378 Book IV. Leaking untb j.efas. Chap. 1 .Sect.3 ------------------------- ce!fary truth ; there is a generation that cryes down baptifme of water, and upon thi$ fcore, becaufe they fuppofe it was proper to [ohn tobag.tiuonly with w.1ter, and to Lhrifr to baptiz.e only with the holy Chojl and with fire. Indeed Chrifr in his own perfon baptized r.one otherwife, but with the holy Ghofl:; immediately after bis afcenGon, he fent his Spirit upon the Church, and bap- • tized them with fire ,the Spirit appearing !.ike a flame; and co this say (though not vi!ibly) be baptizeth all his Saints with the holy Gholt and with fire : but for all this, he appointed J-ohn, and not only John, but all his Apo(tles. and their fuccelfors for ever, to baptize wtth water; and they did fo, and yet do fo, obeying the preceptive words ofChrift, which were almofl: the Jail: words that he fpakc upon the earth. And though Chrifl: himfelfe did not baptize with water, yet Chrifr himfelfe (we fee here) was baptized with water; he himfelfe enters at that doore, by which his difciplcs mull: for ever follow after him ; and indeed therefore he went it1 at that doore ofbaptifme, that he might hallow, or fancbfie the entrance, which himfelfe made to the lloufe he was now a building. And for the difference they make betwixt Chrifts baptifme, and Johns ·baptifme: what's this Co the purpofe? we all know that in baprifme are two parts, the outward part, and the inward part; you may call them (ifyou pleafe) the outward baptifme and the inward baptifme; the outward bap. tifme is of the Minifrer, but the inward ba;prifme is of Chrifl:. But mufi we feperate tbefe? or rather joync them (tf thefe in on:linary mufr be joyned) as we finde them ia (hrifr, and as we ddlre they may be in us! I cannot fee, but the baptifme we ufe, and the baptifme of John are in nature and fubfbr.ce one, aC> d the very fame. For, I. John prearhed th~ b..~prifm t of rrprntance J~r u 1. the rtmi.ffion oJf[ins ·, thC}T have therefore the fame d- Ctrine, and •<~.ar ..e·t· 4· the fame promife. 2. The baptifme minifl:red by John, per:ained M.\tth• 3 • r;. to the fulfilling of all righreoufnrffr; , and L~tk,: tefl::fies , that rhe 1 ke .l o. Publicans and people_ be1ng hap;;zed of John,. they j t~fl:ifif d Gd, 1! . 7. . 9>3 - bnt the Phariftes defpifcd the cormcel o. G,d agasnfl rhernj eh:es, and were not baptiz.•d: only herein lie• the d,tferel,ce, that ]1/:.n baptiz.ed .in Chrifr that tbould dye, and rif~· againe; but we l aptize into the name of Chrifi thar is dead, and rifen againe; it is a difference in refpett ofcircumitance, but n0t of the fubfiance ; Oh.take heed ofthrow.ing away the baptifme ofwat~r, upon1he pretence
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