Mr. Sh•••s's abusive and false Representations of us, and false Interpretation of several places of Holy Scripture, and Gods Holy Ordinance of Dipping Believers in the Name, &c.
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Mr. Sh•••s's abusive and false Representations of us, and false Interpretation of several places of Holy Scripture, and Gods Holy Ordinance of Dipping Believers in the Name, &c.
First, in Page 6 he calls Dipping, Ducking, and the like in several other places; as i• we had Believers to a […] when we Baptise •••m: And again to vili••• that Holy Ordinance, in the same 6 Page, he says Dipping is more like a punishment of criminals, than the […] of an Ordinance of God: Yet Dipping was generally owned by all Pedo-Baptists formerly, and by many of late.
FIrst, in Page 6 he calls Dipping, Ducking, and the like in several other places; as i• we had Believers to a 〈…〉 when we Baptise •••m: And again to vili••• that Holy Ordinance, in the same 6 Page, he says Dipping is more like a punishment of criminals, than the 〈…〉 of an Ordinance of God: Yet Dipping was generally owned by all Pedo-Baptists formerly, and by many of late.
In Page 7▪ he says, The Jailer and his House were Baptized the same hour of the Night; whereas the Text only says, he washed their Stripes the same hour of the Night, and was Baptized, he and all his straight way, Act. 16. 33. In Page 7. he says, They were all Baptized in the Jailers House; which is a palpable abuse of the Text that they did not go out of his House to a River: