Baby-baptism meer babism, or, An answer to nobody in five words to every-body who finds himself concern'd in't by Samuel Fisher.

Baptist.

Its own name? no, sprinkling is sprinkling still, and so it ever will be, where its used, but it must cease for ever from bearing the name of baptism, because bap∣tism it never was: if your administration hath indeed the form of baptism then baptism it is, but then it can be called spirinkling no more, but if it have the form of sprinkling then sprinkling it is, and can be called baptism no more, for these two, though the materia quâ et circa quam i. e. both the Element which you use, and the subject, to which you use that element, be never so the same, yet are two such specifically and formally different actions and dispensations, as do not ponere, but tollere se invicem, and can in no wise meet in the same subject at the same time, so as that by the dispensing of either of the two, it may be denomina∣ted indifferently (I mean properly) by either, for he that is baptized cannot be said thereby to be sprinkled, and likewise he that is but sprinkled cannot be said there upon onely to be baptized, for these two actions of sprinkling, and bapti∣tizing,

having two different formes, they cannot possibly be properly called the same.