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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67270	Baptismōn didachē, the doctrine of baptisms, or, A discourse of dipping and sprinkling wherein is shewed the lawfulness of other ways of baptization, besides that of a total immersion, and objections against it answered / by William Walker ...	Walker, William, 1623-1684.	1678 (1678)	Wing W417; ESTC R39415	264,191	320

was but Philip the Deacon not Philip the Apostle that baptized the Eunuch An Apostolical person or if ye will an Apostle in the larger sense as Clemens Ignatius or any other of the Primitive Fathers are called Apostles he was but no Apostle in the strict sense we now speak of as designing by that Appellation only those Eleven Persons who were by our Saviour just at his Ascension sent by him and from his sending them called Apostles into all Nations to make Disciples all the world over by teaching and baptizing them with Matthias after by divine appointment elected to take part of that Ministery and Apostleship § 14. And had he been never so much an Apostle yet still that could only have warranted the lawfulness of dipping not enforced a necessity of it Unless one could have been sure both that no Apostle baptized any other way and that they all decreed that their example should in that particular be binding to all posterity or that all or any one of them had by a peremptory irreversible determination from heaven declared that none ever should be baptized any other way But who can be assured of the first that has not been made privy to all the actings of all the Apostles in that kind in all places whereever they went and planted Churches And who can be assured of the second who has not heard or read all that they all ever decreed preach'd or writ or has not an infallible assurance which no mortal man can have that neither all of them nor any one of them ever decreed writ or preach'd any thing to the contrary § 15. And so now upon serious consideration I refer it to the most prejudicate Reader to say what enforcement can lie upon the Church from Philips baptizing the Eunuch to necessitate her to the dipping of all she baptizes § 16. And now the Church being supposed at liberty for any thing either in the Precept of Christ or Practice of his Apostles to use what way she pleased in baptizing I will pursue my intended course of shewing on what accounts she first more sparingly permitted and after more freely admitted baptizing by way of Sprinkling CHAP. XV. The Churches particular Inducements to admit of Sprinkling § 1. BAptism in the foremost Ages of the Church For excepting the case of Martyrs whom they thought sufficiently qualified for heaven by being baptized in their own bloud they reckoned no man could be saved without being baptized Dr. Cave Prim. Christian part 1. ch 10. pag. 300. We hold the same Necessity of Baptism that the Fathers did hold which is viâ ordinariâ yet non alligando gratiam dei ad media no more than the Schoolmen do B. Andrews Answ to Peron p. 12. Nisi enim renatus fuerit ex aquá spiritu sancto non potest introire in regnum Dei Vtique nullum excipit non infantem non aliquá praeventum necessitate D. Ambros de Abraha●o Patriarcha l. 2. c 11. Sine baptismo mortuos periisse non dubium est Id. de Voc. Gent. l. 2. c. 8. Sed antequam per aetatem possit homo vivere secundùm spiritum necessarium habet Mediatoris Sacramentum D. Aug. l. 10. de Genes ad literam c. 14. Parvulis non sufficit fides ecclesiae sine Sacramento qui si absque baptismo fuerint defuncti etiam cùm deferuntur ad baptismum damnabuntur P. Lombard l. 4. dist 4. c. 5. p. 387. how little account soever any may make of it in this was held necessary in order to salvation No coming for any into the Kindom of heaven that might have baptism and despised it or neglected it was believed then Yea some in process of time went so far perhaps too far as to hold not as the Church now holds a necessity in the ordinary way without tying God to the means but an absolute necessity of it so as that the salvation even of Infants who could neither seek it nor desire it nor despise it nor neglect it if they died unbaptized was by some doubted disputed denyed unless that defect were supplied baptismo sanguinis with the bloody Baptism of Martyrdom How rightly this was believed and held is not my present concern to enquire much less to determine Sufficient it is to my present purpose that it was as I think none that has had any insight into Antiquity but will say that it was so believed and held § 2. Yet this notwithstanding it is evident beyond all possibility of dispute or doubt that many in the Primitive times who did believe this did for all that belief defer their baptism not only till their old age but to their death-beds or what they thought might be so Their reasons why they did so are not one but many Preface to Mod. Plea for Inf. Bapt. as I have abundantly elsewhere declared It may be sufficient to note here three or four of them Some did it out of lothness to part with the world and their sins and their pleasures as thinking that if once they took the Yoke of Christ upon them they must thenceforth renounce not the devil only and all his works but also the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh assuring themselves that though they enjoyed the pleasures of sin for never so long a season yet if they could but get to be baptized at last though it were never so late first not till they were upon their death-bed and at the last gasp all their sins past should be forgiven them § 3. Some did it out of an apprehension that though they did by baptism obtain remission of all forepast sins though never so many and great yet if they sinned after Baptism for such sins there was no pardon and therefore as knowing the multitude of temptations they must daily be exposed to in the world and their own weakness to resist them to prevent endangering the forfeiture of their pardon for what was past and secure their present peace and future salvation they would not be baptized till they thought themselves to have out-sail'd all rocks and shelves to be past all storms and dangers to have arrived in the port of happiness and to have nothing more to do but through the gate of death to enter into eternal life § 4. Some did it to avoid the danger of Persecution for religion since till they were baptized they could neither by the cunning of the persecuting Heathens be discovered nor by the cowardise of any persecuted Christians be betrayed See Dr. Cave Prim. Christ part 1. c. 10. pag. 308. to be of the Christian Faith and so would not embody themselves with the Church all their life though they meant to expire in her bosom at their death as knowing by her principles and practices that She did sympathize with him that was her Head and would not be willing that any should perish but be ready to save all those that would not