BanliZorres, and Baie, fignifieth indifferently, te wah, it is taken largely for any kinde of Washing, Rinfing of Tas To BaCleansing, even when there is no dipping at all. Somilius er, -d verbo Savas differe Portus gives it by mergo, immergo, tingo, intinge, made- quod profundum facio, lavo, abluo, &c. Suidas interpreteth on, by etere, & subUre, lavant. The fame word fignifieth washing or fprink- termergere figJing in many places of Scripture, and from neceffary con- Mr. Leigh. fequences. nificat. Crit. Sacr. primum parva fila Canes Degue. Lavant aquâ calidâ. Aristophan. βαλισμός, 1. From the types of that which was fignified in the old ni hapoeges Teftament, which the holy Ghoft (as bath been noted) Heb.9.10. calleth Baptisms or Washings: to wit, by Sprinklings; for paiva perfundo, how were they performed? fee Numb.19.20, 179 17 afpergo, irroro the go. gives it ύδως ῥαντισμό, the water of Separation bath ut ῥαίνω, εις τα βλέφαρα. not been Sprinckled upon him: fo is it often named there + Ariftophan. and Levir.4.17. The Priest ball dip his finger in the blood, afpergo palpand Sprinkle it feven times, &. 70. pavei eztáxs. So Lev, bras. panice, 14.16. and Lev. 16.14,15. he shall take the blood of the idem, inde pav bullock, & parei, and foall sprinkle it with his finger. So us, alperfio. Numb. 8.7. Thus shalt thou do unto them to cleanse them, Latan,l.4.c.15 Sprinkle water of purifying upon them. So Numb. 19. 18, (vocat baptif19. A clean perfon shall take hyfope and dip it into the mater, mum) purifici and Sprinkle it upon the Tent and upon the perfons rorisafperfionem fo Exod. 24.8. Mofes took the blood, and Sprinkled it on the people, and faid, Behold the Blood of the Covenant, which the Lord hath made with you: which fignified the John 17. od of Chrift to cleanse them from fin, as the water of tifm now doth: And thefe very Sprinklings the holy oft calleth Baptifms, Heb. 9. 10. 13, c. where the ftery is clearly unfolded. 2., From the truth thereby fignified: So Ezek. 36. 25. 770. pavà éq3úμãs radæçàvűðwe, I will sprine you with clean water, (or―clean water upon you) ad ye shall be clean: how? The Apoftie telleth us, 1 Pet. 2. εἰς ὑπακούω καὶ ῥαλισμόν αιματος Ιητό Xeis, unto obedience (that διματι ῥαλισ 148 ἐβαπτίσαντο Ev Tvepean ἐν νεφέλῃ, Mark 7.2. (that is, by the Spirit of Sanctification) and Sprinkling of the blood of fefus Chrift; as, Heb.10. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full affurance of faith, having our hearts Sprinkled from an evil confcience, and our bodies washed with pure water; that is the water mentioned by Ezekiel, the purifying water of baptifm; and Heb. 12. 24. We are come to fefus the Mediator of the new Covenant,and to the blood of Sprinkling that is, the application of the blood and merit of Chrift in Baptifm, for the remif fion of our fins. 3. From neceffary confequences, from the common ufe of the words Bani(ew and Baziquès in Scriptures, where they cannot reasonably be interpreted by dipping, but by Baptifmum qui washing or fprinkling; as Matth. 26.23. subaas METTEμs, ὁ ἐμβάψας μετ' ἐμᾶ, fit per fanguinem &c. he did not dip his whole fift into the dish, but only Euthyn. in Mark 20.23. wet his fingers therein: So Matth. 20. 3. Chrift menti oneth his baptifm, which all understand of his bloodfhedding, not dipping therein but befprinkling therewith. So Luke 11.38.when the Pharifee invited Christ to dinner, he wondred, he wondred, one @panvißanion that he had not first washed ὅτι πρῶτιν ἐβαπτίπη. before dinner; it cannot there reasonably be interpreted that he had not firft been dipt over head and ears in water. So I Cor. 10. 2. They were all baptized anto Mofes in the cloud and in the sea: No reasonable man can think that Lotiones lecto- all Ifrael, with their wives and children were dowfed into rum. Ar. Mon- the fea (nay, but they paffed through dry foot) nor were tan-Beza,&c. they dived into the cloud, but only as thofe who were rinfed or wetted under a rainy cloud by the drops there& lectorum. of diftilling on them. So Mark 7. 4. eai un Cazlícortes, Tremel, Chald. to the letter, Except they baptize, or be baptized: he &Syr. Dy meaneth not by dipping the whole into the water; but as lectus. ut Marc. it is clearly manifefted by the Holy Ghoft (the best in2.4 (ab Habr. terpreter of himself) a little before, they car not xoiväle wy Pfa.6.6) Xso, with common bands; that is, avirlos, unwashen: an 2. 6. interdum in the fame place (as hath hath noted) we read a thalamus nupti fo, Balios var, to the letter Baptisms of beds alis Hebr. 13.4 which was not by dipping into, but (though under Luc. 11.7.7 ftood of tables, which they commonly made of Condly Syr. Mat '9. ערש 34,A& 9.33.2 βαπλισμός be 20 beds fet together) by sprinkling them with a little water, which manner of purification they too fuperftitiously and commonly used. As for the fecond chaufe of our minor propofition, we appeal to Scriptures, whether there be any exprefs example or precept restraining baptifm only to dipping over head and ears. 2 In the Lords Supper the efficacie of the Sacrament is Bot in the quantitie of the element: a little bread,therein, is as good and effectual as a whole loaf:fo here it is not (as hath been faid) in the quantitie of the element, but in the ordinance of God,and operation of his Spirit:Now herein Chrift never gave any precept concerning the quantum : the Word and the Element make the Sacrament; and a few drops fprinkled, are as truly water as all fordan. 3. If Baptifm in the type thereof were adminiftred by God by fprinkling, then it is lawfully and effectually fo to be adminiftred by man in the truth (for in the main Analogy the truth muft anfwer the type) But Baptism in the type was adminiftred by sprinkling (infants as well as perfons of years) for all Ifrael were baptized under the Cloud, Cor. 10.2. Therefore Baptifm may lawfully and effectually be adminiftred by sprinkling of water. 7 4. That adminiftration of Baptifm whereby Christ cleanfeth his Church, is lawfull and effectuall. But Chrift cleanfeth his Church with the washing of water through the A&S 2. word, Ephef 5. 26. Therefore that adminiftration of Videntur tria Baptifm which is by washing with water (according to his millia uno die à paucis Apoftoprecept, Matth 28. 19.) is lawfull and effectuall. intra carcerem frolis non potu5. The Goaler, Acts 15.33. was baptized about mid- ife baptizari ft night, and it is improbable that he had any such store and finguli merft convenience of water in his houfe, as to dip himself and fa- fuiffent: nec mily, or that they went out to fome river at fuch a feafon; vero, carceraria neither was it probable that three thoufand added to the fuiffe ad manum Church in one day, durft in thofe times when Chriftians tantum aque were fo eagerly perfecuted, go publickly with the Apoftles quantum merto the poole of Bethelda, Siloam, or the brook Cedron, or gendo opus erat. any like place to be doufed more probably they were de bart.l.15. baptized c.2. Bb Dan. Chamier, baptized by washing or fprinkling with water, as they had private accommodation thereto: nor could so many in one day have been baptized by a few Apoftles, if all had been baptized by dipping 6. If immerfion were fimply neceffary, and of the Effence of Baptifm, then it might not be difpenfed withall in cafe fome fick Convert fhould defire it before his death for the comfort and peace of his afflicted confcience, which were extream uncharitableness, which belongs not to any Ordinance of God. Therefore it cannot be fimply neceffary. 7 That which can neither be proved by example of Christ, John Baptist, or any of the Apostles baptizing, nor by any precept of Chritt concerning the fame, is not effential or fimply neceffary to baptifm: but dipping or dowsing in baptifm, can neither be proved by example, &c. or any precept of Chrift concerning the fame: therefore diping or dowling is not effential, or fimply neceffary to baptifin and indeed were there to be found in Scripture any example hereof, without a precept to lay the fame univerfally upon the Ordinance, it were not binding, as hath been proved from Chrifts adminiftring the communion with unleavened bread, after fupper in an upper room to twelve men only and no women. So that if that which you can never prove, fhould be granted you, that John Baptift and Chrifts difciples, did then and there baptize by dipping, yet it would not follow that we ought to baptize in the like and no other manner. In the infancie of the Church they had not Baptifteries or Churches as we have; there was a kind of necefsitie for them as they met with occafions, to make use of waters as they could find them in rivers or fources; wherein it cannot be proved that they dipt: nor could it conclude our Antagonists pretended necefsitie, if it were fuppofed. 8 Whatsoever was or is effential to baptifm, or fimply neceffary thereto, is mentioned in fome clear example or exprefs precept of Chrift: But dipping the whole body in baptifm is neither mentioned in any clear example, nor any exprefs, precept of Chrift: therefore it is not effential or &c. fimply neceffary to baptifm. Chrift omitted nothing neceffary, and the holy Scriptures are able to make men wife 2 Tim.3.16. to falvation. And let our Antagonists now seriously confider what they do, when they rebaptize upon that fancie, that washing or fprinkling with water (in the Name of the Father,the Son, and the holy Ghoft)is not true baptifm. CH AP. VI Anabaptifts Arguments for their dangerous practice of Re-baptizing, examined and answered. HE malitious Serpent (ever attempting to poison or trouble these fanctuary-waters, obftructing, or hindering their effect, left they should heal fin-wounded fouls). fomtimes moved Pelagius, Donatus,and others,reviving their errors, to deny the most innocent children, of believers baptifm; fometimes he teacheth them to except against the manner of baptizing, as if the vertue of the Sacrament depended on the quantitie of the element, and not folely on the Ordinance and power of God working De Eunomio dicit Epiphanius, thereon: fometimes he caufeth deluded peo-va, Anom. haref. 76.N.6. are cari res du Baliple to annul their baptifm, and in effect, to re-Auxentius folvit baptifmum nounce their faith, and Chrift, whom they had Chrifti-curigitur rebaptizan facramentally put on in baptifm, by receiving des Auxentius fideles populos a fecond, third, or iterated baptifm, we read putat baptizatos in nomine Trinitatis, doc? Ambrof.l.5.ep.32: that the ears baptized every day, fup- fine, orat. in Auxent. pofing that their former baptifms were made void by any fin after committed: on which fancie, possibly Novatianus the Novatians thought that baptifm ought to be deferred quos iterati to the end of their lives. Auxentius the Arrian taught that baptifmatis labaptifm ought ro be iterated: the Marcionites baptized be inquinavit. their disciples three times: The Anabaptifts rebaptize bap- Ambrof. de poetized Infants coming to age, and affirm that the affuming of over de TUR μόνον δε παρ' αυτῷ ἐν λεξὸν δίδον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕως τριῶν λεζῶν. Epiph. haref. 42.to.3.li. Mr.Tombs exercit. about Infant-baptifm. Bb 2 baptifm |