We are accused to deny the Baptism.

The Baptism we own which is the Baptism of Christ, with the Holy Ghost and with fire, but we deny all other, for there is but one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God, and Father of all, and they who would have one Baptism* outward, and another inward, would have two Baptisms, when the Scripture saith the Baptism is but one, and who∣soever hath the Baptism outward, are the same they were before, but the Baptism of Christ makes a new creature, and this I witnesse, for I received water upon my face, as my Parents told me, which they called Baptism, but I grew up* an heathen, as all other children▪ doe, and no new creature, though my parents were counted believers amongst the world and their Priests, but now I witnesse the Baptism of* Christ by one spirit into one body, and now I witnesse a Page  12 new creature, old things are past away and all things be∣come new: And now I see the other to be formal imitati∣on, and the invention of man, and so a meer delusion, and* all are heathens and no Christians, who cannot witness this Baptism, who can witnesse this denies all other; for the Scripture saith, the Baptism is but one, and who can wit∣nesse this are believers, but who cannot witnesse this are no belivers; and so it is that water or no water, availeth no∣thing but a new creature; for all by nature are the children of wrath, and except they be born again they cannot enter; and as for the Baptism of Water which the Apostles used, it being a command of Christ for its time, the power went along with it, and the Disciples received the Holy Ghost when they were baptised, but none can witnesse this, who sets their selves of acting or imitating the Apostles, and so takes it up by imitation, and their ground is the letter, and are not guided to it by the same spirit which guided the A∣postles, and so they are the same after water as before, and so now water or no water availeth any thing, but a new creature; for water was but for its time, though many in darknesse have now gotten the form, and are groping in it for life, but wants the life and power, and so from such turn away.