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An appendix to the answer unto two Athenian Mercuries concerning pedo-baptism containing twenty seven…
An appendix to the answer unto two Athenian Mercuries concerning pedo-baptism containing twenty seven syllogistical arguments proving infant-baptism a mere humane tradition : the gentlemen called the Athenian Society desiring in the last of the said Mercuries to have syllogism / by B. K.An appendix to the answer unto two Athenian Mercuries concerning pedo-baptism containing twenty seven syllogistical arguments proving infant-baptism a mere humane tradition : the gentlmen called the Athenian Society desiring in the last of the said Mercuries to have syllogism / by B. K.
London : Printed for the author and sold by John Harris ..., 1692
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Arg. 27. If Baptism be Immersion, as to the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo, as also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms and the spiritual Signification thereof; then Sprinkling cannot be Christ's true Baptism. But Immersion is the proper and genuine signification of the word Baptizo, and also of those Typical and Metaphorical Baptisms spoken of, and the spiritual Signification thereof. Ergo, Sprinkling is not Christ's true Baptism.
1. That the proper and genuine Signification of the word Baptizo is Immersion, or to dip, &c. we have proved, which is also confessed by the Learned in the Language.
2. The Figurative Baptism was, 1st. That of the Red Sea, wherein the ••thers were buried, as it were, unto Moses in the Sea, and under the Cloud. Pools Annotations on 1 Cor. 10. 2. Others, saith he, more probably think that the Apostle useth this term, in regard of the great Analogy betwixt Baptism (as it was then used) the Persons going down into the Waters, and being dipped in them; and the Israelites going down into the Sea, the great Receptacle of Water, though the Water at that time was gathered on Heaps on either side of them; yet they seemed-buried in the Water, as Persons in that Age were when they were baptized, &c. The 2d. was that of Noah's Ark. See Sir Norton Knatchb•ll: The Ark of Noah and Baptism, saith he, were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, not the Sign of the washing away of Sin, though so taken metonymically, but a particular Signal of the Resurrection of Christ: of this Baptism is a lively and emphatical Figure, as Also was the Ark of Noah, out of which he returned as from a Sepulchre, to a new Life.