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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 4.
Ans. [The Font usually stands as it did in primitive times, at or near the Church door, to signify that Baptism was the entrance into the Church mystical; We are all baptized into one Body, 1 Cor. 12. 13. and the People may hear well enough. If Jordan and all other waters, be not so far sanctified by Christ, as to be the matter of Baptism, what Authority have we to baptize? and sure his Baptism was dedicatio Baptismi.]
Ans. [The Font usually stands as it did in primitive times, at or near the Church door, to signifie that Baptism was the entrance into the Church mystical; We are all bap•ized into one Body, 1 Cor. 12. 13. and the People may hear well enough. If Jordan and all other waters, be not so far sanctified by Christ, as to be the matter of Baptism, what Authority have we to baptize? and sure his Baptism was dedicatio Baptismi.]
Repl. Our lesser difference about the Font, and the flood Jordan, is almost drowned in the greater before going: But to the first we say, that we conceive the usual situation for the Peoples hearing, is to be preferred before your Ceremonious position of it. And to the second we say, that dedicatio Baptismi is an unfitting phrase, and yet if it were not, what's that to the sanctification of Jordan, and all other waters? Did Christ sanctify all Corn, or Bread, or Grapes, or Wine to an holy use, when he administered the Lords Supper? Sanctifying is separating to an holy use; but the flood Jordan, and all other water, is not separated to this holy use, in any proper sense; no more than all mankind is sanctified to the Priestly Office, because men were made Priests.