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Of publick baptism a sermon / preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel, Sunday, Nov. 20, 1692 by Philip Stubs.
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with me I may be washed indeed with Water But how shall I be satisfied that Christ washes me with his Holy Spirit For the satisfying of which Objection I must proceed to the Second Thing I design'd to speak of viz. II. The Persons here authoriz'd to Baptize Whom if we look back to Ver. 16. of this Chapter we shall find to be the Apostles St. Matt. 28.16 Then the Eleven Disciples for so the Apostles are there call'd went away into Galilee into a Mountain where Jesus had appointed them Who when he came amongst them spake unto them saying All Power is given unto me in Heaven V. 18. and in Earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations V. 19. baptizing them c. As if he had said My Father has left the Government of this World which I have redeemed with my Blood to me I have power to make what Covenants I please with Mankind I have told you upon what Conditions I will confer Heaven and Happiness upon Men Go ye therefore and let them all know it And I give you power and none but you to admit them into this my new Covenant by Baptism But then the Mercy of God as it was willing to extend the Benefits of his Passion beyond that Age of the World and that Generation of Men continu'd Means for the effectual Continuance of this Power of making such Covenants to the End of the World by authorizing the Apostles to delegate and depute their Power to others in this large and plenary Commission As my Father hath sent me S. Joh. 20 21. even so send I you I give you the same Authority which I have receiv'd And as I had Power of my Father to send you forth to preach the Gospel and baptize every Creature so I give you Power to send others forth with the same Commission to Ordain Bishops Priests and Deacons as you shall judge expedient for the Edifying and Welfare of my Church Which Power was accordingly delegated immediately afterwards to seven Persons at once Acts. 6.3 Chap. 13.3 as you 'll find in Acts 6. to Saul and Barnabas to their Successors until this very Period of Time wherein we of this Communion have Persons under the several Characters above-mention'd who derive their Authority from them by an uninterrupted Succession For no Man can take this Authority upon himself and unless there were Sacred Persons so continu'd in the Church there could at this Day be no Legal or Valid Administration of this Sacrament and by Consequence our Saviour's Command would have long since fell to the Ground which I tremble to think of when he bid them and in them their Successors Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. The Meaning of which Words All Nations or an Enquiry III. Into the Persons to be Baptiz'd is the Subject of my Third General which now offers it self to be spoke to Go ye therefore and teach All Nations baptizing them c. The Lord God had for a long time dwelt only in Judea Though the vast Circle of the Earth 2 Chron. 2.6 nor the larger Circumference of the Heavens cannot contain him yet as the Psalmist expresses it at Salem was his Tabernacle Psal 76.2 and his Dwelling at Sion There was his House there his peculiar Residence To the People of Israel only had he given his Laws and order'd the manner of his Worship The rest of the World seem'd over-look'd and neglected like Children dis-inherited and banish'd from their Father's Presence But when the Blessed Jesus the Word of God by whom all Men were created descended for the Redemption of them all he threw down the Partition-Wall which shut out the Gentiles from the Sight and Favour of God and contriv'd Means for the Bringing them into his Family He caus'd the Waters of Baptism to extend themselves as far as those of the Vniversal Deluge that as all Men had once perish'd by Water so they should all be saved by it Nor do we when we say All Men only upon slight Grounds exclude the Children of Believers from this extraordinary Privilege as do the Adversaries to Infant-Baptism Who should not have been mention'd in this place since their wild Opinion runs counter to the Belief and Practice of the Universal Church in all Ages did not some of them boast of an Irrefragable Argument on their Side taken from the very Words we are now about arguing from hence that because our Saviour first said Teach before he said Baptize therefore every Body must be taught before he is baptiz'd To which there need be given no other Answer but what the true Meaning of the Original Word will readily furnish us with For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek signifies not here Teach as in our Translation but rather make Disciples of Inter Judaeos Discipuli facti sunt ii non qui jam docti sunt sed ideo Discipuli facti sunt ut doceantur Lightfoot Hor. Heb. ad locum As if our Saviour alluding to a known Custom among the Jews had said Go and admit into my Church and make Disciples of all Nations and that by the Ceremony of Baptism for which is very remarkable in the very next Verse where the Word Teaching comes again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is another Word made use of in the Original which has that for its proper signification An Exposition which if it were duly attended to might be of no small Use to many unprejudic'd Anabaptists As IV. The Form of Baptism here prescribed in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost might be so to another sort of seemingly more Rational Persons who yet some of them make a Difficulty in Founding the Doctrine of the Individual and Ever Blessed Trinity upon express Words of Scripture For if the being baptiz'd into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost as the Original imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not in the Name according to our Translation which is less significant If I say V. Grot. sup loc the being baptiz'd into those Names doth not signifie the being baptiz'd into the Belief of Three Persons in one Incomprehensible Godhead which distinguishes the Christian Baptism from all others and the submitting all the Faculties of our Souls and Bodies to the Soveraign Dominion and Guidance of each of them as such then the whole Church almost has been in an Error for nigh these 1700 Years and a Handful of Men whose Business it is now-a-days to receive old condemn'd Heresies are alone in the Right Thus have I briefly gone through the Four first Particulars which relate to the Essentials of Baptism To all and singular of which every one in our Communion is so ready to subscribe against all Anabaptists Socinians and other Vnorthodox Persons whatever that few would forgive themselves should their Children by any means happen to be otherwise baptized than
Mr. STUBS'S SERMON OF Publick Baptism BEFORE THE LORD MAYOR c. Fleet Major Martis vj. Die Decembris 1692. Annoque Regis Reginae Willielmi Mariae Angl ' c. Quarto THis Court doth desire Mr. Stubs to Print his Sermon Preached at Guild-Hall-Chapel on Sunday the 20th Day of November last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City GOODFELLOW Imprimatur Decembr 9. 1692. Guil. Lancaster R. P. D. Henrico Episc Lond. a sacris Domesticis OF Publick Baptism A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable THE LORD MAYOR AND THE Court of Aldermen AT Guild-Hall-Chapel Sunday Nov. 20. 1692. By PHILIP STVBS A. M. Fellow of Wadham-College Oxon. And Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT Lord Bishop of CHICHESTER LONDON Printed for Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOHN FLEET Kt. LORD MAYOR Of the CITY of LONDON And to the Court of Aldermen Right Honourable THE unexpected Success this plain Discourse by the Blessing of God met with from a kind Auditory in this City for whose private Benefit 't was not long since I must confess but too hastily drawn up as it prompted me at first to offer it before the most publick Assembly therein at Guild-Hall-Chapel so the Hopes of its farther Vsefulness makes me now readily comply with Your Honour's Commands for its Publication in order thereunto That it may have it s design'd Effect in contributing though never so little to the Retrieving so Ancient so Vniversal so Religious I may say so necessary a Practice as is the subject Matter of it and by Consequence to the farther Promoting of God's Glory in the greater Good of his Church in general and the Welfare of particular Christians is the Hearty Desire of Right Honourable Your most Humble Most Obedient Servant PHIL. STVBS A SERMON Before the LORD MAYOR c. St. MATTH xxviij 19. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost THE Text is a full Commission deliver'd out by our Saviour to his Apostles when he had just finish'd the glorious work of our Redemption and was now Ascending up again unto his Father whereby he impowers them to extend the benefits of his Passion by Baptism as far as he design'd they should reach even to the utmost parts of the Earth For as he himself had spent his whole time in Judea and the Regions thereabout amongst the Jews God's peculiar People so he commands them whom he had fully instructed in every Particular of his Doctrine to communicate it to the Gentiles Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost From which Words I may take Occasion to speak of these Five Heads I. Of the Nature of Baptism in general II. Of the Persons here authoriz'd to Baptize III. Of the Persons to be Baptiz'd IV. Of the Form of Baptism And Lastly Of the Time and Place when and where this Sacrament ought to be administred Of the Four first there being no difference about them either as to Principle or Practice amongst those of our Communion I shall say little more at present than what may serve by way of Introduction as it were to the last Particular which I have design'd for the main Subject of my ensuing Discourse Wherein I shall with all the Brevity and Plainness I can endeavour to demonstrate the Unreasonableness of continuing that corrupt Custom crept in among us and which of late Years has prevail'd more especially in this City of Baptizing Children in Private Houses contrary to the earnest pious Desires and Endeavours of our Clergy the declared Sense and Usage of the Catholick Church all along the express Orders and Constitutions of that sound Part of it whereof we boast our selves Members and the very Reason and Design of the Institution it self to the no small Dishonour of God Almighty in hindring the greater Promotion of his Glory and the Edification of many Religious well-dispos'd Christians But before I enter professedly upon this Argument I am to speak a Word or two briefly on the four just mention'd Heads And I. Of the Nature of Baptism in general Now Baptism signifies properly an Immersion Dipping or Washing the whole Body in Water and was a Ceremony used among the Heathens as well as the Jews upon the Admission of any new Converts to their Religion By which Washing was signified the Cleansing of the Persons so baptized from their former Pollutions and their Resolution of continuing Pure and Unspotted for the future This Ceremony being very innocent and very significant the Holy Jesus was willing to continue it in his Church leaving out the other of Circumcision which signified but the same thing and was more injurious to Men's Health and to their Modesty I say Baptism signifies properly an Immersion Dipping or Washing the whole Body in Water And so it was practis'd in the Primitive Times after the manner of John's Baptism who chose the River Jordan and such Places where there was much Water for the Convenience of such an Immersion For so it is expresly said of him That John was baptizing in Enon S. Joh. 3.23 near to Salim because there was much Water there After this manner the Eunuch in Acts 8. was baptized by S. Philip Acts 8.38 for 't is said They went down both into the Water both Philip and the Eunuch and he baptized him And indeed this Dipping all over in Water is thought by some more significant than any other sort of Baptism for hereby is denoted the Cleansing the whole Man from Sin the being buried with Christ in Baptism which is signified by the Immersion or Dipping in Water and the Rising to a Newness of Life which is signified by the Emersion or Rising out of it again But yet it is not so necessary but it may be omitted in favour of the Weakness of the Person to be baptiz'd and the Pouring or Sprinkling of Water us'd instead of it as has been the Practice of these Northern Countries in the Baptism of Children whose tender Bodies cannot endure a total Immersion and of the first Ages of the Church in favour of Sick and Bed-rid Persons who desir'd to become Christians For as God Almighty is tender of our Souls so he takes care of our Bodies too and his Laws are so far from injuring our Healths that they highly improve them Upon which Account it is not to be imagin'd that the Ceremony of Admission into the Christian Religion should be more difficult than that into the Jewish Covenant or that Children should be oblig'd to become Martyrs as soon as they are made Proselytes But here it may be started That admitting this Washing Dipping or Sprinkling to be the Ceremony of my Admission into Covenant with Christ How doth it hence appear that Christ thereby enters into Covenant