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For Apllos^ who was a great Preacher, and a Man
mighty in the Holy Scriptures, did not difdain that a Woman
fliould inftrua him in the Way of God more perfeftly,
AfisiQ.2^, 25, 26.
And for your better underftanding
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the Point in Controverfy,
I fhall do thefe three things.
I. Shew you, that Baptifm is to be adminiftredlby Dipping,
Plunging, or overwhelming the Perfon in Water.
II. That true penitent Believers are the right Subjefts
of Baptifm.
III. That the Ordinance of Baptifm is now m being,
and is to continue to the End of this World.
I. I (hall (hew that Baptifm muft be adminiftred by
Dipping, &c. if we confider thefe four things.
1. The Etymology, or Signification of the Word, the
Holy Spirit ufes to exprefs it by.
2. Tliofe Metaphors ufed in Holy Scripture, to reprcfent
it to our Underftanding.
3. From the Prafticeof thefirft Baptizers.
4. From the grand Commiflion of our Saviour, Mat,
I. From the Etymology, or Signification of the Word.
The word Baptifmy is from the Greek ^a^iCo^ to dip.
Baptifna, a Dipping ; from /BaVTs, B:ipto, to dip, plunge,
or drown. It implieth the wafhing of the whole Body j
even fuch a wafhing as is ufed in Bucks, where Linen is
plunged and dipt. For the native and proper fignification
of it, is to dip into Water, or to plunge under Water 5
fee Liigh^ Critica Sacra.
It is a Metaphor taken from the ufe of the Dyers Vat *,
and is fuch a Dipping, by which the Cloth put into it is
d>ed, and not a bare wafhing only i
from whence comcth
Biptifm. -r ^ « T r
Zeppeim de Sacramentls faith, Bcfc^/jcr/^®-, Baptiim ; /»
-vocis notatiomm attendere vdimus, vocabulm Baptifmi mtrfiQnm
ffgnificat in amam, &c. If we will atcend to the Notation
of the word Biptifniy it fignifics to dip into Water
or the Aft it fdf of Dipping and Wafhing. From hence
therefore, and from the Etymology of the Word it fch, it
doch appear what was the Cuftom of adminiftring Bap-
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