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t|ie Fowls 6i the Air, &c, of which I could furnifh yon wiib
illvers Inftances.
But why (hould Mr. Rohinfon think it ftrange that any body
(hould have fuch a conceit in their minds ? Doth he not know
that the Church of Ktiwe baptize things of an inferxour Nature
? for they baprtze Churches and Bell...
And if I had compared your Pra8:ice ro theirs of baptizing
Pells, you had had no reafop to complain, for they are both
pafllve in the AS; only if yon will give credit to one of the
i*arh?rs (viz. Auguftme) the Rells are upon that account the
fitreft Subjefts-, for they are wholly psfTivc ^ but (faith he)
the little Children are not fo ; for they Ihew their Refinance
\>y their Crying. And now I demand of any of ycu ro rake
ofFrhe Retortion, and ihew the Dilparity if you can.
Upon this they were all filent, and none of them would undertake
to fhew the DiTparity : and till they dq it, my Retortion
will remain upon them.
Then Mr. Leigh faid, It is time to proceed to the othct
Queftion.
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Dr, kupl. I will now enter upon it.
The fecond Queftion is this:
Whether the Ordinance of Bapti[m, as appointed hy Chriji, is to
he adminijlred hy Dipping ^ Plunging, (or) Overwhelming
enly, and not othermje .?
I take the Queftion in the Affirmative, and my firfl Argument
is this.
y^rg. I. The Holy Scripture fliews us the right way of Baptizing,
as appointed by Chrift;
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But it doth not fiiew us that it ought to be done by Sprinkling
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Ergo, Sprinkling is not the right way of Baptizing
Mr. Leigh Sir, you muft bring in that Dipping is abfolutely
neceiriry(as in the Queftion.) What do you taikofSprinb
ling for ?
Dr. Rnjfcl Sir, I know not of any other w.iy that is prafiifed
by you ; nor, I fuppofe, any of thefe People : I conclude
they have-often ittn you fprinkle Infants; and Mr. Cbandlev
hatn particularly recommended it in hi Preaching, as fhp bcfi
way of baptizing ; and I hope you are not afhamM of yout
Praaice.^
But li you will
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difown Sprinkling to be the right Way ol
paptizing, I am contented ; I will not then iniiil upon it.
Mr. Robinfon We are not difcourftng of that no'v ;
yru are
to prove Dipping to be the only way ; aad you muft and Iball
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