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of the Water, ^when they were never in It) as thofe are fald to
do, in ^Sfs 8. 38. They went both down into the Water, and
they came up again out of the Water. Befides, I challenge
all the Learned in the World tofhew one Inftance in the Nere
Tejiamenf, that thefe Words Rantizo, R^ntifmos, or Rantifina,
are ever made ufe of by the Spirit of God , to exprefs that Ordinance
of Baptifmby. For they know right well that Bapto^
and its Derivatives are always made ufe of to exprefs ic by.
And where they are tranflated intoEnglifli, the one is rendred
dipping, and the other Sprinkling. But if thefe Men wiU
keep up a Praftife contrary to Holy Scripture, and the Judgn
ment of the mod Learned Lexicographers and Criticks in the
Greek Tongue, it's their own fault, and not ours.
The Ajfemhl^ of Divines Annotations,
j^Bi 8. 38. They went both down into the Water.
They were wont to dip the w^o/^ Body, or go down into
the Water, as here, and M-fl!«^. 3. 16.
And upon Rom. 6. 4. Buried with him by Baptifm.
SttCol. 2. 12. In this Phrafe the Apoftle feemeth to allude to
the yfncisnt Manner of Baptifm ; which was to dip the Parties
baptized, and as it were, to bury them under the Water for a
while, and then to draw them out of ir, and lift them up;
toreprefent the Burial of our Old Man, and our Refurreflion
to newnefs of Life-
The late Dr. Gabriel Towerfon^ in his Explication of the Cj8-
techifm of the Church of England.^V^n^, page 20, &c. fpeaks
largely upon it, in Vindication of the Rite of Dipping in baptifm
; of which I fhall recite fbme few PafTages, and refer yod
to his Book for the reft.
Baptifm is intended as a Sign, and that in refpecX of th?
manner of Application ufed ; I mean the dippings or plun:
ging the Party baptized in it. A fignification which St. Paul
vrill not fuffer thofe to forget, who have been acquainted with
his Epiftles, for which he quotes Rom. 6. 4. and Col. 2. 1 2.
It was performed by^ the Ceremony of Immerfion, that the
ferfon Immerfed, might by that Ceremony Cwhich was nd
obfcure Image of a Sepulture; *be minded of the precedent
Death, as in like manner by his coming again out of the Water,
of his rifing from that Death to Life, after the Exampfe
of the Inftitaior thereof.
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