Antipaedobaptism Examined Volume 2; Or, a Strict and Impartial Inquiry Into the Nature and Design, Subjects and Mode of Baptism. Including, Also, an Investigation of the Nature of Positive Institutions in General and Occasional Strictures on Human Ceremoni (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789 Excerpt: ... u with water and sprinkling: The former, bath" ing% to be used but once; the latter sprinkling, " to be done seven times. See Lev. xiv. 7, 8. " When, therefore the. prophet bids him--" wajh Seven Times, it is much more natural " to understand it of sprinkling, .ax pawing water, " Seven Times upon the leprous part, over " which he expected the prophet should have "stroked his hand, than of Dipping his while " body seven times; of which kind of wajhing " dipping there is not the least footstep nor " shadow in the law." To which we may add--that it is not likely Naaman should do more than the prophet required, since he was so reluctant to make any compliance; which he must have done on supposition that he immersed himself, since the command was only to wajhf and this every one, knows may be, and daily is, easily and commodiously done ivitbout immersion. When we consider also the. nature of his disorder, and, as he could not be ignorant, the apparent unsuitablenels, physically, of the prescription; it is not probable that he should go and plunge himself in deep water, since a gentle affusion was fully answerable to the requisition. Again: "it is expressly said, that what he did was " according to the saying of the man of God;" i. e. he wasted in (or used the water of) Jordan, tho' with haughty reluctance. But there is no single circumstance, . without Towooon's Dipping not the only. Scriptural and primitiva Banner of Baptizing, p. 19. without begging the question in debate, but favours the application of water To the leprous part., rather than the application of that To the, water. Not to mention the Vulgate version, and the renderings of the Syriac and Arabic Versions, which read lavit fe, which is by no means synonymous with dipping. (2) Isaiah xxi. 4. Instead ...