Repentance was necessary as the only ●●●ment of their being in Covenant and they being in Covenant now Men must necessarily be baptized when Men for they could not be born again that they might b● Infants the case was then as it would be● Ministers in our days should go and Preach to the Indians their Conversion must necessarily precede their Baptism and being Converted their Conversion being an Infallible token of their being in Covenant they must as necessarily be baptized and yet this hinders not but that they are in Covenant before their Conversion as Infant are may be baptized Nor. 4. Doth Infants appearing when the come to Age to be Unbelievers argue the they may not be baptized for they may be in Covenant though unconverted Gal may reach their hearts afterwards beside this would Argue against Circumcision because many of the Jews proved Revolters 〈◊〉 Apostates and do not many that are baptize in Man's estate prove so too Ha●● not our Times given us too many sad instances of it The next thing I shall do shall be to l●● down two or three positions about the manner of Baptism whether by dipping 〈◊〉 sprinking and 1. It is more than probable that sprinkling is the manner because it is a Prophesie of Gospel times that Christ shall sprinkle many Nations Isa 52.15 which if it mean not that Christ in Gospel times should bring many Nations into his Church and in initiating and entring them into his Church as a Seal or Sign of their being in Covenant sprinkle them by Baptism I say if this be not the meaning of it or if it be metaphorical whence but from Baptism the Metaphor should be borrowed I cannot Imagine 2. The Apostle Paul who knew what Baptism was well enough calls sprinkling baptizing which proves nothing more plainly then that in his times the way of baptiizing was by sprinkling that he doth so is plain from 1 Cor. 10.2 they were all baptized in the Cloud that is some dewy drops fell from the Cloud upon them for to say they were dipoed or plunged in the ●●nd is too absurd 3. At the furthest it is indifferent whether it be by dipping or sprinkling because Christ no where says go and dip all Nation but go and baptize them and the word in the Original is used for washing new when any thing is washed water is cast upon it as is on Infants when they are baptized by sprinkling nor is it any where used for plunging or dipping in the water but. 4. It Infants may be baptized it is not indifferent whether by sprinkling or dipping for God rathers Mercy than Sa●●ines and it were a sin to hazard the Life of Children by dipping when they may be baptizeds by sprinkling as they may if it be indifferent whether it be done by dipping or sprinkling 5. Those Expressions in Scripture of there was muon water and that of going down into the water conclude nothing but that water was scarce in those hot Countries and a little water was therefore called much and that the River lay in a steep place or at the bottom of an Hill all so they were fain to go down to it 6. Circumcision was the cutting off the fore skin of one part of the Body by a trope for the whole which yet signified 〈◊〉 Spiritual Circumcision of the whole Soul Dent. 30.6 God will Circumcise thy Heart that is thy Soul Jer. 4.4 Be Circumcise and take away the fore skins of your Heart that is the Original bent and propensity 〈◊〉 your Souls to sin Now if Baptism suc●●● Circumcision then this may also be of out part for the whole to deaote the washing of the whole S●● from the power and guilt of sin and what part of the B●●ly is more fi●● 〈◊〉 our Faces which outing uish us fr●● 〈…〉 other Creatures and so where chie●● 〈…〉 Image of God lies the Face wh●● 〈…〉 Perch of the Souls Palace the Heaad 〈◊〉 the ●es and keeps Court and thus 〈…〉 with this point I have not 〈…〉 the least invective against the People that hold the adverse Opinion because I have a high esteam for most of them I have all this while only spoken of the thing not of the Persons that deny what I here defend or defend what I deny only I wish they would not hold that Opinion or having held it would do so no longer if any gives them Reason and Scripture to the contrary but these few Lines I have hastily written only for your own perusal though such success as the satisfying of you is beyond my hopes The next Question which you and I Discoursed about was concerning the Quakers Persons that pretend to a greater Light a higher perfection than the inspired Saints whom God