Rantist.
There is example given you enough against your way by Mr. Blake, Mr. Baxter and Mr. Cook too of baptizing otherwise then by dipping, in the Iailor, whom they all instance in either expressely, or implicitly, First Mr. Baxter saies in that section of his which you have not yet fully spoke to, that the Iailor was baptized in the night in his house, and therefore not likely over head in that Countrey where water was so scarce, and to this agree some words of Mr. Blake and Mr. Cook concurrent in matter though different in form: we read saith Mr. Cook p. 16. of multitudes baptized even 3000 in Ierusalem without men∣tion of going to the Rivers, and of whole families without mention of going to the waters, or fetching store of waters, it is like the waters they had within doors at midnight sufficed Acts 2.41. Acts 16.15.33. and saith Mr. Blake p. 10. sometimes baptism was administred where water for dipping was not to be had, and though the Eunuch comming to a river saith here is water, what hindred that I should be dipped? yet there is little probability that Paul could say so in Judas's house in streight street in Damascus, nor the Iailor in his prison in Phi∣lippi: you say that baptism was ordinarily in rivers, where there were many waters, but sure there were neither many waters, nor rivers in these mens dwellings, and as sure they went not out in the night unto any such places, yet were they baptized.