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A39051	Plain and exquisite Scripture-proof, that St. John Baptist and the blessed Apostles, and all the primitive baptizers, did baptize by sprinkling, or pouring water upon the person or persons they baptized, and not by dipping the person into water ... also some observations upon Mr. Keach's reflections upon my late treatise, intituled, Plain and express Scripture proofs, that John Baptist did as certainly baptize infants in the church of the Jews as the adult, with the confirmation of the truth reflected against by him / by Joshua Exell ...	Exell, Joshua.	1693 (1693)	Wing E3857; ESTC R15010	107,024	64

that great Apostle Peter at that time be a true and faithful Witness from God to them 33. No other signification of this word can be had from the New Testament than what Will consist with the dreadful condemnations and theatnings of the New Testament against all and every Soul that did flight neglect or reject Baptism See Luke 7.30 Acts 3.23 John 3.3 5. Christs express words to Nicodemus the Pharisee that was one of that conclave that rejected Baptism Matth. 21.32 Acts 2.40 41. They are condemned as an untoward Generation Fi st Let us Enquire How John the Baptist did understand this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And what he did intend by it in his use of it in Expressing his own Baptism with water and Christs Baptism with the holy Ghost by it That John the Baptist did understand and intend pouring upon or sprinkling with in Matth. 3.11 when he spake of Christs Baptism and told the people that Christ should baptize them with the holy Ghost and with fire have been proved and may be again easily evidenced by Johns being a prophet and speaking as a prophet and from his seeing the way and manner in which Christ was to do it when he spake of it John 1● 41 And by the evidence the people did bear of John with respect to the truth of his Testimony that he did bear of Christ in all things that he spake of Christ and the ground of faith that this was to the people to believe in Christ John 10.40 41 42. And also from Johns own words in Matth. 3.11 and with fire which respects the very time of the holy Ghosts falling upon them in Acts 2.3 4 5. Acts 11.15 16 17. And also his being acted by the same spirit of the Prophets but a greater measure than they had of the same spirit and the commendation that Christ gives to John all this sheweth that John did intend the same way of performance in which it was done by the Lord Jesus which was by pouring upon or sprinkling with Acts 2.15 16. And this according to and for the accomplishment of what the Prophets had foretold that so that might be fulfilled and this is witnessed to by the express words of the holy Ghost in Acts 2.15 16 17. And it was foretold so to be performed by many of the Prophet as Isa 52.15 Isa 44.3 Joel 2.28 29. Zech. 12.10 If Baptizing with the holy Ghost Was one of the things that John spake of Christ and all that he spake of him was true then this of necessity must be true and was true and was intended by the people when they spake it of J●hn and bare witness to the truth of what John spake of Christ in all things and believed on Christ by vertue of the truth of Johns words John 10.40 41 42. And for what he intended by his saying he Baptized them with water whether he intended Dipping or Plunging or pouring upon or sprinkling may be easily discerned In that The people understood what he spake which was Impossible for any mortals to have done If John should have intended s●rinkling by this word when he spake of Christs Baptizing with the holy Ghost but he performed his own by Dipping in water an● yet expressed both by the same word and this wi●hout the least explication or discovery of any difference in the signification of the word That the people and the vulgar of the people and while in a state of unbelief and Ignorance and at the first time in the place where John at first Baptized is all clear from the very expressions of the holy Ghost in John 1● 4● 41 42. And this could never have been had John intended sprinkling by the same word in Christs Baptizing that he expressed his baptizing with if he had performed it by dipping and this without the least explication unless any can prove that the vulg●r and common people could understand what was in Johns mind without his manifestation of it by his expressions And if any could do this by John the same people could not understand Christs meaning when he said he did and would give them his flesh to eat John 6. and also it may be further discovered what he intended as to the manner of his baptizing with water by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the question proposed to him by the Messengers sent to him from the Pharisees which were of Jerusalem John 1.24 Why Baptizest thou then if thou be not that Christ nor that Prophet nor Elias John understood the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Baptize in no other sense than what the Pharisees understood it in For he Answered them Immediately and Directly by and with the same word verse 26. John answered and said I Baptize with water c. They both the Pharisees and John understood what was intended and meant by the same word without the least explication of it to shew any different sense that it was taken in upon either hand or part as appears by their direct pertinent and speedy answers one to the other And how the Pharisees and all the Jews understood it and what they intended by it we may know and understand by their Baptizing of their C●●s and Pots and Beds and Tables c. Mark 7.4 6 8. which were thing● some of them at least Impossible to be Dipped or to be baptized by Dipping especially when it w●s but the c●t●de of these that they Baptized or purified Luke 11 38 39 40. Matth. 25.25 26. Which may be further discovered when we come to speak particularly of their acceptation of the word 3. John intended no other acceptation of this word Baptizing nor did perform it in any other manner than what would consist with h●s Baptizing of All Judea and All the Region round about Jordan and the multitude which consisted of men women and children 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 14.21 Matth. 15.36 to 39. Matth. 11.7 4. John the Baptist Intended no other signification by this word Baptizing and performed it in no other manner than what would consist with their priviledges as they were children of Abraham that they might enjoy their priviledges For they had and did enjoy them and partake of Baptism by vertue of their being children of Abraham Why else did John disswade them from trusting in their priviledges and being children of Abraham Matth. 3.9 And should John have denyed them the participation of the Ordinance upon this account the covenant and promise of God must have been broken and made null and void And why does the holy Ghost say long after that it was theirs upon this accoun● Rom. 9.4 5. 5. John Bap●ist could intend no other signification by this word than what would consist with the subjects of his Ministry and the end of his Ministry which were the fathers and children and the turning of their hearts one to another and all to the Lord Mal. 4.6 Luke 1.17 6. John could intend no other signification by

passive voice and then one part of the person must not be in the water before for then it cannot be dipt in nor must one part stand upon terra firma for then that person cannot be wholly passive in the reception of Baptism in the whole person unless any do account the lower part of the person no part of the person or a part not ●o be purified or else do Baptize pars pro toto and yet then but one part of the person can be in the power of the Baptizer and that not solely neither but in such conjunction with the rest that it cannot be wholly passive as it ought to be And is and must be all of the person in the Baptism signified by it Acts 2.2 3 4 5. Acts 11.15 16 17. Titus 3 5 6. Or else if they will have the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie into they must have the meaning to be I have baptized you into water as Christ commands to baptize into the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost But that I suppose none that make conscience will admit of But how any of these constructions not agreeing with Baptism with Water to be a sign of Baptizing with the holy Ghost is yet unknown to some But if the matter of difference do consist in and depend upon the meaning and acceptation of this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Baptize then it will be Necessary to enquire into the New Testament how this word is taken to signify there Arguments and Reasons grounded upon Scripture to prove that John Baptist did intend pouring upon or sprinkling by the word Baptize 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mentioned in Matth. 3.11 when he Prophesied to the people that Christ should Baptize them with the holy Ghost in the latter end of the verse And also Arguments and Reasons grounded upon Scripture to prove that he did not intend Dipping by the word Baptize 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he told the people that he indeed had baptized them with water in the beginning of 11. verse of Matth. the 3d. When John the Baptist told the people that Christ that should come after him should Baptize them with the holy Ghost and with fire that he did intend by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baptize pouring upon shedding upon or sprinkling with and not dipping or plunging into may be clearly proved from other places of Scripture First In that the people that were ear-witnesses of what John spake of Christ and eye-witnesses of the manner In which Christ performed that which John spake of him do testifie that all that John spake of Christ was true John 10.41 Now this of Christs Baptizing with the holy Ghost and with fire is one of the things that John did speak of Christ and therefore this was true and intended by John as so to be performed as Christ did perform it when he did come For if John should not have intended and meant by these words that Christ should baptize them with the holy Ghost that Christ should pour out his spirit upon them and shed it upon them or sprinkle them with it which was Christs way of Baptizing them with it Acts 1.5 Acts 2.3 4 5. Then what John spake of Christ could not be true But all that John spake of Christ was true Therefore he did not intend dipping into the holy Ghost by Christs Baptizing them with it but pouring upon shedding upon and sprinkling with by Christs baptizing them with the holy Ghost Acts 2.15 16 17. Titus 3.5 6. Heb. 10.22 1 Peter 1.2 Acts 10.44 45 46. Acts 11.15 16 17. Acts 15.8 9. 2. In that it was ground of faith in the people to believe in Christ John 10.42 What John spake of Christ was true even all things of it and many believed on him there The conjunction copulative knitting together Johns words and the truth of it and their believing sheweth that the things that John spake of Christ being true they believed on him upon that Testimony John had given What was ground of faith in the people and that to many and not a few And in the very place too that John spake these things at first and baptized were certain truths But Johns words or Testimony of Christ was ground of faith to many of the people in the very place where John at first Baptized and spake them Therefore Johns words of Christ were certainly true And therefore John did not mean nor intend by Christs Baptizing dipping into but pouring upon or sprinkling with the holy Ghost by Christ Matth. 3.11 When he did come 3. It may be further Proved from the holy spirit that John was filled with and acted by in the work of his Ministry He was filled with the holy Ghost from his mothers womb and came in the spirit of Elias Luke 1.16 17. Now if it was by the same spirit of truth and holiness that John the Baptist spake by and was acted by as others of the holy Prophets of the Lord were acted by then what John spake of Christ was true and was in every thing intended by him as it should be and was performed by Christ when he came and did perform them Therefore John did intend sprinkling or pouring upon by Christs Baptizing them with the holy Ghost 4. It may be further proved from Johns office He was a Prophet And what John spake of Christ he spake as a prophet foretelling of it both as to the matter and the manner of the performance And that he was a prophet Christ himself doth witness and the greatest of Prophets Matth. 11.7 8 9. And the word of God came to him in an immediate manner as to others of the Prophets Luke 3.2 3 4. And therefore he did intend by Christs baptizing with the holy Ghost his pouring out the holy Ghost upon them and shedding it upon them and his sprinkling them with it which titles the holy Ghost does afterwards give to the thing that John expressed and intended by baptizing Matth. 3.11 with the holy Ghost And for any to gain say it is to deny Johns being a prophet of the Lord. The Prophet did foresee what they foretold Isaia● aw his glory when he spake of him John 12.41 And did not John see it also 5. Another Argument may be taken From Christs giving the Disciples of John a ● stimon● that he was the Messias from the works that he did and the manner of his do●●●f th● which is included in the matter of them Matth. 11. ● 4 5 6. Go and tell jo● agai● things that ye see Which sheweth that Johns Discovery and Prophesie of Christ ha● been his works And if Christ had not done the things that John ●ad foretold and as they ha●●een foretold then they must have been at a loss for the knowledg of the L●rd Je●●● to 〈◊〉 ●e Messiah and if John had intended Dipping when Christ should do it by pouring upon Johns t●●●imony must have been against Christ that he was