<^ PRINCETON. N. J. <& Presented by Mr. Samuel Agnew of Philadelphia, Pa. Agnciv Coll. on Baptism, No. //k. rl; Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library http://www.archive.org/details/baptismalogiaortOOIaws 7 BAPTI2 M-AAOFIA OR A TREATISE CONCERNING d ^J %* ■*. Wheretq is added a D 1 S C O U R S E CONCERNING THE S upper 3 Bread and V Vine, Called alfo COMMUNION. ■«■ ■ ! ■ *» ^ufc^w«»«a*— ,waiWi||Hii~ / / <7 ( ) READER, \ %+, IN this following Treat ife it frefented to thy My* : I . TheTemporary Baptifm of John with Water. 2. The Permanent or Continuing Zaptifa of Shrift with the Spirit. $. The irrepititi&H Quftom #/Ramifm,f&tf u, Sprink- ling rf Infants. Herein alfo thou msyft fee, that after the Primitive Times, the Fall of the Star from Heaven was maniftfted. Sun and, Air (threw the Smoke of the Bittomtefs Pit, Haman wi(dom, Heathenifb Learning) Spoiling Phylofo* phy. School divinity) w.is dirkned, thorow thefteaming in of which Chriffs Baptifm in and with the Spirit came tt be loft, then Water -Baptifm and Rantifm came to here- ajjumed, i . One while baptizing cr (pr inkling Old People on their Peath-Beds. 2. Another while baptizing of Peofle fosner, af when they were capable of being catechifed. 3 . After this Baptizing or Sprinkling of Infants. 4. Some Baptized People after they were Dead, and put the Sacramental Bread {as His caned) in their Mont he/. 5. Hence (prung in the Cuftom of Baptizing the Living for the Dead. 6. Hence arote the C :l fto;n of Baptising Children in th$ i'/cr,±-> y before they wee Tom, 7. Some hwe h 1 1 the h iv.tcfer of a Crop msd* in their fere-heads with a Burning Iron^ which W-?i Gfilk~i Qkt'ft'i Ufm »itbrfa n*ty G&fiafidivftkFirt, hi 8. fcm c ) 8.< Many, yta^almoft aS^for Ages jeer e Xtptized Naked. f, Many Maptized Themfclves every Tear, And thife various Unfcripturai Proceedings were and are tryedupbythe Qbfervers thereof 'u be of Divine lnflitu- th*. Here *l[othm?nayftread :) how that inthi Night of A~ fo n acy, which hath come upon the Churches profe[fin? Chri- fiianity, fprttng up the uje of Godfathers, Go&mvtbirs, Geffips, Fonts, Exorcifms, Sign of the Crofs y Albs, } Salt 5 all which things, with others, are more or left touched in tku fotomng Treat ife a BAP, i* H-il^i- ,Tl (O BAPTI2MAAO \ riA- 1 Or a TREATISE concerning: - BA PT IConfcfs, I have often been very ferious concerning the TDo&rine of Baptifins, and have not let any thing flip from me, written or fpoken in Vindication of Baptifm and Rantifm, that is, Dipping and Sprinkling, without ferious Co*i- fideration, fo to anfv\ er the Dcfires of tome fober Perfons, but primarily Divine Requirings, I was induced to (harpen the Neb of my Pen, and to commit to writing my Belief in reference thereto } and to the end I may the better be uhdctftood offuch as read me, I have reduced the Contents of the eniui ng Difcourfc iato four Heads or Affertions, which be as follow. I. The Baptifm 0/John with Water, and the Baptifm 0/Chri'ft with the Spirit, were not one, and the fame, but two, that is to fay, Diftinft TSaptifms. II. John'j Baptifm, in or with Water, was a Figure, or a Sha* dow of ChriiVi Baptifm, in or with the Spirit, fo thereby fulfilled and ended, III. ChriftV, Baptifm in or with the Spirit, is the "Baptifm on- ly to continue in the Church o/Chrift to the End of the World. I V. Rantifm, that is to fay, Sprinkling of Infants, is a Cafe un- pre f dented in the Primitive Times } an irrepetitiomCuflom fprmg Hp in the Night of Apojlacy, after the Revolt from Chrifi, the Captain of the true Israelites, the Fall from the primitive Order. B The (2) The Firft ASSERTION. The Baptifm of John with Water, and the Ehptifm of Chrift with the Spirit, were not one, but two, that is to fay, 1>iftincl jiavtifms. 1^ H E Truth of this is clear and evident to every one, whofe Eyes arc opened by the Influence of the Almighty, and I may produce a Cloud of WitnefTes for the Confirmation there- of, thou ih indeed many late Writers and Teachers have and do affirm, That John's Baptifm and Chrift's Baptifm make but up one 'Baptifm •, that the Spirit goes along with the Water, making up one ilaptipn j or that the Water thorough the Word of Jnftitu- tion, hath a fuper-natural Virtue, ejfe final to tht Sanclijication, Ablutt tt 9 that is, Wajhing and Regeneration of Man : this is an Antichnftian-Do&rine, to afcribc iuch things toVifible elemen- tary Water, which are the Effects and Products of the Blood of Chrift,the Water of Life, John, Chrift and Peter make them diftina. Now for the determining of this Controverfie, obferve the Record of John the Baptift, that is, John the 'Dipper, focalPd becaufe he was authorized to Baptize in Water, as alfo to di- ftinguifh him from John the Apoftle, Mat. 3 . 1 1 . / indeed bap- tizeyou with Wate r,&tc.(faith JohnJ^af he that comes after me, (to wit > ChriftJ he fiall baptize you with the HolyGhoft and with Fire. Confider this, John makes them diftintt Baptifms, as if hefhouldhave faid, I am to baptize with Water only, that is my Work, my Office, thereto I am commiflioned from Heaven, even- to wafh the Body, the Filth of the outward man } but when Chrift is come, he (hall have another Work, of a more Heavenly Nature-, what is that? hefhall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire: he doth not fay, he will baptize you with Water, neither doth he fay, he will baptize you with Water and with the Spirit, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit only •, fo that John abfolutely con- (1) conclude* them to be d ftinft Baptifrrr, he with Water, Chrift vvith the Spirit. Seealfo Markj. 8. where the very fame Record is born of Johns Baptifm, and Chrift 's Baptifm, / indeed have baptized yen with Water, but he fti all baptize you witi. the Holy Spirit. Mark this, CI have] but £he (hair] this denotes the two Baptifms. See alfo Ink: the third, tnere was a great mufing about John, as whether he was the Chrift or no ^ people entertained high Thoughts of him, as being born in an extraordinary manner, and living in the Wildemef , his Apparel and Diet being unu- fual, as a Raiment of Camels Hair, Locufts aod Wild Honey being his Food, his Baptifm was new and ftrange •, thefe things being confidered, occafioned much Reafoning among the peo- ple, a?, whether he was the Mefp.a* or no : new for a removal and fcouring away of fuch Reafonings, John tells them plainly and evidently, he was not the Chrift, Luke 3. 15, 16. faying, / indeed baptize ycu with Water •, my Work is to waft your Bodies with thevifible Element of Water, that's my Miniftra- tion: but ( faith he) Amightitrthen I comes after me , and he Jha/l baptize yon with the Holy Spirit. Here John holds out his Miniftration of Water-Baptifm, and the Miniftration of Chrift \ Spiritual Baptifm to bediftinc*t. See alio Joh. i. 33. where the very fame Record is born, / with Water, which reaches to the Ablution of the outward Man:; Chrift with the Spirit, which is effectual to the Ablution or Wafting of the inward Man. The four Evangelifts , who were 0iS*n»Vfr#, that is, divinely infpired, are unanimous in the diftindlionof the Baptifm of John, and of the Baptifm of Chrift. Further, lnHeb.6.2. the Apoftle fpeaking of fome of the initial Points of the true Religion, makes meniton of the Do- ctrine of Baptifms, not Baptifm, but Baptifms, in the plural Dumber, and that thefe are John\ with Water, and Chnsl\ with the Spirit, may be proved by a fruitful and plentiful Har- veft of Teftimonies. So they err greatly who affirm that theBaptifmof John and the Baptifm of Chnftmade up but One Baptifm, it being fo B 2, evident (4)- evident in Scripture, that they were dift n :r, wh:c!i may fur- ther thus appear. : firfi, T^eywerediftincT: in Name -, for John's Baptifm ftill koft its Name, yea, when the Apoftlesufed it, it was ftill cal- led the Baptifm of John , why lb ? becaufe it was required of him, his Office and Work by divine-. Institution, Joh. i. 33. yea, after Chrift 's Baptifm with the Spirit came in, Johns Bap- tifm with Water ftill retained its Name, as being diftinft from it, Alls 1 8. 24,2.5. Secondly, They were diftinct in Manifestation; that is, Ch rift's Baptifm was to follow JW.w's,and did not go along with it, at the fame time, as men now would jumble them together, faying, The Spirit goes along with the Water, and both make up but One Baptifm, after the Refurreclion of Chrift, before his afcending-, though Johns Baptifm had been ufed feveral vears, yet Chrift told them, that what John fpoke concerning him, of his baptizing with the Holy Spirit, was not fulfilled, but fhortly to be fulfilled, A5ts 1 . 4, 5 . Chrisl being ajfcmbled with the ApoBles, commanded them not to depart from Jerufalem, but to wait for the Promt fe of the Father, which (faith he ) yon have heard of me :, for John truly baptised with Water, bntye fiall be baptised with the Holy Spirit not many dayes hence, which was fulfilled at the day of Pentecoft: So that Chrift's Baptifm did not accompany Johns Baptifm, to make up one entire Baptifm*, for it followed it feveral years after it : fo that the EfTufion of the Holy Spirit is Chrift's Baptifm, the great B'efhng of Go- fpel-dayes, of the Evangelical Diipenfation, which qualified and doth qualifie to be the Lord's True and Living Witnefles. Thirdly , John's Baptifm and Chrift's were diftinft*, foraf- much as thofe that John baptized had need of the Baptifm of Chrift : Now , if John's Baptifm had been one and the fame with Chrift's, that only had been fuffkient} but John's baptizing cf them with Water left them in need of the Baptifm of Chrift : 7e'wfaidvn:o Chrift (who came from C alike to f ordan to be bap- (j) baptized of him J / have need to be baptized of thee, and corneal thou unto met Mat. 3. 1 ?, T4. Sothatjo^ the TSaptij} knew hisBaptifir. toheinferiourto Chrift's Baptifm, fo defiredmore fully to partake of it. See alfo ji&s 19. 1,2, 3,4, 5. P*/*r^J doth not take 4 away Sin,but 'mts them in mind thereof; but Chrift's Baptifm ' takes away Sin, his Spirit (faith he) is our Urdan. * For- (7) 1 Forgivcncf- of Sins was not in nor by jWs Baptifm, bit in 1 ourBaptifm all fins are blotted out,faith Ven!Bed.Hiftor Ecc/cf. PtfcatoronMatth. $. fpeakin^ of 1 Pa. 3. 21. faith, * Le(fc 1 any fhould think that Outward Baptifm fave.- u,-, Trt*r m.kcs 'aDiftinftion, and afcribes Salvation to Inward Baptifm, fay- ' ing , Not tttxvard Baptifm , whereby the Filth of the Elejh is pnt ' cjf,favc us] but Inward Baptifm , &C. 4 There is a two fold Baptifm (faith Trapp on Matth. 1 . 1 1 .) 'viz* fluminisetfikminis, that is, of Water, and of the Spirit ^ ' by John's, with Water ,the Polution of the Flefh is put away -, ' by Chrift s, with the Spirit, the Anfwer of aGoodConfci- ' cnce , purged from Dead Works, to God-ward is known. Trapp on Heb.6. 2. cencerning the Doftrine of Baptifm?, makes a dear D^tin&ion betwixt the outward Baptifm of Iohn with Water, and the inward Baptifm of Cr rift with the Spirit. I'ifcator on Mat. 3. 1 1. faith, * There is a two-fold Baptifm, * the one Outward, whereby the Body iscleanfed, the other 'Inward by the Spirit, whereby men are regenerated and re- ' newed, wafhed and purged from the Filth of Sin. ' People were to be taught ('faith Wilfon in his CompUat Chri- ft tan- Dictionary) 'to put a Difference betwixt Outward Bap - ' tifm by the Minifter, and the Inward Baptifm by the Spirit, ' wherewith Chrift baptizeth. ' The Minifter (faith the fame W*7/(w)baptizeth by Sprinkling ' with water,Chrift baptizes by beftowing the Gifts of his fpirit. Prndentim holds out a clear Diftinclion betwixt Johns Bap- tifm with Water, and Chrift's Baptifm with the Spirit •, faying in his Exchirid, ' Perfundit fluvio paftus Baptifta locuftus ' Sylvarumque favi?, et amiftus vefte Cameli ' Tinxerat et Chriftum, fed fpiritus sethere milium ' Teftatur tinclum, qui tin&iscrimina donet. "Johnfedwith Locufts, and with Honey wild, Clothed with Camel's Hair, the Baptiftftil'd, He dipped Chrift, Chrift by the Spirit's Grace 'Baptix.eth his, and doth their Sins deface. The (8) The Second AfTcrtion. Jolin 1 s Baptifm in or with Water , was a Figure or a Shadow of Chrifs Baptifm, in or with the Spirit, fo thereby fulfilled and ended. TH E 'Living God made Man perfect and u pright at the be- ginning, as a Garden watered with Heavenly Drops, beautified withTruits of Right eoufnei?, according to the Na- ture of the noble Seed in him, yet he kept not his original Sta- tion, but was entangled in the Net of the Hellifh Spider,where- by Fruits of Unrighteoufneisfprungupinhim, theFoundation of another Kingdom was laid, fothat a world of Wickednefs was ufher'd in, the comfortable Sun-fhine of the Lord's Pre- fence was loft •, yet in this State there ifliied out from the Court of Heaven a Hu-and-Cry (as I may fay) after fain and for- lorn man, and it was proclaimed, yea, evangelized to and in his Ears, that The Seed of the Woman flwuld bruife the Serpent*, He^ Gen. 3.15. Now, after this, in Ages and Generati- ons, this Seed was figured out by Types and Shadows, where- by the Faithful were led as by the hand, to look after and wait for the Promilcd Seed. Ahel in his day offered aFirftlingof the Flock, fhadowing out the Seed of the Woman, Chrift Jefus, the Firfl: and the L:ift, Lord of and in his Flock, who was to deftroy the Wori s of the Devil, Gen. 4. Noah, after the Flood, builded an Altar unto the Lord, and offered clean Beafts and clean Fowl thereen , unto the Lord which the Apoftle witnefTed fulfilled, when he laid, We have an Altar , whereof they have no Right to eat, whoferve the Taberna- cle, H ebr . 1 3 . 1 o . in which Altar only is offered up a Clean Heart and Holy Hands. Inthedayes of Abraham Circumcifion outward was inftitu- ted, s (15) 'ted, (Jifi.ij.io. a Shadow of a Circumcifion without hands i. n and through Chrift. //Wbuilded an Altar, and called on the Name of the Lord, Gen. 26.25. Jacob crcfted an Altar, and called it, El Elohe Ijfaeli, which is, being interpreted, (jod, theCjodof Jfrael, Cen. 3 3. 20. And among the other-Figures of the firft Pricfthood, which time fails me to fpeak of particularly, Mofes was commanded to make a Laver of Braf , and to put Water therein, and Aaron and his Sons were to wafh their Hands and their Feet therein, left they dye, Excd. 30. 1 8. Oc. Who are of God, they read thefe things, and fee what was pointed out thereby. Now when John was come, who was not the Chrift, but vt'-Jto^ *Z yptslit the Bore-runner of Chrif, itpleafed the Lord, that he fhould not be without fomething in his Difpenfation, which might point out that which fhould fhortly be revealed, as others before him in their refpeclive Ages and Generations had -, and what v as that? even to baptize with Water fttch as repented and believed, to denfe away the filth of the flejh outwardly • figuring thereby Chrift Jefu?, who by the Power of his Spirit fhould purifie, wafh and clenfe inwardly all that received him \ io that Chrift being come, who was before Abel, yea, before the Hills and Mountains were ., he put an End, not only to Abel\ Firftlings$ to Noah\ A Itar, to A~ braham's Cipcumcifion, to Jacob's Altar, to Mc,fes\ Laver- waffl- ing, but alfo to Js^'j Jordan wafhing^ yet I fay, though thefe things were but outward, and availed nothing to the purifying of the Confcience, yet inafmuch as they we*c divine Commands, and Shadows of a future Glory, they were not to be difputed, but pra&ifed, owned aad honoured in their time and feafon : To this pur pofe well hid Bernard, Nonattenditverusobediens, quale fifi quod praecipitur, hoc folo contemns quia pr^cipitur : that if, One trnly obedient mi; < ds not what like the thing is, which is comman- ded, in this only contenting himfelf, or acqtirfcing, becattfeitiscom- manded. - Now, if John's Water -baptifv was a Figure, a Shadow, a Type of Chrift, the Life, the Glory, theTreafury of the Evangeli- cal Difpenfation, the Head of his Body, the Church, his King- C dont ( 14) o om, wliich (lands not in Words, but In Power :, not in Shadow?, Types and Figure?, but in Subftance, in Righteoufnefs, Peace and Joy in the holy Spirit : and that it was nfiadow, Writer- have bo rn ev idcncc, and plentifully, then by Chrift ended and fulfilled, io bears no Evangelical Perpetuity. Hugo Grotim on -Mat. 3 . calls Water-Bap i fm a Ceremony. P if cat or on John I . faith, When John had infiitmed a new cere- mony, thofe that were fent enquired of him, By what Authority ht did thofe things, if he was neither Chrift nor El ias- Repentance and Faith (faith one) were the Qualifications of John's Typical Baptif/i, which was in f lain Water, without Oyl 3 Salt, Spittle, Cream, which are Antiehrifiian Addttaments. Danvtrs, in his Treat! fe of Baptifm, calls it, a Sign or * Figure of the My fiery of the Cofpel. Baxter .catfj Wattr-Baptifm a Sign of Regeneration, pag. 1 17. Dr. Taylor calls H 'ate r-Baptifm a Shadow. The Sacraments of 'Baptifm, and of the Supper of the lord (faith Juel in his Apologet) we with Tertullian, Origen,Air;bioie, Auguftine, Jerome, Chrifoftom, Bafil, Dionidus, and other an- cient Fathers , do call them Figures, Ceremonies, Signs, Types, Shadews, Similitudes, Remembrances,(fc. And every Type hath its Anti-type, by the which it is ended and fulf lied. Water- Baptifm (faith one ) was not tnfiituted to have Grace in- feparablytyedto it, but to figure out the Bower of divine Grace; giving thefe Reaibns, ift, That John made a T>ifiinclion, I with Water, Chrift with the Spirit. 2dly, O therm fe all the Baptised fiould be regenerated, which appears ctherwife in Simon MagU€, A- nanias,Saphira,c^c. Calvin, in his Inftitutcs, calls Water-Baptifm a Sign, a Figure , faying, If men be Partakers of the thing fignified, that is, of the Subflaxce, why fijaS they be with-held from the Sign? Jf they ob- tain the Truth, why [hall they be driven from the Figure ? Lib. 4. Cap. 16. \i\c^lXmg it 2i Sign, ^.Figure, lpckith, Well, but hts Con- clusion if Carnal and Antichrifiian , in faying, tf men have the Sub- fiance, whyjhould they not have the Figure, by this crocked Rule of Reafomng, might all the ritual Qbfervmtces of Mofes be impofedup- on (jofpel-Believgrs. Hmmwd) Hammond, in his Paraphrafe and AnnptathUi on Mat. 3, 1 f. calls John's Baptifm a Ciremoyj J jGtying, John initiated Difci- ples with Water , &#/■ Chrift »>/>& Fir* •, yea, and on Markj. $ , #. heparaphrafetb, faying, W^.ter is the only Signal that John */^/, arfW" /7?e JervijJ) manner ; fc/tf Chrift JP/W to fend down the holy Spi- rit from Heaven , rf»d «• #0f Chrift the End of Ceremonies, Types , Figures and Shadows? John's Water-It aptifm, as all the Shadows, of Mofe?, Were but to endure for a time j for as all the 'Prophets were until John, fo John was until Chrift, and Chrift by his intern d Waflringy the Laver of Regeneration, not only fulfilled and ended Mofes's Laver , but John's Jordan-waftnngy by fulfilling inwardly that which they reprefented outwardly. Ob;. Chrift hmfelfvtas Baptised with Water , doth not that per- petuate Water-It aptifm in the Church ? Anfw. Chrift was Circumcifed , not that from thence Outward Circumcifion fhould be continued •, he went into the Temple, and taught there, and caft out the Prophaners thereof ^ he laid to the denied Leper, Goandjhew thy feff to the Briefly and offer a Gift according to the Law> Mat. 8. fo he was baptized, not that he in- tended thereby to pecpetuate or continue thefe things, Chrift be- ing the Subftance and Anti-type, owned the Shadows, Types and Figures in their place, and this tended to the Conviftion of fuch \*ho queftioned the Authority of thole Typical Miniftraii- ons. Baptiz.attts eft Chriftm a Johanne^ ut Johannis minifterium approbaret y faith Martinms'. that is, Chrift was baptized by John, that he might approve of the Miniftration of John, tojuftfteit in its Time y Place and Seafcn } againftfuch at que ft ion' d the Authority of it. So'twasfaid r The T 'hart fee sand Lawyers rejefted the counfel of God again ft thtmfelvesy being not baptised of John, Luke 7. 30. And Chrift put a Query to the Tharifees y faying, TheBaptifn of John is it from Heaven yor of men ? Luke 20. 4. Chrift owning the Figures in their time and place, proved thereby their Inftitution to be divine, but all this was before he was offered up ; for when be was offered up, then-he blotted out the Hand- writing of Or- dinances, took it out ofihe way, nailed it to his Crofs, C0I.2. T4, C 2 Whm Clo) When Chrift, (faith Pifcator on this place) wo* nailed to the Crofi, (V-:;; then the Ritual Ob fcrvances of Mofes were fore wounded, yea r aboli f:ei. The fir ft Covenant, (faith the Apoftle) flood only in A'leats and Drinks, and divers Waftnngs or F.aptifms^ and c arm I Ordinances* impofed until the time of Reformation, the Figures, which could not perfeFl the Obfervers,*s pertaining to the confeience, wrre to give way to the Evangelical and Spirit ual FVorfhip brought in byth: Sn'fta,. cc, Hebr. 9. Tne Golpel-Tiffie is a Time of Re- formation^ fofuchasfti.ck totheFiguie, and will not have the b'ack Line? of tbeir Corruptions wafhed away by the Blood of the Lamb, fuch remain unreformed. Though Chrift owned the Shadows before he was offered up, yet when he was offer- ed up, rifen and afcended, and the Promife of the Father fulfilled, the Spirit, whesewith Chrift baptizes, revealed, then thefe things were not preached up, bus againft • then Paul preached agaiftft arcumctfion outward, Gal. 5. 2. faying, If ye be circumcifed,Chrift fi.i ll profit you nothing; yea, he tell, them, they bewitched them, who entangled them in the droughty Defert of Ritual Obfer- vancesj and he preached circwncifioninwxrd : Stephen bare re- cord ,fayin^, The Moft High dwells not in Temples made with hands,- Acls-j. Yea, and Raul laid, The Pricfihood was changed, Hebr. 7. i 2. Yea, and P*z#/faid, Chrift fent me not to baptise, I Cor. j. 1 7. faying further, There is one Lord, one Faith, one Baptifm, Fphefi 4. 5 . There had been two Baptifm- , John's with Water, Chnft's with the Spirit without Water; but now the Shadow had given way to the Subftance^ one Baptifm, faith he^ and he tells what it was, by one Spirit mo one 'Body, I Cor. f 2. 13. by one Spirit, not by Water: So that the Spirit's Baptifm, which is Chrift's Baptifm, is the One Baptifm which he preached up in- the Churches : Who are of God, may read here the Temporary Baptifm of -John laid afide, and the Spirit's Baptifm preached up \ Shadows have no footing in Chrift's Kingdom. When Jefus was bapt'.zed, hewentftraight-way out of the Water, and the Spi- rit djfeended like a Djvc upon him, the Spirit wherewith Chrift' baptizeth *, and a Voice from Heaven faid, ThU is my beloved Son, in whom J am well pie a fed, Mat. 3. and in .another place, Hear ye him : Not Mofes with his Laver-Wafhing, not John with his Jor- dan- (IT) dan-Wafhing, 'hear the Son, who baptizes with the holy Spirit 2 id with Fire, not with vifible Water : f thus the Legal Rite , which Ch rift allowed of before hewas offered up, the ApoiVer, afteriiib return in Spirit, they teftified againft the lame, yet info doing were not Tranlgre flo rs of Chrift \> Doftrine, but had his Mind '• Thefe things being truly confidered, and weighed in the Balance of the Sanctuary, it cannot but appear, that itfhews no foundnefs of Judgment to plead, that Chrift 1 s being baptized by labz, perpetuate^ Water-Bap tHin or Rantifm in the Evangelical Difpenfation. Paid laid to the Collojfonr, If ye be dead with Chrift, from the Rudiments of the world , why as though living in the world areyefnbjetlto Ordinances f touch not, tajienot, handle not, Col. 2. 2 c,z f. Things that had been of Divine Inftluition, when con- tinued beyond the Bounds of their ieafon and time, became world- ly Rudiments and Doctrines of Men. O bj. Go }'e therefore, and teach all Nations , baptizing them in the Name of the Fat ')tr,and of the Son, and of the holy Ghofk, doth not this Institution enjoyn all Minifiers to Baptize ? jinfw This Scripture hath been much abufed by Tranfiators and Interpreter^, andalledged to patronize the formal Inventi- ons of men, as may appear by what follows, being truly interpre- ted 'tis thus rendred, G o ye therefore, difciple all Nations, baptizing or dipping them into the Name ef the Father,- and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit : and it makes nothing for WaterBaptifm, ^ner for Rantifm-, for Chrift having qualified hisApoftles to be hisWit- nefTes to the utter moft parts of the Earth, tent them not to preach uplobn, and his Water-bapifm, but to preach theEverlafting Gofpel, Chrift, and his Baptiim, which is ipiritual : Iohn&id and bare record , that he baptized with Water ; bnt he that was to come, Chrifc JefitSf (Inutd bnptize with the hoi) sjint. Now, to fay, Chrift baptized with Water, or fent his Apoftles to baptize there- with, is to queftion the Teftiraony and Record of John, who laid, he fhonld baptize with the holy sjirit. After Chrift was ri- fen from the Dead, hemethisDifciples on a Montain in Galilce x firft telling them, that aU Power was given uutohim in Heaven and and in Earth, then he informed them wh.t their Work fhould be. Firfif To D.fdple the Nations:, thatF, by the Power of their Miniftry to bring them to be Difdples of Chrift, to learn of him to know his Teaching, to take up his Yoke, to43ear the fame, to •learn Obedience, to come into the felf-denying (late of Oifciple- fhip, To the word orig'n. lily imports, faith Bulknger ) Zwingliw, Leigh, Fijher,c~ c. Trapp. Secondly, He told his Difciples, that they friould baptixe or dtp the Nation?,, not in the Name, but into the Name of the Fat'.er,ckc. Dell, Fifuer, Mammon, Trapp. And what is it to baptize or dip into the Name of thtF.ither ? Even the fame that Paul fpoke of, when he (aid , T$y one fpirit we are all bap- t z.ed into one body, i Cor. 12. 13. So that it is the Spirit that baptizeth into one Body, as alfo into the Name of the Father, to he a living Member of that Body, whereof Chrift is the Head j 'tis the Spirit that effects this, not vifible Water. Furthermore, Chrift in thefe words commanded not hisDifci- p'e to turn back to Jtf/?«YMiniftration, to dip them in Jordan, or in any other River, or in a Bowl, Bafon or Font, but into the Name of the 'Father, he. which is no other thing then by the Power of the Spirit, whereof they were Minifters, to bring them into the Power of God, to have fellowfhip with him through the Spirit. Now, the Name of God is his Vertue or Power, as, In my Name they fall caft out Devils j that is, in my Power } this Zwinglim on this place obferves. Teachers in Sprinkling of Infants, which they call Baptifm, ufe this Scripture as a Form of words, faying, J baptise thee tn tie frame of 'the Father, andoftheSon^ and f the Holy Cjh oft-, which thing the Apoftles did not, which undoubtedly they would have done, if Chrift had commanded it, as an abfolute Form. Further, Zwinglim faid of this place, Chriftm Jefta baftifmi t formulam quauttremur, his verbis, non in fit nit, qHemadmodnm Thcplogi h&ttentttfalfo tradiderwit : that is, Chrift Jefm did not in the fe word sin fit ute a form of Baptifm, which V(c fhould ufe, as Divines have hitherto fal fly taught. This was the Teftimony of Zwingliiti, who in his Day was a great Oppofcr ofslnabaptifts, Lib. Lib. de bap. pag. 66. Tom. r.oper. Pifcatcr on the feme place fpeaks fully to the (ame purpofe. Again, This place cannot be meani-©£Water-L-aptifm,becaufe Paid thanked God he had baptized none but fuch and fuch-, for (faith he) Chrijf fent me not to baptize, but to preach the Goffel, i Cor. 1. 14,15,16, [7. yet he fulfilled that, Mat. 28. he prea- ched the Gofpel in a circuit from Jernfalem to Iflyricitm, and many bv hib Miniftry were difcipled, brought into the ftate of Difciples, to learn of Chrift, yea, and into the Name of God, that is,into his Power \ many were baptizedinto the Name of the Father, as his Sons •, into the Name of his Son,as his Jewels and Ranfomed Ones-, into the Name of the Holy Spirit, as bis Sanctified Ones \ thefe knew the One Baptifm, by One Spirit, into One Body. Why doth Paul thank God, that he baptized none but fuch and fuch ? ift, Becaufe he law them idolizing and jangling about it r which he knew to be a thing not of abfolute Neceflity , nor a Com- mand of Chrift, but ufed or born with for a fcafon, for the fake of the Weak, and otters, in reference to Johns Miniftry, if he had commonly pracliled it before, from his Practice, they might have been ftrengthned in their Thoughts about it, he being a great A- poftle. Secondly, He thanks God, that he baptized none but fuch and fuch -, And why ? Becaufe he was not fent of Chrift lb to do. Thirdly, Left /o me fhould fay, that he baptized in his own Name, rather into his own Name, as the Gt e ^Copies and divers English Tranflations render it-, feeing from Chrift,in whofeName he caine, he had no Command fo to do. What AmbafTadour of an earth- ly Prince, commiffioned to treat with a forreign Prince, about c- fpecial Matters if he fail, in reference to the Contents of his Com- miflion, and treat about Matters whereto he was not commiffion- ed :, can he expect: that his Prince's Favour fhould be unto him as Dew upon the Grafs, or rather that his Wrath fhould be as the Roaring of a Lyon ? So if :h:-it in Afatt'h. 2 3 . had been a Com- mand obligatory to all Gofpel-Miniftersto Baptize with outward Water, could Paul have Caufe of Rejoycing in that he fulfilled not the Command ? Confider this, and judge. Ofej, do) CM. Thdtiti'Ma.t.28. mtft needs reUte to outward Water-, for the Apof.les could not Baptise with the Spirit. Anfw. Who as thusreafon, are ignorant of the Miniftry o£ Chrift, which is a Miniftry of the Spirit; for all that are fent of Chrift, through their Miniftry people are turned from Darknefs to Light, and tr-anflated from-D :ath to Life, where Chrift's Bap- tifm is known.-, and this they do as indued with Power from above, John 17. 18. As thou baft fent me into the World (faith Chrift) e- venfo fend I them. And muft not Chrift and r is Ministers be found in one Work?even to turn people from Satan's power to the Pow- er of God, where the fpiritual Baptilin is. While Peter preac - ed to Cornelius, and his Kinfmen and near Friends, the holy Spi- rit fell on them, /itlsio. wherein Chrift's Baptifm is. Moreo- ver Paul laid his Hands on certain, and the holy Spirit fell upon them, Aftsig. even that Spirit wherewith Chrift baptizeth. Yea, andin Atbs 26. Paul gave a Relation of his Call, as-alfo-of his Work}/f faith the Lord)/j^w appeared unto thee for thispnrpofe^ to m?M? thee a Mmiftcr : And what was his Work ? In preaching to the Gentiles, to open their Eyes, to turn them from Darknefs to Light, from the power of Sat an ur.to Cjod, that they may receive For- givenefs of Sins, and an Inheritance among them that are fancti fed by Faith in Chrift Ufa. Paul declared his Commiflion to preach, andthe Etfe&s of it was glorious, Converfion, Faith, Remiffion of Sins Salification, Salvation; he took not Fleih and Blood into counfel, evil Counfellors for the Soul; but filencing Fiefh, en- tertaining a noble Refolutioa, he put himfelf into the hand of God, faying in efFccl, Te duct, vera fequor ; Teduce,falfa nego . Coniider, Paul in and through the Virtue of him that fent hira, opened p«op!es Eyes, and turned them from Dsrknefsto Light, and from Satan's power unto God : Were not thefe Wit- neffespf the Spirit's Baptilin ? Yes; for without the Spirit, and iti Baptifm, none come to God, oor out of Satans power: Thus 'Paul ditcipled the Cj entiles, that received his Teftimony, and bap- tized them in and through the Spirit, into the Name of the Fa- ther (21) ther, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit} and this was and is done, not by Water-baptifrn without, but by the Spirit's Bap- tjfm within. Again,. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Txtf/teftifks, Th.it they were tntde of Cjod ahte Adinijtcrs of the NevcTefiameKt, r.ot of the Letter* but oj the Spirit ,evcn of the Spirit in which Chri&'s Baptifm is revealed: And Paul demanded of the GMr.tians > faying, Reuivcdye the Sprit by the IVcrki °f f h e Laxr y or by the hstrwg of Faith ? Gal .3.2. As if he (hould have laid, True it is, you have received the Spirit, but not by the Wosks of the Law, but by the hearing of Faith - 7 fo that the Apoftles preaching the Word oi Faith unto thern,they received the Spirit, even that Spirit which baptizeth into one Body. So that it is clear unto rae, thatiuch asaibdgethis. Scripture, Go and teach all Nations , biptizirg them in th Nairn ofrln Father, Or. to patronize Water-Baptifm ox Raatiftn> that is, dipping or fprinklifig, in GofpcUJayes, they are Wrefters and Per- verters of the Scripture ^ and that this Scripture, r&many othei s, hath in the dark Night of Ape&acy been wreltad, perverted, a- bufed asd mi£ interpreted, befide what hath been fpoken, may be more fully made apparent. Zuingbm and Tifiatgrfof eipsefiy, that ' Chriil Jefus did not i in thofe words inftitute a Form of Baptifm, and that Divines had 1 taught falfly , who held it out as a Form. QntGulielmiUy who was a Rtt.w.w-C atholic^. taught, ( T'rat i the Form of Baptifm fhouid be thus, 1 baptize thee in the Name 1 of the Father, of the Son, of the holy Ghoit, andofthcblcffed • ' VirginA&ry, Cent. 13. Mag. 4 19. There was a certain Prieft, who being a Lack Latin, faidin baptizing, 'Baptiz.o te in nomine pr.tr ia. etfitta, et fpirit&fantla^ which is falfe Latine, as Latinifts knew ; about thiittee was no fmall contention, as whether the Baptifm was lawful, yea or nay, where FaJfe Latin was broached} Bonifati/tt Biihop under Car:- Ita Magnify was of Opinion, that the Party thus baptized ought t* be Re-baptized :, upon which Pope Zach arias wrote to Tom- facility That he fhouid not be Re-baptized, forthat notwithstan- ding the Falfe Latine, it was True Baptifm-, he alio put him n D mind (22) mini of the Cull am of the Church, that if any were baptized by Hercticks, fuch fh:>uld not be re-baptized, but only purged by Imposition of Hands : Thus Falfc Latin got the Day. A Bifhop of Paris in a Synod cxprefTcd himfclf thus, * Let Bap- L ti&R be celebrated with Revcrcnce,and let the Pricft be very cau- ' tious in the Diftinftion and Pfconuntiation of Words, in which * all the Vcrtue of the Sasrament and the Salvation of Children 'confrfb, St*t*t. Synodal. Odcnis Paripenfs Epfctp. This is a frrange, yea, an unchriitianDoftrine, denying the Virgin's Birth, Jcfus, by interpretation a S*vti*r, in whom alone Salvation is, and ascribing the fame to Water without, Formal Word?, Di- ftinclions and Prsnuntiation without. Ob ; . Ts* AfoJtUsfra&ifedVJitct-biVtikR, art enty before the czmvtgMtfChrifPsBwtto, but after, m 'tis evident it: the Arts of the ApolUcs-, dottoKit this infer the cmtinnarxe of it in Gojfrtl- timet ? Anfve. As it was faid in a certain Cafe, fo may I fay in this, f*- dicis offici*m efk> *t res; it a temfor* rerun; Qturere that is , A Judge muft not only enquire after things ,but alfo after tbei* Times and Seafons : True it is, the Apoftles for a fcafonpra&ifed Water-Baptifm, noiRantifm, that is, Dipping, net Sprinkliog } but whether they did it by Comma*d,or by Peifmiffion,hath been apointofcontfoverfic: As forme and Tnoufands more, wc be- lieve, that they did it not by Command frora ChriJt, but ttok it up, and continued it for a fcafon, in relation to John* Watcr- Baptifra, as Paul laid in a certain cafe, i Cor. 7. 6. 'Sue I sje*k^ thisby¥ermi$fi t *udmt by OmmoMdment. After the Afcenfwn ofChrift forae of theApoftles ufed outward cifcumcifion,not as by Chrift's Command , but in relation to Mefes, for their fakes (for a feafon) who were weak, orotherwife afre&cd, certainly know- ing that fooa after the Virtue and Purity of Circumcifion ma4e without Hands, wou'd put an End to Circuracifion outwa rd ; for the Mofaical Shadows and Figures were tke »oft truly putaff when t-ay felt the Subftaacc, Chrift, the Life, the End «f fuch things rifen in their nsortal Bodies *, for, as the Sura-light fwaHows (23) up the Moon-light , and as D.-.rknefs is chafed .way when the Sun appears, and mounts up in its luftre , To ad out- ward Shadow?, Types and Figures, from the dayes of Righ- teous Abel to J*hn, were to vaiaifli as the Life of Gir.ft came to be exalted in his Church ., John intimated thus much when he faid, I ***/? decreafe, he. mttj} tncreafe : So f«im% Water-bapcifonvastodecrcafc, hhn being a Fore-runner, and hisServant, wastorefign up hisBaptifm toChnft, yea, -and as a Servant to deliver all things into his haads, as Heir and Lor : John's Bapt f.n reached unto Chrift's Kingdom, but hath no plwe therein } yea, and to bring Shadows and Figures into his King- dom, is (if rightly under ftood) ant ichriftian $ ft r his Kiagdosa is wholely fpi itual, and in his C urchhe is a Bundle of Myrh, yea, that vexy thing which from Ai el to John was repi dented by outward Shadows. So that thofc the Apoitles baptized, as internally, Iampci- fwaded , they did it for a feafon in relation to Jihtti Miniftratio*, for thefakeoftheWeak, and of other*, the Day being b*»t«?e» dawning, which was to put an End unro and fulfil the Layer- Wa- fh n^, yea, and the >r<£*»wafhing, as all other Shadow* from Abti to that very feafon, And that they baptized -on this Account, and not fey a Com- mand of Chrift, icverel Grounds indijce me to believe : Firft, Ptftf/achoienVefTel, who planted many Chwrchcs, yot altogether ceafed from J*hn\ Minrftration of Water-baptifm, aftej that he had ufed it twice or thrice, a« probably all the Ap#- ftksdid, i Cor. 1. 14,15, ^,'7- he thanks God that he baptized none but fuch and toch , laying exprefly , Chrift fent him** u h*p- tiz*\ dip «r flan* thar Bodies in Ott'WArdtTAttr, thtngh he drd* to dftWjjct he h*dr* c*», Ephef. 4. 5. Tiierc had been two Baptiims, Iohrft wit'iWa:er, C left's with the Spirit-, yet theone is repealed - and a** preached. up among them. So to the wife in heart I ap- peal, T/hethe-u ihis one Biptiim he preached up, was. Johns with Water, orChriiVswith the Spirit \ and whatever thou be that iayeithii: the one Baptiiin which the Apoitle pi-eached up, was jikas. Water, Bxpcifm,. I tell thee thoudenyes Chrdft, and his Baptifm with the Spirit, and lets John and his Water-baptifm in his Tar one, thou ftumbieft at the Rock, the D.\y-Star thou kiKmeife not, nor the Sua of Righteoufnels rifen, and the Sha- dow* flown away. Now if any fcrupte this Scripture, and lim- ply deftres to be refolded, v. hether Baptifm he preaches up, the Mjuth of Tanl in another place may inform thee, 1 Cor, 1 2. 1 5 . E 1 ost Spirit xvc Are allbapth.ei into one Body, Here thou may'ft be iati.ned, he tells thee, there is OneB*ptifm j he alio informs thee, what that one BaptXm is, nui. into IorcUn f no t into a Bow! , Baion or Font, but by the one Spirit into one Body. So to every Teeing Eye fohns Water-baptifm is here laid afide, his Or- dinance thereto repeaFd. Nov* it being that Paul was not lent to baptize with Water, aRd that he preached up one baptifm, and thit of the Spirit, it neceflarily follows, that whom he baptized with Water, hediditbyPermiiiion in reference to ZoWsMin'- ftration j Ufing and IniHtuting are two things , the Apoftles Cqu- difcended where they never Commanded. And whereas, fome ailed ge. The Eunuch faid ^fo Philip, Here is Water y wh&tdrth hinder me to he baptised? Philip/***/, If thou believe with ail tbyhetrr, thoHmtyej}, Afts 8. 36,37. He faith not then mift ; he held it not to be of abfoJut~ N sreflity, fo con- defcended, as before: The holy Spirit, ^rhich feai» up to God, was received without Water-baptifm, or Rantifm j where then is the N ;cei1ity of Dipping at Sprinkling ? Nqw, in reference to what was lad objected > (everal Teflimo- nies confo.iant to what I here affert, might be pi >duced, and that offuch,who were not of mean Account in their Day, theie Works by many yet had in efteera. 'The ( i-J ) ' The ufe of the Ceremonial Law (iaitfi WcUehim in Us com- f mon places,) was profitab'e before the Death of Chrift} after 'his D:ath unto the Promulgation or fpreading abroad of the ' Gofpel, it was indifferent, but after the Promulgation or clear * publifhing of tne Gofpel , the obfervation of Ceremonies is not 'only unwhollbtoe, and unprofitable, but alfo deadly. Hence 'J\?.'>/ st the beginning, would have Timothy Circumcifed, be- 1 caule of the weakness of t\\zje\vs, A3s 16. 5. but after that the ' Golpel was more fully Preached :, he would not yield that Titm 'fliouki be Circumcifed, (Jal.z. And faith he, 'Tne Obferva- ' tion of /**//& Ceremonies would row be nothing but a denying *of the Coming and Death of Chrift. So there was a time (fay I) when ier^-wafhingwa; profitable:, there wasa time, when it r as indifferent, in which ti me the Apoftles made fome ufe of it •, and there is a time, hen it may be (aid to be Antichriftian, in pleading for the outward Wafhing, when the Laver of Regene- ration, filled with the Water of Lite, for the clertfing of the in- ward Man, isfetopen, and when performed in that Spirit which is at Enmity unto Chrift. Wilfredj a Presbyter y reafoning with Bifliop -Coleman, about the time of the celebration ofEafter, faid, ' God forbid we fhcu'd 'aecirfetfieApoftiEof Folly,, when he obferved the Precepts of ' Mofcs, the Church as yet Iudai^ing in many things*, neither ' were theApoftles on a fudden able to abolifh all Legal Obfervan- ' ces,which had been of Divine Inftitution : On this account PahX ' circumcifed Timothy, offered in the Temple, purified himfelf^ * allowed of Head-fhaving, had his Head fiiorn at Cencrea, pro- ' fitable to no other end, but to avoid miniftring of Offence to the ' J eves y who being weak faw not the End of thefe things-, in the year 664. Ptfcator on Atts 16.3. faith, 'After the Example of PWand < Timothy, thftt the Weak may be gained, let us not refufe to fub- < mit unco troublefome things, which otherwife we might with a * good Confcience forbear. * 'Paul, (faith Trapp on 1 Cor. 9.) became all things to all men ' that he might lave fome -, and how ? not in conforming to rheir 4 Impieties, but in the life of things indiffeseat, in Bowels oi £ 6 Coov (2'6) c Compaflion. to "them. ?a*l (faith he) harp'd much oF this ' String, out of a fervent and ardent Defire to gain Souls to the * Lord. 'Though many Legal Types (faiths//) continued fomecon- 4 fiderable time after Chrift's Death, yet they loft their pofitive 4 and obligatory Power, and were ufed only as Adiaphora, things *■ indifferent, in Compliance with the inveterate Prejudices of new ' Converts, lately brought over from Judatfm, who could not ' quickly lay afide that great Veneration, which they had for the -' Rites of ji/fl/i/'^Inftitutions. Obj. Peter baptized fome Gentiles after that the Spirit w&falx upon them - y doth not this perpetuate Water- Baptifm > Anfw. True it is, while Peter preached the Everlafting Gofpei unto the Gentiles, the Gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out up- on them j then faid Peter, Can any man forbid Water, that the fe Jhould net be baptized, which have received the Holy Spirit at rvelt as we} Acts 10.44, &c. The Grounds and Reafons why Wa- ter-Baptifm, Jchn\ Miniftration, was fomc time ufed for a fea- fon in the primitive times by the Apoftle?, arc before mentioned : v I do not believe, that Peter had any more Command for Water- Baptiim then Taut had, who laid exprefly, Chrififent me not to baptize, but to preach the (Jo ffet: Yea, and this Paul faid, Atls 20.27. Ibxve not punned to declare unto you the whole Counfel of (jod. It feems John's Miniftration of Water-Baptifm's Conti- nuance was not of his Couniel : Where did he exhort Timothy ', Titus, Philemon, or any of the Churches he wrote Epiftles to, to continue Water-baptifm ? on the contrary he fhews it was fulfil- led, ended, repealed, as hath before been fpoken to, though in Relation to Johns Miniftration, and in Compliance with the pre- fent State, he baptized fome few, as others upon the fame grounds did. Paul circumctfed Timothy, yet in 1 Cor. 7. 19. he faith, Circumcifion it nothing, and Vntircumcifton is nothing • but the keeping of the commandments of (jod : The fame may be faid of Water-baptifm, 'Tisnot Dipping, or Not Dipping, but the kee- ping of the Commandments of God} this is the hontm hewnis, the ^7) the totuvi V.onlnis, the cm thing ?:cceffary, ' twas not eafie to brin£ them from what had been commanded, but as Truth dif covered it felf to be the Subftance thereof: Paul writing to the Galatiqns faid , Hew turn ye again t c the veeakjtnd beggarly Eltments, wkere- •unto ye defre again to be in Bondage ? Gal. 4 . 9 . What i< earthly and beggarly i* not of power to enrich with fpirkual Bleflings ; Water is an EIement,& appertains to the elementary Part in man, which is to pak away, in the Revelation of the Subftance, which turns out the earthly within, and earthly Rudiments without, eftablifhing a Kingdom in Righteoufncfs and Subftance, out of Figures and Shadow's. Teter never afcribed Regeneration to outward Water ^ neither did he preach, T at Children (darnnatiprittfejuantnati'j that is, damned before they be bow, -as the Doctrine is now) by fprinkling Water upon them, are made Members of Chrift, Children of God, and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven^but fee afcribed Regeneration to the Eternal Word, faying, Being bom again, net of corruptible Seed, but of in- corruptible, by the Word of Cod, which lives and abides forever, i Pet. 1.23. Peter, a Fifher of Men, having caught a Draught of GenHles, was right-glad thereof^ fo in Compliance with the prefentSea- fon, as others did, condefcended to Outward Water, which wa- Ihes-the Outward Maa, and might take Occafion therefrom to exhort them to wait for an Encreafe of the Spirit's Virtue and Power, the Heavenly Baptifm, which wafheththe Inward Man, tor inward cleanfing j the Effect of the Spirit's Baptifm is a ^radu- aiWotfc. The (*&> The Third AiTertion. &x'\Q?s Baptifm in or with the Spirit o?ily r is the Baptifm that ista Contitnae in the Church to the End of the World. Ohn being the Fore-runner of Chrift, according to the Fa- therms Appointment, was to baptize with Outward Water, John i. J3« towalhaway the Filth of the Outward Man, (ha- dowing out Chrift. ready to be revealed, and byhisipiritualBap- rifru to eleanfe the Inward Man, to make it a Habitation of God \ and this Water-haptifm was to be of 1 els Continuance then the Shadows of Mofes, as the Morning -Star, though brighter then the other Stars, fhines lefs while then they, becauiethefudden Appearance of the Sun fwallows it up : So Jehn\ Watcr-baptifm ,., though its Beginning was long after Circumcifioa, commanded in Abraham's dayes, and the Shadows of the Firft Priefthood, commanded in the dayes of Mofes y yet wan it to have an E«d with them : for whenas after Chrift's Afcenfion, Chrift's Baptifm began, cleaning inwardly, then Johns Baptifm, a Figure thereof was ended and fulfilled, the Shadow was to give way to the Sub- ftance, the Sign to the Truth, the Letter to the Spirit, the Ser- vant to the Son^ for, as the Prophets were until John, Co John was until Chrift •, and John muft no more exceed his Bout}ds,tHen Mofet and the Prophets theirs; as the Prophets gave up to John, fo lohr. was to give up to Chrift : Iohn, a Creature, had a Temporary Baptifm ^ but Chrift, who is the fame to day, yefterday and forever^ hath an Everlaftlng Baptifm, by the Spirit into one Body : and Chrift's Kingdom ftands not in SigDs, Figures and Shadows, but in Righteoufnefs, Peace and Joy in that Spirit wherewith he baptizeth. Now^ifter M/z's Water-Baptifm had continued fomc 4 Years, then Chrift's Baptifm with the Spirit, without WAter, began to- be manifeftcaV as you may fee Acts 1. 5, Chrift told hisDifci- ples # faying. jQhnfr»lyb*pt$x.edwitbWater, but ye fall be bapti- zed XX I with the hcly Sptrit rtt many dxyes Ikkci. Cot(Uer, the?, were no: to flick in /«*«'• Bap tilln, muchlekis RantiiTlTi, a Tra- dition then unheard of, nor build their Tarbcrnades there, nor ju . ge it fuiricient, gut were to wait for the Promife of the Father, even the Spirit, wherewith Chrift baptizeth-, the plea tiful cfrufi- on of the Spirit was r« ciTcd a- the ^reat Blcilia| of Goipcl-dayi, of the Evangelical State and Difpenfkrion, which is to run parattei with the Age aadDuratien'ol the World', herein the Evcrlafl- ing Gifpeli>p»etcheutc Kindred* Tongues and Nations. T ik precUu* Promifc of the Father was accomplifhed and ful- filled at the Day.of Pentecoft, when theDifciples were waiting together in one Place, CUvcn Tongues, like as of Fire, fate up* on each of them, and they were all filed with thG Holy Spirit, and fpa;e with other Tongues, as the Spirit gave them Utterance, Aclt i. i ,2,3 ,4. Thus it was evident and manifeft,that fohn the fsuptijl was a true Prophet, whofaid, fbxptizxwith \Watcr, km Chrifi JhaM baftixjt wit It the Holy Spirit /t»d with Fire. Ghrilt, Adi Chap. 1. bad them wait fos the promife of the Father', he told them what the Piomife was, even the Baptifm wit^ the hcly Spirit-, and they received what they waited for at the Day of Penrccofi:, ASiszo. they were filled with the holy Spi^ rit, which was Chrift's Baptifm without Water •, mark this, with- out Water, moce excellent then felons Baptifm with Water Now Eaptijh and Ra::ttfls y Dippers and Sprinklers, for the raoft part arc fain into that Diminution., Deprivation, or utter?jAbo~ iurion of divmc Understanding, as that it feeras ridiculous, or ■ai.ogethererioneous, to tell them of a Bapcikn without Watci. Tnisof Pentecoft was the beginning of Chrift's Baptifm, after hewasafcended^ to- this Uhn witnened, faying, Joh.7.39. fit tint btlitvtth en me (Cud ChriftJ ent of hie 'Seky fall flew Rivers vf living Wmut : but thisip a!