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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53334	A brief defence of infant-baptism with an appendix, wherein is shewed that it is not necessary that baptism should be administred by dipping / by John Ollyffe ...	Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717.	1694 (1694)	Wing O287; ESTC R32212	67,029	72

Cause of Offence that those of the contrary Perswasion have taken against Infant-Baptism For what wonder is it if that be counted a Nullity that there is so little good use made of And to what purpose is the sprinkling or washing Children with Water if there be no care taken to instil into them and to bring them up to that Christian Purity in Heart and Life that is signified thereby They are bound indeed afterwards however when they come to Understanding to reflect upon the Obligations that in their Infancy they were brought under But there can be little Expectation ordinarily as we see by sad Experience that ever they will do it if their Education and Instruction be neglected in their younger Years Indeed it is to be doubted that the Baptism of Infants with many is turned into a meer Formality And the Charge that is so solemnly and particularly undertaken by Godfathers and Godmothers is never thought of afterwards to any purpose But many Parents think that they do their Duty sufficiently if they bring up their Children to some Art or Trade or provide Portions and Estates for them whereby they may be able to live in the World And Godfathers and Godmothers if they do but give them something as a Token of their Respect in some small Gift But that they may be brought to lead a truly Christian Life that they may deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and live Godly Righteously and Soberly in this present evil World which is the great End of Baptism Ordinances Gospel and Life it self How little is that reflected upon by many as if it were none at all of their Concern and Duty A right practical Improvement of our Infant-Baptism by our selves and a Religious Care taken in the Education of our Children sutably to the Obligations thereof will be a better Vindication of the Usefulness of Infant-Baptism than all the Arguments that can otherwise be brought for it tho never so good which will seem all but Noise and Sound to many unless the Practical Influence and Power of it be made more to appear in real Benefit and Fruit. Now the God of Peace which brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make us perfect in every good Work to do his Will working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen AN APPENDIX Wherein is shewed That it is not necessary to baptize by Dipping HAving dispatch'd the Controversy of Infant-Baptism I shall here add a few Words of the Manner of Administration of Baptism and shew That it is not necessary that Baptism should be administred by Dipping or Plunging or Dowzing into the Water If it be necessary that Baptism should be always administred by Dipping this Necessity must arise from the Will and Intention of our Saviour some way declared to us in the Institution of Baptism or in the Administration of it left to us in Scripture And there must be some Notices or Evidences by which this Intention or Will of our Saviour may be made manifest to us from which we may necessarily infer or conclude that this particular Form of Administration is determinately prescribed by him And this I think can be collected no otherwise but by one or other or all of these three ways viz. Either from the Use and Signification of the Words by which this Ordinance is express'd or from the Examples of the Administration of it that are left us in Scripture or from the Nature and Ends of the Ordinance it self And if it cannot be necessarily inferred from all or either of these Considerations that it was our Saviour's Will and Intention that Baptism should always be administred by Dipping then I suppose it will be allowed that Dipping is not essential to Baptism Now I shall endeavour to prove that it cannot be necessarily inferred any of these ways I. Not from the Use or Signification of the word Baptize which is not used to signify Dipping but washing or cleansing by Water which way soever it be For 1st It is to be observed That whenever the Holy Ghost in the New Testament hath occasion to mention the Act of Dipping it is never expressed by this word that signifieth to Baptize but by another Not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we have but four times in the New Testament viz. Luk. 16.24 Joh. 13.26 Mat. 26.23 Rev. 19.13 But whenever the Act of Baptizing is exprest it is always exprest by another word J. G 's Catabaptism p. 47. and not by that which is commonly used to express the Act of Dipping From whence we may probably infer a difference in the Signification not a Sameness For if they were both of the same Importance or Signification it is most likely that they would be used promiscuously 2dly I say the word Baptize or Baptism is often used to signify any kind of washing or cleansing by Water by the Application of Water any way to the Thing and not only by dipping of it into Water which in some cases was not customary nor likely As when it is said Mark 7.4 The Pharisees eat not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 except they wash In the Greek it is Except they be baptized And Luke 11.38 the Pharisees marvelled that our Saviour had not first washed before Dinner In the Greek likewise it is that he was not first baptized Now the manner of washing in that case seems usually to have been by Aspersion of Water on the Hands And therefore this is to express the Office of a Servant to his Master 2 Kings 3.11 Elisha poured Water on the Hands of Elijah And the same word is used to express their frequent Ceremonial Washing of Beds or Tables as likewise it is in that Text Mark 7.4 In the Original it is the Baptism of these things And it is no way likely that this should be ordinarily done by Immersion or putting them all into or under Water but rather by pouring Water upon them and thereby to cleanse them And Heb. 9.10 we read of divers Washings that they had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Greek divers Baptisms many of which were Sprinklings Therefore there can be no Argument for Dipping c. solidly grounded upon the bare Signification of the word Baptize because that is used to signify any kind of Washing without Dipping as well as by it 3dly It is sometimes to be observed that the Act of Baptizing is so exprest that it would be very uncouth and improper to understand it of Dipping As when it is express by baptizing with Water not by baptizing into Water or under Water as Luke 3.16 I indeed baptize you with Water And so Acts 11.16 it would be very uncouth and improper to say that a Man is dipp'd with Water 4thly Again this same word that is used to express Water-Baptism or baptizing with Water is