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them and the Baptifts had -returred their Thanks alfo ) ne thtn
concluded in Prayer -, and fo diimift the Aliembly. It vvas between
the Hours of Six and Seven of the Clock when the Dilpute
ended.
I do now think it proper to give you an Account of thofe
Learned Mens Teftimonies to jultifie our Praaice of Dipping.
which Dr. il#/ was then preventCil to recite, by reafcn oi the
Minifters Hilfing, and the Noile and Clamour oi their Party,
that would not fuffer him to be heard.
PooIV Anmtatms.
Math g. 6. Were Bapi:i:(ed : that; is, Dl^^cd in Jordan.
Matt. 28. 19. It's true, the firft Baptilms of which we read
in Holy Writ, v/ere by Dipping of the Perfons . B.iptized^
Where it may be we judge it reafonable, and moft rekmbiing
our Burial with Chrift by Bapfifm into Death.
John 3. 22,-23. There John was Baptizing, becaule this
Mnon was a Brook or River that had much Water. It is from
this apparent, that both Chrift and John Baptized by Dipping
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the Body in the Water •, elfe they need not have lought Places
where had been a great Plenty of Water.
A^s 8. 38. In hot Countries this was ulual, to
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B.iptize
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Dipping the Body in the Water. ,
Kom. 6. 4. He ieems here to allude to the manner of baptizing
in thofe warm Eaftern Countries, which was tJ«>^por
Plunge th^ Party Baptized-, and, as it were, to bury him xcr a
mder Water.
l^vftiie
Dr. HammDndV^/2?wf;:^/onf.
Man z 'J^ok put the Perfons whom he Baptized into the
Water, -Dipped them all over, and* lo took them out again.
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Mcirk^ I. 5. And Johui Baptifm was done m Jordan^ a River
convenient for chat Purpofe.
The le^rnei Perkins.
i^OTW 6. The a»JC!ent Cuflom- of Baptizing was to dip, and as
k were to dive ah the Body of the Baptized in the Water as.
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may appear m i--.^^^/, Rom. 6. And the Councils cfl^ri^^/av^
and Kmdm:i.
• The Aftion of the Minifter, is his \^ aUiing ot
the Praiy Baptized with the Element ot Water.
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