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A MINISTER of the Particular Baptist Denomination (enjoying a would be glad to hear of a destitute church in a populous villag THE BAPTIST REPORTER. NOVEMBER, 1853. 'LY TO THE ECCENTRICAL ATTACK ON THE BAPTISTS. now give the remainder of the | administered by John and Christ, by y the former part of which plunging the whole body under water. ared in our last number. On this Beza-" Christ commanded to bapission we shall offer no comment, tize, by which it is certain immersion shall leave our readers to form is signified." own judgment on its merits. Tyndale, the first who printed the Bible in English-"The plunging into the water, signifieth that we die, and are buried with Christ," &c. III. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Archbishops. Tillotson-" Anciently, those who were baptized, put off their garments, which signified the putting off the body of sin, and were immersed," &c. Secker-"Burying, as it were, the person baptized in water, was anciently the more usual mode, on account of which St. Paul speaks of baptism as representing both the death, and burial, and resurrection of Christ." Bishops. Burnet-"We know that the first the waters, and being laid as dead, ritual of baptism was by going into backwards, all along in them; and then the persons baptized were raised up again out of them." mersion under water, according to the Sherlock-"Baptism, or our imancient rite of administering it, is a figure of our burial with Christ." Dr. Wall, speaking of immersion word baptein a as the practice of the first Christians, plunge, to dip." Salmasiussays "This is so plain and clear, that we cannot but pity the weak sion; and was adı endeavours of such Pædobaptists as times according would maintain the negative of it." meaning of the only rhantism, or mersion, or dippi IV. SCOTCH CHURCH. Dr. Campbell-"The word baptizein, both in sacred writers and classical, signifies to dip, to plunge, to immerse." Macknight-"The person baptized GREEK WRITer, is buried under the water." VI. INDEPENDENTS. Dr. Owen-" The original and natural signification of the word baptizo, imports to dip, to plunge." Dr. Halley- "We believe that baptizo is to make one thing be in another by dipping, by immersion, by covering, by superfusion, or by whatever mode provided it be in immediate contact." baptizo has but o signifies literally immerse-baptism identical, and to sprinkling is the s mersion by sprink contradiction in ter XII. COMM Dr. Doddridgeof candour to confe vi. 4.) is an allusio baptizing by immez Barnes-"It is that the Apostle in vi. 4.) had allusion baptizing by immer Wesley-On Ro ing to the ancient m by immersion.” The last witnes "learned in the law' the Catholic barris his public discussion ming and others. read his opinion in own, and surely if h that feeling of "chari eth no evil," a consc Witsius — “It cannot be denied, tice must send the c REPLY TO THE ECCENTRICAL ATTACK ON THE BAPTISTS. alone is to be the Faith, they are in ism, entitled to the upside down. And, like all ignorant people who distinctly their blunder -actice as to the rite make mistakes, the more ad respect of every En in the universe." is pointed out to them, the more resolutely they stick to their error." ese extracts are from some of the learned men that have adorned epublic of letters. Many more t be given, but these are amply ient to counterbalance the asserof one who writes without a , and with whose classical attains the literary world is entirely quainted. The opinion which iduals of real learning entertain tempts like that of Anonymous, us expressed by Dr. Campbell, s admirable Lectures on SysteTheology and Pulpit Eloquence: I have heard a disputant of this p, in defiance of etymology and maintain that the word rendered e New Testament baptize, means properly to sprinkle than to ge; and in defiance of all anti7, that the former method was the er, and for many centuries the general practice in baptizing. who argues in this manner never with persons of knowledge, to y the cause he would defend; though with respect to the vulgar, assertions generally succeed as as argument, and sometimes er, yet a candid mind will always ain to take the help of falsehood in support of truth." hould this language be deemed ewhat strong, let it be remembered it is from a Pædobaptist. Sua quisque exempla debet æquo no pati." s this line is intended for the priedification of Anonymons, the -classical reader will excuse the ence of a translation. We now notice-" Baptism WITH Holy Ghost." t is said, "As baptism with water a symbolical rite this method wos 323 adopted as indicative of the descent of the Holy Ghost about to be SHED FORTH and POURED OUT." "Thus signifying the application of the Holy Spirit to the individual, and not the individual to the Holy Ghost." To this it is replied― 1. Whatever the baptism of the Spirit may be, it cannot be a literal baptism, because the Holy Ghost is not material. When Anonymous speaks of "the application of the Holy Spirit to the individual," he cannot mean the application of a material substance similar to the application of water-we cannot be literally either immersed in, or sprinkled with, the Holy Ghost: to assert this, would be to degrade and blaspheme the Deity, by representing him as a material substance. 2. It is not said by the Sacred Writers, that the "SHEDDING FORTH," the "POURING OUT," is the baptism of the Spirit. Pædobaptists pour water into the font, but the baptism is not the pouring. The pouring out of the Spirit is as different a thing from the baptism of the Spirit, as the pouring of water into the basin is different from the sprinkling of it upon the infant's forehead. 3. Anonymous imagines the baptist to have "fixed himself on the horns of his own dilemma," by asserting that BAPTIZO means to dip, or immerse, and nothing else: inasmuch as the definition compels him to say, "immersed in the Holy Ghost". mersed in fire." As it regards the use of an English word of mode for baptizo, we are on an equality, at least, with Anonymous in its applicability to the baptism of the Spirit. BAPTIZO "im some must indicate some action mode: when it is said "John baptized in water," whether "the element was applied to the subjects," or "the subjects to the element," some action was performed. Now, whatever that action may be, the English word representing that action, may be properly used when speaking of the baptism of the |