J!9 etthao jratt a 315 There are three that beär Record in Heaven ths__.__. Father, the Word, and the Holy Gho([ ; and tbefe Three are One, I job. 5. 7. This Truth hath had many Oppofites, as the Arrians, Sá- mofatenians, Sábellians, Phótinians, and of late the Socinians, who have flrained their fubtile Wits to undermine it if poliìble '. tell them, That Baptifrn is in the Naine of the Trinity; They will reply, That The Ifraelites were Bap- tized into Mofes, I Cor.I 0.2. Tell them, That There are Three that bear Record in Heaven, i 7-oh, 5.7. They will fay, Thefe Words are not to be found in the Ancient Greet Copier; nor in the Syriac ; nor in the Ancient Lati:t Verfion, ; but thefe are but Evafions. As tot the firfl, They were Baptiz,,d, its Mevctivi unto Mors, there its is put for bee; as Ac`ls 7. 53. its d`temeyás elyysA.wv, its is there put for J,A as appears by comparing that place with Gal. 3.19. where Saint Paul of the fame thing, "faith, d't'eiyy %i *,,v, and fo To be Baptized unto Affix, is only to be Baptized by the Miniftry of Mofes, who led them through the Red Seat s Hence in the Syriack it is t2F.1,M °1'n in the .hand of Mofes. Again, it is one thing to be -Baptized unto MoJ7s, another to be Baptized ìn the name of Mff s : Paul Baptized,but none in his own name, r Cor. I. I 3. And again, the Ifraèlites were improperly Baptized into Mofes; they were not afperfed or immerged in water , neither was Baptifrn then art Ordinance of God as now it is. As for the fe- cond in St. john; that place undeniably provts A a 2 tho
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