Lay baptism invalid : an essay to prove that such baptism is null and void when administered in opposition to the divine right of the Apostolical succession . really and truly Commif-\ fiond by Bifiops to Baptiz^e, and who att herein. Rebel-lioufiy againfi^ and in Oppofuion to^ the Divine Right of/ Epifcopacy, be Good and Valid ^aptifm ; Then, Autho- ^ fitative Preaching, Adminiftring the other Sa^ crq^- The Preface. xxj crament ] the Power of Excommunicating, ofBinding and Loofing, of Retaining and Abfolving ^Mens Sins, and all the SftritualFun^ionsofthe Clergy^are alfo Good and Valid^ ovhen
Lay baptism invalid : an essay to prove that such baptism is null and void when administered in opposition to the divine right of the Apostolical succession . really and truly Commif-\ fiond by Bifiops to Baptiz^e, and who att herein. Rebel-lioufiy againfi^ and in Oppofuion to^ the Divine Right of/ Epifcopacy, be Good and Valid ^aptifm ; Then, Autho- ^ fitative Preaching, Adminiftring the other Sa^ crq^- The Preface. xxj crament ] the Power of Excommunicating, ofBinding and Loofing, of Retaining and Abfolving ^Mens Sins, and all the SftritualFun^ionsofthe Clergy^are alfo Good and Valid^ ovhen attempted hy Unau-thorized , never Gommiffiond Lay-Perfons : TheGonfequence of which^ is y the utter Dijfolution and ta^king away of the Neceffity of the Chriftian Prieft-<hood , therefore of Chrifts Authority here on Earthyand fo of all Revealed Religion too\ which is a Dreadsfull Conjtderation ; and much more fo ^ if any who oughtto he the Guardians of thefe Sacred Things^ fhould endea-^vour hy their Writings and Preaching^to efiahlijh the dan^gerous Tremijfesy from whence fuchfrofhane Confequencesdo naturally flow. London, May 29th,1713. a4 ^ THE. THE CONTENTS. T M CHAP. LH E Occanon and Nature of the prefent Difpute, Paie CHAP. ir. R. Bingham s Account of the Apoflolick Commlflion to Bap-tize, of the Conveyance and conftant Neceflity thereof tothe End of the World, $ He makes the Commiffion to Baptize, ElTential to the Miniftratioiiof Baptifm, $ The Pfeudo-St. jimbrofes Opinion, that the Apoftles at firft com-mifliond all Chriftians both to Teach and Baptize, refuted, 7 Mr. Bingham, from thi3 Author , infers, that no one can have aPower of Baptizing , but he that receives fome way or othera Commiffion from the Apoflles, 3 And that the Original Power of Baptizing was lodgd foUly andentirely in Bilhops, and derivatively conveyed from them tothers J inferrd by him from the Ancient Writers, 11 His Notion of Bifhops Ratifying Irregular Baptifms, by addingwhat was wanting in t
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