21 DIEPICDLTIEB IN SCRIPTURr or pouring. water on the head, isa true method of baptism, and is ready to say severe thing's against the practice of immersion,' as if it were not only needless, but as they are ready to call it, foolish and sinful. It is plain, satth lie, in the word of God, that the apostles were baptised with the Spirit, which can never meat; that they were dipped or plunged into the Spirit, but only that the Spirit was poured out upon them : And when the Israelites ,sere bap- tirel into Moses, it is plain they were only sprinkled with the cloud and the sea; Mat. iii. 11. compared with Acts ii. d, 17. and I Cor. x. 2. and therefore, says he, 1 wonder that any man should` be so weak as to give himself the trouble of dipping w lien he has smelt texts as theseto prove sprinkling. Sedeutius, a weak and warm dissenter, is just cómo from St. Paul's cathedral. Being urged by great curiosity, with much ado he obtained leave of his conscience to go thither and see teen receive the Lord's-supper kneeling: As he returns he is almost ready to pronounce damnation against the organs and singing':men, for they are all, saith he, the limbs of Antichrist Hewhispers damnation againstthese idolaters that bow before a' piece of bread ; for they look as though they Worshipped the host, and belonged to Rome. He is very positive that sitting is a posture Of absolute necessity in that ordinance, for Jesus and his disciples did sit. and eat ; Mark xiv. 8. 1 Cor. hi 20. and since it is called the supper of the Lord, we must sit down while we partake of it, for every child knows that men are never wont to kneel at supper. On the other band, Genicola hates the présbyterians for their scandalous irreverence at the sacrament : " What, saith he dare any man use to clownish and so rude a gesture as sitting; when he receives the seal of the pardon of his sins, and the em- blems of the body and blood of Christ ?" And he forbids all such worshippers from his communion with this sentence, " Procul, O procul este, profani ;" that is, " hence ye profane creatures," though he can hardly pretend to bring one text of scripture for his own practice : Ile is sure also that the surplice, is a sign or token of purity, and as our reformers teach, ought to . be worn at prayer, for we must lift up hands of purity and inno cence when we come before God ; and he finds the long white garment in these words, Let all things be done decently and in order ; 1 Cor. xiv. 40. To me, saith Piscopion, it is as clear as the light, that no man, can be a minister-of Christ, unless the hands of a superior man, even a diocesanbishop, have been upen his tread ; and all the preachings and ministerings of such a presumptuous wretch, who was not thus ordained, are but vain babblitrg.s, empty trifles, and impudent usurpations in the name of the Lord: For thus
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