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(That) Sprinkling of Infants is a new Doftrine, and a
fcripturelefs thing, and is not to be found from the beginning
of GmftSy to the end of the Revelations, At which
Mr, Jams cries out, " What 1 a new Doanne ? Let fa-
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mousCtf/ww be heard, Pag,2U
And indeed he was a great Man, for what he could not
do by Arguments, he did by Force and Cruelty.^ And
Calvin may go in the number of one of Mr. James's felfcondemned
Men too; for he faith, upon John 3. 23. And
John alfo was bapti'(ing in Enon, mar to Salim, Ohe Reafon
was) becauje thm was much Water there. Now Calvin
upon thefe words faith From this place you may gather,
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that John and Chrift adminiftred Bapufm, by plunging the
whole Body in Water.
Sec alfo another Text, A5ls 8. 36. As they went on then
wayy they came unto a certain Water •, and the Eunuch faidy
See, here is Water, &c. Ver. 58. And they went down both
into the Water, both Philip and the Emuchy and he bapti-^ed
him, Ver. 29. And when they were come up out of the Water,
&c. Upon which place Calvin faith, " We fee what a
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Fafhion the Antients had to adminifter Baptifm -, for
« they plunged the whole Body into the Water; theUfe
« is now, (faith he} that the Minifter caft a few Drops on-
« ly upon the Body, or upon the Head. So that Mr.
Calvin cot^{ti\cs their Pradice, and the Antients about Baptifm,
were very different.
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The Aflcmbly of Divines, upon Atts 8. 38. faith.
They went down into the Water; and they were wont to
dip the whole Body. . .
And upon Rom, 6. 4. they call it the Antient way of
Baptifm, which was, to dip the Parties baptized, and^
as it were, to bury them under the Water for a while, and
then draw them out of it, and lift them up, to reprefent
the Burial of the Old Man. .
And on Mat,:^,6. (on the
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words) were baptised,
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they wafhed by dipping in Jordan.
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And the Common-Prayer, or Rubnckj direfts, He ItiaH
dip in the Water, difcreetly and warily.
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And Mr. Viodate, in his Annotations upon Rom. 6. 4. Uitli>
(yi':Q In Baptifm being dipped in Water, according t(j
the Antient Ceremony.