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The Learned JofqA Mede,
In \nsbiatr-ibe on Titus ^ 5. faith, There was no fuch thing
"^ the ApoftJes time, nor
tS^t&m
man^
M\ Daniel Rogers.
r-nHl^T °^r u^ "^^'^ '"^""^ '^ ^ Sprinkled, and (faith he) I
Inftf ^^''^tv ""^^r^"^'? ^y Demonftration of Scripture ij
MantsSprinkhng. It ought to be the Churches Part to
to cleave
tJitr iLflituticn, which is Dipping. And he betravs the
aurch whofe OScer he is, to a^fdcr'd Error,
not
iJSave
to the Inftitution, which is to Dip. Rogers'/Vw/Ze of the
fy^-'o Sm-amcnts^ Vnrt ^ ^^^^^ijeojm
1. Chap. 5.
The F^nous Kefirmer Luther.
Luther deBapftJmo Tom. i. Fol, 71. in the Latin Edition
Printed at W^ttemburih, faith, Baptifm is a Gr^ek Word : k may
0e irannated a Dipping, when we dip fomethina, in Water
that It may be covered with Water. And although it be for the '
abolimed, -for that they do not
t^hl^n-M'^^'^l'' Dip the
vvhoJe Children, but only Sprinkle them with a httle Water,
they ought neverthelefs to be wholly Dipt, and prefentlv
drawn to b^
out again.
^ ^ _y
tu oc
And in Tom. 2. Fol. 79, concerning,fUi)7o7j's Captivity.
o
The
her thmg (faith he) which belpngsirBaptifm, is tL Sign!
or the SacrameiTt, which is.the Dipping it felf into the Water
from whence •
alfo it hath its Name. Nam Bapti^o Gr^ce, Mem
Latme, fy Baptifma Merfio efi.
For Bapti^o in Greek, is in Latin
Merg^, to Dip; and Bapfifma, is Dipping. And a little after,
fpeakingot Rom. 5.4. he faith. Being moved by this
womd
Reafon, I
have thofe that are to be Baptized, to htn^holly Dipt into
'ii
m^"^^^^'
as the Word doth found, and the Myftery doth
And when Complaint was made to him and other Divines atr
^ntemhu^h, That a Child had been Sprinkled at Hamburgh, and
their Advice defired upon it; he wrote to flamburgh to acquaint
them. That their Ufe of Sprinkling was an Abufe, which thev
ought to remove. Ita Merfmem Hamburg! reftitutam effe. So
Pipping was reftcred at Hamburgh. Autor Joannes Buienhagjus
^omeramus, m hi^ Book Printed Anno 1 542. He was Contempiirary
with, and a SuccefTor 6f Luther at
'
WittmbHrgh.
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