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A80854	The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing C7003B; ESTC R174314	79,234	315

piece of Gods worship you may receive of it this description Baptisme is a Solemn and Religious application of water by a lawfull Minister to a fit Subject to the signifying of the Blood of Christ and its cleansiing property and the Sealing of the Covenant of Grace In this description I will not trouble you with a logicall distribution of it into its parts but propound these conclusions as helpfull to your understanding of it Conclusion 1. Water is the outward sign and matter of Baptisme water and no other Element pure water without Popish mixture or Composition with oyle creame spittle or the like for this and this only Element the Lord appointed and his appointment stamps on the use of it Dignity and Authority and justly checks the curiosity of such as are subject to contemne the simplicity of the Element and advance the dignity of the Ordinance by their own dull but daring inventions and yet water being an Element cooling heat quenching thirst of common use and easie purchase and cleansing all filthiness doth fitly represent unto our minds the cooling and refreshing efficacy the plenty and easie purchase together with the purifying property of the Blood of Christ Conclus 2. A solemne and Religious application of the water must be the form of Baptisme That water be applied to the Subject is the essentiall act of Baptisme the manner of its application by dipping or sprinkling is to be guided by discretion and conveniency though we deny not dipping to have been used in the Primitive Churches in the hot Eastern Countries where with safety and conveniency it might be used and we grant all other things concurring dipping to be a lawfull application of the water yet it is not essentially and indispensably necessary as the Anabaptists do too zealously contend but it is both lawfull and sufficient that the water be poured or sprinkled on the Subject which hath been the allowed practise of the Church and the word Baptize signifying any kind of washing by sprinkling pouring on or dipping and the measure or quantity of water being no more essentiall to Baptisme then of Bread and Wine to the Lords Supper will allow it and the Holy Ghost mentioneth the blood of Christ as Cleansing by sprinkling 1 Pet. 1.2 by way of allusion to this act in Baptisme as the analogie thereof and it is more then probable that Baptisme in houses as was that of the Jaylors Act. 16.33 was Administred by sprinkling or pouring on not by dipping and the weakness of Children and coldness of our climate is a just Reason for this manner of Application so that either of these may be used without contention Water what way soever must be Solemnly and religiously applyed in the holy form and with the holy Rites which God hath appointed for every common washing or application is not Baptisme but water consecrated by the word of institution and prayer and as an act of worship to God and argument of faith applied in the name that is by the appointment and to the dedication of the person Baptized to faith in and holy profession of Father Son and Holy Ghost is the Sacrament of Baptism so that as the Apostle doth well check the horrid prophaneness of such as deemed the common eating of bread and drinking of wine to be the Lords Supper by declaring The Cup of blessing which we blesse is the Communion of the blood of Christ and the Bread which we break is the Communion of the body of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 thereby pointing unto the solemne and Religious Rites which must distinguish the Lords Supper from common eating and drinking so the Solemne and Religious Application of water distinguisheth the Sacrament of Baptisme from all other common washing Conclus 3. Baptisme must be administred by a lawfull Minister this water may not be applied by every or any private hand the Lord Jesus hath joyned it in Commission with teaching and discipling so that such only that have the Authority of the one have the Authority of the other Baptisme is on all hands agreed on to be an act of office and Authority and not to be given by men out of office it is a Seale which must be stamped not by a childish impression but with Power and Authority to make it valid a ground of faith pleadable in prayer so that the Baptisme of women and private Persons on what pretended necessity soever it be is wicked and prophane nay in my judgement is void and null and not to be salved with a quod fieri non debuit factum valet that unlawfull things are valid when past and done though I cannot with the Donatists grant that the efficacy of the Ordinance depends on the dignity of the Administrator yet I cannot but believe that the Authority of the institutor is essentiall to every Gospell Ordinance to the Church and must be found in every Administrator Ordained Ministers must give us Sacraments I and preach the Word too if we will not be cheated of Salvation and content our selves with mock Ordinances my muddy brains could never yet conceive the God of Order to make Office and Authority essentiall to politicall transactions in Kingdomes and Common-wealths and yet to leave his Church in such confusion that the great Affaires of Salvation shall be dispenced by every common hand as if his care were more for the world then the Church which if it be I will never go to the House of God to behold the beauty of his Holiness which shines more brightly in the wide Wilderness Conclus 4. Baptisme must be administred unto fit subjects all Subjects sute not the Ordinance Creatures insensible and irrationall are incapable of the Grace of God and these holy Administrations thereof the baptizing of Bels Churches Fonts c. is a piece of Consecration neither prescribed nor allowed in the New Testament but to be damned as prophane and superstitious they must be the subjects of Life and Reason that will lie in the least Capacity of Grace and Holiness and such are the Sons of men Sons of men are Subjects capable of Grace and Holinesse but the speciall dispensations thereof in the Covenant of Grace and its Seales calls for speciall qualifications and therefore Baptisme may not be given to men as men and meerely the sons of Adam no they must first be the seed of Abraham Gen. 17.13 for the Covenant of God must be in their flesh and by Preaching they must be discipled into the Christian Church and see that the Promise is to them and to their Children before they be Baptized Act. 2.38 39. for Baptisme must be the Seale of the Righteousness of faith which we have being not yet Baptized Rom. 4.11 so that the fit Subjects for Baptisme must be not only men but Faederati such as Covenant with God to whom the Promise may be judged to belong they must be made Christians and lay hold on the Covenant of God and then be Baptised I could drive

that such as were not first sanctified by Circumcision must not touch the Passeover and it is given in charge to the keepers of the Sanctuary that the uncircumcised enter not into it to pollute it unhallowed things much lesse unhallowed persons might not come nigh to God under the Law the holinesse of God is the same under the Gospell and therefore such as will come nigh unto him most be consecrated for he will have acceptable Sacrifice to be offered by a chosen Generation a Royall Priesthood an holy Nation 1 Pet. 2.5.9 Men must be brought out of the high wayes and hedges and in his house be cloathed with a wedding garment that with any confidence willex pect a welcome to his wedding Super Mat. 22. And the only Ordinance of Consecration to God is Baptisme This is the badg of distinction and bar of division between the holy and prophane if the Lord Jesus will present his Church to God he Sanctifieth it by the washing of water through the Word Ephes 5.26 And if ever we will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven we must be born of the water and spirit by Baptisme we are purified from the corruptions that are in the world through lust and solemnly dedicated unto the name of Father Son and Holy Ghost hereby we are separated from the world and added to the Church and the Baptized continue together in the Apostles doctrine in prayer and breaking of bread and all acts of worship so that being thus consecrated called out of the masse of mankind and constituted a peculiar and holy people to the Lord Let us draw nigh in full assurance having our bodies washed with pure water 3. Baptisme is an Ordinance of Confaederation with God two cannot walke together except they be agreed God is a consuming fire to man if he condescend not a Covenant as a shreene to prevent its scorching heat I will be your God and ye shall be my people is the onely argument of encouragement to Abraham to walk with God and assurance of Believers acceptance with God guilty man cannot come nigh offended God without some assurance that wrath is appeased and God Reconciled none since Adams fall can come nigh to God as a Creator and Redemption must be transmitted by a Covenant and the Administrations of the Covenant must be the onely pledge of assurance and encouragement unto access to God the Covenant of God with Levi is the onely liberty of the Priests entrance in the Sanctum Sanctorum the Covenant of Mediatorship is the confidence of Jesus Christ his intercession and the Covenant of Circumcision the Israelites title to the Passeover and freedom of the Sanctuary and the Covenant of Baptisme Christians Right to the Lords Table and freedome of drawing nigh to God the Baptized do confaederate with God you have heard before that they must be faederati in Covenant that are subjects of Baptisme the promise is to you is the ground and reason why any is Baptized Baptisme is the mutuall act of sealing the Covenant between God and the soule by this outward sign and pledge God assureth us he will be our God pardon our sin subdue our Corruption by the blood of Christ and we answerable stipulate with God that we will accept him to be our God in Christ we will be called by his name and become his servants so that Baptisme is an argument pleadable in prayer for the remission of sin and Sanctification and an engagement unto duty against all impiety to be urged under all temptation as it is a Sacrament it is a reciprocall bond between God and the soule when Paul would check the Corinthians schisme he doth it by this quaery were ye Baptized into the name of Paul importing you are to call your selves by his name with whom you confaederated in Baptisme so that the Baptized being Gods faederates the Covenant being in their flesh they must needs be qualified with confidence to come nigh to God having such a ground of faith whereupon to claime the promises as is the Seales of the Covenant the most encouraging argument that ever Gods people urged in access to God is Lord remember thy Covenant we are thy people We see then that if we will be guided in our drawing nigh God by the way of Christ his appearance to his Church or approach to his Father as a Mediator or if we observe the succession of Baptisme to Circumcision or nature of Baptisme as an Ordinance of confaederation with God consecration to God conjunction to the Church of God we must needs be convinced that Baptisme or the body washed with pure water is an especiall qualification that fits us for accesse to God And now we proceed to the application of the Doctrine The first use then that we should make of this point is of information and that teacheth us this Lesson Baptisme is an Ordinance of exceeding dign●●y and absolute necessity to be pursued and highly prized by the people of God that will draw nigh unto him for it is the especiall qualification that fits us with confidence to draw nigh unto him as it is an Ordinance of God it is the object of reverence and esteem and indispensably necessary by reason of Divine command no● to be sleighted by such as pr●fesse subjection to him but of much more value when considered as the Ordinance of incorporation into Christs body matriculation into the houshold of faith and consecration unto an holy God and so it doth not onely call for affection esteem honour and reverence but also it presents it selfe unto our reason and imposeth it selfe on our conscience as usefull and indispensably necessary whilst it appeares not onely as an act of worship but Organ of Grace and instrument of much good unto the soule the which though it doth doth not conferre opere operato by meer application as by any Physiciall power in it selfe yet it is a morall instrument offering matter to the rationall argumentations and discourses of a believing soule either to the encouragement of his faith or enforcement of duty and is by divine institution Gods method and instrument whereby he hath graciously confirmed these priviledges and so it is necessary not onely ratione precepti a commanded duty but also medii as a morall meanes to be managed by meditation and Divine method prescribed by the Lord as that whereby we may claime his promise and conclude a relation to and fitnesse for Communion with him and without which we cannot ordinarily expect his blessing and be accounted his people and what he doth in extraordinary cases where he providentially supersedeth an Ordinance as by untimely death and the like doth no way abate the dignity or abstract from the necessity of washing the body with pure water by the Sacrament of Baptisme the conviction of this truth will call for a constant and reverent attendance on Baptisme and conscientious use of it in all covenient opportunitie that God shall give us and check the