A discourse proving the divine institution of water-baptism wherein the Quaker-arguments against it are collected and confuted : with as much as is needful concerning the Lord's supper / by the author of The snake in the grass.

Title

A discourse proving the divine institution of water-baptism wherein the Quaker-arguments against it are collected and confuted : with as much as is needful concerning the Lord's supper / by the author of The snake in the grass.

Author

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.

Publication

London :: Printed for C. Brome ... W. Keblewhite ... and H. Hindmarsh ...,

1697.

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Subject terms

Baptism -- Early works to 1800.

Society of Friends -- Controversial literature.

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Contents

• title page
• table of contents
  • THE PREFACE CONTAINS.
  • The Contents of This Discourse.
• erratum
• publisher's advertisement
• A PREFACE.
• SECT. I. That Matth. xxviii. 19. was meant of Water-Baptism.
• SECT. II. I. That CHRIST did Practise Water-Baptism.II. That the Apostles did it after Him.III. That the Catholick Church have done it after Them.
• SECT. III. That Baptism must be Outward and Visible, because it is an Ordinance appointed whereby to Initiate Men into an Outward and Visible Society, which is the Church.
• SECT. IV. Quakers say, 1st, That the BAPTISM commanded Matth. xxviii. 19. was only meant of the Inward and Spiritual Baptism, with the Holy Ghost.
• SECT. V. The great Argument of the Quakers against Wa∣ter-Baptism is this: John's Baptism is ceased: But John's Baptism was Water-Baptism: There∣fore Water-Baptism is ceased. This their Learn∣ed Barclay makes use of. But,
• SECT. VI. That Christ and the Apostles did not Baptize with John's Baptism.
• SECT. VII. The Quakers Master-Objection from 1 Cor. i. 14. I thank GOD that I Baptized none of you, but Cri∣spus and Gaius. And Ver. 17. For Christ sent me not to Baptize, but to Preach the Gospel.
• SECT. VIII. Objection from 1 Pet. iii. 21.
• SECT. IX. The Quaker-Objection from, Eph. iv. 5.
• SECT. X. An Objection from Heb. vi. 1.
• SECT. XI. The Quaker-Objection, That there are no Signs un∣der the Gospel.
• The Conclusion. Shewing the Necessity of Water-Baptism.
• To be added to the End of Sect. VIII. p. 34.