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In Pap 15. the Anabaptists (you say) make a great deal of pother and stir about the Apostles words in Romans 6. 3, 4. and have pressed them into their service; the words are as followeth; therefore we are buried with him by Baptism; they will (say you) have it that this respects burying in Water over Head and Ears in Baptism, and therefore they make it an argument for Dipping: The Apostle (you say) seems to have been stirring them up, and putting them in mind of their Baptismal vows and Obligations: It may be as well to Children of believing parents that were grown up, as to themselves; for in vers. 3 saith he, know ye not that so many of us as were Baptised into Christ, were Baptized into his Death? that is (say you) as they were Baptized into all the privileges, that were purchased by the Death of Christ, so they were baptised also into the sufferings of Christ, for they were obliged by their Baptismal Covenant to take up their Cross and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, &c.

In Pape 15. the Anabaptists (you say) make a great deal of pudder and stir about the Apostles words in Romans 6. 3, 4. and have pressed them into their service; the words are as followeth; therefore we are buried with him by Baptism; they will (say you) have it that this respects burying in Water over Head and Ears in Baptism, and therefore they make it an argument for Dipping: The Apostle (you say) seems to have been stirring them up, and puting them in mind of their Baptismal vows and Obligations: It may be as well to Children of believing parents that were grown up, as to themselves; for in vers. 3 saith he, know ye not that so many of us as were Baptised into Christ, were Baptized into his Death? that is (say you) as they were Baptized into all the priviledges, that were purchased by the Death of Christ, so they were baptised also into the sufferings of Christ, for they were obliged by their Baptismal Covenant to take up their Cross and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, &c.

1. Answer, You shall now see whether 'tis only those whom you call Anabaptists, that make such improvement of this Text (you say pother and stir about it) or whether others who were and are Pedo Baptists, do not make the like use of it, viz. to prove Baptism is an Image, Symbol or representation of Christs Death, and burial and Resurrection, together with our Death unto sin, and vivification to a newness of Life: But before I shall quote the Authors I must tell you the Apostle is not in the context speaking of the sufferings of believers, not a word of bearing the Cross: Therefore from the Scope and coherence of the Text you cannot infer any such conclusion as you do. Pray Reader take notice of the 5th Chapter and the beginning of this 6th, and see if I or this Man speak the truth of the Texts in, vers. 1. of this Chapter; the Holy Apostle says thus, i. e. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in Sin that grace may abound, God forbid; how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein, vers. 2. Know you not that so many of us as have been Baptized into Jesus Christ, were Baptized into his Death, vers. 3. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death: That like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of Life, vers. 4. For as we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also into the likeness of his Resurrection, vers. 5. Is here a word of the Cross, or suffering for Christ, or that we are Baptized to show we must suffer Martyrdom with Christ? no, no, unless it be the Death or mortification of sin or the old Man. Tho' I deny not but such that are Baptized must look for suffering.